After a moment of silence, Zhao Juechen muttered in a low voice, "So what...?"
"SO WHAT IF THE EVIL GOD IS ALIVE?!" he suddenly roared.
"It doesn’t change anything! As long as we’re stuck in this world, the Spirit Tree is necessary to us, and we’ll do anything to acquire it!"
Xiao Cangming sneered, "Even if you somehow manage to acquire the Spirit Tree, it’s not something you can manage. Do you truly think the Spirit Tree is a treasure with limitless power? How naive. Once the Spirit Tree runs out of power, you will return to being deprived of spiritual energy."
"T-That’s—!"
Zhao Juechen couldn’t refute Xiao Cangming’s words. In fact, he never really thought about the Spirit Tree running out of power. After all, the Spirit Tree has supplied the Asura Clan with seemingly limitless spiritual energy for millions of years without any issue.
Of course, nobody but the Asura Clan was aware that to keep the Spirit Tree alive, Xiao Cangming had to feed it his cultivation.
"Zhao Juechen, I will give you and everyone here one last opportunity to turn around and forget about the Spirit Tree. Otherwise, I will have to cut you down," Xiao Cangming said.
He turned to look at Xiao Meilin, who was still slaughtering everyone around her like a madman, and added, "The longer you take to decide, the more casualties you will have."
Zhao Juechen gritted his teeth and trembled. After a moment of silence, he responded, "I will not yield! Today, I will either acquire the Spirit Tree or perish trying!"
Xiao Cangming shook his head in a disappointed manner.
"What a stubborn and foolish decision. If you wish to die so badly, allow me to grant your wish."
Without another word, Xiao Cangming resumed their battle, attacking first with God of War’s Astral Arts.
Meanwhile, inside the Asura Clan’s world, Yuan finished forming the blood contract with the Spirit Tree.
<You have successfully formed a blood contract with the Spirit Tree>
After forming the contract, the massive Spirit Tree had disappeared from the Asura Clan’s world and somehow entered Yuan’s Dantian.
"Y-Young Master! What is this?! The Spirit Tree has taken root inside your Dantian!" Feng Yuxiang exclaimed in shock.
"I formed a blood contract with it... But I didn’t expect it to move into my Dantian," he said as he looked inside his Dantian to see Feng Yuxiang and Lan Yingying gazing at the Spirit Tree with intrigue.
<Due to the Spirit Tree, your cultivation speed has increased by 500,000%>
<Due to the Spirit Tree, your Dantian has significantly expanded in size, allowing you to hold more spiritual energy>
Although the effects of the Spirit Tree seemed extremely good at a glance and could easily turn an ordinary cultivator into a prodigy, it wasn’t very beneficial to Yuan, who already had a ridiculously fast cultivation speed. As for increasing his Dantian’s size, it definitely helped a little, but it wasn’t anything game-changing.
"My father may have forgiven you," Xiao Hua continued, her voice trembling with fury, "but I will never forgive you for killing my mother!"
Sure enough, just as Xiao Cangming had warned, Xiao Hua’s memories had regressed, returning to the Primordial Era, to a time before she had forgiven Tian Xian for killing her mother.
"Calm down for a minute, Xiao Hua. Your memories are a bit messed up right now, but they should return to normal—"
"Shut up!" Xiao Hua suddenly summoned a sword and leaped forward, striking Yuan without warning.
Yuan calmly caught her blade with his fingers and sighed, "If it’ll make you feel better, you can strike at me as much as you want."
Yuan decided to let Xiao Hua do as she pleased until she calmed down and immediately loosened his fingers, releasing the sword.
Without a word, Xiao Hua struck again with zero hesitation, this time with more power.
Yuan didn’t even bother to block her sword and allowed her to strike his body.
Even though her attacks had no effect on Yuan, Xiao Hua refused to stop, striking at him again and again—like a child throwing a tantrum in her fury.
"I swear I will kill you!" Xiao Hua roared as her cultivation soared again, entering Spirit Enlightenment.

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