Zhang Chen’s Devouring Space couldn’t devour the power of the Heaven-Reaching Jianmu.
At this moment, Zhang Chen looked at the immovable Heaven-Reaching Jianmu inside the Devouring Space and was instantly dumbfounded. If the Devouring Space couldn’t devour the Heaven-Reaching Jianmu, wasn’t his effort in vain?
"I was so foolish! Before cutting the Heaven-Reaching Jianmu, why didn’t I consider whether my Devouring Space could devour it? I must remember that the Heaven-Reaching Jianmu is a Heaven and Earth Spirit Root, its status is equivalent to that of an Innate Spiritual Treasure!" Zhang Chen felt rather flustered, feeling genuinely foolish.
But who is Zhang Chen?
He quickly realized that he possessed the Authority of Wood Element. Although the Devouring Space couldn’t devour the Innate Jianmu, by using the Authority of Heaven and Earth to assist, he could suppress the powerful Innate Power within the Heaven-Reaching Jianmu, couldn’t he?
With a thought in his mind, the Authority of Wood Element was deployed, suppressing the Heaven-Reaching Jianmu until it was devoured by the Devouring Space like a lamb to the slaughter.
As the Devouring Space performed its techniques, in the next moment the Devouring Space exerted force, and Zhang Chen’s points began to soar.
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The Heaven-Reaching Jianmu is truly a remarkable Innate Spirit Root. Even though it was merely a common sapling, it still contained unbelievable creations.
Moreover, it is a living Innate Spirit Root ranked first among all Heaven and Earth Spirit Roots; the creations contained within it are naturally unimaginable.
Additionally, after Zhang Chen’s daily blessings over two cycles, over tens of thousands of years, it had accumulated unique Innate Creations, which had grown to an unimaginable size.
The power of the Innate Spirit Root is already not weaker than various Innate Divines. The Bodhi Tree can even transform into the Jieyin Saint, let alone the top-ranked Heaven-Reaching Jianmu?
With Zhang Chen’s final allocation of points, his Golden Finger Interface flickered, and the information refreshed:
[13 Skills (Twelfth Tier): Devouring Space (0\25600000000)]
[Note 1: Area 1 million cubic]
[Note 2: Can devour Twelfth Tier Mysterious]
[Points: 256000000000]
"Finally got enough!" Zhang Chen looked at the Golden Finger Interface, feeling a bit tearful.
"Upgrade for me!"
Without a second thought, Zhang Chen pressed down on the Golden Finger Interface.
In the next moment, the Golden Finger Interface distorted and flickered:
[13 Skills (Law Level): Devouring Space (0\100)]
[Note 1: Area Endless Void]
[Note 2: Can devour Unknown Tier Mysterious]
Zhang Chen finally possessed another Divine Technique that had broken through to the Law Level, the Devouring Space had now evolved into an Endless Void, containing infinite space.
As for the data following the Devouring Space, it represents Zhang Chen’s level of comprehension of the Law of Devouring, or the level of points allocation.
"But I haven’t yet sensed any points that could be used to allocate to Law Level Divine Techniques." Zhang Chen’s eyes showed a hint of contemplation. He felt that the points needed to allocate to Law Level Divine Techniques might not be ordinary points but rather extremely unique energy points.
"I don’t know if my Devouring Space has any devouring power against the power of the Corpse Dao in my body. If I can devour the power of the Corpse Dao in my body, then my seven Dragon Pearls can be saved, since they’re also treasures. Once my Mountain-moving Technique improves another level, it will surely be of great use," Zhang Chen felt an eagerness stirring in his heart. The next moment, his flesh reassembled, then that extremely bizarre force came back once more, and Zhang Chen hurriedly activated the Devouring Space to devour that force.
As a pulling force emanated from Zhang Chen’s body, that bizarre force did not resist the tug of the Devouring Space. It was directly drawn by the pulling force into the Devouring Space, and in the next moment, the bizarre force entered the Devouring Space, covering the entire Devouring Space with a layer of gray-white color. The Devouring Space then cracked, and Zhang Chen’s flesh turned into decaying flesh again, finally turning into dust.
"What? How is it possible!!! My Devouring Space exceeds the existence of the Twelfth Tier, reaching the Law Level, but facing those strands of peculiar force, there’s literally no means of blocking it at all. This is simply astonishing! That’s a ’Fruit’ Level Devouring Space!!!" Zhang Chen’s eyes were filled with disbelief:
"What’s the origin of that peculiar force? What level is it? How could it be so extraordinary?"
The strength of this force shocked Zhang Chen, leaving him dumbfounded, his mind in a chill of fear.
No wonder the things in the great tomb could stand against the Princess, even expelling the Princess from the fifth heaven of the Spiritual World, if even a slight force of this creature is this strong, how profound could its own cultivation be?
"I was still too reckless, underestimating the power of those ancient beings, underestimating their means. I thought I could probe these ancient beings a bit with the Soul Hooking and Soul Stealing skill, but it seems I overestimated myself."
"Those entities from ancient times should never be underestimated! I am still too weak now, unable to endure even the faintest breath of them," Zhang Chen thought in shock.
The Devouring Space was unable to resolve such a force, and currently, Zhang Chen could only rely on the Authority of the Wood Element.
"The Devouring Space is the first ’Fruit’ Level Divine Technique, theoretically, I can be considered a Fruit Level contender, but unfortunately, my Devouring Space has very great limitations. To devour and digest the opponent, I need to pull the opponent into my own Devouring Space, yet Devouring Space can only act inwardly, refining existences beyond the Twelfth Tier within the space, but unable to affect beings outside the space." Zhang Chen couldn’t help feeling a little regretful, having painstakingly achieved a Fruit Level Divine Technique but unable to use it in combat, isn’t it rather useless? Wasting Zhang Chen’s massive accumulation, wasting the Heaven-Reaching Jianmu.
Sadly, to survive, Zhang Chen had no choice but to do so.
"For now, I can’t care so much. Let’s see if I can digest the seven Dragon Pearls first. If the Devouring Space can’t digest those seven Dragon Pearls, I’ll really be crying!" Zhang Chen muttered as he began activating the Devouring Space to digest those seven Dragon Pearls. As the devouring power was activated, the seven Dragon Pearls began to decompose continuously, with power converting into unknown energy by the Devouring Space.
"It works!!!" Zhang Chen was excited, his eyes showing a hint of happiness: "Not bad! Not bad at all! It was worth all this trouble, as long as it works, it works!"
Zhang Chen kept praising continuously, but soon his smile became slightly stiff: "Although the Devouring Space can decompose the Dragon Pearl, isn’t the decomposition speed too slow?"
Looking at the small particles peeling off from the Dragon Pearl, Zhang Chen felt that even if he continued refining for another ten thousand years, he would hardly refine all seven Dragon Pearls.
However, this problem couldn’t stump Zhang Chen, as he activated the Golden Scissors. The next moment the Golden Scissors turned into two beams of black and white light from the void, directly stirring against the Dragon Pearl, leaving a deep cut on it, from which countless fragments shattered, speeding up his Devouring Space’s devouring process.
"The power of the Golden Scissors has not yet recovered, although provided with Innate Spiritual Qi from the Heaven-Reaching Jianmu, it’s like a drop in the bucket compared to the spiritual qi required for the self-repair of the Golden Scissors, yet even so, the power of the Golden Scissors still shook the Dragon Pearl, showing I had still underestimated the power of the Golden Scissors in the past," Zhang Chen mused silently.
As the Golden Scissors kept turning into two long dragons of black and white intertwining back and forth on the Dragon Pearl, about half a day passed, and the Dragon Pearl finally shattered into countless fragments, while the Golden Scissors continued to stir back and forth, grinding the fragments even more minutely.
Amid the continual grinding of the Golden Scissors, after more than half a day, one Dragon Pearl disappeared within the Devouring Space, and Zhang Chen’s gaze turned to the Golden Finger Interface:
[Points: 100120000000]
"One Dragon Pearl can provide me with a hundred billion points. What is the origin of this Dragon Pearl? You should know that the body of an Innate Water God only provided me a billion at most, can it be that the owner of this Dragon Pearl was stronger than the Innate Water God when alive?" Zhang Chen’s heart shook, a look of disbelief surfaced in his eyes.
But soon Zhang Chen denied this thought from his heart, firstly: the Dragon Pearl is the essence of the True Dragon. As for the Innate Water God’s body, it’s just the physical body, while its Innate Dao Origin relies on its Soul True Spirit, which he did not obtain.
Secondly, the Dragon Pearl has always been in the Spiritual World, where the Origin loses slowly. However, the Innate Water God was in the Material Realm, where its Origin had already mostly eroded, falling down from beyond the Twelfth Tier, so naturally, they are incomparable.
Thirdly, the Dragon Pearl was refined by the owner of the thatched cottage, and during the process of sacrificial refining, countless Heavenly and Earthly Treasures would certainly be added, so the energy provided far exceeds that of the Innate Water God’s body, which is normal.
"One Dragon Pearl can provide a hundred billion energy points, enough to boost my Sun True Flame to the twelfth tier, or even surpass the twelfth tier..." Zhang Chen was quite tempted at this moment, suddenly considering whether elevating his cultivation level might give him a chance to resist that force.
But thinking about how his own Devouring Space was destroyed by merely a hint of the opponent’s force, Zhang Chen’s excited mood was immediately suppressed: "Don’t think about it, even if I grind other skills to the Twelfth Tier, or even to the ’Fruit’ Level, still without finding a source for advanced ’Fruit’ Level power, my predicament won’t be alleviated. My current cultivation and my cultivation after breaking through the Twelfth Tier appear to make no difference against that force, both facing the fate of being blasted by a single encounter." Zhang Chen cleared his mind of distractions, abandoning unrealistic thoughts, and focused on studying the Dragon Pearl.