It was just a simple hole that did not take too much effort to make. Depth-wise, it could easily bury half the body of a child.
“Can this thing work differently with the jade scroll?”
Xu Xiaoshou was still skeptical as he anxiously took out the jade scroll given to him by the Dean.
To his surprise, the jade scroll began vibrating lightly, before waves of spiritual energy in Tianxuan Gate gravitated toward Xu Xiaoshou and swirled thickly around him.
Suddenly, he felt all the energy surge into him.
Xu Xiaoshou was at a loss for words.
His body had healed completely after undergoing continuous stimulation over the past two days. Hence, his body would automatically absorb any surrounding spiritual energy under any situation, taking it in at the maximum rate.
The jade scroll vibrated even more violently as if it was about to explode at any moment. Xu Xiaoshou hurriedly closed off every pore on his body and managed to regulate the amount of spiritual energy he was absorbing.
The jade scroll then started to draw in the spiritual energy, and it was indeed ravenous.
Could it be that the jade scroll could only transform after being fed an enormous amount of spiritual energy?
Xu Xiaoshou believed so and blew into the jade scroll carefully.
Puff!
Instantly, a surge of spiritual energy, a hundred times denser than it was earlier, flowed into the jade scroll. Then everything fell silent, and the scroll stopped vibrating. Suddenly, with no warning, it blew up.
Xu Xiaoshou looked utterly baffled.
Did I f*ck it up?
He panicked when the jade scroll exploded. A moment later, he realized it did not blow up to smithereens. Instead, an object was left behind that resembled a seed.
The seed had fallen from the sky, and it seemed it had been intentionally dropped into the hole to take root.
Xu Xiaoshou reached out and intercepted it with his hand.
“A seed?”
Looking at how the sky was slowly cracking like a mirror, Xu Xiaoshou could not help but wonder.
Could the seed be some legendary treasure, such as the seed of Yggdrasil, that had been intentionally dropped to provide stable support to this crumbling world?
It was indeed a mythical item!
He suddenly became obsessed with this item and clutched it tightly in his hand. There was no way the seed could break free of the grasp of a Master Physique.
“Since I cannot lay my hands on the other treasures of this world… perhaps, this seed shall…”
“Be mine?”
Xu Xiaoshou was overcome by temptation. A conflict played out in his conscience between justice and evil.
Justice: Excessive greed will eventually cost you your life. Do not commit a crime just because you think it is minor.
Evil: You can only count on yourself… Yourself and nobody else!
Justice: If it does not belong to you, you should not even take a bit.
Evil: F*ck you!
Justice: I concede defeat.
It did not take more than half a second for Xu Xiaoshou to come to a decision. And just when he was about to keep the seed, an anxious voice came from behind him.
“Ma Ma.”
Xu Xiaoshou wavered and scratched his head awkwardly. “Why are you so impatient? I am just about to plant it!”
The puppet child also seemed to recognize the importance of the seed. Or perhaps it just wanted to fill the dark hole that had been his prison for a lifetime.
The moment the puppet child called out, Xu Xiaoshou’s conscience awakened, and there were no more doubts in his mind.
One must not keep ill-gotten gains!
He let out a sigh and hesitated no more. He then threw the seed into the hole.
The seed touched the ground and instantly set off a dramatic explosion. Gigantic python-like roots burrowed through the soil and became intertwined underground.
Xu Xiaoshou took flight immediately as the giant tree below him suddenly shot up a few hundred meters from the deep hole toward the sky.
It was not over yet. It continued to shoot up as if it wanted to pierce the clouds to offer support for the crumbling world.
Spiritual energy came howling from all directions. Xu Xiaoshou could no longer absorb everything, even when he opened all his pores. The intensity and the amount of spiritual energy were incomparable to the conditions earlier.
At most, he could absorb 0.001% of the total reserve.
Xu Xiaoshou was thoroughly shocked.
What a giant tree it was!
After absorbing the essence of Heaven and Earth, it had turned from a mere seed into a sky-piercing tree. A tree which indeed pierced through the sky!
The thick trunk appeared out of thin air and almost filled up the entire black arena. It looked like a tall mountain and was impossible to surpass.
Its height had even exceeded the maximum range of Xu Xiaoshou’s “Sense” and extended to a point beyond his ability to detect.
Xu Xiaoshou regretted his decision!
It was undoubtedly a mythical item, and he could not believe that he had just given it up so easily. Had he known earlier, he would have thrown the other few treasures he possessed into the hole instead!