All-Out Manhunt

To consolidate his cultivation, Yuan Ming immediately began circulating his technique as well, sorting through the power within his body in an attempt to stabilize his condition.

While stabilizing his cultivation, he split off a thread of consciousness to study the blue-gray tree bark fused with his body, repeatedly pondering the words Artifact Spirit Kong had just spoken.

Kong had only told Yuan Ming to properly nurture this piece of bark and cultivate it once more into an existence like the World Tree, yet had not mentioned any specific method required. Yuan Ming did not know whether Kong did not understand it either, or simply had not told him.

Now that the other party gave no response at all to his calls, Yuan Ming could only helplessly think of a solution himself.

After racking his brains for a long while, Yuan Ming still had no ideas. In the end, he chose the clumsiest method—directly pouring his mana into the tree bark as a stopgap measure.

The moment his mana touched the bark, however, the Origin of Ten Thousand Woods power within it instantly erupted with suction, draining every last trace of the mana Yuan Ming had poured in within a single breath.

Yet nothing changed afterward.

Yuan Ming tried pouring in another stream of mana, and the same thing immediately happened. This confirmed that it was no accident—the Origin of Ten Thousand Woods power truly craved a replenishment of spiritual energy.

Perhaps if he continuously supplied spiritual energy to the Origin of Ten Thousand Woods power, it could be strengthened and thereby revive the World Tree?

That was Yuan Ming's conjecture. Though he could not obtain an answer, he had at least found a method that seemed feasible for the time being.

Thus, he immediately began continuously infusing the sorted