Chapter 995: Chapter 614: Devouring and Being Devoured, Refining the Domain (2)

The speed at which the Divine Tree devoured was astonishingly fast; in no time, Hao Datong had already transformed into a skin-and-bones figure, looking just like the refugees of the Black Continent, emaciated with sunken eyes.

His originally handsome and charming self now resembled a skeleton frame.

At this moment, Hao Datong finally succeeded in soul splitting.

When he opened his eyes and looked around, he immediately sensed his current state.

However, he seemed not too surprised, as if he found it perfectly natural.

Hao Datong weakly chuckled, appearing confident and determined.

"Divine Tree, your speed is still too slow. If you could have devoured me to death before I completed soul splitting, you definitely would have succeeded."

"But now, you have no chance."

As Hao Datong spoke, a wave of phantom-like soul energy surged toward the Divine Tree.

This wave of soul energy was not strong and lacked significant aggressiveness.

Yet, the Divine Tree seemed to sense a life-and-death crisis, desperately shaking its branches and leaves, attempting to evade Hao Datong’s soul attack.

But the weakness of plant-type lifeforms lies right here.

Powerful plant life can retract all their roots to leave the ground for mobility, but this action consumes enormous energy, and even Star Emperor-level plants cannot be away from the ground for more than three months.

Moreover, retracting their roots is a long process for them, with some plant life taking even thirty to fifty years just for this step.

This determines that, unless with prior preparation, when faced with attacks, they can only withstand the impact or attempt to shift and upgrade.

Yet this method is not very effective for Hao Datong’s current soul attack.

Soul attacks primarily target the soul.

For any life form, the soul is unique.

Even if there is an avatar, controlling one avatar links the souls of two bodies, thus simultaneously controlling both avatars.

Within the range covered by the Heavenly Earth Grinding Wheel, the Divine Tree’s soul cannot escape.

From the beginning, Hao Datong’s target was the Divine Tree.

Naturally, it was impossible for too many errors to occur.

This is a matter of life and death.

Struggle.

Attack.

Defense.

Hao Datong wants to hurry.

The Divine Tree wants to buy time.

As long as the Divine Tree can defend until Hao Datong’s flesh is fully absorbed by the tree’s roots and stems, then with no flesh left, Hao Datong’s soul, no matter how strong, won’t be able to last long.

Lu Lin carefully flew towards the Four-eyed Spirit Monkey Tribe, arriving outside the Heavenly Earth Grinding Wheel.

Wait a moment, regardless if the Divine Tree wins or if Hao Datong successfully refines an avatar.

Ultimately, Lu Lin will kill them.

Inside the Heavenly Earth Grinding Wheel, both the Divine Tree and Hao Datong remained motionless, but the dangerous and treacherous battle continued relentlessly, with no room for distraction.

No one knows how much time has passed.

Hao Datong’s body fell to the ground.

His body was completely worn out.

He disappeared entirely like dust.

The battle within the soul domain also thoroughly calmed down.

Only this result slightly exceeded the expectations of both Hao Datong and the Divine Tree.

It’s safe to say both succeeded.

The Divine Tree successfully devoured Hao Datong’s flesh at the last moment, resulting in his complete death. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

However, at the same time, Hao Datong’s avatar technique successfully controlled the Divine Tree’s soul.

In essence, after a battle, Hao Datong’s flesh perished, but he managed to seize the Divine Tree’s soul.

Furthermore, due to the lack of a flesh body, Hao Datong’s primary soul and split soul had to merge again into a complete soul.

This result was clearly unacceptable to Hao Datong.

But now, he had no means to change it.

Because of the absence of Hao Datong’s command, the Heavenly Earth Grinding Wheel started to gradually dissipate.

Within the Four-eyed Spirit Monkey Tribe, tranquility reigned, yet strangely only Hao Datong and the Divine Tree remained, with no other life in sight.

Lu Lin stood outside the tribe, observing everything.

"Lu Lin!"

Hao Datong, too, immediately noticed Lu Lin standing not far away, and a wave of immense rage surged from his heart.

If not for Lu Lin discovering his avatar, if not for Lu Lin deciphering his plot, how could Hao Datong have fallen to this state?

Sometimes that’s how people are.

Clearly orchestrating everything, yet attributing the cause to external factors.

If Hao Datong hadn’t confined Li Xuanjin, Cheng Yu wouldn’t have brought Lu Lin to the Demon Slaying Sect.

Thus the subsequent events wouldn’t have happened.

Although feeling resentful, Hao Datong took no action.

Having just replaced the Divine Tree’s soul, many of its innate functions were still unknown to him.

Now, he could only hope Lu Lin hadn’t seen what just transpired, nor would he show interest in his current body.

But Lu Lin obviously wouldn’t comply with his wishes.

Entering the tribe, Lu Lin headed straight for the Divine Tree.

This was the Soul-droplet Ancient Tree he had previously read about in books, capable of producing Soul-dripping Tree Sap, and itself a quite special plant life.

Life energy is strong.

Soul Power is strong.

Star Power is strong.

Even without Hao Datong’s connection, if Lu Lin encountered such an ancient tree, he would still think of using a broken knife to absorb a portion.

His cultivation had already reached the peak of the Star King, advancing further would lead to Star Emperor level.

Lu Lin wouldn’t miss such a good opportunity.

Regardless of whether it’s Hao Datong or not, Lu Lin was determined to act.

He retrieved the broken knife from his Storage Ring and smiled at the ancient tree.

He slashed.

Life Energy.

Star Power Energy.

Like a dam opening its gates, it crazily poured into Lu Lin’s body along the broken knife.

Star Power surged.

Hao Datong couldn’t resist.

However, Lu Lin appeared unable to smoothly advance to the Star Emperor.

Within the realms of Star King, Star Emperor, and Star Sovereign, martial artists cannot rapidly advance through merely accumulating energy.

In fact, during the Star Battle, Star Hou, and Star Monarch stages, martial artists must condense their Life Weapon. Lu Lin was able to quickly elevate his cultivation back then still relying on the One-Eyed Demon Knife.

He simply followed the method of condensing the Life Weapon, and re-sacrificed his One-Eyed Demon Knife, and this barrier couldn’t hinder him.

Now, to advance to Star Emperor, Lu Lin must possess his own domain.

Realizing this point, Lu Lin smiled.

If it were anything else, he might have had to give up on advancing and wait to fulfill the promotion requirements before coming back to absorb the Divine Tree’s Star Power.

But don’t forget, Lu Lin himself is a Star Guide.

The most crucial ability of a Star Guide is to condense their own Star Power Domain within the Consciousness Universe.

Lu Lin followed the method of domain cultivation from Longyuan World, releasing his ID Star Power Domain.

"Condense!"

The Star Power Domain, covering over a hundred kilometers, continuously refined, refined, and refined further.

It unexpectedly produced an eerie sense of reality.

This reality differs greatly from the previous realm of real achieved by Lu Lin.

The former reality seemed more like the sensation of make-believe yet genuine, like the illusion of authenticity.

Just as we might say a celebrity wax figure is done excellently, lifelike, vividly, but would never actually mistake it for a real person.

Yet now, after Lu Lin refined his Star Power Domain, it appeared just like a real world.

If he continued releasing this massive domain outside, once someone entered the domain, they wouldn’t discover a hint of falseness, genuinely believing this was a world of yellow sand spread across a desert.

This is just the beginning.

During domain cultivation in the Star King Realm, aside from the most basic domain refinement, continuous domain strengthening is essential.

Previously in the Consciousness Universe, Lu Lin relied entirely on the Eyeball Star Core.

The Eyeball Star Core, when friendly, absorbed enough Soul Power, protruding small eyes, allowing Lu Lin to construct the Star Power Domain.

But now, Lu Lin can solely rely on the vast Star Power for refinement.

The Star Power Domain grows increasingly tangible, the range continues to narrow.

Initially, covering over a hundred kilometers, it reduced to several dozen kilometers, then to tens of kilometers, a few kilometers, finally halting at a range of 10 meters surrounding him.

Upon reaching this step, Lu Lin’s domain can be considered refined to its fullest, for an ordinary cultivator at this point would likely prepare to advance to Star Emperor.

However, Lu Lin is different.

Having a sufficient stockpile of Star Power (the Divine Tree), not taking the opportunity to expand his domain would be a waste.