Divine Tree

"It has quite a few talents, but they all feel a little flashy."

As he looked over row after row of talents belonging to the Ten-Tails Divine Tree, Lu Yunhe felt that something was off, as though he had overlooked something.

"Perhaps it's because these abilities lack high-level qualities in Swallowed Star."

The Ultraman Avatar, who had rushed over in haste, pointed out the issue. He had started making his way back to Earth when Lu Yunhe's main body was about to break through to the Planetary Level.

Although all of Lu Yunhe's bodies shared one consciousness, their physical hardware differed, which naturally caused corresponding effects.

"High-level qualities!"

Hearing his avatar's words, Lu Yunhe muttered the phrase and immediately understood.

Although the Ten-Tails Divine Tree's abilities were quite good, and would count as incredibly powerful talents in any other world, this was the world of Swallowed Star. Its upper limit was very high, and most importantly, it was an Eastern fantasy world.

Worlds like this emphasized the versatility of the strong. In other words, the stronger one became, the fewer weaknesses one had. They could do everything.

For example, the Ten-Tails Divine Tree's Eight Great Subordinate Spaces. In the Swallowed Star world, one gained an internal world at the World Lord level. At the Immortal level, it could be upgraded into a Divine Kingdom. At the True God level, it evolved into an affiliated Minor Universe. By the time one reached Chaos Master, they had begun creating universes...

As for offensive abilities like the Tailed Beast Ball Truth-Seeking Orb and the Rinne Sharingan, those were actually a little better. They were equivalent to Talent Secret Methods, probably... slightly better than ordinary Secret Arts.

As for the Divine Tree Fruit, Lu Yunhe guessed that it most likely could not allow someone to break through to the Immortal level. Otherwise, the Ten-Tails Divine Tree's Gene Level would not be only ten times higher.

In comparison, the Ultraman Avatar's basic-form enhancement talent could still be used at the Universe Venerable level. As long as the force amplification had not reached the perfect ten-thousandfold level, it could still take effect.

The Radiant Form, which could increase one's Gene Level, was even stronger. It could be used all the way up to the 10,081-fold Perfect Gene level. One had to know that most Universe Masters only had Gene Levels of several thousand times.

Even so, Lu Yunhe felt that this still was not the limit of the Ultraman Avatar's potential. There were definitely more talents waiting to be uncovered.

"Although it isn't perfect, it's still not bad."

Although he had noticed the Ten-Tails Divine Tree's flaws, Lu Yunhe, who knew how to be content, maintained a positive mindset. Having it was already good enough. At least he had not drawn one of those disaster-movie monsters that only had size.

"Whatever the case, I should summon it first!"

With a slight stab of pain in his consciousness, the Ten-Tails Divine Tree was successfully nurtured from the Illustrated Compendium and descended into the world of Swallowed Star.

Soon, a small monster with ten tails appeared inside the Pyramid. Its entire body was only a dozen or so meters in size, much larger than the Ultraman Avatar had been at birth.

"The Ten-Tails Form doesn't feel very good!"

Lu Yunhe extended his consciousness into the Ten-Tails Divine Tree's body. It felt huge, but there was always a sense that he could not exert any strength.

"Then let's try the Divine Tree Form!"

With a thought from Lu Yunhe, the Ten-Tails' ten tails rapidly converged and spun, while its fleshly body gradually turned woody.

Very quickly, a plant with a single main trunk over a hundred meters tall appeared inside the Pyramid. At the very top of its trunk was an enormous flower bud.

Poof!

During the transformation, the Ten-Tails Divine Tree broke through to the Apprentice level, and its entire body silently grew a little larger.

"What a massive body!"

Feeling his body of over a hundred meters, Lu Yunhe was somewhat surprised. The Divine Tree's size at merely the Apprentice level already surpassed the Ultraman Avatar's. It seemed to have been influenced by the Swallowed Star worldview, where plant-type lifeforms possessed extremely enormous bodies.

In the original work, even random cosmic plants measured tens of thousands of kilometers in size. Special Lifeform plants with higher Gene Levels could even reach hundreds of millions of kilometers. One had to know that the Sun's diameter was only a million kilometers.

And in Swallowed Star, having a huge body came with a major advantage: from the Immortal level onward, the larger a lifeform's Divine Body was, the more energy it could store.

Thinking of this, Lu Yunhe somewhat understood the Ten-Tails Divine Tree's role among his avatars.

"Wood Release: Proliferation!"

Having figured out the Divine Tree's role, Lu Yunhe once again used the Wood Release that came with it. Immediately, as Gene Energy was consumed, a brand-new branch extended outward from the Divine Tree.

"My body... got bigger!"

Sensing that his body had grown once more, Lu Yunhe was delighted. This gave him far more room to work with.

"Let's try Jinchuriki Mode again!"

Lu Yunhe was extremely curious about this mode. In the anime, absorbing the Ten-Tails allowed one to directly transform into one of the Six Paths.

"I'll use my main body first!"

The Divine Tree extended a branch and touched Lu Yunhe's human body on the abdomen. In the next moment, the Divine Tree, which stood over a hundred meters tall, instantly merged into the former's body through that contact.

Buzz!

As the Divine Tree merged with him, Lu Yunhe's entire body underwent a drastic change. His skin turned pale, horns grew from his head, and his whole body became more demigod-like, somewhat similar to the Ultraman Body.

At the same time, a Tomoe Reincarnation Eye opened on Lu Yunhe's forehead, giving his entire form a feeling of evil and holiness intertwined.

"My strength has barely increased. It only gained strength ten times that of an Apprentice First Order."

Lu Yunhe estimated his physical strength. It seemed he could not exploit a body-mass bug; he could only stack the Ten-Tails Divine Tree's realm-based strength. However, that did not matter much. It could even be considered good news.

Aside from strength, the greatest changes to Lu Yunhe's human body were probably its abilities.

Not only could he use all kinds of innate abilities from the Ten-Tails Divine Tree—the Tomoe Reincarnation Eye, Affiliated Spaces, Wood Release...—but they did not interfere with his own abilities. They stacked together rather than overwriting each other.

Most importantly, even though the Ten-Tails Divine Tree was only at the Apprentice level, the energy contained within it surpassed that of his Planetary First Order human body. After all, the advantage of a massive body was undeniable.

After the Ten-Tails Divine Tree merged into Lu Yunhe's human main body in the form of innate abilities, it was equivalent to him having two energy sources: one of his own, and one from the Divine Tree.

At the same time, his nearly pseudo-Divine Body-like Six Paths Body would be repaired by the Ten-Tails Divine Tree's power after being injured. However, this would become useless once he reached Marquis Immortal and obtained an Undying Body.

"This is an incredibly suitable ability!"

Lu Yunhe withdrew from Jinchuriki Mode and released the Ten-Tails Divine Tree from his body, allowing the Ultraman Avatar, who had long been impatient to try it, to have a go.

However, when the Ten-Tails Divine Tree merged into the Ultraman Avatar's body, it immediately got stuck. It could not transform the Ultraman Body into a Six Paths Body. The Photon Body and Heart Light directly rejected the Ten-Tails Divine Tree's transformation, and even modified the latter in turn, turning it into a strength stacker and backup power bank.

"I don't like entering Ultraman's body!" the Ten-Tails Divine Tree commented.