Chapter 366 (1/2)

Chapter 366

“That aura… it’s Chu Yao!”

Long Chen hurriedly summoned out Little Snow . Pulling up Lu Fang-er, they rushed over in that direction .

“Long Chen, this place is close to the core region of the Forest of Darkness . Rus.h.i.+ng like this is very dangerous,” warned Lu Fang-er .

“Don’t worry about it . Chu Yao’s fighting with someone, and I have to hurry over . ” Long Chen had spread his divine sense out to its max, and every movement within three thousand meters was grasped by him clearly . He told Little Snow to go as fast as possible .

Little Snow understood Long Chen’s thoughts, and turned into a white bolt of lightning that rushed forward .

Around two hundred miles deeper into the forest, there was an opening between two mountains . There were quite a few people watching secretly from a distance .

On one side of the opening was a steep cliff thousands of meters high that looked as if a blade had cut it open . On the bottom of the cliff was an ancient tree .

In front of that tree was a woman . Hundreds of wooden stakes had grown out of the ground in front of her . They appeared like vines growing into the sky, and they closely protected the woman .

When Long Chen saw that figure, his heart instantly felt much more at ease . That woman was Chu Yao .

Only after seeing Chu Yao was safe and sound did Long Chen turn to see who was in front of her . He instantly felt a burning anger inside him .

There were over thirty people, and three of them had reached the Chosen-level . These people were all wearing monastery robes, but they were from different monasteries .

As for the arrogant woman leading them, it was Yin Wushuang . She was icily staring at Chu Yao . “Due to the relations.h.i.+p between our supermonastery and your Skywood Palace, I won’t make things hard for you . This tree has taken my fancy, so you can leave . Hopefully you’ll be sensible and won’t make things hard for me . That won’t have any benefits for you!”

Long Chen saw that the ancient tree behind Chu Yao was only a couple hundred meters tall . There was not a single leaf growing out of it . Its life force had obviously long since dried up .

But then when he clearly saw the veins on top of the tree, his pupils shrunk slightly . He finally understood why Yin Wushuang would want to fight over this ancient tree .

This tree was called the Seven Heartsea Cherry-Apple Tree . It was an extremely miraculous kind of tree . Its branches, fruit, and leaves were all worthless .

Its true value lay in its tree-heart . The most miraculous thing about it was that its tree-heart contained an extremely pure wood energy .

It had a total of seven tree-hearts . When the tree finally reached its longevity limit, it would die .

But that was a fake death . Even in that state of suspended animation, the Seven Heartsea Cherry-Apple Tree would ignite the energy of six of its tree-hearts and merge that energy into a single tree-heart .

Once the six tree-hearts’ energy was all used up, the remaining tree-heart would contain an incredible amount of wood energy .

That one tree-heart would hide itself inside its tree, entering a hibernation state . When it once more awakened, that would be the time for the ancient tree to return to its youthful state .

From the outside, it looked as if this tree had already completely withered and died . But Long Chen could use his power Spiritual Strength to sense a miraculous energy within the ancient tree that was slowly awakening .

Its tree-heart had probably already hibernated for a long time, and had finally absorbed enough energy . It would quickly begin to awaken .

If the tree-heart was extracted at such a time, then it would be a priceless treasure to wood cultivators .

“I was the one who noticed this Seven Heartsea Cherry-Apple Tree first . Later, greedy people came to fight over it when I began to extract its tree-heart . I didn’t forcibly s.n.a.t.c.h this from other people . Despite the good relations.h.i.+p between your Xuantian Supermonastery and my Skywood Palace, are you really planning on fighting over this with me?” Chu Yao’s words contained some fury .

Chu Yao had entered the Forest of Darkness half a month ago . By relying on her wood attribute senses, she had managed to find this Seven Heartsea Cherry-Apple Tree .

However, this tree grew in an extremely conspicuous location, and extracting the tree-heart was a complicated progress . If she was careless, it was all too possible to end up losing a great deal of its energy . In the end, it was even possible for this priceless treasure to become a piece of trash .

That was why Chu Yao needed to have an undisturbed time in order to safely accomplish her goal . If it was someone else, they probably would have uprooted the entire tree and put it in a storage ring .

But Chu Yao knew that if she did that, it could cause the tree to lose its spirituality, and its tree-heart would lose almost half its energy .

The most hateful thing was that whenever she would try to extract the tree-heart, others would always come to disturb her . Those people were all extremely vexing . They couldn’t defeat her, and so they just watched from a distance . When she tried to extract the tree-heart, they would either attack her or perhaps even shout loudly to draw over more people .