'Let me take a closer look and see what level my Treant Warriors have reached after three thousand years...'
At the thought, Qi Ping couldn't help but feel a sense of anticipation. These were the elite specimens cultivated from spiritual wood seeds accumulated by the Star-Sea world over tens of thousands of years, if not longer. Every one of them had been enlightened by his spiritual wisdom and inscribed with his spells. Their innate talent might not even be inferior to the human cultivators of the Star-Sea.
Thus, Qi Ping's perception spread once more, landing upon every Treant Warrior with whom he shared a contract! Almost simultaneously, every Treant Warrior felt the resonance.
Their master had awakened!
Excited and pleasantly surprised gazes shot from their eyes. This was the natural affinity every Treant Warrior felt for their Druid. A similar smile of kinship appeared on Qi Ping's face. However, the smile was more one of delighted shock.
'These fellows have developed quite well!'
Although Treant Warriors required more time to grow, ten of them already stood at the peak of Void Refinement, towering far above the others. In the competition spanning over three thousand years, ten of the strongest Treant Warriors had finally emerged!
The only reason they remained at the peak of Void Refinement—the peak of the sixth rank—was due to the insufficient resources in the Star-Sea world. Otherwise, given their talent, they might have already broken through to the seventh rank, which was equivalent to the Unity stage.
It had to be said that the spiritual wood accumulated in the Star-Sea world over so many years indeed contained some truly stunning existences. Often, their potential simply went undeveloped, but once they became a Druid's Treant Warriors, Qi Ping had maximized their potential based on the state of each individual spiritual tree. Thus, the magnificent sight of today was made possible.
'The one with the most domineering and unrivaled aura... is indeed you, Thunder Tribulation Immortal Bamboo!'
Qi Ping looked at the massive lightning bamboo standing at the center of the Star-Sea world and couldn't help but praise its strength and perfection. This was the first special spiritual plant Qi Ping had cultivated. When he first discovered it, it was merely an inconspicuous Green Thunder Bamboo. Now, its body had almost completely transformed into a purple crystal composed of tribulation lightning power.
Densely packed golden thunder-runes flashed across its surface, and every inch of it radiated a terrifying pressure of lightning! Even its bamboo leaves had turned into tribulation thunder. Most horrific of all was the Void Lightning Prison that naturally formed around it. That terrifying power could annihilate almost any force at the Void Refinement stage or below that dared to approach.
'Did this fellow absorb all the tribulation lightning power generated in the Star-Sea world over the last three thousand years?'
Qi Ping strongly suspected this was the case. Otherwise, it couldn't possibly be this absurdly strong! With such horrific tribulation power, how many Void Refinement cultivators would dare to face its edge?
But the second spiritual wood that had grown this strong was something Qi Ping had never expected! It was actually the Blazing Sun Wood he had cultivated in the Cloud-Mist Mountain Range!
'The Blazing Sun Wood?'
There was even a period when his Life-Binding Covenant as a Treant-Herder was placed upon this very tree.
'It should be called the Sun-Fire Divine Wood now.'
The current Sun-Fire Divine Wood, like the Thunder Tribulation Immortal Bamboo, had undergone a startling transformation. Its surroundings were permeated by a Supreme Yang Domain, much like the lightning bamboo's. It was essentially a sun in the shape of a tree; that dense Supreme Yang power felt as though it could incinerate everything in the world!
'Crow will probably love this when he gets back and sees his nest looking so handsome.' Qi Ping still remembered that Crow's favorite thing was to stand on this tree to bask in the sun and cultivate.
The third Treant Warrior was somewhat of a surprise to Qi Ping. It was not a purely combative spiritual tree. It was a Dragon-Blood Flat Peach!
'I remember that over three thousand years ago, it was just a Rank 1 small spirit peach I brought back from the Mysterious Mountain Domain... and now it has grown to this extent.'
'But why is it bound together with Qing He?'
In Qi Ping's vision, the majestic and massive Azure Dragon, Qing He, was currently coiled around this Dragon-Blood Flat Peach in a deep slumber! The tree itself carried a dense aura of Qing He.
One had to know that the creation of a Dragon-Blood Flat Peach required bathing in a vast amount of true dragon blood. Seeing the current situation, Qi Ping could roughly guess that Qing He, relying on his own recovery abilities, had frequently watered the tree with his own blood.
As the Azure Dragon—the head of the Four Sacred Beasts—who had awakened his source talent power, Qing He's blood was incredibly potent. It was no wonder the Dragon-Blood Flat Peach had become so powerful!
However, the tree was clearly not just taking without giving. Upon the little Azure Dragon's body, there was also a life-force belonging to the peach tree! The flat peach was one of the rare divine woods in the cultivation world, containing the ultimate power of vitality. It even bore the reputation that eating a single fruit could grant immortality. The fundamental reason for this was the vitality within the fruit, which could vastly increase a cultivator's lifespan.
If the Azure Dragon was the peak of the wood attribute among spirit beasts, then the flat peach tree was one of the peaks of vitality among spiritual trees.
However, a Dragon-Blood Flat Peach was different from a regular flat peach tree. While regular trees had strong vitality, they possessed almost no combat power and often became nothing more than 'blood bags' for super immortal sects. But the Dragon-Blood Flat Peach was an anomaly!
Not only did it possess the massive vitality of a peach tree, but its entire body was covered in terrifying and powerful blood-colored dragon scales! While possessing horrific defensive capabilities, it also wielded a crushing, boundless strength! To some extent, because of its massive size, a fully grown Dragon-Blood Flat Peach possessed a strength more terrifying than even some members of the Dragon Race.
Furthermore, with the vast vitality within its body, it could transform life into combat power, turning itself into a horrific battle machine. Every branch could become a divine weapon of slaughter!
It had to be said that such a tree was very much to Qi Ping's taste. Otherwise, a tree that only produced peaches—wouldn't that just be a spiritual medicine waiting to be slaughtered? How could it be suitable as a powerful Treant Warrior?
'While I don't know exactly how this Dragon-Blood Flat Peach was born, it surely has everything to do with Qing He.'
The two were clearly in a special symbiotic state, and both had grown stronger because of the other's presence. This symbiotic cultivation was far more efficient than if they had cultivated separately, and they were noticeably more powerful.
'Regardless, having a Dragon-Blood Flat Peach with such great potential as a Treant Warrior is a wonderful surprise.'
Qi Ping looked forward to the day the Dragon-Blood Flat Peach truly matured. He wondered what kind of power this tree, watered by the blood of an Azure Dragon Sacred Beast, would possess.
Turning his gaze away from the peach tree, Qi Ping looked toward a sky-reaching giant vine surrounded by the power of the Five Elements...