“Begging for your life often falls on deaf ears. The weak have no right to decide their fate. If I was weaker and you were stronger, you wouldn’t act like this and would have shown another standing.”
Li Mo absorbed thick spiritual energy from the tree spirit’s head. Although spiritual energy was everywhere, the spiritual energy from the tree spirit’s body was far purer than the spiritual energy from plants by thousands of times.
The tree spirit’s body kept shivering as Li Mo absorbed.
After a while, Li Mo removed his hand and the tree spirit, who’s body color faded a lot, collapsed paralyzed. But crawled back up immediately. It took a step with its legs which were as short as radishes and working every ounce of energy to run a few meters and enter a large tree with a leap.
One day and night later, Li Mo ended his cultivation as he stood. Throughout this time, his joints popped, his bones grew denser and his muscles tightened. His body was now a lethal weapon, even without the use of techniques.
Over the course of the night, he achieved Foundation!
Foundation was the basics of cultivation. So important, that only those who completed Foundation could begin to truly cultivate.
After Foundation was attained, one was no longer ordinary.
Black filth covered every inch of his body and Li Mo looked for a water source to wash his clothes and take a bath.
Li Mo walked out of the water with a sparkling skin, like snow. His entire being was full of vigor. Now that he attained Foundation, not only his body was refined, even his aura went through changes.
“Not bad. This way I finally give off a hint of Arcane Overlord’s demeanor.”
Li Mo was very pleased. He put on the soaked clothes and then his whole skin turned scarlet. In but moments, the water from his clothes evaporated.
“If Hellfire Overlord catches wind of me using his True Fire Technique to dry clothes, he’s bound to blow a gasket, ha-ha.”
Thinking of Hellfire Overlord’s twisted face from rage, Li Mo couldn’t help but laugh.
Li Mo walked before a large tree and spoke simply, “Come out.”
The tree spirit pushed out its head and looked at Li Mo with dread. It shivered as it came out of the tree and walked with difficulty before Li Mo. It groveled, and even extended its head.
His actions seem to say as if it was resigned to his fate, presenting its head by its own volition to Li Mo to wring spiritual energy.
Li Mo smiled and placed his hand on its head. The tree spirit shivering was worse. Before, he absorbed half of its spiritual energy, and if he took its other half, it would keel over and die.
“Remember it well.”
Li Mo’s hand flashed green, and a cultivation method poured into the tree spirit’s head.
“This is Verdant Tree Overlord’s first-rate wood attribute cultivation method, Verdant Tree Art. I took half of your spiritual energy, and this will be what I give in return!”
The tree spirit was scared at first, but as Li Mo poured the cultivation method, it calmed down. It opened its plump eyes committing the cultivation method to memory.
Whoosh.
Hum~.
When Li Mo finished transferring the cultivation method, the tree spirit’s body suddenly exploded with an ocean of green energy. In only an instant, the plants a hundred meters around it, had significant growth.
“Wu wu!”
The tree spirit watched his surroundings transfixed. His face was filled with joy that he started jumping around in a weird dance.
“Verdant Tree Overlord’s greatest regret in life was that he was unable to see the effect of Verdant Tree Art used by a tree spirit. This can be said that I fulfilled his dream in his stead.”
Li Mo sighed lightly.
“But now it’s six hundred years earlier. Verdant Tree Overlord isn’t dead yet. Ha-ha-ha, right. Not just him, they all are!”
The tree spirit watched Li Mo with appreciation. Li Mo smiled and its face eased up. Li Mo frowned and it shivered.
Li Mo waved his hand, “Go, and be more careful next time. You’ve ran into me but I won’t take your life. As for the others, they won’t be so forgiving.”
The tree spirit turned and ran. It ran for ten-odd meters before it stopped. It seemed to have gathered a strong determination and ran back next to Li Mo. It went down on all fours and stood still.
“You, mas… master!” The tree spirit squeezed a few words in a hoarse voice.
“Master? You can speak?” Li Mo was amazed.
The tree spirit nodded, then shook his head.
“Did you meet other humans like me?”
The tree spirit nodded.
Li Mo pressed his hand on the tree spirit’s head, but this time, it didn’t shiver.
Li Mo took a deep breath and read its memories.
The Fortune of Heaven and Earth Art wasn’t limited to absorbing just spiritual energy. It could absorb many other things, like memories. The past Li Mo seized tens of thousands of cultivation methods, most of which came from prying them from his enemies’ memories.
As he read its memories, A scene unfolded before Li Mo. Four tree spirits danced around a large tree, two small and two big. They lived a happy life for thousands of years. Until one day, when a blood covered man dropped from the heavens above and fell near the four tree spirits.
When Li Mo saw the blood man, he slightly frowned.
The four tree spirits weren’t known for their bravery, they cautiously creeped closer to the blood man. The biggest and coarsest of them knew an innate magical art. It used the Spirit Gathering Art to save the blood man from the brink of death.
The four tree spirits took turns in tending to the blood man. A year passed and the blood man gradually woke up, beginning to talk with the four tree spirits. It was also then that the tree spirits learned to talk.
Another year passed and the blood man was now at his peak. It was in that peaceful day that he turned savage, choking to death the biggest tree spirit and ate its core.
The second and third tree spirits soon followed. But when he grabbed the fourth and was about to eat him, the three tree spirit cores exploded. He couldn’t suppress it and hugged his head as he screamed at the heavens. The smallest tree spirit used this chance to burrow into a tree.
Li Mo withdrew his hand and saw tears streaming down the tree spirit’s cheeks. Reading its memories was the same as making it relive them.
“God King Blackblood.” Li Mo spoke that blood man’s name.
The tree spirit watched Li Mo in astonishment.
“The blood man who killed your friends is called Yun Tianzhan, commonly known as God King Blackblood. One of your friends still lives. When God King Blackblood ate the three tree spirit cores, it resulted in explosions inside his body, forcing him to spit one out. That tree spirit is now always by his side in the form of a pill cauldron.”
“R-r-rea…”
The tree spirit was stuttering from excitement.
“God King Blackblood’s power is average, but he trains in the Blackblood Sutra. As long as one drop of blood remains, he can come back to life. I once killed him five times, but never could I end him for good.”
The tree spirit kowtowed repeatedly when he heard that.
Li Mo smiled as he rubbed its head, “Little one, I didn’t do it for you.
“I took your spiritual energy and passed the Verdant Tree Art instead. We are now even. Ye now you call me master. Do you know the weight this word carries?”
The tree spirit raised his head with lost eyes.
Li Mo’s body began to shine. It was the effect of using the Spiritual Root. When every part of him was wrapped in light, he would leave.
The tree spirit kneeled.
“Seeing you so round, I’ll call you Greenie. If fate wills it, our paths shall cross again in the universe. You may call me master then.”
Whoosh~
Li Mo’s figure vanished.
The kneeling tree spirit took a long time before raising its head.
“As expected, not only were the coordinates for that nameless planet unrecorded, even the coordinates for coming back are off by a lot…”
Li Mo looked around the black and foreign alley and slightly shook his head.
Using a low grade Spiritual Root to Transfer was not only incapable of recording the location of the green planet, but even coming back he experienced deviation. The offset was within ten kilometers.
It was now nighttime, and Li Mo was now in the middle of an unfamiliar alley.
From behind, a gun was put to Li Mo’s head.
“Don’t move!”
