The Lord of Void and Real-Chapter 902 - 899 Spiritual Orange

At the same time, at another location, Shen Luo also appeared in a mountain forest area, after being shrouded in dazzling white light.

The surrounding scenery was quite familiar, very similar to the area where he had previously searched for the Five Finger Mountain. The only difference was that instead of being an area of lowland marshes, a mountain peak over a hundred feet tall now stood erect.

The summit of this mountain had fractured and collapsed, but half of it still stood isolated like broken fingers, exactly five in number. Below the broken fingers, one could see the "palm" buried underground, covered in green moss.

Gazing from a distance, at the center of the palm, one could see three distinct ravines intersecting like the lines on a person’s palm.

Seeing this, Shen Luo was overjoyed and, regardless of his own injuries, immediately ran towards the Five Finger Mountain.

When he reached the base of the mountain, he saw that the lines in the mountainside were actually stone steps and plank roads built into the mountain, with their intertwined center being the exact middle of the palm.

Shen Luo released his Divine Sense to scan the area and found no special aura around, but the Heavenly and Earthly Spiritual Qi was rich to the extreme, a stark contrast to the chaotic mixture of Spiritual Qi outside, like the difference between heaven and earth.

He approached the mountain, and at the entrance to the plank road, he saw a statue of a monk, slim and with a kind countenance, holding a tin staff in one hand and a bowl in the other, standing there peacefully.

"This... could it be Master Xuanzang?" Shen Luo found the figure somewhat familiar and wondered silently.

He then clasped his hands together and bowed to the monk, before quickly starting to ascend the mountain, heading straight for the center of the palm.

Although the mountain path was winding and rugged, there were no further twists and turns, and Shen Luo soon arrived at the middle of the mountain waist.

At this point, the constructed path came to an abrupt halt, and a stone platform about ten feet in diameter appeared in front of him. On the right side of the platform grew a red-orange tree, six to seven feet tall, with four or five bright red fruits hanging from it.

Shen Luo wrinkled his nose and took a light sniff, immediately feeling a not very strong fragrance enter his mind, which clarified his thoughts and made his limbs feel filled with Spiritual Power, extremely refreshing.

He closely examined the tree and saw that the fruits hanging from it glowed with a translucent red light, looking like little, exquisite red lanterns, very delicate and charming.

"These are the Spiritual Oranges that Bai Ling ate..." Shen Luo’s throat moved slightly, unable to resist the urge to swallow.

He raised his hand, reached for the lowest hanging Spiritual Orange on the tree, and plucked it.

The Spiritual Orange felt surprisingly heavy in his hand, its skin marked with unique, raised patterns, emitting an extremely rich Spiritual Qi.

Shen Luo hesitated for a moment, then decided not to peel it and instead bit into it directly.

As the skin and flesh were punctured, orange-red juice immediately flooded his mouth, a bittersweet taste lingering on his tongue, accompanied by strong currents of pure Spiritual Qi flowing into his stomach.

Shen Luo felt a cool sensation flowing down from his chest to his abdomen, merging with the Mana in his Dantian, causing it to instantly boil with activity.

In a flash, the Mana in his Dantian began to overflow, nourishing his flesh and blood, and the meridians it passed through lit up with light, turning his skin red as well.

A feeling of fullness and swelling emerged from within him, making him feel hot all over, as if he was about to burst.

Shen Luo hastily put away the uneaten part of the Spiritual Orange and immediately sat down cross-legged to begin the magic spell motions, circulating the Huangting Technique and silently cultivating his Qi.

As the spiritual power expanded within his body, his meridians seemed to be stretched open as well, allowing his spiritual power to flow through like traveling on a sun-lit expressway, unobstructed and smooth.

He almost only needed a single thought for his mana to complete a circuit within his body, making his cultivation speed much faster than before.

Furthermore, as the mana continued to circulate within him, his flesh and blood seemed to be impacted by the force of the mana, becoming incredibly invigorated.

Soon, Shen Luo’s eyes shone brightly, and his Divine Sense was exceptionally clear; he could acutely feel every inch of his muscles absorbing spiritual energy, and each drop of blood was courageously surging.

Under his ragged clothes, the wounds he had suffered were healing at a visible pace, even the sharp aura that seemed attached to his bones was being washed away layer by layer by the spiritual power until it dissipated.

Shen Luo shouted out loud, feeling an unprecedented sense of exhilaration throughout his body, and even sensed the bottleneck that he had encountered upon entering the Taiyi Realm starting to loosen.

After a while, when all the spiritual energy from the Spiritual Orange had been absorbed, that hot and excited feeling gradually subsided.

"Just one mouthful of Spiritual Orange, and it actually has such an effect!" Shen Luo stood up and stretched his limbs, a smile quickly spreading across his brows.

He glanced at the three remaining Spiritual Oranges on the tree, grinned, and plucked them one by one.

After picking the Spiritual Oranges, Shen Luo did not intend to consume more, knowing he had reached the bottleneck for breaking through to the Taiyi Realm—a chasm that no amount of magic pills could help cross. Eating more Spiritual Oranges would just be a waste, so he decided to save them for later.

Shen Luo searched around the Spiritual Orange tree and did not find the murals mentioned by Bai Ling, only a stone cave about half a person high, which was pitch dark inside, and nothing could be seen.

"If Bai Ling didn’t remember wrongly, then it can only be inside here." Shen Luo frowned and said. He bent his body and crawled into the half-person high cave.

The entrance to the cave was extremely narrow at first; the protrusions on the rock walls scraped Shen Luo’s clothes from time to time. But after only about a dozen steps, the terrain suddenly opened up.

Shen Luo slowly straightened up and continued into the cave, releasing his Divine Soul to probe and guard as he went.

After walking about a dozen steps, a light suddenly penetrated from ahead. Shen Luo quickened his pace and arrived at the exit of the passageway.

Before him, a vast cavity inside the mountain unfolded, with a fist-sized, milky white pearl hanging from the dome of the cave, emitting white light that shone down, illuminating the surroundings with brilliant clarity.

Shen Luo immediately noticed a massive stone sculpture on the rock wall directly opposite him in the cave. It depicted all manner of flowers, birds, fish, insects, and beasts in intricate and interweaving detail, crowded and dense.

Most of these flora and fauna were common sights and none were rare spirit beasts. When Shen Luo scanned them, he did not find anything particularly unusual.

However, as his gaze settled on a monkey with an outstretched arm looking out, a strange occurrence suddenly happened.

The monkey wasn’t large, seemingly a breed of the golden-thread monkey, and carved vividly to life, especially the eyes, which looked exceedingly spirited.

As Shen Luo looked, he found that the eyes of the stone-carved monkey suddenly whirled about and seemed to be looking right back at him.