Chapter 994: Chapter 614: Devouring and Being Devoured, Condensing the Domain

"Humans, you will never succeed."

"The Divine Tree... is the Divine Tree of our Four-eyed Spirit Monkey Tribe... It will never submit to you..."

When the only one left alive was the Monkey King, its heart was filled with despair.

At this moment, it already knew it had been used by this despicable human.

However, it still didn’t know how Hao Datong would deal with the Divine Tree, but no matter what method Hao Datong used, the Divine Tree would not be used by him.

In this regard, the Monkey King was certain.

The tribe had been worshipping the Divine Tree for tens of thousands of years, and apart from granting some Soul-dripping Tree Sap, the Divine Tree’s help to the Four-eyed Spirit Monkey Tribe wasn’t very significant.

This was a tree that only liked to take, with little to give in return.

This human, Hao Datong, had schemed so much, but ultimately, he wouldn’t benefit; instead, it was the Divine Tree itself.

Perhaps decades or even a century later, when the Divine Tree absorbed all the resources and nutrients today and grew stronger, by then, a larger group of Four-eyed Spirit Monkeys might live and thrive here.

In any case, humans absolutely cannot gain any benefits.

"Haha, a dying creature, still thinking of troubling me?"

"Isn’t it better to die in peace."

Hao Datong let out a cold laugh.

He didn’t wait for the Heavenly Earth Grinding Wheel’s attack on the Monkey King, instead, he flew over and stabbed the Monkey King with a long sword.

The Monkey King couldn’t struggle at all.

In fact, it had already given up on the thought of struggling.

It merely looked at Hao Datong with calm, mocking eyes.

"You will die." 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

"All your schemes will fail."

"You will die without a burial place."

"Your soul will not find peace."

"You..."

After all, being a Star Emperor, its Life Force was incredibly strong. Even under the pressure of the Heavenly Earth Grinding Wheel, and being attacked by Hao Datong with a precious sword, the Monkey King managed to hold on for several more breaths before dying.

The corpse fell.

It was quickly crushed by an invisible weight, shattered, turning into a mass of red flesh with a hint of gold.

"No matter what happens to me, at least you’re dead at my hands now."

Hao Datong coldly spoke to the Monkey King, which had turned into flesh, and then returned to the vicinity of the Divine Tree.

At this moment, the originally bronze-colored Divine Tree was now entirely shrouded in a strange blood-red.

Hao Datong tried to erase the absurd curses of the Monkey King from just now, staring greedily at the transforming Divine Tree before him.

His final step of the plan was to devour the Divine Tree.

To compensate for the loss of his previous Avatar.

The assembly of such enormous energy to condense a new Avatar would make it even stronger than before. Just one Avatar could rival the General Mountain Golden God-level strong persons, only slightly inferior to the Seven Great Elders.

If combined with some Secret Arts he acquired at Imprisoned Immortal Mountain, at that time, he hoped Cheng Yu had already left with that little fellow called Lu Lin, otherwise... hehe...

The flesh on the ground was continuously absorbed by the Divine Tree. In the blink of an eye, the bloodstains vanished completely. The only things left on the ground were the tools and weapons and clothes the Divine Tree didn’t need; everything else with Life had disappeared.

In the vast Four-eyed Spirit Monkey Tribe, only the Divine Tree and Hao Datong remained.

"Successful."

Hao Datong’s eyes gleamed with a frenzied joy.

The Divine Tree had absorbed all the energy, and next, he would use a method of replacement to turn the energy in the Divine Tree into his own Avatar.

Before that, he had one more task to do.

Soul separation.

Undoubtedly, this was a painful process, but for a more powerful Avatar, Hao Datong had to do it.

"Ah—"

Even though he had experienced it once, Hao Datong still couldn’t help but scream in pain during the soul separation.

This kind of pain is equivalent to having someone cut a knife into your soul, a level of pain a hundred or ten thousand times more severe than cutting a knife into your arm or leg.

"Ah—ah—ah—"

Hao Datong’s face contorted, veins bulging on his face.

His eyes filled with bloodshot veins.

Pupils dilated, in this horrific agony, he temporarily lost consciousness.

And at this moment, a bronze-colored tree root with a tint of blood-red light appeared at his feet.

The tree root seemed hesitant beside Hao Datong, as if deciding whether now was the chance to devour him.

Soon, the tree root made its decision.

Devour.

Having devoured countless Four-eyed Spirit Monkey Tribe flesh, it was now like a ravenous lone wolf, as long as it saw fresh flesh, it wouldn’t care whether the other side was strong or not.

Its only thought was, devour, devour, devour!

A root pierced through Hao Datong’s clothes, stabbing into his skin.

Engulfed in agony, Hao Datong did not respond.

Compared to the pain of splitting the soul, the attack of the Divine Tree was gentle, akin to a lover’s caress.

In the distance.

Initially, Lu Lin hadn’t noticed the Divine Tree’s stealthy actions, and only after waiting a while, when he saw Hao Datong, still screaming until his voice was hoarse, seemed to have gotten thinner.

Lu Lin carefully examined and then noticed the Divine Tree Root Stock entwining around Hao Datong’s feet.

This realization startled Lu Lin.

Hao Datong’s legs, from feet to thighs, were tightly bound by the tree branches and root stock of the Divine Tree. Even if Hao Datong wasn’t currently in a state of painful oblivion to the outside world, it was unlikely he could easily escape the binding of the Divine Tree.

Coupled with the Divine Tree’s relentless devouring and absorption, in this scheming game, what seemed like the passively acting Divine Tree turned out to be the final winner.