Chen Daolin's consciousness withdrew from the Chaos Hall. He was delighted, yet somewhat troubled.
The Cloud-Touching Vine had successfully evolved into the strongest form of Cloud-Touching Vine: a perfect 360-vine World Master-level form. Its strength far surpassed that of a 216-vine Cloud-Touching Vine of the same level. Naturally, this also meant that breaking through to the Immortal level would be astonishingly difficult.
It would probably be more than ten times harder than for a Golden-Horned Beast to break through to the Immortal level!
Yet once it became Immortal, a Cloud-Touching Vine with 360 main vines would possess King-level strength.
Chen Daolin had once discussed the evolution of Cloud-Touching Vines with Ji Xuan. The Immortal teacher who had died back then had possessed only a 108-vine Cloud-Touching Vine at the World Master level, yet its evolution had cost a full 6.2 million mixed yuan units.
For Chen Daolin's Cloud-Touching Vine to evolve and break through to the Immortal level, it would require a hundred or even a thousand times more resources—probably tens of billions of mixed yuan units.
And there was also an extremely high chance of failure.
Once it failed, all that investment would go down the drain.
Even King-level Immortals would not dare gamble like this.
However, that was all a matter for the near future. Chen Daolin quickly put it out of his mind.
Standing upon land shrouded in vast, hazy chaotic currents, Chen Daolin willed it, releasing the Cloud-Touching Vine. The 360 golden vines, each covered in sharp barbs, now carried a savage and brutal aura. Logically, the Cloud-Touching Vine specialized in defense, but after evolving into a perfect World Master-level Cloud-Touching Vine, it had gained a powerful offensive nature as well. He did not know whether it had always been like this or whether something had