Draining More Than a Dozen Men Dry, Divine Tree Origin Levels Up Twice—What a Treat

"No, you're not going back."

Sen watched the despair in the Root captain's eyes steadily grow, his tone as calm as if he were discussing the weather.

He had never shown mercy to those who wanted to kill him.

What's more, these were twenty walking super experience packs.

Inside the purple Four Violet Flames Formation, it was as if a thick, sticky rain of blood had begun to fall.

The heavy stench of blood assaulted Sen's nose.

He took a deep breath, spread his arms, and slowly closed his eyes.

"System."

He spoke silently in his heart, his voice cold and resolute.

"Extract everything!"

Buzz!

The entire thorn forest seemed to come alive at once.

The surfaces of every dark brown vine piercing through the bodies of those dead soldiers instantly lit up with a dim, greedy green glow.

Like tangible veins, the green light flowed along the vines and gathered beneath Sen's feet.

"Ahhh—! No! Don't!"

In midair, the Root shinobi who had not yet completely died let out their final, most miserable screams.

They could clearly feel it.

The chakra they had painstakingly cultivated for years.

Their circulating blood, even the weight of their souls.

All of it was being violently and completely ripped from their bodies by an irresistible force!

The captain watched helplessly as his arm shriveled within two seconds.

His skin withered like old tree bark, his muscles dissolved, and in the end, only a thin layer of skin remained wrapped around bone.

"You... what exactly are you..."

Before the captain could finish speaking.

The light vanished completely from his bloodshot eyes, and he became a weightless mummy.

The entire draining process took less than ten seconds.

The twenty Root elites did not even leave behind ashes. They were directly crushed by the thorny vines and turned into the purest nourishment for this land.

At the same time.

The system notifications in Sen's mind went off like firecrackers.

[Ding! Successfully extracted Chunin-level Life Origin. Experience +850!]

[Ding! Successfully extracted quasi-Jonin-level Life Origin. Experience +1600!]

[Ding! Successfully extracted Chunin-level Life Origin. Experience +900!]

The densely packed notifications made Sen's head spin slightly.

It was too massive!

The combined Life Origin of twenty elite shinobi was an utterly terrifying amount of energy!

"Urgh..."

Sen grunted and suddenly dropped to one knee atop a thick branch.

This violent green energy surged madly into his body through his feet like floodwaters pouring through a broken dam.

He felt as though his body were a balloon on the verge of bursting.

Crack! Crack! Crack!

An intensely dense series of bone-popping sounds, enough to make one's teeth ache, rang out from every limb and bone in his body.

His originally small frame was forcibly stretched two inches taller under the torrent of energy.

The lines of his muscles became clearer and smoother, brimming with destructive explosive power.

His chakra pathways widened once more, becoming as tough as steel cables.

The "pool" in his dantian that stored chakra had now become a turbulent lake!

[Ding! Experience full. Divine Tree Origin is beginning to level up...]

[Current Level: Lv5!]

[Ding! Experience overflow. Continuing level-up...]

[Current Level: Lv6!]

The system notifications continued!

This energy was too immense. Even after breaking through two levels in a row, there was still some left!

Sen gritted his teeth, enduring the intense pain and numbness brought by the reconstruction of his body.

He could feel that as his level continued to rise.

His perception of natural energy and control over Wood Release chakra were undergoing a qualitative leap.

It was like going from a toddling infant to a youth who could run like the wind!

[Ding! Congratulations, Host! Divine Tree Origin has broken through the Lv10 threshold!]

[Maximum physical attributes greatly enhanced!]

[Chakra refinement efficiency increased by 300%!]

When the final notification fell silent.

The energy rampaging through his body finally began to settle, obediently merging into every limb and bone.

"Phew—"

Sen slowly exhaled a long breath of stale air.

The breath actually condensed into a faint white arrow in the air and shot several meters away.

He slowly stood up.

Then clenched both fists.

Boom!

An incomparably powerful wave of deep green chakra, pure to the extreme, erupted from him and swept outward like a hurricane!

The shockwave was terrifying.

The hard thorns around him, which he had personally grown, bent one after another beneath its impact, as if bowing to their king!

The violent shockwave slammed without obstruction into the purple barrier of light.

Crack... Boom!

The A-rank barrier said to be impossible for even Jonin to forcibly break—the Four Violet Flames Formation.

Before the pure pressure of the Divine Tree, it did not even last a second.

Like fragile glass, it shattered instantly!

The purple curtain of light turned into specks of starlight and dispersed into the air.

Sunlight once again poured unhindered into the forest stained red with blood.

"This power... is insane."

Sen looked at his hands, his eyes gleaming with uncontrollable excitement.

He felt that, as he was now.

If he encountered Gangzi, that sixth-grade taijutsu specialist, again.

He would not need any pressure at all.

With a casual puff of breath, he could blow that fatty straight out of Konoha Village.

"Several levels in a row. This big experience gift pack was seriously delicious."

Sen patted his stomach in satisfaction, as if he had just finished a lavish feast.

"Danzo may be a ruthless old bastard, but when it comes to delivering packages, he really is a great guy."

He even began looking forward to what level of people Danzo would send to die next time.

It would be best if he sent a few Jonin. The experience points would definitely give him another rush.

With a thought, Sen dismissed the dense thorn forest.

He buried it, along with the powdery remains of the mummies, deep underground.

He brushed off dust that was not there, stretched lazily, and prepared to head home for sleep.

Just as he turned around and prepared to jump down from the tree.

An extremely hoarse voice, like two stones grinding against each other.

Suddenly came from the shadows of the forest behind him.

"What a splendid performance, little brat of the Senju clan."

Sen's body stiffened sharply, and the nerves that had just relaxed instantly tensed to the limit.

He whirled around, his gaze locked onto the shadows.

Who was it?!

Someone had actually evaded his Lv10 Divine Tree perception radar and silently lurked so close to him!

"The purity of this chakra, this unimaginable power of Wood Release..."

From within the shadows, that voice carried a sickening fanaticism and greed.

"It is a hundred times more perfect than I expected."

A long-haired man in a black robe, his face pale as paper, slowly stepped out of the shadows.

His golden vertical pupils, like those of a venomous snake, stared fixedly at Sen. He extended his long tongue and licked his lips.

"Then, perfect vessel."

"Are you ready to receive Lord Orochimaru's gift?"