267: Chapter 267 Refining

"Watch out!" Lin Bei was startled and immediately flashed forward to shield Shi Yunmeng from the four Great Emperors.

If he let his disciple's mother meet with an accident right before his eyes, it would be an utter disgrace.

"Get lost! An Early Stage Great Sage dares to act like a mantis trying to stop a carriage!"

Among the four Great Emperors, one was entirely covered in metallic armor, and even his voice carried a metallic resonance.

As he spoke, he threw a punch without the slightest hesitation!

"Hmph! Mechanical Race?" Lin Bei sneered and threw a punch in return.

He was now quite familiar with the Nine Emperor Clans and recognized the opponent at a glance as Wei Zhentian, the other Great Emperor of the Mechanical Emperor Clan besides the Clan Chief!

*Boom!* The two fist imprints collided, sounding like a clap of thunder in the ears of everyone present.

They were evenly matched!

"What?!" The four Great Emperors were instantly pale with shock. "Not just that woman, this kid is also very strange!"

Lin Bei's lips curled up, but he shifted his gaze toward another charming middle-aged woman nearby.

Empty Hand Skill!

*Whoosh!* Xiong Ermao, who had been bound by the woman's illusory giant hand, instantly appeared in his grasp.

"Eh? Who are you? Why are you helping me?" The Yellow-Haired Giant Bear looked rather dim-witted.

"Just taking payment to do a job!" Lin Bei explained casually, tossing him backward before taking out a compass and crushing it.

"Second Brother! Don't be afraid, Big Brother is here!" As soon as the teleportation formation took shape, Xiong Damao's voice rang out.

Xiong Ermao grew excited instantly. "Big Brother! You're finally here! Wuwuwu... You have no idea, I almost became nutrients for that Mother Bug!"

"Holy crap!" Xiong Damao's figure fully materialized, and with a roar, he charged toward the Zerg Empress.

"Mother Bug, it's just you alone this time. Let's see how arrogant you can be now!"

The other two Great Emperors were also Vicious Beasts residing in the Mist Sea.

The two exchanged a glance and chose not to help either side, aiming directly for Shi Yunmeng instead.

Lin Bei was confronting the Mechanical Race Great Emperor Wei Zhentian. Seeing this, he was about to intervene when that dreamlike voice rang in his ears again.

"Don't worry, let them come..."

In that instant, he suddenly remembered the voice he had heard when he first arrived in the Yinming Land and touched the yinming stone Point Jade Plate for the first time at the Zombie Clan.

That voice... was it her too?

The thought had just surfaced when Lin Bei's whole body stiffened, and he couldn't help but turn to look at Shi Yunmeng.

Shi Yunmeng's steps were slow, yet each one covered hundreds of feet, bringing her closer and closer to the white heavenly dream divine tree.

As if sensing Lin Bei's gaze, she also turned her head and gave him a sweet smile.

In that brief moment of distraction, the two Emperor-level Vicious Beasts had already caught up behind Shi Yunmeng.

Lin Bei's expression tightened slightly; despite the prior transmission, he couldn't help but feel worried.

"Roar! Roar!"

Seeing the heavenly dream divine fruit within reach, the two Vicious Beasts disregarded their previous friendship, transforming into their true forms to fight for it.

Shi Yunmeng was currently less than a thousand feet from the two beasts. Logically, the aftershocks of the battle were not something she, a Late Stage Great Sage, could withstand.

Strangely, she seemed to be in another world; none of the combat fluctuations affected her as she continued her slow walk toward the heavenly dream divine tree.

"Wait!" one of the Vicious Beasts stopped attacking. "This woman is extremely strange. How about we join forces to take her down first?"

"Fine!" the other Vicious Beast nodded in agreement.

In an instant, a barrage of fierce attacks surged toward the woman in white ahead of them.

Shi Yunmeng's protective Divine Ability seemed to reach its limit under the assault of the two beasts, trembling incessantly as if it might collapse at any moment.

She could only grit her teeth and speed up her approach to the divine tree.

A moment later, the woman and the two beasts were less than ten thousand feet from the white divine tree.

By now, the beasts' attention was no longer on Shi Yunmeng but fixed longingly on the heavenly dream divine tree.

"Before, even with all of us Great Emperors joining forces, we could only get within thirty thousand feet of the divine tree! That terrifying Black Tiger could only reach twenty thousand feet..."

"Now, by following this woman, we've come within ten thousand feet! Perhaps... perhaps we can use her to pluck the heavenly dream divine fruit!"

The two Vicious Beasts looked at each other, both understanding what the other was thinking, and stopped their attacks simultaneously.

"Little girl, we'll give you a chance to live! Lead us to the divine tree obediently, and we can swear a Heavenly Dao Oath never to harm you!" one of the Vicious Beasts spoke.

"That's right! We can even give you a share of all the heavenly dream divine fruit on the tree!" the other Vicious Beast added.

Shi Yunmeng stopped her steps, turned to glance at the two beasts, then fixed her gaze on Lin Bei in the distance, a faint smile appearing on her lips again.

"I need one month. Don't worry!"

"Hmph! Refusing a toast only to drink a forfeit!" Ignored, the two Emperor-level Vicious Beasts flared up in anger and abruptly resumed their attacks.

"Then you only have your bad luck to blame..." This time, Shi Yunmeng did not flee; instead, she extended a jade-like finger and pointed at the two beasts.

*Whoosh! Whoosh!* Two branches appeared in front of the two Vicious Beasts as if teleporting from ten thousand feet away, giving them a gentle flick.

*Poof!* Like bubbles bursting, the two Great Emperor-level Vicious Beasts had no power to resist the flick of the divine tree's branches and instantly vanished into nothingness.

"Holy cow!" Lin Bei's eyes lit up. Not bothering to finish off Wei Zhentian, he rushed toward Shi Yunmeng's location.

"Fairy! Fairy Yunmeng! Flick me! Come, flick me as much as you want!"

His impatient manner left the trembling Wei Zhentian and the others feeling utterly bewildered.

"My god! Is this guy a masochist?" Xiong Ermao scratched his head.

"Don't talk nonsense!" Xiong Damao snapped back to his senses and continued his charge toward the Zerg Empress.

Shi Yunmeng looked at Lin Bei, equally speechless. "Controlling the divine tree to attack is still a bit difficult for me right now. In a month—if you still want it in a month—I promise to flick you a few more times!"

She waved her hand, and twenty heavenly dream divine fruits flew over, hovering before Lin Bei's eyes.

"I can only give you this many. Any more would damage the divine tree and affect my refining..."

"Refining?" Lin Bei was stunned. "You're going to refine this tree?"

"Yes!" Shi Yunmeng nodded. "This place will be completely sealed off for the next month, and no one will be able to enter. Be careful!"

"There won't be any danger in refining it, will there?" Lin Bei pressed.

Shi Yunmeng smiled, appearing very happy. "Don't worry, it belonged to me in the first place!"

"Belonged to you?" Lin Bei was somewhat puzzled.

Shi Yunmeng didn't explain further. She turned and took a single step, appearing right beneath the white divine tree.

Looking at the thousand-foot divine tree, a look of reminiscence flashed in her eyes as she raised her hand to gently stroke the trunk.

*Boom!*

Suddenly, with the heavenly dream divine tree as its center, a vortex that affected the entire Dream Sea instantly took shape.

"Eh?" Being closest to the center of the vortex, Lin Bei immediately discovered that it only swallowed the white mist and had no effect on anything else.

Just then, a mechanical arm reached out from the Void Realm, grabbing for the heavenly dream divine fruits in front of him.