Chapter 579: 594

Qin Feng transformed into a shadow and merged into the shadow of the War Ancient Tree. He then took advantage of the tree’s unguarded stance to suddenly summon the Swallowing Sky Toad. It opened its enormous mouth and manipulated the surrounding Space Law, connecting its internal space with the external world, and directly swallowed the War Ancient Tree.

Although the War Ancient Tree was massively huge, the Swallowing Sky Toad had now advanced to the Purple Mansion realm. Especially since it had devoured a considerable amount of Space Power on the Rainbow Bridge in the Nordic God Realm, it had expanded its internal space significantly during its advancement. After years of cultivation, its internal space had reached an expanse of three thousand zhang square.

Despite the enormous size of the War Ancient Tree, which required more than a dozen people to embrace it fully, it still seemed spacious inside the belly of the Swallowing Sky Toad.

“Uh?”

The War Ancient Tree was different from regular life forms; it was transformed by the Divine Power of the Elf God through either the Holy Daughter or a High Priest of the Elf Clan.

While it had transformed from a simple tree to a Tree Demon with Spiritual Intelligence, due to various reasons, its War Power was immense but lacking in wisdom compared to inherently sentient Tree Demons. It was even less intellectually capable than ordinary Demon Beasts, not to mention comparing with other intelligent races.

Thus, when it stepped into emptiness, it failed to react immediately. Only after landing inside the Swallowing Sky Toad did it belatedly realize what had happened and then levitated in the space using its immense Natural Magic Power.

Looking around, it found the space odd; not only did it emit a strange odor, but there also seemed to be a dissolving essence that could disintegrate anything. The only pleasing feature was the numerous twinkling, star-like radiance above, making it look as splendid as the starry sky.

The War Ancient Tree glanced only once, unsurprisingly indifferent to the space’s beauty augmented by the Star Power, and a tremendous power surged through its body, preparing to forcefully shatter the space to escape.

Although its naivete due to its origin made it less clever, it was not foolish. It quickly realized it had fallen into a trap.

Before being transformed, the War Ancient Tree had already lived for tens of thousands of years. After being transformed by the Elf God’s Divine Power and years of accumulation, its magic power was unimaginably strong. Although its combat power was only comparable to a Super Demon Beast, in terms of sheer strength, even a Demigod could not compare.

That was why the War Ancient Tree became one of the most formidable protective forces of the Elf Clan.

Outside, the Swallowing Sky Toad was certainly aware of all changes within its internal space.

Initially, it was thrilled when its master summoned it, thinking it would fight for its master again, and that it was no longer the weakest under its master’s command after its own power had increased.

But to its surprise, Qin Feng summoned it to devour a mighty War Ancient Tree.

This cross-realm devouring posed great danger to it.

Although the War Ancient Tree was not versed in Space Law, the accumulated power within it was too formidable. Furthermore, the Swallowing Sky Toad had only reached the Purple Mansion for about a decade, and its mastery over Space Law was not yet strong enough to suppress everything.

Thus, when it noticed the War Ancient Tree preparing to break through the space of its belly with a shock of power, it was genuinely startled.

If this creature broke through its internal space, it would inevitably tear through its belly as well.

The Swallowing Sky Toad, unlike the Soul Devouring Vine Demon which had transformed into a Life Tree, lacked strong Recovery Power. If its belly were truly broken, it was uncertain when it could fully recover.

Physical injuries were relatively minor; both Qin Feng and the Life Tree were adept at healing Divine Skills and could help it recover quickly from external injuries.

But if its internal space were broken, repairing it would be markedly more difficult. Should the War Ancient Tree completely shatter its internal space by mistake, it would face death.

Thus, the Swallowing Sky Toad was immediately terror-stricken.

Fortunately, Qin Feng had already considered this and before the Swallowing Sky Toad could signal him, he had already waved his hand and shifted his body to become the largest Swallowing Sky Toad into the seventh layer of the Demon Refining Pot.

Upon entry, the Swallowing Sky Toad immediately opened its mouth to try and spit out the War Ancient Tree; letting this creature continue unchecked in its stomach was unbearable!

However, unlike the ease of swallowing, expelling the War Ancient Tree proved difficult. Its immense size and weight, along with the strength of its magic that was enviable, made it extremely challenging for the Swallowing Sky Toad to drag the creature’s body.

Luckily, the War Ancient Tree, believing the Swallowing Sky Toad was releasing it voluntarily, thought it could conserve some energy and thus, did not struggle too much or deploy its own strength, allowing the Swallowing Sky Toad to finally relax.

Once the War Ancient Tree emerged, it found itself in another space.

This space was even more cramped than the previous one, causing the War Ancient Tree to feel baffled, wondering what was happening today to encounter such strange spaces continually.

It glanced at the Toad shrinking in size before it, extremely curious how such a small toad could contain such a vast space within, capable of swallowing it whole–truly miraculous.

Just as the War Ancient Tree, curious, was about to grab the Swallowing Sky Toad, it suddenly sensed nearby a place emanating a robust life essence. Looking intently, it immediately saw the Life Spring.

A spring was completely occupied by a small sapling that seemed tiny compared to its gigantic form.

For the first time in its life, the War Ancient Tree felt what a heartbeat was like.

It clearly lacked a heart, but upon seeing the source of Life Spring Water, an uncontrollable greed surged from the depths of its being, desiring to possess this Spiritual Spring.

It instinctively realized that absorbing the power of this Spiritual Spring for an extended time would eventually offer an opportunity to ascend to a higher Realm.

Perhaps, it could even break the shackles of life and become one of the divine beings in the Nature God System.

Thus, the usually slow-moving War Ancient Tree took hurried steps for the first time, eager to reach out its roots toward the Life Spring while its branches morphed into arms, viciously striking at the small tree rooted in the Life Spring.

It planned to send the small tree flying and then dominate the spring flowing with Life Spring Water.

Although the War Ancient Tree was usually mild-mannered and obedient within the Elf Tribe, facing the deepest desires of its heart, it was far from its usual good temper.

However, before it could reach the small tree, it suddenly felt the Void weigh down upon it, a tremendous power of Law surged into its being, it felt its consciousness darken, and then it completely lost sense of everything.

Outside, near the Elf Temple, Wen Qing’er wasn’t the only one present; the moment the White Dragon appeared, elves had already gathered, now numbering in the hundreds.

These elves witnessed Wen Qing’er awaken the dormant War Ancient Tree and send it to aid in battle, all of them heaved a sigh of relief.

But before they could fully relax, out of nowhere, a toad gleaming like jade appeared.

Then, in a manner that left them astounded, the toad enlarged its body and, opening its mouth wide, swallowed the War Ancient Tree whole.

This terrified them.

The strongest ancient tree in the entire tribe was eaten by a toad, a story no one would believe if told. Yet, this baffling incident unfolded right before their eyes.

Moreover, the toad appeared as suddenly as it had disappeared!

Many elves blinked doubtfully, wondering if their eyes were deceiving them.

Wen Qing’er’s eyes also widened in surprise.

However, unlike the other elves, her true shock stemmed from not expecting that Qin Feng’s power had grown to such a formidable level. Not only had he positioned several powerful Demon Beasts around the tribe’s perimeter, but he had now even taken possession of the War Ancient Tree, a tree formidable enough to stand out even among Super Demon Beasts.

Such power had grown immeasurably compared to when she met Qin Feng ten years ago, so the shock on her face was genuinely real.

Even though she herself was quite powerful, having advanced to the Purple Mansion under the scheming of Elder Liuling, under the care of the Sect elders, and having gained benefits in the Elf Forest, she and Qin Xi both commanded powerful Spiritual Beasts by fortuitous coincidences.

But compared to Qin Feng’s progress, were they even enough?

After a moment, He Ling’er closed her slightly open mouth and, like the other elves, looked around searchingly for the toad.

“Bold!”

Suddenly, the Elf Elder, who was clashing with the White Dragon, shouted angrily. A glimpse of Divine Light passed through his eyes, and he pointed his Magic Wand, instantly placing a Magic Mark on the shadow where Qin Feng was.

“Hmm?”

After taking the War Ancient Tree, Qin Feng felt a sense of relief and was about to leave when he unexpectedly realized that the Elf Elder had seen through his Shadow Transformation Divine power and even left a Magic Mark on him, exposing his form.

He then understood that the Elf Elder, capable of contending with Dharma Image Cultivators, was incredibly powerful.

However, he felt that this Elder was relying more on Divine Power to see through him, otherwise, if the Elf Elder was truly that formidable, the Magic Mark left on him wouldn’t be so simple; he was confident he could remove it within the time it takes to drink one or two cups of tea.

The only trouble now was that his presence had been exposed, and although he didn’t fear being surrounded and attacked by these elves, collecting his Spiritual Beasts and attempting to leave might face some resistance.