268: The flawed jade is the king (seven).

What kind of ancient tree was that?

It rose from the pitch-black abyss, as if propping up the entire grey and desolate sky.

The tree's entire body was emerald green, as if carved from the purest life emerald. Every leaf flowed with dao rhyme, and the endless life energy it emitted instantly transformed this deathly silent wilderness of the ancient road into a green divine kingdom.

Everyone was stunned by this sudden sight.

The battle came to an abrupt halt.

The expressions of the five pursuers froze, their faces filled with shock.

Wang Yun, hiding behind the giant rock, even forgot his fear.

Under the nourishment of this majestic life Aura, his weak body, tormented by illness, actually felt a long-lost warmth, and even the dull pain in his chest eased a bit.

As the instigator, Elder Mo was shaking violently at this moment. He stared fixedly at the towering ancient tree, his eyes filled with shock and disbelief.

"This... this is..."

A name buried in the deepest part of his memory, existing only in the oldest myths, surfaced in his mind.

Ancestor of Grass and Wood.

According to legend, it was the first plant spirit in this world to possess sentience; it was the Ancestor of All Trees.

As early as several eras ago, it was rumored that it had encountered a great horror and completely disappeared into the long river of time.

To his surprise, it had been sleeping beneath this desolate earth vein all along.

A strong sense of hope immediately rose in Elder Mo's heart.

The Ancestor of Grass and Wood, the source of all trees.

Its power of Origin was the purest life energy in the world, and it was precisely the best way to heal Wang Yun's destroyed Foundation.

As long as he could obtain a single drop of Origin Liquid, Wang Yun would not only survive but could even reshape his dao foundation, possessing a future even more limitless than before.

However, as soon as this hope was ignited, it was extinguished.

Elder Mo soon noticed something was wrong.

The Ancestor of Grass and Wood appeared to have a majestic Aura that covered the sky, but in reality, its Origin was already exhausted. That vast life Aura was merely its final fire of life burning unconsciously.

Its spiritual rhythm was dissipating, and the depths of its trunk were filled with Death Qi.

It was like a candle in the wind, liable to completely dissipate at any moment.

Forget about saving others; it could hardly save itself.

Hope was fleeting, and he fell into a deeper despair.

At the same time, the five pursuers also snapped back from their shock.

The leading old woman let out a laugh that was even more shrill and greedy than before.

"Hahaha! The Ancestor of Grass and Wood! It's actually the legendary Ancestor of Grass and Wood!"

"The heavens are helping me! The heavens are truly helping me!"

The eyes of the other four were also filled with madness.

A dying Ancestor of Grass and Wood was worth far more than the secret of the immortal medicine on Elder Mo's person.

They looked at each other and instantly reached a consensus.

The Pill Maniac must be captured.

But this divine tree must be seized even more.

Looking at those five faces distorted by greed, and then at Wang Yun, who was behind the giant rock with a weak Aura and completely oblivious to everything, a flash of painful determination crossed Elder Mo's eyes.

He made a decision that would change everything.

Elder Mo no longer paid attention to the five covetous pursuers.

He turned resolutely and walked step by step toward the giant ancient tree.

He reached out his wrinkled hand, which was somewhat sallow from years of Alchemy, and gently pressed it against the rough, cold trunk of the Ancestor of Grass and Wood.

"What do you think you're doing?!"

The old woman shouted sharply; she read a hint of madness in Elder Mo's eyes.

Elder Mo did not answer.

He simply closed his eyes and began to reverse his Cultivation Technique.

A golden medicinal power, filled with immortal divinity, was forcibly pushed out of his body.

That was the "Immortal Medicinal Power" that had maintained his life for several eras and granted him immortality, though only a fragmented portion remained.

At this moment, this power turned into golden streams, flowing through his arms and continuously pouring into the death-filled trunk of the ancient tree.

Elder Mo's face quickly turned pale, his white hair lost its luster, and his life force was rapidly draining away.

As he transferred the medicinal power, he condensed all his pity for Wang Yun, all his expectations, and all his unwillingness into an unquestionable will, which he struck fiercely into the nearly extinguished spiritual light of the Ancestor of Grass and Wood.

"Ancestor of Grass and Wood... please take this child... and live on!"

After receiving the nourishment of this pure Immortal Medicinal Power, the withered trunk of the ancient tree suddenly jolted.

A touch of fresh green stubbornly emerged at its very core.

The originally dissipating spiritual rhythm actually began to reconsolidate.

An ancient and ignorant consciousness awakened.

It "saw" the old man before it who was sacrificing himself to save it.

It also "heard" that Soul cry filled with the intent of entrustment.

"What a waste of god-given treasures!"

"Stop!"

The five pursuers finally reacted, shocked and furious.

They never imagined that Elder Mo would actually use the incomparably precious Immortal Medicinal Power to save a dying ancient tree.

The five of them attacked simultaneously, five powerful Divine Abilities striking fiercely at Elder Mo from five directions.

However, it was already too late.

Just as those five Divine Abilities were about to hit Elder Mo.

A branch of the Ancestor of Grass and Wood moved without any warning.

That branch, like a bolt of green lightning, instantly erupted with powerful spatial energy, ignoring distance to directly scoop up the already stunned Wang Yun from behind the giant rock.

In the next moment, the entire ancient tree radiated brilliant light.

Its massive body actually tore through the Void Realm in front of it, forming a huge spatial rift.

Carrying Wang Yun's figure, it plunged in without hesitation and vanished instantly.

All that remained was the slowly closing spatial rift and the five people standing frozen on the spot, their attacks hitting nothing.

"No!"

The old woman let out a scream of despair and rage.

The cooked duck had flown away.

And there were two of them.

The Ancestor of Grass and Wood had escaped, and the brat with the special Physique, who could make the Ancestor of Grass and Wood tear through space to flee for him, had also escaped.

All their schemes had come to naught.

Finally, their furious gazes focused on the old man who had exhausted his medicinal power and whose Aura was failing.

The Pill Maniac Quasi-Saint was still here.

He himself was a mobile, supreme treasure vault.

"Seize him!"

The old woman's voice became shrill with anger.

"Squeeze every last one of his secrets out of him!"

Elder Mo looked at the disappearing spatial rift and revealed a slight smile.

"Little Yun... live on."

He had no intention of staying to fight.

Facing the five figures lunging at him again, he directly detonated several Medicinal Pills he had already been holding in his hand.

Boom!

Poisonous miasma, violent thunder and fire, and a strange fragrance that dulled the mind... a massive chaos instantly enveloped the area.

Elder Mo's figure fled into the distance without looking back.

A long flight that would sweep across the Five Domains had begun.