Chapter 58: Golden Lotus Fruit

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  The Great Hall of All Grasses

  "It's not time yet, wait a bit, it should only be a short while, this Golden Lotus Fruit will mature and fall, what you need to do is absorb it into your dantian with true yuan before it hits the ground."

  After killing Li Hua, Ji Yu reappeared and pointed to the golden lotus, saying: "When your divine soul is cultivated to the level of spiritual awareness, you can use this golden lotus fruit."

  Divine consciousness level?

  As far as Chen Yu knew, apart from those heaven-defying geniuses, ordinary Zifu Realm cultivators possessed Mind Force, Huangting Realm cultivators possessed Spiritual Sense, and Erjing Jindan cultivators possessed Divine Sense. Only after reaching the Nirvana Realm did one possess Divine Consciousness.

  Because the Sea of Consciousness has a Fuxi divine image, Chen Tai naturally is not in the ordinary ranks. Although he is now only in the Pre-Heavenly Perfect Realm, his divine soul has already condensed into thought power and can completely contend with ordinary Zi Fu Realm cultivators!

  Chen Xiao curiously asked: "What is the wonderful use of Jin Linglian fruit? Is it a treasure that nourishes the soul's power?"

  Ji Yu evaded the question and only said: "You knowing now is also useless, just focus on cultivating and improving your divine soul's power, that's the most important thing."

  Chen Xiao couldn't help but feel frustrated, realizing he still knew too little about things. Who could he blame?

  "Hmm, this spiritual spring shouldn't be wasted either. Let's collect some spiritual liquid while we can. According to my estimate, when the Golden Spiritual Lotus Fruit ripens, it will absorb all the spiritual energy in the surrounding area, and by then, nothing will be left." Ji Yu reminded, looking at the spiritual spring.

  At this moment, Chen Xiao suddenly discovered that there was a cave spirit of over a million years old following beside him, which was really an exciting thing.

  If Ji Yu wasn't around, I might have already dug up the Golden Spirit Lotus and taken it away, and wouldn't have known that when the Golden Spirit Lotus ripens, it would absorb all the spiritual energy in the surrounding area...

  Chen Xiao took out the octagonal palace bottle from the storage ring and began to crouch beside the spiritual spring to collect the spiritual liquid.

  This eight-sided palace bottle is divided into eight huge spaces, one of which contains nearly 500 kilograms of Xuanming Sha Qi condensed **, leaving seven empty spaces that can hold up to 10 million kilograms of **.

  "What a pity, there's only a short time left for the fragrance to last. Once the Golden Lotus Fruit ripens, this spiritual spring will also dry up along with it... If I had known earlier, I would have started collecting the spiritual liquid before coming here..."

  Chen Ting let out a sigh of regret, according to the speed at which the spiritual spring gushed out spiritual liquid, it was already not bad to collect 10,000 catties of spiritual liquid before the Golden Spirit Lotus matured.

  "Qiong Qi young cub, Golden Spirit Lotus... This cave-dwelling immortal, although a mere loose immortal, has incredible means, able to find such divine objects. In the past, he was probably also someone with great luck."

  Ji Yu looked at Jin Ling Shen Lian, seemingly having a sudden realization, and sighed: "What a pity, you've gotten off cheap. If we're talking about the prosperity of one's aura, this Dong Ming Xian Ren still can't compare to you."

  Chen Xiao was taken aback and shook his head: "How is that possible? In Songyan City, they all call me the Sweeping Star."

  "One must have some pride, but also should not be overly humble."

  Ji Yu disdainfully said: "Those who say you are a Sweeping Star are all fools. If you were a Sweeping Star, could you have obtained my master's true body seal? Could you have walked out of the Stellar Secret Realm? In the future, as long as you continue to work hard and cultivate, as long as nothing unexpected happens, you can completely pass through all the trials of Tianfeng and inherit my master's legacy to become a powerful figure."

  "Now, do you still think you're a broom star?"

  "No." Chen Xiao shook his head decisively. What Ji Yu said was indeed the truth, and if he denied it again, that would be hypocritical.

  "Of course not," Ji Yu said with a smile. "And now that you have the Qiong Qi young beast by your side, your luck will only get better and better."

  Chen Xiao was flattered and was about to change the subject, when suddenly he remembered something. Half a time had already passed, Su Jiao and Chai Le Tian's battle should have ended by now, right?

  As soon as this thought emerged, Chen's heart tightened. He no longer thought about how to ambush Chai Letian. As long as Chai Letian didn't die, he could go kill him at any time. But the time when the Golden Spirit Lotus fruit ripened and fell was only an instant. In comparison, the Golden Spirit Lotus in front of him was more important.

  "Get ready, it's time to grow up!"

  Ji Yu's voice exploded beside her ear, Chen Tai no longer dared to think wildly, true yuan poured into her palm, and she stared at the Golden Spirit Lotus with unblinking eyes.

  Wrapped in silky, thread-like stamens, the golden fruit, about the size of a baby's fist, seemed to be breathing, with ripples of golden light appearing on its surface.

  Splash...

  Next to the Lingquan, a powerful water column burst out and rushed towards the Jinxian Lotus. All the spiritual energy in the Baicao Temple also rushed towards it like sharks smelling blood.

  And that golden fruit was like a bottomless pit, accepting all comers, and as the spiritual energy absorbed grew more and more, the golden light on its surface became increasingly dense, increasingly dazzling, just like a small sun.

  Rumble!

  It seemed to have triggered something, and the entire Baicao Hall suddenly shook violently, with layers of transparent ripples appearing in the void around Jinling Shenlian, as if it was about to shatter at any moment.

  At the same time, an unspeakable terror pressed in from all sides, and Chen Tai, who was beside Jinling Shenlian, felt it even more strongly. His throat was like being strangled, making him gasp for breath, almost losing control of the restless true yuan inside his body!

  What a terrible omen, I heard that whenever some spiritual treasures appear in the world, they must be accompanied by all kinds of omens. This Golden Spirit Lotus is unknown what its wonderful use is, but it is obviously also an extremely mysterious existence!

  Although being oppressed by infinite pressure to the point of difficulty breathing, Chen Tai's eyes were getting brighter and brighter, and his nerves were tense to the extreme.

  Buzz!

  A sound as clear and melodious as a dragon's chant rose from the barely audible low notes, gradually becoming high-pitched and loud, finally transforming into a rolling wave of sound that shook every corner of the Baicao Hall.

  Just at this moment——

  The stem, branches and leaves of the Golden Lotus... all incinerated in a flash at a speed visible to the naked eye, while the Golden Lotus fruit wrapped in the stamens trembled slightly before falling down!

  Splash!

  Almost at the moment when the Golden Spirit Lotus Fruit fell, Chen Xiao's true yuan, which had been accumulating in his palm for a long time, transformed into a streak of rainbow light and instantly enveloped the Golden Spirit Lotus Fruit. He opened his mouth and swallowed it into his dantian, the movement was so fast that it was almost completed in an instant, as if he had practiced it countless times before.

  Success!

  Chen Xiao was a bit unbelievable, but when he felt the quiet floating of the golden lotus fruit in his dantian, he finally believed that he had indeed succeeded.

  At this moment, in his dantian, the nine pieces of true yuan condensed into cloud-like shapes that rose up in a stepped formation. At the lowest point, the golden ling fruit floated quietly, its surface continuously spitting out threads of golden light. The entire scene looked extremely harmonious and did not show any signs of abnormality.

  This also made Chen Yu feel much more at ease.

  Bang! Bang! Bang!......

  The Ling Cao Temple shook more and more violently, with huge boulders as long as 100 meters falling from the top, the walls around were also peeling off like spider webs, splashing rolling smoke and dust, and the ground was cracked into countless deep trenches that seemed to have no end.

  "It's indeed the case, the Golden Spirit Lotus is the gathering place of spiritual energy in this grand hall, and at the same time, it also maintains the balance of the entire hall. Now that the Golden Spirit Lotus has perished, the spiritual energy has also been exhausted, and the entire hall will inevitably collapse with a loud crash."

  Ji Yu's gaze swept around quickly and he said hastily: "Leave quickly!"

  As Ji Yu spoke, Chen Tai had already sensed something was amiss. Not daring to hesitate any longer, he picked up the octagonal palace bottle on the ground and immediately sprinted wildly towards the outside of the grand hall.

  Boom!

  As soon as he rushed out of the grand hall, the Baicao Hall with a radius of thousands of miles behind Chen Tang suddenly collapsed, and for a moment, giant rocks flew everywhere, smoke and dust filled the sky, and the scattered airflow was like a howling hurricane, blowing Chen Tang's face.

  "Chen Tai!" A cold and icy voice suddenly rang out.

  Chen Yao looked up and saw that about a hundred feet away, Chai Le Tian and others were standing there, including Du Qing Xi, Duan Mu Ze, Song Lin, but the only ones missing were the twin brothers from Feng Ling Academy, Du Quan and Du Kui.

  And they all had an air of fatigue that was hard to conceal, with bloodstains on their clothes, it was unclear whether it was their own or the enemy's.

  Seeing this scene, Chen Xiao had already understood that the melee in the Dian Cang Hall had ended. If his guess was correct, Du Quan and Du Kui must have lost their lives in the melee.

  But Chen Yu didn't care about these things. Du Qingxi, Duanmu Ze and Song Lin were still alive, which made him feel much more relaxed.

  "It's fine as long as you're okay." At this moment, Du Qingxi was looking over here with a complex expression, seemingly angry and seemingly bewildered...it was hard to tell.

  Chen Xiao was taken aback for a moment, was she silently blaming herself?

  "Chen Xiao, why do you want to harm us? I treated you as a brother, but I didn't expect you to be so ruthless and unrighteous!" Du Mu Ze finally couldn't hold back, saying sternly.

  Song Lin beside him also shook his head, but didn't say anything.

  Am I heartless and unrighteous?

  Chen Xuan's heart suddenly surged with a trace of anger, pointing at Chai Le Tian and asking: "Since you regard me as your brother, why didn't I see you stand up for me when he threw me into the abyss? Not only that, but you've also been following him all along. I'd like to ask you, what qualifications do you have to say this?"

  Du Mu Ze's expression was delayed, and he was speechless with a dumb mouth.

  Du Qingxi and Song Lin's expressions also became unnatural upon hearing Chen Tang's words.

  "I know that behind this Xing Chai, there is an old ancestor of the Ming Jie Sect supporting him. For the sake of his family's consideration, you don't dare and can't offend him. All of these I can understand."

  "But who is going to understand me? Am I completely ignored just because my status isn't as good as others?"

  "Besides, I only said one sentence, and it's not even certain if it would cause chaos. The purpose was simple, just to take the opportunity to kill Chai Le Tian. And because of this, you accuse me of being ruthless and unrighteous?"

  At this moment, Chen Xiao appeared unusually excited, almost like two different people from his usual quiet and taciturn personality.

  However, this also shows one thing, whether Chen Xiao admits it or not, he has already considered Du Qingxi and the others as friends in his heart.

  He was cursed as a jinx since childhood, and almost no one of the same age considered him a friend. Du Qingxi and his three friends were the first batch of friends he had made in 16 years, although they were just ordinary friends and couldn't reach the level of being close enough to share their hearts with each other. However, he cherished this friendship extremely.

  It's also because of this that Chen Tang became so excited.

  Du Qingxi and the other two fell silent, Chen Xiao's words making them unable to muster any desire to make excuses. This was a fact, they couldn't deny it.