Chapter 645: Chapter 645: Extraterrestrial Spirit Seed, Ninth-Level Battlefield, Spirit Consolidating Ancestral Tree
Barren Desert Secret Realm.
The disciples were still searching for the Spirit Consolidating Fruit.
They were unaware of Xu Huamao’s concealed intrusion, let alone that Ye Feng, from tens of thousands of miles away, had extinguished the Xu Family in the Royal Capital with a single slap.
Inside the secret realm.
Gong Qingqiu was slowly flying, her Spiritual Sense constantly sweeping through the jungle below, hoping to find the Spirit Consolidating Fruit.
Suddenly, she stopped.
In front of her was a small stone mountain, its crevices filled with lush moss, emitting a rich Spiritual Energy, like a mist lingering around.
Through the haze, Gong Qingqiu spotted a luminous vine, growing from within the stone crevices.
Crack!
She cut open the stone and found inside a small rock cave, home to a three-meter-long dark green vine, ancient and elegant, with a refreshing fragrance.
In the middle of the vine hung a fruit the size of a fist, resembling a walnut in shape.
“It’s the Spirit Consolidating Fruit!”
Gong Qingqiu broke into a smile.
The Spirit Consolidating Fruit was quite peculiar.
There were no uniform trees that bore them, only the uniformly shaped fruit.
The Spirit Consolidating Fruit might grow on a plum tree, a peach tree, or as in this case, on a vine.
But regardless of the plant it grew on, the fruit was always the size of a fist, and its appearance strikingly similar to that plant’s fruit.
Crack!
Gong Qingqiu peeled open the Spirit Consolidating Fruit to reveal several thumb-sized, round and glossy red fruits.
These were the genuine Spirit Consolidating Fruits.
The outer shell was merely a protective husk for the Spirit Consolidating Fruit.
“The Spirit Consolidating Fruit must be a parasitic type of Spirit Fruit, which specifically roots in other plants to draw their energy for its own gestation, making them very difficult to find,” whispered Gong Qingqiu.
Behind the scenes.
Ye Feng watched the scene on the Wind Spirit Pearl and nodded, agreeing with Gong Qingqiu’s opinion.
“Indeed, the Spirit Consolidating Fruit is a parasitic Spirit Fruit, from the mysterious beyond. Strictly speaking, it’s an invasive species from the Outer Realm,” murmured Ye Feng.
He stretched out his right hand, his entire arm enshrouded in various pale golden formations, as if entering the void and disappearing.
The next moment, within the Barren Desert Secret Realm.
An arm reached out and plucked a fist-sized husk of the Spirit Consolidating Fruit from an ancient pine.
“After becoming the Heavenly Emperor with both Flesh Body Strength and Divine Sense Power, and with the Space Great Shift Formation, my means are indeed unpredictable, killing powerful beings from afar with ease.”
Ye Feng withdrew his hand.
He held the walnut-shaped husk of the Spirit Consolidating Fruit in his right hand and gently squeezed, shattering it.
The several glossy, round red fruits within were fully revealed to Ye Feng’s sight.
He activated the Eye of Insight.
[Name: Spirit Consolidating Fruit]
[Grade: Supreme Grade Spirit Fruit]
[Note: An invasive species that parasitizes its spores within a nutritious host plant, surviving and growing in a parasitic manner]
“So it is an invasive species!”
“But where is the spore’s originating body? Or rather, where is the true form of the Spirit Consolidating Fruit?”
“Could it be in the Starry Sky?”
Ye Feng pondered.
He seemed to perceive a conspiracy:
The mother body of the Spirit Consolidating Fruit disperses its spores into various worlds to strengthen itself, aiming for the terrifying goal of engulfing them all.
With this thought, Ye Feng felt a shock.
“Right, where are the spores… Found them!”
Ye Feng used his Telekinesis to scan the Spirit Consolidating Fruit and discovered that each fruit contained nine sesame-sized seeds, each hiding a spore within.
“I see!”
“The Spirit Consolidating Fruit possesses a special energy from the Starry Sky that can help cultivators consolidate their Primordial Spirit, thus increasing the probability of advancing to the Divine Origin Realm. The more one consumes, the better the effect.”
“That’s why the Spirit Consolidating Fruit isn’t eradicated as an invasive species, but is instead widely cultivated, accelerating the spread of spores.”
“I have a feeling that this isn’t a good thing.”
Ye Feng expended ten strands of Wind Element Spirit Energy to use the Spirit Consolidating Fruit in front of him as a medium for divination.
Soon.
Images appeared on the surface of the Wind Spirit Pearl.
It depicted a gigantic gate, covered in various complex runes, some already lit, others still dormant.
“Isn’t this… the Ancient Teleportation Gate within the Spirit Origin Realm?”
Ye Feng was stunned for a moment.
Previously, after acquiring the Spirit Origin Realm, he had continuously unlocked the first six layers of seals on the Ancient Teleportation Gate, opening the battlefields from the first to the sixth level.
As for the seventh, eighth, and ninth battlefields, he tried to break their seals but sensed something ominous, so he stopped.
But now, he was a top Heavenly Emperor, fearing nothing.
Whoosh!
Ye Feng vanished in an instant, arrived at the Spirit Origin Realm, and walked up to the enormous Ancient Teleportation Gate.
At this stage, most disciples were carrying out tasks from the Disciple Points Ranking, and very few would come to these ancient battlefields for training.
At the moment, there was not a single person nearby.
Ye Feng sat cross-legged at the top of the Ancient Teleportation Gate, using two-fifths of the Heart of Wisdom to deduce.
Crack!
In less than half an hour, the seventh layer of seal was broken.
Crack!
One hour later, the eighth layer of seal was broken.
Two hours later.
The ninth layer of seal was also broken.
“Finally got it.”
Ye Feng’s lips curved slightly as he entered the seventh-level battlefield.
Before his eyes was a bustling world from the Outer Realm, spanning tens of thousands of miles, with ancient trees lush with leaves. The spiritual energy was rich, comparable to a major Spirit Vein, suitable for cultivators above the Divine Origin Realm.
However, the seventh-level battlefield also had its seals.
The highest cultivation level here was limited to the Fourth Layer of the Divine Origin Realm.
“There’s also quite a lot of Ancient Heroic Spirit Force here, equivalent to the amount at the first layer of the Void Break Realm, not bad at all!”
Ye Feng took out the Wind Spirit Pearl and began to devour it.
Half an hour later.
He entered the eighth-level battlefield.
This place was an independent Life Star, with a diameter of hundreds of thousands of miles. Half of the star was land and the other half, sea, with the highest cultivation level being limited to the peak of the Divine Origin Realm.
Its Ancient Heroic Spirit Force was equally dense.
Ye Feng took out the Wind Spirit Pearl and completely drained it of its power.
In the seventh and eighth-level battlefields, he did not find any traces of the Spirit Consolidating Fruit, so he resolutely entered the ninth-level battlefield.
Before his eyes was a vast world.
It was a genuine Lesser Thousand World, just like the Tree Demon Realm and the Divine Race Continent, sprawling across a million miles and overseen by those in the Void Break Realm.
“Found it!”
Upon entering, Ye Feng immediately sensed the presence of the Spirit Consolidating Fruit and promptly followed the scent to its source.
Before him was a giant human-shaped tree!
Its entire body exuded a pale red color, towering a million feet high with countless roots extending from its legs, burrowing deep into the ground.
Its hands resembled numerous vines, covered in countless glowing spores, floating around in all directions.
On its head sat an island flush with countless buildings, spanning a hundred thousand feet in diameter, like a small world in its own right.
From it, Ye Feng perceived many extremely powerful presences!
“High Order Void Break Realm!”
Ye Feng’s brow slightly lifted.
He had not expected the island atop the head of this human-shaped giant tree to harbor such formidable beings — entities powerful enough to sweep across vast starry skies in the outer world.
Ye Feng observed the giant tree and activated the Eye of Insight.
[Name: Spirit Consolidating Ancestral Tree]
[Grade: High-Rank Demon Emperor]
[Note: The ancestral tree of the Spirit Consolidating Fruit, the producer of primordial spores, has integrated with the entire ninth-level battlefield, indivisible, and is currently in a suppressed state.]
Ye Feng obtained the above information.
His gaze became sharp, but he didn’t immediately fly toward the Spirit Consolidating Ancestral Tree. Instead, he took out the Wind Spirit Pearl and began absorbing the majestic Ancient Heroic Spirit Force contained within the ninth-level battlefield at the fastest speed.
Whoosh!
Countless golden lights surged furiously toward him.
Ye Feng was enveloped in a heavy layer of gold Ancient Heroic Spirit Power, making his entire being appear like a divine figure bathed in golden radiance, exuding a feeling of standing tall and unshakable.
“Who is there?”
A rebuke came from the island atop the Spirit Consolidating Ancestral Tree.
A High Order Void Break Realm being sensed the anomaly of the Ancient Heroic Spirit Power being devoured and without a word, formed seals with both hands, and hurled a sky-supporting treasured seal at Ye Feng.
“Dare to strike at me, courting death!”
Ye Feng’s expression turned cold as he said icily.