Chapter 174 : Chapter 174
Chapter 174: Why Would They Share It with Us?
While everyone was still puzzled, a new sapling emerged from the spot where the small tree had disappeared just now.
Then it began growing wildly at an astonishing speed!
In the blink of an eye, it had already reached one meter, two meters, five meters, ten meters...Its branches and trunk grew thicker and thicker, while its roots became more and more developed!
In just a few dozen breaths, the great tree had already grown to several dozen meters tall, and it was still growing nonstop!
Everyone could only keep retreating.
At that moment, more than half of the Pearl Military District was shocked by the sight.
Everyone raised their heads and looked up at the towering giant tree that was growing wildly, letting out waves of astonished exclamations.
A few more minutes passed.
Even the people in the neighboring Red Moon Military District had already seen this breathtaking scene.
That was because the towering giant tree had now grown to nearly one hundred and fifty meters tall!
Only then did it slowly stop growing.
Wang Longcheng and the others looked at this heaven-shaking giant tree, their eyes wide as copper bells.
At this moment, the trunk of the giant tree was already sixteen or seventeen meters in diameter.
Its roots had also arched up from beneath the ground, thick and massive.
As for the enormous canopy above, it completely covered the sky over the newly built Tiger Roar Inner Camp and Base One.
On top of that, the entire tree was shrouded in a layer of faint, glowing white light.
The visual impact was extremely shocking.
Very soon, seven Teleportation Gates of varying shades appeared around the giant tree.
Liang Huajun and the others immediately grew tense.
If there were Teleportation Gates, then no one knew what might emerge from within.
However, Li Mu reminded everyone, “Nobody move!”
Li Mu knew that the Sub-Profound Spirit Tree Mystic Realm should have formed successfully.
However, this Mystic Realm required an activation mechanism.
As long as someone entered, the monster exit would open. Monsters would flood into the trunk, then enter the various branches.
The Mystic Realm would close when the last person left.
To exit the Mystic Realm, one needed an Exit Stone.
When the last person left, every monster still inside would transform into an Exit Stone and drop out of the Mystic Realm through the white Teleportation Gate exit.
The Spirit Tree itself would also grow some Exit Stones for the people who first entered to activate the Mystic Realm, allowing them to leave.
Even without an Exit Stone, a person could still crawl out through the Mystic Realm exit at the tip of a leaf.
However, Li Mu had no intention of taking that risk.
So he leaped up, and the Somersault Cloud instantly condensed beneath his feet.
It carried him into the sky and brought him into the dense canopy.
The thousands of soldiers were stunned when they saw Li Mu’s move.
What was that?
A cloud-shaped flying Spirit Treasure?
That was unbelievably cool! Flying Spirit Treasures and spatial Spirit Treasures had always been premium products among Spirit Treasures!
What people bought was that function, but they had never seen anything as carefree and elegant as Li Mu’s.
Among the five hundred Tiger Roar Army soldiers, the original soldiers of the Tiger Roar Army heard the bursts of exclamation from the front.
All of them unconsciously raised their chins.
They thought with great pride: Hmph! Look at you people who have never seen the world!
You have not even seen the shocking scene of Tiger Marquis Li flying above the enemy army and throwing down Heavenly Might.
Wang Longcheng and Liang Huajun also raised their heads at the same time.
The two of them had only seen this during the review of that great battle. This was the first time they had witnessed it with their own eyes from such a close distance.
Liang Huajun muttered, “He flies even more steadily than you.”
“Stop talking.”
Wang Longcheng immediately interrupted him.
After Martial Artists entered the Profound Rank, they could already remain in the air for a short time if they practiced certain specific Cultivation Arts with flying capabilities.
After Wang Longcheng reached the Profound Realm, he had only barely learned to fly after practicing a new Cultivation Art.
At the time, Liang Huajun had been with him.
Very soon, Li Mu found the Exit Stones hanging from the branches like fruit, then flew back down.
After instructing Wang Longcheng and Liang Huajun that no one was allowed to enter before he came out, he directly plunged into the Ninth Grade Teleportation Gate.
As soon as Li Mu entered the Mystic Realm, he found that this wooden tunnel was far more spacious than before.
Li Mu immediately rode the Somersault Cloud at full speed toward the end of the wooden tunnel.
Very soon, he heard deafening monster roars.
When Li Mu rushed into the spacious tree trunk, he was stunned by the sight before him.
The monsters charging out from within were not the jungle creatures from the Verdant Abyss.
Instead, they were monsters from a Ruined Abyss like the one in Ironhand City!
Moreover, the interior of the trunk was far larger than that of the previous Sub-Profound Spirit Tree!
At this moment, a distorted monster pounced at Li Mu, only for him to smash its head apart with one cudgel strike.
A large amount of Spiritual Energy entered Li Mu’s body.
Li Mu nodded in satisfaction. His one million Triumph Points finally had a source.
Watching the tide-like monsters flow through the main trunk into the branches, Li Mu calmly crushed the Exit Stone.
As soon as Li Mu withdrew from the Mystic Realm through the white Teleportation Gate, the light of the gate dimmed.
This was a sign that there were no humans left inside.
Immediately afterward, countless Exit Stones began spraying wildly out of the white Teleportation Gate!
They sprayed for more than ten full minutes.
The number of Exit Stones was estimated to be at least twenty to thirty thousand!
Even Li Mu could not help being shocked.
He turned toward the dumbfounded Wang Longcheng and the others and said, “Gentlemen, it seems we prepared too few people. Please mobilize another ten thousand people... No, mobilize the entire Military District.”
Wang Longcheng was surprised. “Do we need that many!?”
Li Mu nodded. “We may even need to mobilize the Red Moon Military District.”
Li Mu was not joking at all.
One had to know that the Pearl Military District and the Red Moon Military District combined had fewer than thirty thousand people.
This Sub-Profound Spirit Tree was far larger than the previous one by an unknown amount. If there were too few people, they simply would not be able to test the limit of how many monsters this Beckoning Sapling could summon at once!
Several dozen minutes later, almost the entire Pearl Military District had gathered near the Sub-Profound Spirit Tree. The dense crowd made one’s scalp tingle just from looking at it.
Some Squads that had returned from missions were dumbfounded the moment they came out of the Teleportation Gate.
This place was usually bustling with people coming and going, yet now it was actually an empty space!
“Was the Military District attacked by monsters? Did everyone die?”
“Shut that damned mouth of yours!”
The captain shouted.
At this moment, a soldier ran over.
“Hurry! If you have nothing urgent, go to the front of Base One Hall immediately! See that tree? That is the place!”
He pointed toward the enormous Sub-Profound Spirit Tree. Clearly, he had been left here to notify the returning teams.
The pupils of everyone in this Squad shrank at once.
When had such a massive tree appeared in the Military District?
“What happened?” the captain asked in confusion.
“Tiger Marquis Li brought back a tree called the Sub-Profound Spirit Tree. It is a cultivation Mystic Realm!”
“After you go inside, the monsters you kill will automatically turn into a large amount of Spiritual Energy and be absorbed. It is dozens or even hundreds of times faster than cultivating on your own!”
“The more you kill, the faster you improve!”
“It has not even been an hour so far, but among everyone who has gone in, one-third broke through their bottleneck before coming out!”
Every member of the Squad shouted in unison, “Whaaat!!!”
One-third of them had broken through after coming out?
What kind of divine cultivation Mystic Realm was this?
“Stop what-ing and hurry up. Right now, it is still in the testing stage and still free. Once testing is over, there is no way it will remain free to enter!”
The soldier urged them.
“Go!”
The captain shouted. The group did not even put away their horses and directly urged them into a wild gallop toward the giant tree.
More than three hours later, the news had already spread completely throughout the Red Moon Military District as well.
“Is it true? That Spirit Tree is a Mystic Realm!?”
“Did I not just come back from there? It is absolutely true. That is why I say our fate... sigh...”
This person’s tone was sour.
“What exactly is going on?”
Everyone pressed him for details.
“What is going on? Let me put it this way. As of right now, the overall strength of the entire Pearl Military District has risen by half a grade on average!!”
“What?”
“That is still a conservative estimate! According to the people who came out, killing the monsters inside directly turns them into pure Spiritual Energy.”
“So pure that you could never cultivate something like it yourself! Nutritious, healthy, and easy to absorb! Someone went from the early stage of the Fifth Grade to the middle stage of the Fifth Grade in just over two hours!”
“The most important thing is that many people are going in now, so you can occasionally run into teammates.”
“If you encounter teammates and kill monsters together, the efficiency is even higher!”
From the early stage of the Fifth Grade straight to the middle stage of the Fifth Grade?
This was not the same as going from the early stage to the middle stage of the Third Grade!
After the Fifth and Sixth Grades, only those who had reached that level knew how difficult it was to improve.
Rising by half a grade in half a month already counted as outstanding talent!
“Damn it! I already knew being born into the right family was a skill, but who knew choosing the right Military District was one too!”
One person slapped his thigh hard!
Although the others could not shout it out directly, they all had more or less the same thought.
“Holy shit, my eyes are red with envy!! Is it still in time to transfer to another Military District?”
“Can we report this upward and see whether we can go over there to get a taste of that Mystic Realm? I have really been stuck at the peak of the Fifth Grade for ages!”
“Forget it. The Pearl Military District probably does not even have enough for its own people to digest!”
“How could they possibly let us share such a sweet cake?”
The speaker was still the person who had just returned.
His tone was filled with dejection.
He had just seen it for himself. The Pearl Military District’s own people had packed the plaza to the point that it was overflowing!
How could they possibly share it with outsiders?
But just then, everyone’s Technological Watches flashed violently at the same time.
Everyone hurriedly opened their watches, and the dignified yet excited voice of Wu Yuefeng, the Commander-in-Chief of the Red Moon Military District, came through.
“All commanders and soldiers of the Red Moon Military District, attention!!”
“Those from the Third Grade to the Ninth Grade whose True Qi condition is decent and whose personal combat ability is sufficient for self-preservation!”
“Proceed immediately to Pearl Military District Base Ten to register! You will participate in the Spirit Tree Mystic Realm for free!”
“Attention! This is an extremely rare Mystic Realm trial opportunity. It can greatly improve your cultivation.”
“Adjust your condition, prepare recovery and healing spiritual medicines, and gather immediately!”