Dimensional Keeper: All My Skills Are at Level 100 Chapter 1467 Increasing Cultivation!
Previously on Dimensional Keeper: All My Skills Are at Level 100...
While Max was lost in deep thought, outlining a path of consumption for his flames, a gentle alteration in the nearby energy drew his notice. The intense blaze of the twenty first layer stayed the same in thickness, but an inner movement awakened inside him.
The Chaos Tree, silent since the last bud ripened into fruit, started to stir once again.
A soft tug emerged in his chest.
"What's happening?" Max furrowed his brow lightly while turning his focus inward.
He knew for sure that once all five buds turned into dark red fruits, the absorption had settled down. The fruits dangled peacefully on the flame branch, emitting focused power but no longer greedily pulling in the nearby laws.
But now, without any order from him, the energy from the twenty first layer started pouring into him anew.
With curiosity and caution, Max directed his awareness inside to inspect the Chaos Tree.
The sight shocked him.
All five dark red fruits shone at the same time.
Their skins gleamed with powerful crimson light, much brighter than earlier. Thin threads of glow linked them, creating a complex web over the flame branch. The five fruits weren't separate anymore. They were vibrating together.
The vibration grew stronger every second.
The chaotic flame laws around in the twenty first layer quivered softly as flows of purified energy got pulled in. But unlike previously, this intake wasn't just for bolstering the flame branch alone.
The energy moved past the fruits.
It flowed into his meridians.
It cycled around his body.
Max's eyes grew wide.
"The energy is entering my cultivation base," he understood.
The purified chaotic flame laws, squeezed and cleansed by the five fruits' vibration, were turning into a shape his body could take in directly. Rather than just feeding the Chaos Tree, the energy now boosted his cultivation.
He sensed it plainly.
His Rebirth Realm base shook a bit as the rush of cleansed power blended into it. The first level of the Rebirth Realm grew more solid, deeper and richer. His inner aura strengthened just a touch.
Max had tried before to consume the Path's energy via his black flames to raise his cultivation, but the trial's rules blocked that method. The Path to Eternal Flames wasn't for wild looting. Its design stopped direct uptake through normal ways.
But now, the Chaos Tree had bypassed that block.
The five fruits vibrated together, purifying the chaotic flame laws around so much that the energy shed its crushing quality. It turned into clean fuel.
Max couldn't hold back the small smile on his face.
"So this is the true role of the fruits," he whispered.
They weren't just packed law pieces.
They were transformers.
The Path to Eternal Flames still raged powerfully nearby, its ruling power untouched. Yet via the five fruits' vibration, its energy got quietly drawn, purified, and woven into his cultivation without breaking the trial's limits.
He noticed his base growing firmer bit by bit.
The stronger the fruits vibrated, the better they pulled in energy.
Max shut his eyes again, but now not just for understanding.
He let the vibration go on.
The Chaos Tree, active once more, uncovered yet another aspect of its enigmatic role.
"At this pace, I could advance to the Second Level of the Rebirth Realm," Max whispered to himself, feeling the immense thickness of energy in the Twenty First Layer and the equally immense rate at which the Chaos Tree took it in.
The power here was way thicker than lower levels, packed with fierce will and squeezed life force that would smash a normal cultivator to powder. But the Chaos Tree didn't push it away. It consumed it.
Initially, the intake was even, like a mighty stream entering a huge ocean. The energy rushed into the five fruits from leaves, went through the branches, and dropped into the trunk where the chaotic core at Max's being's base refined it further.
Then, it changed into a cleaner, more tame power before spreading into his meridians. His bones quivered lightly as that cleansed force seeped in. His muscles hardened, his blood heated up, and the vessels inside him widened from the steady push.
The feeling wasn't agony, but it wasn't easy either. It was like each cell in his body got broken apart and rebuilt more accurately.
As time ticked by, Max spotted a small change. The absorption speed wasn't steady anymore. The Chaos Tree was adjusting.
The leaves that once swayed softly now sparkled with richer shine. Their edges seemed to wave like they hungered. The energy of the Twenty First Layer around started to twist harder, making clear streams that twisted toward Max's spot. Even the heavy pressure in the air changed a bit, as if a whirlpool formed in the layer's heart. The Chaos Tree didn't just take the energy anymore. It yanked it closer.
The change in his body sped up. His core source stretched out with a low booming hum, and the chaotic power inside spun faster. The power vortex squeezed itself over and over, getting thicker and weightier each turn.
His aura, steady at the top of the First Level of the Rebirth Realm, started to shake wildly. Tiny splits formed in the unseen wall between his realm and the next.
Max clenched his jaw as bursts of power flooded his arms and legs. The bones there made soft popping noises as waste got expelled and vanished in the chaotic cleansing.
His heart pounded harder in his ears, each beat matching the spin of the Chaos Tree's heart. The bond between him and the tree grew tighter, like their beings fused into one cultivation machine.
Then it struck.