Enduring humiliation for three years, seizing the elixir, the treasure, and the holy maiden.

"Senior."

He stood with his hands behind his back, gazing at the ancient tree.

"There is something I don't understand, Mr. Su."

"explain."

"This thing has been entangled by the roots of its predecessors for hundreds of thousands of years."

Su Chen slowly moved half a step towards the edge of the pool.

"So, senior, all these years..."

"It is ultimately being suppressed."

"Are you still keeping it?"

The ancient tree did not answer.

The horizontal seam was half closed.

Su Chen didn't wait for its reply.

"That's enough."

He raised his hand.

"Su, you go first and test the depth."

Su Chen fled downwards.

In fact, this pool of water was formed from extremely concentrated spiritual energy.

It is called water, but it is actually just a liquid formed by the condensation of spiritual energy to a certain degree.

As soon as he got close, Su Chen felt that his spiritual power, which had not improved for a long time, was actually starting to increase.

Meng Yuan was not lying about this.

Although this spiritual power is not enough for me to break through my cultivation level.

However, this pool of spiritual energy can significantly boost the cultivation level of a Void Refinement cultivator.

Just as Su Chen was descending downwards.

This was exactly what Meng Yuan had been waiting for.

A dark blue light emerged from within the fan ribs.

Unhappy.

It's even a bit slow.

It moved as slowly as a snake, skimming along the ground.

A killing move for someone in the mid-stage of the Void Refinement realm.

At the same moment.

Suddenly, seven or eight of the tangled roots at the bottom of the pond sprang up.

With a splash of white water, it swirled up from Su Chen's left and right sides.

They need to cut the person off at the waist.

A pincer attack from both sides.

They didn't give Su Chen any chance.

Su Chen had assumed that the two of them would first turn on each other.

But what puzzled Su Chen was that the two of them were so in sync at this moment.

They actually attacked me at the same time.

This made Su Chen even more confused about the reasons behind it.

That doesn't make sense!

If something were to happen to him now, Meng Yuan would not get the opportunity.

Even the old tree couldn't solve Meng Yuan's problem.

But what if the two had been in cahoots all along?

It doesn't quite seem like it...

It was, after all, a joint attack from two people whose cultivation was higher than his.

If this hits, it could be fatal.

cause and effect!!!

hum...

All the spiritual energy suddenly stopped for a moment.

The white mist rising from the bottom of the pool lingered in mid-air.

The splashing water droplets lingered in mid-air.

Su Chen suddenly disappeared and reappeared in the same spot he had been in before.

That brush that saved lives during the Spring and Autumn Annals burst forth from the sky.

It wasn't aimed at the ancient tree.

It was aimed at Meng Yuan.

Meng Yuan was completely stunned.

What's going on with Su Chen?

He was a cultivator at the mid-stage of the Void Refinement realm.

He clearly saw that Su Chen had been hit by his own attack.

But the next moment, how could Su Chen disappear into thin air?

It reappeared in the same spot it was in before it disappeared?

This is all so illogical.

The laws of space will absolutely not allow spacetime to be reversed.

At the very least, even cultivators at the Void Refinement stage cannot do this.

"The judge's stroke of the pen."

The ink-black character for "slay" appeared above Meng Yuan's head.

That sword energy was many times more ruthless than the stroke on the stone bridge.

The power of heavenly tribulation, the power of space, and the sharpness of the Immaculate Sword Embryo were all compressed into this one strike.

Meng Yuan swung his folding fan.

The protective aura sustained him for half a breath.

Half a breath later.

Broken.

A crack appeared in the void, running down from his left shoulder.

From that opening, a deep, dark galaxy surged forth.

Within the Milky Way lies the power of inhalation and exhalation.

"Fellow Daoist Meng may now set off."

"Don't you know that cause and effect are cyclical? My power of cause and effect can reverse cause and effect."

"But this can be considered your retribution."

"Although I am very curious as to why you were in such a hurry to attack me."

"But more than curiosity, I, Su, want you dead right now!"

Under the terrifying force of absorption...

Half of Meng Yuan's body was forcibly sucked in by that force.

"No..."

He stretched out one hand and reached out.

They caught a handful of spiritual mist.

"cause and effect..."

"The power of spacetime?!"

"This is not the method a Void Refinement cultivator should use!"

"I miscalculated..."

"I underestimated his preparedness..."

The rift in the void slowly closed.

When they merged to the last line.

Su Chen raised the pen and gently touched the line.

The Milky Way is sealed off.

Meng Yuan's folding fan landed on a stone by the pond.

One of the fan ribs broke.

...

"What a fine pen."

Suddenly, the canopy of that ancient tree burst open completely.

For hundreds of thousands of years, its untamed spirit has been transformed into roots at this moment.

Thousands of them.

They emerged all at once, from the bottom of the pool, from the stone wall, and from the ground beneath Su Chen's feet.

Above, below, in all directions.

They wove a net across this area of ​​twenty zhang in radius.

The ancient tree can see clearly.

This junior was able to retreat three zhang away out of thin air and even seal a mid-stage Void Refinement cultivator with a backhand.

Let's wait a little longer.

You'll be the one who dies.

Su Chen stood in the middle of the net.

Instead, he held the pen in his hand and twirled it halfway around.

"Senior."

"You just said that all who come will die."

"I'll remember that."

Those roots were twisted off.

Su Chen did not back down.

He raised his hand.

"The judge's stroke of the pen."

This time, it's not a slash.

The pen tip spun in mid-air.

After the character "墨" (mo) was formed in mid-air, the sword energy did not shoot out.

Instead, they were pulled apart.

It stretched into a rift that spanned twenty feet.

Within the crack, the Milky Way poured forth.

Thousands of roots rushed into the crack all at once.

The trunk of the ancient tree suddenly bent over.

"No!"

For the first time, that hoarse voice quickened.

"The bottom of the pool!"

"That thing at the bottom of the pool!"

"The moment my roots loosen, it..."

"Su knows."

Su Chen pressed his pen down an inch.

The crack sank to the bottom of the pool.

The Milky Way encompassed the entire bottom of the pool.

The lump of flesh was pulled by the roots of the ancient tree and rolled into the crack.

It struggled inside for a moment.

I only managed to earn a little bit.

The Milky Way has merged.

The trunk of the ancient tree split open in the middle.

It split in two.

The two halves of the tree trunk slowly fell to either side of the pool.

When it fell, the horizontal crack was still open.

"Hundreds of thousands of years..."

...

Su Chen sat cross-legged in the center of the pool.

The water only reached his waist.

It was so thick it felt like sitting in melted ointment.

Spiritual energy flowed into him from all directions.

No need to quote.

No need to transport it.

It squeezes itself into the meridians.

Su Chen sat with his eyes closed for three days.

Three days later, he opened his eyes and did some mental calculations.

The early stage of refining the void.

He is still in the early stage of the Void Refinement Realm.

He's still far from reaching the mid-stage of the Void Refinement realm.

Su Chen stood up from the pool.

That's true.

It was much worse than Su Chen had expected.

He originally thought that soaking in this source of spiritual energy would allow him to move at least half a realm higher.

Looking at it now...

It is truly difficult to advance one's cultivation level to the Refinement of Emptiness realm.

However, what concerned Su Chen even more was the corpse of the ancient tree.

This is a demonic beast at the Void Refinement stage.

What does that mean?

Trees are made of wood, and the tree spirit's body is naturally also made of wood.

It's just spirit wood!

Ancient sacred tree, sacred root.

This stuff is perfect for crafting magical artifacts!

It is comparable to a ten-thousand-year-old spiritual root, something that can only be encountered by chance and cannot be sought after.

However, refining such spiritual wood is something that even ordinary weapon refiners would find impossible.

...