Seeing this, Hun Feng sent out the Nihility Devouring Flame's Child Flame once more. This time, however, she no longer dared touch that black aura, which was like poison that burned through the intestines. She only sought to slow the rate at which the pitch-black tree shadow absorbed blood essence.
After its tendrils had been severed by the Heavenly Flames, the pitch-black tree shadow was still able to steady itself again. However, it would take at least a short while to fully recover, and until then, it could not absorb human blood essence. The black-green barrier, unimpeded, continued transforming the humans within into blood essence, and the three of them fell into a stalemate.
Meanwhile, Xiao Yan began refining the Bodhi Seeds with all his strength. Even with Xiao Yan going all out and using Heavenly Flames, these Bodhi Seeds were, after all, supreme medicinal herbs related to advancing to the Dou Sheng level. It took him a full half hour before he barely managed to refine one into a mass of emerald-green liquid.
Yet that was still not enough. Xiao Yan then spent another incense stick's worth of time refining it into a mass of azure-green gas.
It had a crystalline appearance, as though it could flow. Upon closer inspection, one could sense the vigorous vitality at the very origin of all vegetation. As its aura spread, Xiao Yan took a light breath. The sensation was extraordinarily wondrous. He did not know how to describe it, only that it gave him a feeling of "purity."
It was as though his internal organs had once been filthy, only to be washed clean by a pure mountain spring, bringing a sense of peace deep within his soul.
The Ancient Bodhi Tree's true body immediately reacted. That mass of azure-green gas transformed