Chapter 4028: Chapter 4047: Breaking the Shackles

Meishi embraced the Chaos Divine Status and went into closed-door meditation, yet the experiment with the Taotie Divine Tree failed.

The Taotie Divine Tree was not interested in this pure energy; it couldn’t devour and absorb it like Meishi.

Lin Chen, Chu Jiaxue, and the others discussed for a while and ultimately reached a conclusion.

The Taotie Divine Tree had always devoured flesh and blood entities, powerful lifeforms, absorbing their flesh and blood essence, and only then could it achieve evolution.

The Taotie Divine Tree doesn’t consume pure energy; perhaps what it needs more is flesh and blood. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

Lin Chen, having nothing better to do, teamed up with Yao Xuanji to head to the remote and dangerous areas of Planet 49.

While others avoided foreign beasts, they sought them out.

You don’t absorb pure energy, but you have to devour foreign beasts, isn’t it similar to demonic or magical beasts?

The two of them are now at the seventh-level peak, with Sky Wolf Battle Armor ready at all times and capable of star sky jumping anytime; they have nothing to fear.

Even in regions where other seventh-level peak martial warriors dare not tread, they ventured in directly.

Facing a large batch of foreign beasts rushing out, Lin Chen did not act, but released Xingxing from the Linglong Tower.

"Xingxing, attack straight ahead with a divine soul attack, go!"

Through many educational programs, Xingxing’s intelligence rapidly improved, and it quickly learned language, allowing it to communicate with Lin Chen and others through divine sense, no longer as clumsy as before.

Xingxing was like a piece of white paper, watching numerous programs made for Federation children, naturally gravitating towards Federation people, and foreign beasts appeared in many programs as villains, naturally categorized as "bad guys."

Since they are bad guys, getting rid of them is only natural.

A pure energy body drifted out from the stone, and around it, many sparkling energy models appeared; through communication and testing, Lin Chen realized these energy bodies could, like array formations, amplify Xingxing’s divine soul attack power.

As Xingxing’s divine soul attack launched, it surged forward like a massive tsunami.

The foreign beasts weren’t particularly strong, mostly equivalent to third or fourth level martial warriors, with some at level five or six, unable to withstand Xingxing’s fierce soul attack.

The divine soul attack swept over, causing those flying in the sky and running on the ground to suddenly stiffen, bleeding from their orifices, their bodies losing control and falling to the ground.

Watching the foreign beasts toppling like wind-blown wheat, Lin Chen felt endlessly shocked.

Of course, he could easily kill these foreign beasts, but if he swung his knife, most beasts’ bodies would explode into smithereens; using the soul or other attacks, nothing compares to Xingxing’s power.

It served as practice for coordinating with Xingxing.

The foreign beasts in front died in large numbers, while those behind charged forward, and once they rushed ahead, Lin Chen commanded Xingxing to attack again, causing them to topple backward en masse instantly.

Bodies laid across the field!

Once the wasteland was littered with foreign beast corpses, the remaining beasts finally felt fear and turned tail to flee.

Lin Chen didn’t give chase, taking it step by step, as devouring required time, and digestion absorption needed time too.

Lin Chen summoned the Taotie Divine Tree, which eagerly sensed the corpses of countless beasts, countless vines instantly extending from the Taotie Divine Tree, piercing into the bodies of the dead beasts on the ground.

One by one, the foreign beasts shriveled rapidly under the Taotie Vines’ siphoning, eventually turning into shriveled husks of skin and bone.

As the essence blood of the foreign beasts was absorbed, the branches of the Taotie Divine Tree began to turn red, and once it utterly stopped siphoning, the Taotie Divine Tree seemed to become a tree of fresh blood.

Each branch emanated a blood-red glow, the entire tree bathed in this bloody light, exuding a gory and powerful aura.

Lin Chen had no concerns about this, as he had no qualms about siphoning even adversarial cultivators, not to mention these foreign beasts.

These foreign beasts were scourges of Planet 49, eradicating more meant reducing danger, hence benefiting the people.

The Taotie Divine Tree’s siphoning and evolution speed was particularly swift; several days later, its blood-red trunk returned entirely to its original color, yet it seemed more robust.

Since devouring foreign beasts was effective, things became straightforward.

Train Xingxing to slay the foreign beasts, the Taotie Divine Tree to siphon the dead beasts’ essence blood; once the siphoning was complete and further feeding was impossible, Lin Chen and his group star-jumped back to their peaceful life in Jinghai City.

Once the Taotie Divine Tree had fully siphoned the essence blood dry, Lin Chen and the others jumped back to resume a new round of slaughter.

The Taotie Divine Tree’s consumption was immense, and this wave of slaughter drastically reduced the foreign beast population on Planet 49.

After being discovered and reported, many praised it online, but Lin Chen did not step forward to claim the honor; it was merely a reputation, with no real benefit, and he didn’t want people to know he was feeding the Taotie Divine Tree with a large number of foreign beasts.

Time flew by, and after many rounds of ample frenzied siphoning, the Taotie Divine Tree underwent terrifying evolution.

The Taotie Divine Tree was originally at the Saint Peak level, just shy of a Heaven Deity, as it couldn’t siphon higher-level energy lifeforms, and siphoning incurred significant loss; devouring a Heaven Deity didn’t result in becoming one.

Now, with the mass slaughter and siphoning of foreign beasts, including some at level six or even seven, its combat power genuinely broke through again.

Lin Chen restrained his strength to test the Taotie Divine Tree’s combat power, finally discovering it had reached the combat strength of a sixth-level martial warrior.

This was akin to the power of a Heaven Deity!

Though weaker than Lin Chen’s group, it signified the Taotie Divine Tree breaking through, reaching new heights, proving it had no limits; the stronger and more numerous the entities fed to it, the higher it could attain.

Lin Chen was ecstatic, not expecting their cultivation path to end, yet the Taotie Divine Tree had further to go.

Months quietly passed, and Lin Chen and the others received joyous news from Meishi once more.

Lin Chen looked at Meishi exuding a terrifying aura, his eyes wide, asking in surprise, "Did you really break through?"

Meishi’s eyes arched with a smile blooming like a flower, "Thank you, Master, for granting me the Chaos Divine Status; I’ve broken the innate shackles, facing no more obstacles in life from now on..."