14 Chapter 14: Rebirth! (1/2)

”What happened?!” yelled Hong Xin, horrified at the scene playing in front of him.

The leaves are withering at a visible rate. Seeing this, even Ling Yu and Wang Guozhi stepped forward in a panic.

”T-the boy is absorbing them at a rapid speed!” said Wang Guozhi as he activated his unique bloodline ability - to see the flow of spiritual Qi, albeit vividly.

Hearing this, the other two senior teacher were flabbergasted and for a moment did not dare to believe it was true. However, Wang Guozhi is someone of the Wang tribe, and their children were born under rich spiritual Qi environment due to a mysterious treasure that exist in their mountain that they guarded since a long time ago.

Thus, every single one of them could vividly trace the flow of spiritual Qi on their surrounding to an extent. Therefore, with this advantage, their tribe possesses particular talent in the field of harnessing spiritual Qi.

”M-make the boy stop!” shouted Hong Xin as he was terribly scared that the millennium Yidara tree would die on the spot.

”But we who had formed our own dantian core could not get under its shades! Otherwise we would risk our spiritual Qi to run berserk due to the conflicting spiritual Qi that entered our body from the tree!” shouted Ling Yu in a panic to stop them as she reminded with a grim countenance.

The millennium Yidara tree possesses a unique spiritual Qi to itself. These spiritual Qi are more purer than the surrounding spiritual Qi while also having its own unique attributes. Therefore, those who had cultivated their dantian core with other forms of spiritual Qi, what more of a different attributes than the wood element, should not even dream of entering the shades.

At this moment, while the trio were brainstorming with haste on how to stop Duan Li from absorbing more of the spiritual Qi from the tree, the person himself was deep in a trance as his body underwent a qualitative change. Thus, he was not aware of the situation.

”I can feel that this spiritual Qi that I have absorbed are changing my bodily system.. ” said Duan Li as he observed his body interior with his see-through eyes.

His bones that seemed quite brittle before are now becoming more compact and denser, his skeletal muscles are growing leaner and radiates more force to it. In addition, his skin turned from brown to a more lighter color and even his face somehow have changed slightly that gave him that more sharper looks compared to before.

After a while, Duan Li finally opened his eyes slowly as he could no longer feel any spiritual Qi flowing towards his dantian.

'I guess this is my limit?' he said while slowly standing up.

As he lifted his head towards the group, he found that their eyes and mouth opened wide and agaped. It seems that they are entirely shocked by something to the point like they are almost salivating!

”H-huh? Why.. are you all looking at me like that..?” said Duan Li suspiciously as he covered his body with his arms in a reflex.

He had also realized his facial features had become a little bit more masculine than before and could understand if Ling Yu and Xiahou Yu to suddenly be entranced by this new looks of his, but for the old man Hong Xin who was almost 90 years old and that muscular fella Wang Guozhi to react the same?

I shall report you two to the authorities!

”B-boy.. what have you done..?” said Wang Guozhi slowly as he pointed to the tree with his index finger.

”Its.. over.. ” said Hong Xin weakly as he slumped to the ground.

”Hmm? What do you guys mea-..!!”

He turned towards the tree following that weird gaze of the other party trying to understand what was going on. It was then that he was shocked by what he saw..

The ancient millennium Yidara tree that was full of vicissitudinous and majestic ancient to it before had now grown bald!

Specifically, the leaves are now nowhere to be found, leaving behind only emptied branches that seemed desolate and pitiful. If one were to come across this tree, one would not even believe it to be the legendary millennium Yidara tree even if they were to be beaten to death and their whole families whipped harshly!

It looked more like a malnutritioned tree bidding its time for death!

”T-this! Who could have done such an abomination!” said Duan Li as he clenched his fist tightly, feeling aggrieved towards the perpetrator.

But then, in a moment he said, ”Or the tree had grown weary after living for a long time now and had decided to... Hais.. ” Duan Li shook his head.

Pu!

When the trio heard this, they almost spat out blood!

Who could have done this, you asked?

If it is not you, then who else was there?!

Did you think that a grand tree that had survived for a millennium with extreme resilience, thus its name, to had suddenly gone senile trying to end its life with a suicide?! shouted the trio in their minds in indignance.

Just as Hong Xin was about to blow up in anger, Duan Li backed away from the shades zone while looking sad.

Suddenly, as he stepped out of the shade, the spiritual Qi inside his body started rumbling as he felt his entire body prickling out.

Then, the spiritual Qi that he had absorbed before, leaked out from his pores and floated gently above him as it spiralled together to form a sphere of spiritual Qi.

This sphere then glowed slowly from red, to orange. Then, from orange to yellow and then to green. Finally, it rumbled for a while as it turned to the color of bright blue in the end. This bright blue light was like the sun in its intensity, except that it was blue in color.

”Wha.. what is with this blue light ball?”

Duan Li was a little bit terrified with this startling phenomena as it emptied the spiritual Qi from his dantian in but an instant and caused him to feel a little bit tired.

Turning to look towards the three senior teacher of the academy to look for an answer, he had instead found the trio's face to look even more ridiculous than before. Their lips were pointing outwards with their eyes opened wide. If one were to look carefully, they would find these trio's expression to be similar to that of a puffer fish indeed.