Chapter 2033: Outsmarting the Enlightenment Flower, Metamorphosis Period
Chapter 2033: Chapter 2033: Outsmarting the Enlightenment Flower, Metamorphosis Period
Ye Feng was caught off guard.
Who could have imagined that he would find a cosmic-level treasure, the Enlightenment Flower, in the Demon Spirit Universe. This flower is magical; just consuming one can create a brand new Law.
"Haha, got it."
After checking, Ye Feng confirmed it was the Enlightenment Flower and promptly stored it in his own small universe.
"Just one more, and I can smoothly break through to the hundredth layer of the Creation Realm."
Ye Feng looked forward eagerly.
The Enlightenment Flower is a Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure that can only be nurtured on the other side of the Cosmic Sea and is extremely rare in the universe. Perhaps because the Demon Spirit Ancient Tree is able to directly draw energy from the Cosmic Sea, it was able to produce it here.
But regardless of the reason, Ye Feng had already acquired one Enlightenment Flower.
This could allow him to advance one level.
One more, and there would be no worries for the hundredth level.
With anticipation, Ye Feng continued searching in the area for a while, but did not find a new Enlightenment Flower, so he moved on to search other areas.
An uncharted area.
This was a place yet unexplored, filled with a bluish mist that heavily interfered with a cultivator’s senses. Even a Hundred-layered Immortal Emperor might become disoriented and lost.
"In any major universe or even the Cosmic Sea, this area would be considered a top-tier Secret Realm."
Ye Feng remarked.
One has to admit, it’s unbelievable that the Demon Spirit Universe, merely an ordinary high-grade Great Universe, could give rise to the Demon Spirit Ancient Tree and such a treasure trove like the Misty Area.
Even the Twin Universe doesn’t have such!
"Huh!"
Ye Feng was walking in this uncharted area when he noticed a bluish light shining ahead, brighter than any other area, so he walked over to take a look and was astonished.
Suspended in the void was a second Enlightenment Flower.
"Another?!"
Ye Feng couldn’t help but gasp.
This was the second Enlightenment Flower, and now, these two flowers alone were enough to allow him to quickly break through to the hundredth layer of the Creation Realm.
"Haha, fantastic!"
Ye Feng couldn’t contain his joy, and after confirming it was indeed an Enlightenment Flower, he quickly collected it.
For the next half day.
Ye Feng roamed the adjacent areas, covering ten light-years of uncharted territory, but ultimately did not find a third Enlightenment Flower. However, he did discover many Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures of Hundred-layered Immortal Emperor grade.
Any single one could stir up a bloodbath in the cultivation world.
But, Ye Feng didn’t care much.
Mere Hundred-layered Immortal Emperor grade treasures, neither he nor disciples like Mo Ying, would care. Only treasures of Half-Step Heavenly Venerable, or Quasi-Heavenly Venerable grade would make Ye Feng feel excitement and anticipation.
Buzz! Buzz!
Suddenly, giant bees appeared in front. Each was over ten thousand meters long, enormous in size, and when flying, emitted countless airwaves with deafening roars, shaking one’s mind.
And there were not just one or two bees.
Ye Feng followed the sound and saw in the void countless bees flying around, densely packed, exceeding ten thousand.
"No wonder this place can communicate directly with the Cosmic Sea and draw its energy, it can nurture so many beings reminiscent of those on the other side of the Cosmic Sea."
Ye Feng muttered.
Then, he casually caught a bee, refining it into a light purple crystal containing abundant Law Energy and Cosmic Consciousness.
Absorbing it could greatly increase one’s cultivation level.
"Why does it feel like the treasures I’ve found recently aren’t very precious? And there’s still no third Enlightenment Flower found; it’s really frustrating!"
Ye Feng muttered, a bit dissatisfied.
He currently had two Enlightenment Flowers, sufficient to quickly surpass the hundredth layer of the Creation Realm, but he wanted more Enlightenment Flowers.
After all, the Seven-Colored Enlightenment Tea Tree needed them.
He had previously calculated that it would take about a hundred Enlightenment Flowers for the Seven-Colored Enlightenment Tea Tree to fully enter its Metamorphosis Period, greatly enhancing its quality.
Over the years, the Seven-Colored Enlightenment Tea Tree had absorbed a large amount of Origin, amassed lots of transformative energy, and only needed fifty Enlightenment Flowers to completely metamorphose.
Thus, Ye Feng desired more Enlightenment Flowers.
"Enlightenment Flowers, where are you?"
Ye Feng looked around, following his inner senses, flying towards the core area of the Demon Spirit Ancient Tree.
That place was close to the Ancient Tree.
The Master of Demon Spirits had introduced that the Demon Spirit Ancient Tree itself couldn’t be shaken, shielded by Heavenly Venerable level power. It’s challenging to destroy or enter the tree.
The closer to the tree, the greater the pressure.
Commonly referred to as the Misty Area’s core zone, it is the near-circumference of the Demon Spirit Ancient Tree’s trunk, containing more treasures, albeit with an overpowering force field.
Even a God-King Level Powerhouse might not be able to bypass the layers of barriers to enter there.
But, this was no obstacle for Ye Feng.
With his powerful Heavenly Venerable Divine Ability and deduction skills, he continuously broke through the mist’s interference, flying towards the core area, his speed increasing.
Midway.
Ye Feng discovered numerous treasures, some were fist-sized blue-golden crystals, others were dark golden metal blocks with droplet-like ripples on their surface, quite mysterious.
"All Heavenly Dao Level materials, not bad."
Ye Feng grinned.
Heavenly Dao Level materials can usually be used to forge Quasi-Heavenly Venerable or Half-Step Heavenly Venerable Divine Weapons.
Cosmic Grade materials can forge Heavenly Venerable Divine Weapons.
The main material for crafting the Primordial Sword Embryo is the Cosmic Grade Primordial Immortal Gold, considered top-tier even among Cosmic Grade materials.
While Heavenly Dao Level materials can strengthen the Primordial Sword Embryo, enhancing its power.
"Blue Phoenix Immortal Gold, Gold-Stripe Spatial-Tearing Iron... these materials aren’t even found in our Twin Universe; they’re considered rare even in the Cosmic Sea."
"Haha, I lucked out."
Ye Feng discovered numerous materials.
When he previously broke through to the ninety-ninth layer of the Creation Realm, he experienced an outside-the-world journey and visited the Scripture Pavilions of the five peak powers of the Cosmic Sea, reading many books that included introductions to similar materials. Other people might not even recognize these.
"Unfortunately, still no Enlightenment Flowers."
Ye Feng glanced around and yawned.
Soon, he reached the core area.
Looking up, the massive trunk of the Demon Spirit Ancient Tree was like a wall, extending endlessly, neither the end nor the top could be seen.
This was the core zone.
Any farther, and a powerful force field would repel him, preventing any approach to the Demon Spirit Ancient Tree’s trunk.
"Huh!!!"
Ye Feng suddenly noticed a bluish pool just a few hundred meters away on the trunk of the Demon Spirit Ancient Tree, surrounded by little blue flowers.
At a glance, there were several hundred!
"So many Enlightenment Flowers?!"
Ye Feng was stunned, quickly rubbing his eyes, fixing his gaze and realizing it wasn’t an illusion, there really were several hundred precious Enlightenment Flowers.
"Oh my God!"
Ye Feng gasped.
Even though he already had two Enlightenment Flowers, enough to one hundred percent quickly break through to the hundredth layer of the Creation Realm, who would complain about having too many Enlightenment Flowers?
Especially since this was several hundred Enlightenment Flowers!
If acquired, they could push the Seven-Colored Enlightenment Tea Tree into its Metamorphosis Period, and further, into the legendary Peak Stage.
This, how could it not excite Ye Feng?
He began walking towards the Demon Spirit Ancient Tree.
However, since he was already very close to the Demon Spirit Ancient Tree, with every step forward, the pressure on his body surged, causing Ye Feng to stumble as he walked.
"Such strong pressure."
Ye Feng felt a cosmic-level pressure of a Half-Step Heavenly Venerable pressing on him, very uncomfortable, but as he activated the power of his microcosm, he regained mobility.
Thump thump thump!
He continued stepping forward and finally arrived only a hundred meters away from the trunk of the Demon Spirit Ancient Tree.
However, the pressure here spiked drastically.
As he continued forward, the pressure on his body was comparable to a Quasi-Heavenly Venerable, making Ye Feng feel extremely oppressed.
He had to exert all his strength to activate his microcosm’s power.
But, even with all his might, Ye Feng could only move forward a few dozen meters, remaining thirty to forty meters away from the hundreds of Enlightenment Flowers on the tree trunk.
He reached out his hand, attempting to pluck the Enlightenment Flowers by interfering with the force fields, but still failed.
The flowers on the trunk did not move an inch.
"How can it be like this?"
Ye Feng felt quite distressed, pondering and trying various methods, yet all to no avail.
"What to do?"
Ye Feng sat cross-legged in place, continuously deducing various feasible plans, but still had no clue, and had to drink Enlightenment Tea Water to temporarily enhance his comprehension.
Immediately, he found a way.
"Hahaha!"
In the next moment, Ye Feng directly opened a void crack behind him, from which a giant branch extended toward the trunk of the Demon Spirit Ancient Tree.
This was a branch of the Seven-Colored Enlightenment Tea Tree.
As the branch approached the Demon Spirit Ancient Tree, a terrifying pressure crushed it, causing the branch of the Enlightenment Tea Tree to shatter into streams of light, dispersing into the surrounding void.
The Seven-Colored Enlightenment Tea Tree continued to extend its branches.
Though branches kept breaking, overall they were still moving forward, getting closer to the trunk of the Demon Spirit Ancient Tree.
This scene made Ye Feng overjoyed.
"It’s indeed effective."
Ye Feng grinned.
There is a special connection between the Seven-Colored Enlightenment Tea Tree and the Enlightenment Flowers, and since the Seven-Colored Enlightenment Tea Tree is a Spiritual Treasure of the world and the Demon Spirit Ancient Tree is also a Spiritual Object, being of the same kind, the sense of oppression is much weaker.
Hence, the branches of the Seven-Colored Enlightenment Tea Tree can continuously approach the Demon Spirit Ancient Tree.
Ultimately, there was only a ten-meter gap between them.
This was already the limit.
"Why is it still not working?" Ye Feng was speechless.
He thought that this method could work, yet in the end, the ten-meter gap remained, unable to capture the Enlightenment Flowers.
In despair, an idea suddenly occurred to Ye Feng.
He noticed that there were ripples in the Destiny Ancient Tree within his microcosm, seeming to have a solution.
"Destiny Ancient Tree?!"
Ye Feng recalled this tree, which was a reward from a previous System task. This tree bears fruit once every ten thousand years, one fruit each time, and upon consumption, it can use the Power of Destiny to refine the body, fully enhance potential, and double the probability of a Cultivator proving the Dao of Heavenly Venerable.
Years have passed, coupled with ten thousand times time acceleration, the Destiny Ancient Tree now bore three fruits.
Whoosh!
One of the Destiny Fruits flew out and shattered in front of Ye Feng, transforming into a stream of energy, allowing the branches of the Enlightenment Tea Tree to continue extending forward, finally touching the trunk of the Demon Spirit Ancient Tree and beginning to pluck the Enlightenment Flowers.
One flower, two flowers...
Before long, the Seven-Colored Enlightenment Tea Tree had already plucked over three hundred Enlightenment Flowers, making the area around this Spirit Pool on the trunk bare, with nothing left.
"Hahaha, struck rich!"
Though a Destiny Fruit was sacrificed, there were still two left, which was acceptable. Moreover, exchanging one Destiny Fruit for hundreds of Enlightenment Flowers was quite a profit, even Ye Feng felt it was worthwhile.
"Mission accomplished!"
Ye Feng held hundreds of Enlightenment Flowers, then retracted the Seven-Colored Enlightenment Tea Tree, retreating continuously until he reached an area with weaker pressure.
"Let’s first check out the microcosm."
Ye Feng vanished.
In the microcosm, on the Super Continent.
Ye Feng planted over three hundred Enlightenment Flowers around the Seven-Colored Enlightenment Tea Tree, then said, "Absorb the Enlightenment Flowers to your heart’s content, I’m hoping for you to advance to the Metamorphosis Period!"
After speaking, he looked expectant.
Rustle rustle...
The Seven-Colored Enlightenment Tea Tree shook its body, with numerous branches falling, sweeping up fifty Enlightenment Flowers, absorbing and refining them. The tree body shook violently.
Crack crack crack...
This tea tree kept growing, eventually breaking through to a height of a hundred thousand meters, then it began to shrink, becoming only ten thousand meters tall, but its leaves became even more transparent and resplendent, emitting an increasingly astonishing aura, with its medicinal potency greatly increasing.
Each tea leaf’s surface was engraved with more complex and profound patterns.
This was a sign of entering the Metamorphosis Period!
Seeing this, Ye Feng let out a long breath.
After all these years of effort, the Seven-Colored Enlightenment Tea Tree he planted back then finally entered the Metamorphosis Period.
"Ancient books record that a Seven-Colored Enlightenment Tea Tree that has passed through its Metamorphosis Period and grown to its Peak Stage has a ten percent chance of transforming into a Nine-Colored Enlightenment Tea Tree."
"However, the current Seven-Colored Enlightenment Tea Tree has just entered the Metamorphosis Period and has to endure a major tribulation before it can transform into the Peak Stage."
"If it can undergo ten consecutive transformations, it will surely advance to the higher Nine-Colored Enlightenment Tea Tree."
Ye Feng murmured.
The current Seven-Colored Enlightenment Tea Tree is entering the Metamorphosis Period for the first time, just needing to wait for some time before it can begin its tribulation. Once it endures it, it will reach the Peak Stage.
For the subsequent ten thousand years, it will remain at the peak.
Then it will enter the Metamorphosis Period again, once it endures the major tribulation, it can return to the Peak Stage.
Repeating this way ten times, it can transform into a more powerful Nine-Colored Enlightenment Tea Tree, remaining constantly at its Peak Stage, never entering a Metamorphosis Period again.
Although it is still a long way to transform into a Nine-Colored Enlightenment Tea Tree, Ye Feng is very hopeful and confident in achieving it.
Ye Feng looked at the remaining two hundred Enlightenment Flowers.
"I only need two to advance to the first hundred layers of the Creation Realm, the rest will be saved for when the disciples hit a bottleneck, using some then."
Saying this, he returned to the area around the Demon Spirit Ancient Tree.
Currently inhabiting another universe and within a region of Cosmic Consciousness, it’s not suitable for enlightenment, as it is easy to be disturbed by them, better to stay away.
Later, Ye Feng continued treasure hunting.
He found Heavenly Spirit Holy Fruit, Lightning Spirit Red Gold, Destruction Void Flower, Ten Thousand Paths Immortal Liquid, and other Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, some could be used for Alchemy, some to enhance the Primordial Sword Embryo, totaling more than a dozen types.
One could say, this harvest was substantial.
Of course, the biggest gain from this exploration was the over three hundred Enlightenment Flowers, crucial for the Seven-Colored Enlightenment Tea Tree entering the Metamorphosis Period.
Several days later.
Ye Feng left the Demon Spirit Ancient Tree Misty Area and saw the waiting Master of Demon Spirits outside.
"Alliance Hierarch Ye, you finally came out."
The Master of Demon Spirits hastened to greet him.
[PS: This Chapter is over 4000 words, good night!]