Chapter 1612: Collecting the Desolate Secret Realm

The World Tree currently appears to be a full thousand meters tall, but this can at most be considered its Growth Stage.

Yet even as a World Tree in its Growth Stage, its ability to stabilize a Secret Realm far exceeds that of Superior Quality Top-Grade Spiritual Roots like the Yellow Medium Plum, Golden Apple, and Five-Needle Pine, and is even stronger than all of them combined.

Besides the World Tree being a Top-Grade Spiritual Root of the highest quality, it is also related to the fact that the World Tree's greatest purpose is to stabilize worlds.

According to Li Zhangsheng's estimation, even the Hollow Willow Tree, which is also a Top-Grade Spiritual Root of the highest quality, would likely be far inferior to the World Tree in terms of stabilizing a world.

As the World Tree took shape, Li Zhangsheng's Secret Realm became extremely stable; he had a premonition that even a World Tree in its Growth Stage would be enough to allow his Secret Realm to expand into a Small Thousand World.

In addition to stabilizing the Secret Realm, the energy concentration within the Secret Realm surged significantly, becoming quite viscous, nearly reaching the standard of liquefaction.

This was still the result of Li Zhangsheng's control; otherwise, if the energy were to liquefy, it might not necessarily be a good thing for the Secret Realm.

Furthermore, the expansion speed of the Secret Realm also increased a lot, though it would still take a very long time to reach a million kilometers in radius.

At this moment, Li Zhangsheng waved his hand, and the Nature Slate hovered before him.

His gaze fell upon the Nature Slate, and he saw that lines had appeared on the World Tree depicted above, much like human meridians.

With just a single glance, Li Zhangsheng could not help but feel immersed in it.

Although Li Zhangsheng had not cultivated any Dao specialized in the Wood Element, such as the Great Entanglement Technique, Great Restoration Technique, etc., the Five Elements Great Dao does contain the Wood Great Dao.

Unfortunately, the Five Elements Great Dao must progress simultaneously; otherwise, if only the Wood Great Dao within it were to progress, it would cause an imbalance.

This means that unless Li Zhangsheng collects all five slates of Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth, he cannot use the slates to improve the Five Elements Great Dao.

Even so, Li Zhangsheng could still let Kailan cultivate a Wood Great Dao; he believed that with the assistance of the Nature Slate, the progress would certainly not be slow.

Among the more than ten choices of Wood Great Dao, Li Zhangsheng chose the Great Entanglement Technique, which ranks in the top hundred.

The Great Entanglement Technique can effectively enhance the effect of binding enemies; if cultivated to the extreme, it can even entangle the soul and turn it into a marionette, which shows how powerful its effect is.

Li Zhangsheng checked the spatial items of the Spirit King and the others again; as in the past, the vast majority of the treasures were of no use to him, and those that could be used were basically various materials for artifact refining, along with some he did not recognize.

However, he was quite interested in a viscous dark green ointment; this ointment had a superb effect in treating external injuries and also had a very strong healing effect on Emperor Rank Demon Pets, and the key was that the quantity was not small, totaling several jars.

From the five Elf Queens, he learned that this was Life Water condensed by the Spirit King using the Tree of Life of the Elf Plane, combined with various Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure of the natural type, belonging to the Elf race's holy medicine for healing.

The formula was in the Spirit King's spatial item; Li Zhangsheng took a look and found that except for the Life Water, all other materials were present.

"The Life Water condensed by the World Tree will definitely have a better effect; this holy medicine for healing has the possibility of going even further."

Li Zhangsheng thought to himself, but he should not count on it for the time being; he did not know how many years it would take for the World Tree to condense enough Life Water.

Before that, Li Zhangsheng specifically took a Red Fire Dragon Scale Tree from Ning Bizhen's Secret Realm.

There were several of the Ten Branches of the World Tree in Ning Bizhen's Secret Realm, most of which were given to her by Li Zhangsheng.

Now Li Zhangsheng wanted to test whether the Nature Slate could convert the Ten Branches of the World Tree and channel them into the World Tree to accelerate the World Tree's growth.

When Li Zhangsheng placed the Nature Slate on this Red Fire Dragon Scale Tree, the Nature Slate was activated again, and a large amount of fire-red light spots drifted out from the Red Fire Dragon Scale Tree.

It was also at this moment that a ray of light shot out from the Nature Slate and instantly landed on the World Tree.

The next moment, the World Tree began to grow at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Soon, the Red Fire Dragon Scale Tree withered and could no longer squeeze out a single fire-red light spot.

This Red Fire Dragon Scale Tree had a very limited improvement on the World Tree, increasing it by less than twenty meters.

But for Li Zhangsheng, this was an unexpected joy; after all, this is a method that can allow the World Tree to mature quickly.

Many Stronger individuals have the habit of collecting the Ten Branches of the World Tree, and the number in the entire Three Realms is likely to exceed a hundred.

In addition, not only the Ten Branches of the World Tree, but the remains of the World Tree can also be used to stimulate the growth of the World Tree.

Li Zhangsheng also thought of a way, which was to cut off the branches and leaves of the collected Ten Branches, leaving only the main trunk and major branches, and hand over all the branches and leaves to the Nature Slate to be converted and channeled into the World Tree; even if the effect is much worse, it is better in the long run.

Thus, Li Zhangsheng instructed Zuo Qiulin to spend a great price to collect the Ten Branches of the World Tree, which could be used to exchange for various Divine Beast Essence Blood, breakthrough-type, Bloodline Metamorphosis-type, quality-enhancing treasures, Divine Artifacts, top-grade Strange Treasure, super-grade Alchemical Pill, etc.

With such an exchange scheme, even Emperors would be attracted; at the very least, Li Zhangsheng could pack up most of the Ten Branches in the Fairy World.

Besides this, Li Zhangsheng also asked Zuo Qiulin to collect a large number of ownerless Secret Realms and exchange rewards based on the size of the Secret Realm, with equally generous rewards.

Faced with such rewards, the entire Three Realms suddenly boiled over; compared with the Ten Branches of the World Tree, the number of ownerless Secret Realms was much larger.

As long as one is a King, one can give birth to a Secret Realm, and a King's lifespan is only two hundred years or so, while a small or medium-sized country basically has several or even dozens of prosperous or declining King Families, and these families basically control ownerless Secret Realms.

As for the former Nine Great Empires, there were even more, often hundreds of them.

If one adds the Secret Realms left behind after the fall of those rogue Kings, the number is even greater; even if some ancient Secret Realms disappeared in the long river of history due to lack of maintenance or Top-Grade Spiritual Roots, the number is still enough to be described in the thousands or tens of thousands.

With so many Desolate Secret Realms, even if most of them are small Secret Realms with only a few hundred kilometers in radius, as long as they are merged, it is enough to allow Li Zhangsheng's Secret Realm to quickly reach the standard of a Small Thousand World.

As soon as Li Zhangsheng's order was issued, many Heavenly Court Stronger individuals immediately took the initiative to offer ownerless Secret Realms, including the Martial Emperor, Civil Emperor, Azure Emperor, and Flame Emperor.

Among them, the Martial Emperor and Civil Emperor contributed the most, each having dozens of ownerless Secret Realms, and each was well-maintained, which is the foundation of veteran Emperors.

On the contrary, the Azure Emperor and Flame Emperor had become Emperors for too short a time, so the number of ownerless Secret Realms they could contribute was far worse.

Just the first wave of Secret Realms offered by the Heavenly Court Stronger individuals totaled several hundred.

(End of this chapter)