The Osmanthus Tree That Ate Too Much

The mountain cavern, which had originally glimmered with a pearly yellow light, had now become chaotic and haggard. That enormous heart had once been filled with vast earth-elemental energy. The constantly beating Heart of the Mountain had brimmed with vitality, just like the heart of a living creature.

But now, the faintly glowing mountain cavern before Lin Qi looked like a decrepit kiln, permeated everywhere by an air of gray ruin and desolation. The enormous Heart of the Mountain was like a shriveled grape, limp and listless on the ground. More than ninety percent of the immense, inexhaustible earth-elemental energy within it had been drained away.

Like the mighty Yangtze suddenly reduced to a brook, the earth elements flowing through the stone veins surrounding the Heart of the Mountain had also weakened by several hundredfold. This stone cavern, which had once given off an inexhaustible sense of power and life, had already sunk into a half-dead state.

Lin Qi stared in shock at the ruined stone cavern before suddenly sensing that something was wrong with his body. He hurriedly lowered his head to look.

After he had crippled his own White Tiger Battle Qi and tempered his body with it, Lin Qi's body had already become much leaner. He was not quite skin and bones, but he had at least lost a good deal of weight compared to before. Yet now, Lin Qi's body was swollen like a bear's. He had actually returned to the build he had possessed while studying in Berely! His once sharply defined abdomen and muscles like forged steel were gone. His belly had bulged out, bloated like an oversized loaf of risen bread.

What enraged Lin Qi even more was that he had grown another two inches taller!

Two inches taller and swollen seven or