Chapter 276

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Protagonist:

Xu Zhangqing

While shouting and killing raged outside, Xu Zhangqing alone waited quietly in the Cave Dwelling Core.

The Spatial Earth Origin Fruit needed no hand to hold it up; it was already lifted by endless Earth Qi clustering around it.

The golden light and shadow inside surged like flowing sand.

As Earth Qi accumulated more and more, the whole Spatial Earth Origin Fruit appeared only palm-sized, yet its weight had already exceeded ten thousand jin, crushing the ground into continuous subsidence.

It even showed not the slightest intention of stopping; the weight kept growing continuously.

Watching the golden light and shadow inside grow increasingly dense, Xu Zhangqing took out various fire-attribute enhancing items — Fire Flame Fruit, Spring Fruit, Summer Fruit, Red Yang Pill, and so on — and swallowed them all in one go, then simultaneously activated the first three layers of the Nine Flames Mysterious Technique and the Full Level Green Wood Fire Ignition Technique.

In an instant, both hands turned crimson, then blazing flames erupted, releasing terrifying high temperature.

However, when the surging Fire Spirit Power flowed from his fingertips into the Spatial Earth Origin Fruit and contacted the yellow Earth Qi the moment they touched, an inconceivable thing happened.

Green Wood generates Red Fire; Red Fire burns Yellow Qi.

The Five Elements Mutual Generation law triggered.

Wood generates Fire; Fire generates Earth.

While the Spatial Earth Origin Fruit transformed, Xu Zhangqing's third Spiritual Root was also born at extreme speed; his Qi Sea had already begun refining Earth Qi.

This situation exceeded his expectations.

Truly killing two birds with one stone; good things come in pairs.

The Earth Spirit Root that originally would only be born at year-end actually arrived early by half a year.

At first, because Earth Qi grew ever denser, his physical body felt increasingly uncomfortable.

But just a moment later, it surprisingly became like a fish in water, extremely comfortable.

This feeling was like the Wood Spirit Root standing in the Spirit Field.

The Fire Spirit Root bathing in the Fire Sea.

He himself not only suffered not a shred of injury, but his physical strength even rose a whole tier.

His skin gradually shifted toward bright yellow, looking just like a "little yellow man".

Immediately after, the Spatial Earth Origin Fruit began to swell; from only an adult's palm size, in a blink it became larger than a watermelon.

Then one meter, three meters, five meters, ten meters, a hundred meters, a thousand meters... growing larger and larger.

Gradually, the coverage range exceeded the entire Cave Dwelling Core, even continuing to expand outward.

Wherever it passed, whether time or space, it seemed to fall into a frozen state.

Outside, the people originally battling Li Chuan froze like statues; every person maintained their previous action, behavior, expression, and gaze, yet all were utterly motionless.

Only Xu Zhangqing, who was refining the Spatial Earth Origin Fruit, remained completely unaffected from start to finish.

Soon, the space's expansion range surpassed the range his Spiritual Sense covered; as for how large it ultimately became, it was already completely unclear.

Unknown how long passed; at first Earth Qi still flowed endlessly, but now it increasingly couldn't keep up with the efficiency, only a wisp slowly sputtering out after a long while.

Just then, the expanded space suddenly contracted rapidly.

All the frozen people instantly returned to normal.

Yet not a single person perceived the anomaly just now.

They were still a group shouting and killing at Li Chuan, completely unaware of what had just happened.

As space compressed inch by inch, the Earth Origin Fruit quickly shrank to a mere inch in diameter, roughly the size of a child's thumb pad.

Outwardly, it was just a small, exquisite, round bead.

Its whole body was amber-colored, crystal clear and transparent, its surface flowing with fine patterns winding and intertwining like mountain and river veins.

Under the light, the bead refracted three halos of green, red, and yellow; the halos sometimes leaped like flames, sometimes rose like Earth Qi steaming, sometimes grew like plants — the three lights mutually fused yet clearly distinct, faintly revealing the profundity of Five Elements Mutual Generation.

Xu Zhangqing's breathing grew heavy; at this moment he had no time to examine the newly born Earth Spirit Root, and immediately stretched out both hands trying to cradle it.

Yet he shockingly discovered that this tiny bead actually weighed ten thousand jin.

He simply couldn't lift it, couldn't even budge it a fraction.

But he quickly reacted, immediately forcing out his essence blood to swiftly leave an imprint.

The moment the essence blood was absorbed, his consciousness instantly linked with this bead.

This time not only did he smoothly lift it, but he felt not a shred of weight.

The bead was warm in hand; stroking it lightly, he could sense fine Spiritual Power fluctuations, as if alive and trembling lightly at his fingertips.

With a thought from Xu Zhangqing, it instantly vanished.

Where did it go?

Just like the Companion Green Lotus hidden in the Wood Spirit Root.

This Mustard Seed Bead, or rather Personal Space, now hides in the Earth Spirit Root.

However, just as he wanted to probe the Personal Space's internal range.

Suddenly, the surroundings began to shake violently — earth moving, mountains swaying.

The ground tore open one ferocious crack after another.

Obviously, because too much Earth Qi had been extracted, this Cave Abode was about to collapse.

Seeing this, Xu Zhangqing immediately took Ya Da with him, transforming into a ball of fire light and leaping out.

"An earthquake?"

"No, that's not right — this place is collapsing!"

"Quick, everyone run!"

At this moment, the threat brought by the earthquake was even greater than Li Chuan.

Regardless of the Red Tiger and the other Hunting Demon Team members, or the tourists visiting and sightseeing, in any case, everyone here was now panicked, throwing everything aside and fleeing for their lives without a care.

Li Chuan originally wanted to jump into the Earth Qi Pool to soak and enhance his own physique; seeing this situation, he could only turn and leave with a face full of unwillingness.

Fortunately, although the collapse was fierce, everyone was a Cultivator, especially when fleeing for their lives, each and every one's potential erupted thoroughly.

Therefore, no one was injured, or failed to get out.

After everyone arrived at the empty space outside, they then looked toward Huang Yuanhua's Cave Abode.

Only to see, accompanied by the "rumble" of earth sounds, the entire Cave Abode cracked and collapsed inch by inch, Earth Qi could no longer be sensed at all, only pieces of rubble that had collapsed out.

Not long after, dense cracks covered all districts.

A moment later, under everyone's personal witness, it transformed into ruins on the spot.

A fierce wind mixed with dust swept toward the crowd, looking imposing, like thousands of troops and ten thousand horses, but it was quickly blocked ten meters away, vanishing into nothingness in the blink of an eye.

"Huang Yuanhua's Cave Abode is just gone like that?"

"Unbelievable, we were actually the last batch of tourists!"

"What a pity, I hadn't even started exploring yet!"

Different people, facing the scene before their eyes, produced different reactions.

Some were shocked.

Some were regretful.

Some were indifferent.

Red Tiger and several Team Members exchanged glances, then smiled bitterly and said: "Unexpected, this actually turned out to be our last time leading a tour group."

Zhang Laizi frowned: "What a pity, we still haven't gathered enough spirit stones to buy a Foundation Establishment Pill."

Li Tie, sturdy of build beside him, waved a hand and said in a deep, muffled voice: "We've waited so many years, not in a rush for this moment; everyone worked hard."

Wang Linxun, who had been silent all along, spoke with a slightly hoarse voice: "What's there to be polite about; we've shared life and death for so many years!"

Xu Zhangqing, who ran out first and stood at the very back of the crowd, had no excessive reaction to this, but instead sent his Consciousness and Spiritual Sense entirely probing into his Personal Space, seeing the situation inside clearly and distinctly.

Because there is a Fire Spirit Root, there is light inside.

Because there is a Wood Spirit Root, all things can grow.

Because there is an Earth Spirit Root, it is continuous Black Soil.

How large is the area?

Equivalent to one hundred mu of Second Grade Spirit Field!!!