Chapter 787 - 782: Sea Heart Flame
Boom!
The once calm and windless illusionary ancient tree suddenly erupted the moment it touched the Pure Blood.
It was like a giant beast suddenly awakening, or an ancient deity being offended.
Millions of branches of the illusionary ancient tree abruptly spread out!
From afar, it "looked" as if the body of the illusionary ancient tree had expanded tenfold.
This was actually the residual consciousness of the Galo Ancient Tree, awakened by the domineering instincts of the Pure Blood, instinctively launching a counterattack to protect its remaining consciousness from being erased!
This counterattack wasn’t out of rage.
Because the main consciousness of the Galo Ancient Tree had long died, the current residual consciousness no longer had emotions like joy, anger, sorrow, or fear.
Instead, this counterattack was more like a reflex, like an involuntary twitch of a centipede’s body when touched, even after it’s nearly dead.
But given the tremendous power based on the Galo Ancient Tree’s roots, even such an instinctive spasm was terrifying enough.
Bai Pu’s Pure Blood was almost instantly slingshot, squeezed out, flying out of the Barrier’s range in a flash.
The Pure Blood, like a bullet, grazed Bai Pu’s cheek and, with a snap, deeply embedded into the dome of the palace.
"Are you alright?" Dongbo Cheng looked at Bai Pu with some concern.
A scar was cut across Bai Pu’s cheek by the Pure Blood, with faint blood oozing out.
"It’s nothing."
Bai Pu smiled slightly. He hadn’t expected the Pure Blood to subdue the consciousness of the Galo Ancient Tree...
The reason was simple: the gap in Tiers was too great.
Bai Pu was like an ant, while the roots of the Galo Ancient Tree were like a dying giant elephant.
An ant might crawl into the elephant’s nostril, causing it to sneeze and momentarily wake, but it couldn’t use such a method to subdue and control the giant elephant.
At this moment, the Red Lotus Mystical Arts newly comprehended by Bai Pu were put to use.
To be precise, it was the Composite Mystical Arts of Tide + Red Lotus.
Bai Pu temporarily named this Composite Mystical Arts "Sea Heart Flame"—there wasn’t a more suitable name for now.
The name wasn’t important; the effect was!
Bai Pu’s palm covered it, and the Sea Heart Flame Composite Mystical Arts, accompanied by the blue and red Prismatic Demon Fighting Qi, quickly surged toward the Emperor Qing Barrier.
The Tide Mystical Arts were responsible for tuning in, harmonizing with the demonic power of the Emperor Qing Barrier.
After integrating into the Emperor Qing Barrier, the Red Lotus Mystical Arts were stimulated, tracing back to the source, invading the power source of the Emperor Qing Barrier, which was the residual consciousness of the Galo Ancient Tree!
Karmic Fire layers: 1 layer, 3 layers, 5 layers...
Bai Pu maintained the infusion of Prismatic Demon Fighting Qi.
Fortunately, his Prismatic Demon Fighting Qi was extremely pure, up to the standard of an Enhanced Lord, and under the amplification of the King-level Purple Weapon, its purity was no less than that of Emperor Qing.
Otherwise, if someone else were to do this, they wouldn’t achieve such an effect of breaking power with finesse; they would need ten times the power to accomplish it.
As the Karmic Fire layers stacked, Bai Pu could "see" that the massive demonic power ocean, with the residual consciousness of the Galo Ancient Tree, was already burning fiercely!
This meant that the Galo Ancient Tree had become entangled in Karmic Fire, gradually losing its reason!
The consequence was catastrophic.
The burning consciousness of the Galo Ancient Tree frantically thrashed, and the massive ocean of demonic power was no longer stable, raising surging waves, even towering waves!
As the Karmic Fire layers stacked to 20 layers, the residual consciousness of the Galo Ancient Tree went completely mad.
The ocean of demonic power suddenly exploded, turning into endless mist, madly spreading in all directions.
It looked like an endless dark void had gained a gaseous giant planet.
This was a manifestation of energy being out of control and unable to be collected, directly affecting the Emperor Qing Barrier!
The greenish Emperor Qing Barrier rapidly changed colors, from deep green to light green, then to transparent and colorless.
Ultimately, it silently dissipated—the source of power was gone, and the barrier itself was like water without a source, a tree without roots, with dissipation being the only result.
The Corruption Forest also ushered in a huge transformation.
The once withered and decayed environment became lush with greenery, and under the nurturing of the massive wood-element demonic power dispersed by the Galo Ancient Tree, the rotten roots and moldy plants regained new life, growing strong and vigorous.
Many underground caverns in the Corruption Forest underwent earth-shaking changes, with countless new buds and saplings stretching and growing in the gaps, massively impacting the layout of the underground caverns, causing numerous rock walls to collapse, caverns to shatter, and countless new caverns to be supported by the growing strong roots and plants.
This transformation had just begun yet was already like an earthquake affecting the entire Corruption Forest. It’s imaginable that this earthquake would last a very, very long time...
This was a widespread change.
Meanwhile, inside the Palace of Roots, with the Emperor Qing Barrier no longer blocking, Dongbo Cheng easily broke through the board walls!
"Hahaha, we’re rich!"
Dongbo Cheng laughed heartily, and what he saw were all kinds of exquisite artifacts.
There were Famous Divine Swords, Inheritance Treasure Armors, Rare Gemstones, Precious Medicinal Herbs... and many Ancient Materials that couldn’t be named, a dazzling collection.
Behind this barrier was clearly the treasure vault of Emperor Qing!
Dongbo Cheng raised a hand, and the White Dragon Fang floating in mid-air fell into the sword scabbard he held.
"Hmm?"
Dongbo Cheng’s body trembled; as the White Dragon Fang entered his hand, he found himself momentarily distracted.
"How is it?"
Bai Pu hadn’t received the Golden Side Task completion notification, so he quickly asked if something went wrong.
"No, no problem... I’m fine!" Dongbo Cheng hurriedly replied, "All the other things in the treasure vault are yours... Don’t disturb me!"
Dongbo Cheng, not caring about the occasion, actually sat cross-legged in the treasure vault and closed his eyes.
Bai Pu agreed, raised his hand, and with a pull, countless treasures from the Emperor Qing’s treasure vault fell into his Storage Space, stored individually.
Of course, these treasures couldn’t be taken out of this World.
But this didn’t prevent Bai Pu from using these treasures to exchange benefits with the Natives.
Elsewhere, Leia’s communication came through for the third time:
"Great! Great! Brother Bai, you’re amazing you actually broke the Emperor Qing Barrier, and my bomb exploded! The spring of the Miasma Spring has been completely destroyed by me!"
"Have you completed your task?" Bai Pu asked one more question.
"Ah..."
Leia’s voice tightened, followed by a long Silence.
"What happened?"
Bai Pu asked, only to find that the Seashell Communication Artifact had reached its limit and completely shattered.
Bai Pu didn’t know what changes had occurred on Leia’s side, so he stopped thinking about it and turned to guard Dongbo Cheng.
In fact, at this moment Bai Pu didn’t need to guard because the Demon Throat was already under Bai Pu’s command.
Otherwise, given Bai Pu’s nearly exhausted state of Fighting Qi, he wouldn’t have been able to protect Dongbo Cheng.
Soon, Dongbo Cheng opened his eyes.
The moment he opened his eyes, Bai Pu also received the notification of the Golden Side Task: Completion of the Dragon’s Fang.