Chapter 388: Wood-Earth Evolution

When the third Green Spirit Puppet dissolved into a haze of green smoke across the ground, Li Luo, Qin Qin Zhulu, Lv Qing'er, and Student Xin Fu all sat down on the spot, utterly exhausted. Yet despite their extreme fatigue, their faces were brimming with excitement and agitation.

No one had expected that they would be the ones to break through the fortieth floor first!

Such an achievement was dazzling enough to blind the eye.

One could imagine that once this result spread, their One-Star Institute would greatly save face within this Holy Mystic Star Academy. In the past, students from the Two-Star Institute would inevitably display a senior-like condescension when facing them, but after this, those Two-Star Institute students would likely have to rein in such attitudes.

And barely a minute after the battle on Li Luo's side ended, the fight on Wang Wang Hejiu's side concluded as well.

However, the expressions of Wang Wang Hejiu, Ye Ye Qiuding, and the others were extremely ugly, with not a trace of joy at clearing the level, because they all knew they had failed.

Li Luo's team had broken through the fortieth floor first. As the first One-Star Institute team to clear it, they would receive a reward far surpassing that of second place.

Wang Wang Hejiu and Duze Duze Beixuan gritted their teeth, their eyes dim and unwilling. They had paid such a great price, even willingly enduring the curses of numerous One-Star Institute students to invite Ye Ye Qiuding's squad as outside support, all for the sake of breaking through the fortieth floor first and seizing that generous reward of Green Spirit energy. But now, the scolding had been endured, yet not a single benefit had been reaped.

This truly was trying to steal a chicken only to lose the rice.

They couldn't be happy here, and Ye Ye Qiuding's side was in equally terrible spirits. Although their failure here didn't incur too great a loss, this defeat would damage the Two-Star Institute's reputation. When the time came, other Two-Star Institute students would inevitably point fingers at them, feeling that if they didn't have the ability, they should have stayed out of other institutes' affairs. Now they had actually lost to Li Luo's team—wouldn't this make the Two-Star Institute a laughingstock?

"Shit!"

Thinking of this, Ye Ye Qiuding couldn't help cursing out loud. Previously, because of the Dark Cavern incident, plenty of people were already laughing at him. And one could imagine that after this incident, his prestige within the Two-Star Institute would suffer a tremendous blow.

This Li Luo is truly a damn monster!

While everyone present harbored different thoughts, Li Luo's group began to receive the reward they had been eagerly anticipating.

It was seen that as the bodies of the three high-grade Green Spirit Puppets dissipated, rich Green Spirit energy began to descend from the sky. This energy directly formed dazzling pillars of light, enveloping Li Luo, Qin Qin Zhulu, and the others completely within them.

Li Luo's group perked up immediately, sitting cross-legged at once, then circulating their respective energy-guiding arts to fully absorb the Green Spirit energy surging into their bodies like a tide.

This batch of Green Spirit energy, even split between two squads, was still far more abundant than any previous time.

In just a brief moment, the resonant force fluctuations surging within everyone's bodies were climbing steadily.

Li Luo likewise Ping Bi Wai Zhong Jie all external interference, focusing his mind to absorb the abundant Green Spirit energy flooding into his body. That energy was like an endless stream, wave after wave pouring into his two resonant palaces, causing the two resonant force seeds within to grow increasingly full and bright.

On the surface of the resonant force seed, the five resonant force light patterns had already brightened to their utmost limit.

The seed radiated profound light, as if about to evolve into something, but ultimately failed to take shape.

Li Luo still hadn't been able to break through.

However, he wasn't overly impatient. Instead, he began to adopt another approach. Previously, he had split the Green Spirit energy evenly between his two resonant palaces, because his idea was to hope both resonant force seeds could begin evolving into reality simultaneously, then perfectly step into the Transformation Phase.

But clearly, he had underestimated the enormous energy required to evolve two resonant force seeds at the same time.

Now that the Ticket Competition was approaching, if he wanted to become a representative of the One-Star Institute, it would be best to step into the Transformation Phase. Otherwise, even with his illustrious battle record, his own resonant force level would be the most convincing when it came to avoiding unnecessary arguments.

Therefore, this time, he still needed to break through first.

Thinking of this, Li Luo no longer hesitated. With a thought, the Green Spirit energy flooding into his body stopped flowing toward the "Water-Light Phase" resonant palace, and instead all surged into the "Wood-Earth Phase" resonant palace.

That's right. Now Li Luo planned to concentrate all his energy first, to evolve the Wood-Earth Phase successfully. Because the grade of the Wood-Earth Phase was relatively lower, the energy required for breakthrough would also be somewhat less.

And as long as the Wood-Earth Phase evolved successfully, he could first step into the Transformation Phase. However, this kind of breakthrough wasn't yet complete, but after accumulating a bit more later, he should be able to evolve the "Water-Light Phase" as well.

Rolling Green Spirit energy continuously surged in.

That resonant force seed, emerald green mingled with a brownish luster, was also becoming round and bright at an astonishing speed. The five resonant force light patterns on the seed's surface were dazzling, resembling a river of stars.

Li Luo could even begin to sense that the resonant force contained within the seed had reached a kind of limit.

But he didn't stop, still driving massive amounts of Green Spirit energy to pour in.

As time passed, the Wood-Earth resonant force seed began to tremble violently, with rings of resonant force ripples spreading outward continuously.

Like a volcano about to erupt.

Li Luo sensed it intuitively, knowing the limit had arrived.

Crack!

And at that very instant, as if a sound of something breaking rang out, Li Luo perceived it and saw that a crack had actually appeared on the surface of that Wood-Earth resonant force seed.

But he wasn't alarmed; instead, a feeling of joy welled up.

Because this was the beginning of evolution.

As more and more cracks appeared on the surface of the resonant force seed, suddenly emerald-green resonant force gushed forth. This resonant force slowly intertwined and condensed.

Gradually, the resonant force transformed into a small tree, green and dripping with vitality.

The roots and stems of the small tree encircled the resonant force seed, ultimately covering it.

A small green tree condensed and evolved from resonant force replaced the resonant force seed, standing quietly within the resonant palace.

This was the evolution of phase nature—from the original pure resonant force, gradually evolving into the reality of phase nature.

Basically all Wood Phase evolutions were cut from the same cloth. It was said that within the resonant palaces of those Marquis-level powerhouses, if it was a Wood Phase, they could actually evolve vast forests and endless ancient trees weathered by time, emitting overwhelming Wood Phase power.

Li Luo gazed at this small green tree, and then discovered that at the root position of this resonant force tree, there actually existed a patch of brown earth.

The earth also shimmered with luster, as if possessing spirituality.

Li Luo understood in his heart: the resonant force tree was the evolution of the Wood Phase, and the earth was the evolution of the Earth Phase.

His Wood-Earth Phase—as expected, its final evolution was somewhat unusual. But don't underestimate this patch of earth; its existence could make the small tree evolved from the Wood Phase more resilient and upright.

Within the resonant palace, the small emerald tree swayed gently, seemingly emitting a kind of extremely joyful emotion.

And as it swayed, rolling resonant force emanated along with it. The intensity of that resonant force... even surpassed the Water-Light Phase, which had a higher grade.

This was the Transformation Phase.

Of course, strictly speaking, it was the Wood-Earth Phase that had taken the lead in stepping into the Transformation Phase...

Li Luo exhaled a sigh of relief in his heart. As expected, he had to rely on the abundant Green Spirit energy of the fortieth floor; otherwise, evolving the Wood-Earth Phase in one breath would probably have required considerable effort.

Although this dual phase had granted him an increase in combat power, its advancement was also far more troublesome than other single phases.

But fortunately, he had finally endured through it.