novelraw Chapter 297 : The Tree Planted 270,000 Years Ago!
Chapter 297 : The Tree Planted 270,000 Years Ago!
Chapter 297: The Tree Planted 270,000 Years Ago!
At the same time, within the last massive city floating in the sky of the Xuan Yu Immortal Sect.
A figure flashed past, and then appeared at the absolute peak of a back mountain that only the successive Sect Masters of the Immortal Sect could enter.
姩 completely ignored all restrictions and formations, gracefully descending before a towering giant tree.
No one knew how long it had been before a young man dressed in a black robe, with a handsome face yet eyes carrying boundless vicissitudes, appeared here.
“Daoist friend has come in person; I wonder what matter you wish to discuss?”
姩 did not answer his question, only slowly reaching out her hand to gently stroke the tree.
“This tree has existed since the founding of the Xuan Yu Immortal Sect, carrying the meaning of being born alongside my sect. If Daoist friend likes it, I can have someone gift you another second-generation sapling derived from it.”
姩 merely chuckled twice, then sighed:
“No need to be nervous. I’m merely feeling sentimental about the passage of time. Back in the day, I casually planted a small sapling, and now it has grown into such a towering tree. Time is truly wondrous.”
Upon hearing this, intense emotion surfaced in the vicissitude-filled eyes of the young man behind her.
Shock. Disbelief.
What did this woman’s incarnation just say?
That she personally planted this tree?
One had to know that the Xuan Yu Immortal Sect had been established in the Sacred Domain for over a hundred thousand years, and according to the sect’s records, this great divine tree had already existed at the time of the sect’s founding.
And now someone claimed that she herself had planted it.
The feeling was utterly absurd, as if a legend from the mythic age had suddenly appeared before his eyes.
Ancient and wondrous.
“Senior must be joking, right? This divine tree is estimated to have existed for as long as three hundred thousand years…”
The Sect Master of the Xuan Yu Immortal Sect swallowed hard.
He, a great cultivator of the Union Dao Realm, was actually feeling nervous now, and in his speech, the ‘Daoist friend’ had gradually turned into ‘Senior.’
“Hmm? Wrong, wrong, it should be two hundred seventy thousand years. How could it be that long? I’m getting old.”
Two hundred seventy thousand years… Was that the point he should be concerned about?
A cultivator who had lived for a full two hundred seventy thousand years—he could not even imagine how terrifying her strength must be.
At this time, 姩 let out a slightly regretful sigh, then smiled:
“All right, I don’t have much time; I should go.”
The Xuan Yu Immortal Sect’s Sect Master was a bit stunned, then subconsciously said:
“Mm… leaving already?”
“Otherwise?”
姩 looked at him with a half-smile.
“My husband came here to stroll around, and although there were some twists and turns, I do not wish for the Immortal Sect to trouble the sect he once belonged to because of this.”
“Otherwise, my true body might start to miss this little tree… and when I come over then…”
The Xuan Yu Immortal Sect’s Sect Master immediately promised:
“Senior is too polite. Our Immortal Sect addresses matters, not people. We will not involve the innocent in any way. Please rest assured.”
姩 smiled and nodded, then slowly disappeared from the mountaintop, leaving the Sect Master alone to wipe the sweat from his forehead.
On the other side, after entering the spatial rift, Gu Fan immediately took out the Void Fish that had once brought him here from a storage pouch.
In this spatial crevice, running about aimlessly without direction was extremely dangerous.
Without coordinates and a destination, one could end up trapped here for life.
There was no spiritual energy or mysterious power here, and in the end, one could only slowly wither and die when their energy was exhausted!
Unless you were lucky enough to encounter another spatial rift in the next moment and escape by sheer chance.
Gu Fan dared to come in because he relied on these Void Fish.
He flipped over and released the Void Fish, then used his divine soul as guidance, resisting the minor spatial erosion with his own powerful physical body.
“Fortunately, following behind the Void Fish can avoid most of the spatial damage. Otherwise, it would be impossible to cross the void with just my physical body.”
The next moment, the Void Fish, having returned to familiar waters, became unusually excited.
After swimming around in the space for a while, it seemed to find a certain direction and directly began swimming toward it.
Gu Fan felt a little nervous.
Even with the Void Fish, there was no guarantee that their destination would be the Destiny Continent.
If it turned out to be some unfamiliar world, he would be doomed.
“I should be able to get back… Since there’s frequent travel between the Destiny Continent and the Sacred Domain, it proves the two worlds must be adjacent… Most likely I’ll still return to the Destiny Continent.”
Gu Fan gave himself some reassurance, and with no other choice, followed the Void Fish forward.
Thus, the Void Fish swam ahead while Gu Fan did his best to keep up.
Time passed slowly—about ten days.
Just when Gu Fan thought he might end up being tricked to death by these Void Fish, a spatially weak area finally appeared in front of him.
The Void Fish darted straight into it, taking Gu Fan out of the void.
Gu Fan felt tense, and the moment he emerged from the void, he sensed his mysterious power being greatly suppressed, while the spiritual energy within him, which had been suppressed before, suddenly became extremely active.
Like a wild horse freed from its reins, it surged and galloped!
“With spiritual energy this active… Destiny Continent! I’m finally back!”
Gu Fan could not help but laugh heartily, recklessly releasing his spiritual energy to destroy everything around him.
Boom!!
Suddenly, a dark cloud began gathering in the sky!
Gu Fan felt himself being locked onto by a certain aura, and a bad premonition arose.
“Don’t tell me this is…”
Gu Fan raised his head toward the tribulation cloud above and finally confirmed his guess…
Heavenly Tribulation!
The thunder tribulation that had not descended since his advancement to the Solar Radiance Realm in the Sacred Domain had finally arrived at this moment!
“What’s meant to come can’t be avoided…”
Gu Fan stored the Void Fish back into the storage pouch, placing enough Yuan Crystals inside to ensure they would not starve, then fully prepared to face the imminent Heavenly Tribulation.
“This tribulation seems about the same as the last one.”
Last time, Gu Fan had dragged the Qiao Family’s Old Ancestor and the others directly into the tribulation, forcibly raising its power to the Solar Radiance level.
In contrast, this tribulation did not seem to have an exaggerated increase in power.
Boom!!
The next moment, the first bolt of tribulation thunder descended.
A lightning pillar as thick as a water tank crashed down from the heavens.
Gu Fan raised his fist and shattered the lightning pillar with a single punch, then opened his mouth and inhaled.
A massive amount of lightning power was drawn into his body, tempering it.
Then came the second bolt, and the third.
Although their strength clearly increased, in the face of Gu Fan’s current mid-stage strength, they could still be shattered with a single move.
As the large quantities of pure lightning power entered his body, Gu Fan could feel his physical body slowly strengthening at an extremely gradual pace.
Sensing the change, Gu Fan let out a light sigh.
As expected, with his current strength, it was hard for lightning of this level to greatly affect his body.
Still, it was better than nothing—he could not afford to waste it.
Finally, when the sixth bolt came, Gu Fan felt a bit of pressure.
“At last, some real power?”
The sixth bolt of tribulation lightning then came crashing down!