Chapter 494: Experiment
Chapter 494: Experiment
Feng Ye gazed contemplatively at the shattered traces on the ground for a moment before turning to Lilith beside him and instructing her, "Lilith, go and capture some monsters."
"Yes," Lilith replied coldly, her voice as crisp as the arc she swiftly traced in the sky before flying off into the distance in search of nearby life forms.
Feng Ye remained where he was, utilizing the capabilities of the Illusionary Clock to repeatedly review the past and continue exploring the myriad potential future variations.
A moment later...
Lilith opened the dimensional passage of Huangquan Bilu Slope and returned to Feng Ye's side. She proceeded to pull out over a dozen monsters from the passage, most of them with ghost-level auras.
After a quick assessment, Feng Ye casually grabbed one of the monsters, compressed it into a ball, and extracted the highest-energy monster cell. From his palm, he once again split a seed of the Divine Tree, allowing it to absorb the monster cell.
Whoosh! !
The seed of the Divine Tree underwent another mutation, swelling in size.
After this transformation, it no longer had a trunk or flowers, only a mass of pure roots that immediately burrowed into the nearby earth and began to spread wildly in all directions.
Nearby plants withered at a visible rate, and the earth itself rapidly lost moisture, turning parched and desiccated. In just half a minute, an area of several hundred meters was transformed into a desert of yellow sand.
As the mutation progressed, the young Divine Tree once again evolved a consciousness. Countless intertwining roots grabbed and pulled towards Feng Ye and Lilith in the sky.
"...”
Lilith kept her eyes fixed on the constantly mutating young Divine Tree on the ground.
Just like the previous young Divine Tree, this one could have potentially become her sister if it had grown normally. But from the moment it tried to attack Feng Ye, it forfeited its right to continue living.
Her icy gaze fell upon the attacking thick roots, and the strange, blood-colored magatama in her eyes flickered. She extended her hand, and chakra surged forth, taking on a crimson hue and coalescing into a sword in her palm, shimmering like blood.
Swish!
Lilith gripped the blood-colored blade and, without changing her expression, vanished from sight. She reappeared amidst the countless roots and thrust her sword forward.
Feng Ye made no move to stop her, merely observing as Lilith fought the mutated young Divine Tree. His eyes flickered with a faint golden light, deep in thought.
Boom! !
The blood-colored blade pierced the center of the root system, transforming into a torrent of scarlet that exploded in all directions. The mutated young Divine Tree struggled, but it was powerless against the blast, and over two-thirds of its body was utterly annihilated.
The bloodline jutsu that Lilith possessed was not the Rinnegan, but rather a blood-colored Byakugan with a magatama, lacking the ability to create spaces like the Tianzhi Zhong. However, it greatly enhanced her taijutsu, ninjutsu, and genjutsu.
The blood-colored chakra resembled flowing blood and seemed to possess the nature of fire, yet it belonged to none of the five basic natures of wind, lightning, water, fire, or earth. Its essence was the Yang power of the Six Paths.
Gurgle, gurgle! !
The young Divine Tree, over two-thirds of which had been destroyed, was left with only some broken fringe roots, writhing and twisting on the ground like a beheaded snake.
As the twisted roots struggled, they burrowed into the earth, attempting to escape.
Lilith watched this unfold with cold, unblinking eyes. She descended gracefully to the ground, her delicate hands as slender as jade, and gently pressed her palm onto the center of the yellow sand.
Boom!!!
The entire earth shook as if in response to her command, with an area of nearly a thousand meters around her instantly shattering. Surging waves of crimson chakra erupted from the broken ground, soaring skyward like molten lava.
Countless broken roots of the young Divine Tree were forced out from the shattered underground, only to be obliterated and vanish without a trace in the crimson tide.
Feng Ye hovered in the sky, waving his hand to disperse the blood-tinted waves that rushed towards him, protecting Lilith and the remaining monsters she had captured. He retracted his gaze from the ground and contemplated, "After the mutation, its nature has become similar to that of the growth period."
The Divine Tree goes through distinct stages: seed, young, growth, and finally, maturity. During the seed stage, it possesses minimal power, but in the young stage, it already boasts a strength comparable to that of a tailed beast.
In the growth period, it approaches the level of possessing some characteristics of the Ten-Tails, and by the time it reaches maturity, it becomes the complete Ten-Tails, embodying the power that Lilith now wields.
Typically, for a Divine Tree to advance from the seed stage to the growth period, it requires a significant amount of time, as well as the absorption of copious amounts of chakra and energy. However, the monster cells seemed to accelerate this process significantly.
"Let's try again," Feng Ye said, a glint of insight flashing in his eyes. Once more, he created a seed of the Divine Tree and grabbed one of the nearby monsters. He forced the monster into its mouth and then threw it away.
Whoosh!!!
Just like before, the Divine Tree seed burst through the monster's body and began to grow rapidly. It first absorbed the surrounding energy at an astonishing rate, quickly advancing to the young stage, and then evolved its consciousness, becoming an independent entity.
After three consecutive attempts and the insights gained through his ability to foresee the future, Feng Ye finally gained a rudimentary understanding of the power of evolution and the influence of the monster cells.
"The manufactured seeds of the Divine Tree, if left uncontrolled, will undoubtedly develop their own consciousness and become independent life forms after absorbing monster cells and undergoing the monster transformation..."
Feng Ye glanced at the remaining few monsters and, after a moment's thought, a spark of insight flashed in his eyes. He reached out, and one of the monsters flew towards him, drawn by his power.
Whoosh!!
Under Feng Ye's immense power, the monster was crushed instantly.
Feng Ye's outstretched palm underwent an eerie transformation, morphing into a gigantic tail of milky white color. It lashed out, coiling around the crushed monster.
A massive maw grew on the tail, devouring the monster whole before retracting swiftly, returning to the form of a human hand.
"..."
Feng Ye stared at his left hand, deep in thought.
He could sense the monster cells, which had been devoured, attempting to influence his body, but the sensation was incredibly faint.
It was akin to a mantis, a few inches in length, futilely waving its scythes, trying to hold up a high-speed bullet train blocking its path.
Hiss!
The energy of the monster cells couldn't muster much of a struggle before it was snuffed out, like tiny flames extinguished by the vast ocean that was Feng Ye's chakra, leaving no trace of their existence and failing to affect him in any way.
(End of Chapter)
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