MTLNOVEL Chapter 813: Rapid Progress
Xiao Yi's eyes suddenly widened in disbelief.
He felt an unbelievably surging flood of water pouring into his body; under the gentle sweep of the willow, merely a few droplets were enough to grant beasts rampant leaps in strength.
Yet, he was gulping it down massively.
For a moment,
he felt his body might burst from the sensation.
His viscera, his meridians and channels,
all seemed about to explode at any second.
Gasping!
Xiao Yi took in deep breaths, his mind telling him he must stop, but his body instinctively continued to swallow the water of the lake; with each gulp, more and more was consumed.
Xiao Yi's body turned a strange, blood-red color, his veins bulging as if his blood vessels would explode at any moment.
His body had already swelled.
On the verge of not being able to cope,
in the space between life and death,
the Divine Sealing Tree within Xiao Yi's body suddenly trembled violently, and amid the roar of crashing noises, the Divine Sealing Tree began to shudder. Each leaf on the tree, a brilliant shade of emerald green, burst forth with dazzling, sacred light.
Hum!
The phantom image of the Divine Sealing Tree shot out from his body, hovering behind him.
Swish, swish, swish!
The tree's branches and leaves shook as roots sprouted from its massive trunk, extending into the lake. These roots also began to greedily absorb the water.
As the lake water flowed into the Divine Sealing Tree, it instantly transformed into the purest form of energy, invigorating the life force of the Divine Sealing Tree.
One after one, new leaves appeared on the branches.
Ten leaves.
A hundred leaves.
A thousand leaves...
The number of Sealing God Leaves kept increasing, and Xiao Yi's mind was completely immersed in the sensation of his rapidly increasing power. He tightly closed his eyes, continuously operating the Divine Enthronement Heaven Subduing Skill.
One day.
Two days.
Three days...
Ten days passed in a blink.
Behind Xiao Yi, the amount of Sealing God Leaves on the Divine Sealing Tree had increased from around 110,000 to 450,000 in the span of those ten days.
A total of 108,000 Sealing God Leaves was comparable to the first tier of the Earth Venerate Realm.
Now, with 450,000 leaves,
Xiao Yi's cultivation level had leapt from the first tier of the Earth Venerate Realm to the fourth tier.
With his current combat abilities, even if he encountered a seventh-tier Earth Venerate Realm adversary, he could still blow them apart.
Phew!
Xiao Yi exhaled deeply, his eyes flickering with riveting excitement. These ten days were equivalent to the harsh cultivation of common folk for hundreds, even thousands of years.
One must know...
When Elder Tian Ku broke through to the fifth tier of the Earth Venerate Realm, he was already over a thousand years old.
Xiao Yi had only spent ten days.
And he had advanced from the first tier straight into the fifth tier of the Earth Venerate Realm.
It was an unimaginable leap!
"With 450,000 Sealing God Leaves condensed, using up merely one percent of the lake's water, if I were to devour all of this water, how high would my cultivation soar?" Xiao Yi's face showed excitement.
However...
Just as he prepared to continue devouring the mysterious lake water,
Xiao Yi's vision suddenly brightened. He discovered that at the center of the lake, under the massive willow's root entanglement, there was actually a black stele.
The stele was tightly wrapped by the roots, with the characters for "eternal life" faintly visible.
And the green lake water was flowing out from within this stele.
"This is..."
Xiao Yi's pupils contracted sharply, a flash of insight crossing his mind.
The appearance of this lake was all because of this stone stele!
"This stone stele can actually generate this mysterious water endlessly. If I could obtain it, wouldn't that mean possessing a treasure capable of endlessly creating Spirit Veins?" Xiao Yi's eyes gleamed.
The water created by the stele wasn't simply comparable to a Spirit Vein in energy; more importantly, it could be directly absorbed for raising one's cultivation level!
Such a treasure was even more precious than the Cloud Dream Temple itself.
I must get it!
Xiao Yi's mind echoed with this determination as, aided by the Five Elements Escape Technique, he stealthily approached. The power of the Divine Enthronement Heaven Subduing Skill coalesced into a palm, reaching towards the stele.
At the same time…
The monsters by the lakeside also stopped their cultivation, having finally refined the water gifted by the willow, each one's cultivation boosted dramatically.
Over three thousand monsters, the quickest to break through, leapt from the fourth to the eighth layer, entering a realm comparable to the Human Venerate Realm.
Splash!
The willow trembled lightly, seemingly quite pleased with this batch of monsters' ascension.
The crowd of monsters knelt one by one, uttering human speech, "Thank you, Mother Goddess, for your gifts!"
Splash!
The willow swayed gently again, its expansive canopy quietly retracting, ready to submerge back into the lake. Suddenly, the willow shook violently, and a wave of anger that everyone felt deeply swept across the entire southern extremity.
Roar!
Roar!
Roar!
A succession of earth-shattering beastly roars instantly came from all directions.
The monsters by the lake glared furiously, their fur standing on end as they fixed their gaze on the lake.
Outside the forest…
Eight immense figures tore through the sky.
These were the eight monsters at the peak of the Earth Venerate Realm.
Roar!
Amidst the angry roars, one of them, an Ice-breaking Demon Ape that was vaguely on the verge of stepping into the Heaven Venerate Realm, pounded its chest with massive arms, bellowing, "Insolent humans, how dare you defile the Mother Goddess, come out and meet your death!"
Boom!
The roar of the beasts was thunderous and earth-shattering.
In the midst of the lake.
The willow swayed wildly, its canopy covering hundreds of miles, blazing with brilliant verdant light that continued to cascade down. Willow branches, like serpents, whipped frantically into the water.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Each branch that shot into the water caused it to explode violently.
One vortex after another appeared out of nowhere.
Splash!
A colossal whirlpool formed, leading straight to the lake's bed.
Xiao Yi's form was exposed to the sight of all beasts, and as he was about to seize the stele, his expression suddenly changed. Looking up, he saw countless willow branches, filled with a destructive aura, lashing violently towards him.
Around the whirlpool, numerous monsters stared him down with a predator's intensity.
Damn it!
Xiao Yi's face changed, but he also knew that he would likely not be able to take the stele with him today. Activating the demon sword Zhan Yue, he soared into the air. Terrifying sword lights burst forth in the void, streaking across the sky like starlight.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
The sword lights whistled past, slashing tirelessly at the willow branches.
But to Xiao Yi's surprise…
The sharpness of Zhan Yue was actually unable to sever the willow branches!
At that moment.
Roars of rage came thundering.
The eight monsters, on par with the peak of the Earth Venerate Realm and led by the Ice-breaking Demon Ape, were already diving down towards him.
"Damn it, looks like I can't get that stele today!" Xiao Yi's heart sank. Dealing with just the Millennium Ice Python was hard enough.
Not to mention the Ice-breaking Demon Ape and seven other monsters stronger than him?
And that mysterious willow.
As well as the thousands of monsters by the lake, all watching hungrily…
Xiao Yi took a hard look at the stele, gritted his teeth, and vowed, "Just you wait, next time I come, you will surely be mine. But for now, before I go, I must take something with me…"
With a wave of his hand.
Two-thirds of the lake's water was directly absorbed into his storage ring.
Roar!
The host of monsters roared in fury.
The willow shook violently, seething with unceasing rage.
Xiao Yi gave a glance to the assembled beasts, grinned, and said, "Goodbye then!"
Whoosh!
Deploying the Five Elements Escape Technique, he melded into the soil, running wildly towards the outskirts of the southern lands, leaving the beasts to roar futilely at the now empty spirit lake…