My Weekly Refreshing Mentor Spirit-Chapter 398 - 317: Birth of the Insect-devouring Tree
Xue Dili always believed that his plan certainly wasn’t perfect, but it was the most stable within his limited vision.
Through the intelligence of the Mist Council, one can conclude that the Sixth Apostle would absolutely not let the swarm’s authority surpass the Divine Tree, otherwise the result would be the swarm devouring the Divine Tree, instead of the Divine Tree devouring those bugs masquerading as humans and turning them into fruit.
That’s why he conducted the development of the Divine Tree Bullet, and successfully created a stable subspecies of the Divine Tree that could devour the swarm and yet self-destruct.
But now, what’s this about the Divine Tree blooming and bearing fruit?
Xue Dili felt a chill run down his spine.
The Divine Tree blooming and bearing fruit is actually a kind of sublimation process of the Divine Tree itself. What he’s actually afraid of is this world just breaking free from the claws of the swarm, and then immediately becoming a world parasitized and twisted by the roots of the Divine Tree.
When he arrived at the Outpost, he indeed found that the Divine Tree sapling had swelled dramatically in size, overturning the entire Outpost base, the factory producing Divine Tree Bullets was completely devoured, along with the base vehicle which transformed into the Outpost base, all being twisted into scrap metal by the roots.
A Divine Tree hundreds of meters wide, soaring past the clouds, rose from the ground.
What was even more alarming to others was that the Divine Tree began to bloom on top; although the flowers appeared like a bug spreading its wings, the terrifying energy and intimidating might gathering on the flower bud filled everyone with dread.
"What exactly happened?" Xue Dili asked.
He seemed to sense the distortion of a hundred billion souls from within this Divine Tree, causing him to break out in a cold sweat.
"Actually, it’s kind of strange, don’t we have the corpses of two Insect Race Queens on our hands..." a tall mech awkwardly explained, "we spent a great price processing the Insect Race Queen, even used a rocket to throw the Insect Emperor’s corpse into a star to completely annihilate it..."
"So this time we wanted to take it easy, seeing as this tree could devour the Insect Race Queen, so we tried throwing the Queen’s corpse to it, then you saw, suddenly it became like this..."
The mech said rather sheepishly.
Xue Dili was silent, looking at the hundred-billion-level souls hanging on the entire Divine Tree, and then considering the tree now looking bloated, with some indigestion, having no choice but to bloom and bear fruit to release the excess energy.
Xue Dili gradually understood everything.
After this reckless mech threw the corpse of the Insect Race Queen to the Divine Tree, the Divine Tree accepted it all, without hesitation.
Next was the time for Xue Dili to showcase his Genesis technique, connecting with the planet’s Great Origin, and wiping out all false insects in one fell swoop.
After all, these false insects were originally creatures of the planet twisted into monsters, even if they turned into bugs, they were still connected to the planet’s Great Origin.
And these false insects had been continuously drawing a lot of Earth Vein Magic Power from the entire planet before their death.
The Earth Vein Magic Power drawn by the swarm is akin to a constant source of magic power, equivalent to the blood of the whole planet, a type of the planet’s small source energy.
Thus, when the swarm reached this step, it meant that the World Consciousness began to decline and die, there’s no need to draw all geothermal energy from the entire planet, just the absorption of Earth Vein Magic Power means the planet has to use Earth Core Energy to sustain the surface, until the energy supply from the core fails to reach the surface, then the entire planet will completely die.
This was also why the World Consciousness of the Super Iron Curtain was already dying; upon knowing Xue Dili, it hesitated not at all to give its last Seed of the World to him, which essentially meant its dispersion.
It must wait until Xue Dili activates the Seed of the World again, for it to be reborn.
And these false insects, with their bloated bodies filled with Earth Vein Magic Power, initially prepared to supply the Insect Emperor.
But the Insect Emperor got destroyed, and billions of false swarms were obliterated in an instant by Genesis.
Furthermore, the Divine Tree itself, equivalent to rooting in the planet’s blood vessels (small source), and earlier, just hours ago, this thing also indiscriminately devoured the corpse of the Insect Race Queen, hanging the Emperor’s soul on the tree.
Thus, a bizarre reaction suddenly occurred.
In Xue Dili’s original conception, the energy from the swarm that was obliterated by Genesis would dissipate into the world, gradually settling back to the world’s origin over time.
But the magic power and swarm that dissipated connected through the small source to the soul of the Insect Emperor on the Divine Tree...
At that moment, that hundred-billion-level energy was instantly poured onto the Divine Tree, and just at the perfect time, the Divine Tree itself wasn’t afraid of the impact of energy and souls, especially the spirituality of these biological entities, it absorbed it all.
Then, this Divine Tree that should have reached balance with the Bacteriophage, suddenly grew and bloomed recklessly like a berserk Unit-01.
After sorting out all the logic, Xue Dili: "..."
He never imagined such a wonderful magic reaction would occur, looking at the completely twisted Divine Tree, Xue Dili glanced at the Seed of the World in his hand...
He truly felt numbed, but fortunately, there was no human death, at most only a few unlucky people got injured.
This Divine Tree seems quite peculiar, it won’t actively devour any other creatures apart from insects, like it won’t actively devour humans, but if a human happens to be an unlucky one within its affected range, they’ll still suffer indiscriminate attacks.
