Chapter 452: Collection (1/2)
Chapter 452: Collection
As soon as Nie Tian’s right hand made contact with that Fruit of Life, a strong gravitational force was suddenly born between it and the green aura in his palm.
BANG!
The emerald-like Fruit of Life suddenly began to shine with dazzling light.
Dong Li saw with great clarity that wisps of glowing light were flowing out of that Fruit of Life.
Like water, they rapidly followed Nie Tian’s fingers into his palm and disappeared.
The fist-sized Fruit of Life shriveled and became smaller at a speed that could be seen by the naked eye.
At the same time, the green aura in his palm started to exude an incomparably strong aura of life.
Nie Tian could sense with great clarity that the countless crystal-like chains that formed the green aura were channeling and absorbing the wisps of glowing light from the Fruit of Life.
The innumerable green spots in the crystal-like chains, where lay the profound truths of life, started to shine like the stars in the sky.
It seemed that the wisps of glowing light from the Fruit of Life were what the green aura had been yearning for. Now it was devouring them greedily.
Moments later, the Fruit of Life touched by Nie Tian’s right hand completely vanished under Nie Tian and Dong Li’s gazes, all of the life power it contained consumed by the green aura. Not a shred was left.
Meanwhile, the green aura started to emanate an intoxicating light from his right palm.
However, its thirst for life power didn’t seem to be relieved in the slightest now that it had consumed a Fruit of Life.
On the contrary, Nie Tian felt that it had become even more eager and excited, as if it was urging him to collect the other three Fruits of Life.
At that moment, Dong Li seemed to realize what was happening, and thus hastily reminded him aloud, “Don’t! Don’t touch the Fruits of Life with your hand. Otherwise you’ll take away all of the life power in them!”
She didn’t know that what had taken away the life power of that Fruit of Life was actually the green aura in Nie Tian’s palm.
She just assumed that any living being with flesh and blood would absorb the life power within a Fruit of Life as soon as they touched one.
“That Fruit of Life will give you at least another hundred years of lifespan!” Dong Li exclaimed. “You’re still young, and far from facing a lifespan problem. These Fruits of Life are extremely precious. We need to secure the other three!”
Upon hearing her reminder, Nie Tian instantly became clear-headed, remembering that he had long since planned to give two Fruits of Life to Wu Ji and Hua Mu.
Dong Li would also need one in order to stabilize her status in the Dong Clan.
“I see.” With a deep breath, he recovered and restrained himself from grabbing the other three Fruits of Life with his right hand.
It was also at this moment that he realized that the spiritual energy ball in his left hand had already gathered a significant amount of pure wood power from the vicinity, as well as fragmented will from the Titan underneath him.
Meanwhile, as he practiced the Qi Refining Incantation, both the wood power and the fragmented will were rapidly infused into his spiritual sea.
“I’ve got some boxes.” Dong Li slowly approached Nie Tian as she looked carefully at the enormous eye in the pond underneath.
Then, she took out three wooden boxes from within her ring of holding and handed them to Nie Tian. “These three wooden boxes are made of trees that were thousands of years old. They should be able to hold Fruits of Life. You just need to open the box, place it under the Fruit of Life, and then sever the stem with its lid. Just like that, you should be able to collect the rest of the Fruits of Life.”
As the daughter of the Dong Clan’s clanmaster, she had all kinds of wares and treasures in her ring of holding.
At such a critical moment, even though she was also within arm’s reach of the Fruits of Life, she didn’t dare to collect them herself.
The overwhelming aura of flesh and blood that the huge eye had unleashed earlier had deeply scared her.
She had also realized that there must be something very special about Nie Tian that had not only allowed him to find this place and be free from the ancient trees’ attacks, but also given him the ability to silence the overwhelming attacks of the huge eye.
As arrogant as she was, she had to admit that she had nothing to do with the tremendous fortune they were facing now.