Chapter 1708: 779: Great Wilderness (2)
A single Spirit Root signifies the power of a Daluo Golden Immortal, then doesn’t this boundless Spirit Root Forest mean that Daluo Golden Immortals are as numerous as the stars in the sky?
Any Daluo Golden Immortal is an immensely powerful existence, a legend of the Earth Immortal Realm. How could so many Daluo Golden Immortals be massacred in masses?
Chen Shi approached a Spirit Root, gazing up at it.
This Spirit Root was particularly robust, a Dragon Scale Treasure Tree, its trunk twisting like a coiling dragon. This tree could actually absorb nature’s spiritual energy and transform it into Taiqing Spiritual Energy!
Chen Shi was moved; this Dragon Scale Treasure Tree was no less than top-tier Spirit Roots like the Purple Heaven Vine!
Even with a Holy Land like Penglai West, he was tempted at this moment to take this Spirit Root.
“This Spirit Root can absorb nature’s spiritual energy to transform it into Taiqing Spiritual Energy. The strength of the Spirit Root’s owner in life must have surpassed Daluo Golden Immortal, reaching the next realm. I wonder how far the owner was from The Three Pure Ones?”
Chen Shi was slightly moved, examining the ancient strongman’s bones beneath the Dragon Scale Treasure Tree. He saw multiple fatal wounds on the bones; the back of the head, brow, neckbone, and heart had fingertip-sized holes. It was unclear what had caused these injuries.
“Other skeletons have only one wound, at most two, but this person’s injuries number up to seven! This person was harder to kill than others.”
Chen Shi carefully observed the wounds; all traces had been erased over time and by the Spirit Root, leaving nothing useful visible.
Huan Shu and Qing Yang were collecting other Spirit Roots. The Spirit Root they found was a palm-sized red bird spiraling above a skeleton’s head, with root-like spiritual energy drilling into the skeleton’s eye sockets and mouth and nose, as if rooting itself.
This red bird Spirit Root was also extraordinary, a top-grade among Spirit Roots.
Just after the two collected this red bird Spirit Root, their eyes lit up as they discovered a peculiar flower. This flower had a single stem with no branches, a blossom at the stem’s end, and spiritual power overflowing from the flower condensed into two marble-sized suns orbiting the flower.
The two hurriedly went to collect this treasure, but just after collecting it, they discovered an even more precious Spirit Root.
Qing Yang and Huan Shu were busily absorbed and soon filled their respective Daoist Fields.
Though they also had a Dao Realm, their low status prevented them from refining it to carry it with them. Planting it in the Dao Realm would allow them to gather more Spirit Roots.
After all, finding one Spirit Root on a sea outing was already a great harvest; who would have thought there would be a day when Spirit Roots would be too abundant for a Daoist Field to contain.
They looked at the mountain-and-experience full of Spirit Roots, feeling like they held bags full to the brim while looking at mountains of treasure, yet unable to carry more.
The Spirit Roots they collected were not even a ten-thousandth of those in this place.
“Have you collected everything?” Chen Shi asked kindly.
Qing Yang and Huan Shu felt a bit ashamed. Huan Shu quickly said, “True King, we were a bit greedy, but there are simply too many Spirit Roots here, so we collected more…”
Before she could finish, with a thunderous boom, boundless mountains and rivers emerged from around Chen Shi, quickly expanding in all directions!
Those mountains and rivers were Chen Shi’s internal Dao Realm, which he projected out, merging it with the outer world!
Qing Yang and Huan Shu were dumbfounded, seeing Chen Shi stirring his Primordial Spirit, mobilizing the Heaven and Earth Dao Power of the Dao Realm to suppress the Spirit Roots within the range!
His Dao Realm was vast; though it’s an internal world, it spanned over four hundred thousand miles. However, suppressing Spirit Roots over this expanse was impossible; even mobilizing Heaven and Earth Dao Power was far from sufficient.
Chen Shi did not covet too much, only suppressing the Spirit Root forest within a ten-thousand-mile radius, absorbing these Spirit Roots into his Dao Realm.
Countless Spirit Roots struggled fiercely, each emitting Dao Light, resisting against him.
The world trembled violently as Chen Shi reabsorbed the Dao Realm into his body.
His body quaked occasionally; those Spirit Roots each had unique strengths, relentlessly attacking, attempting to escape, causing his Qi-Blood to disturb and cultivation to oscillate, with Dao Light occasionally bursting from his nose and mouth.
Qing Yang and Huan Shu watched, slack-jawed.
Chen Shi mobilized the Demon Blood Treasure Tree within his Dao Realm, suppressing these Spirit Roots. Yet, even with the Demon Blood Treasure Tree’s might, it was difficult to subdue them. But Chen Shi could endure the struggle.
Chen Shi remained calm, smiling, “Shall we go see the green stone Ning Zhenzi mentioned?”
Qing Yang and Huan Shu suppressed their shock, hastily following him.
The two exchanged glances, each thinking, “I thought we were already greedy, but Chen Zhenwang is even more so.”
As they delved deeper, more Spirit Roots came into view. Among them were top-grade ones comparable to the Purple Heaven Vine, naturally capable of gathering nature’s spiritual energy into a higher spiritual energy.
They even saw a Sky Sun Flower bearing seven Golden Fruits, the Golden Fruits accumulating Upper Pure Spiritual Energy, forming a lake of spiritual energy.
Chen Shi admired it immensely and collected the lake formed by Upper Pure Spiritual Energy.
Unable to collect more Spirit Roots, he opted to collect Spiritual Liquid instead.
Facing the Sky Sun Flower, Qing Yang and Huan Shu could only retract their gaze with reluctance, unable to do more.
“Snap.”
Chen Shi picked two Golden Fruits, tossed them over, and laughed, “Though we can’t obtain the Spirit Root, these Golden Fruits can still be tasted.”
The two caught them, surprised and delighted.
Chen Shi picked another Golden Fruit, took a bite, feeling the Spiritual Energy permeating his lungs, causing sweet rain to fall in his Dao Realm, nourishing the various Dao Images within.