World Tree Branches and Leaves

“An unexpected gain!” Venerable Zhenyan picked up the wine bottle, took three large gulps, then looked at Luo Feng with shining eyes. “Do you know... your teacher also has some good fortune. Though not as good as yours, it’s still quite good.”

“Did Teacher get a treasure?” Luo Feng’s heart stirred, and he asked.

“Wrong!”

Venerable Zhenyan shook his head. “At the Cosmic Venerable level, besides breakthroughs in cultivation, getting a treasure is probably the happiest thing. But saying I’m happy because I got a treasure isn’t quite accurate, because I didn’t get a new treasure this time... The reason I’m happy is because I discovered that a heavy treasure I already possessed, which I thought was just an ordinary heavy treasure, turned out to be quite extraordinary. Even if it hasn’t reached the true treasure level, it definitely possesses the power of a top-tier heavy treasure.”

“Congratulations, Teacher.” Luo Feng smiled.

“Indeed, I’m happy. At the Immortal level, I never discovered its special nature. This was my first time fighting to my heart’s content after becoming a Cosmic Venerable.” Venerable Zhenyan sighed with emotion. “When I used it by burning my divine power, it underwent a new transformation, revealing a second form. This definitely makes it a top-tier heavy treasure. If it had a third form, it would cross the threshold into true treasures.”

Luo Feng nodded.

Shi Wu Wings had three forms.

“Teacher, what treasure are you talking about?” Luo Feng couldn’t help but ask curiously.

“Haha.” Venerable Zhenyan glanced at Luo Feng and said, “Although my movement technique is formidable, Howling Mirror King is naturally skilled at tracking and detection, and his escape ability is extremely strong. Even if I could suppress him, I wouldn’t be able to kill him to the point where he couldn’t even flee. It’s because a pair of heavy treasure combat boots I obtained back then underwent a second form transformation, revealing their true power.”

“With the combat boots’ power enhanced, and my own self-created peak ultimate technique movement method, my speed is incredibly fast.” Venerable Zhenyan couldn’t help but get excited. “Combined with these combat boots in their second form... even Howling Mirror King couldn’t escape. Even if I encountered Venerable Wanfeng, whose strength far surpasses mine, I could still escape with these combat boots. Disciple, such heavy treasures that allow for escape are priceless! Venerable Wanfeng’s strength is in no way inferior to Venerable Shi Huo. Being able to escape from him shows that your teacher, while only average among Cosmic Venerables in terms of raw strength, possesses a high-tier escape ability.”

“Disciple, getting a treasure is certainly joyful, but discovering that a heavy treasure I thought was ordinary is actually one of immense power—that’s what truly excites me!” Venerable Zhenyan exclaimed.

A treasure gathering dust will one day shine brightly.

He, Zhenyan, had finally shone brightly, standing among the ranks of cosmic powerhouses!

“Teacher, you said your strength is average, so how could you make Howling Mirror King utterly defenseless?” Luo Feng couldn’t help but ask. “I heard that many Cosmic Venerables are quite wary of Howling Mirror King.”

“Howling Mirror King’s inherent strength isn’t particularly strong; his power lies in his innate secret technique,” Venerable Zhenyan explained. “You should know that an ordinary Cosmic Venerable’s divine body is a hundred times stronger than the limit of a King-level divine body.”

“I know.” Luo Feng nodded.

“The most basic divine body of a Cosmic Venerable is 10 million times the power of a Sector Lord,” Venerable Zhenyan said. “And anyone who can become a Cosmic Venerable tries every possible way to enhance their life level, right? Generally, they can increase it by several times. For example, I’ve already increased mine by about 10 times, so after I became a Cosmic Venerable... my divine body possesses 100 million times the power of a Sector Lord. As for Howling Mirror King, he is 2000 times the limit of an ordinary King-level, which means 200 million times the power of a Sector Lord. That’s only twice mine.”

Luo Feng nodded slightly.

One divine body with 200 million times the power of a Sector Lord, and another with 100 million times the power of a Sector Lord—the difference was indeed not significant.

“His divine body, coupled with that defensive true treasure, allows Howling Mirror King to contend with ordinary Cosmic Venerables. However, his offensive capabilities are quite average. His divine body is only twice as strong as mine, his comprehension of laws is inferior to most Cosmic Venerables, and his self-created secret techniques are also not as good as the vast majority of Cosmic Venerables. Therefore, his attack power is far weaker. He can only rely on his heaven-defying innate secret technique for offense!”

“His innate secret technique is extremely powerful.”

“Fortunately, I belong to the warrior faction. The warrior faction fears soul attacks like illusions the most, so I’ve always researched ‘soul defense secret techniques’.” Zhenyan King said, “When I roamed the cosmos back then, my soul defense was already extremely strong, considered to be at the ‘peak ultimate technique’ level. And while I was hidden in Chaos City for billions of years, I couldn’t make breakthroughs in law comprehension, so I spent a lot of energy on creating secret techniques. Although my aptitude and talent are not as good as yours, after billions of years of research, I also created three ultimate techniques.”

“Among them, the strongest is the soul defense ultimate technique. Although it’s still a ‘peak ultimate technique’ in terms of soul defense, its power is ten times stronger than before.”

Zhenyan King smiled slightly, “With me burning my divine power, employing my soul defense ultimate technique, and my will tempered over billions of years, I refuse to believe I can’t withstand it. After all, Howling Mirror King has no record of killing a Cosmic Venerable to this day.”

Luo Feng nodded.

Zhuchong King had a record of killing Cosmic Venerables, but Howling Mirror King did not.

“His innate secret technique attack is very strong, but I withstood it,” Zhenyan King grinned. “Since I withstood his innate secret technique attack, it’s destined that he will be trampled by me.”

...

Purple Thorn Island.

Inside Howling Mirror King’s mansion.

“Damn it, damn it, damn it!!!” Howling Mirror King roared within his mansion. The roars echoed repeatedly but didn’t transmit outside in the slightest.

Howling Mirror King’s eyes were filled with ferocity.

“That hateful Zhenyan!”

Howling Mirror King gritted his teeth. “I’ll remember you, I’ll remember you, very well! How dare you attack me, how dare you attack a great special life form? You’re truly seeking death. You may be powerful now, but once I become a Cosmic Venerable... killing you will be like crushing a tiny bug.”

“He actually directly withstood my innate secret technique attack, and what terrifying staff techniques,” Howling Mirror King recalled, a shiver running down his spine.

Zhenyan King, wielding that black long staff, nearly smashed him to oblivion.

“If not, if not for my true treasure protecting me.”

“If Venerable Wanfeng hadn’t arrived in time...” Howling Mirror King felt a wave of lingering fear.

Although the protective true treasure was strong, Venerable Zhenyan was clearly superior to him in law comprehension, and the ultimate technique level of his staff techniques was evidently extremely high, leading to immensely powerful attacks! Even though it was weakened by ninety percent by the protective true treasure each time, it still caused his divine body to continuously deplete...

“Just wait.”

“Just wait.”

“One day, I will become a Cosmic Venerable...” Howling Mirror King’s eyes were filled with madness and resentment. This was the closest he had ever come to death, and it made him hate that human even more.

...

In the Jiuyou spacetime, within that realm.

Luo Feng’s consciousness had just returned from the Virtual Universe.

“Rumors say that if an invincible King-level manages to break through and become a Cosmic Venerable, they will be stronger than ordinary Cosmic Venerables. Indeed, the rumors are true.” Luo Feng secretly nodded. “Accumulation and sudden burst—this is accumulation and sudden burst. Having already reached the invincible King-level, and continuously accumulating over long periods, if law comprehension isn’t progressing, then one researches secret techniques.”

“If they don’t break through, then so be it, but once they do, they are indeed extremely powerful.”

Luo Feng smiled.

“My Demon-Killer Race clone has drifted for so long, and it’s finally reached the World Tree. As long as I obtain a branch or leaf from the World Tree, I’ll be able to nurture my third clone, and then I’ll step into the Immortal level.”

“Howling Mirror King?”

“Since you dared to try and kill me for my treasure, then once I reach the Immortal level, I will definitely kill you,” Luo Feng thought to himself. Luo Feng had absolute confidence in himself. Once he became an Immortal... his goal would naturally be to compare himself with those Cosmic Venerables, and with unique, heaven-defying special life forms like Zhuchong King!

As for Howling Mirror King? He would kill him personally!

“World Tree branches and leaves, it all depends on this time.” Luo Feng stopped thinking further, his main focus now on his Demon-Killer Race clone.

...

Jiuyou spacetime, Tree Island.

Tree Island remained as tranquil as ever, with beautiful flowers and plants everywhere. Plant seeds, ‘fluffballs,’ drifted throughout the entire Tree Island, visible everywhere.

The Demon-Killer Race fluffball had now landed on the ground near a ‘Sector Lord-level World Tree’.

“It’s here.”

“It all depends on this time.” The Demon-Killer Race clone was filled with anticipation, the hairs on the fluffball observing everything before it.

This World Tree was still as towering as ever, each leaf still carved like an emerald crystal, breathtakingly beautiful, with rings of light constantly swirling around it.

At this moment... in the cave on Barren Stone Island.

A King-level peak Immortal slave appeared, holding a Fire God Origin Crystal.

“Whoosh!” Three instantaneous teleports.

The first two teleports were above the sea.

With the third teleport, this King-level peak Immortal slave arrived directly at the core of Tree Island—the World Tree’s domain!

The place he appeared was precisely within the crown of the ‘Sector Lord-level’ World Tree closest to the Demon-Killer Race clone, approximately 500,000 kilometers away from the clone.

“Explode.” As soon as the King-level peak slave appeared via teleportation, he threw out the Fire God Origin Crystal.

Immediately after, he teleported again, directly covering a million kilometers, arriving at a lower section of the massive tree crown, and directly attacked the Sector Lord-level World Tree.

“Boom! Rumble!~~~~” The Fire God Origin Crystal exploded the instant it was thrown!

The Fire God Origin Crystal carried this time was slightly stronger than the last. At close range, it would be enough to kill a King-level beginner Immortal. However, Luo Feng only had so many Fire God Origin Crystals, and this was already considered a weaker one.

With the explosion!

The immediate vicinity around the Fire God Origin Crystal’s explosion point instantly turned into nothingness. Numerous distant branches snapped, blasted away by the powerful shockwave, while countless shattered leaves, under the impact, flew like arrows in all directions, filling the sky.

“World Tree branches.” The King-level peak slave, immediately after appearing a million kilometers away via teleportation, grabbed a massive branch, over three hundred meters thick.

“Break for me!” The King-level slave violently tried to snap the huge branch.

Meanwhile, the entire Sector Lord-level World Tree let out an angry roar. Its entire crown trembled, and a large number of branches and leaves directly coiled around the King-level peak slave: “Hateful outsider, hateful outsider, you hurt me again, you hurt me again, die, die!”