"This is... the Bodhi Heart Lotus hidden in the puppets, the thing that can make a person attain enlightenment on the spot..."
Lin Ming no longer paid attention to those fierce battlefields. At that moment, he slowly raised his head, his gaze passing over the chaotic battlefield once more to fall on that ancient giant tree that stood quiet and still, lofty and detached from the world.
On the thick trunk nearly a thousand zhang above the ground, a ring of soft, bright emerald light was spreading outward like ripples on water.
That radiance was not dazzling, yet it contained an astonishing, soul-stirring vitality. Just looking at it from afar made one feel as if the soul was wrapped in a warm power, and the fatigue and pain from before seemed to ease a great deal.
A desire born from the deepest instincts of life quietly rose in his heart.
Just as Lin Ming's mind tightened and he stared fixedly, yearning for the changes that would follow, a sharp sound suddenly came from another place.
"Boom!!!"
Not far away, a strange, dull rumble suddenly rang out, like a heavy object exploding.
Lin Ming focused and turned his head. He saw that on the battlefield where the four ancient god clans were gathered, Fire Spark, wreathed from head to toe in dark-red, bloodlike flames, descended from the sky like a flaming meteor and smashed a fist viciously into the left solar plexus of that stone-grey puppet.
Almost at the same time, on the other side, Thunder Motion's body was wrapped in purple lightning serpents. His speed was fast to the extreme, and with one finger force that gathered violent lightning, he struck with incomparable precision at the right solar plexus of the puppet's skull.
A pincer attack from left and right,