125: Chapter 125: The Demon Tree Gains Intelligence

Lin Yuan closed the villa door, shutting out Bai Ye's shock.

He walked to the center of the living room and sat cross-legged on a cushion.

The Divine Power within his body had boiled to the extreme.

The barrier of the fifth turn of the demigod Realm was covered in cracks under the impact of the surging energy.

He no longer suppressed it, fully releasing his intent.

The phantom of the Divine Godhead Fragment fused within the divine fire revolved.

The fifth divine ring rapidly condensed and formed on the periphery of the divine fire.

Fifth turn of the demigod Realm, achieved.

Lin Yuan opened his eyes, feeling the difference between the fourth and fifth turns.

The fourth turn is Law resonance, while the fifth turn is internal Law circulation.

Divine Power forms a complete closed loop within the body, significantly reducing consumption and explosively increasing recovery speed.

Every movement carries a miniature Law force field.

He raised his right hand, and a mass of dark golden Divine Power condensed in his palm, neither dissipating nor extinguishing.

This was impossible at the fourth turn; the external environment would assimilate the leaking Divine Power.

Lin Yuan smacked his lips.

"Not bad."

He carefully sensed the changes in his body once more.

The Breakthrough process was uneventful.

There was no pain of tearing the Soul, nor any life-or-death struggle.

His Foundation was too profound.

Fusing the Divine Godhead Fragment of the End and Origin, plus the feedback from an entire Diamond Rank plane.

His Foundation had long surpassed that of ordinary True God seedlings.

In the demigod stage, the reshaping of the divine body at the third turn and the prototype of the Divine Godhead at the seventh turn are the two great watersheds that are difficult to cross.

For other Realms, as long as the resources are sufficient, it happens naturally.

If nothing unexpected happens, he will not encounter any Bottleneck before breaking through to the seventh turn.

Lin Yuan brushed the dust off his combat suit, no longer focusing on his own Realm.

Compared to the increase in strength brought by the fifth turn, the Breakthrough of the Wasteland Divine Domain and the transformation of the Demon Tree were the real highlights.

He closed his eyes, his Mental Energy sinking.

Descending into the Wasteland Divine Domain.

Coming into view, a vast expanse of 3.2 million square kilometers unfolded.

Lin Yuan hovered in the high sky, looking toward the Central Basin.

The center of the Blood Abyss Sea.

The Tyrant Demon had already been wrapped in a layer of fluid giant cocoon.

On the surface of the giant cocoon, the Titan gravity field and the Void Realm Shadow Stealth Law flickered alternately.

It was charging towards the Diamond Rank.

It was not just the Tyrant Demon.

The volcanic crater in the Extreme North.

Some Calamity Fire Spirits also turned into a mass of pitch-black karmic fire, sinking into the deepest part of the magma.

The underground insect nest.

The Zerg Sovereign hung upside down on the highest bone spur.

A layer of pure black metal shell formed on the surface of its body.

Before its consciousness fell into slumber.

The Zerg Sovereign handed over command to the four thousand elite Zerg below that possessed the Zerg Sovereign trait.

The Zerg Sovereign's compound eyes flickered, transmitting the final mental command.

"Guard the territory, reproduce, and expand."

It glanced toward the direction of the Extreme North.

Maintain its position as the third-ranked in the divine domain.

If the opportunity is right, suppress that bunch of bone racks playing with fire in the volcanic group and snatch the second-ranked position.

As for the leader...

The Zerg Sovereign subconsciously touched its own chest.

The exoskeleton broken by the Tyrant Demon last time seemed to still be aching faintly.

The position of the leader should be left to that madman.

It dared not think about it.

The command was issued, the Zerg Sovereign closed its compound eyes, and its aura was completely restrained.

The deepest part of the insect nest.

The meat-mountain body of the Zerg Queen was writhing violently.

She did not need to enter seclusion.

Her evolutionary path was different from all her kin.

She only needed to devour.

The wreckage of Plane 093, which had been forcibly dragged in, was being cut and transported by tens of millions of Worker Insects and delivered into her mouthparts.

The Queen was eating frantically.

Her abdomen expanded, and she continuously laid insect eggs emitting a purple-black light from her tail end.

A new generation of Heaven-Devouring Zerg broke out of their shells.

As soon as they were born, they possessed the Zerg traits of Plane 093.

After these new-generation Zerg grew up, their strength would be fed back to the Queen through the Bloodline contract.

Generation after generation, the cycle repeated.

As long as the Zerg were not wiped out, her power would rise infinitely.

Lin Yuan shifted his gaze from the underground, looking toward the sky and the ocean.

The world was expanding.

The dome rose by more than tens of thousands of meters.

The tributaries of the Styx spread to the edge of the new continent.

The Black Gold Blade-Feather Demon Vulture shuttled through the clouds, and the Scarlet Flying Blade Bone Fish tumbled in the Styx.

The largest Demon Vultures and Bone Fish had already reached the Platinum Peak in aura.

But their potential and Foundation were far inferior to kin like the Tyrant Demon, Fire Spirit, and Zerg.

Facing the opening of the Wasteland Divine Domain's status, they did not immediately trigger the opportunity to break through their Rank.

Lin Yuan watched all this with cold eyes.

The sky and ocean clans also benefited from the expansion of the divine domain.

The territory became larger, and resources became more abundant.

But these benefits were far inferior to the leap brought about by the Zerg devouring the homologous plane.

The overall strength of the Heaven-Devouring Zerg was expanding at a terrifying speed.

"If they don't fight with their lives, sooner or later they will be eaten clean by the bugs." Lin Yuan muttered to himself.

The Law of the Wasteland Divine Domain has always been survival of the fittest.

He did not favor any single clan.

Even if the Violent Demon Race were one day slaughtered by the Zerg or Fire Spirit during internal strife, he wouldn't even blink.

Organisms that cannot adapt to the Wasteland do not even have the qualification to become cannon fodder.

Lin Yuan withdrew his gaze.

The edge of the divine domain.

The new territory of over two million square kilometers appeared extremely empty.

Dark purple soil and broken bone-like mountain ranges were intertwined.

This would take time.

It required millions of sub-trees to take root, and kin to reproduce and occupy it.

He took one or two glances, then stopped paying attention.

Lin Yuan flashed, descending directly above the Central Basin.

His gaze fell on the giant tree that pierced the sky and earth.

[Liquid Metal Blood-Devouring Demon Tree].

The transformation was completely finished.

Its current size could no longer be measured by conventional scales.

The trunk was as thick as a divine mountain supporting the firmament.

Its branches and leaves were lush, covering half the sky of the Wasteland.

On the dark golden bark, gray-purple World Law patterns flowed.

Lin Yuan pulled up the divine domain panel to check the brand-new attributes of the Demon Tree.

[Building Name: Liquid Metal Blood-Devouring Demon Tree]

[Rank: Epic Top-tier]

[Current Status: Awakened]

[Trait 1: Immortal Life (Epic-tier Enhancement). Roots penetrate the earth veins. As long as the divine domain is not completely annihilated, the Demon Tree's main body can instantly extract earth vein energy to complete self-healing upon suffering any physical/energy damage. Self-healing speed increased by ten thousand times.]

[Trait 2: Law Devouring (Epic-tier Enhancement). Can forcibly devour and deconstruct any Law power, plane core, or world wreckage that does not exceed its own Rank. Converts them into pure Wasteland Divine Domain Origin.]

[Trait 3: Void Anchoring. The Demon Tree's root system can pierce the divine domain's crystal wall and take root in the endless Void Realm. Continuously absorbs free energy from the Void Realm to feed back into the divine domain, accelerating the expansion speed of the divine domain.]

[Trait 4: Mother of All Things. The dark abyss spiritual energy released by the Demon Tree carries a trace amount of the "End and Origin" Law. Kin that absorb this spiritual energy for a long time are more likely to trigger Law comprehension.]

[Trait 5: Transcendent Flesh (Can produce 10 additional Epic-tier living metal meat cocoons per month, greatly increasing the probability of the devourer breaking through their Rank).]

[Trait 6: ...]

...

Lin Yuan looked at the data on the panel, his breathing slowing down.

From Transcendent low-tier, it skipped several small segments directly to Epic Top-tier.

Ten thousand times self-healing, devouring world wreckage, taking root in the Void Realm, catalyzing mutations...

Any one of these traits, if taken out, could be described as perverted.

As long as the Demon Tree does not fall.

The Wasteland Divine Domain can operate like a perpetual motion machine amidst endless plundering.

Just as Lin Yuan was about to close the panel.

A sudden change occurred.

On the trunk of the Demon Tree, liquid metal suddenly began to gather.

The fluid writhed and intertwined.

On the surface of the trunk, thousands of meters above the ground, a contour slowly emerged.

Lin Yuan narrowed his eyes, his figure descending and hovering in front of this contour.

It was a face.

A human face intertwined with liquid metal, World Law, and dark abyss spiritual energy.

There were no details of facial features, only the outline of a pair of tightly closed eyes and a slit of tightly pursed lips.

Just the area of this face was as large as hundreds of football fields.

Lin Yuan stood before it, like a speck of dust.

Boom.

A low rumble came from within the Demon Tree.

The outline of the tightly closed eyes slowly opened.

One man and one tree looked at each other in mid-air.

An extremely vast yet incredibly pure mental fluctuation diffused from that human face.

This fluctuation held no hostility.

Only a kind of newborn confusion and an instinctive closeness to Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan was stunned.

He looked at this face, stormy waves rising in his mind.

An Epic-tier building had actually awakened sentience.

In the Federation's textbooks, a building is just a building.

Even a Divine-Grade building is just a tool that operates rigidly according to the rules set by the creator.

Only living organisms deserve to possess a Soul.

But the Demon Tree before him broke this common sense.

It was alive.

Lin Yuan steadied himself, suppressing the shock in his heart.

He tentatively released a wisp of Mental Energy, touching the mental fluctuation emitted by the Demon Tree.

The moment of contact.

A low, ethereal voice, as if mixed with the superposition of billions of living beings, rang in Lin Yuan's mind.

"Mas...ter..."

The pronunciation was extremely stiff, like a baby who had just learned to speak.

But the pressure contained within it made all the Tyrant Demons in the Blood Abyss Sea below tremble uncontrollably.

"Can you think?" Lin Yuan asked directly using Mental Energy.

The Demon Tree was silent for a few seconds, seemingly understanding Lin Yuan's meaning.

Then, the huge metal human face twisted slightly.

"I... am awake, I... am hungry."

Lin Yuan speechlessly held his forehead.

Simple, direct.

As expected of something birthed by the Wasteland Divine Domain.

In its mind, besides eating, there was only getting stronger.

"If you are hungry, go eat." Lin Yuan issued the command.

"The energy in the Void Realm, and those useless mineral veins underground, you can extract whatever you want."

The Demon Tree's human face did not respond again.

It slowly closed its eyes.

The contour of the face re-merged into the trunk and disappeared.

The next second.

The entire Wasteland Divine Domain shook.

The Demon Tree's root system surged, piercing the crystal wall at the edge of the divine domain and plunging into the violent Void Realm turbulence outside.

A massive amount of Void Realm energy was forcibly extracted and poured back into the divine domain along the root system.

The new territory, which would have taken years to stabilize, began to harden its geological structure rapidly under the irrigation of this energy.

Lin Yuan stood in mid-air, feeling the concentration of Spiritual Qi within the divine domain rising once again.

He turned his head and glanced at the direction of the Void Realm turbulence.

The Demon Tree gaining sentience meant that it could judge the situation autonomously when Lin Yuan was not around.

It could even control millions of sub-trees to hunt down intruders.

The defense system of the Wasteland Divine Domain had filled in its most perfect puzzle piece.