Cultivation: the Rise of a Live-In Son-In-Law

Chapter 576 - 574: The Celestial Origin Divine Fruit Tree?! A Treasure That Even Increases Celestial Realm Breakthrough Chances? Lu Ye: It’s a Trap!

In a mountain valley shrouded in night, a thick stench of blood was wafting out at this moment.

There were some figures all around, locked in a brutal melee within a faint red mist, all sorts of Source Qi radiance flaring.

On one side of the valley, an exotic fragrance was spreading out from there—it was a fruit tree... roughly two meters tall.

More than a dozen fruits were actually condensed on it, suffused with a red hue, with faint traces of pale gold flickering in and out of sight, as if they were already fully ripe.

The exotic fragrance that could spread to an extremely far distance was precisely being emitted from here.

At this moment, beside this mysterious, unknown fruit tree, the cultivators in the valley were almost all driven mad.

By the time Lu Ye and the other two rushed here, corpses of cultivators were already scattered across the ground.

"They’re fighting this viciously? Just what treasure is that?" Xiao Yudie looked at the chaotic, bloodthirsty scene in the valley, surprise on her face.

In just a few short minutes, at least more than three Earth Realm and over eight Mortal Realm cultivators had already fallen here!

At the side, Qing Yu was staring at that divine tree which was extremely eye-catching even under the night sky, and exclaimed in shock, "Could that be the legendary strange fruit that can even slightly increase a Celestial Realm cultivator’s chance of breaking through to become a Celestial Being?!"

Something that could raise the breakthrough chance even for the Celestial Realm would naturally allow lower-level Mortal Realm and Earth Realm cultivators to gain a considerable amount of energy and increase their own breakthrough chances to some degree.

Xiao Yudie nodded and said seriously, "It really might be. Rumor has it that the Tianyuan Fruit gives off an exotic fragrance, and when it matures, its surface is primarily red, with a faint tinge of scarlet-gold within."

She had just looked carefully and indeed saw a faint trace of gold on those red divine fruits.

"Fellow Daoist Chen, should we make a move?"

Of course Xiao Yudie wanted to join the fray and fight for it, but after thinking for a bit, she still decided to ask Lu Ye beside her for his opinion first.

Unexpectedly, after just a few glances, Lu Ye actually shook his head and said, "How about we just forget it."

Hearing Lu Ye’s words all of a sudden, even Qing Yu turned her head in surprise, staring at her own future lord.

However, Qing Yu spoke up almost instantly, "I’ll listen to Young Master."

No matter what Lu Ye’s intention was in suddenly making this suggestion, Qing Yu had decided to go all-in and follow.

Even if Lu Ye called for her to leave right now, Qing Yu wouldn’t hesitate in the slightest.

"Huh?" The Sea Spirit Saintess clearly hadn’t expected this; upon hearing it, she was a little dazed.

Wait... with those divine fruits suspected to be Tianyuan Fruit right in front of them, there were actually people choosing to give up?!

You had to know that, although the situation in the field was chaotic, the strongest among those locked in the bloody struggle were just two Celestial Realm First Layer cultivators, who were fighting the fiercest.

As for the two of them, as long as they joined forces, not a single person present would be their match; they could completely seize the chance of this divine tree for themselves.

"Fellow Daoist Chen... what are you thinking? We cultivators—when opportunity is right in front of us, how can we not fight for it?" After a moment, Xiao Yudie asked in some confusion.

After thinking it over, Lu Ye didn’t hide it. He first led the two of them to a large tree thick enough for several people to encircle, using it to conceal their figures, then spoke.

"If I said... that most likely isn’t the so-called Tianyuan Fruit at all, would you believe me?"

"What?! Not Tianyuan Fruit?! But the characteristics of that Spirit Fruit clearly match perfectly..." Hearing this, Xiao Yudie was utterly shocked.

At the side, Qing Yu, however, showed a hint of sudden realization and said softly, "I believe what Young Master says."

At that, Xiao Yudie pulled back some of her shock, glanced sidelong at the woman in green, and muttered inwardly.

"If your Young Master said cows in the sky can fly, you’d probably believe that too!"

Still, Xiao Yudie had indeed been shaken by Lu Ye’s words; once she finished speaking, she stared at Lu Ye without blinking.

She wanted to hear what he would say next.

At this time, Lu Ye pointed toward the savage fighting in the valley not far away. "Don’t you feel like these people are fighting as if they’ve already lost their minds?"

"Their faces are twisted with ferocity, and even when they’re gravely injured, they don’t think of retreating at all, only fighting to the death... You think that’s normal?"

This was something Xiao Yudie and Qing Yu hadn’t examined carefully before.

When they took a more careful look, they realized it was indeed the case!

They saw that one Mortal Realm Eighth Layer cultivator, clearly already having lost an arm, had no intention of leaving whatsoever, instead attacking even more frantically.

Such behavior was obviously abnormal for a cultivator.

Once heavily injured, most cultivators, under normal circumstances, would choose to withdraw even if they were unwilling, giving up on this round of contention.

But after these people were injured, they only grew more berserk.

"What’s causing that?!" The Sea Spirit Saintess was baffled.

Unexpectedly, Lu Ye quickly threw out another question: "Also, have you noticed that the exotic fragrance around us has already weakened quite a bit?"

"If you pull back three to five hundred meters now, you can barely smell it at all."

"Really?" Xiao Yudie immediately slipped away silently for several hundred meters. This was the path she’d taken on her way here, drawn over by that fragrance.

Now that she withdrew to that position again...

"It’s really gone?! Where’s the fragrance?!"

Xiao Yudie felt like her brain was not keeping up. Was this some kind of limited-edition scent?

It’s there for a while, then disappears for a while?

After pondering for a moment, Lu Ye looked at the "divine tree" under the moonlit night, which seemed to exude boundless temptation enough to drive people mad, and said, "In my opinion, this so-called divine tree isn’t very proper."

"I suspect that the fragrance is something it deliberately and actively spreads out as a method to lure cultivators here."

"And now that it’s lured in about as many people as it can, plus the fact that such wide-area dispersal must consume energy, it chose to stop."

Xiao Yudie exclaimed in shock, "I get what you mean... you’re saying this is most likely a Tree Demon?!"

Among the Demon Race, plants becoming demons was not at all uncommon.

It was just, how did Chen Beixuan manage to deduce that in such a short time?

Lu Ye, however, knew that Xiao Yudie wouldn’t be able to fully believe him yet. He picked up a stone and said, "Watch closely."

In the next instant, the stone in Lu Ye’s hand was wrapped in Source Qi and shot out in a flash toward that so-called Tianyuan divine fruit tree several hundred meters away...

If nothing unexpected happened, this stone would embed itself deep into the trunk.

But a moment later, a sudden change erupted...

From that Tianyuan divine fruit tree, which had seemed to radiate endless temptation, there burst out a surge of black qi.

It blocked that stone, which held no small amount of force, right in midair.

In an instant, the blood reek that was visible to the naked eye on that battlefield was gathered and drawn toward the tree’s body.

"Who’s sneaking around in the dark, daring to lay a hand on your Grandpa Tree?"