Chapter 163 How Was This the Tree Falling Over? The Tree Was Dead!
Li Mu only felt a force at his back that seemed to tear at his soul. Fortunately, he was hiding in the crevice. Otherwise, he absolutely would not have been able to hold on.
Then Li Mu felt his vision turn white.
He swiftly returned to his true body.
He was already standing in a special area overflowing with lush greenery.
The reason it was called a special area was because the surroundings were all filled with boundless dark void.
It actually looked somewhat similar to Li Mu’s Blessed Field Art!
It was just that the fragmented feeling of this space was even more severe than that of the Blessed Field Art.
And in the middle of this endless void, countless monsters were falling from the sky, guided by a violent wind toward that exit.
On the open ground in the distance, Li Mu actually discovered four strange white saplings!
These four saplings emitted an intense white light.
They were like four small white suns.
Each sapling was about one meter tall, with slender branches and leaves. The leaves were shaped like countless human palms.
These small saplings swayed left and right in the wind.
Those palms looked as though they were constantly beckoning toward the void, making gestures that seemed to say, “Come here,” “Come here.”
There was an indescribably eerie feeling to the sight.
Li Mu understood.
The light, the wind, and the monsters had all been “summoned” by these small saplings.
However, he did not intend to touch the saplings first.
The monsters covering the sky and earth were all spiritual energy and Triumph Points.
Li Mu was not certain whether the monsters would still remain if he pulled up these saplings.
Therefore, he decided to slaughter them first!
The moment he appeared, the monsters locked onto him, and an astonishing number of monsters converged toward him.
Li Mu quickly used External Incarnation and the External Incarnation of Divine Weapon Art.
Five incarnations and five Divine Weapons blocked them temporarily.
With his back to the exit, Li Mu drew the Safe-Haven Method, then drank two large mouthfuls of wine.
The monsters from every direction had already begun to drown him.
Li Mu unleashed his full power!
He began slaughtering madly.
Whether it was External Incarnation or Divine Weapon Art, Li Mu had them use their strength to the limit, trying to send the monsters flying and scatter them.
Otherwise, he would soon be completely submerged.
In the tree trunk area, Li Mu had at most blocked one-tenth of the path.
Now, the exit behind Li Mu was instantly sealed shut by monster corpses.
There were more than ten times as many monsters as before!
The monsters that blotted out the sky seemed endless. Every minute, Li Mu had to throw out Heavenly Might to clear away the excessive number of gathered monsters.
For the next thirty seconds, Li Mu’s pressure would lessen greatly because Divine Weapon Art carried the power of Heavenly Might and swept the monsters far away.
During the thirty-second gap afterward, Li Mu had to rely on the Three-Character Dao-Pattern Seal to resist them head-on!
There were even several times when he was surrounded and attacked by a few Ninth Grade monsters.
Li Mu had no choice but to use Bronze Head and Iron Arms.
After enduring for five minutes, Li Mu’s second wave of External Incarnations appeared, and only then did Li Mu truly stabilize the situation.
Ten incarnations. Ten Divine Weapons.
Li Mu transformed into a battlefield meat grinder!
In just twenty minutes, Li Mu’s Triumph Points had already reached a terrifying 58,000!
All of these Triumph Points had been provided by Eighth Grade and Ninth Grade monsters.
And monsters of these two grades made up only ten percent of the total monster corpses around him!
As for monsters below Seventh Grade, they were like the exaggerated fight scenes in the movie 《Kung Fu》, sent flying dozens of meters into the sky with a single cudgel strike.
There were also plenty of monsters that flew away like cannonballs and fell freely into the distance.
The lower the grade of the monster, the farther it flew.
For Third or Fourth Grade monsters, even being hit by the corpse of a monster that had flown out was enough to kill them instantly on the spot!
However, with such high-intensity combat, Li Mu’s True Qi was also pouring out crazily as though it had been connected to a water pump.
If not for the two divine skills of Mid-Grade Heavenly Immortal Art, Returnspring and Replenishment, Li Mu would have already been drained dry.
Even so, Li Mu’s True Qi was still unable to keep up with his expenditure, and nearly seventy percent of it was rapidly consumed.
He could only add points madly.
He threw 40,000 Triumph Points into the skill he currently relied on the most, External Incarnation!
Every entry of External Incarnation now required more than 8,000 points.
Li Mu spent 40,000 points and only lit up three entries.
[The number of incarnations has increased to ten!]
[The duration of the incarnations has increased to 15 minutes.]
[External Incarnation can now use Safe-Haven Method.]
The last entry was worth 15,000 points.
External Incarnation had a five-minute cooldown and lasted fifteen minutes, which meant three rounds of incarnations could exist at the same time.
At most, there could be thirty!
Moreover, every one of them could use Safe-Haven Method, so their defensive power and offensive power would both increase greatly!
Li Mu’s pressure instantly lessened.
At the same time, outside the Sub-Profound Spirit Tree, the people of the Liang Family finally discovered a strange phenomenon.
“Young Master Liang... Hiss. It seems no one has come out of this exit for a long time!”
A Liang Family servant spoke in confusion.
Young Master Liang was also somewhat puzzled.
Several people who had cut in line were already waiting.
Yet the white exit had not flashed for a long time.
This meant no one inside had exhausted their True Qi or been injured.
“Wait a little longer. If there’s still a problem, go back and notify the family.”
Young Master Liang frowned as well.
He had been assigned here to guard the Sub-Profound Spirit Tree, but he had never seen this kind of situation before.
If no one came out, he would have to report it back. If something really happened, he could not bear the responsibility.
So many people were still blocked behind them. This was all gleaming money!
They did not allow people to voluntarily request refunds, but if it was because of the Liang Family’s own issue that people could not enter the Mystic Realm, then they had to refund them.
“Damn it! Not a single person has come out.”
“Even if just one person came out, I could at least ask what happened.”
Young Master Liang cursed under his breath.
How could he know that all the people killing monsters inside had long since been stunned as well?
Most people had not seen a monster for more than ten minutes and were all searching back and forth inside the wooden tunnels.
But they were also unwilling to come out just like that.
Everyone had spent hundreds of thousands to enter. If they went out after not seeing a monster for only ten or so minutes, would that not be a massive loss?
Therefore, many people took the opportunity to meditate and recover their True Qi while waiting for the next wave of monsters to arrive.
Meanwhile, the area around Li Mu had already been completely piled into a mountain of corpses.
Forty minutes passed.
After deducting the 40,000 points Li Mu had used just now, his Triumph Points once again reached 90,000!
And they were still increasing rapidly.
As for Li Mu’s cultivation, it had reached the peak of Eighth Grade and entered a saturated state!
At this moment, Li Mu had already gone numb from killing.
His eyes were bloodshot, his veins bulged, and his whole body was covered in blood.
In his eyes, there was only blocking, swinging his cudgel, finding the monsters’ weaknesses, and counterattacking.
The Ghostface Cudgel in his hand smashed, slashed, swept, pierced, and was thrown...
Before he realized it, Li Mu had already integrated a battlefield fighting style of his own.
Simple, efficient, and lethal in one strike!
Fifty minutes passed.
Li Mu’s True Qi was already close to drying up.
His mind had also begun to drift.
Even when one group of External Incarnations disappeared, Li Mu seemed completely unaware.
At fifty-five minutes, another group of External Incarnations vanished.
Li Mu had already been surrounded by monsters.
His True Qi was completely exhausted.
At sixty minutes, the final group of External Incarnations dissipated.
Li Mu was instantly drowned by the monster horde.
But the instant Li Mu was submerged, bursts of wild laughter came from within the pile of monsters!
Then a beam of white light shot into the sky with a thunderous roar, sending all the surrounding monsters flying!
Breakthrough!
Yellow Rank Ninth Grade!
Under the infusion of this vast amount of spiritual energy and the slaughter in a desperate situation, Li Mu had long since touched the threshold of breakthrough.
The instant he broke through, his Dantian Sea expanded several times over with a roar, and a large amount of spiritual energy was swiftly transformed into True Qi.
Li Mu fiercely rolled his neck.
When he unleashed ten External Incarnations, they already possessed the momentum of the three groups of External Incarnations from before, and even surpassed them.
Low-grade monsters were even sliced apart by a single strike from Li Mu’s cudgel!
Li Mu slaughtered for another full forty-plus minutes.
His Triumph Points had already reached around 190,000.
And this was despite the fact that after Li Mu advanced to Ninth Grade, Eighth Grade monsters no longer provided Triumph Points.
Otherwise, there would have been even more.
During these forty minutes, Li Mu’s realm had also stabilized at early-stage Ninth Grade.
His growth speed had become pitifully slow.
At this moment, Li Mu’s vision was already blocked by a sea of corpses.
Li Mu summoned the Somersault Cloud and flew up onto the corpse wall. The number of monsters falling from the sky had noticeably decreased. Occasionally, a sparse thirty to fifty monsters would fall.
That was no longer enough to interest Li Mu.
When he looked toward the four white saplings, their white light had already dimmed greatly. They had become listless, drooping and almost no longer swaying.
Clearly, the speed and number of monsters falling from the void depended entirely on the vitality of these saplings.
And based on the Liang Family’s rule of opening it once every three days, these saplings probably needed about three days to accumulate their energy fully.
Li Mu walked up to one of the saplings and reached out to touch it. There was no Restriction.
Li Mu reached out and pulled at it.
He actually pulled the sapling out slowly, roots and all.
With a thought, Li Mu took the sapling into his own Blessed Field Art and planted it beside the Spiritual Spring.
After the sapling was planted, it actually regained some vitality. It swayed left and right and did not resist.
Li Mu smiled.
So it really could be transplanted?
Li Mu quickly went to the other three saplings, pulled them out one by one with their roots intact, and carefully transplanted them into his Blessed Field Art.
Without the four saplings, this space swiftly dimmed.
It became lifeless and deathly still.
Li Mu knew this place was no longer suitable to remain in.
He quickly arrived at the exit, used the same method he had used to enter, hid inside the crevice of the Ghostface Cudgel, and launched himself out again.
The surrounding wooden tunnels were also rapidly withering and shriveling, as if the entire space was about to collapse.
Li Mu crushed the Exit Stone in his hand.
At the same time, outside the Sub-Profound Spirit Tree, the Liang Family members had already descended into chaos. An hour ago, they had realized that something major had happened.
They had no choice but to return to the family and notify them.
The family elder had spent nearly an hour and had just arrived with everyone.
But unexpectedly, he saw an eerie scene.
The Sub-Profound Spirit Tree was rapidly aging and shriveling.
In front of the white circle of light at the exit, waves of white light flashed one after another.
Before the people in front could leave, they were smashed into by the people exiting behind them.
Countless people who had exited the realm rolled together in a heap. Shouts of abuse, furious scolding, and screams rang out all at once. The scene was extraordinarily chaotic.
It was at this moment that Li Mu took advantage of the chaos and appeared among the crowd.
The instant he appeared, he transformed into a flying mosquito with a puff and quickly flew toward the edge of the distant woods.
“The tree is falling! The tree is falling!”
Someone cried out in alarm.
The people beneath the tree fled in panic one after another.
The enormous ancient tree that had been flashing with fluorescent light just moments ago was now rapidly withering and shriveling. Its branches snapped, and its leaves fell.
A huge section in the middle of its trunk withered away, and the heavy crown naturally collapsed downward as well!
The Liang Family members were completely dumbfounded.
How was this the tree falling over?
The tree was dead!