Chapter 151: A Monumental Opportunity

Host: Lu Chen
Possession Type: Variant Saltwater Crocodile
Body Weight: 29.65 tons
Body Length: 17.92 meters
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Talon Strength: 30.33 tons
Bite Force: 50.96 tons
Speed: 70.56 meters/second
Scale Armor Defense: 5785
Heart Reinforcement: 5293
Mutation Abilities: Bloodline Atavism (75%), Compressed Energy Blast (Tier 4), Earth Marsh (Tier 3), Inner Space (Tier 2)
Evolution Level: 6 (The next level of evolution will unlock once the host accumulates 100 million energy points. Current completion is 51.8%...)
Dharma Treasure: Mutated Demon-Searing Tree Seedling (Bound to host, currently Grade 1. It takes the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and the flesh and blood of living beings as nourishment, with limitless future growth...)

Thanks to an ample supply of energy points, Lu Chen's physical stats were rapidly improving. His inner space, in particular, had now expanded to a size of tens of thousands of cubic meters.

However, his attention at this moment was not focused on these stats, but rather locked tightly onto the newly appeared text on the system interface, filling his heart with wild elation.

A Dharma Treasure, the Demon-Searing Tree seedling??

Lu Chen had never imagined that casually snapping off a branch of the Demon-Searing Tree previously and placing it into his inner space to nourish and temper it for a few months would result in such a fortuitous encounter, cultivating a Grade-1 Dharma Treasure.

This was just as magical as buying gold bars hidden inside old brand-name liquor in his past life.

Currently, this Demon-Searing Tree seedling did not exhibit any aggressiveness, knowing only how to devour flesh and blood endlessly. Yet, the system text clearly stated "limitless future growth."

Clearly, as long as it was allowed to keep growing, its might would eventually become truly terrifying.

As for how to utilize it specifically, Lu Chen did not know just yet. But time is long, and he would have plenty of opportunities to figure it out slowly.

Since it was bound to him, the probability of it turning on its master was extremely low, so his worries were purely redundant.

As for why it had bound to him, Lu Chen had a rough guess; it was likely due to the swampy black mud inside his inner space.

To enhance his control over the swampy black mud, he tempered it with his consciousness at all times. With the Demon-Searing Tree seedling rooted within it, it naturally and continuously came under the influence of his consciousness, ultimately becoming assimilated.

In other words, this fellow was like a blank sheet of paper. Lu Chen left the imprints of his own carving upon it, and over a long period of time, it naturally bound to him.

Since the Demon-Searing Tree seedling could be used as a Dharma Treasure, he could completely plant a few more in his inner space. Once they grew to a certain extent, he could transplant them into other different spaces, allowing these creatures to endlessly devour exotic beasts to grow larger and stronger, thereby nurturing spiritual energy wooden cores for his own use.

The more Lu Chen thought about this operation, the more familiar it felt... Wait a minute, isn't this fucking just a carbon copy of the Otsutsuki clan planting the God Tree in Naruto?

Since the Otsutsuki clan could do it, he should be able to as well. Moreover, once planted, it didn't require much energy input, nothing more than consuming a bit of time.

If he planted hundreds, or even thousands of them... Perhaps by that time, Lu Chen wouldn't even need to painstakingly search for high-grade spirit stones anymore, and could completely rely on harvesting spiritual energy wooden cores to accumulate energy points.

This feeling felt wonderful just to think about.

However, the Demon-Searing Tree seedling's behavior was still too bizarre, making it temporarily unsuitable for planting on Blue Star. He planned to conduct experiments in the waterfall spatial rift shortly.

If any unexpected situation really occurred, he would be able to stop it in time.

Having made up his mind, Lu Chen snapped off another seven or eight branches from the mother Demon-Searing Tree and placed them into his inner space to be nourished.

Theoretically, as long as the mother Demon-Searing Tree was at hand, it could continuously provide saplings, but Lu Chen had no intention of transplanting the mother tree into his inner space.

This thing clearly possessed a high level of intelligence, making it much harder to control.

Well... he was afraid he wouldn't be able to handle it.

It was better to leave it right where it was for the time being; if he really needed to, at worst, he could just make another trip.

With everything done, Lu Chen continued his exploration deeper into the fog.

Previously, constrained by his own strength, his exploration of this place had only scratched the surface.

Now that he had grown into a Tier-6 fierce beast, with his strength increased manifold, there was naturally no need to be timid anymore.

Moreover, Lu Chen had just defeated the invasion of the Kaiju swarm, and his confidence was at an all-time high.

He leaped into the earthen flying boat, flying slowly amidst the fog a hundred meters high in the air, without concealing his tracks in the slightest.

Unexpectedly, some clueless fellows actually showed up.

They were a pack of mutated blood bats, a few of which Lu Chen had hunted individually before. The quality of their flesh and blood was quite good, with a single catty providing about 7 energy points.

Lu Chen just happened to be hungry, so he naturally wouldn't miss out.

Dealing with these fellows didn't require expending any effort.

A few compressed energy blasts flew out, easily blowing them down.

The bat king leading them, which had a body length exceeding ten meters, was swallowed whole by Lu Chen, while the rest were thrown into his inner space as usual.

Knowing the miraculous nature of the Demon-Searing Tree seedling, he intended to heavily cultivate this fellow.

Half an hour later, Lu Chen flew to the sword scar left behind by the Tongtian Saint.

Approaching the two massive mountains, his consciousness began to sway once again.

The magnificent sword Dao imprint seemed to traverse ages of time, still striking directly at the soul, causing him to involuntarily feel fear and reverence.

Adapting slightly for a moment, Lu Chen slowly descended.

Walking among them, he gained a new comprehension.

Lu Chen subconsciously reached out his talons, gently caressing the smooth rock walls around him, unable to hold back his inner awe.

The might of a single sword strike from an ancient powerhouse, despite passing through countless long years, could still fill one with such dread...

When would he ever be able to achieve such divine abilities?

Boom...

Suddenly, Lu Chen felt his consciousness suffer a heavy impact from something.

The environment before his eyes abruptly changed.

In a trance, a figure dressed in cyan robes appeared.

Only, the other party stood suspended in the air, long sleeves fluttering in the wind, shadowy and indistinct, making it impossible to discern their exact facial features.

That body was merely five feet tall, yet it felt like a towering mountain of ten thousand zhang, radiating an aura of boundless weight and solidity.

Behind him, tens of thousands of stellar regions emerged.

He held a treasured sword in his hand, countless mysterious and profound runes flickering around him, seeming to freeze the entire space.

"Sword, come!" the mysterious person let out a soft cry.

Crack...

Within the entire space, thunder roared, and heaven and earth changed color.

A beam of cyan light pierced through heavy layers of fog, crossed countless spatial voids, and slashed directly at a bronze flying boat ten thousand miles away.

"Pfft!"

The colossal bronze flying boat was as fragile as if made of paper; its protective light shield shattered with a loud bang, and then it split apart into two halves.

The alien creatures inside let out miserable screams before rapidly turning into gas!

Lu Chen widened his beastly pupils in horror: "This is... the scene of the Tongtian Saint striking down the alien flying boat!"

At this moment, the cyan-robed figure turned his head to look.

His gaze seemed to penetrate countless spaces and years, uttering a soft cry from his mouth: "Oh?"

He discovered me... Almost instantly, Lu Chen felt his body become sealed, completely unable to move.

That gaze was like ten thousand piled-up mountains, like countless falling bolts of thunder, or like the frozen seal of hundreds of millions of years of ice.

Having been scanned just once by that gaze, all of Lu Chen's secrets seemed to have been thoroughly searched through.

"Interesting, no wonder..." After sizing him up for a moment, a trace of a smile appeared on the cyan-robed figure's face, "Since that's the case, I'll grant you a fortuitous encounter..."

With that, he reached out and pointed from afar.

Boom... Lu Chen felt something merge into his consciousness.

When he recovered his senses, he found himself still standing before the rock wall.

Everything was normal; there was no cyan-robed figure present in the surroundings, making it seem as though all those events just now were merely a dream.