In the blood river, Lu Ye's body jolted. He distinctly sensed something invading his body.
He hurriedly examined the Talent Tree. Under normal circumstances, anything that invaded his body and was harmful to him would be burned away by the Talent Tree.
Yet to his astonishment, the Talent Tree showed not the slightest reaction.
That was rather abnormal.
But very soon, Lu Ye knew where that Blood Shadow had gone, because at this very moment, his Divine Sea suddenly churned. If not for the Soul Suppressing Tower holding it down, he would likely have grown dizzy in an instant and lost control of his mind.
He hurriedly steadied himself. Divine sense surged, and in the next instant, his Divine Soul Spirit Body condensed within his Divine Sea.
He lifted his eyes and looked. Sure enough, there was now a blood-colored figure inside his Divine Sea, exactly as he had seen just now: a figure with a human outline, its entire aura vicious and evil.
It was not that the Talent Tree was useless. It was simply that against this method of invasion, even the Talent Tree was powerless.
The Talent Tree existed in his Source Spirit Aperture, which was the location of his dantian. At the very beginning, the Talent Tree could burn away all energy that flowed through the Source Spirit Aperture, eliminating anything within it that was harmful to Lu Ye. But as Lu Ye developed the Talent Tree's abilities, the scope of that burning had grown greater. Now, in theory, as long as it was somewhere his physical body could touch, the Talent Tree could burn and devour it.
But the Talent Tree's burning range did not include the Divine Sea. Perhaps it was because the Divine Sea was the place where a cultivator's divine soul gathered,