286: The Enlightenment Tree was so frightened by the hand-made Five Elements Divine Object that it lost a limb!

The gray deathly silence in the treasury receded like a tide, replaced by a heart-pounding calculation.

Lu Sheng ignored Luo Tianfei, who was slumped in the corner, still questioning her life.

He closed his eyes slightly, and when he opened them again, the gray pupils representing desolation and withered silence had faded, replaced by two high-power golden lamps.

[Dragon Eyes — Activated].

"Buzz—"

This time, his gaze was no longer drawn to those glittering weapon racks.

Under the perception of the Super God-Tier Sequence, the so-called "Heaven Rank Divine Weapons" and "Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Pills" had their surface treasures peeled away layer by layer, revealing the mottled, fragile, and even Impurities-filled energy structures within.

"Too brittle."

Lu Sheng curled his lips, a look of disdain on his face.

A Dragon created from this kind of trash would just be a hollow shell; it probably wouldn't even withstand the bone fragments of his own Primordial Desolate Heaven Dragon.

What he wanted was the source.

The remnants of rules.

His gaze pierced through the treasury's layers of Restrictions, bypassed those so-called treasures, and finally locked onto the treasury building itself.

"Interesting."

A playful arc curled at the corner of Lu Sheng's mouth as he took heavy steps toward the dusty, unremarkable blue stone wall on the east side of the treasury.

Luo Tianfei huddled in the corner, her heart racing as she watched Lu Sheng's back, which looked as if he were about to devour someone.

"What... what is he doing?"

"There are clearly treasures on those racks, so why is he staring at a wall?"

In the next second, Lu Sheng answered her with action.

"Shatter... for me!"

Lu Sheng made no fancy movements; he simply swung his fist, covered in gray-white bone armor, and smashed it hard against the wall that was inscribed with tens of thousands of defensive Formations and claimed to be able to withstand the bombardment of a Peak Spirit King.

Rumble————!!!

The entire independent Small World shook violently.

Before the "Primordial Desolate Power," that indestructible wall was as fragile as a damp biscuit, instantly exploding into a hole ten meters in diameter.

Rocks flew, and dust billowed.

But it wasn't over yet.

[myriad things furnace — Activated!]

"Inhale!"

An extremely domineering suction force erupted.

The blasted rocks, wall fragments, and even the soil beneath the foundation were all swept up by this suction and stuffed into that black hole like dumped trash.

"Crazy..." Luo Tianfei's eyes widened, her voice trembling, "What is he... doing?!"

This was the ancestral treasury of Dengxian Island!

It was one thing for this guy to take the treasures, but now he's even stripping the wall? What kind of bandit is this?!

However, Lu Sheng had no time to pay attention to her shock.

The myriad things furnace operated frantically, its internal golden flames acting like a millstone, grinding, decomposing, and refining those tons of construction waste.

Deep inside that wall, there was an extremely minute, golden dust that was invisible to the naked eye.

That was "Resting Earth."

Although it was just dust tainted with a hint of Mother Qi of the Earth, for Lu Sheng, it was enough.

"Extract!"

Sizzle—

A few minutes later.

The massive amount of waste disappeared.

Lu Sheng reached out his hand, and above his palm floated a fist-sized lump of earthy yellow "mud."

It looked unremarkable and even a bit ugly.

But the moment this lump of mud took shape.

Buzz!

The surrounding space seemed unable to bear some terrifying mass, letting out an overburdened wail and visibly collapsing into a pit.

Luo Tianfei, who was still complaining, suddenly clutched her chest.

An indescribable sense of heaviness rushed over her, as if a towering mountain range had been compressed to the extreme, looming in her perception.

"This... is this the manifestation of the rules of the Earth?!" Luo Tianfei gasped, looking at Lu Sheng as if she were looking at a monster.

Digging out real gold from the ruins—is this guy's eye a microscope?

"Barely usable."

Lu Sheng weighed the mud of Resting Earth, which weighed tens of thousands of tons, and tossed it casually to float behind him.

Earth element, done.

Next is water.

Lu Sheng turned around, his gaze sweeping toward the fountain pool in the center of the treasury that had long since dried up, leaving only a puddle of foul-smelling black water.

Those were the remnants of "Weak Water."

But it was too little, not even enough to fill a tooth gap.

Lu Sheng frowned slightly, and his gaze then swept like a searchlight, finally settling on a row of weapon racks not far away.

There stood over a dozen gorgeously styled swords and sabers emitting a chilling aura.

Every single one was a "Heaven Rank High Grade" weapon enough to drive external water-system Spirit Masters crazy!

"Found it."

Lu Sheng strode over and waved his hand.

Suction erupted.

Those dozen or so precious Sharp Weapons instantly detached from the racks and flew into his palm.

"Stop!!"

Luo Tianfei finally couldn't help but scream, "That's 'Winter's Wrath'! That's the 'Sea-Overturning Saber'! Those were left by the Seniors of Dengxian Island..."

"Snap!"

A crisp sound of metal snapping interrupted her scream.

Lu Sheng remained expressionless, and as if snapping a few disposable chopsticks, he applied force with one hand and snapped the divine sword named "Winter's Wrath" into two!

"Wail—!!"

Inside the sword body, a blue weapon soul phantom let out a piercing scream before shattering into a sky full of light spots.

Luo Tianfei's heart was practically bleeding, and her whole body was trembling.

Those were meant for killing enemies! Those were works of art!

How could you snap them like scrap metal?!

"So noisy."

Lu Sheng cold-eyed her, "Trash is trash; even if it's gold-plated, it's not fit for the table."

To him, the messy Formations and inscriptions mixed into these weapons were all Impurities.

Only the "Weak Water Essence Gold" deep within the Ten-Thousand-Year Cold Iron used to forge these weapons was what he wanted.

Crack! Crack! Crack!

Dense sounds of shattering echoed in the treasury.

Over a dozen priceless weapons turned into a pile of scrap metal within seconds.

Lu Sheng threw these remains, along with the puddle of black water at the bottom of the fountain, into the myriad things furnace once again.

Boom—

Flames rose.

A moment later.

A black water droplet, through which even light could not escape, slowly emerged.

It was only the size of a fingernail, quietly floating at Lu Sheng's fingertip.

There was no momentum of crashing waves.

Only a deathly aura enough to submerge everything and corrode all things.

"Three thousand miles of Weak Water, but I only take one pearl."

Lu Sheng nodded in satisfaction and flicked the black pearl behind him.

At this point.

Metal (Primal White Mother Gold), Fire (Red Lotus Karmic Fire), Earth (Resting Earth), Water (Weak Water Pearl).

Four of the Five Elements had been obtained.

Only the final wood element remained.

Lu Sheng looked around.

There were indeed many Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Woods in the treasury, but under his Dragon Eyes scan, they were all superficial items with Spiritual Qi only in their bark.

"All fire wood."

Lu Sheng shook his head in disappointment.

Suddenly, as if he had thought of something, his consciousness abruptly sank into his body.

Inside the gray spiritual source space.

The enlightenment tree, which had just advanced and seemed a bit withered due to contributing the Chaos fruit, stood quietly in the center.

Lu Sheng's consciousness Incarnation descended.

He didn't speak.

Only those vertical pupils, glinting with gray-white deathly silence, stared fixedly at this divine tree.

That look was like a starving butcher sizing up his own pig to see if it would be better steamed or braised.

"Rustle..."

The enlightenment tree shuddered violently, all its leaves shaking frantically and making a terrified sound.

It had gained sentience.

It felt the malice of the terrifying existence who had just crushed its former tenant (the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon) in the mental world.

It was a naked threat: "If you don't give something, I'll uproot you."

In the next second.

An extremely human-like scene occurred.

"Snap!!"

Without any hesitation.

The enlightenment tree's two thickest main branches, within which flowed rich Wood-element life rule vitality, actually snapped themselves off!

Not only that.

It also controlled several large leaves to thoughtfully wrap the two broken branches tightly and tremblingly delivered them before Lu Sheng's consciousness.

That appearance was exactly like a poor soul who proactively takes out his wallet when encountering a robber.

"At least you're sensible."

The fierce light in Lu Sheng's eyes receded, and his consciousness, carrying the emerald broken branches filled with vast life force, exited the spiritual source space.

In the real world.

Lu Sheng opened his eyes, a vibrant green light cluster in his hand.

At this point.

Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth.

Five top-tier divine objects capable of supporting the rules of a Small World were all collected!

They floated around Lu Sheng; although they were of different shapes and small in size, the rule fluctuations they emitted caused the space of the entire treasury to distort slightly.

Lu Sheng looked at these five things, and his mouth slowly widened, revealing those two rows of snow-white fangs.

That smile was ferocious, fanatical, and exuded a domineering air of controlling everything.

"The final three Dragons..."

"Get out here... and get to work!"

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