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Chapter 262 - 256 Divine Beast God-devouring Rat_1
Chapter 262 - 256 Divine Beast God-devouring Rat_1
Chapter 262: Chapter 256 Divine Beast God-devouring Rat_1
The Mole found the Fell Dragon Grass and five Divine Bones, but none of those discoveries excited it as much as this moment.
Clearly, the incredibly valuable thing it mentioned must be even more precious than the Divine Medicine and Divine Bones!
As soon as the Mole finished speaking, it teleported away, arriving over a hundred thousand li away.
This place was still a barren wasteland, and even the nature’s spiritual energy in the air was thinner, but the Mole was extremely excited, “It’s right below us!”
The Heaven Escaping Divine Turtle didn’t hesitate to break through the earth, delving a hundred li deep, and a magma cave space appeared!
Li Cheng, holding up his Law field, descended and saw that the underground magma space was only about a hundred li in size, filled with scorching heat, but that wasn’t the focus. The focus was the hundred zhang tall ancient tree growing in the center of that area!
The ancient tree had twisted roots and branches, like a bonsai magnified countless times, very artistic in appearance.
Of course, this still wasn’t the focus.
The focus was the tens of thousands of fruits enveloped in colorful light
hanging from the tree!
“This is impossible! Is it an illusion?” the Mole exclaimed in disbelief.
“You found it, and you’re calling it impossible?” the Heaven Escaping Divine
Turtle said irritably, with a gleam in its eyes.
“These are Divine Fruits! Divine Fruits often only bear one or two, but there are over thirty thousand here, this makes no sense!” the Mole said incredulously.
Li Cheng took a deep breath, “You both recognize this Divine Fruit? I pride myself on having seen all the Immortal Elixirs in the world, but sadly, I know very little about Divine Medicine.”
As he spoke, Li Cheng noticed that Immortal Emperor Tianyuan was dumbstruck, which piqued his curiosity even more, “Does Immortal Emperor Tianyuan also know about it?”
Immortal Emperor Tianyuan swallowed hard, opened his mouth several times, and finally forced out: “Enlightenment Divine Fruit!”
Li Cheng raised an eyebrow; he knew about Enlightenment Fruit, but Enlightenment Divine Fruit—could it be the God Realm version of Enlightenment Fruit?
“Legend has it that if an Enlightenment Fruit tree develops Spiritual Wisdom and transforms into a specter to cultivate to the God Realm, it can bear Enlightenment Divine Fruits. One Enlightenment Divine Fruit can help a cultivator in the Immortal Emperor Realm comprehend hundreds of Laws,” explained Immortal Emperor Tianyuan.
Li Cheng then understood the true value of what they had found.
So, one Enlightenment Divine Fruit could be equivalent to undergoing several of his own moments of Enlightenment?
The effects of a single Enlightenment Divine Fruit might not impress Li Cheng, but there were more than thirty thousand in front of him!
” However, the Mole is right. Even with Enlightenment Fruits, it’s impossible to have so many. A hundred would be extraordinary, let alone Enlightenment Divine Fruits. There’s something odd here!” Immortal Emperor Tianyuan regained his composure and surveyed the surroundings.
But this place was just a cave of magma below ground, with nothing else stirring in the magma.
Li Cheng, sensing the Enlightenment Divine Fruit tree, shook his head slightly, “This Divine Tree has not yet developed spirituality, to say nothing of transforming into a specter to cultivate to the God Realm.”
“Right, and the Enlightenment Fruit tree doesn’t thrive in places like this. It should grow in a Dongtian Blessed Land, which makes this all the more peculiar!” Immortal Emperor Tianyuan nodded emphatically.
Li Cheng pondered. By reason, a Divine Tree that could grow in an ancient battlefield existing for hundreds of millions of years should have developed spiritual wisdom.
But since this one hadn’t, there could only be one possibility-its spiritual development had been suppressed by some force!
Countless deities had fallen in this ancient battlefield, and their lingering power could naturally suppress it.
But there was no sense of any residual power from deities here!
Strange!
Li Cheng looked at the Mole, “Sense again, is there something else nearby?”
The Mole nodded, its eyes shut tightly, then opened with a flicker of light within them.
Gradually, the Mole’s pupils contracted, and it quickly jumped onto the back of the Heaven Escaping Divine Turtle, shivering with fear!
“With that cowardly look, you still call yourself Elder Tu?” the Heaven Escaping Divine Turtle said in extreme annoyance.
“Calm down, what did you find?” Li Cheng frowned.
The Mole pointed downward, struggling to speak, “Below, there is great terror!”
The Heaven Escaping Divine Turtle, irritated, shook the Mole off and probed with its claws. The power of space split the magma on the ground directly.
After extending dozens of li, a light membrane from an Array actually blocked the Heaven Escaping Divine Turtle’s power of space!
Through the membrane, both the cultivators and the Divine Beasts clearly saw misty vapor swirling below, resembling a Dongtian Blessed Land.
Reaching the Array Light Membrane, they all became stunned!
What they saw was indeed a misty space, but through the vapor, they saw a Blood Lake!
In the center of the Blood Lake, a hundred zhang tall ritual altar floated, and upon closer inspection, it was clear that the altar was composed entirely of skulls!
All of those were Divine Bone skulls!
“No wonder we only found skull-less Divine Bones; the skulls are here!” Immortal Emperor Tianyuan murmured.
Li Cheng nodded, “This is a Divine Array, it blocks the dissipation of energy and completely hides this place. It would be impossible to find without breaking in, and only a creature like the Mole could have discovered it.”
From above the altar enclosed within the Divine Array’s light membrane, several root tendrils hung down.
“That Enlightenment Divine Fruit tree is above the altar; it must have absorbed some of the power from these skulls, which is why it’s borne so many Enlightenment Divine Fruits.”
“What is this altar for? These are at least a hundred thousand skulls, but there’s no sense of evil.”
Nobody answered Li Cheng’s question, as they were all still in shock.
Li Cheng eyed the Blood Lake. Had the blood and flesh of all the deities who’d fallen here been collected?
Who did this?
What for?
Surely it wasn’t for those Enlightenment Divine Fruits.
After a long silence, Immortal Emperor Tianyuan finally said, “In the last epoch, the practice of sacrificial offerings was prevalent. It was said that even to step onto the path of cultivation, an offering was necessary to begin!” “Could this War of the Gods have been for this altar we see before us?”
With so little understanding of the last epoch, it was impossible for anyone to provide an answer.