Chapter 464 - The Mother Tree (1/2)
Chi Xue reached the side of the Immortality Peaches Tree, she then sacrificed Feng Qianyi and the phoenix lady vaporized into a bloody mist that the divine tree quickly absorbed. Immediately, the seals around the divine tree then opened up a safe path.
The young lady then plucked a ripe Peaches of Immortality and left without touching the other Peaches of Immortality.
There were only one or two peaches on each tree, and with the three divine trees together, there were only a total of five while the others were still unripe.
At this moment, the sounds of objects crashing into the soil could be heard as the other boats docked at the riverbank. Their arrival triggered the seals Chi Xue left behind and activated the hidden skills. Countless experts were caught off guard, and some died on the spot while another few unlucky ones were blasted into the river.
Screams could be heard from the riverbank, and as Zhong Yue looked back, he saw the experts swarming over.
Shua——
His psyche flowed out, lifting Ying Nu, Husan Weng, and the others into his Yuan Shen secret realm while Chi Xue rushed over quickly.
Zhong Yue then said, "I'm at the critical moment of the seventh revolution, it's best for us to avoid conflict against them!"
The two of them then walked into the woods, and Zhong Yue thought in his heart as he watched the incoming Qi Practitioners, There are too many people and too few Peaches of Immortality. Chi Xue took only one so there are four left, this is more than enough to soak the land with blood.
The boats that arrived here were all at the brink of collapse, there were holes everywhere and even the two Black Tortoise Celestial Race experts' boat sank in the river. Without the boats, no one could turn back, and thus, they were all trapped here.
This was the center of the Peach Garden that was surrounded by the God Burying River, making it like a lone island. That being said, without the golden boat or anything like that, it was impossible to leave.
However, all of the cultivators had only one golden paper boat or the black wooden boat, it wasn't easy to craft them, and even if they had extra, it'd be useless as well. Because they only have to cross the river once, and there was simply no need to go back again as even if they had left the island, they still wouldn't be able to leave the Returning Ruins.
There was only one way to leave the Returning Ruins, and that was to wait for the Kun Lun and A'thoer gods to teleport them back.
Hence, those on the island were stuck here, no one could leave, and with there only four Peaches of Immortality left, the development of the situation would only go down one way.
The bloody and gory way!
One could easily tell just how many would die from the bloodshed!
As for Zhong Yue and Chi Xue, it was definitely not a good idea to clash with the experts, the best timing to fight for the Peaches of Immortality was, of course, when the experts have eliminated most of themselves.
Furthermore, Zhong Yue was also in the critical moment of his seventh revolution. His strength was now back at the Inner Core level, and it was definitely unwise to fight the experts at this point in time.
Zhong Yue's eyes flashed, and he furtively took out a golden paper from Chi Yun'er's Yuan Shen secret realms. He showed it to her, and when she saw it, her eyes lit up as well. Despite them not even saying a single word, they both knew what the other meant.
This golden paper came from Chi Yun'er. After her death, the treasures in her Yuan Shen secret realms belonged to Zhong Yue now.
If there was any danger, the two of them could use the golden paper to leave the island.
The two of them silently moved away from the blood-curdling battlefield and toward the other parts of the island. The island wasn't small, but most of the places here were just wood and forest. Even though there were peach trees everywhere, they were only ordinary peach trees as the godly soils had degraded to ordinary soil.
Zhong Yue crouched down and picked up a clump of soil in his hand, he then examined it and inspected the roots of the peach trees as well. His brow furrowed, and he said to Chi Xue, "The Returning Ruins isn't going to hold long, we might be the last batch of visitors here. This continent will not be able to come out from the black hole anymore."
Chi Xue nodded. The energy in the godly soil had been siphoned away by the black hole over time, and eventually, only a small piece of the god's land still had the godly soil. This was also the direct cause of the deaths of the other divine peach trees.
The deaths of the Immortality Peach Tree and the great reduction in the number of Peaches of Immortality were omens of the Returning Ruins' end.
There were many treasures, secrets, and mysteries in the Returning Ruins, and it was a pity they were going to disappear. But there was nothing they could do as they were too weak to change anything.
"Other than these three Immortality Peach Trees, I heard that there is also a mother tree, if that mother tree is to die in the black hole as well, that'll be a real pity." Chi Xue looked around and said, "But, where can it be?"
The two of them ventured deeper into the woods, and suddenly, a series of loud blasts came from the back. The battle between the Kun Lun and A'thoer experts had started!
The battle would be incredibly gory – the pair felt the intensity from the rumbling of the earth that traveled to their position, in the end, none of it was related to Zhong Yue and Chi Xue anymore.
"If there really is a mother tree, we might just be able to find it!" Zhong Yue's eyes brightened up, "The Six Paths Fruit Tree is even weaker than the mother tree, but if even it knew how to find a way to escape, then so would the mother tree!"
Chi Xue's eyes brightened up as well, and she said, "That mother tree is most probably in this Peach Garden. There were no Qi Practitioners that could have found it because it doesn't let people find her. But now, the Returning Ruins is dying, it must have been trying to find ways to leave. And that gives us a chance to track on its traces and find it!"
The other Immortality Peach Tree was pinned on the ground by the seals of the Peach Garden, but the mother tree was incredibly strong, even stronger than the Six Paths Fruit Tree, it might just be able to breakthrough the seals of the imperial court!
If they could find the mother tree, any Peaches of Immortality it had would be ten times better than those out there!