The Fruit Will Be Given to You Tomorrow

In his words, "Useless people don't deserve to be their own master."

And so, Wu Weizi went all out.

During the day, he worked with the Daoist and Buddhist practitioners summoned by the Three Great Bases to set up the Seventy-Two Spirit Gathering Formations. At night, he helped the man-eating tree absorb the energy from the tree heart.

In order to show off in front of his favored prospective chief disciple, the old man brought out every skill he had kept hidden.

Working nonstop day and night, he visibly grew much more haggard.

As a result, with his assistance, the man-eating tree's absorption speed soared.

Unlike before, whenever the man-eating tree absorbed a large amount of energy, its body would grow larger. This time, however, there was no change in its size.

There was not even the slightest visible difference.

If Jiang You had not been able to sense the energy continuously flowing into her body through the man-eating tree, she would have thought that the old Daoist Master was deceiving her.

Half a month later, after the tree heart had absorbed its last trace of energy, only a brittle shell remained. It crumbled at the slightest squeeze.

The seventy-two Spirit Gathering Arrays around Black Moon Village had also been set up.

Jiang You had not actually asked much about the Spirit Gathering Arrays.

She knew nothing about these Buddhist and Daoist things. They were completely beyond her understanding.

Looking at them only made her eyes swim.

But she had to admire the Three Great Bases. The Buddhist and Daoist practitioners they had summoned numbered tens of thousands in total.

And she had also learned from Wang Qichuan that the Seventy-Two Spirit Gathering Formations were, in fact, meant to compete with the abyss for life force.

They could not stop