I am the sacred tree, evergreen for eternity.

The moment the rainbow burst into the sky.

Yu Su's consciousness seemed to be lifted up by some force, rising upwards.

Passing through the clouds and across the sky, it felt as if I were about to touch that vast sea of ​​stars.

He "saw" it—

The wild world is boundless, with mountains and seas crisscrossing like meridians, and spiritual veins flowing deep into the earth like blood.

Throughout the vast world, countless life forms flicker and shimmer, some as faint as fireflies, others as bright as stars.

There are even a few mythical figures that truly stand atop mountains and seas...

Their aura was as dazzling as the blazing sun, radiating a suffocating pressure in the desolate forbidden land.

Yu Su's consciousness trembled in the face of that oppressive aura, but he did not back down.

He eagerly opened his senses, striving to imprint the power trajectory and life levels of those mythical legends deep into his consciousness.

Just as he was about to access a higher level of mystery, an irresistible force pulled him down from the highest point.

The rainbow light slowly receded, and the seven-colored beams of light retreated from the tree canopy, merging back into the flowing patterns.

Yu Su's consciousness returned to her body, and everything in the Divine Tree Valley reappeared before her eyes.

But everything is different now.

The spiritual energy within him was no longer that ethereal and intangible energy.

They coalesced into a tangible radiance, flowing slowly through his woody layers, as if the sap had transformed into a galaxy.

This tangible aura is far more powerful than the ethereal spiritual energy; it can directly affect the material world and even interfere with the spiritual energy circulation of other life forms.

Yu Su gave this entirely new path a name—

【Mingling】

"Ming" means the manifestation of light.

The spirit is one whose spiritual energy is extraordinary.

This is a completely new realm beyond the Body Forging Method, and also a new starting point.

Yu Su wanted to teach Xia Shi a new cultivation method, but he soon discovered a problem.

He is a tree, his body is enormous, and he has accumulated spiritual energy for hundreds of years, so much so that he can naturally cross the threshold of spiritual energy transforming into a rainbow.

Humans, however, are an exception; their bloodline level is too low.

Even extraordinary practitioners who have reached the pinnacle of their cultivation cannot condense tangible spiritual light on their own.

They need a bridge—

A path belonging to humanity, leading from the extraordinary to the enlightened.

Yu Su fell into deep thought.

He mobilized his consciousness to analyze, deduce, and simulate the trajectory of the spiritual energy circulation within the totem walker's body again and again.

This will take a long time.

Fortunately, he was a tree...

Time flows like water, slipping away silently.

The establishment of the four major branches ushered in another period of vigorous growth for the Xia family.

Eastern mountains, western swamps, southern Xinjiang's Heavenly River, and northern wilderness.

Four divisions, four different ways of survival, four different directions of development.

Through the branches, Yu Su sensed the ups and downs experienced by each branch, recorded the development experience of each branch, and transmitted it to other branches through conscious resonance.

The Xia clan gradually formed a vast tribal group with a population of over ten thousand, spanning hundreds of miles.

……

Deep within the boundless mountains, the Xia Clan's Eastern Branch is nestled beside a waterfall.

The branches of Yu Su have grown to several meters high, and the spiritual light of the earth's veins flows through the tree.

A transcendent spiritual aura permeated the entire branch, significantly increasing the proportion of totem walkers being born.

Xuan stood in front of the altar on the branch of the tree god, shirtless, revealing his strong muscles and scars all over his body.

He held an iron axe in his hand, and spiritual energy surged within him, merging into his blood and transforming into extraordinary power.

He took a deep breath, channeled his spiritual energy into the iron axe, and then cleaved it with tremendous force—

"Bang!"

The air in front of the axe blade was compressed into a visible wave of air, which roared forward and split a boulder ten steps away in two.

Gravel flew everywhere, and dust billowed.

Xuan put away his iron axe, looked at the two cleaved boulders, and frowned slightly.

Not enough, still not enough.

He has been stuck at the bottleneck of the extraordinary for several years, unable to break through to the next level.

The Tree God calls this the realm of "Mingling"—condensing spiritual energy into tangible spiritual light, allowing extraordinary power to manifest from nothingness.

But he couldn't do it.

Although his spiritual energy was abundant, it remained ethereal and could not be condensed into a form.

"It still doesn't work..." Xuan muttered to himself.

Just then, a series of hurried footsteps came from afar.

A young totem walker rushed out of the dense forest, his voice filled with anxiety:

"Chief! A monster has been discovered to the north... to the north! A fully grown one!"

Xuan suddenly stood up, a cold glint flashing in his eyes.

Based on the experience accumulated by the Xia family over the years, the growth stages of demonic beasts roughly correspond to the three realms of body forging in the human race:

The early childhood stage corresponds to the Qi Gathering stage, the growth stage corresponds to the Body Refining stage, and the adulthood stage corresponds to the Limit Breaking stage.

An adult demon beast, whose strength is comparable to, or even stronger than, a totem walker who has broken through the limit stage.

Xuan grabbed the iron axe and strode north. "Let's go!"

Deep in the dense forest, a colossal creature is wreaking havoc on everything around it.

That was an adult armored rhinoceros.

It is nearly two zhang long, with shoulders higher than its head, and its whole body is covered with gray-black horny scales.

Each of those scales was the size of a palm, layered like fish scales, and gleamed with a cold, metallic sheen in the afternoon sun.

Several young totemists were fighting it, but their iron blades could only send sparks flying when they struck the rhinoceros's scales.

"Get out of the way!"

Xuan roared out of the dense forest, his iron axe flashing through the air as he cleaved down fiercely toward the giant rhinoceros's head!

The iron axe pierced the air with a sharp whistling sound.

The rhinoceros let out a low growl, neither dodging nor avoiding, but instead revealing the layer of iron-hard scales on its forehead to meet the axe blade.

"clang--"

The iron axe struck the rhinoceros's forehead, sparks flying, but leaving only a shallow white mark.

Xuan's arm was numb from the shock, his hand split open, and blood slid down the axe handle.

The rhinoceros remained motionless, yet its thick horn hurtled towards him with immense force.

There was no way to retreat.

In a flash, a thought crossed Xuan's mind.

What if the spiritual energy wasn't evenly distributed across the axe blade, but instead condensed into a line like a needle?

He didn't have time to think it through. He instinctively mobilized the spiritual energy in his dantian, compressed it again and again, and then poured it into the battle axe.

The faint light on the axe blade suddenly receded, no longer spreading, but instead condensing into a barely visible line of cold light.

The iron axe swung down again.

This time, there was no deafening clang of metal clashing, no sparks flying.

The axe blade cut into the skull of the rhinoceros silently, like a hot knife into snow.

A straight crack runs from the center of the forehead to the back of the head.

The rhinoceros's body froze.

Those fierce eyes widened, reflecting Xuan's image in their pupils, before quickly losing focus.

The massive body collapsed with a crash, kicking up a cloud of dust, but not a drop of blood was shed.

The wound had been instantly burned and sealed by the compressed spiritual energy.

Xuan knelt on one knee beside the rhinoceros corpse, panting heavily.

He looked down at the iron axe in his hand. The cold light that had gathered on the axe blade had dissipated, but the strange sensation still lingered in his palm.

The spiritual energy was no longer an ethereal aura, but rather like a tangible thread, held firmly in his hand…