Judgment rampaged without restraint. Every cultivator who dared approach within a radius of ten miles was slain by Judgment.
Zhang Chen had long since sensed that something was amiss and immediately used an escape art to flee. Now, back in the city, he gazed from afar at the lightning-wreathed scene beyond the city walls. Rays of divine light rose between heaven and earth, and many local deities who had rashly barged in had suffered terribly.
"The nest has been stirred up," Zhang Chen muttered to himself. He no longer paid attention to the commotion outside the city. Whoever fought and died out there had little to do with him.
Zhang Chen looked excitedly at the Longevity Tree Coffin within Devouring Space. Then, using his escape art all the way down to the deepest reaches of the earth, he used Earth Authority to carve out a concealed space. Only then did he summon the Nine Bends Yellow River Grand Formation and spit out the Longevity Tree Coffin.
Seeing that the trunk of the Longevity Tree Coffin had already been hollowed out, making it plainly unsuitable for continued use as a main trunk, Zhang Chen pondered briefly and decided to cultivate a new one. He reached out and broke off one of its longest branches. The next moment, Earth Authority activated. "Take root!"
At Zhang Chen's command, Wood Authority activated. The branch twisted for a moment, then roots sprouted anew from it. It became a complete whole and evolved into an intact Longevity Tree.
"Not bad! Not bad! I now have two Innate Spiritual Roots. And since I have grasped the Time Law, I can grant them two hundred and forty years in a single day. Before long, it will grow into a towering tree, and my strength will rise to another