Published: March 3, 2025
CHAPTER 718: The Thorny Road
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“Step.”
With a firm footing, Liu Yu suddenly awoke from his daze. His spiritual perception and consciousness, far superior to ordinary cultivators, spread out immediately.
In an instant, he sensed that this place was different from the previous nine levels.
In the first nine levels, each realm was dominated by a particular type of spiritual energy, but the tenth level, although somewhat richer in spiritual energy, was no longer as extreme as before.
His extraordinarily keen spiritual perception detected the omnipresent five-element spiritual energy, which had reached a certain balance.
The azure sky, the fresh scent of soil, flourishing plants, and brightly colored flowers
What came into view was an enormous “garden.”
As his spiritual consciousness swept across the area, Liu Yu suddenly realized he was in a vast “garden.”
Aside from a flat area of about an acre beneath his feet, the rest was filled with various flowering plants.
The only exit was a winding path ahead, the destination of which was unknown.
At this time, the sky was dim, and the great sun had already dipped below the horizon, casting a somewhat eerie aura over the entire garden.
“Wait a minute.”
Quickly scanning his surroundings, Liu Yu shifted his focus from the path to the “flowering plants” on either side of it and was suddenly taken aback!
Nightmare Flower, Blood Poison Thorn, Bloodthirsty Demonic Vine
He murmured the names of the demonic plants lining the path, various pieces of information flashing through his mind, and his expression gradually turned grim.
The Bloodthirsty Demonic Vine, a highly dangerous plant in the cultivating immortality world.
Although still classified as a plant, it would absorb all nutrients within its vicinity, including but not limited to soil nutrients and the flesh and blood of humans and demonic beasts.
Once entwined by its vines, one’s blood and flesh would be quickly drained.
More critically, its vitality was extremely tenacious, impervious to fire-type attacks, lacking the weaknesses typical of ordinary plants.
The defensive capability of a first-stage Bloodthirsty Demonic Vine could withstand nearly all magical artifact attacks, and once it reached the second stage, even spiritual artifacts would struggle to inflict effective damage.
A third-stage Bloodthirsty Demonic Vine could even resist threats from magical treasures.
Before Liu Yu lay one of these vines, which, for reasons unknown, occupied a radius of two miles, but based on its vine color and the aura it emitted, it had clearly surpassed the third stage.
The Nightmare Flower, whose pollen could directly attack the Primordial Spirit, causing beings to fall into a dream state, unwittingly sinking into the dream.
Even golden core cultivators would find it hard to resist such an attack.
The Blood Poison Thorn, with its poisonous spikes, not only had astonishing power but also came with an extraordinary toxicity that even high-level cultivators would greatly fear.
In Liu Yu's sight, malevolent demonic plants towered over him, often dozens of yards tall.
Clearly, they had all reached maturity and posed a threat to golden core and yuan ying cultivators.
In comparison, even in his true body state, he felt a bit small, let alone in his normal state.
Even with Liu Yu’s extensive knowledge, he could only recognize a portion of the demonic plants in the “garden,” knowing their dangers and characteristics, while most he had never even heard of.
However, it was easy to deduce that anything capable of standing alongside these notorious demonic plants, without being encroached upon, could not be anything good.
“Was I a bit reckless earlier?”
A strong sense of crisis surged through his spiritual perception, causing Liu Yu to hesitate for a moment, the thought flashing through his mind.
Perhaps it was a wise choice to withdraw now?
In the face of the impending crisis, even with his decisiveness, he dared not take a step forward.
He couldn’t help but begin to scrutinize himself: had he been a bit too arrogant lately?