In this situation, Master Lan would have to expend a great deal of soul power to meticulously destroy them one by one. The process would probably take two or three days.
Although Master Lan was very powerful, she would still need to replenish her soul power midway. Or, if the three of them acted together, with an expert like Elder Hao present, they could probably finish in about half a day.
Moreover, Master Lan discovered something else. Within the roots and stems of this ancestral tree, besides the soul power she was relatively familiar with—
there were actually waves of bloody aura as well. That was also why blue and red light glimmered across the tree's surface.
Master Lan quickly told the two men, who seemed to be discussing something off to the side. Elder Hao and Li Yan were both taken aback upon hearing this.
In their view, once the core of this ancestral tree—its Nascent Soul nucleus—was destroyed, everything would be over.
Furthermore, if the "soul crystal buds" produced by this tree could be brought back to the Soul Suppression Palace, they would absolutely count as a supreme treasure for Soul Cultivators.
They might even prove immensely useful in breaking through bottlenecks above the Void Refinement Realm.
After hearing Master Lan's words, Elder Hao immediately investigated the matter, then performed another Soul Search on the ancestral tree.
An ancestral tree that had lived for so long possessed memories as vast as a boundless sea. Their previous Soul Search had merely focused on the questions they cared about most...
This search through its memories took another two hours or so. When Elder Hao opened his eyes, a flash of red light actually flickered within them.
Then he struck the incomparably thick trunk with his palm. His Divine Sense followed