Chapter 358: Clash with the Heavenly Dao

Zhang He had been stunned by the tree in front of him: "How can this tree grow so tall? It's against common sense!"

Indeed, it doesn't quite match reality, because the elf world is far smaller than the human world—at most only one-fifth its size—but it has grown such a towering tree.

Shen Qing had some thoughts in his mind; ordinary trees or living beings certainly couldn't grow so huge.

But if this is a giant tree parasitized by the Heavenly Dao, or if this world tree is an incarnation of the Heavenly Dao, then it would make much more sense, wouldn't it?

Shen Qing glanced at Andrew: "Is this the Heavenly Dao of your elf world?"

Andrew looked bewildered: "Heavenly Dao? What is the Heavenly Dao?"

Andrew wasn't lying; he simply didn't know what the Heavenly Dao was.

Shen Qing spoke: "Then have you communicated with this world tree?"

Andrew nodded: "Yes! The world tree has a spirit; we call it the World Spirit."

"My priest position is exactly because I received recognition from the World Spirit, so I can control the World Staff."

The World Staff is that green wooden staff in Shen Qing's hand.

Suddenly, Shen Qing felt something unusual.

Shen Qing lightly tapped with his left hand, and the karma threads began to spread; at the same time, several karma threads surged into his eyes, and in an instant his eyes turned pure white.

The entire heaven and earth were also outlined by the karma threads into another picture.

One could see countless green light points rising from living beings and plants in the heaven and earth, finally drifting toward the World Tree.

And the reason the World Tree can grow so huge is that it plunders the life force of countless beings, using the life force of billions of beings to nourish itself.

In that light, this Heavenly Dao—or rather this World Tree—is like a tumor; without them, the world's development would be better.

At that moment, Shen Qing noticed green points flying out from Kuntus and Zhang He as well; the Life Heavenly Dao was plundering their life force.

After class, Shen Qing discovered that green light points on his own body were continuously being absorbed by the World Tree.

Damn it!

Shen Qing, having been transmigrated for so long, has always been the one snatching things from others!

This is the first time someone has snatched something from him.

Damn, it's turned the heavens upside down!

So Shen Qing couldn't be bothered to care whether the Life Heavenly Dao had any hardship or other reasons.

Touching one's own things makes them one's enemy.

Since they're enemies, it's simple.

Shen Qing gripped the hilt of the Slay Dragon Blade, instantly activating the Shining Form; at the same time, the Blade Dao Domain, Awakening Posture, Slaughter Armor, etc., were all instantly activated.

"You like snatching things from me? I want to see if your teeth are hard enough!"

Boom!

In an instant, Shen Qing had already rushed out.

Buzz buzz buzz!

The Slay Dragon Blade's body constantly collided with the void, erupting in earth-shaking roars; a terrifying golden blade light tore through the void and slashed toward the World Tree.

Boom!

One strike directly stood on the trunk of the World Tree.

Crack crack crack, wood chips flew; the World Tree's branches and trunk were directly cut off by one-third.

Vast life force scattered along the trunk.

Shen Qing raised his head and looked in a direction; there he felt the presence of a thought, a feeling quite special, as if facing the Destruction Heavenly Dao head-on on a battlefield of realms.

But this Heavenly Dao merely sent a wave of disdain, seeming not to care about Shen Qing's actions.

However, that's also normal; the World Tree is merely a vessel created by the Life Heavenly Dao to hold life force. Shen Qing destroyed it, but it would just take a little time to remake one—destroying a World Tree doesn't shake its foundation at all.

In Shen Qing's field of vision, the life force on his own body was being plundered at an even faster rate.

It seemed that because he had angered the Heavenly Dao, the Heavenly Dao dropped the pretense and began plundering Shen Qing's life force on a large scale.

Shen Qing snorted coldly: "You seem quite confident, and you still like to snatch? Then let's compete—see who can snatch faster!"

Shen Qing made a single-hand seal, and the Steal Heaven Replace Sun Method operated at full power.

In an instant, five-colored elemental qi surged throughout Shen Qing's body; a terrifying suction erupted, turning his whole person into a black hole that began frantically devouring the life force overflowing from the World Tree.

This speed was over a thousand times faster than the Heavenly Dao's plundering.

In other words, the Heavenly Dao plundered a bit of life force from Shen Qing, while Shen Qing snatched back a thousand points from the Heavenly Dao.

With this, the Life Heavenly Dao finally couldn't sit still; the previous disdain vanished completely, turning somewhat anxious.

Shen Qing glanced at the sky: "Oh, now you're in a hurry?"

The Heavenly Dao's voice rang in Shen Qing's ears: "Are you a rebel? Or a heaven-defier? Stop now, and we can have a good talk."

What the—he narrowed his eyes, rebel? Heaven-defier? Two more new terms.

But Shen Qing now simply couldn't be bothered to talk to him: "You only want to talk after realizing you can't out-snatch me? What have you been doing all along?"

Shen Qing now also couldn't be bothered about rebels and heaven-defiers.

Shen Qing could now be certain that the Heavenly Dao and living beings stand on opposing sides.

The reason the living beings in this elf world have such frail physiques is precisely because of this Life Heavenly Dao.

Moreover, leaving other matters aside, since Shen Qing can grow stronger by plundering life force, this Life Heavenly Dao has already taken a stance opposite him; Shen Qing naturally wouldn't miss this chance to make himself stronger.

What's more, this Life Heavenly Dao even dares to recklessly plunder Shen Qing's life.

The Life Heavenly Dao seemed angry, its voice tinged with fury: "Living beings, I don't care if you're rebels or newcomers! You've already enraged me!"

"Do you really think you've got me figured out?"

One could see terrifying life force falling onto the lower trunk; in an instant, the trunk began rapid growth, and in the blink of an eye it became a coiled tree-wood dragon hundreds of meters long.

That dragon roared as it charged toward Shen Qing, but the next moment Kuntus arrived at Shen Qing's side, his fist wrapped in holy light blasting toward the tree-wood dragon.

Bang!

The wooden giant dragon was smashed into wood chips all over the sky, but immediately, three more wooden giant dragons sprang up from the ground.

Kuntus gave a cold laugh: "What's the big deal about three?"

Zhang He also came to Shen Qing's side: "Kuntus, lift your hair a bit and look to the left."

Kuntus's hair was a side-swept bang that completely covered his left eye; when he flicked his hair, he was dumbfounded.

On the left, there were still over nine hundred wooden giant dragons.