Chapter 695: The Beauty Never Seen (1/2)

Standing by the edge of the huge hole in the ground and gazing at the grayish-brown tree branch, Nie Tian was lost in his thoughts.

“Are the titans sealing this tree branch, or the place this huge hole leads to?” With this question in mind, he examined the visible part of the tree branch with his both flesh aura and the soul power from the fragmentary stars in his soul.

The tree branch was as thick as the trunk of the largest tree he had seen in the Domain of the Falling Stars, and it stretched into the unfathomable darkness.

As the result, he failed to detect any signs of life or soul fluctuations from it.

He couldn’t even sense the slightest wood power from it.

“Don’t tell me that this is nothing but a dead ancient tree,” he thought to himself.

He summoned the Flame Star from within his ring of holding, infused it with spiritual power, and slashed it down vigorously on the tree branch.

BOOM!

A large amount of fiery sparks sputtered from the contact point, yet not the slightest mark was left on the tree branch.

“What?!”

Then, he summoned the Flame Dragon Armor and told it to assume its flame dragon form and ram into the tree branch.

However, after a loud boom, the Flame Dragon Armor flew back to his side, and he received messages from it that said, “I’ve never seen anything this tough. I can topple a mountain peak with a vigorous strike, but this tree branch didn’t move a bit.

“Plus, I can’t detect any residual power from it, not even a shred of wood power.

“This means it’s only a branch from some dead tree. The fact that a vigorous strike from me didn’t even leave a mark on it is simply unbelievable.”

Nie Tian gasped at the scene.

After a moment of hesitation, he put the Flame Dragon Armor back into his ring of holding, along with the Flame Star.

The misty spiritual power ward over the mouth of the bottomless hole seemed to be separating this mysterious heaven and earth from the rest of the starry river.

However, that tree branch had managed to pierce through the spiritual power ward.

If the titans were here to cut the connection between this heaven and earth and the rest of the starry river, this tree branch was clearly malicious.

At this moment, he suddenly remembered the other magical dimension he had entered from the Realm of Unbounded Desolation.

In that dimension, wood power was as thick as water, and sky-reaching ancient trees grew everywhere. He had even found a small Tree of Life, which had Fruits of Life growing on it, in that place.

However, what had shocked him the most was that the small Tree of Life had actually been rooted in the eye of a titan that was lying on his back, and all of those ancient, sky-scraping trees had been growing on the titan’s body.

“But that Tree of Life was growing out of that titan’s eye, and their relationship seemed rather harmonious...” Nie Tian thought to himself.

That was when he came to realize that the tree branch probably had nothing to do with that Tree of Life.

Then, he made an attempt to have the nine Heaven Eyes fly through the spiritual power ward to see what lay beyond it.

However, it turned out that his Heaven Eyes couldn’t go through that spiritual power ward.

Shaking his head, he muttered, “This is so odd...”

Afterwards, he made a few more attempts. Yet all of them turned out to be in vain, as he failed to get a sneak peek at the secrets that hid in that bottomless hole.

It suddenly occurred to him to make an attempt with the seventy-two tree branches he had obtained from the Floragrims’ ancestral land.

As the small tree branches flew out, he focused all of his attention on the huge tree branch, but still, nothing happened.

Feeling rather frustrated, he went on to make a few more attempts with other magical items at his disposal. However, nothing worked.

All of them failed to leave even the slightest mark on the incredibly tough tree branch.

Neither could his awareness or flesh power could penetrate its exterior and examine its insides.

After a long time and numerous failed attempts, he was finally convinced that he couldn’t find out more about this tree branch or this mysterious heaven and earth.

“Forget it. I’ve wasted enough time here. It’s about time I focused on my breakthrough into the Worldly realm.” As reluctant as he was, he finally decided to return to the altar and try to finish his breakthrough into the Worldly realm.