Ant Lord in the Star Realm
Chapter 871 - 646: Thousand-Year Tree (Part 2)
Rainbow Island.
The Dominating Throne flew across the sky and landed directly under the King Cypress.
"Dragon Cypress? What's going on?"
The King Cypress asked.
"???"
The Divine-Given Seeds around it cast their spiritual inquiry towards the Dragon Cypress, and then turned their attention to the Ivy, asking:
——Why is there a little Grasshopper here?
——Lord-Level?
——What time is it now? What are you doing on Rainbow Island? Aren't you afraid of death?
——Little guy, have I seen you before?
——Are you called Ivy?
...
Ivy: "..."
The King Cypress focused on the Thousand-Year Tree, scanning with spiritual power, realizing something. With a thought, the Thousand-Year Tree floated away from the throne.
Ink Orchid eagerly explained: "This is an Outworld Civilization Artifact called 'Thousand-Year Tree' that Dragon Cypress and I bought for 3 billion Source Stones from Huagi Mountain. Just like the Glinting Gold, it comes from the same civilization, using the same materials and craft, specially created for plants. It grants singular battle capabilities and is said to be extremely formidable, firing beams of light, indestructible..."
Dragon Cypress raised a claw, interrupting Ink Orchid's explanation, "King Cypress, use spiritual power to connect, try to integrate with the trunk."
"I'll try—"
The King Cypress used Glinting Gold before, and spiritual power surged forth fiercely. With a sharp pull, the Thousand-Year Tree zoomed toward the trunk, transforming into deep green liquid and seeping into the main trunk.
Suddenly,
The King Cypress's rate of Primordial Energy absorption increased.
Ink Orchid asked, "King Cypress, how is it? Does it work?"
King Cypress: "To be precise, it grants three abilities. The first is branch metalization, greatly enhancing defensive capability; the second can transform into flexible tentacles, extending a certain distance to do things; the third should be what you mentioned, that active attacking ability."
Dragon Cypress: "The first and second are regular auxiliary abilities. The third is the most crucial."
Ink Orchid couldn't wait, urging, "Test it out?"
King Cypress: "The third ability requires storing Primordial Energy, and I sense that the energy consumption is substantial. Correspondingly, this Thousand-Year Tree's capacity to store Primordial Energy...is very strong! It needs a lot of Origin Force!"
Ink Orchid: "King Cypress, at your current rate, how long to fully charge?"
King Cypress: "Unclear, feels like it would take a long time."
Ink Orchid hinted: "You could accelerate the absorption rate of Origin Force appropriately."
King Cypress: "I could, but doing so would affect the normal growth of the tree's fruit and would also affect other Divine-Given Seeds nearby."
Other ordinary Divine-Given Seeds could be affected casually, but not a single issue can arise with the Wangbai Seed on the tree~
Ink Orchid's thoughts spun rapidly, asking: "Use Source Stones?"
King Cypress: "The cost is substantial..."
Ink Orchid looked to Dragon Cypress.
Dragon Cypress waved a claw generously, saying, "Use 100,000 first, give it a test."
"Okay—"
The King Cypress directed Worker Ants to transport Source Stones from the Treasury at Xianglan Peak.
"Great King! Second King!"
The closest Giant Cypress rushed over, asking, "Did I hear from White Poplar that there's a treasure? Bought for 3 billion? The Thousand-Year Tree?"
The news of the Thousand-Year Tree quickly spread through the Blessed Seeds rooted in the southern part of the island.
Spiked Cypress, Cypress, Silver Cypress, Rainbow Parasol Tree, Black Birch, Black Persimmon, Tie Bush, Mountain Persimmon, all hastened over.
A crowd of trees scrambled to explain, clarifying the approximate use of the Thousand-Year Tree.
Amongst the hopeful waiting by a multitude of insects and the noisy urging of many trees, the entire sum of 100,000 Source Stones was used up quickly.
King Cypress: "Preliminary estimate, to fully charge the Thousand-Year Tree with Primordial Energy, about 12 million Source Stones are needed. If we don't use Source Stones and I accumulate slowly myself, at least three years are required to fill it. It's quite fascinating; the upper limit of stored Primordial Energy seems to increase with my evolutionary growth."
——Same level treasure as the Dominating Throne and God-Level Shining Gold?
——Also possessing growth properties?
——However, in the Origin Force Star Realm, the highest is King-Level. There's not much room for growth.
Dragon Cypress suddenly thought of a question, asked, "King Cypress, once integrated, would the Thousand-Year Tree bind with your soul? Can it be transferred for use by other trees?"
King Cypress: "Nope~"
"That's good!"
Dragon Cypress relaxed, calling out: "King Cypress, be careful, first tilt towards the sky and release a beam to see."
"Alright!"
King Cypress agreed.
At the top of the tree, the tip of a leaf emitted a dark green light beam, which flashed and vanished into the depths of the blue sky.
The speed of light was utterly unclear to capture, let alone precisely perceive.
King Cypress actively explained: "Exotic System Ability, blending Wood Element and Life System Primordial Energy, indeed possesses a penetrating force exceeding our understanding. Each beam consumes Primordial Energy equivalent to 100 Source Stones."
"Understood...burn Source Stones to fight..."
Dragon Cypress contemplated for two seconds, raised a claw, and pointed to a nearby weed, asking, "King Cypress, can you hit it precisely?"
King Cypress wasn't very certain, "I guess so—"
Would the spiritual power lock still miss?
Many insects were startled and scattered away.
From the lower side of the King Cypress, the tip of a leaf emitted a dark green beam, hitting the grass leaf precisely.
Weirdly, the beam penetrated directly through the grass leaves and disappeared into the soil.
The grass leaves were unharmed.
The soil surface didn't have any visible traces of damage.
King Cypress: "This attack has a strong automatic recognition capability, directly ignoring plant existence and will not cause damage to ordinary materials. It seems to only target animal-like Origin Force Life, and abilities constructed of Primordial Energy."
"Understood!"
"Strange—"
Dragon Cypress murmured, gently swinging its tentacle, a cluster of clear water fell to the ground, transforming into a Whirl Beast. Primordial Energy slightly erupted, cold air permeated, shifting into the Ice State.
Dragon Cypress glanced at Silver Cypress.
Silver Cypress caught on intuitively, lightly touching the tentacle. Its carapace's Divine Mark faintly shone, activating the Frost Thorn Ability, covering the surface of the Ice Vortex Beast with a layer of dense frost thorns.