Hearing Giono's words, Zi Chen's eyes lit up. He smiled and said, "Don't worry. No matter what, I won't let you die!"
He had his own world. If there really was a crisis, he could just bring Giono's soul into it. Originally, he thought that Giono would die once he left the tree.
"What do you need to do now?" Zi Chen looked at Giono.
Giono said, "It's rare for a king to be in a deep sleep. I need to use this time to strengthen myself.
However, in this situation, my aura will be completely released. The nearby tree spirits might be able to sense my presence. Most importantly, those spirit shadows will come as well. "
"I'll deal with all the problems. You need to strengthen yourself first," Zi Chen said.
"Okay!"
Giono, who was in the tree, nodded. Then, his figure disappeared. The ancient tree he was in began to emit light.
The light grew brighter and brighter. It contained an extremely strong vitality.
"Zi Chen, look."
With Shadowless's reminder, Zi Chen looked down at the ground. He found that streaks of green energy were gathering towards the ground.
Because this life force was so strong, there was a lot of life force that escaped wherever the green light passed.
"It seems that he's using the roots underground to connect to the nearby ancient trees."
At this moment, within a radius of a few hundred feet, there was only this bare tree trunk. The other ancient trees had long withered. The remaining parts were also destroyed by the shockwaves of the previous battle.
However, their roots were still alive. When Giono's vitality reached these roots, these ancient trees began to absorb Giono's vitality and grew along with it.
The nearby ancient trees began to germinate and grow. A series of changes happened under the naked eye.
"Zi Chen, these spirit trees absorb my vitality. They are the continuation of my life and the foundation of my strength. I hope you can help me protect them."
Giono's voice sounded from the tree trunk. At this moment, it was still bare.
Zi Chen nodded. The eight Saber Ancestor's Steles spread out in all directions, enveloping the five ancient trees that had absorbed Giono's vitality.
Giono's vitality was flowing faster. The five ancient trees absorbed it faster. As they grew, their trunks became extremely thick. At the same time, the top branches and leaves extended into the distance.
These branches and leaves swept over Zi Chen's head. Zi Chen felt an extremely weak consciousness.
"It already has a little bit of will. If we help it grow, it will become another king."
Shadowless said beside him.
Zi Chen nodded. This should be considered as a king's cultivation.
"Don't worry about it. Show me what you can do. I can deal with all threats in a short time!" Zi Chen said.
Giono did not respond. The five ancient trees grew faster. Seeing that they were about to become the towering ancient trees in the depths, Zi Chen was very surprised.
Not long after, the five ancient trees were completely formed. The leaves covered the sky and the earth. The consciousness was slightly stronger than before.
At this time, the sky was still dark.
Seeing the five ancient trees, Zi Chen naturally understood the reason for the large number of ancient trees withered. It seemed that the ancient trees that they had killed before had all been revived.
After the five ancient trees were formed, they opened their eyes. Obviously, they were the same as the ancient trees in the depths.
Next, Zi Chen did not see Giono increase his strength. Instead, he sent out more vitality. Zi Chen asked in confusion, "Won't you be weaker by doing this?"
Giono said helplessly, "There's no other way. The spirit trees nearby are all dead. There's no more vitality to devour. I can only slowly revive them."
"Are you going to use vitality to revive all the ancient trees?"
"There's no need for that. Actually, we can use these five spirit trees to absorb the vitality around us. However, the spirit trees here are all withered. There's not much vitality, so the effect will be very slow."
Giono said, "Because of the structure here, this method of growth will be slower. This is also why the other tree spirits mostly choose to devour each other.
If one is strong enough, the consciousness displayed will be stronger. It can also extend further and increase the speed of growth. "
Zi Chen nodded. It seemed that he could not help with this kind of thing. He could only protect.
Not long after, the sky brightened and the sun shone down.
Without the will of a king, this place returned to normal. There was day and night.
The energy of heaven and earth from all directions was absorbed by Giono to strengthen himself.
At the same time, the five ancient trees were also absorbing this vitality.
The vitality they absorbed gathered towards Giono through the roots.
"You can absorb the energy of heaven and earth from the outside world?" Zi Chen asked curiously.
"Originally, with the will of a king, if I absorb the energy of heaven and earth like this, I will be discovered. But now that the king is asleep, there's naturally no problem. This is the normal growth state of all the tree spirits."
Hearing Giono's words and feeling the surging vitality contained in the energy of heaven and earth, Zi Chen's heart suddenly moved. He said, "Can you absorb all vitality?"
Giono did not understand what Zi Chen meant.
Zi Chen opened his world. A surge of vitality fell from above. It was like a cloud and fell on Giono's body.
Giono's tree body was immediately enveloped by this energy. As the cloud and mist spread, a powerful suction force came from his body and began to absorb this vitality.
"What is this thing that contains such pure vitality?" Giono's voice was filled with pleasant surprise.
The vitality contained in the cloud and mist was absorbed. Zi Chen saw some green leaves growing on the tree body in front of him.
"How is it?" Zi Chen asked.
"The vitality contained in this energy is very pure. It's even purer than the vitality of the spirit trees. Do you still have this kind of energy?" Giono asked. His voice was somewhat nervous and filled with apprehension.
"I still have a lot. Since it's useful, I'll give it all to you."
Zi Chen opened his world again. Even more surging vitality fell. This energy not only enveloped Giono, but also the five ancient trees.
The vitality absorbed by these ancient trees would also be fed back to Giono.
This surging vitality did not come from the ancient trees that Zi Chen had slain. Instead, it came from the giant mountain peak in the training ground that he and Yi Qian had gone to a long time ago.
That mountain peak was formed completely from pure energy. After it was shattered, it would turn into a body of energy. Back then, no one was able to refine that energy. Zi Chen had also absorbed that energy into his world.
It was also during that training that his clone had obtained the Heavenly God Needle.
His world could actually absorb that energy, but it needed the laws to break it down. It was a little slow, so Zi Chen had put this matter aside and isolated it all in an independent space. It was only now that he thought about it.
What he did not expect was that this vitality would actually be useful to Giono.
The energy continued to fall. Giono's body began to grow. The withered tree body began to transform and grow.
It did not take long for it to surpass the five ancient trees, and it was still growing.
As Giono grew, Zi Chen could feel that the will in the surroundings was becoming more and more intense.
Originally, Giono was not sure whether he would succeed this time. However, as his aura continued to grow, his confidence grew.
Its branches and leaves began to expand, shrouding the distance. Wherever its shadow fell, it was within the range of its will.
Within this range, all the ancient trees were under its control. Of course, there were no other ancient trees in this range except for the five ancient trees. However, the roots underground were under its control.
It controlled those roots to absorb vitality from afar. Just like how all the ancient trees had absorbed vitality from the periphery to fill the central area under the king's will, the ancient trees in the periphery began to absorb vitality from other ancient trees through their roots.
The withered ancient trees began to grow again, turning into towering ancient trees one after another.
Such a change in the forest might not cause any abnormal fluctuations to humans, but to the Spirit Shadows, the energy fluctuations were too great.
They sensed the existence of the Tree Spirits and immediately rushed in their direction. They were still carrying out the king's order to kill all the Tree Spirits.
Zi Chen raised his head and looked up. There, Giono's branches and leaves continued to extend. The range was also getting wider and wider.
It was originally a few hundred feet. Now, it had expanded to a thousand feet, and it was still expanding.
The world gap that was originally above had now shifted to the bottom because of Giono's change and the appearance of its will. It formed a huge black hole, and vitality constantly gushed out from the black hole.
The vitality that gushed out was firmly locked down by the nearby ancient trees under the will of the forest. There was no way for it to escape.
Giono's expanded range had already reached two thousand feet. Under its shadow, all the withered ancient trees were now glowing with vitality and constantly growing.
If Zi Chen flew into the air, he would see that outside of Giono's will, the vitality of the ancient trees was constantly flowing away. However, within the range of its will, there was a surge of vitality.
Three thousand feet.
Giono's speed of absorbing this spiritual energy became faster and faster. Zi Chen had no use for this energy, so he naturally wouldn't be stingy if he could help Giono.
When it had grown to three thousand five hundred feet, the energy in Zi Chen's world had been completely used up.
"Sorry, it's gone," he said apologetically.
"It's enough. Now that the will has spread so far, all the spirit trees here are under my control. I can already grow on my own."
Giono seemed very excited.
At this moment, it was slightly startled. Then, it laughed, "It seems that we caused too much of a commotion and attracted many Spirit Shadows.
However, this time, there's no need for Zi Chen to do anything. I can deal with these Spirit Shadows. "