The Heaven Receiving Divine Wood Diagram hovered in front of Zhang Ruochen’s body, emitting an emerald green light.
Zhang Ruochen closed his eyes and put his hands together, then, he separated a spiritual force and entered the world of the diagram to communicate with the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood.
After a long time, Zhang Ruochen withdrew his spiritual energy and reopened his eyes.
A pair of pitch-black pupils revealed a contemplative expression, and in the end, his gaze, once again, looked towards the Sacred Eating Flower.
“What did the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood say?”Little Black asked.
“It said that everything has two sides.”
“What does that mean?”
Zhang Ruochen continued, “It can help me take in the Sacred Flower of Eating, and it can also pass on the ancient method of cultivating Origin Plants.”
“Only, the Sacred Eating Flower has an extremely strong ferocity, and if, with my cultivation and spiritual power, I am unable to suppress its ferocity, there is a high possibility that it will cause some negative effects. For example, alienation and demonisation.”
Xiao Hei immediately shook his head and said, “Since the harm is so great, then don’t take it in and just destroy it!”
“No.”
Zhang Ruochen carried his hands behind his back and took the initiative to walk towards the Sacred Eating Flower, coming to the edge of the formation and raising his head to observe the roots and veins of the Sacred Eating Flower, saying, “I’ve already made the decision to take in the Sacred Eating Flower and cultivate it into a Benthic Plant.”
“Are you crazy?”
Xiao Hei exclaimed in shock.
Zhang Ruochen appeared calm and said, “Without pressure, where would the motivation come from? I’m just going to use that threat of the Sacred Eating Flower to bring out my full potential.”
Since he had made a decision, Zhang Ruochen no longer hesitated.
He stretched out a right hand and slowly raised it upwards. Only to see that a subtle spatial fluctuation appeared above the picture scroll.
A branch of the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood reached out from the world of the picture scroll, passing through the formation barrier and approaching the Sacred Eating Flower.
“Rustle.”
The leaves of the tree appeared extraordinarily turquoise, as if they were carved out of emerald, exuding a strong aura of life.
A branch, which was merely the tip of the iceberg of the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood, was even thicker than a Saint Tree that had grown for ten thousand years.
Any living being standing underneath the branch would also appear very small.
Princess Baili lifted her glistening white neck and looked at the tree branch in the sky above, her heart set off shocking waves, could it really be the legendary Heaven Receiving Divine Wood?
“Wasn’t the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood already chopped off in the Middle Ages?”
Princess Baili’s heart was difficult to calm.
Zhang Ruochen ignored Princess Bai Li and only instructed Little Black to keep an eye on her and not let her escape.
The Sacred Eating Flower sensed the aura of life emanating from the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood and stopped attacking the formation, followed by a sharp root that detached from the Sacred Tree and pierced into the branches of the Divine Wood.
It unexpectedly wanted to suck on the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood.
However, the power that erupted from the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood far exceeded that of the Sacred Flower Eater, directly dragging it into the world of the Tutelary Scroll.
Zhang Ruochen also immediately entered the Diagram Scroll World and came underneath the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood.
Only to see that the Sacred Flower Eater had already turned into a small seven-foot-long green vine, curled up underneath the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood, shivering as if it was a city dweller kowtowing to the Emperor, fearful to the extreme.
From the trunk of the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood, a vast voice resounded, “The Sacred Eating Flower has already been taken in by me, now, you can use an ancient method to refine it into a life plant.”
“Wow!”
A clear wind blew.
A leaf the size of a bushel slowly floated down and fell into Zhang Ruochen’s hand.
In the next moment, an ancient text automatically appeared in Zhang Ruochen’s mind, precisely the chapter on cultivating the Benthic Plant.
“Many thanks, senior.”Zhang Ruochen arched his hand and saluted.
“Luckily, the Sacred Eating Flower hasn’t blossomed yet, otherwise, it wouldn’t have been able to be used to cultivate the Intrinsic Plants, so it can only be said that you’ve caught up with the last moment.”
Misty’s voice, once again resounded, “I have told you both the pros and cons, next, it depends on your ability to harness the Sacred Eating Flower.”?Zhang Ruochen bowed once again, and then, walked towards the Sacred Eating Flower, using the method that the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood had passed on to him, he directly took the Sacred Eating Flower into his Qi Sea.
Zhang Ruochen’s Qi Sea was incomparably vast, more than ten thousand times as wide as that of an ordinary Half-Saint, very much like a chaotic sea of white gas.
Zhang Ruochen’s Saint Soul manifested, resembling an exiled immortal in white clothes, sitting at the centre of the Qi Sea, holding the Saint Eating Flower in both hands and starting to melt it.
There was no telling how long it took to pass, and the Holy Soul of the Sacred Flower Eater, merged into Zhang Ruochen’s Holy Soul, connecting with the spine, extending from the tailbone to the head.
A tender voice automatically sounded in Zhang Ruochen’s mind.
“Zhang Ruochen, I’m not truly submitting to you, I’m only submitting to Lord Divine Wood. If, however, your Sacred Soul, Spiritual Power, and cultivation cannot suppress me, I will choose to devour you.”
Zhang Ruochen’s Sacred Soul and the Sacred Flower Eater’s Sacred Soul were already connected, so naturally, he was able to sense its thoughts and evil thoughts.
“Then do you want to give it a try?”
Zhang Ruochen’s palm grasped a long white sword, which was already cupped in his hand, and added, “Even if I behead you, my Sacred Soul won’t be affected too much.”
The Sacred Eating Flower fell into silence for a long time before it added, “Now, you must provide me with enough nutrients to help me blossom. If you are unable to provide it to me, I will only be able to absorb your power and keep reaching saturation before I stop.”
The nutrients of the Sacred Eating Flower indeed had to be provided by Zhang Ruochen.
Only by feeding the Sacred Eating Flower to its fullest would it not absorb Zhang Ruochen’s power.
At the same time, it would only help Zhang Ruochen in battle after feeding it up.
The two were considered mutually beneficial, in which Zhang Ruochen was the master and the Sacred Flower Eater was the servant.
The servant had to follow the master’s orders.
Of course, if the master’s power was too weak, the servant could also have some influence on the master’s spiritual will, or even devour the master.
Zhang Ruochen carefully calculated and came up with the result.
Even if the Saint Eating Flower blossomed, it was not enough to affect him too much.
After all, for a Servant to devour its master, its power would have to exceed the master’s by several times, or even ten times, for it to be able to do so.
“Alright! Let’s help you blossom first.”Zhang Ruochen agreed.
The best nutrients to cultivate the Saint Eating Flower were naturally Saint Pills, Saints, and Seventh Order Savage Beasts.
Sixth rank savage beasts, half saints, and elixirs that were over 6,000 years old could actually be used as well, only that the effect would be much worse.
Zhang Ruochen was not stingy and took out a Saint Source and threw it to the Saint Eater Flower.
“That’s a …… Sacred Source …… I really didn’t expect that you still have such a good thing …… Haha……”
The Sacred Eating Flower let out an ecstatic sound as its dense roots quickly extended out, wrapping the Sacred Source and began to frantically absorb the Sacred Power within.
In Zhang Ruochen’s hand, he held a total of two Saint Sources, which he had obtained when he had killed the two Lower Realm Saints of the Demon Sect.
After absorbing the power of the Saint Source, the body of the Saint Eating Flower, which made a crackling sound, became thicker and longer, with strands of electric light that flowed on top of the vine.
At the top of the vine, the white flower skeleton, grew bigger and bigger.
The Saint Source, however, was becoming smaller and smaller at a speed visible to the naked eye.
As long as one possessed a Saint Source, one would also have more than a fifty percent chance of creating a Saint.
Zhang Ruochen, however, was like throwing out a stone and handing it over to the Saint Eater Flower to absorb, if those Ninth Order Half-Saints and Paramount Saints saw this, they would definitely cry out.
The vine had grown as thick as a bucket and was completely covered in electric awnings.
The flower skeleton at the top became incomparably huge, letting out a soft snapping sound as it finally opened up a bit.
The white light emanating from the flower skeleton illuminated the space below the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood as if it were day.
As, the flower bones gradually unfolded, the aura emanating from the Saint Eating Flower became more and more powerful.
Half an hour later, the petals of the flower were fully unfolded, brightly coloured and beautiful, much like a divine lotus hanging high in the sky, emitting a fragrant aroma.
That kind of aroma was highly disorientating and could cause living beings to hallucinate.
“The more beautiful the flower, the more dangerous it is as well.”Zhang Ruochen commented on the Sacred Flower Eater in this way.
The voice of the Sacred Eating Flower was still still delicate and sounded once again, saying, “Zhang Ruochen, I can only be considered half full right now, give me another Sacred Source.”
“You still want nutrients?”
“You are my master, so naturally, you have to provide it to me.”
Zhang Ruochen’s finger touched the tip of his nose and smiled faintly, “I no longer have any Saint Source. However, I can take you to a dangerous battlefield, where there should be a lot of corpses of Half Saints and Sixth Order Savage Beasts, so how about we can collect the nutrients together.”
“A dangerous battlefield?”
The Sacred Eater Flower looked a little disdainful, saying, “I’ve already blossomed my first flower, and you have my assistance, in the Green Dragon Market Realm, there are still dangerous places?”
“When the time comes, I would like to see if your strength is really that strong.”
After saying this, Zhang Ruochen took the Sacred Eating Flower back into his Qi Sea and walked out of the Scroll World.
Little Black immediately greeted him and asked, “How was it?”
Zhang Ruochen nodded and told it that it had succeeded.
Afterwards, Zhang Ruochen’s gaze stared over towards Princess Bai Li.
Only to see that Princess Baili stood alone beneath the withered Sacred Tree, exuding a cool aura as she said, “So you have obtained the legendary Heaven Receiving Divine Wood, no wonder you are so powerful at the Seventh Order Half-Saint.”
After a pause, she added, “After saving those human cultivators, you were supposed to kill me, right?”
Since, Zhang Ruochen had exposed both the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram and the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood, in front of her, it was obvious that he had already treated her as a dead person, and there was no way he would leave her alive.
Zhang Ruochen did intend to kill the human cultivator immediately after saving her, never leaving any aftermath.
However, since Princess Bai Li had seen through this, in order to avoid her using a fish-out-of-water tactic, Zhang Ruochen decided to erase this part of her memory.
“Look at my eyes.”Zhang Ruochen said.
Princess Baili stared towards Zhang Ruochen, and the two of them met each other’s eyes.
Zhang Ruochen’s pupils exuded grains of white light points that flew into Princess Bai Li’s pupils. Gradually, her large, beautiful eyes became more and more blank and empty.
If, Princess Bai Li’s cultivation had not been sealed, she would have been able to resist Zhang Ruochen’s spiritual power invasion.
As for now, with Zhang Ruochen’s forty-nine stage spiritual strength, he naturally erased Princess Bai Li’s memories with ease.
At the same time, Zhang Ruochen wrapped up all of Princess Bai Li’s other memories and condensed them into a pigeon egg sized ball of memory light that flew out from her brow.
“Wow…”
Two of Zhang Ruochen’s fingers, probing forwards, pinched the white ball of light, thinking carefully, and ultimately did not crush it, but put it away.
“It seems that I really still lack some hostility …… For the time being, keep it here with me!”Zhang Ruochen let out a light sigh.
Although Zhang Ruochen admonished himself in his heart that he had to kill her in order to eliminate future troubles.
However, when it really came to that moment, he mostly couldn’t lay his hands on her.
In the end, Zhang Ruochen did not have any ill feelings towards Princess Bai Li, and she was indeed innocent and had not done anything wrong. There were some principles that Zhang Ruochen adhered to in his heart that prevented him from doing something that would indiscriminately kill innocent people.
Such a character was actually quite a disadvantage.
One’s own interests and the principles one held fast to, many times, one had to make a choice.
