Chapter 659: Chapter 299: Blood Pine Divine Origin (Thanks to Alliance Hierarch Uncle Hua Xi)_2
All beings are born from yang energy, even creatures as yin and cold as the Xuanwu Snake Turtle are no exception.
Afterward, Chu Xisheng relentlessly continued to observe the massive expanse of dark ice and the Blood Pine Tree within it, hardly bothering to collect the many spoils of war scattered around the scene.
Why did he use the far more precious “Blood Revenge Blade Lord Sixth Grade Character Card (Trial Edition)” that could last for half an hour, instead of exchanging for a formal version from the Martial Arts Treasure Vault?
Apart from worrying about the interruption of the Character Card’s effect midway, it was to take advantage of the Blood Revenge Blade Lord’s comprehension, only slightly inferior to Qin Mu Ge’s, to assist him in studying swordsmanship.
Especially the Blood Revenge Blade Lord’s Seventh Rank “Spirit Communication Heart” — one of the rare sensing talents that can increase comprehension.
After using the Character Card, the overlapping parts of their bloodline talents would clash and merge, retaining only the strongest tier. However, different talents could be preserved and stacked.
The Eleventh Rank “Spirit Communication Heart” combined with the Ninth Rank “Supreme Divine Communication” could enhance his understanding, analysis, and perceptibility of all things to an extremely astonishing level.
However, as Chu Xisheng circled around the enormous block of dark ice, he found neither pattern nor trace on the massive Blood Pine Tree within it.
Finally, he focused his attention on the top of the Blood Pine Tree.
There, unexpectedly, grew a blood-colored pinecone, located just beneath where the stomach of the Xuanwu Snake Turtle would be, not far from a turtle egg.
Previously, the “All Things Silent” power of the Xuanwu Snake Turtle had suppressed Chu Xisheng’s perceptions.
But now, as the power of “All Things Silent” faded, Chu Xisheng began to sense an increasingly strong life force emanating from the pinecone.
This was the power of “life.”
The power to bring forth all things, to breed, to grow, to burgeon — it contained pure and vast Life Essence.
Chu Xisheng’s figure flashed, positioning himself above the ice block.
He swung his “Golden Wind Jade Dew Sabers,” producing nine feet of sharp Sword Energy that shaved through the dark ice, taking a full ten breaths to dig out the pinecone.
This pinecone, in appearance, was no different from a common pinecone; yet it was as large as half a person and had faint patterns of thunder on its surface.
Chu Xisheng carefully sensed and observed, only to realize that these patterns had nothing to do with sword moves; they were merely manifestations of the power of thunder.
All forces of life are closely connected to thunder; when thunder stirs, all things flourish.
Chu Xisheng then plucked the pinecone, holding it thoughtfully in his hand.
Sensing the power hidden in the pinecone, he soon had an insight and split it open.
Inside the pinecone were indeed nine pine nuts.
A flicker of unusual brightness flashed in Chu Xisheng’s eyes, and without hesitation, he sliced off the flesh of the pinecone with his sabers and grabbed the crimson pine nuts, stuffing them directly into his mouth.
Each pine nut was at least the size of three fists, something a normal person could not swallow.
But Chu Xisheng was no longer an ordinary person; he swallowed the pine nut whole.
The pine nut did not require chewing; upon contact with his saliva, it turned into a fluid that poured down his throat!
Chu Xisheng felt his heart pounding fiercely as an unbounded surge of Life Essence power welled up from within the three atria and ventricles of “Pangu’s Heart.”
After awakening the Seventh Stage “Blood of Eternal Thousand Autumns,” it felt like his Life Essence Power was an infinite river that could never be used up.
But now it seemed he had thought too small before.
What he once considered a mere stream was now a true mighty river, torrential and unceasing.
This even began to affect Chu Xisheng’s physical body, initiating strange transformations within it.
Here a lump sprouted, there a bone spur protruded.
Chu Xisheng had to forcibly concentrate his mind to control it, barely preventing himself from mutating into a monster.
At this time, his “Pure Yang” talent came into play, producing a strong restrictive force that constrained his form.
His mind was then flooded with countless pieces of information.
Eventually, these pieces of information formed individual memory images.
— These were of a giant Blood Pine Tree, practicing sword forms with its branches. The sword techniques were full of profound mystery, as if able to stimulate the birth and growth of all things.
Chu Xisheng concentrated and experienced a flash of unusual brightness on his face.
Among all the nine different remnants of Sword Intent, the moves from Xuanwu Ice Mountain that contain the “power of life” were the most profound, the most mysterious, and the most difficult to comprehend.
— This might be the most essential, most powerful force of the “Wood Sword Immortal” Song Yan Nian.
In the past, understanding even a single sword mark made by the “Wood Sword Immortal” could have taken Chu Xisheng a day or even several days.
However, now, with just one glance, Chu Xisheng inexplicably understood the mysteries within.
He did not know how he came to understand it; he simply knew why Song Yan Nian had done it in such a way.
About a hundred and fifty breaths later, Chu Xisheng consumed the second pine nut.
Similar to the first, even more ferocious Life Essence Power bloomed within Chu Xisheng, causing all his bones to emit a ‘click-clack’ sound.
Chu Xisheng found that this Life Essence Power did not give him the sensation that his body was about to explode.
Under the guidance of a strange Sword Intent within the pine nuts, they altered something at the core, the deepest part of his body.
It seemed to be closely related to his many bloodline talents, almost touching the core of the Bloodline Seal.
But Chu Xisheng’s “Supreme Divine Communication” detected no danger.