Time flowed on, seasons turned.
Another ten years passed.
This day.
Qin Ming came before the Seven Wonders Treasure Tree once more. Over the years, he had harvested another five Fleeting Time affixes from his Natal Spirit Plant, and together with the two remaining from before, he now had seven Fleeting Time affixes.
With a thought, he immediately consumed three of them and applied them to the Seven Wonders Treasure Tree.
In an instant.
The flower bud, which had still been in its orange-bud state, began to bloom at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Gradually, the golden patterns upon the spirit flower grew increasingly radiant.
Buzz—
Immediately afterward, a mesmerizing haze of violet-gold light appeared atop the treasure flower.
The coral-like seven-colored treasure tree burst with vigorous life. Scarlet, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and violet spiritual light flickered across its branches.
Boom!
At the very instant the Seven Wonders Treasure Tree's treasure flower fully blossomed.
A phantom of a divine tree a thousand zhang tall, reaching from heaven to earth, rose upright from the Spirit Field and appeared within the Lesser Spirit Realm.
The surrounding spiritual qi surged toward the treasure tree.
Not far away.
The Devouring Sky Rat had been sprawled lazily atop a rock by the Lesser Spirit Realm's lake, belly round and exposed as it slept with all four limbs flung wide.
The sudden commotion startled it badly.
It hurriedly rolled up from the stone and looked toward the Seven Wonders Treasure Tree in the heavens, which resembled the World Tree.
Its little face was utterly dumbfounded.
The Devouring Sky Rat was naturally no stranger to such a sight. When it had fled Five Elements Mountain with Qin Ming back then, it had personally witnessed it once before.
The Seven Wonders Treasure Tree grew