Cultivation begins with planting techniques

The reason why the Void Realm Fruit brought Li Ye's divided soul to this realm was due to the influence of the Void Realm Ancient Tree.

Li Ye had already been connected to the two, and upon entering this realm, he received the Holy Tree Walker's inheritance, which condensed part of the power of the ancient tree in the Void Realm.

Although the Void Realm Fruit is not of the same origin, it was not rejected in the slightest when it was integrated into this ancient tree.

It thus seamlessly merged into the ancient tree of the Void Realm.

Then, he would act as a medium to connect Li Ye's Void Realm Tree with this ancient Void Realm Tree, attempting to assimilate it.

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In the human realm, at Pingyang Mountain.

"here we go!"

Li Ye stood before the Void Tree, sensing its changes.

The giant tree, which usually kept its spiritual patterns concealed and did not flaunt itself, now had its trunk surging with spiritual light, illuminating every single spiritual pattern.

The void rippled, thus transcending the barriers of boundaries and establishing a connection with the ancient tree of the void realm.

"It has no other markings and is in a weakened state, but its essence is indeed only one step away from the seventh rank..."

Li Ye's eyes sparkled with surprise.

Through his connection with the Void Tree, he has begun to sense the state of the Void Tree.

The two identical spiritual roots of heaven and earth communicated with each other, thus crossing the void and leaving their marks on each other.

Each time it is completed, the spiritual light flowing on the Void Tree evolves and becomes more complex, the tree grows accordingly, and the accumulated strength of many years is fully unleashed at this moment, undergoing a rapid qualitative change.

What pleased Li Ye even more was...

Although the ancient Void Tree was of a significantly higher rank than his Void Tree, the Void Tree itself had many additional attributes, while the former had a considerable amount of accumulated resources.

In this process of mutual exchange and refining each other's entities into subordinate bodies, his Void Tree actually gained the upper hand.

In this way, they gradually imprinted their own mark on that ancient tree in the void!

In fact, regardless of which Sky Tree dominates, Li Ye has a way to deal with it.

Even if the Void Realm Ancient Tree actually refined his Void Realm Tree, having an avatar who possessed its inheritance by his side could still influence this tree.

Once the connection between the two is established, one can naturally activate supernatural powers to send the main body to the Ancient Tree Realm.

He completely brought the ancient tree of the Void under his control.

But whether from an emotional or practical point of view, the best outcome is naturally the one that has grown up with him until now, which is the tree of the Void Realm!
That way we won't have any regrets!
But this progress...

Li Ye frowned slightly, "It could take as little as a day or as long as several days... Such a long time, let alone the speed of a Nascent Soul cultivator, even some Core Formation cultivators who are not far away would have enough time to come and join the fun!"

From the perspective of preserving the clones, it is safest to leave the Ancient Tree of the Void in place and have the clones leave first.

But this is not a safe bet.

The clone might be able to survive, but who knows who the Nascent Soul cultivator leading the way will be!
If the other party sees the existence of the Void Realm Ancient Tree, they should immediately and decisively take action to obtain the benefits that can be obtained from the tree, just to avoid sharing the spiritual roots of heaven and earth with those who arrive later.

This will likely cause Li Ye's long-term plan to fail immediately!

Even if there is only the slightest possibility, Li Ye cannot take any chances.

"Therefore, we can only have our clones hold the line and buy as much time as possible..."

Li Ye thought to himself silently.

Although this clone has been cultivated for so long, it will soon be qualified to break through to the Nascent Soul stage. At that time, with his sword skills, he will be an excellent combat force for daily operations.

But when faced with such benefits, it is worth sacrificing them.

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Ancient tree boundary, empty boundary in front of ancient tree.

Li Ye shook his head, took out array artifacts from his storage bag, and began to set up an array around the ancient tree in the void. However, the core array eye was not it.

The independent cross-dimensional assimilation of the two Void Trees is no easy task. Rashly mobilizing their power may affect this process and hinder the goal.

However, even if only the power of the tree's instinctive expansion of its domain is borrowed, the impact is limited, but it can cause a qualitative change in the structure of the great formation itself.

After all, even if the Void Realm Ancient Tree is in the worst condition, it is still a fifth-order entity that has fallen to the fourth order due to years of parasitism.

Its own species is only one step away from transforming into a seventh-order Tree of All Realms.

Its instinctively expanding domain is already comparable to the world's top fourth-order grand formations!

If Li Ye didn't possess the Sacred Tree Rune and the Ancient Void Tree, entering its domain wouldn't have been so easy.

As for the true location of the array's core, Li Ye had other plans.

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The past two days have flown by.

Li Ye kept setting up the grand formation without stopping, and with the help of the ancient tree in the void and the connection of the sacred tree runes, he intermittently poured power into him, and his state reached an unprecedented peak.

No sooner had all the preparations been completed than his divine sense was activated, and he saw two streaks of light, one in front of the other, rushing towards him from the horizon.

One of them was a familiar crimson light, which was most likely Ye Wangchuan, whom Li Ye had dealt with before.

The other one was eerily sinister, with a bluish-black color, and was undoubtedly the Nascent Soul Demon of the Xuan Yin Cave.

"It turns out the demonic path arrived first..."

Li Ye raised an eyebrow.

It has been less than two days, and the assimilation of the two Void Trees has not yet been fully completed.

Unfortunately, the newcomer turned out to be a Nascent Soul cultivator from the Demonic Path. At this point, verbal attacks would likely be useless, and it would be time to prepare to take action.

As his potential and methods became increasingly astonishing, he attracted many followers to his work on planting trees to change the Demon Abyss.

The various sects of the demonic path had long been eager to kill him before he even reached the Nascent Soul stage.

If it weren't for the Heavenly Sword Sect's backing, the righteous sects would still have some face to maintain, having received his favor in changing the Demon Abyss, and would have provided him with much protection.

Perhaps a Nascent Soul demon who disregarded martial ethics had secretly taken action and eliminated Li Ye.

However, with the ancient tree of the Void Realm, a spiritual root of heaven and earth, before us, and not being a spiritual plant that can suppress demons and evil spirits, it is an extremely precious treasure for the demonic path.

Without other sects intervening, Li Ye probably wouldn't have a chance to say anything before these two Nascent Soul demons attacked him directly.

There was absolutely no question of procrastination!

Both were already visible to the naked eye, and the two streaks of light arrived in an instant.

"Huh?! It's you, kid!"

Upon seeing the ancient tree of the Void Realm up close, their eyes lit up with joy, and their smiles widened even more when they saw Li Ye standing under the tree.

"So you are Li Ye?"

A hoarse, dry voice emanated from within the dark blue-green light.

Then a withered, gloomy old man with a hunchback whose eyes seemed to flicker like will-o'-the-wisps appeared.

He sized up Li Ye with great interest.

"Last time you were lucky enough to block a drop of my blood, but today, without that bastard Tian Jianzi's protection, I'd like to see what skills you have to survive against me!"

Ye Wangchuan ignored him, continuing to speak to himself with a cold smile filled with killing intent.

He was about to make a move when he was stopped by the hunchbacked old man beside him with a sinister smile:

"Fellow Daoist Ye, why don't you let me handle this kid..." (End of Chapter)