Chapter 453 - Six Paths Fruit Tree (1/2)

Chi Xue's heart skipped a beat as she looked at Zhong Yue with a pair of puzzled eyes.

Feng Zhishan laughed and then said, "Good! Princess Chi Xue, since our Little Friend Zhong has already agreed to it, then I hope the princess can follow as well. Otherwise, he might say that we are deliberately sending him to his death. With a princess to accompany him, he will have nothing left to say!"

Chi Xue gave a bright smile, revealing her pearly white teeth as her flawless eyes curved like crescent moons. She then said, "Since I'm going, I want Ying Nu with me as well."

"No," Chi Qing curled her arms around Ying Nu and laughed, "Ying Nu is too weak, she can't be compared to you three, even if she follows, she will only be a burden."

Anger flared in Chi Xue's eyes. She was planning to bring Ying Nu along, and together with Zhong Yue, they might be able to find a way to escape. However, who knew that Chi Qing saw through her plans and preemptively stopped her.

Seeing the way that the situation developed, Zhong Yue's heart sank even further – he had the same plan, and that was why he was so quick to agree.

But now, with Chi Qing and Feng Zhushan holding Ying Nu hostage, they effectively quashed their plans before they were even able to implement. That was unless the two of them were ruthless enough to ignore Ying Nu's life for their own.

Chi Xue continued to maintain her smile as she said, "That's fine by me too. Senior Martial Brother Zhong, Feng Dong, let's go!"

Zhong Yue, Chi Xue, and Feng Dong moved toward the godly mountain. They were nearing the divine tree when suddenly, Zhong Yue asked, "Chi Xue, what's going on?"

"What else can it be?", Chi Xue sighed, "All because of the fight for the throne. If I die here, then my sisters will have one less competitor. Thus, they all long for me to meet my end here. I asked you to come because I hoped that you could help me."

Feng Dong heard them, and his face suddenly drastically changed.

Meanwhile, Zhong Yue was still smiling as he said, "You've gone to Ancestral Star, I don't think you were there for me, were you?"

Chi Xue nodded, and she held a worried look on her beautiful face as she replied, "I was there for Bi Xue. I heard that he is strong, and I thought he would be able to help me to pull through this ordeal. But after seeing you, I changed my mind. Although Bi Xue is really strong, I don't think he can beat you. There's also the fact that I like you more than him!"

Zhong Yue laughed, "Princess, you are thinking too much. I promised that I will help you once, so now, it is time to uphold that promise."

"You have a way to get through this thing?" Chi Xue looked at the divine tree and said with furrowed brows.

The divine tree was on the foot of the mountain, it had countless branches and were shrouded with godly rays. As they walked closer to it, the imposing and saintly air continued to thicken and intensify. Chi Xue had the divine eye as well, one that was even stronger than Zhong Yue's in certain regards!

For example, although Zhong Yue's divine eye was powerful, he couldn't see through Feng Wuji's incarnation, whereas Chi Xue could. She had also seen through the fact that Zhong Yue and Long Yue were, in fact, the same person.

Thus, she was able to see the divine tree siphoning nutrients from the godly corpses below!

In comparison to that pile of godly corpses buried underneath, the size of the divine tree looked more like a little twig that grew atop a mountain!

However, its roots were tangling, curling, and grasping on the many godly corpses, sucking nutrients off from the bodies unceasingly!

This was definitely something else, it wouldn't be as simple as an ordinary divine herb.

If they ever dared to offend the divine tree by even the slightest thing possible, they would end up as another few corpses added to its collections!

Zhong Yue didn't answer her question immediately, instead, he turned to Feng Dong and looked at Chi Xue again.

Feng Dong's face faltered instantly, and he turned back to see only a hill of soil obstructing his line of sight to Feng Zhishan and the others and them to him.

Right as he turned his head back, Chi Xue took out a silver hairpin from her hair that soon enlarged to the size of a common sword. She swung the silver sword and swiftly decapitated Feng Dong's head!

"He is not one of mine. But don't worry, we'll just kill him." The silver sword quickly reverted to its original size before she elegantly inserted it back into her hair again.

Zhong Yue deeply gazed at her. His first impression on Chi Xue was a pure and naive young girl, one who was mischievous at times but still amicable. But now, the more of her true self he saw, the further the departure from his impression of her she seemed to be.

The Chi Xue he was now looking at was a young heroine, one that acted with decisiveness and a boundless conviction that was no lesser than Zhong Yue's.

"I have a treasure, one that can be used to stop the divine tree from attacking us."

Zhong Yue took out the shabby copper lamp and said, "As for defeating or even keeping the divine tree for ourselves, that is beyond our current abilities. However, if you have any treasures like the god's inner cores or anything similar, we might just be able to do it."

The copper lamp was none other than the one Xin Huo used to reside in. Back then, Zhong Yue kept the Divine Wing Saber in it with the help of the beast god inner core. Although he had succeeded in doing so, the beast core inner core was also nearly depleted away.

The Divine Wing Saber was Lord Kun's saint weapon, it was extremely strong and was regarded as the Kun Peng Celestial Race's greatest weapon. Yet, even such a strong weapon was sealed away by the copper lamp. One could tell how strong the copper lamp was.

However, Zhong Yue's beast god inner core has long been drained of its essence. Without the inner cores of the gods, there wasn't even a chance they could keep the divine tree away. However, the divine tree wasn't dumb either, it was capable of higher-level thinking just like any sentient being, and with the mysterious copper lamp on their side, it would simply elect to not engage them.

"The godly inner cores…"

Chi Xue frowned, she said, "I have a few in my treasure vaults, but they are not with me now."

Zhong Yue held the copper lamp half a step in front of them as they continued walking forward, he said, "Follow me closely, don't be more than half a step away from me."