Chapter 450: Fruits of Life (1/2)

Chapter 450: Fruits of Life

In the forest of sky-reaching trees, Nie Tian held Dong Li in an awkward position as they slowly moved forward.

At first, Dong Li buried her head in Nie Tian’s chest, fearing that the enormous trees would attack her again.

However, as Nie Tian walked deeper into the forest, she found that the trees were not attacking her anymore, and thus gradually relaxed.

Even still, she silently clenched her jaw as she stuck close to Nie Tian’s chest and listened to his vigorous heartbeat.

The position made her very bashful and uncomfortable. She was constantly guarding against Nie Tian, fearing that he would take the opportunity to do unspeakable things to her.

She couldn’t help but recall their close contact in the dense forest in the Realm of Split Void and over the lake in the Realm of Dark Underworld. Images flashed in front of her eyes.

Gradually, she realized that she actually didn’t oppose close contact with Nie Tian, which deeply shocked and abashed her.

She even blamed herself for it inwardly.

Being so close to Nie Tian, not only was she able to hear his heartbeat, but she was also able to smell his aura, which only strong males would have.

Listening to his heartbeat and smelling his aura, Dong Li couldn’t help but feel unprecedentedly secure, as if as long as they remained in this position, nothing would ever happen to her.

As for Nie Tian, who was marching forward, he quickly adjusted himself after being carried away briefly.

As he pondered what had just happened, he gradually realized that the reason why the ancient trees had stopped attacking Dong Li was probably because she had been submerged in the special aura he emanated.

The aura he released into his surroundings originated from his flesh and blood, which carried a bit of the aura of his bloodline.

It was none other than this special aura that had allowed him to be free from the trees’ attacks, which had the same effect for Dong Li when she stayed close enough to him.

“Life Bloodline and the Fruit of Life...” Nie Tian was increasingly convinced that there were certain profound connections between the two.

His bloodline was the reason why he had successfully found this place and not been attacked by the enormous trees.

Looking up at the hundred-meter-tall trees, he felt very secure and relaxed. As he walked deeper into the forest, the light-green wood power aura in the air grew increasingly pure and rich.

Wisps of pure wood power continued to pour into his spiritual sea, forming more liquidized wood power at the bottom of his vortex of wood power.

He started to have a feeling that as long as he stayed in this magical place, even if he didn’t do anything, the level of development of his vortex of wood power and the level of refinement of his wood power would rise to the point where he would be ready for his next breakthrough.

It wasn’t an intangible rumor that the wood power here was as thick as water. It was solid truth.

Just like that, Nie Tian carried Dong Li closer and closer towards the heart of the forest, neither of them saying a word.

From time to time, Nie Tian would glance around, and discover that long, thin roots stretched from the bottoms of the trees towards the heart of the forest.

After marching for a few hours, Nie Tian arrived at the heart of the forest with Dong Li clinging to him, where he discovered that the roots of the ancient trees were actually stretching into a shallow pond, which was filled with murky, green water.

In the middle of the pond grew a short tree that was about a man’s height with green leaves.

The small tree had only the girth of a grown man’s arm. Its trunk was covered in complicated and mysterious patterns, which glittered with faint, green light.

In its fresh, green foliage hung four fist-sized fruits.

The fruits were translucent and sparkling like emeralds, with green light rippling in them, as if they were filled with the most profound power in heaven and earth — life power.

Arriving by the edge of the shallow pond, Nie Tian finally came to a stop, his eyes seized by the small tree and the four fruits on it.

At this moment, he sensed with great clarity that the green aura in his heart wanted to rush out of his body, each and every crystal-like chain within it shining with dazzling light.

The green aura followed his meridians straight into his right palm.

As it did, his right palm began to change. The palm prints on his right palm began to flicker with faint, green light, just like the patterns on the trunk of the short tree.

The green aura rushed about within his palm, though it didn’t seem to be able to fly out through his fingertips.

However, a strong, mysterious yearning stemmed from the green aura and seemed to be urging Nie Tian to collect those four emerald-like fruits.

Nie Tian took deep breaths to calm himself as he said to Dong Li, “I-I think this is the place.”