Awakened: Evolving to Godhood

Those were the very last ones of the vines that attacked him. Now that he had chopped them up, causing them to be unable to move and be a threat to him, he could finally focus on hunting down the spirit tree, which was the mastermind behind all of this.

He descended from high above, and with a few spins, lowered the speed at which he was going down. He landed an adequate distance away from the mess of vines and acidic, rocky surface corroding juices.

Intending to find the spirit tree, he looked around, only to realize that it has long since retrieved all of its branches. While he was fighting the vines, the spirit tree covered all traces that could lead to it. Now, he has lost a way of finding out where it was hiding.

"What a sly fox!" Elliot's brows furrowed in dissatisfaction.

Looking at his reaction from afar, the spirit tree that looked like any other tree as even the spirit mark on its trunk has vanished, thought that it has successfully covered its track and was now safe from being found out by him.

However, it still kept on looking at him by using its spiritual senses.

It was intent on knowing what he would do. Would he look for it? Would he just go away?

It decided to look away only once Elliot has gone far away from its hiding spot! As only then would it feel safe enough to close down its spiritual senses.

However, it was incorrect! There was no chance of Elliot being unable to locate the spirit tree, after all!

'Although the spirit tree has concealed itself by blending with its surrounding, appearing just like the other trees, and also covered all of the traces leading to it too, I can still find it by using my God's eye of Wisdom.' Wordlessly, he stood in his spot.

He knew that it was going to take time to locate it by using such a method. Yet, he had no hesitation. The prospect of hunting down a spirit tree was too great. He didn't know what type of treasure he would get from killing one, but he was sure that it would be something like no other.

He moved ahead while looking at the surrounding trees with the intent of knowing whether they are spirit trees or not.

He moved ahead while looking at the surrounding trees with the intent of knowing whether they are spirit trees or not.

He believed that the spirit tree must be somewhere here. Maybe within a mile of him. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been able to senses it, much less attack him.

With each passing second, he gained plenty of knowledge, about his surrounding, about the trees, about the leaves, and much more. Most of the trees in his surroundings were 600-700 years old, and these trees gain a soul and become intelligent after absorbing spiritual energy for a thousand years. Then, not only do they become dangerous but also a vault of treasure.

As he dashed past a row of trees and a group of trees centering a thick tree entered his eyes, he abruptly came to a halt.

No doubt, the spirit tree was right in front of his eyes.

Thanks to his right eye, he managed to locate it.

He kept his eyes on it, this time looking at it with the intent of knowing everything about it.

[Name: Nomad Spirit Tree

Cultivation Stage: Low-Level Spirit Warrior. It's comparable to a monster in the demonic stage.

Description: A tree that can absorb the spiritual energy in nature to nourish itself, and after thousand years of nourishment, it has formed a soul, ascending to the rank of a spirit warrior and gaining multiple spirit marks.

Spirit Marks/Supernatural powers: Spiritual Senses, summoning vines, limbs extension as well as compression.

Spiritual Energy: 320/1000 units]

He found out a lot of things, such as the fact that it was using its spiritual senses to look at him at the moment, which was costing it multiple units of spiritual energy every minute. He also found out that the tree had a lot of vitality, and killing it would net him many units of the essence of life.

The glow in his eyes brightened.

As it watched Elliot standing several meters away from it and looking at itself intensely, it nearly believed that its cover is blown. Nearly, because for some reason, he walked away.

He kept on moving away from it, and after a couple of minutes, he stepped out of the range of its spiritual senses.

The spirit tree's spiritual senses only reached up to a thousand meters. He came to know about this information after inspecting it.

When the spirit tree saw him going away, it came to believe that it hasn't been caught. It was a newborn, and hence, its intelligence wasn't that great.

After it noticed that he has stepped out of the range of its spiritual senses, it became sure that the danger has passed away.

Thus, Its guards lowered down!

Furthermore, as using its spiritual senses comes with a price, it stopped using it too.

Unbeknown to it, the danger was lurking over its head!

"Now that I am out of its vision, there is no way for it to know what I am doing." Elliot's lips stretched back into a sarcastic smile, and a smirk was revealed to be on his face.

With a look at his surroundings, he made sure that there was no danger nearby. With a thought, he absorbed the swords in his hands, replenishing his essence of life. With a single leap, he reached the top of a tall, towering tree.

While standing on top of it, his eyes glowed brightly as the image of an arrow and a bow flashed in his mind. In the very next instant, the godly matrix on his soul sucked one-third of his essence of life. Simultaneously, a golden bow and a golden arrow materialized in front of him, hovering in mid-air.