Third Avatar

"So enormous—just as expected of the Swallowed Star world!"

Seeing the true body of the Divine Tree Avatar from a human perspective left Lu Yunhe genuinely shaken. After all, his Giant of Light Avatar was only around twenty meters tall, not even as large as the White Zetsu hanging from the Divine Tree Avatar's branches.

And this was only a Planetary Level Divine Tree. Once it reached World Lord level or Immortal level, when the Plant Lifeform grew to its limit, its body would become even more massive—perhaps even far larger than the sun.

Feeling the Divine Tree Avatar's sheer size, Lu Yunhe even suspected that even if every nuclear bomb on Earth were tied together, they might not necessarily be able to blow up this enormous plant.

The entire Divine Tree was divided into two parts. One was the core trunk supporting the flower at its peak, which also represented the body's height. The other was the branches extended through Wood Release, which made up the Divine Tree's overall bulk.

These two components gave the Divine Tree not only height, but a corresponding size as well.

In fact, its current state was already the result of the Divine Tree Avatar suppressing its abilities. After all, it was on Earth, so it could not use Wood Style: Proliferation without restraint. Without limitations, the Divine Tree could grow even larger.

However, Lu Yunhe had not come here to admire the Divine Tree Avatar's size. After being briefly awed, he turned his gaze toward the flower at the top of its main trunk.

Whoosh!

Lu Yunhe flew for a while before arriving in front of the Divine Tree Flower. The flower opened at just the right time, allowing him to fly inside.

The interior of the Divine Tree Flower was equally extraordinary. Eight-colored light enveloped the entire barrier, and a smaller Divine Tree Flower still stood within it.

"You're doing nesting dolls here?"

Lu Yunhe could not help but complain at the sight. However, this was the result of deliberate modification by the Divine Tree Avatar. Otherwise, the Divine Tree Fruit would probably have been about as large as an Ultraman Avatar.

When the time came to eat it, it would be like a human hugging a five-story building-sized piece of fruit and gnawing on it. Never mind whether he could finish it—Lu Yunhe would just be making a joke of himself.

"A Planetary Level Divine Tree Fruit!"

Looking at the fruit before him, only the size of a human head and radiating the energy glow of eight basic attributes, Lu Yunhe did not hesitate. He plucked it and began eating.

"Burp!"

After finishing the fruit, Lu Yunhe burped, then sat cross-legged within the flower and began refining the Divine Tree Fruit's energy.

After swallowing a single fruit, Lu Yunhe's originally tortoise-slow cultivation speed instantly became like a rocket booster had been strapped onto it, advancing even faster than his avatars.

Planetary Level 5%... 6%... 7%...

If Lu Yunhe could open his intelligent wristband, he would have been able to clearly perceive his rate of advancement.

After being localized, the Divine Tree Fruit no longer had the effect of allowing someone to become a god in a single leap after consuming it, as it had in its original world.

However, fruits of the corresponding level could still assist in breaking through realms, completing the accumulation required between major realms.

The effect of assisting realm breakthroughs was especially valuable. Even peak races needed time to slowly grind their way through a major realm breakthrough, much less beings with ordinary life levels.

While Lu Yunhe's human body refined the Divine Tree Fruit, the Divine Tree Avatar was also accumulating energy for its Stellar level breakthrough. Under the effect of illusion techniques, 10,081 White Zetsu crazily absorbed Cosmic Primal Energy and converted it into the Divine Tree's Gene Primal Force.

Three days later, having completed its accumulation, the Divine Tree Avatar easily broke through to Stellar level. Its body, which had originally been over ten thousand meters tall, expanded once more, reaching Earth's mantle before it was consciously restrained.

The breakthrough accumulation itself had taken only three days, but the Divine Tree's growth stage took several more days to stabilize. Yet Lu Yunhe's main body was still absorbing the Divine Tree Fruit's energy.

His body's bloodline level was too low. Even absorbing energy was terribly inefficient and painfully slow. The only gratifying thing was that Lu Yunhe's human body had also broken through to Planet Third Stage.

While the human body slowly absorbed energy, the Divine Tree Avatar stopped cultivating. Instead, it had every White Zetsu, along with all the Cosmic Primal Energy it absorbed itself, used to create Divine Tree Fruits to supply the human body's cultivation, allowing it to break through to Stellar level as quickly as possible.

This was also why Lu Yunhe had delayed his journey into the universe after obtaining the Divine Tree Avatar. He had seen the possibility of reaching Stellar level in a short time.

After confirming that the Divine Tree Fruits were truly effective, the Divine Tree Avatar temporarily stopped cultivating as well, focusing all its efforts on condensing fruits for the human body's breakthrough.

Now that the Divine Tree Avatar had reached Stellar level, coupled with the cooperation of ten thousand White Zetsu, its fruit-making efficiency became even faster. Among them, Stellar level Divine Tree Fruits consumed the largest share of energy.

"So slow!"

However, while absorbing the Divine Tree Fruit, Lu Yunhe discovered a problem. A single Planetary Level Divine Tree Fruit took him a full month to completely absorb.

Still, that was normal. It was only because the Divine Tree Fruit itself was highly compatible with the human body's absorption and enhancement that it took merely a month. Luo Feng, whose Mental Power had reached Stellar level after using bloodline evolution medicine, still needed a full day to absorb a single Wood Gem. Not to mention the even more precious Divine Tree Fruit.

"The Divine Tree Fruit works wonderfully, and my strength is increasing quickly. Clearly, two joys are intertwined, so why can't I feel happy at all?"

Lu Yunhe's human body had just finished absorbing one Divine Tree Fruit when the Divine Tree Avatar had already created the next. Creating Stellar level Divine Tree Fruits might take a great deal of time, but Planetary Level Divine Tree Fruits were much simpler.

"Keep going!"

Lu Yunhe gritted his teeth, opened his mouth, and swallowed another Divine Tree Fruit. He entered cultivation once more.

Unlike the last time he had left, with the assistance of the Intelligent Light Brain this time, Lu Yunhe could contact home at any time while cultivating, so it did not cause much of a stir.

"The last one!"

Several months later, Lu Yunhe, who had already reached Planet Ninth Stage, swallowed the final Stellar level Divine Tree Fruit.

In an instant, incomparably pure energy continuously scoured Lu Yunhe's body. The nine miniature planets within him were immediately shattered into fragments by this force. Countless meteorite-like particles scattered throughout, only to be ground even finer by the energy.

Gradually, countless fragments fused with cosmic energy and, under the influence of a certain consciousness, combined once more into an even larger energy planet. Yet this planet appeared utterly lifeless, as though it lacked something crucial.

The next moment, a soul fused into it, instantly igniting the entire energy planet. A miniature "star" radiating light appeared within Lu Yunhe's Sea of Consciousness.

Stellar level!

"I succeeded!"

A smile appeared on Lu Yunhe's face. He then summoned the "Illustrated Compendium" and drew his next Monster Avatar. As the Monster Draw Count dropped to zero, the Illustrated Compendium slowly turned to the next page:

Monster: Golden Dragon—Goldras

Cultivation: None

Gene Level: 100 times

Law Affinity: Time, Space, Metal, Lightning

Talent: Space-Time Realm