Saint Sovereign of Nine Heavens

Time quickly passed. Three days later, a large proportion of the wood-attributed spiritual energy in Chen Yu's thick aura was already present. He stood up and summoned the Spirit Connecting Vine s that were wildly flying around the area.    

    

Not long later, Chen Yu entered a forest.    

    

At the same time, this huge forest was also made up of spiritual energy. When Chen Yu stepped into it, it gave off a wave of spiritual energy, causing the nearby trees to become blurry.    

    

Chen Yu casually swatted his hand towards a tree. Before the swatting was done, the tree trunk became blurry and turned into fog. And when Chen Yu retracted his hand a few seconds later, the dense fog returned to the tree trunk, and the tree trunk returned to how it was before.    

    

Although it was an illusory land formed by spiritual energy, the scenery here still followed a certain rule. The scene that was created would not change at will.    

    

Chen Yu suddenly had a playful thought and went straight forward. He waved his fists and legs and released a strong aura.    

    

As the astral energy surged, wherever it passed, the illusionary forest trees would turn into mist and become unrecognizable.    

    

Chen Yu let out a long hiss. No matter what he encountered, he would always run into it. He ran in a straight line through the spiritual energy in the forest, and he had a feeling of unbridled excitement in his heart.    

    

Suddenly, when Chen Yu crashed into an apricot tree that had an illusory appearance of spiritual energy, he suddenly stopped and turned around.    

    

Above the apricot tree that he had smashed into to pieces, a bird was flapping its wings and flying off into the distance.    

    

It was a tiny bird. Its body seemed to be in a trance, giving off a pure aura of the wood spirits. It was a Spiritual Soul.    

    

Chen Yu watched as the bird flew away before turning around to continue his journey. He was still fearlessly grabbing onto something.    

    

Suddenly, a towering tree appeared in front of them. The crown of the tree was like a mountain, and a canopy of flowers was suspended in the air.    

    

In Illusory Spirit Secret Realm, it was the first time that he had seen such a huge tree. Chen Yu laughed loudly and rushed over like the wind.    

    

Chen Yu was even faster when he got close to the tree trunk. However, at this moment, Chen Yu saw the old tree bark become clearer as it was blown away by the wind. He felt that something was wrong.    

    

At this time, Chen Yu had almost crashed into the tree, so he quickly stretched out his palm and pressed it against the tree trunk.    

    

After he pressed down with his palms, he felt a pressing sensation on his palms. Because of his speed, the impact was reflected back.    

    

Chen Yu's previous speed was too fast, in a panic, he had already shrunk his body, twisted his arm, and suddenly exerted force. The power of his palm struck the tree trunk, and the huge force of the rebound eased the impact. He twisted his body, brushing against the huge tree trunk and turning his body, making a curve before falling to the ground.    

    

Chen Yu couldn't help but smile bitterly as he got up. He was asking for it.    

    

However, Chen Yu didn't expect that this huge ancient tree would actually be solid and not illusory.    

    

However, the next moment, something even more unexpected happened. The dozens of vines hanging down from the treetop suddenly moved without any wind. Each rattan extended endlessly towards Chen Yu as if they were living beings.    

    

Dozens of rattans were brandished at the same time like long whips. Some directly stabbed over, while others were agile like snakes that coiled around Chen Yu.    

    

Within a short period of time, the dozens of vines had enveloped the space around Chen Yu.    

    

"You tricked me, Ning Yushi!" Chen Yu let out a strange cry, put strength into his legs, and quickly retreated.    

    

Dozens of vines were following him like a shadow. Luckily, Chen Yu's movement was powerful enough. Just as he was about to be hit by one of the vines, he made a turn in the air and flew more than ten meters away from the tree.    

    

The vines continued to extend endlessly, unyielding until Chen Yu was more than five hundred meters away from the tree. Only then did all the rattans seem to have reached a certain boundary, as if they lost their spirituality and moved back towards the canopy of the ancient tree like ordinary rattan.    

    

The situation was not that dangerous, but the sudden change made Chen Yu's scalp tingle.    

    

Because this situation was too strange, Chen Yu could only retreat and did not attack back to cut the vines. He wasn't sure what would happen if he cut the vines apart.    

    

Gazing at the ancient trees that had regained their calmness, Chen Yu scratched his head and summoned the Spirit Connecting Vine.    

    

When the Spirit Connecting Vine appeared, it revealed extremely cheerful emotions and flew towards the ancient trees, giving Chen Yu the feeling of a child returning home.    

    

Chen Yu thought about it and did not stop the Spirit Connecting Vine.    

    

Very quickly, the Spirit Connecting Vine flew back to the top of the ancient tree and disappeared, but the link between Chen Yu and the Spirit Connecting Vine was still there.    

    

After staring at the ancient tree for a long time, Chen Yu finally realized that it was actually a Ancient Scholartree.    

    

With such a large tree trunk, Ancient Scholartree s with a radius of over a hundred feet were extremely rare. It had taken root in the void, and every leaf was not an illusion but real green leaves.    

    

It was hard to imagine that such a heavenly high level Ancient Scholartree existed within the Illusory Spirit Secret Realm!    

    

Chen Yu tried to walk towards the Ancient Scholartree. Although he was getting closer to it this time, the vines hanging from the treetops did not have any reaction. They did not attack.    

    

As they got closer, Chen Yu saw hundreds of faint lights flashing in the treetop, as if there was something else.    

    

Crash *    

    

At that moment, the giant locust suddenly swayed.    

    

With the shaking of the giant locust, the umbrella canopy of the giant tree trembled and countless leaves rustled.    

    

The next moment, a scene that shocked Chen Yu appeared. From the middle of the tree trunk, shadows of people flew up into the air, flying around the giant tree crown.    

    

There were large and small shadows, and nearly half of them were birds. There were falcons, sparrows, skylarks, magpies, and so on. There were also vines, tigers, leopards, wolves, pythons, snakes, and the like!    

    

Chen Yu could tell at a glance that these shadows were all Spiritual Soul, and all of them were of the wood element.    

    

Even though the hundred over Spiritual Soul s were not as beautiful as the scenes of ten thousand spirits dancing in the Myriad Spirit Palace, the scene was still vast and shocking.    

    

Over a hundred Spiritual Soul were flying around the Ancient Scholartree. Suddenly, a dark green vine Spiritual Soul flew straight up to the top of the tree, giving Chen Yu a sense of familiarity. It was the Spirit Connecting Vine.    

    

Compared to the other vine Spiritual Soul s, the Spirit Connecting Vine's shape was even more perfect. Its jade green color carried a sense of enchantment, like a king among vines.    

    

The Spirit Connecting Vine flew up to the top of the tree and circled around, then flew back to Chen Yu.    

    

The Ancient Scholartree swayed, and suddenly a strange aura surged from the Ancient Scholartree's body, a vast and deep intent suddenly flew out, surging towards Chen Yu.    

    

Chen Yu's expression changed drastically and he quickly retreated.    

    

However, the speed at which his spiritual will moved was incomparable to any other movement technique. In the blink of an eye, his spiritual will had completely submerged him.    

    

"Little friend, why do you need to panic? This old one has no ill intentions! " A voice suddenly sounded in Chen Yu's mind. The voice was calm, but it was like a clap of thunder.    

    

Chen Yu stopped abruptly and looked at the Ancient Scholartree in front of him with a shocked expression.    

    

"Little friend, you guessed right. The one who spoke was me, not someone else!" The Ancient Scholartree shook once, then his mind started to work, and the voice continued to sound in his mind.    

    

Chen Yu was shocked and could not accept it for a while.    

    

He did not expect that this ancient tree that had rooted itself in the Illusory Spirit Secret Realm would have such intelligence. It was actually able to communicate with humans through thoughts, just like the Three-jaw Red Dragon in the Myriad Spirit Palace.    

    

"Speaking of which, I thank little friend for taking care of this little Spirit Connecting Vine for these past few years. Although it wasn't born in Illusory Spirit Secret Realm, it stayed here for several hundred years, and was just like my child!"    

    

"Senior is too polite!" Chen Yu finally came back to his senses. He looked at the Spirit Connecting Vine flying around him and said: "The Spirit Connecting Vine has helped me a lot!"    

    

Chen Yu was a little confused. What was this Ancient Scholartree, a tree demon? Spiritual Soul? Or something else?    

    

However, the Ancient Scholartree did not have any intention of explaining, and continued: "Although the Spirit Connecting Vine was suppressed by the Holy Spirit in your body, it has an extraordinary origin and an evil nature, so it can be considered a good thing to be bound by your Holy Spirit. In the future, I still need to ask little friend to continue taking care of the little Spirit Connecting Vine, and give it a chance to grow up, so we can return to the place where it was born!"    

    

Chen Yu was stunned when he heard that. He reached out his hand for the Spirit Connecting Vine to land on his palm and asked: "Does senior know its origin?"    

    

"You should know something or two. However, your current strength is too weak. There is no need for you to know!" The Ancient Scholartree said: "The reason why I appeared to meet with little friend is because I have a request. I hope little friend can agree to it!"    

    

Chen Yu's expression turned serious as he said, "Junior's abilities are limited. I can only try my best. Please tell me, senior!"    

    

Chen Yu did not dare to accept the request made by the unspeakable existence of Ancient Scholartree. In fact, if not for the fact that Spirit Connecting Vine seemed to be related to the Ancient Scholartree and even until now, the Ancient Scholartree had not displayed any obvious malicious intent, Chen Yu would have turned around and fled long ago.    

    

"It's actually not difficult for little friend!" The Ancient Scholartree's voice carried a smile. In Chen Yu's line of sight, the top of the Ancient Scholartree was swaying, and all of the branches were drooping, revealing the topmost part of the tree trunk.    

    

At the very top of the tree trunk, an incomparably tender branch with leaves that was shining with a spirit light and seemed to have natural patterns circulating within it, suddenly fell off and flew towards Chen Yu wrapped in dense wood type spirit energy.    

    

"This is?"    

    

"May I trouble you to bring it along with you? If you have a suitable wood spirit land, plant it in the future!" The Ancient Scholartree said.    

    

"Junior doesn't understand!" Chen Yu was still wary and asked, "This should be a place filled with dense wood energy, why didn't senior plant it here?"    

    

Looking at the incoming branch, Chen Yu realized it was a locust tree sapling. However, this sapling contained extremely dense wood spirit energy and had a vigorous life. It was definitely not an ordinary sapling.    

    

"Little friend, don't you understand? This is an illusionary land! " The Ancient Scholartree said: "Even though the wood spirit energy here is dense, there is no real earth, no day, and the spirit energy here is rootless duckweed, it is not suitable to grow and live for a long time!"    

    

Chen Yu's mind raced, and thought about whether he should agree to the Ancient Scholartree's request.    

    

"It is my child. If I die one day, it will still be alive, as if I were still alive!" The Ancient Scholartree said: "I hope little friend can agree to that!"    

    

"Why did I bring it with me?" Chen Yu looked at the sapling and said, "If it can't take root for a long time, it probably won't be able to survive, right?"    

    

"It's inside your body, living together with you!" The Ancient Scholartree said: "My friend, your vital energy and blood are extremely vigorous, and you are able to keep its spiritual nature intact, and are constantly growing stronger!"    

    

Chen Yu's expression couldn't help but change.    

    

"Take it with you, our little friendly area is also very big!" The Ancient Scholartree said: "The life force it contains is enough to make a dead person's bones and flesh alive. No matter how big of an injury my little friend received, it can still recover. It will also be able to treat anyone you don't want to die. Its existence was equivalent to a divine medicine. Its spiritual wisdom has not yet reached the level of opening. Although it will be able to absorb a portion of your blood, it is still under your control, so you do not need to worry! "    

    

Chen Yu was still silent.    

    

Although what the Ancient Scholartree said was very tempting, but it actually overlapped with the role of the Spirit Connecting Vine!