Chapter 1162: Dutian Godly Fierce Royal Beast Art: World Tree Branch and Leaf (Second Update)

"I hope the Forbidden Light can silently break through the Composite Restriction."

Although the effects of the Forbidden Light and the Forbidden Bead are similar, Li Zhangsheng dared not guarantee anything before trying.

At this moment, Li Zhangsheng threw out the Baisheng King Palace and directly activated the Forbidden Array within the palace.

After making preparations, Li Zhangsheng activated the Forbidden-Breaking Ring, and a gray beam of Forbidden Light landed straight onto the Composite Restriction outside the green Treasure Box.

In an instant, the Composite Restriction rippled in layers, fluctuating wildly, which made Li Zhangsheng's heart jump with fear, terrified that the movement would be too violent and trigger the Self-Destruction Restriction within the Composite Restriction.

Fortunately, after maintaining this for two or three breaths, the Composite Restriction wrapping the green Treasure Box finally showed changes; a tiny, barely perceptible hole appeared where the Forbidden Light had struck, and it began to expand rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Seeing this change, Li Zhangsheng felt a sense of relief; if the Forbidden Light had been ineffective, he would have had no choice but to continue sending people to search for Forbidden Beads.

The moment the area of the small hole exceeded the size of an adult's fist, Li Zhangsheng immediately reached out his right hand, brushing against the Composite Restriction to grab the green Treasure Box inside.

The instant he made contact, Li Zhangsheng immediately stored the green Treasure Box into his Space Ring.

Boom—

Just like last time, the moment the green Treasure Box disappeared, the Composite Restriction was instantly activated, and it looked as if an explosion was about to occur.

This time, Li Zhangsheng did not use any Strange Treasure; dozens of light spots appeared all over his body, and a layer of brilliant starlight emerged on his skin.

At the same time, the Starlight Barrier completely enveloped the about-to-explode Composite Restriction.

Boom—

A violent roaring sound rang out, but the perceived power did not feel intense.

The Starlight Barrier fluctuated violently but never shattered; ever since he cultivated the *Zhou Tian Star Dou Demon Taming Art* to the seventh layer, Li Zhangsheng's star power had become much more vigorous and refined, and its strength could be said to have undergone a heaven-shaking change.

Li Zhangsheng withdrew his right hand; this time he had no injuries at all and was not hurt by the Self-Destruction Restriction.

Li Zhangsheng did not check the green Treasure Box, preparing to check them all together after taking away the other two boxes.

This time, Li Zhangsheng's target was the yellow Treasure Box.

Following the exact same actions as before, Li Zhangsheng successfully obtained the yellow Treasure Box.

Li Zhangsheng carefully inspected the Forbidden-Breaking Ring; after breaking the Composite Restriction twice, the Special Energy stored in the ring had clearly decreased significantly, but it was more than enough to break open the last box.

Li Zhangsheng pressed on and soon grabbed the final gray Treasure Box.

The gray gemstone on the face of the Forbidden-Breaking Ring was clearly much dimmer; if one observed carefully, one would find that the gray gemstone was absorbing energy on its own, though the recovery speed was not exactly fast.

Li Zhangsheng did not pay attention to the Forbidden-Breaking Ring; he did not know how to increase its recovery speed and could only let it be.

At this moment, Li Zhangsheng took out the three Treasure Boxes from his ring, feeling as excited and expectant as a lottery player waiting for the results.

Li Zhangsheng opened the green Treasure Box first; unexpectedly, inside the box was an Inheritance Jade Slip.

"A Top-tier Demon Taming Art or a High-tier Secret Technique? Or perhaps some kind of inheritance of the hundred arts of demon taming?"

Li Zhangsheng was slightly stunned, then took out the Inheritance Jade Slip and pressed it against his forehead.

A vast amount of obscure information flooded into his mind; after a long while, Li Zhangsheng opened his eyes.

The Inheritance Jade Slip recorded the *Dutian Godly Fierce Royal Beast Art*, which was as famous as the *Zhou Tian Star Dou Demon Taming Art*; the only pity was that this was an incomplete volume, containing only the Zhurong chapter and the Xuanming chapter.

However, these two chapters happened to be the ones the Baisheng King had not collected.

In order to attempt to fuse the *Pangu*, the Baisheng King had naturally tried hard to collect the *Dutian Godly Fierce Royal Beast Art*, collecting a total of four chapters: Qiangliang, Zhu Jiuyin, Tian Wu, and Jumang.

If one added this time's Zhurong and Xuanming, the progress of the *Dutian Godly Fierce Royal Beast Art* had reached exactly halfway.

The only pity was that the *Dutian Godly Fierce Royal Beast Art* could only be cultivated after it was fully collected.

Therefore, these were useless for the time being, and one might not even be able to collect them all after a lifetime of hard work.

To Li Zhangsheng, this Inheritance Jade Slip was currently no different from a chicken rib, which was no wonder Dou Cangqiong had placed it in the Imperial Treasury.

Li Zhangsheng rubbed his hands together and looked at the long, yellow Treasure Box.

As soon as the box was opened, an extremely fresh natural aura gushed out, making the entire Baisheng King Palace overflow with the breath of nature, giving one the feeling of being in a natural environment.

Inside the box was a branch over half a meter long with only a few leaves on it, looking much like an ordinary branch.

However, densely packed runes were drawn on the trunk of the branch.

Li Zhangsheng identified them and discovered that these runes were mainly used to preserve the life force of the branch while shrinking its volume as much as possible.

If nothing went wrong, the true form of this branch was definitely not small.

When Li Zhangsheng's Mental Power touched the branch, he was stunned to find that this branch had actually reached the level of a Lower-Grade World Wonder.

It was certain that this was by no means a branch of an ordinary Top-Grade Spiritual Root.

For the sake of safety, Li Zhangsheng left the Baisheng King Palace and came to an open area.

In an instant, Li Zhangsheng formed seals with his hands and finally pointed a finger at the branch floating in front of him.

The runes on the branch trembled slightly, then one by one, the runes floated off the branch, dissipating and disappearing in the blink of an eye.

The moment all the runes disappeared, the branch grew rapidly.

Five meters, ten meters, twenty meters...

By the time all the changes stopped, the length of the branch was nearly forty meters, and those three leaves were even larger than a water vat.

Li Zhangsheng flew to a high altitude and carefully compared the branch, finally discovering with speechlessness that this branch did not even count as a sub-branch; it was merely a tiny fork on a sub-branch.

Yet, just this fork was already so large; the length of the sub-branch must have reached at least several hundred meters, not to mention the main body.

Even the Fusang Tree, famous for its size, probably wasn't this exaggerated.

Most importantly, Li Zhangsheng felt a sense of familiarity when he looked at those three leaves.

"World Tree!"

At this thought, Li Zhangsheng's lips trembled, and his eyes were filled with endless joy.

He could confirm and be certain that this was indeed a branch and leaf of the World Tree.

Never had he expected that the yellow box would contain a branch and leaf of the World Tree; this was truly surprising.

Last time, the World Tree leaf Li Zhangsheng obtained was only a small part, but this time it was a whole branch and leaf, containing probably dozens of times more energy than the last time; how could this not make him cheer with joy?

With this World Tree branch and leaf, his Tree of Life could definitely move toward maturity, and if he was lucky, it might even increase its grade.

(End of chapter)