Battle Through the Heavens: The Holy Sun Immortal Venerable

Chapter 255 Bodhi Tree: As long as you help me, you'll reap huge benefits!

"What do we do now?"

Everyone present wore a solemn expression. Five half-saint level experts—this lineup could only be described as terrifying. Even if all of them combined, they would probably be no match for them, despite their numbers.

The people beside Lin Ran also frowned, glancing at the radiant spot within the Bodhi Tree. The Bodhi Heart was so close; they truly lacked the courage to give up so easily.

"If we join forces, we should be able to take down a demigod puppet."

Xun'er spoke softly. She was at the peak of the eighth-level Dou Zun, while Gu Qingyang was at the sixth level. Gu Hua and the others had also reached the peak of Dou Zun, which was enough for them to fight against a half-saint.

"We can handle one too!"

Feng Qing'er retorted defiantly.

Their team is not much weaker than Xun'er and the others. Not only does she have the newly appointed young clan leader of the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan, but they also have a top genius like Jiu Feng!

"Should I choose one too?"

Lin Ran suddenly spoke up, then raised his voice: "Those of you over there, are you planning to give up and retreat now? Judging from the looks of it, it seems that as long as we don't advance any further, these semi-saint puppets won't attack. In other words, if we retreat now, we still have a chance."

Upon hearing Lin Ran's words, the people present frowned slightly, and finally shook their heads.

"Since no one is retreating, then we have no choice but to fight them head-on. Our group will hold off three half-saint level experts, and you can take on the remaining two. How about that?"

The number of teams that have arrived here now is not as large as in the original story.

Besides Lin Ran and his group, there was only Hun Yu and two other forces from Zhongzhou. Their lineups were also quite good, with at least two experts at the peak of Dou Zun in each team.

"We can stop one."

Hunyu glanced at Lin Ran, who had taken the initiative to give away three puppets, so he naturally wouldn't cause any trouble at this time.

He understood that if Lin Ran's people were to open fire directly, their strength alone would be absolutely insufficient to contend with five half-saint level experts!

The last two teams exchanged glances and said in deep voices, "Then we'll leave the remaining demigod puppet to us!"

"Since everything is fine, let's get started!"

Lin Ran spoke calmly and unleashed a palm strike at one of the semi-saint puppets. The semi-saint puppet didn't even have the strength to resist before its head was instantly blown off!

The entire room fell silent.

Everyone stared at Lin Ran with disbelief, even Jiu Feng, Gu Qingyang and others were completely dumbfounded.

Dude, if you're this strong, you can slap one person and they're all dead. What's the point of us dividing up? You might as well just push them all over the place!

"Ouch, ouch, I can't take it anymore, this palm strike has completely exhausted my fighting spirit..."

Seeing everyone staring at him, Lin Ran immediately feigned weakness, looking distressed, and said, "What are you all still looking at? They're attacking!"

"..."

Everyone's lips twitched, and even Feng Qing'er and Xun'er showed a hint of helplessness.

However, they dared not be negligent. With a series of cold shouts, figures rushed out at the same time, confronting their respective targets.

"Ancestor, let us relieve your suffering."

Hun Yu looked at the empty-faced puppet, said something indifferently, and then stepped forward. Behind him, nearly a dozen powerful Soul Palace experts quickly followed, their boundless battle qi tightly binding the half-saint puppet.

Meanwhile, Xun'er and Feng Qing'er also unleashed their fighting spirit to the fullest extent, leading their teams to confront their respective targets.

In an instant, terrifying battle aura spread across this vast plain, and a fierce wind, sharp as a blade, raged forth.

On the contrary, Lin Ran, who was the most leisurely, had already turned his gaze to the ancient Bodhi tree at a leisurely pace. In the tree trunk, which was hundreds of feet above the ground, circles of light spread out, permeating an amazing vitality.

With a sway of his body, he had already taken the lead over the others and rushed towards the main body of the Bodhi Ancient Tree.

The closer Lin Ran got, the more he could feel how towering and enormous this ancient tree, which had lived for who knows how many years, truly was.

The moment Lin Ran approached the Bodhi Tree, a dazzling light suddenly erupted from the tree's trunk, which was hundreds of feet tall, transforming into a pillar of light that enveloped Lin Ran.

The next moment, Lin Ran's figure disappeared directly into the white light.

"Aran!"

"Oh no! Lin Ran actually got there first!"

Those who were engaged in a fierce battle with the demigod puppet naturally noticed this situation and were greatly alarmed, so they intensified their movements!

……

at the same time.

Lin Ran, who had just entered the ancient Bodhi tree, was now standing in a world filled with white light.

There was not a single person around him, but not far in front of him was a halo of light.

"Illusory Space?"

Lin Ran hesitated for a moment before stepping into the light circle and then entering it.

The moment he stepped into the light circle, although it seemed to be only a moment, Lin Ran felt as if decades or even centuries had passed. And when he was in a daze, his body suddenly trembled, and lush grasslands replaced the white world and appeared in his eyes.

"The Desolate Ancient Domain..."

Looking at the vast grassland before him, Lin Ran murmured softly, but the next moment, the surrounding grassland began to tremble violently.

The next moment, the entire world suddenly collapsed. Lin Ran's vision blurred, and when he came to his senses, he found himself in a space filled with emerald green.

In this space, an ancient tree, about ten feet tall, stands there as if it has existed forever. The tree is emerald green all over, as if it were cast from the finest jade, and it exudes an amazing vitality.

This tree is exactly the same as the enormous Bodhi tree outside, which is nearly a thousand feet tall, except that it looks countless times smaller.

At the same time, a special message flooded into Lin Ran's mind.

"Dude, is it wrong for my soul power to be a little stronger?"

A strange expression appeared on Lin Ran's face. His soul strength was too high. His soul was at the Great Perfection of the Heaven Realm. Even the Bodhi Ancient Tree could not completely restrict him. In just an instant, the illusion collapsed on its own.

The ancient Bodhi tree, its trunk entirely verdant, seemed to hear Lin Ran's voice and suddenly trembled slightly.

A ball of light emerged from his branches and leaves.

Within the ball of light stood a towering Bodhi tree, but Lin Ran's gaze was not fixed on the tree itself. Instead, it was fixed on the figure in black standing in mid-air before it. An aura of supreme power emanated from this figure, making even the colossal Bodhi tree appear quite insignificant.

"So this is the Battle Emperor..."

Lin Ran's eyes were filled with deep horror as he stared intently at the black-clad figure's back. Although it was just an image, the aura emanating from him made his soul tremble.

This feeling even surpassed that of Gu Yuan and Gu Lie, whom he had ever met. In the entire world, apart from those Dou Di powerhouses who only existed in ancient legends, who else could possess this feeling?

Within the ball of light, the black figure stood before the colossal Bodhi tree, which was tens of thousands of feet tall. Suddenly, the figure launched an attack on the Bodhi tree. In response to the attack, the Bodhi tree unleashed a torrent of terrifying energy. In this terrifying clash, even the heavens and earth collapsed.

Without a doubt, this is a clash between the Bodhi Ancient Tree and the Dou Di!

Within the ball of light, the images danced rapidly, finally pausing at the last moment. The black figure was suddenly struck by a destructive gust of wind that swept in from outside the ball of light, and in the end, his body and the surrounding world exploded into nothingness.

"Wow, that's impressive..."

As Lin Ran watched the black figure explode into nothingness, his heart skipped a beat.

Clearly, the sudden attack earlier must have been launched by a Dou Di expert whose strength was no weaker than that of the black-clad Dou Di. It was only under the combined attack of the Bodhi Ancient Tree and another mysterious Dou Di that the black-clad Dou Di was shattered into nothingness!

The image of the ball of light did not stop with the fall of the black-clad Dou Di. Suddenly, wisps of black energy surged from the void. As soon as these wisps appeared, they rushed into the Bodhi Ancient Tree. With the entry of these wisps, the pure aura that permeated the Bodhi Ancient Tree was subtly tinged with a hidden chill.

After all of this was played out, the ball of light slowly dimmed, then condensed into an invisible mass, which rushed into Lin Ran's mind like lightning, and finally transformed into a strange flow of information that spread out.

Lin Ran closed his eyes slightly, digesting this strange flow of information. After a long while, he slowly opened his eyes.

The ancient Bodhi tree before us has existed for countless years, but one thing is certain: it has existed since ancient times.

Unfortunately, despite the passage of countless years, the Bodhi tree has not evolved a complete intelligence. Perhaps it is because of its long existence that its intelligence has not been fully developed. Whatever the reason, the Bodhi tree does not have true wisdom; it only possesses some basic functions of a spiritual being, such as autonomous protection or retaliation.

The image in the previous ball of light was from a very distant era, when a heavily injured Dou Di expert tried to forcibly extract the spirit of the Bodhi Ancient Tree to heal his injuries. However, he was ultimately killed by his opponent and the Bodhi Ancient Tree. Of course, killing the black-clad Dou Di clearly caused the Bodhi Ancient Tree extremely terrible damage, as can be seen from its original size of ten thousand feet in the image, which has now become only about a thousand feet tall.

However, even though the Bodhi Ancient Tree paid a heavy price, it did not completely kill the black-clad Dou Di as expected. This was because, at the moment of the latter's fall, some of his negative emotions gathered together and invaded the Bodhi Ancient Tree.

These so-called negative emotions, over countless years, have gradually eroded the Bodhi tree, causing its simple intelligence to begin leaning towards darkness and coldness.

In other words, the Bodhi Ancient Tree, corrupted by the negative emotions of that Dou Di powerhouse over a long period of time, has gradually evolved into something evil. This is also why there are those semi-saint puppets outside; they were all affected by that negative power and ultimately became puppets.

That power was originally meant to affect Lin Ran, but Lin Ran's soul power was too strong, and the Holy Golden Meteor Heart Flame was the nemesis of this kind of dark power, which directly caused the illusion to collapse!

To put it simply, the Bodhi Ancient Tree now possesses two kinds of intelligence within it. One is the original intelligence that belongs to it and can be called benevolent intelligence, while the other is due to the negative emotions of the black-clad Dou Di, and this intelligence is inclined towards evil.

"You want me to help you dispel that evil spirit?" Lin Ran asked, looking at the ancient, verdant tree in front of him.

"Whoosh!"

The ancient tree swayed as if nodding in response to Lin Ran's words.

"This is not easy. After all, it was left by a Dou Di powerhouse. I am just a minor Dou Sheng. Even if my soul realm is at the Great Perfection of the Heaven Realm and I have a decent Strange Flame, I am definitely not good enough to face a Dou Di powerhouse."

"Splash splash..."

As soon as Lin Ran finished speaking, another ball of light emerged from the ancient tree. Within the ball of light, a flame appeared, followed by a Bodhi seed. The flame refined the Bodhi seed, and a stream of pure energy appeared, eventually entering the ancient tree. With the entry of this pure energy, the chilling aura emanating from the ancient Bodhi tree seemed to lessen somewhat.

"You want me to have Bodhi seeds?"

Lin Ran paused slightly, then flipped his palm, and a Bodhi seed appeared in his hand.

It was the very one that was obtained from the saliva of the Bodhi incarnation.

"I only have one, it's not enough for you."

"Whoosh..."

The ancient tree shook, and then green light spots floated out from its body, finally hovering in front of Lin Ran.

There were more than twenty of these light spots, and each one was a Bodhi seed, with an energy concentration far exceeding that of the one in Lin Ran's hand!

Lin Ran's gaze swept over these green dots. Although Bodhi seeds were not as terrifying as Bodhi hearts, they could increase the success rate of advancing to the Dou Sheng realm. If they were placed outside, let alone these extremely high-quality Bodhi seeds, even just the mottled Bodhi seed in his hand would attract countless powerful individuals to fight over it.

However, now, more than twenty of those extremely rare Bodhi seeds suddenly appeared in front of Lin Ran!

"Since that's the case, I'll help you this time, but let's be clear, I'm charging you for this. Don't forget to give me a good stuff after I'm done!"

"Splash splash splash..."

The ancient tree swayed, as if it were speaking.

Don't worry, as long as you help me, you'll reap huge benefits!

(End of this chapter)