Chapter 725: Rebuild The Immortal Dao? (1/2)
The Dao Tree!
Never in his wildest dreams did Lu Yun expect to find it here, so the moment he laid eyes on it, he was certain this was all a trap. Of course, he’d never seen it in person before, but he remembered its appearance from Cangyin’s memories.
“Dao Tree, Dao Tree… this thing shouldn’t be part of the immortal dao!”
Strictly speaking, the Dao Tree wasn’t a towering tree, but a tree-shaped world, a world that was divided into three layers. One could find star-like fruit growing within each layer: dao fruits!
Aether dao fruits were located in the outermost layer, arcane dao fruits in the middle, and origin dao fruits in the innermost. When plucking a dao fruit, dao immortals traveled through the void to arrive at the Dao Tree and pick one of its fruits.
The three types of fruits were found in successive layers, each of which imposed strict limitations in terms of cultivation realm. Only those in the corresponding realm were permitted entrance into one of the tree’s layered worlds to obtain a fruit. Such were the rules set by the immortal dao.
But if one roamed free of these stipulations, right now, for example… This tree was then the greatest treasure of immortal dao. By refining its core, one could rule the immortal dao itself through it.
Most of the dao fruits growing on the tree were mere mirages for the immortals present. Without the appropriate cultivation realm, it was impossible to actually touch the fruits.
Lu Yun looked at the majestic tree, then at the immortals madly fighting one another nearby, a little uncertain of how to proceed.
Grab the tree and run? Anyone in possession of the Dao Tree would be a walking target and be quickly blasted into oblivion. He’d already noticed five unbelievably powerful minds locking onto him. Any sort of unusual twitch out of him would be met with a barrage of attacks in a split second.
“How did those fur seals get in here…” Lu Yun hovered unmoving in the air, his eyes landing on a patch teeming with fur seals.
Zhao Shenguang had proclaimed the disgusting creatures as enemies of Nephrite Major. Any fur seal reckless enough to set foot on Nephrite soil was to be given no quarter. Furthermore, he personally held down the fort in Destiny City, bringing forth the might of the heavenly mandate to bear, but these fur seals had still somehow made it in.
Lu Yun even glimpsed the big fur seal. Just like the demon sovereign and shamanic divine powerhouse, the giant fur seal had split himself into the flesh of his many descendants. However, for him to fool the Nephrite mandate’s vigilance and enter the central world was still rather unexpected.
“Milord, destroy it!” Ge Long’s voice suddenly reverberated in Lu Yun’s consciousness. “Destroy that Dao Tree! It shouldn’t exist in the first place!”
“What??” Lu Yun froze.
“There was no such tree when the immortal dao first came into existence. Someone planted the tree into the immortal dao as a trap with which to control immortals!” The old servant’s tone was extraordinarily solemn. “Does milord recall the monster that feeds on the energy of cultivators? This is a similar case before us, this tree is the one that swallowed the void realm back in the day!”
Inside the Dusk Tomb once resided a strange force that could devour a cultivator’s energy. It left their bodies intact and only fed on their cultivation realms. Everytime the force manifested itself, it’d consume the cultivator’s realms and plunge them back to mortality.
But according to what Ge Long was saying, that force had been… the strength of a living entity?
Shocked incredulity draped over Lu Yun.
“Wait, since there were no cultivators back in the Primordial Era, was it all because that monster ate their realms?” His eyes grew round. Something that fed on a… cultivation realm?