The Divine Effects of an Acquired Spirit Fruit

Chapter 23: The Divine Effects of an Acquired Spirit Fruit

As an acquired spirit fruit, the Green Spirit Fruit's effects were unknown to He Yu, but they were certainly no small matter. Although it was far inferior to innate spiritual roots such as the Ginseng Fruit, Flat Peaches, and Huangzhong Plum, it still could not be compared to ordinary natural treasures. With He Yu's current cultivation, he truly needed to be cautious.

He Yu had already refined all the Demon Cores within his body, leaving him free of worries and able to focus entirely on the Green Spirit Fruit.

He swallowed the fruit in his hand in one gulp and immediately began circulating his cultivation art, doing his utmost to activate the Eight Meridians Mystic Pole. The twenty-five Demon Cores in his body spun at full force, streams of surging demonic energy circulating endlessly through his Eight Main Meridians and numerous branching meridians.

Rumble!

The moment the Green Spirit Fruit entered his stomach, a tremendous change took place. It transformed into an unimaginably vast quantity of spiritual energy, filling He Yu's entire body. This spiritual energy was incredibly condensed, its quality no lower than his demonic energy.

He Yu was aghast. The spiritual energy contained in the Green Spirit Fruit far exceeded his expectations in both quality and quantity. In essence, it was on par with his demonic energy, and its quantity was terrifying as well. As soon as the fruit entered his stomach, it turned into an overwhelmingly abundant amount of spiritual energy, pushing right up against the limits of what his body could bear. But this was only the beginning.

Even as the spiritual energy reached the limit of what He Yu could withstand, it continued to increase. Its quantity kept growing, nearly reaching the limit of what he could absorb.

"This is too dangerous. This is really too dangerous! The acquired spiritual roots described in the stories I read in my previous life never seemed like much! The protagonists in those novels would transmigrate and even look down on the acquired spiritual roots in the Primordial World, treating them as less valuable than cabbages. Who knew they'd be this outrageous!" He Yu circulated his cultivation art with all his might, absorbing the spiritual energy to improve his cultivation. He was barely holding on at the critical limit. If his art circulated even a little more slowly, his body wouldn't be able to withstand the abundant spiritual energy and would be damaged. As the spiritual energy continued to increase, the damage would grow worse and worse until he ultimately exploded and died!

Only now did He Yu realize that he might have been too subjective. The Primordial World novels he'd read before could only serve as a reference!

There were only ten innate spiritual roots in the entire Primordial World. All the rest were acquired spiritual roots, and their effects were no ordinary matter either. He didn't know where the Green Spirit Fruit Tree ranked among the acquired spiritual roots, but since it was one of them, its effects were surely immense. It might not have much effect on an immortal-level being, but for He Yu as he was now, it was terrifying. One careless mistake would be enough to burst him apart!

His cultivation was increasing rapidly as he circulated his art at full speed, not daring to slack off in the slightest. He Yu absorbed and refined streams of abundant spiritual energy. Though it was difficult to refine because its quality was no lower than that of demonic energy, its effects were tremendous. His progress was more than a hundred times faster than usual.

Thump! Thump! Thump! ...

A series of loud crashes echoed deep in his consciousness, like heaven and earth shaking, leaving He Yu's mind confused and hazy. It took him a long while to recover!

"I broke through! All of the Demon Cores actually broke through their bottlenecks one after another?" Feeling the fullness within his body diminish considerably, He Yu immediately realized that his absorption rate had increased more than tenfold. All twenty-five Demon Cores had grown significantly, and their azure light shone more brilliantly.

He had broken through!

He Yu's main Demon Core had now entered the late Golden Core stage, while all twenty-four of his inner-organ Demon Cores had reached the middle Golden Core stage. His cultivation was more than ten times stronger than before.

The increase in his cultivation directly manifested as a strengthening of his demon body. His already enormous body had now grown to ten meters in size, and his two giant pincers were seven or eight meters long. Hideous black spikes covered his whole body, while faint patterns appeared on his azure shell.

After discovering that he had broken through, He Yu was overjoyed. Then he was surprised to find that the Green Spirit Fruit's effects had not diminished at all. The spiritual energy was still increasing steadily, but now that his cultivation had greatly improved, it no longer placed such immense pressure on him. Even with his art circulating at half speed, he could handle it.

Time flew by. He Yu continued absorbing the spiritual energy within his body, yet it seemed inexhaustible. No matter how much he absorbed, there was no sign of it running out; it continued to flow as strongly as it had at the start.

With such abundant spiritual energy, He Yu's cultivation continued to rise slowly, even though he had only just broken through!

Before he knew it, the main Demon Core stopped growing. An insurmountable chasm appeared before it, and He Yu understood that it had reached the peak of the late Golden Core stage. To advance further, he would have to enter the Primordial Spirit realm. But first, he needed to complete his Golden Core. Unfortunately, without the power of the sun, moon, and stars, his main Demon Core could not reach perfection. Thus, although its quantity had reached the late Golden Core peak, its quality remained insufficient.

Not long after the main Demon Core stopped, all twenty-four inner-organ Demon Cores also became stuck at the bottleneck of the middle Golden Core stage.

The middle-stage bottleneck was indeed much stronger than the early-stage one. Having already experienced the main Demon Core's breakthrough, He Yu knew exactly how great the difference was. Breaking through with all twenty-four Demon Cores at once was more than ten times as difficult as before. During the previous breakthrough, seven-tenths of the abundant spiritual energy had gone toward advancing the main Demon Core. Now, the twenty-four Demon Cores had to break through together, equivalent to the main Demon Core breaking through twenty-four times over. The amount of spiritual energy needed was simply terrifying.

He Yu's cultivation was now advancing slowly as well. Though he faced this second barrier and the spiritual energy in his body hadn't diminished in the slightest, his progress was nowhere near what it had been before.

Feeling the twenty-four indestructible barriers, He Yu began to consider his options. If he relied on passive absorption to break through, it would probably take quite a long time!

"Looks like it's time to go on the offensive!" As the thought crossed his mind, He Yu began circulating his art faster. The twenty-four Demon Cores spun faster and faster until, within a few breaths, they reached their limit. The speed of circulation at the peak of the middle Golden Core stage far surpassed that at the peak of the early stage, and his rate of absorbing spiritual energy surged. The spiritual energy within his body rapidly dwindled. Just as it was about to be completely absorbed, an azure speck of light appeared!

"Is this the source of the acquired spirit fruit?" He Yu knew that although the azure speck was smaller than a sesame seed, the spiritual energy it contained was terrifying. If he stopped circulating his art and let it release its spiritual energy, it would still be enough to burst him apart before long.

As He Yu circulated his art at full speed, the Green Spirit Fruit could no longer meet the demand. As soon as the spiritual energy emerged, the twenty-four inner-organ Demon Cores devoured it like starving ghosts.

He Yu had anticipated this situation when he circulated his art at full speed earlier, and he had already planned for it. His main Demon Core immediately sprang into action. Having entered the late Golden Core stage, it could now move freely inside and outside his body without damaging itself. Under He Yu's control, it came to rest above the Green Spirit source and exerted immense pressure, forcing the source to release spiritual energy in a frenzy for the twenty-four inner-organ Demon Cores to absorb.

With the main Demon Core's help, He Yu's cultivation speed increased once more.

Thump! Thump! Thump! ...

The familiar tremors echoed deep in his consciousness one after another. After a long while, He Yu recovered from his confused haze and immediately checked his Demon Cores. He saw that all twenty-four inner-organ Demon Cores had now entered the late Golden Core stage.

With his cultivation greatly increased, his rate of absorbing the Green Spirit source surged again. After a long while, with the help of the abundant spiritual energy, all twenty-four inner-organ Demon Cores had reached their peak and could no longer advance.

By now, the Green Spirit source had dimmed, and little spiritual energy remained within it. Even so, the result had left He Yu deeply shaken. A single Green Spirit Fruit had been so astonishingly effective that it had raised his cultivation all the way to its peak, with energy to spare.

The remaining spiritual energy could no longer be absorbed by his twenty-five Demon Cores, so He Yu used it to strengthen his demon body.

After the Green Spirit source had been completely absorbed, He Yu's demon body had reached an utterly terrifying level. It had already grown several times larger after all twenty-five Demon Cores reached their peak; now it was fifty meters tall. His enormous body radiated terrifying demonic energy, filling the vast King's Palace.

"My strength now probably surpasses even someone in the early Primordial Spirit realm!" He thought with a touch of pride. It was certainly something to be proud of. The gap between realms was enormous, and it grew even greater at higher levels of cultivation. The difficulty of surpassing someone an entire realm above you was simply unfathomable.