Chapter 340: Profound Yellow Tree

"Hum~"

Accompanied by the humming sound of the Xuanyuan Sword, the golden sword light emitted by the Xuanyuan Sword began to retract inward. When the last trace of sword light was gathered, a ball of golden light shot out from the sword body, directly wrapping around Hua Changxi, who was less than a hundred meters away from the Xuanyuan Sword.

The blood-red color in Hua Changxi's eyes had not yet dissipated. At this moment, she was holding the sword with both hands, still maintaining the action of swinging the sword. The fighting spirit surging in her heart became increasingly high and determined after being wrapped by the beam of light.

Hundreds of meters away, Tong Yao and the others watched in a daze as the golden light merged into Hua Changxi's body. After the light and her completely merged, a faint golden halo appeared on Hua Changxi's exposed skin.

Tong Yao swallowed his saliva: "That is... the light of the War Soul, the fighting spirit condensed by the Xuanyuan Sword!"

Hearing this, Yan Zhenzhen showed envy on her face and muttered: "The War Soul of the Xuanyuan Sword, this should be the greatest opportunity in the Xuanyuan Mansion, right?"

Fighting spirit that grows stronger with every battle is something every cultivator needs.

The path of cultivation is long and arduous. The further one goes, the harder the road becomes. Without a firm and unyielding heart that never admits defeat, one cannot achieve the right fruit.

Jing Le nodded, his tone filled with emotion: "Changxi's fighting spirit of charging forward activated the War Soul within the Xuanyuan Sword. That light of the War Soul is the Xuanyuan Sword's gift of thanks."

Not everyone could withstand the Xuanyuan Sword's light; at the very least, he, Tong Yao, and Yan Zhenzhen could not do it.

Tong Yao didn't have so many sighs. At this moment, he only had one thought: he could observe the Xuanyuan Sword up close: "The Xuanyuan Sword's light has disappeared, and the suppressive force in the air is gone. We can go over."

After saying this, he took a step forward and trotted toward the Xuanyuan Sword.

Seeing this, Jing Le and Yan Zhenzhen quickly followed.

Hua Liulang, who had been collecting armor and weapons in the abandoned palace, was also startled by the sword hum. He ran out to investigate, and feeling that the suppressive force in the air was gone, he quickly hurried to catch up with Tong Yao and the others.

By the time Tong Yao and the others approached, Hua Changxi's eyes had already returned to clarity, though her thoughts were still somewhat chaotic.

Yan Zhenzhen asked with concern: "Changxi, are you alright?"

Hua Changxi shook her head and rubbed her swollen forehead: "I just now seemed to have gone to that great battle in the ancient times that concerned the survival of the Xuanyuan Mansion."

Tong Yao looked at her: "You must have been influenced by the Xuanyuan Sword."

Hua Changxi nodded: "I'll recover for a bit, you all do as you please." After saying this, she sat cross-legged on the spot.

Just now, when resisting the Xuanyuan Sword's light, in addition to the huge consumption of spiritual power, her soul power was also consumed quite a bit. She was now feeling dizzy, and a large part of the reason was that her soul body had been weakened.

The Xuanyuan Sword attacked both the physical body and the soul body simultaneously!

Fortunately, it was her. She practiced both law and body, had trained her physical body to the fifth stage (equivalent to the Spirit Platform stage), and had long ago developed divine sense, making her soul body much stronger than ordinary people. Otherwise, if it were anyone else, they really wouldn't have been able to resist the Xuanyuan Sword's light.

Tong Yao and the other three did not disturb Hua Changxi, and looked up at the Xuanyuan Sword suspended high in the sky, observing it.

The Xuanyuan Sword, a divine weapon not inferior to an Emperor's weapon, had the sun, moon, and stars carved on one side of the blade, and mountains, rivers, grass, and trees on the other. On one side of the hilt was written the art of farming and animal husbandry, and on the other, the strategy for unifying the world. It contained infinite power, capable of both slaying demons and pacifying the four directions.

Tong Yao looked at the sword infatuatedly: "If one day I could also forge such a peerless divine weapon, I would not have lived this life in vain."

Jing Le wanted to use his Rune Eyes to observe it. This time, as soon as he used his Rune Eyes, his vision began to go black.

Yan Zhenzhen shouted: "Jing Le, the Xuanyuan Sword is a divine weapon. Do you really not want your eyes anymore!"

Tong Yao directly pulled Jing Le, not letting him observe the Xuanyuan Sword anymore: "Your greed has not been disciplined properly!"

Jing Le gave a bitter smile and stopped looking at the Xuanyuan Sword. Just then, Hua Liulang arrived.

Hua Liulang had self-awareness and knew that the Xuanyuan Sword was not something he could understand at his current level. After taking a look, he went to check on Hua Changxi's situation.

"What is Jiuniang holding in her hand?"

"It's a Soul Crystal!"

Seeing the Soul Crystal in Hua Changxi's hand, Jing Le was not too surprised. Hua Changxi could even escape after falling into the Soul-Devouring Well, so getting a Soul Crystal was normal.

However, seeing one Soul Crystal after another turn into powder in Hua Changxi's hand, he was somewhat surprised by the number of Soul Crystals she had.

The situation in the Nine Netherworlds was complex, and Soul Crystals were not easy to get, especially a large quantity of them.

Hua Liulang confirmed that Hua Changxi was fine and went directly into the palace ruins to find opportunities.

Seeing this, Jing Le followed him.

Hua Liulang: "Senior Brother Jing Le, there are plaque fragments here too!" After saying this, he fiddled with the fragments on the ground, "It seems there are also the characters 'Xuanyuan'."

Jing Le leaned over, not daring to recklessly torture his eyes again, and just roughly pieced together the plaque fragments.

Xuanyuan Hall!

Jing Le looked around at the palace ruins in front of him: "This is the Xuanyuan Hall where the Xuanyuan Sword is worshipped."

The center of the Xuanyuan Mansion, the Xuanyuan Hall!

Flower.

The Profound Yellow Qi emitted by the Profound Yellow Tree behind the Xuanyuan Hall had already drifted over.

Hua Liulang had practiced the fourth chapter of the "Nine Turns Profound Art" in body refining. As soon as he came into contact with the Profound Yellow Qi, his whole body was screaming crazily.

Looking at Hua, who was about to drool.

The two quickly walked toward the Profound Yellow Tree.

Not long after, Yan Zhenzhen also went over.

After another while, Tong Yao also withdrew his gaze from observing the Xuanyuan Sword and walked toward the Profound Yellow Tree.

On Hua Changxi's side, she only opened her eyes after her soul body recovered to its peak stage. Scanning around and not seeing Tong Yao and the other four, she guessed they might have gone to pick the Profound Yellow Fruits, so she also got up and walked toward the Profound Yellow Tree behind.

The Profound Yellow Tree was not too tall, less than a hundred meters, straight as a rod, with well-developed roots. From bottom to top, the trunk gradually became smaller, and the entire trunk had only nine branches.

The branches were distributed alternately left and right. There was not a single leaf on the branches, only heavy Profound Yellow Fruits hanging.

The Profound Yellow Fruits were the size of an infant's fist, golden all over, surrounded by a halo.

From the first branch to the ninth branch, the number of Profound Yellow Fruits on the branches decreased in order.

The first branch, which bore the most fruit, had only ninety-nine Profound Yellow Fruits, while the ninth branch at the very top had only eighteen.

The Profound Yellow Fruits on the first branch had one pattern on the fruit, those on the second branch had two patterns, and the higher the branch, the more patterns the Profound Yellow Fruits had. The Profound Yellow Fruits on the ninth branch had nine patterns.

When Hua Changxi arrived in front of the Profound Yellow Tree, she found that Tong Yao and the other four were all on the tree.

The one who climbed the highest was actually Hua Liulang, on the fifth branch; Tong Yao and Jing Le were on the fourth branch; and Yan Zhenzhen was on the third branch.

The four were sweating profusely and panting, all stretching out their hands, desperately trying to reach the Profound Yellow Fruits!

Seeing them like this, Hua Changxi quickly asked: "Why, is there a restriction on this tree too?"

Tong Yao and the other four nodded in unison.

Yan Zhenzhen shouted to Hua Changxi: "Changxi, each branch can only pick three Profound Yellow Fruits. The higher you go, the greater the suppression on the physical body."

Among the four, Yan Zhenzhen had the weakest physical body, and she couldn't climb past the fourth branch no matter what; although Hua Liulang climbed to the fifth branch, he didn't pick a single five-pattern Profound Yellow Fruit.

Hearing this, Hua Changxi pondered for a moment, then climbed the Profound Yellow Tree using both hands and feet.

When she climbed to the first branch, she easily picked three Profound Yellow Fruits with only one pattern, and then, "crunch, crunch," quickly ate one.

As soon as the Profound Yellow Fruit hit her stomach, she immediately felt her skin start to heat up. A warm current acted on her skin, and although it was a bit itchy, it was not as painful as when she was refining her skin.

After the warm current disappeared, Hua Changxi clearly noticed that the texture of her skin had become even more crystal-clear like jade.

Tong Yao and the other four on the tree saw this and were stunned, then, all reluctantly took out Profound Yellow Fruits and started eating.

After eating the Profound Yellow Fruit and strengthening their physical bodies, maybe they could continue to climb up?

Hua Changxi quickly climbed to the second branch, picked three Profound Yellow Fruits, ate one as usual, and after absorbing it, she felt that her flesh began to emit a fragrance.

Then came the third branch. Yan Zhenzhen was climbing on it, feeling like her body was about to fall apart, while Hua Changxi could walk directly on it.

After taking a three-pattern Profound Yellow Fruit, Hua Changxi used her Truth-Seeing Eyes to look through her physical body and found that her bones had become as white as jade.

Was this the legendary Jade Bone?

Feeling the benefits brought by the Profound Yellow Fruit, Hua Changxi climbed to the fourth branch with nimble hands and feet, lightly passed Tong Yao and Jing Le, and picked three four-pattern Profound Yellow Fruits.

After taking one, her meridians immediately became as bright as star tracks.

Soon, Hua Changxi climbed to the fifth branch. At this time, her hands and feet were no longer flexible, but she still quickly picked three five-pattern Profound Yellow Fruits.

After taking one, her blood, like the drop of Zhu Que essence blood she had obtained before, became like red amber.

Under Hua Liulang's envious gaze, Hua Changxi climbed to the sixth branch. As soon as she climbed up, she felt the strain and could no longer stand. She could only crawl on the tree using her hands and feet to pick three six-pattern Profound Yellow Fruits.

She hadn't started refining her internal organs yet, so she didn't take the six-pattern Profound Yellow Fruit.

Under the blank gaze of Tong Yao and the other four, Hua Changxi struggled to climb to the seventh branch, and after a long time, she picked three seven-pattern Profound Yellow Fruits.

Continuing upward.

When climbing toward the eighth branch, she climbed up a distance and immediately fell down again, climbed up, and fell again. After repeating this dozens of times, she still couldn't climb to the eighth branch.

Seeing this, Tong Yao and the other four breathed a sigh of relief in unison.

Fortunately, it wasn't too heaven-defying, otherwise, they would feel inferior.

Hua Changxi lay on the seventh branch, looking at the eighth branch with an unconvinced face. Now she understood the state of mind of Tong Yao and the other four. Even though she knew she couldn't climb up, she was unwilling to just go down the tree like this.

After taking the Profound Yellow Fruits, Tong Yao and the other four tried a few more times.

In the end, Tong Yao and Jing Le successfully picked three four-pattern Profound Yellow Fruits; Yan Zhenzhen also climbed to the fourth branch and picked one Profound Yellow Fruit; Hua Liulang successfully picked one five-pattern Profound Yellow Fruit.

Seeing that they had all succeeded, Hua Changxi prepared to rest for a while before trying again. However, at this moment, a loud 'boom' came from the sky above.

The five looked up and saw ripples in the sky.

"Boom~"

Another loud noise, and the ripples intensified.

"Boom~"

"Boom~"

"Boom~"

After several consecutive loud noises, the ripples turned into a transparent barrier.

Through the barrier, Hua Changxi and the other five saw that outside the barrier, sword lights, fists, giant palms, and blade lights were attacking them one after another.

However, they were not attacking them, but attacking the barrier above their heads.

Tong Yao's face showed horror: "Not good, I'm afraid this place has been discovered by others."

Jing Le's expression was solemn: "Those people attacking the barrier should be experts at the Spirit Platform stage."

"Hum~"

Perhaps because it was attacked, the Xuanyuan Sword vibrated and once again emitted a terrifying light.

The light vibrated like water ripples, constantly radiating outward with the Xuanyuan Sword as the center.

When the light reached the Profound Yellow Tree, the five people on the tree all felt a strong impact force.

"Ah, I'm going to be blown away!"

Hua Liulang roared, and then his whole person flew out along with the radiation of the light.

Next were Tong Yao and the other three.

Hua Changxi persisted for a few more seconds before being blown away. The moment her body left the Profound Yellow Tree, she used the Palm-in-Buddha-Kingdom divine ability.

The Buddha hand grew rapidly in the air and fiercely grabbed toward the eighth and ninth branches of the Profound Yellow Tree.

The restriction inherent in the Profound Yellow Tree made the speed of the Buddha hand's grabbing very slow, and coupled with the impact of the sword light, the Buddha hand was fading and disintegrating at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Just as Hua Changxi's body was about to be thrown out of the barrier, the Buddha hand finally penetrated through the eighth and ninth branches.

"Ah~" ===== CHAPTER 341 =====