281: Attributes skyrocketed! 100,000 crystal cores revived the god-level Enlightenment Tree!

The air inside the treasury was scalding and pungent, a mixture of metallic vapor and sulfurous embers.

Lu Sheng stood in the center of the ruins, two halos—one gold and one red—slowly rotating behind him; he was in no hurry to cease his technique.

"Buzz—"

The dark gold vertical pupils in his eyes contracted once more as countless fine concentric circles spun frantically.

[Dragon Eyes], full-power scan.

Two solid beams of golden light, like high-precision industrial laser scanners, ignored the treasure's radiance and Seals, crudely piercing into the surviving shelves and corners in the depths of the treasury.

He was looking for something.

He had the Gold Dragon and the Fire Dragon.

To construct the perfect [Five Elements Dragon Domain], he still lacked water, wood, and earth.

Since this Heaven-rank treasury held the accumulated wealth of Dengxian Island over thousands of years, there should theoretically be other divine items of the same level.

His gaze penetrated layer after layer of obstructions.

[Target: Heavenly River Heavy Water]

[Description: Taken from a sea eye ten thousand meters deep, a single drop weighs a thousand catties and contains the laws of deep-sea pressure.]

[Evaluation: Mediocre. Too heavy for bathing, too brittle for dragon-making.]

Lu Sheng's gaze lingered for less than 0.1 seconds before skipping over it.

Trash.

If he used this stuff to create a water dragon, it probably wouldn't even withstand a single claw from the Gold Dragon before being turned into water vapor.

His gaze continued to sweep across.

[Target: Living Soil Fragment]

[Description: High-grade soil tainted with a trace of Mother Earth Qi, capable of self-growth.]

[Evaluation: Defective product. The earth-attribute laws inside are as thin as watered-down fake wine.]

Skip.

Still trash.

[Target: Ten-Thousand-Year Green Wood Core...]

[Evaluation: A fire poker.]

He scanned for a full five minutes.

The golden light in Lu Sheng's eyes gradually dimmed until it finally went out completely.

He curled his lip, his face filled with undisguised disappointment and disdain.

"This is the 'foundation' of Dengxian Island's thousands of years?"

Lu Sheng kicked away a piece of Deep Sea Profound Crystal emitting a brilliant blue light as if he were kicking a pebble on the side of the road.

"Aside from those two items, the rest are all scraps."

This sense of disparity was like being used to a Manchu Han Imperial Feast and then suddenly being forced to gnaw on compressed biscuits.

Not only did it taste bad, it also hurt his teeth.

Not far away, Luo Tianfei had just steadied her breathing when she heard this, nearly spitting out a mouthful of blood.

She watched the Profound Crystal Lu Sheng had kicked away, her eyelids twitching wildly.

That was Deep Sea Profound Crystal!

Even a piece the size of a fingernail could promote a mundane weapon to a spirit weapon!

This guy actually called it scraps?

"Lu Sheng, don't be too greedy."

Luo Tianfei stood up, smoothing her somewhat messy, charred long hair. Her voice was cold with a hint of sarcasm: "Any single item here would be enough to make the Spirit Ancestors outside fight to the death for it.

You've already taken the two most top-tier items; do you intend to empty the entire place?"

In her eyes, Lu Sheng had a typical nouveau riche mentality.

He wished he could scrape up the very ground and take it with him.

"Empty the place?"

Lu Sheng glanced back at her, his eyes as cold as if he were looking at an unsophisticated country girl.

"What I want are cornerstones that can carry laws, not these glass shards that shatter with a bit of force."

"Dragons created from such inferior materials would be cripples."

"If I'm going to make one, I'll make the strongest Five Elements Dragon Domain. I won't settle."

Having said that, he didn't bother to explain further.

With a slight thought.

"Return."

Whoosh! Whoosh!

The two miniature dragons of laws behind him, one gold and one red, instantly transformed into two streaks of light and drilled into his back.

Accompanied by a slight stinging sensation.

Two lifelike tattoos appeared on his back muscles.

On his left shoulder, a gold dragon was perched, its head ferocious, presiding over slaughter.

On his right shoulder, a fire dragon was coiled, red lotuses blooming, presiding over destruction.

As the two dragons returned to their places, the violent pressure around Lu Sheng instantly vanished, like a peerless, malevolent blade returning to its scabbard.

He sat cross-legged amidst the ruins of priceless treasures and casually opened his personal attribute panel.

Since he couldn't rely on external items, he would see what his current capital was.

A deep blue waterfall of data poured down across his retinas.

The brand-new panel was so magnificent it made one's head spin.

[Spirit Master: Level 21 (0/12,000)]

[Strength: 220 tons]

[Speed: 700 meters per second]

[Body Strengthening: Five Viscera Golden Body Rank V, Dragon Muscle Rank V, Dragon Bone Rank V, Six Treasures Rank IV.]

[Special Skills: Dragon Eyes, Dragon Scales, Dragon Claw - Blood Devour, Five Elements Dragon Domain (2/3), Elemental Dragon Breath, Human-Dragon Form, Dragon Transformation Form.]

[spirit source Secret Technique: dragon devouring spear (Weight: 15,000 catties), dragon god emperor armor.]

[Talent: God-Tier Sequence — Dragon God (Talent Description: Ancient Dragon God Bloodline, capable of infinite evolution!)]

[Energy Points: 2,000,000 (Acquisition method: Kill any enemy to obtain energy points; the point value is determined by the strength of the target)]

[storage space]: (intermediate spirit source crystal cores: 790,000), (advanced spirit source crystal cores: 15,000), (top-tier spirit source crystal cores: 25).

(1,000 cubic meters, 50,000 Energy Points.)

[spiritual source space: enlightenment tree (Sapling 4%), constitution spirit fruit...]

[myriad things furnace: None]

"220 tons..."

Lu Sheng looked at this number and clenched his fist.

The air between his fingers let out an overburdened boom.

And this was just his normal state.

If he activated [Human-Dragon Form] and then added the 30% attribute boost from the dragon god emperor armor... "Right now, even without using spirit source, just relying on this physical body, I could probably smash a small mountain just by crashing into it, right?"

He was a literal human nuclear bomb.

His gaze swept over and froze on the [Spirit Master: Level 21 (0/120,000)] entry.

120,000 units.

Lu Sheng remembered Elder Ling Yao saying that for an ordinary Genius promoted to Spirit Master, a spirit source reserve of 50,000 was considered excellent, and 60,000 was the limit.

Yet he was at double the limit of others right after his Breakthrough.

Furthermore, it was high-quality liquid spirit source.

"It's alright, barely enough."

A satisfied curve tugged at the corner of Lu Sheng's mouth, and his gaze finally fell upon the [storage space] at the bottom.

There, a string of numbers so long it was hard to count met his eyes.

[intermediate spirit source crystal cores: 790,000]

[advanced spirit source crystal cores: 15,000]

[top-tier spirit source crystal cores: 25]

[Energy Points: 2,000,000]

This was his entire fortune accumulated through slaughter on the East Sea Battlefield.

Nearly a million crystal cores!

"I almost forgot the main business."

Lu Sheng slapped his forehead, his eyes instantly becoming fervent.

Previously at Gongga Peak, he had been busy killing monsters, and then he was inexplicably teleported above the True Sea by the Sanqing Hall; he simply hadn't had the time to use this wealth.

But now that his strength had reached the Spirit Master Realm, it was time to find a moment to settle down and splurge.

"Enter!"

Lu Sheng's consciousness instantly sank deep into his body.

It was a gray, independent space—the [spiritual source space].

In the center of the space stood a solitary... withered tree branch.

That was the God-tier spirit plant he had exchanged three crates of supplies for from that old man at Zijin Peak—the enlightenment tree.

Because it had lacked nourishment for a long time, the tree looked even more pathetic than before.

Its leaves were yellowed and curled, and its bark was cracked and peeling, as if it would completely wither and die at any moment.

A miserable red status bar floated above it:

[enlightenment tree: Status — Near Death (Vitality 4%)]

[Warning: spirit source is extremely scarce! If not replenished in time, the divine object will completely wither!]

[Requirement: Irrigation with a large amount of high-purity spirit source energy!]

"I was poor before; I've let you suffer."

Lu Sheng looked at the withered tree, a smile typical of a nouveau riche who treats money like dirt appearing on his face.

He gave a grand wave of his hand.

"System, give me... a hundred thousand intermediate spirit source crystal cores first to nurture the enlightenment tree."

Crash—!

Within the storage space, a corner of the mountain-like pile of crystal cores instantly vanished.

Immediately after, a majestic and suffocatingly pure energy, like a floodgate opening, poured directly into the gray space.

This wasn't watering.

This was a dam discharging a flood!

[Ding! Massive spirit source injection detected!]

[enlightenment tree beginning absorption...]

Buzz!

The originally lifeless withered branch suddenly shuddered.

It was like a traveler parched for ten thousand years suddenly falling into a spirit spring.

It began to frantically devour and plunder the surrounding energy.

The originally grayish-white bark turned into a lush, dripping emerald green at a speed visible to the naked eye.

On the withered branches, tender green buds popped out one by one like popcorn, "pop pop pop."

[Vitality: 10%... 20%... 50%...]

The data jumped frantically.

But it wasn't enough.

Lu Sheng watched the still-rising progress bar and raised an eyebrow.

"Eating quite fast, aren't you?"

"Then don't stop; there's plenty!"

One minute later.

With a crisp and pleasant "ding," the entire space suddenly shook.

An incredibly profound aura, carrying a faint fragrance, instantly permeated the area.

Lu Sheng looked closely.

He saw that the original withered branch had completely disappeared.

In its place was a sapling about a meter high, its entire body seemingly carved from emerald, with Great Dao patterns flowing on every leaf.

Although it hadn't borne fruit yet, its vibrant vitality already made Lu Sheng feel refreshed, and even his somewhat restless Mental Energy from the recent Breakthrough was smoothed out considerably.

[Target: enlightenment tree (Sapling Stage)]

[Vitality: 100% (Healthy)]

[Current Effect: Meditating under the tree increases Comprehension Ability by 300% and Law Affinity by 200%!]

[Advancement Requirement: top-tier spirit source crystal core x100!]

"Triple comprehension, double affinity..."

Lu Sheng took a deep breath, feeling a sense of clarity in his mind; some obscurities in his application of the Gold and Fire laws were now instantly understood.

"Good stuff."

This wasn't just an accelerator for cultivation.

This was a cheat code.

With this, his confidence in pushing his strength to the Spirit Ancestor Realm within two months increased by at least thirty percent.

And...