Chapter 1707: 779: Great Wilderness
“Earth Treasure Spirit Root, was it planted using the corpses of powerful members of the Demon Clan?”
Huan Shu was both confused and horrified. Although she hadn’t found many Earth Treasure Spirit Roots during her time as a Treasure Hunting Immortal, she had seen a variety of Spirit Roots. At the Immortal City Market on the Xuanhuang Sea Border, Treasure Hunting Immortals returning from the Dark Sea often sold Spirit Roots.
In the Earth Immortal Realm, Earth Treasure Spirit Roots are extremely rare. Most immortals spend their entire lives without acquiring such treasures, and many haven’t even heard of them.
Only a select few immortals with status and prestige possess Earth Treasure Spirit Roots.
If an ordinary immortal owned a Spirit Root and it became known, it would bring about their ruin.
Earth Treasure Spirit Roots have various miraculous uses; they can serve as Immortal Elixirs to revive the dead and restore the fleshless bones, and can gather Spiritual Energy to enhance cultivation. But their greatest use is to help immortals resist Opening Tribulation.
A high-quality Earth Treasure Spirit Root can help Golden Immortals and Taiyi Golden Immortals survive multiple Opening Tribulations, even six or seven times.
This is a life-saving Treasure, extremely precious!
Thus, seeking Earth Treasure Spirit Roots in the Dark Sea has become a change of fate opportunity for lower-level immortals.
Even though the Dark Sea is fraught with danger, with a higher death rate than mining, countless Treasure Hunting Immortals flock to enter the Dark Sea.
As for how Earth Treasure Spirit Roots originate, why they can help immortals resist Tribulation Crossing, and why they only appear in the Dark Sea, Treasure Hunting Immortals cannot explain, treating them only as nature’s birthed Treasures.
Now, Huan Shu discovered, Earth Treasure Spirit Roots were not nurtured by nature’s Spiritual Energy, but were grown by planting them in the heads of strong figures from the prehistoric Dark Sea, absorbing their power to grow!
She shivered, gazing at the dense, forest-like Earth Treasure Spirit Roots ahead!
It’s the first time she had seen so many Earth Treasure Spirit Roots. In the past, she would have been ecstatic, declaring her fortune, but now her heart was filled only with fear.
Who killed so many prehistoric figures and planted Spirit Roots in their heads?
Is this a cultivation field?
Are these prehistoric figures the fertilizer for the mysterious being cultivating Spirit Roots?
Chen Shi moved his steps, observing one by one, and suddenly said, “Earth Treasure Spirit Roots should be related to the prehistoric era’s cultivation system.”
He observed more Spirit Roots and speculated, “The path they took should be to refine illusion into truth, imagining a Spirit Root to condense the Great Dao. Once their cultivation succeeded, these Spirit Roots became their Dao Roots and Magical Treasures.”
Daoist Qing Yang asked, “But why would Spirit Roots grow out from their heads?”
Chen Shi speculated, “Because of refining illusion into truth, the Spirit Root has become a real existence. When cultivators practicing this Magic Skill die, the Spirit Root does not die but instead absorbs their Physical Body and Primordial Spirit’s essence and Daoist Skill, surviving and evolving into Earth Treasure Spirit Roots.”
While saying so, he was just guessing and dared not confirm.
Huan Shu breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this, murmuring, “I thought they were the fertilizer cultivated by a mysterious being, who killed them to plant Earth Treasure Spirit Roots, but now it seems I was overthinking…”
Chen Shi thought for a moment and praised, “Your speculation is not without reason.”
Huan Shu was aghast.
“They indeed were killed.”
Chen Shi glanced around, his eyes sweeping over the Spirit Root Forest and resting on the Dao Sea outside.
“If cultivated, it would be orderly. But here, the Earth Treasure Spirit Roots are chaotic, obviously they were killed on the spot, thus growing Spirit Roots from their heads. In the Star Sea, only here lacks stars, suggesting an unimaginable battle occurred here causing so many strong figures to die.”
Chen Shi spoke slowly, “This battle shattered the surrounding stars, forming this Starlight Dao Sea.”
As he said this, he paused involuntarily.
Such a multitude of prehistoric figures, like chickens in a farm processed by people, their bodies growing Spirit Roots, forming a dense forest.
Such things are hard to imagine!
Huan Shu grew greedy, conjured a cloud-like green gauze, covering a Spirit Root lest it escape, while pulling the root stem outward, asking, “Chen Zhenwang, what cultivation were these prehistoric figures in life?”
The Spirit Root was quite intelligent, its roots had already pierced the earth from the prehistoric figure’s head, sensing someone pulling it, it burrowed its roots deeper into the ground.
Huan Shu feared breaking the Spirit Root, reducing its value, and for a moment couldn’t pull it up.
The Spirit Root wrestled with her, producing several branches to slap the girl on her bottom, trying to make her let go.
Huan Shu winced in pain yet didn’t release it.
Seeing her not letting go, the Spirit Root extended another branch to coil around her neck, trying to strangle her.
Daoist Qing Yang hurriedly helped, and together they suppressed the Spirit Root.
Chen Shi shook his head, “That I do not know. But an average Earth Treasure Spirit Root can support Golden Immortals and Taiyi Golden Immortals during tribulation crossing, hence the prehistoric figures birthing Spirit Roots must be stronger than Taiyi Golden Immortals.”
𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖
Huan Shu and Qing Yang uprooted the Earth Treasure Spirit Root, and the prehistoric figure’s skeleton which cultivated it shattered.
The pair quickly planted the Spirit Root in Huan Shu’s Daoist Field.
Huan Shu touched her neck, the Spirit Root had left a bloody mark, hearing the words she was aghast, “Are you saying these prehistoric figures were Daluo Golden Immortals?”
“Should be similar to Daluo Golden Immortals, otherwise Spirit Roots couldn’t shelter Taiyi Golden Immortals during tribulation crossing,” Chen Shi replied.
The two, hearing this, stared blankly at the endless Spirit Root Forest.