Chapter 107: Request

  Don't be alarmed, I asked you to come over just to ask for your help with something.

  "What's the hurry?" The defensive color on Leng Xiao Yao's face did not fade, but instead added more. Because in his heart, he thought that with so many powerful people from the Spirit Clan around, it was unlikely that they would need someone like him to help. His strength had only just reached the level of a quasi-Sword Saint, and yet they were asking for his assistance - wasn't this obviously suspicious? Not to mention earlier when he pinched himself... That old codger's cultivation was at least one stage higher than his own. "Hehe, little guy, you've misunderstood," said the Tree of Life with a smile. "I asked for your help because you carry a destructive aura about you. Perhaps you can be of assistance to me. Do you think there's anyone in the Spirit Clan whose magical powers surpass mine?" The Tree of Life seemed to see through Leng Xiao Yao's thoughts, and directly spoke them out loud.

  "Alright little guy, I don't have the spare spiritual energy to communicate with you right now. You can stick your palm on me and I'm sure with your vast divine consciousness, you'll understand what's going on."

  Leng Xiao Yao heard the words "Tree of Life" and his facial expression changed several times. When he thought about how his own life was also saved by a member of the Spirit Clan, the root of his heart trembled slightly.

  "Speak up! What can I do for you?" Lan Xiang said calmly.

  After dozens of breaths, a look of puzzlement appeared on Leng Xiang's face. Why didn't this Tree of Life respond to him? Was it really as it said just now, that there was no extra spiritual energy? What was going on here?

  Ling Xiao Yao thought back and forth, still couldn't understand the situation, finally remembered the last sentence of the Tree of Life. So he stood in front of the towering tree, stretched out his palm and lightly attached it to the withered bark, releasing a thread of divine sense to check the internal situation of the Tree of Life.

  Good heavens! What are these? Leng Xiangyao sucked in a breath of cold air, and his spiritual sense looked inward along the Tree of Life. Before his eyes were dense, countless dry holes that were naturally invisible to the naked eye. After all, he was using his spiritual sense to examine them at this moment. Along these dense, countless dry holes, he felt as if the Tree of Life had no end, and in the time it took to breathe dozens of times, he still hadn't reached the highest point of the Tree of Life.

  Leng Xiangyao withdrew his consciousness and opened his eyes, a look of doubt flashing across his face. Could it be that the Tree of Life was asking him to repair the dry holes within its body? No way, absolutely impossible! He wasn't some kind of repair expert, and even if he could repair them, just thinking about the enormous size of the Tree of Life and its height made him shudder. The dense, numerous dry holes made him involuntarily shiver with fear. What a joke - even if he could repair one hole per second, it would take tens of thousands of years to finish!

  Since there's no problem with the tree itself, could the issue be with what's under it? Leng Xiao thought to himself. He immediately patted his own head and scolded himself: "I'm such an idiot! The roots of a tree are like human internal organs; if all the internal organs have problems, wouldn't the rest of the body also have issues? How could I only think of this now?"

  After a moment of regret, he stretched out his palm again and stuck it to the withered tree bark. His divine sense was released once more. This time, it took him less than ten breaths for his divine sense to reach the base of the tree root.

  "Huh?" Leng Xian's face showed a look of surprise, because his divine sense allowed him to see a strange scene. Inside the trunk of the Tree of Life, a black mist was swirling around, and under that black mist, a green misty body was also swirling around. However, in its current form, the black mist seemed to be dominant, pushing the green mist into a small corner, constantly devouring it.

  "That black fog body looks very familiar to me? Strange." Cold Xiao Yao thought to himself.

  That black fog-like entity seemed to know that someone was spying on it, so it mobilized a small group of fog-like entities to invade Cold Xiao's divine sense.

  A dull thud, and the carefree god's divine sense felt like it had been smashed in the head with a hammer. The figure on the scene trembled for a moment, and waves of tearing pain spread through his mind, almost fainting.

  "Damn it, you actually dare to sneak up on me! You think I'm a sick cat?!" Leng Xiao Yao opened his eyes and cursed loudly for a moment before closing them again, his palms sticking back onto the tree trunk.

  This time, Leng Xiao was no longer careless, after all, he had suffered a loss once before. If he didn't learn to be more cautious, then he would be a fool.

  Leng Xiangyao controlled his divine consciousness, step by step, and arrived at the "battlefield" of the Tree of Life. He carefully observed how that black fog attacked the green fog. If he wasn't mistaken, that green fog should be the essence of the Tree of Life's vitality. But he didn't know what kind of powerful being this black fog was. It could actually force the Tree of Life, such a powerful tree, to such an extent. It seemed like it wanted to destroy everything.

  "Tree of Life. How can I assist you?" A query emerged from Leng Xian's divine consciousness, he didn't know if the Green Mist could receive his message, but for now it seemed like this was the only way to communicate.

  "Ah, I knew you'd come. Try to stir up that destructive power within you and slowly enter my body. Then, attract the scattered powers of the Underworld King to deal with you. The rest is for me to handle, remember, slow and steady." The Tree of Life's voice was no longer as calm and low as it had been at first. It seemed to be enduring some kind of torment. Upon hearing the Tree of Life's words, Coldly Unscrupulous immediately stirred up the Soul Power within his Dantian, gradually merging with the Tree of Life, and quietly arrived at the edge of the battlefield.

  The dark fog that was engaged in a tug-of-war seemed to sense that the enemy had come again, and like last time, it dispersed into a small cluster of dark fog attacking the location of Leng Xue's divine consciousness.

  "Good job." Leng Xiao was still resentful about the sneak attack earlier. Seeing Hei Wu trying to do it again, he naturally wanted to take revenge, otherwise how could he justify his own loss of dignity? Just as Hei Wu had just pounced on Leng Xiao's divine sense, before it could start eroding, a massive attractive force suddenly came over. It directly sucked in the black fog, and saw that this black fog followed Leng Xiao's divine sense directly into his brain.

  "What's going on?" Leng Xiao was also startled by this sudden and strange change. He had originally planned to use his spiritual power to slowly strangle the black fog. How did it end up in his own mind? Was he also invaded? As soon as Leng Xiao thought of the dense, withered holes in the Tree of Life, goosebumps broke out all over his body. Heaven! If it was really like that, Leng Xiao would rather kill himself immediately than suffer such a fate.

  When Leng Xian was still in the midst of his self-inflicted fear, the Chaotic Bead that had been quietly occupying his mind suddenly stirred. In an instant, it sucked in the small cluster of black fog that had invaded his brain. Normally, after absorbing what it wanted, the Chaotic Bead would stop moving again. But this time was different - after absorbing the small cluster of black fog, the Chaotic Bead continued to rotate, as if waiting for something.

  "What's going on here? Can this dark fog also replenish the Chaos Pearl's energy? I'm just speculating, but it seems plausible."

  "You idiot, what are you still standing there for? Send your divine sense in and pull out that lump of dead energy for me." A young boy's tender voice echoed in Leng Xiyao's heart.

  Leng Xiao Yao, who was lost in thought, was startled by the voice and quickly opened his eyes to search around him. His mouth muttered: "Who is it? Who's there? Come out!"

  "Who am I? I've even forgotten who I am myself." The little boy's voice sounded again. However, this sentence contained a deep sense of despair and helplessness.

  Leng Xiao's face revealed a ghostly expression. If he hadn't felt wrong earlier, this voice was coming from his own heart, did another person exist within his body?

  "Who are you?" Leng Xiao Yao was shocked for a moment before quickly regaining his calm, asking in his heart.

  "I really forgot about myself, I only knew that just now there was a strong energy at the edge of my mouth, so I ate that energy and finally woke up. But now I'm very hungry, I want to eat!" The little boy's voice seemed much louder than when he first told his joke with a cold smile.

  "Eat?" Leng Xiangya was stunned for a moment, and the next moment, his face turned pale. Because he thought of the identity of the little boy who made the sound, if he hadn't guessed wrong, based on what the little boy had just said, the one making the sound was actually the mysterious pearl in his mind, the Hun Dun Pearl.

  "You're really clever, you actually thought of me being there in an instant."

  "Sweat!" A cold sweat broke out on Leng Xiangyao's forehead, and the little boy's words were simply confirming what he was thinking in his heart. The one who spoke was actually that grandpa-like Chaos Pearl! Can a pearl talk? As soon as Leng Xiangyao thought of this, his whole body trembled with fear. Heaven! This realm seems to be too crazy!

  "Big brother, please, bring back that dead energy, okay?" The pleading voice of the Chaos Pearl rang out.

  Leng Xiao Yao's expression was no longer as shocked as it was earlier. At this moment, he thought to himself: "I can help you, but what's in it for me?"

  Hun Dun Pearl heard Cold Xiao Yao's words and let out a shocked cry: "What? You actually dare to ask me for favors? Do you believe I can make it so that not even a single thread of spiritual energy in your dantian can be mobilized?"

  Leng Xiao Yao heard the threatening words of Hun Dun Pearl, his face changed, and he immediately said: "Alright! You seal my cultivation, no big deal, I won't cultivate anymore, I'll die early and be reborn early. However, before I die, I will definitely find a deep mountain where no one can find me to die, so that you will never see anyone for the rest of your life."

  Leng Xiao Yao finished speaking and didn't wait for Hun Dun Pearl's response, plopping down on the ground with a thud, humming a little tune in his mouth. It seemed like he was here on vacation.

  One minute passed, and neither Leng Xiangya nor Hun Dunzhu said a word, as if both sides were competing in patience.

  "You won, what benefits do you want?" In the end, Hun Dun Pearl surrendered first.

  Leng Xianyao saw the Hun Dun Pearl admit defeat. A smug smile appeared on his face: "You owe me a favor, I'd like to know what kind of power is in your mouth's deadly force?"

  "The power of death is the higher authority in this realm."