Chapter 612 - 550: Brimming with Vitality

Chapter 612: Chapter 550: Brimming with Vitality

Standing here, the elegant dress, wreathed in a verdant glow, was reflected with perfect clarity in Chu Mu’s eyes.

’Wood Spirit Root, the Vitality Dao... a Spirit Plant Master?’

Watching the vibrant life force evolve from those flashes of jade-green, Chu Mu fell into thought.

In the Cultivation Immortal Realm, such a dense Vitality Power was something almost exclusively possessed by Spirit Plant Masters.

After all, Spirit Plant Masters undoubtedly cultivated the Vitality Dao.

And the most crucial element in nurturing Spiritual Plants is vitality itself.

However, Spirit Plant Masters were generally unskilled in Battle, their Combat Power exceptionally weak. Since embarking on his Immortal Path, he had seen many of them, and this held true for almost every single one.

Not a single Spirit Plant Master he knew could, like the woman before him, take the vibrant, life-giving force that blossomed from a flash of green and, in an instant, transform it into the bone-chilling killing intent of an Eternal Hell.

Clearly, the Spirit Plant Cultivation Method she practiced, as well as her Magic Techniques, were anything but ordinary.

And this woman...

Chu Mu frowned slightly.

The memories in his mind were so distant that they had begun to blur.

This woman seemed to be the very same girl he had encountered back in the East Lake Secret Realm, at the Inheritance Land of the Immortal Dao Sect.

Back then, she had appeared just as he was leaving the Inheritance Land.

However, it had only been a fleeting encounter. After exchanging a few words, their paths had never crossed again.

If he remembered correctly, during that brief exchange, the woman seemed to have hinted at her origins...

"Great Heng..."

Chu Mu muttered to himself, as if he had remembered something. With a flick of his hand, a crystal-clear Jade Talisman appeared in his palm.

After meeting this woman and leaving the Secret Realm back then, he had entered seclusion to seek Foundation Establishment. Soon after, the East Lake Secret Realm, which had thrown Great Chu into turmoil, vanished without a trace.

It was the bizarre disappearance of the East Lake Secret Realm that instantly shattered the already fragile balance of the Great Chu Cultivation Immortal World.

And thus began the catastrophe that swept across the entire Great Chu Cultivation Immortal World.

Now, this catastrophe has even spread to the Vast Sea Cultivation Immortal World, sweeping up many of the Great Demon Races of the Vast Sea in its wake.

Although he had been in seclusion for sixty years and was still unaware of the situation outside, it was obvious that turmoil in the Cultivation Immortal Realm was never something that could be resolved in a mere year or two.

In the history of the Cultivation Immortal Realm, there were countless instances of turmoil that lasted for hundreds, even thousands, of years.

Given the near-intricate complexity of the situations in the Great Chu and Vast Sea Cultivation Immortal Worlds, Chu Mu felt that without a decisive power to suppress it all, hoping for a swift end was pure fantasy.

After all, one could see this clearly just by looking at the chaos in the Great Chu Cultivation Immortal World.

The chaos in the Great Chu Cultivation Immortal World had been apparent ever since he first set foot on the Path to Immortality.

Even now, so many years later, the Righteous Alliance was still just barely hanging on.

This was true even though, on the surface, the Longevity Sect’s power had gained the absolute upper hand.

But in the Cultivation Immortal Realm, while amassing great power within oneself was a manifestation of strength, the use of external forces was naturally one as well.

Arrays, Artifact Refining, Puppets...

There were countless external forces that could bridge a gap in power.

This was especially true for the Righteous Alliance now. They were holed up in the eastern and western regions of Great Chu, no longer needing to spread their defenses everywhere as before. By concentrating their forces and hunkering down, they could force the Longevity Sect, no matter how powerful, to simply look on in frustration.

The Longevity Sect even had to be careful not to suffer a humiliating, unexpected defeat.

After all, though the Righteous Alliance was a recent creation, the histories of its constituent Clans were by no means shorter than the Longevity Sect’s.

Over such a long span of time, who knew what kind of trump cards they might have accumulated?

Just like what had happened in Chu Capital City, a single moment of carelessness could lead to something far worse than just an unexpected defeat.

And the initial spark for this great catastrophe was, clearly, the East Lake Secret Realm.

The mysterious disappearance of the East Lake Secret Realm was the undeniable fuse that directly ignited all the conflicts within the Great Chu Cultivation Immortal World of that era.

And when he encountered the East Lake Secret Realm again, it was undoubtedly already in the hands of... that man in the Dragon Robe.

That... Late Stage Nascent Soul Cultivator!

’This woman was from Great Heng, and she had just so happened to enter the core Inheritance Land of the Secret Realm.’

’And that man in the Dragon Robe... the Great Heng Royal Family? Could he even be the legendary ruler of the Great Heng Cultivation Immortal World...?’

’Is there some connection here that I’m not aware of?’

’And how did this woman get to this Ruins Cave Mansion?’

’From Great Heng?’

Chu Mu pursed his lips. After a moment of contemplation, he suppressed these thoughts and refused to dwell on them any longer.

In this time and place, he would be blessed by the heavens just to survive.

As for this woman’s fate...

He would not, under any circumstances, risk his life to save someone who meant nothing to him.

Whether she lived or died would depend on her own fortune.

If anything, he would even prefer that she perish sooner.

Otherwise, that ethereal fluctuation of will would remain here indefinitely.

The effects of his Heavenly Deceit Pill wouldn’t last for too much longer.

Chu Mu’s gaze became placid, just like the indifferent Sand-tailed Beasts around him. He reined in his emotions, hiding within the artificial body of a Sand-tailed Scorpion, and impassively watched the bloody slaughter unfold once more.

Only this time, Chu Mu was no longer a participant, but a bystander.

The woman’s methods were remarkable, and her Wood Attribute Magical Power was exceptionally dense. Clearly, it wasn’t just her Cultivation Technique that was profound—the Grade of her Golden Core had to be extraordinary as well.

As motes of verdant light fell, a forest spanning several thousand meters was forcefully brought into existence amidst the sea of sand.