"Something's wrong... what exactly is wrong?"
After a brief moment of thought, Lin Mo shook his head inwardly, his brows knitting ever tighter.
If the Treasure Gourd was connected to the World Tree, then the Bodhi Seed he had previously soaked in Spirit Spring Water and nurtured into a Bodhi sapling should already have absorbed the World Tree's aura. Why had it never displayed any demon-slaying power?
From that perspective, the Treasure Gourd certainly could not replace the World Tree. Vitality essence was not the World Tree's aura either; their effects were similar, but they could not be spoken of in the same breath.
"Could it be..."
Lin Mo remained silent as countless thoughts flashed through his sea of consciousness, his eyes growing brighter and brighter.
Whether his guess was right or not, a single test would tell!
Whoosh!
Without the slightest hesitation, he bit the tip of his tongue hard, and the blood and qi within him surged.
A crimson drop of blood suffused with a faint azure glow slowly seeped from the tip of his tongue, then floated through the air and settled gently onto the Bodhi sapling in his hand.
Hum!
The Bodhi sapling trembled slightly.
A vast golden light, sacred and majestic, burst from the tip of the bud at the very top of the sapling. Like the pillar of light released by an activating Teleportation Array, it instantly shot ten thousand zhang into the heavens.
No power could obstruct that golden light.
It easily pierced the nearly collapsing Ten Thousand Buddhas Paying Homage Formation, then the Grass and Wood Demon-Sealing Formation Lin Mo had cast, and even the gray-black canopy overhead.
It attacked no one.
Yet wherever it passed, the gray-black evil light suffusing the air melted away like ice and snow, vanishing without a