Chapter 1001: Chapter 616: Fortune Beyond Imagination, Wealth Rivaling Nations, Soul-dripping Tree Crystal 3

It’s like trying to empty a swimming pool with a tiny sieve.

A drop in the ocean.

He was ultimately still too inexperienced.

At this rate of collecting Soul-dripping Tree Sap, it might take thirty to fifty years just to finish the ancient tree’s accumulation of tens of millions of years.

Lu Lin felt a stirring in his heart, once again using the broken knife to widen the opening, allowing a thread of his consciousness to enter the tree trunk for absorption.

It truly felt like a small mouse entering a granary after a bountiful harvest; Lu Lin kept collecting, absorbing.

One Four Seas Gourd was quickly filled, followed by another.

It’s worth noting that, as a necessary container for cultivators to hold liquids, the Four Seas Gourd has a huge capacity—enough to meet a hundred years’ worth of drinking water, household use, and cleaning needs for an ordinary person, without necessarily emptying it.

Yet within less than an hour, Lu Lin filled over a hundred Four Seas Gourds.

Now, he had run out of Four Seas Gourds to use, but the Soul-dripping Tree Sap inside the trunk had only decreased by about ten to twenty percent.

At this point, Lu Lin couldn’t afford to care about the effects; he took out a dozen Storage Rings to continue collecting.

Compared to the Four Seas Gourds, the Space inside the Storage Rings was much larger.

With Lu Lin absorbing so generously, the Soul-dripping Tree Sap inside the ancient tree quickly began to visibly reduce.

Soon it was completely drained by Lu Lin, reaching the bottom.

Just as Lu Lin was preparing to leave, he inadvertently noticed a shimmering surface on the ground and sides of the inner space of the trunk.

What is this?

Lu Lin walked over and touched it, and a torrent of Soul Power surged into his Consciousness Universe without warning.

This Soul Power had no attributes and no offensive capability; otherwise, Lu Lin would have been able to defend in the first instance.

At this moment, Lu Lin’s mind was blank.

He had only one thought.

Water vapor condenses into liquid when cooled; water turns to ice at zero degrees.

The shiny crystal stones he touched were Soul-dripping Tree Crystals, formed from Soul-dripping Tree Sap accumulated over time.

Soul-dripping Tree Crystal!!!

Lu Lin had never heard of this term, but it was the only way to describe what he had touched.

The Soul-dripping Tree Crystals contained terrifying amounts of Soul Power.

Just by touching it briefly, Lu Lin felt his Soul Power, already near the Four Change Intermediate Stage, suddenly surge about ten percent.

And this was just from a single touch. What would happen if he went further?

Even with Lu Lin’s usually calm demeanor, he could not stay calm now.

It was like a gambler who had lost everything suddenly seeing a fortune, like a long-dry old lecher encountering flesh and blood barely concealed, like a...

Never mind, there’s no time for this.

Lu Lin entered the tree hole in earnest, turning into a frenzied miner.

Today, it was either him or the Soul-dripping Tree Crystals—only one could walk out from the inner tree hole of this ancient tree.

Outside, Hao Datong had no idea why Lu Lin suddenly entered the tree hole.

At first, he wasn’t too concerned, but after waiting a long time and seeing no sign of Lu Lin emerging, Hao Datong began to grow curious.

If you won’t mind me, then I might as well take a look around the area. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

Even prisoners have some rights, don’t they?

Three meters...

Five meters...

Hao Datong moved a bit further away, but Lu Lin seemed not to notice.

This gave Hao Datong great confidence.