Chapter 1283: Golden Apple Tree (First update, requesting everything)

Within the memory fragments of the Dark Night King plundered by the Original Light, there was a record of this great tree; Li Zhangsheng examined it carefully, and after a long while, he could not help but reveal a smile on his face.

"The Golden Apple Tree!"

Li Zhangsheng had not expected that the Dark Night King would actually possess the renowned Golden Apple Tree.

Yet what made him feel helpless was that the origin of this Golden Apple Tree was damaged, and even though the Dark Night King had taken remedial measures, he still could not avoid the fate of its grade declining.

If it were in its prime, the Golden Apple Tree, like the Fusang Tree, would belong to the Top-Grade Spiritual Root.

Due to the damage to its origin, its grade dropped by one level, becoming a Mid-Grade Top-Grade Spirit Root, though the gap to a Top-Grade Spiritual Root was not very large.

It is said that the Golden Apple Tree is guarded by a hundred-headed dragon, which is also a member of the Divine Beast dragon clan. Its characteristics, besides having enough heads, are that it never sleeps, always makes a deafening sound when moving, and its one hundred mouths emit one hundred different sounds.

There was no hundred-headed dragon in the Dark Night King's Secret Realm; if there had been, he would have released it long ago.

Because the grade of the Golden Apple Tree declined, the effects of its fruit were naturally far inferior to before.

Even so, it was still extremely useful to Li Zhangsheng, because the Golden Apples produced by the Golden Apple Tree could effectively improve the quality of Gold Element Demon Pets.

In its prime, the Golden Apple was a fruit of the Lower-Grade World Wonder grade; as the Golden Apple Tree's grade declined, the rank of the Golden Apple also fell, dropping into the Heaven and Earth Rare Treasure grade, just a half-step away from a Lower-Grade World Wonder.

According to Li Zhangsheng's estimation, the Golden Apple in its prime should have been similar in effect to the Space-Time Origin, and now that its rank has fallen, its effect is likely still a bit stronger than the Gold Origin.

After the grade decline, the cultivation cycle of the Golden Apple is one hundred years to mature, and nine Golden Apples will be born each time.

What made Li Zhangsheng excited was that the vast majority of the fruit on this Golden Apple Tree had already turned golden, with only a little green left, clearly indicating that it was not far from maturity.

According to Li Zhangsheng's estimation, the Golden Apples would mature within three years.

"It seems the Dark Night King had no fate to enjoy the Golden Apples!"

A smile hung on Li Zhangsheng's face; judging from the memory fragments, the Dark Night King had obtained the Golden Apple Tree for less than thirty years, which meant the Dark Night King had never enjoyed the Golden Apples, and it was no wonder he did not have any Half-Step Legendary Quality Gold Element Demon Pets in his hands.

Because he lacked a Secret Realm Token, it was difficult for Li Zhangsheng to merge the Dark Night King's Secret Realm, and even if he forced a merger, it might lead to an unstable foundation.

If it were only the Medicine Garden, Li Zhangsheng could indeed carry out a merger.

The operation was very simple: use force to cut out the entire Medicine Garden, then dig a large pit in his own Secret Realm and directly embed this Medicine Garden into the pit.

It sounded like a major project, but in reality, for a Stronger of Li Zhangsheng's level, it was not difficult at all, and he could easily do it by spending a little time.

Under Li Zhangsheng's signal, the Demon Pets dispersed and began to cut out the entire Medicine Garden.

The only thing worth noting was that the root system of the Golden Apple Tree was extremely developed and might directly exceed the scope of the Medicine Garden.

While the Demon Pets were working, Li Zhangsheng continued to tour the Dark Night King's Secret Realm and soon arrived at the next important location—the Dragon Lair.

As a veteran Double-Character King, the scale of the Dark Night King's Dragon Lair was naturally not small.

As Li Zhangsheng stepped into the Dragon Lair, nearly a hundred pairs of dragon eyes were staring straight at him.

Being stared at by nearly a hundred dragons, Li Zhangsheng remained calm and composed, as if he could not feel a shred of threat.

And indeed, there was not a shred of threat, simply because the strongest dragon in the Dragon Lair was only at the Demon King level, and there were fewer than a handful of them, which Li Zhangsheng could easily suppress.

Dragons are not stupid creatures; including the Five-Colored Dragon, their long lifespans and heritage give them a certain amount of reason and patience, with the exception of white dragons—blame it on their brain capacity being too small.

Roar~

At this moment, an adult white dragon charged straight at Li Zhangsheng.

Suddenly, the blood-red Dragon-Slaying Platform flew out from Li Zhangsheng's Consciousness Sea, and a series of Dragon Roars filled with sorrow, pain, despair, and fear resounded, followed by a special aura that enveloped the entire Dragon Lair.

Boom~

Under the might of the Dragon-Slaying Platform, the lower limbs of the adult white dragon charging at Li Zhangsheng went weak, and it collapsed directly onto the ground; it clutched its head with its claws, its eyes cowering, and its massive dragon body could not stop trembling.

It was not just this adult white dragon; most of the dragons in the Dragon Lair directly fell into a state of cowering, and the rest were also trembling, their strength weakened by more than half.

The Dragon-Slaying Platform was worthy of being the bane of dragons; just by releasing its aura, it made this group of dragons almost lose the ability to fight back.

Li Zhangsheng had no time to negotiate with this group of dragons and pointed at the adult white dragon collapsed on the ground.

A powerful pulling force appeared, and the adult white dragon flew toward the Dragon-Slaying Platform against its will.

Looking at the raised dragon-shaped blade on the Dragon-Slaying Platform, the adult white dragon screamed in terror, but it had no power to resist and was fixed onto the Dragon-Slaying Platform.

In an instant, the huge dragon-shaped blade fell.

Crack!

A crisp and pleasant sound rang out, the adult white dragon's massive head flew up, hot dragon blood gushed out and splashed onto the Dragon-Slaying Platform, eventually becoming a part of the Dragon-Slaying Platform.

Li Zhangsheng stood with his hands behind his back, looking down at this group of cowering dragons, and said, "I give you a choice: submit or die?"

"Submit!"

"Submit, we submit!"

Without any surprises, all the dragons in the Dragon Lair chose to submit, and were immediately taken into the Secret Realm by Li Zhangsheng.

With this, the scale of Li Zhangsheng's Dragon Lair grew significantly again, and the number of dragons approached three hundred.

Soon, Li Zhangsheng left the Dragon Lair and continued to sweep through the Dark Night King's Secret Realm.

Besides the Medicine Garden and the Dragon Lair, a large number of High Quality Fairy lived in the Secret Realm, including several Quasi-God Clan.

The Dark Night King had managed the Secret Realm for hundreds of years, so the number of High Quality Fairy he had accumulated could be imagined; in the end, it all went to Li Zhangsheng.

Among these High Quality Fairy, there were some that met Li Zhangsheng's requirements for extracting Spirit Essence.

Besides these, there were some other resources in the Dark Night King's Secret Realm, but compared to the Medicine Garden, the Dragon Lair, and the High Quality Fairy, these resources could only be considered icing on the cake and were of little use to Li Zhangsheng.

Li Zhangsheng spent most of the day just looting the Dark Night King's Secret Realm.

Due to the loss of the Golden Apple Tree, the stability of the Dark Night King's Secret Realm dropped significantly, and coupled with the damage to its foundation, the Dark Night King's Secret Realm faintly showed signs of collapsing.

It was only because the Dark Night King Dou Cangqiong had not fallen that this Secret Realm could continue to absorb energy leaking from the outside world, enough to maintain it for a period of time.

After leaving the Dark Night King's Secret Realm, Li Zhangsheng then, under the active goodwill of the Mingcang King, began to tour her Secret Realm.

(End of this chapter)