Chapter 157: Crystal of the Ancient Cang’e Tree (2)
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
However, seven crystals dropped from Xiao Shi’s kill. This stunned him.
“There’s only one possibility in this situation. The ancient tree crystal is just an ordinary item here. There might be something even more precious and extraordinary than the ancient tree crystal here!” Xiao Shi was extremely shocked.
This was his speculation based on the drop mechanism. If the ancient tree crystal was the most precious, important, and rare item in this place, he would definitely have to kill a Major Perfection Qi Martial Realm cultivator to drop it.
Just like the Holy Land Badge back then.
But now, just killing these tree spirits had dropped ancient tree crystals, and the number of crystals dropped was far more than one. This meant that the ancient tree crystal was not as rare and precious as Cheng Tianhao and the others thought.
Inside the ancient tree, there was something even more precious and extraordinary.
This also caused Xiao Shi’s heart burn. I le knew very well that as long as he killed a Major Perfection Qi Martial Realm cultivator, he could verify his guess.
If his guess was correct, perhaps he would have a chance to obtain this mysterious and unknown item.
But before that, Xiao Shi prepared to refine the ancient tree crystal first. Although he was not interested in the Echelon of the Swift Shadow Palace, he had already obtained these ancient tree crystals. There was no reason not to refine it.
Xiao Shi immediately grabbed an ancient tree crystal. He began to refine it.
Chi! Chi! Chi!
It was not difficult to refine the ancient tree crystal. During the refinement, the crystal gradually melted and turned into a stream of light that entered Xiao Shi’s body.
Xiao Shi clearly felt the tree seed in his body change as the crystal fused. Previously, when he tampered with the tree seed, he knew that the tree seed could continuously improve.
For example, the tree seeds in the bodies of outer sect disciples like them. It was completely different from the tree seed in an Echelon disciple’s body. The tree seed of an Echelon disciple could allow them to have higher authority and greater benefits in Tree Shadow City.
Now, the tree seed in Xiao Shi’s body had become the same tree seed as the Echelon disciple after the refinement of the crystal. He even had a certain level of control over the entire Tree Shadow City.
Not only that, as the crystal was refined, Xiao Shi also clearly felt the affinity conveyed by the ancient tree. As a result, he felt a sense of comfort here that only existed in the night. At the same time, it allowed his strength to increase to a certain extent.
Xiao Shi did not stop. He continued to refine the crystals. Every time he successfully refined a crystal, he could clearly feel the increase in the affinity of the ancient tree.= The amplification he received was also increasing.
After he refined all seven crystals, he could even use a portion of the power of the ancient tree. He obtained many rights inside the ancient tree as well. If those tree spirits were still around, he could even give orders to these tree spirits.
Moreover, this authority was not only available when he was inside the ancient tree. Even if he left this place, there would still be such authority in Tree Shadow City.
“If… the entire Tree Shadow City is built on this Ancient Cang’e Tree, and the Ancient Cang’e Tree is the core source of the Tree Shadow City, then with my current authority, I’m afraid that even the existence who controls this city might not be higher than me.”
Xiao Shi’s eyes lit up.
Now, even if he did not tamper with the tree seed in his body, no one could check all the relevant information about him through his tree seed. Moreover, he could also target other people’s tree seeds.
He had multiple authorities.
It was no exaggeration to say that he had basically become the master of this Tree Shadow City after refining these seven ancient tree crystals. Unless there’s someone who refined more crystals than him. Otherwise, in terms of authority, they would all be crushed by him!
At the same time, he could clearly feel a strong call coming from the ancient tree. A voice seemed to be calling him to quickly head to the core area of the ancient tree. There seemed to be something waiting for him there. This call seemed to have come from the ancient tree.
This made Xiao Shi realize something.
In the core of this ancient tree, there might be something unexpected.
“There must be more than seven ancient tree crystals. There should be more.” Xiao Shi was deep in thought. He really wanted to see it. If he continued to obtain more ancient tree crystals and refined them all, what kind of improvement would he have?
But he also knew that he could only drop it by killing if he wanted to obtain the ancient tree crystal. If there were no targets to kill in the subsequent stages, he could only kill the people in the other teams.
Other than that, Xiao Shi was also curious about the important things after passing this round.
Originally, according to his thoughts, there should be important items after clearing the level among the items that dropped. However, among the items that fell this time, there were only ancient tree crystals. The other items were just ordinary items.
Now that he had passed this round, an important item after clearing the level appeared in front of him.
These were shockingly ten seeds!
The moment he picked up the ten seeds, Xiao Shi also knew the use of these ten seeds. As long as these ten seeds were planted into the ground, they would transform into ten late-stage Qi Martial Realm tree spirits.
Which meant, with these ten seeds, it was equivalent to having ten late-stage Qi Martial Realm tree spirits!
Although the combat strength of these ten tree spirits was insignificant and not enough to threaten the other teams, the corrosion of the aura brought about by these ten tree spirits was a powerful method that others had no choice but to be on guard against.
However, an important item of this stage was very ordinary to Xiao Shi. After all, with his current authority, even without these ten spirit tree seeds, he could order the tree spirits here to attack the people of the other teams.
It could be said that such a key item only belonged to one of the authorizations he currently had.
“If the important items after passing all the checkpoints are similar to this tree spirit seed. Then there’s indeed no need to drop it.” Xiao Shi was enlightened.
After all, just the ancient tree crystals that fell allowed him to have these permissions. It would be meaningless to drop such an important thing again. However, Xiao Shi was still a little confused about the many authorities in the ancient tree. He only knew that he had the authority to command the tree spirit.
As for the other authorities, he had to go to the subsequent checkpoint in the ancient tree to know.
Thinking of this, Xiao Shi immediately walked towards the entrance to the next checkpoint. After stepping in, he then appeared in a dense forest.
Cheng Tianhao and the others in the forest had already successfully passed this round. Although two of them were injured, the injuries were not serious. After seeing Xiao Shi arrive, their eyes lit up.
“Brother Nie, have you obtained the important item for the first round?” Cheng Tianhao asked nervously.
Xiao Shi nodded. He handed the ten Tree Spirit Seeds to Cheng Tianhao. After Cheng Tianhao took it, he immediately understood the use of these ten Tree Spirit Seeds. This made him very excited. These ten Tree Spirit Seeds could undoubtedly form a certain restriction on the other teams.
“You’ve already cleared the level?” Xiao Shi looked around.
“That’s right.” Cheng Tianhao smiled and nodded. At the same time, he took out five belts woven from tree grass. This meant that the function of this important item was to allow them to obtain the protection of tree grass after wearing the belt.
“Plant protection?” Xiao Shi was deep in thought.
Which meant, this was his second authority here. However, it was different from the effect of an item. He should be able to be protected by the tree grass with no limit to the number of times.
Cheng Tianhao gave Xiao Shi a belt woven from tree grass. It just so happened that they each had one. Then, they went to the third round together.
The third stage was an abandoned forest..