Douluo Continent: Not enough bloodline? Make up for it with brains

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Venture deep into the natural forest.

Xu Yuan was increasingly shocked.

The life force of the natural forests where the nature elves live is too rich.

Before even reaching the ancestral land of life, this vital energy was almost liquefied.

Delving deeper, Xu Yuan saw that the leaves of the towering trees around him were covered with dewdrops formed from the liquefaction of life energy, which were collected by nature spirits.

However, once they actually arrived at the ancestral land of life, the liquefied life essence was gone.

Here, the vitality is extremely pure, having been sublimated to another level, on par with the laws themselves. It's as if the surrounding world is permeated not with energy, but with the power of the laws.

"Although the Sacred Heart Plane cannot compare to the God Realm, it is still the limit below the God Realm. It is only natural that such a scene would occur at the core of the plane?" Xu Yuan convinced himself.

He could sense that deep within that enormous Tree of Life lay a life force no less potent than the life essence on Devil's Island.

In fact, it is even larger in scale.

The life essence on Devil Island was ultimately just a small portion of the essence that the two God Kings had left behind on Douluo Continent after their deaths, rather than their complete essence. Moreover, the essence of destruction and the essence of life were intertwined. Although they did not annihilate each other, they did offset most of each other's aura fluctuations.

But in this ancestral land of natural spirits, there is a vibrant tree of life, a world of pure vitality.

That's right, heaven and earth.

Before Xu Yuan stood a massive tree trunk that stretched from the sky to the earth.

The treetops are not visible above.

Its roots cannot be seen below.

The view was completely blocked by tree trunks.

Roughly estimated, the trunk of the Tree of Life is three kilometers in diameter, with numerous hollows in the trunk, each seemingly a different world.

"Friends from the Wanxing Chamber of Commerce, please follow me."

The nature spirit who was responsible for guiding Xu Yuan led him into the interior of the Tree of Life.

Once inside the Tree of Life, Xu Yuan's perception became clearer.

"The vitality here can directly make my life essence more active, and coupled with the already clearer laws, my comprehension efficiency has greatly increased."

A truly sacred place for spiritual practice.

The Tree of Life played a crucial role in enabling the Natural Elf race to have a half-step God-King.

Sensing the changes within himself, Xu Yuan suppressed his urge to cultivate and continued to follow the nature spirit deeper into the world.

This is only the beginning of entering the Tree of Life.

Based on Xu Yuan's understanding of Lex, the name Lex assigned to him was undoubtedly the best he could hope for.

This training may very well lead to another transformation for him.

Another transformation after breaking through to godhood and opening up the inner world!

Through his senses, Xu Yuan arrived at the deepest part of the Tree of Life.

At this moment, a huge emerald green ball of light was floating in front of him.

"This is--"

Xu Yuan stared wide-eyed at the emerald green ball of light, as if he could see the workings of all things.

Is this the origin of the Tree of Life?

He remained silent because other powerful individuals were in seclusion nearby, having been reminded of this by the nature spirit who had been guiding him.

Around this source of life, there are eight other powerful individuals who have entered a state of seclusion.

After enveloping themselves in their own magic in the simplest way to avoid interference from those around them, they entered a state of enlightenment.

Xu Yuan took a deep breath, wasting no time, and stepped forward to his position, sitting cross-legged in the spot closest to the origin of the Tree of Life.

As Xu Yuan entered a meditative state, the chieftain of the Nature Elf Clan also observed his cultivation.

"His magic power has reached the god-like level; he must be a newly recruited powerhouse from another realm by the Myriad Stars Merchant Guild."

It seemed that something like this had happened before, and after observing Xu Yuan for a while, the clan chief stopped paying attention to him.

At this moment, Xu Yuan had entered a state of high-speed cultivation.

Beside the origin of this Tree of Life, the abundant life force is sufficient to replace any other energy for cultivation.

Even if a god-level expert cultivates with all their might, the life force they absorb will not cause any noticeable ripples.

At this moment, Xu Yuan was constantly absorbing the life force around him, perfecting the inner world within his body, and at the same time using this life force to fill the gaps in his divine soul power and blood power.

With the endless replenishment of life force, Xu Yuan's realm, which had transcended levels, was immediately stabilized.

Moreover, the very essence of this Tree of Life seemed to be catalyzing his life and death runes.

The level of life force here has reached the level of laws. Just by devouring and absorbing this life force, Xu Yuan felt as if he had been baptized by the laws, and his own life and death runes were becoming more and more perfect under the impetus of this life force.

Xu Yuan even felt that the withered tree in his scroll world had come back to life.

No special methods are needed; simply injecting the power emanating from the Tree of Life's origin into it reverses the previous mutated state, revitalizes it, and seems to be taking root anew.

Xu Yuan directly transferred it from the scroll world to the inner world.

The withered tree sprouted new branches and buds, experiencing a second spring, and quickly took root in Xu Yuan's inner world. The place where it took root was Xu Yuan's life and death runes, which were one of the cornerstones of the laws of Xu Yuan's inner world.

As the Tree of Life took root in the Runes of Life and Death, the inner world rapidly reorganized around it.

Boom!

The inner world underwent a strange change.

The spacetime rune manifests.

Meta-characters, sealing characters, calamity characters, and other runes evolved from soul rings all appeared at this moment.

The entire inner world seemed to coalesce into one force.

This strange feeling made Xu Yuan realize something.

"Is this... the creation of a dimension?"

origin?

There is no cohesion of the origin.

The inner world was created based on Xu Yuan, and everything depended on Xu Yuan. When the laws were perfected and condensed into one, the inner world naturally advanced into a plane.

If one had to pinpoint the origin that runs through this inner world, it would be Xu Yuan's numerous runes.

With a thought, Xu Yuan caused numerous runes to converge, forming a river that flowed through his inner world.

Above the river, it seems to record everything in the entire inner world.

The changes within the inner world are just the beginning.

Xu Yuan's other two small worlds also underwent transformations. The Scroll World and the Dream Space both completed their transformations and seemed to have become planes.

At this point, any life form that enters can survive and reproduce, because these two small worlds possess all the characteristics of a plane and have all the laws.

Qi and blood emanated from his body, condensing into the phantom of a long spear. With the infusion of rich life force, the emerald green, fine as silk threads on his body became even wider.

The replenishment of vitality increases the proportion of life-giving metal in the body of the Absolute.

time flies.

When Xu Yuan came to his senses again, it was already a month later.

He was summoned by the nature elves.

Xu Yuan took one last, wistful look at the Tree of Life before reluctantly departing.

Cultivating beside the source of the Tree of Life—that's incredibly efficient.

In just one month, Xu Yuan's spiritual power and blood energy made another breakthrough, reaching the super god level.

And this is only a small part of what he has gained.

After leaving Sacred Heart Mother Planet, Xu Yuan informed Lex through the Myriad Stars Merchant Guild and then piloted the Abyss Explorer back to Douluo Star on his own.

During the voyage, Xu Yuan finally had time to sort out his spoils.

"My improvement has been so tremendous in just one month."

Recalling the feeling at that time, the Tree of Life seemed to be consciously assisting Xu Yuan's inner world and the evolution of the two smaller worlds, as if it were driving its own evolution.

"The first three months were not wasted. With the help of Tang San, following that wound, I made my inner world and two small worlds conform to the origin of the Sacred Heart Plane in advance. Perhaps that is why the Tree of Life pushed the evolution of my inner world and two small worlds in that way."

The previous three months, during which he cultivated beside the origin of the Tree of Life, increased his efficiency by more than tenfold.

In addition, outsiders might be unwelcome and eliminated directly, which implicitly improves Xu Yuan's cultivation efficiency.

On the way back, Xu Yuan kept processing what he had learned.

The evolution of the inner world came first, and his insights followed.

Now that he has some free time, he wants to seize the opportunity to fully understand all the changes.

And so, a month later.

The Hell Plane.

Xu Yuan's Tanyuan landed.

After integrating the Abyss Explorer into his body, Xu Yuan looked towards the horizon.

"This Lord of Hell has quite keen senses."

After waiting for a while, the Lord of Hell arrived in front of Xu Yuan.

The Lord of Hell was shocked to see Xu Yuan's demeanor had changed so drastically since three years ago.

"Senior," he said, bowing respectfully.

"What's the matter?"

"No, no, it's just to welcome back our senior," said the Lord of Hell.

"Speak up, what is it that you want to know? After all, you were very cooperative before."

The Lord of Hell suppressed his excitement and asked softly, "Senior, I don't know the method by which my Blood Master becomes a god."

"Blood Masters becoming gods?" Xu Yuan narrowed his eyes.

He hadn't reasoned about it.

Although the Blood Master Contract Forbidden Spell originated from the Blood Master system, the Blood God Transformation Forbidden Spell is clearly not something that can be transferred from the Blood Master system.

Although they share the same origin, their essence has changed.

When the Blood Master system comes to an end, switching to Blood God Transformation means starting all over again, and there's no guarantee of becoming a god.

Xu Yuan pondered for a moment and then gave the Lord of Hell an answer.

"If you trust me, you can try to use the power of your bloodline to bear the laws. I have the method of runes, which you can study and comprehend."

As he spoke, Xu Yuan left behind a very rudimentary blood-script character.

This is a rune that he deduced on the spot.

His understanding of the laws now far surpasses what it used to be.

Having his own inner world, he could easily deduce runes in a field he was also good at.

As for its simplicity, it's simply because the blood rune is of a low level and riddled with loopholes, allowing one to glimpse its mysteries.

This actually helps the Lord of Hell gain enlightenment.

The Lord of Hell looked at the blood-red runes in the air and solemnly held them up in front of him.

Xu Yuan ignored the Lord of Hell and disappeared in a streak of blood-red light.

Phew, back to Douluo Continent! Now it's time for the face-slapping and showing off scenes.

This is a preliminary attempt at writing a universe arc. What do you guys think? I don't dare to waste too much space on it; I can only roughly expand the world-building. If you find it acceptable, I'll continue to expand the universe arc further. If you don't, then this will end on Douluo Star.

(End of this chapter)