As Li Yan and the other two absorbed the Wood Spirit Essence, the lake water, once as rich and milky as milk, rapidly faded day by day.
Yet the white light lingering above the lake's surface remained unchanged, making it impossible to spot the problem at a glance.
Meanwhile, seven or eight voices echoed through the forest.
"Where did the Giant Wood Clan find these two cultivators? If this continues, they'll devour every last bit of the Wood Spirit Essence we accumulated before!"
"That Wood Spirit Essence was not merely gathered over the past few decades. There was also what remained after every previous use.
Other than the few times in those early years when Nascent Soul Realm cultivators entered and consumed it all, later cultivators could absorb at most half of it, which was already quite good. Should we drive them out early?"
"Only one of those three cultivators is from the Giant Wood Clan. There would be nothing wrong with driving them out ahead of time!"
"I don't think that is necessary. The Giant Wood Clan brought them here, so there must be some connection.
In any case, we agreed to let them come once every century. Whatever amount of Wood Spirit Essence gathers here after a hundred years, they may absorb it. What does it have to do with us?"
"That is true. Just like when that Nascent Soul Realm cultivator from the Giant Wood Clan came in and absorbed it back then, the Wood Spirit Essence that gathered over the next hundred years was only around forty percent of what it had been before..."
"Those two Golden Core Realm cultivators are truly strange. One has an extremely pure physique, and she seems to cultivate a Devil Race technique. Even that old Nascent Soul Realm monster of