Reborn as a lotus, she initially refuses to hand it over to the state.

The words fell.

The King Hunter Spear in Theros's hand suddenly pierced into the Blue Star projection.

There was no earth-shattering explosion, nor any light that tore through the sea of ​​stars.

Before the Hunter King Spear, only a black ripple spread across the void before the entire spear disappeared from the bridge of the Broken Branch.

The next moment, a dark crack suddenly appeared in the sky above Heilong Lake, which had just returned to calm.

A cold, deathly aura surged from the crack, causing the lakeside vegetation to wither and turn yellow rapidly, and in the mountains and forests, large swathes of spiritual plants drooped their branches and leaves.

Within the Azure Lotus Cave, the three tender leaves of the Jianmu bud trembled violently, recognizing this aura.

The Hunter's Spear has slain countless spiritual plants of the King Realm.

Every line of withered wood on the spear comes from an ancient spirit tree that was slain by the Hunting Court.

[Ding! Projection of the Hunter's Spear detected.]

[Target Level: Late Stage 9]

This weapon can ignore ordinary spatial defenses and directly lock onto the essence of spiritual plants.

[The Hunter's Spear carries the curse of broken branches.]

[Once the attack hits, the connection between the host and the earth's veins, the clone, and the grotto-heaven will be gradually severed.]

The strange stone's voice suddenly rang out: "Lotus Demon, don't let it touch your true form. The Hunter King Spear is specifically designed to slay the essence of spiritual plants. Once it pierces the lotus heart, your ten-leaf dharma form and six earth vein nodes will be affected."

On Heilong Lake.

The ten lotus leaves of Chuzhou closed up at the same time.

The Emperor's Seal of the Mountain and River Town blocked the lotus heart.

boom!

The black rift opened completely, and a giant spear made of withered wood, a thousand meters long, emerged from the void.

The spear was wrapped with countless black and silver chains.

Between the chains.

One after another, distorted faces of spiritual plants appeared.

There are ancient trees, magical vines, and lotus flowers that have long since withered.

Their essence was devoured by the King Hunter's Spear, and even after death they could not find liberation, but could only become part of the spear, continuing to hunt other spiritual plants for the Star Sea Hunting Court.

As soon as the Hunter King's Spear appeared, the spiritual energy of the entire Black Dragon Mountain stopped flowing, and Lord Baishan rushed out of the forest.

The Platinum Tiger Demon transformed into a giant tiger and pounced on the spear.

boom!

Before the Hunter King Spear had even truly landed, the mere black and silver fluctuations it emitted shattered the Platinum Tiger Fiend.

Bai Shan Jun flew backward, its four claws carving hundreds of meters of furrows into the ground.

Shan Kui shouldered the mountain-supporting stone, just as he was about to make his move, when Chu Zhou's voice rang out: "All of you step back, this thing is targeting me."

The Hunter's Spear pierced through the Azure Lotus Domain, penetrating the defensive light barrier formed by the ten lotus leaves layer by layer.

The moonlight shone on the spear, and the withered wood spirits on its surface seemed to be stimulated, emitting countless sharp cries.

The insertion speed became faster.

The strange stone said in a deep voice, "You can't block it head-on. Those vengeful spirits of the spiritual plants will devour your Azure Lotus essence."

Chu Zhou looked at the distorted face on the Hunter King's spear: "Devouring me? They can't even tell who they're enslaved by."

Within the Green Lotus Cave.

Suddenly, a tiny root sprouted from the young tree, and the root did not dodge the King Hunter's Spear.

Instead, it took the initiative to explore the cave, and the countless vengeful spirits wrapped around the very tip of the spear, on the Hunter King's Spear, all paused at the same time.

In their empty eyes.

The reflection shows the silhouette of the young shoots of the Jianmu tree.

An ancient and desolate aura flowed into the Hunter's Spear along its roots.

That is the origin of the towering Jianmu tree.

It is also the aura of the ancestral tree that was revered by all the spiritual plants of the heavens in ancient times.

The face of a withered ancient tree, its lips trembling slightly.

"Build...wood..."

A second voice followed.

"The Ancestral Tree..."

More and more spirits and vengeful ghosts of plants awoke from the chaos and saw the young shoots of the Jianmu tree.

They also saw Theros sitting on the throne of the Broken Branch at the other end of the spear.

The resentment accumulated over tens of thousands of years instantly found its true target.

The Hunter King Spear trembled violently, and the spear that was originally aimed at Chu Zhou stopped in the air above Black Dragon Lake.

Theros's roar came from the spear.

"Crucify it for me!"

The black and silver chains tightened suddenly.

The newly awakened vengeful spirits of the plants let out painful howls once more.

The ten lotus leaves of the Chu boat unfold.

Countless silver roots entangled the Hunter King's Spear.

"Once you're on my territory, it's not your place to issue orders from across the stars."

The Emperor's Seal of Shanhe Zhenyuan crashed down.

The Black Gold Zhenyuan Pattern covers the Hunter King Spear.

The Taiyin Zhenjie Pearl hangs on the other side.

The moonlight shone into every grain of the withered wood on the spear.

"Suppress the soul, break the lock, purify the resentment."

Bang bang bang!

One by one, the black and silver locks broke apart.

The spirits and vengeful souls within the spears broke free from their restraints.

They transformed into countless rays of light of different colors, slowly rotating around the young bud of the Jianmu tree.

Finally, it bowed its branches towards Chu Zhou and Jianmu.

[Ding! Successfully removed the spirit plant slave seal from the Hunter King's Spear.]

[Purifying the remnants of spiritual plant souls: 3,721.]

[Gained Evolution Points: 15 million.]

The towering Jianmu tree received nourishment from the lingering remnants of countless spirits.

[Current awakening level increased to 0.1%.]

[Comprehension Ability: All things return to their roots.]

[All Trees Return to Their Roots: The Jianmu tree can awaken the enslaved and refined spiritual plants' original essence, freeing them from control and allowing them to return to their ancestral tree.]

The Hunter King's Spear has lost the blessing of the vengeful spirits of the spiritual plants.

His breathing suddenly dropped.

A scroll containing the roots and tendrils of the Chu boat.

The kilometer-long King Hunter Spear kept shrinking.

It eventually transformed into a three-meter-long withered wooden spear and fell into the Azure Lotus Cave.

The Emperor's Seal of Shanhe Zhenyuan pressed down on the spear.

Black and gold lotus patterns wrapped around the spear shaft in layers.

[Ding! Successfully suppressed the projection of the Hunter's Spear.]

[Starry Sea coordinate imprint detected.]

[Should we reverse-track the projection source?]

The lotus leaves on the Chu boat swayed slightly.

"Tracking".

hum!

On the Hunter's Spear.

A scarlet vertical pupil totem lit up.

Above Heilong Lake, a silvery mirror of water unfolded.

The other end of the water mirror.

The bridge of the Zhezhi is clearly visible.

Theros, holding the Hunter's Spear, stood before the Black Root Throne.

Two gazes pierced the endless starry sky, colliding for the first time.

Theros's vertical pupils contracted between his brows.

"You actually purified the myriad vengeful spirits within the Hunter's Spear?"

Chu Zhou's voice came through the broken branch.

"I thought it was something good."

"It turns out to be just a broken wooden stick pieced together from the bones of countless spiritual plants."

Theros gripped his spear tightly.

"Qinglian, you will pay the price for your arrogance today."

"Six days from now, I will personally sever all your roots."

"Open up your inner world."

"Refine your lotus heart into the new energy core of the Broken Branch."

Chu Zhoulianye swayed gently: "Six days? Then bring a few more sturdy ships. My cave has just opened and I'm short of materials."

The words fell.

The Mountain and River Suppressing Abyss Emperor Seal aimed at the projection of the Hunter King Spear and crashed down with a deafening roar.

boom!

The terrifying power of the realm-suppressing force rebounded back along the starry coordinates of the Hunter King's Spear.

Above the bridge of the Zhezhi-class destroyer.

The void suddenly cracked open.

A silver lotus leaf flew out from the crack.

Theros raised the King Hunter's Spear.

clang!

The blue lotus leaf struck the spear.

The entire bridge shook violently.

A corner of the Black Root Throne has crumbled.

Theros took half a step back, and a faint bluish-silver scar appeared on his cheek.

Dark blood dripped from the wound, and on the bridge, all the Hunter's Court generals bowed their heads at the same time.

No one dared to utter a sound. A newly ascended Ancestral Realm Azure Lotus, across the endless sea of ​​stars, had left a wound on the face of the Seventh Hunting Court's adjudicator.

Ceres reached out and wiped away the blood.

The murderous intent in his vertical pupils between his brows was completely boiling.

"Accelerate. In six days, crush the ancestral realm."

……

Qinglian Cave Heaven.

The Star Chaser III was firmly suppressed by the Mountain and River Suppressing Abyss Emperor Seal.

More than 700 Hunter Court soldiers were all dragged out of the ship by the Azure Silver Roots.

Weapons were seized, silver and black armor stripped off, and Hunter Court soldiers were suppressed on the edge of Spirit Lake.

The captain of Star Chaser III was suspended by roots below the Imperial Seal. He raised his head and looked at the sapling of the Jianmu tree in the center of the cave, until this moment.

It then truly understood that the Seventh Hunting Court was not targeting an ordinary King Realm Green Lotus.

It is not a world that is being conceived.

Chu Zhou's voice descended from the sky above the cave: "Name."

Captain Starseeker paused for a moment, then asked, "Seventh Hunting Grounds, Captain Starseeker III, Asalon, what are the weaknesses of the Broken Branch?"

Asalon sneered, "The Hunter's Court warriors will not betray the Lord's Court. You will not get any information out of me."

Chu Zhou did not ask any further questions.

A root of a Jianmu tree pierced through the outer armor of the Star Chaser.

It directly penetrates the warship's language center.

A large amount of Starry Sky text, combat records, ship structure diagrams and navigation coordinates were read by Jianmu Genxu.

Asalon's expression finally changed: "Stop! The warship's central control is connected to the Hunter's Court Seal. Forcibly reading it will only trigger core self-destruction!"

The Taiyin Zhenjie Pearl cast a moon-white light.

The self-destruct runes that had just lit up were instantly frozen.

The Emperor's Seal of Shanhe Zhenyuan sank again.

The entire Star Destroyer became completely unresponsive.

Chu Zhou said calmly, "If you don't want to tell me, I'll see for myself."

[Ding! Beginning analysis of the Hunter's Court language.]

[Begin analyzing the complete phase engine.]

[Begin analyzing the branch number structure diagram.]

[Analysis progress: 3%]

As a large amount of information floods into Jianmugen.com.

A massive diagram of the fleet's structure appeared before Chu Zhou.

The Zhezhi was not an ordinary flagship.

It is the mothership of the entire Seventh Plant Hunter Group.

The remaining six main ships and more than two hundred escort ships, all phase engines, space jumps and attack coordinates are controlled by the mother anchor core inside the Broken Branch.

As long as the anchor of the Zhezhihao is not destroyed.

The entire fleet can continuously switch between the space interlayer and reality, but once the mother anchor core is destroyed.

The phase boundary membranes of all warships will fail simultaneously.

Chu Zhou's gaze fell on the interior of the Zhezhi.

The core of the mother anchor is located at the deepest part of the Inverted Tree Sea, and next to the core, a special prisoner is also imprisoned.

It was that old tree-man whose limbs were pierced by chains.

[Ding! Descendant of the Jianmu Guardian Clan detected.]

[Name: Mu Cang]

[Current Status: Origin depleted, soul suppressed by the Hunter's Court Slave Seal.]

[A section of the ancient root of the Jianmu tree, reaching to the heavens, is preserved within Mu Cang's body.]

[The Guggen could interfere with the mother anchor's core from within the Broken Branch.]

Chu Zhou looked at Mu Cang's image: "I see."

The next six days.

The blue planet never stops.

The Ninth Bureau and the Global Federation blockade two Star Chaser ships on the moon.

Shen Xinglan led the Star Sea Technology Research Group to the lunar base aboard a psionic transport ship.

But once they entered the reconnaissance ship, everyone was at a loss.

There are no familiar mechanical circuits inside the warship.

There were no control levers or electronic screens.

The entire warship resembled a colossal living entity pieced together from metal, spiritual plants, and spatial crystals.

The ship's walls breathe, and the spiritual patterns flow on their own.

The energy core may even actively attack those that get close.

On the first day, humans couldn't even open the bridge hatch. On the morning of the second day...

A silver lotus leaf traversed space and landed in front of Shen Xinglan.

Among the lotus leaves.

A complete set of basic Hunting Court texts and Starship control methods emerged.

Chu Zhou's voice entered her mind: "I have translated the basic text for you. How much you can learn is up to you."

Shen Xinglan grasped the lotus leaf and didn't say anything more.

She immediately summoned all the researchers.

In just four days.

Humanity has reactivated the energy core of a Starship.

The other warship had its phase engine and main gun removed and installed at a lunar defense position.

On the far side of the moon, the first star-based artillery platform began to take shape.