191: Seeking death

To restrict the growth of the Mad Forest, they had, within their means, depleted the resources near the Mad Forest.

This made it difficult for even Treants with the Power of Nature to rapidly grow plants.

This was also a good way to limit the growth of the Treants.

Otherwise, these Treants weren't foolish.

How could they ignore the other sides and only focus on fighting the Hellfire Ants to the death?

It was precisely because the other sides completely lacked the resources they needed to grow.

As for hatred?

That was merely a ridiculously laughable reason.

In the face of sufficient profit, it was something that could be completely abandoned.

After Etna, MacArthur also breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Lin Tianwei's extremely powerful strength had truly made him feel suffocated.

Since these Treants could make Lin Tianwei helpless, perhaps humans could also find a way to restrain Lin Tianwei.

Drive the Treants to devour the tiger?

This might be a good idea.

Indeed.

This time, the plan to drive the ants to devour the tiger failed.

But this does not mean that the plan itself was flawed.

The only problem was that they underestimated Lin Tianwei's strength and overestimated the power of Hellfire.

Who could have imagined that Lin Tianwei could single-handedly annihilate the third-ranked human restricted zone?

This was simply unimaginable for the entire Blue Star.

This was also why everyone had been silent before.

Such immense power, in fact, brought no less fear than the deep sea.

After all, while deep-sea Awakened Beasts were powerful, most were limited by terrain.

Once ashore, no matter how powerful, they were merely fish to be slaughtered.

It was precisely because of Lin Tianwei's temporary setback that the data analysis and communication channel became active.

The no longer heavy atmosphere indicated a change in everyone's mindset.

The Tiger King is not invincible!

At least these Treants could make him suffer a setback!

If so, why couldn't other Awakened creatures also make the Tiger King suffer a setback?

Or even completely defeat the Tiger King, this nightmare that lingered in everyone's hearts!

Lin Tianwei naturally wouldn't know what these people were thinking.

Even if he did, he would only scoff.

How can a sparrow know the aspirations of a swan?

With their limited perspective, how could they truly understand his strength?

The reason Lin Tianwei stopped was merely to find a more effortless method.

Thinking of this, he directly used his Talent: Spirit of Nature!

This Talent, capable of communicating with plants, might be Lin Tianwei's surprising winning strategy.

Of course, Mental Power might also be a good option.

But Lin Tianwei had just fought millions of Hellfire Ants head-on; where would he have any spare Mental Power to deal with them now?

Under the effect of Spirit of Nature, Lin Tianwei began to observe these Treants from a different perspective.

His eyes were filled with green, the green representing the Power of Nature.

This was the power of the Talent: Spirit of Nature.

It even allowed Lin Tianwei to forcibly extract the life force of these Treants.

However, facing an entire forest of Treants, even if Lin Tianwei were to extract their life force, it wouldn't be a quick process.

He naturally wouldn't do such a thankless and strenuous task.

As for fleeing in disgrace?

That was naturally impossible.

With the assistance of Spirit of Nature, Lin Tianwei quickly discerned the truth about these Treants.

They were not simple plant aggregates.

Because according to the laws of Extraordinary Genes, apart from Lin Tianwei, this bug, there simply wasn't any creature that could simultaneously wield two abilities.

Therefore, all Treants actually had one or more cores.

Using these cores as aggregation points, they fused countless Awakened Plants, which then gave birth to powerful creatures like the Treants.

However, humans had no way to study the birth of Treants.

Nor did they possess the terrifying observational abilities like Lin Tianwei.

They were even less like Lin Tianwei, who directly perceived the essence of Awakening and knew the uniqueness of abilities.

Therefore, they could not ascertain the truth about Treants.

This led them to mistakenly believe that Treants were simple plant life forms, formed by the fusion of countless plants, and that had coincidentally developed consciousness.

After all, Treants, as a life form, were common in myths and Legends; they weren't complex creatures.

This was also the misleading aspect of myths and Legends regarding the new world.

Blindly referencing myths and Legends born from human imagination would only mislead human thinking, creating limitations in thought.

Now that he had discerned the truth about the Treants, Lin Tianwei no longer had any reason to hold back.

The twenty-meter-tall Treant before him, sprawled on the ground, occupied hundreds of square meters.

Based on the strength of the Power of Nature, a total of seventeen Treant cores were hidden within its massive body.

As long as these seventeen Treant cores were completely annihilated, the remaining plants would merely be a disorganized rabble, not worth bothering with.

Thinking of this, a fierce glint flashed in Lin Tianwei's eyes.

It was time to make these Treants, who dared to invade his territory and snatch his spoils, pay the price!

Talent: Speed Burst!

Lin Tianwei's figure moved like lightning, quickly reaching the first Treant before any of the others could react.

Of course, with Lin Tianwei's terrifying speed, even if the opponent noticed, they wouldn't be able to react in time.

His Claws extended, and his tiger Claws struck out rapidly.

In just three seconds, Lin Tianwei had delivered seventeen strikes.

Each attack hit a Treant core.

The immense power prevented these Treant cores from dodging, and they were instantly torn apart.

“Ding, congratulations to the host for killing a new target.”

“Ding, Talent extraction successful. The host has obtained the Talent: Plant Aggregation (Advanced).”

“Ding, please confirm if the host wishes to use this Talent.”

“Plant Aggregation (Advanced): Advanced Talent, controls nearby plants, attaches them to oneself, and makes them one's own power.”

...“Ding, Talent extraction failed. The host has obtained one thousand three hundred and twenty Talent Fragments.”

Lin Tianwei's attacks were incredibly terrifying.

Now, bursting with full power, he instantly annihilated seventeen Treant cores.

At the same time, the system also sent a large number of kill notifications.

It was just a pity that these seemingly powerful Treants were merely aggregated by the Plant Aggregation Talent, appearing strong but lacking true substance.

They basically didn't offer any powerful Talents for Lin Tianwei.

Mostly, they provided Talent Fragments.

Of course, this was also related to Lin Tianwei not having completely killed all the plants on this Treant.

If he had killed them all, he might have acquired some strange Talents.

This also indirectly explained that the combat power of Talents cannot be judged solely by their level.

Talents that are not very high in level, if used properly, can also produce terrifying effects.

This was the fourth-ranked human restricted zone.

If Lin Tianwei hadn't discovered the secret of these Treants, he would have found them quite troublesome before his Mental Power recovered.

They were definitely not easy to deal with.

In fact, even after discovering the secret of the Treants, these Treant cores were not that easy to kill.

Although they were plants, they could move freely within the Treant's body.

In other words, if the attack speed wasn't fast enough, you wouldn't even be able to keep up with their escape speed.

Coupled with the need to break through the Treant's terrifying defense, killing them was extremely difficult.

After all, although Plant Aggregation was only an Advanced Talent, the plants they aggregated might not necessarily only possess Advanced Talents.

Only someone like Lin Tianwei could instantly deal with these Treants.

He needed to both discern the truth about the Treants and possess terrifying attack power and speed.

He had to instantly tear open their plant armor and kill them before these Treant cores could escape.

Facing Lin Tianwei's renewed attack, everyone expressed confusion.

Hadn't Lin Tianwei already attacked before?

He couldn't cause any damage to the Treants, so why would he continue to do such a meaningless thing?

Foolish? Delusional?

This time, no one dared to define Lin Tianwei that way again.

Because Lin Tianwei would prove every person who thought that wrong.

Etna stared intently at the large screen.

He always felt that Lin Tianwei wouldn't act without reason.

Sure enough, he noticed that after this attack, the Treant that Lin Tianwei had struck seemed to have changed.

Although it didn't appear to have lost its vitality and was still as verdant as ever, there was a strange change.

If one had to describe it with a word, it would be that it had lost its spirituality.

It was as if this Treant had lost its spirituality and transformed into an ordinary plant.

Etna's heart trembled.

This discovery filled him with inexplicable horror.

He couldn't help but suspect it was his imagination.

How could the Tiger King find a way to kill the Treants in such a short time?

However, the scene that followed completely shattered Etna's illusion.

Because, to his shock, those Treants greedily snatching Lin Tianwei's spoils finally reacted.

Having dispersed to quickly devour the Hellfire Ants' flesh, they actually re-aggregated.

They once again became the powerful and enormous Treant.

Roar~~~~~~~~

Several angry roars vented the Treants' fury.

They had undoubtedly sensed the death of their companions.

This time, they were no longer leisurely; they had to take Lin Tianwei, this seemingly brute-force opponent, seriously.

Otherwise, who could guarantee that the next Treant to die wouldn't be them?

Furthermore, a twenty-three-meter-tall Treant took the lead, raising its right foot and stomping down fiercely towards Lin Tianwei.

It must be said that Plant Aggregation didn't seem very useful.

However, with the concerted effort of these Treant cores, they could aggregate such a massive plant armor.

It could be considered a very good skill.

What a pity.

This seemingly world-destroying stomp could not possibly hit Lin Tianwei's body.

No other reason.

It was too slow, simply too slow!

This snail-like speed, while appearing imposing, could not possibly hit Lin Tianwei's body.

Talent: Speed Burst!

Lin Tianwei's body once again turned into an afterimage; this time, he wasn't going to hold back.

A yellow light flashed rapidly, continuously attacking the surrounding Treants.

As numerous kill notifications flashed, Lin Tianwei instantly took down eight Treants.

These were all the Treants who had dared to come and snatch his spoils this time.

As the Treant Core was shattered, the combat form, which had painstakingly aggregated, began to fall apart.

Huge chunks of plants started to fall, raising a sky full of dust.

They lay together with the corpses of the Hellfire Ants, creating a rather fitting scene.

With this, Lin Tianwei had completely dealt with these unprovoked invaders.

However, although Lin Tianwei intended to leave, the Treants, whose countless companions had been killed, had no intention of letting him go.

The roar from the Mad Forest was the best proof.

What followed was a figure that blotted out the sky.

Its height, nearly four hundred meters, was enough to completely block out the sunlight.

It completely enveloped Lin Tianwei in its shadow.

Such a terrifying Treant naturally couldn't be a simple Treant.

It was a Treant formed by the concerted effort and aggregation of countless Treant Cores.

It also represented almost the entire strength of the Mad Forest.

Since they intended to use the full strength of their entire race, they would have a head-on confrontation with Lin Tianwei.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

Every step the Giant Treant took caused a magnitude three or four earthquake within America.

Such terrifying power made everyone break out in a cold sweat.

This behemoth seemed even more terrifying than the giant beast on Sakura Island, which ranked first.

Every step it took had world-destroying power, leaving a deep footprint on the ground.

With the emergence of the Giant Treant, humanity was in an uproar.

Although they knew the Mad Forest was terrifying, they didn't know it possessed such a formidable move.

It gathered the power of the entire Mad Forest to form a Giant Treant nearly four hundred meters tall.

This maneuver astonished everyone.

Lin Tianwei, who was originally considered a behemoth, was nothing more than a younger brother in front of the Giant Treant.

He was like something that could be casually stomped into a pulp.

In their terror, most people looked at the "tiny" Lin Tianwei, and couldn't help but feel a sense of schadenfreude.

One moment you were fighting fiercely against the smaller Treants; we hope you can do the same against the Giant Treant.

With such a huge difference in size, no one would think Lin Tianwei had a Chance of winning just by looking at it.

They even began to secretly anticipate that Lin Tianwei, this major threat to humanity, would become a casualty under the Giant Treant's foot.

Of course, this was merely anticipation; those who truly understood wouldn't think Lin Tianwei would die.

After all, the difference in speed was not insignificant, which meant Lin Tianwei was already in an invincible position.

However, everyone still underestimated this terrifying Giant Treant.

A dozen Treant Cores could aggregate into a Treant as tall as twenty meters.

Not to mention the Giant Treant in front of them.

Under Lin Tianwei's perception, the Giant Treant's body was densely packed with over five thousand Treant Cores.

These Treant Cores provided the Giant Treant with sufficient mobility.

They also retained a huge surplus of power.

This surplus power was the reason it was confident it could capture and kill Lin Tianwei.

A terrifying green light flashed, making everyone's scalp tingle with its verdant intensity.

That was power condensed from a massive amount of Power of Nature.

Before Lin Tianwei could react, all the surrounding plants grew rapidly as if they had consumed some miraculous fertilizer.

They instantly formed a terrifying cage, attempting to trap Lin Tianwei within it.

This was not the most terrifying part.

If it were just a simple cage, with Lin Tianwei's incredibly sharp Claws, tearing it open would be a matter of minutes.

But this was not a simple cage.

Because at the same time it restrained Lin Tianwei, the superfluous Treant Cores also began to merge into it.

The surrounding plants continuously reinforced themselves, attempting to restrain Lin Tianwei's body.

This time, they seemed to have learned their lesson.

Not only did they strengthen the plant-formed wall of brass and iron in the direction facing Lin Tianwei.

Not only that, but they also began to move irregularly.

Treant Cores, after all, were also formed from Awakened Plants.

As long as they weren't directly torn to shreds by Lin Tianwei, they wouldn't die instantly.

Not dying instantly meant their companions could provide aid to them.

Under the effect of the Power of Nature, their injuries could be healed in no time.

An unbreakable cage.

A Giant Treant nearly four hundred meters tall.

Cumulatively, Lin Tianwei seemed to have fallen into a desperate situation.

Especially this time, Lin Tianwei's incredibly refined digging Talent could not be used.

Because underground was even more the domain of plants.

Seeing Lin Tianwei trapped, the Giant Treant also breathed a slight sigh of relief.

It was truly afraid that Lin Tianwei would be able to break free from the cage formed by a large number of plants.

In that case, with its speed, it would be utterly unable to pursue him.

Expending such a great amount of power to transform into a Giant Treant, if it couldn't completely eliminate the enemy.

For the Giant Treant, it would be a completely unprofitable endeavor.

Having such an Agility-type enemy eyeing him covetously would truly be a terrifying thing.

Thinking of this, the Giant Treant unhesitatingly took a step forward.

Plants were its best eyes.

It could detect Lin Tianwei, hidden beneath them, through the plants.

The Giant Treant believed that if this foot struck true, with its terrifying tonnage, it could absolutely crush Lin Tianwei into a pulp instantly.

And this plant cage, constructed from countless plants.

Had already begun to rapidly contract the moment it trapped Lin Tianwei.

At this point, it had shrunk Lin Tianwei's range of activity to an extremely small degree.

This step, he had nowhere to dodge!

Bang!

Although the Giant Treant was sluggish, its attack speed was not slow under the acceleration of gravity.

It instantly struck Lin Tianwei's body.

That terrifying force instantly triggered a magnitude six earthquake in America.

Such terrifying power.

Made everyone's heart clench.

They wanted to know if Lin Tianwei had been killed.

Especially those who regarded Lin Tianwei as a thorn in their side.

If the terror of the Giant Treant was unavoidable, they at least hoped that Lin Tianwei, this great enemy, would die.

Due to the existence of the plant cage, this might be the best opportunity to kill Lin Tianwei.

Next time, this extremely clever tiger would not be so easily bound by the plant cage again.

Which meant, the Giant Treant only had this one Chance to kill Lin Tianwei.

After missing it, it would only be able to watch Lin Tianwei break through its blockade.

And soar freely between heaven and earth! —

Inside the plant cage.

The dense plants completely blocked out the sunlight; this place was utterly dark and sunless.

Not a single ray of sunlight could be seen.

But for Lin Tianwei, whose six senses were extremely acute, the lack of sunlight did not affect his perception in the slightest.

He could even perceive the situation outside the plant cage.

That terrifying attack gradually approaching him.

Even the Giant Treant's sole was a formidable fifty meters long.

It could completely crush Lin Tianwei directly, grinding him into a pulp.

However, it was precisely in the face of such a terrifying attack.

An attack that everyone else would avoid at all costs.

Lin Tianwei's eyes showed no fear.

Instead, a hint of excitement appeared.

He had finally encountered an opponent that interested him, an opponent worthy of him using his full strength!

Roar~~~~~~

A terrifying tiger's roar came from Lin Tianwei's mouth, deafening.

As if unimpeded, it directly passed through the plant cage that bound him.

Spreading in all directions, resounding through heaven and earth!

However, such a resonant roar had no effect on the Giant Treant whatsoever.

After all, as a plant, it inherently had stronger resistance to Sonic Wave attacks.

But Lin Tianwei didn't expect this tiger's roar to cause any damage to the Giant Treant.

All he wanted to do was announce to everyone that he was about to unleash his own strike.

A world-destroying strike, one that could contend with the Giant Treant!

Talent: Spirit of Nature activated!

Lin Tianwei's Spirit of Nature was of an Extraordinary level.

His control over plants was stronger, not weaker, than that of the Treant Cores.

However, trying to snatch back control of these plants from countless Treant Cores was akin to a pipe dream.

But it didn't matter, Lin Tianwei had another Talent.

Talent: Plant Aggregation activated!

This Talent, acquired from the Treant Cores that Lin Tianwei had just killed, played the most crucial role.

The two powerful Talents interacted, producing a synergistic effect where one plus one was greater than two.

Bang!

A loud sound proved that Lin Tianwei had been crushed by the Giant Treant's foot.

The Giant Treant seemed unsatisfied with this and moved its leg, beginning to repeatedly rub the position where Lin Tianwei was.

It had to ensure that this terrifying opponent was utterly annihilated.

Only after it could no longer sense Lin Tianwei's presence did it finally breathe a slight sigh of relief.

He had finally eliminated this powerful and formidable opponent.

The stronger Awakened Beast was indeed him.

This tiger was truly foolish, actually helping him eliminate the Hellfire Ants, which were his natural enemies.

Since that was the case, he would reward him by making him a stepping stone for his first step in conquering and ruling Blue Star!

Thinking this, the Giant Treant looked into the distance.

It began to search for its next target.

A place suitable for plant growth, where it could become even stronger.

As for the Hellfire Forest and the Mad Forest?

This place would serve as its base, continuously producing a large number of Treant Cores.

Making it even stronger.

In a sense, although Treant Cores were dispersed plants.

The nature of plants also allowed them to easily merge and gather together.

They could be considered a single entity.

Their ambition was to fill the entire Blue Star with Treant Cores.

And with powerful Treant-men aggregated from Treant Cores.

Although doing so would destroy the ecological balance of Blue Star.

But the Giant Treant didn't care.

Because it would eventually find a way.

A way to extract energy without relying on photosynthesis.

Thinking of this, he unhesitatingly took his first step towards conquering Blue Star, heading towards Sheng City.