86: Chapter 86 Soul Fruit

Time passed quietly in this Secret Realm, where there was no cycle of sun and moon, only an eternal purple sky.

More than a day passed in the blink of an eye.

During these nearly thirty hours of high-intensity searching, Su Wu maintained a very high movement speed, almost turning the mountains for thousands of kilometers upside down.

He was like an extremely picky treasure hunter, walking and browsing.

He had encountered several massive Vicious Beasts native to the Secret Realm with strength comparable to the Star Lord Realm, and had also discovered several hundred-year-old medicinal herbs emitting faint spiritual light.

But he did not make a move.

"In such a vast ancient Secret Realm, is there really not a single resource that can truly catch my Dharma Eye?"

Su Wu stopped on the canopy of an ancient giant tree that was a hundred zhang tall, rubbed his brows with some helplessness, and complained inwardly.

Indeed, those top-grade Spiritual Plants in the eyes of outside Martial Artists were no different from roadside weeds to Su Wu, who now possessed System feedback and pockets full of countless top-grade Medicinal Pills; they were simply not worth his time to pick.

"Forget it, it seems all the good things are concentrated in the Starfall Palace three days later."

Su Wu sighed and was about to give up on this area and continue wandering deeper into the Secret Realm.

However.

Just at the moment he lifted his foot, preparing to operate the Law of Space and leave!

Hum—

Suddenly, a peculiar fluctuation, extremely, extremely faint—so faint that it didn't even cause ripples in the surrounding air—quietly drifted from the depths of the mountain forest on his left, like a wisp of silk in the wind, into his Divine Thought perception net.

This fluctuation was hidden perfectly, extremely covertly!

If it weren't for the fact that Su Wu's current Divine Thought strength had infinitely approached the Star Emperor Realm, and if he hadn't happened to stop in an area only a hundred miles away from this fluctuation, any other eighth-tier or even ordinary ninth-tier Star King would probably have found it impossible to detect this fleeting anomaly in the Void Realm!

"Hmm?"

Su Wu's movements froze instantly.

In his deep eyes, a burst of extremely sharp light suddenly shot out.

"Such a subtle Soul fluctuation... This feeling!"

Su Wu's heart stirred, and he did not hesitate in the slightest.

He immediately restrained his own Qi and blood fluctuations to the absolute limit, his whole person as if melted into the shadows, and following the direction from which the faint fluctuation came, he turned into a silent afterimage among the dense tree crowns, speeding away.

...

Just half a minute later.

Su Wu slowed down and stopped very lightly on a thick tree branch.

He looked forward.

He saw that in front of him, the dense forest came to an abrupt end, revealing a large, extremely open, barren dark red clearing.

And in the very center of that clearing, an ancient tree with a very peculiar appearance grew solitarily.

This tree was not tall, only a mere three meters or so.

Its trunk presented a deathly grey-white color, without a single leaf, and its bare branches stretched towards the sky like the sharp claws of an evil ghost.

But at the very top of the crown.

It bore a fruit only the size of a fist!

The fruit was translucent and milky white throughout, emitting an incomparably lustrous and soft luster, as if it had been meticulously carved from the purest and most flawless gemstone in this world.

Under the illumination of the purple sky, a layer of mist, ethereal like a Soul, faintly swirled on the surface of the fruit.

"soul fruit!"

The moment he saw that fruit clearly, Su Wu's heart skipped a beat uncontrollably, and even his breathing quickened by half a beat.

Over the past year, Su Wu had not just been lying flat and drinking tea in his villa at Beijing Martial Arts University.

As a powerhouse, in order to make up for his lack of basic knowledge, he had read a large number of ancient books in Beijing Martial Arts University regarding Starry Sky Martial Dao, secrets of the Universe, and Heaven And Earth Treasure.

Therefore, he recognized the earth-shattering origin of this fruit almost at first glance!

soul fruit!

This was a Heaven And Earth Treasure that was extremely rare in the entire Milky Way, so precious that it could not be measured by federal credits!

Its growth conditions were demanding to a perverted degree; it had to absorb the residual Soul Power of fallen powerhouses and mature over ten thousand years.

Moreover, one tree only bore one fruit!

What was even more peculiar was that a Martial Artist could only consume a soul fruit once in their lifetime.

If they greedily consumed it a second time, its effect would be greatly reduced, or even completely ineffective.

However!

As long as it was the first time consuming a soul fruit, it could ignore any Realm barriers and, in an extremely violent and pure manner, significantly improve the Martial Artist's Soul power and Divine Thought strength!

For those Martial Artists who Cultivated Soul-type Cultivation Techniques, this was simply an supreme treasure that could be met but not sought.

And for a ninth-tier Star King like Su Wu, whose Divine Thought was just stuck at the threshold of the Star Emperor Realm, only one kick away... this soul fruit was the perfect key that could allow him to completely poke through that layer of window paper and let his Divine Thought step into the Star Emperor Realm in advance!

This was absolutely a priceless treasure!

However.

The wild joy only lasted for an instant before Su Wu quickly calmed down.

Because his gaze noticed the shadow beneath the soul fruit tree.

Two massive figures were quietly lying there.

Those were two extremely peculiar Secret Realm exotic beasts.

They were as massive as armored vehicles, their bodies covered in thick, ink-black scales, their heads looking like lions but not quite, and two rows of sharp bone spurs grew on their backs.

At this moment, these two exotic beasts were guarding the soul fruit tree, one on the left and one on the right, eyeing it covetously.

In their scarlet slit pupils, a chillingly violent aura radiated.

And what made Su Wu feel even more tricky was the terrifying energy fluctuation radiating from their bodies.

"Such a formidable aura... The aura on these two beasts is actually even a sliver stronger than me, a ninth-tier Star King?"

Su Wu frowned slightly and immediately made a precise judgment: "These are... two ancient exotic beasts that have reached the half-step Star Emperor Level!"

No wonder such a supreme treasure could grow here safely.

With two half-step Star Emperor Level exotic beasts guarding it together, even if ordinary Star Kings came in a group, they would just be delivering snacks to them.

Although Su Wu had many trump cards, with the blessing of the Supreme Chaos Body and the High-level Blade Domain, he certainly had absolute confidence that he could forcibly kill these two exotic beasts.

However, dealing with two half-step Star Emperors at the same time would inevitably trigger an extremely tragic battle, create an earth-shattering commotion, and might even destroy that fragile soul fruit.

Therefore, Su Wu did not rush to draw his blade.

Because his extremely keen Divine Thought had already detected the "third existence" in this clearing.

On the other edge of the clearing, there was a huge weathered rock.

Behind the shadow of that rock, a human figure was hiding extremely sneakily.

The slight, peculiar fluctuation Su Wu had sensed from a hundred miles away was precisely a trace of aura that this human had accidentally leaked while setting up some kind of concealment Formation!

"Interesting. It seems I am not the only one eyeing this soul fruit."

Su Wu's mouth curled into an arc of interest.

Not only was he no longer in a hurry, he instead restrained his aura even more perfectly, as if he had merged with the branch, quietly lurking in the shadows, carefully observing the good show about to unfold below.

He saw that the human Martial Artist hiding behind the rock looked to be about thirty years old, and his cultivation was also at the ninth-tier Star King level.

At this moment, the man was squatting on the ground, holding a Bagua Formation Plate with complex runes engraved on it and a very peculiar shape in both hands.

He was continuously and extremely carefully injecting the Origin Qi within his body into that Formation Plate.

At the edge of the clearing.

The man stared fixedly at the runes gradually lighting up on the Formation Plate.

Soon, with the last trace of Origin Qi injected, the man completed all the preparatory work.

He took a deep breath, stood up, swung his arm, and immediately threw the activated, peculiar Formation Plate in his hand fiercely towards the direction about five hundred meters to the left of the soul fruit tree!

Whoosh!

The Formation Plate streaked through the air with a faint ray of light and landed accurately in the grass in the distance.