"Junior Brother Chu Feng, what is that?"
"Why is yours different from that scoundrel grandfather's?"
Wen Xue hadn't wanted to ask, since there was no way to communicate secretly here, but she was simply too curious.
She wasn't curious about why Chu Feng and Jie Tianran were suddenly able to manifest a formation.
She knew that both Chu Feng and Jie Tianran must have comprehended the method from the talisman of that waste.
What she was curious about was why the things Chu Feng and Jie Tianran condensed looked so different.
And in her eyes, the thing Jie Tianran had condensed appeared far more intimidating than Chu Feng's.
"In this place, we need to obtain a certain amount of power. Only by gathering enough power can we open the barrier gate and leave."
"There are two ways to obtain this power."
"One is planting."
"The things you plant naturally possess this kind of power."
"The other is devouring."
"The heavens and earth also conceal this kind of power within them. The devouring method allows you to absorb the power hidden between heaven and earth."
"But you can only choose one of the two methods."
Chu Feng knew that if Jie Tianran was able to condense this thing, he must have long since seen through the rules of this place.
So he didn't hide anything from Jie Tianran, and simply told Wen Xue directly.
"So that's what 'plundering' and 'planting' mean."
Just at that moment, the one beside Jie Tianran let out a sigh of realization, then actually looked toward Chu Feng: "Chu Feng, you've seen that person too, haven't you?"
"What person?" Chu Feng feigned ignorance.
"Why bother playing dumb? Who else could it be?"
"The sect master of the Ancestral Martial Realm Sect, of course — Shangguan Huangquan."
"How could you have come here without seeing her?" the one beside Jie Tianran said.
"Suppose I have — what about it?" Chu Feng asked.
But seeing the other party ask this, Chu Feng also understood that Jie Tianran must have seen Shangguan Huangquan as well.
"You probably think that because the Ancestral Martial Realm Sect master pressed her brush a bit harder when writing the character for 'plant,' you figured 'planting' was more important, and so you chose the planting method."
"But I'm telling you — you chose wrong," the one beside Jie Tianran said.
Hearing the other party say this, Chu Feng couldn't help but let out a mocking laugh: "Another one who thinks far too highly of himself."
"You don't look like something from this era. Old thing, you don't have many years left, do you?" Chu Feng said.
"Indeed, my remaining lifespan is not much."
"I'll just use you, little brat, to replenish my years."
"Perhaps today will be the day."
The one beside Jie Tianran spoke to this point with a string of sinister laughs.
"That depends on whether you're capable."
As Chu Feng spoke, he continued forming hand seals.
Before long, Chu Feng's small sapling began growing rapidly, and before long it had become a towering tree that rose a thousand meters into the sky.
But compared to Chu Feng's side, the thing Jie Tianran had condensed had already broken through its shell and transformed into a hundred-meter-tall crimson demon beast, its body stretching three hundred meters long.
In terms of sheer size, the crimson demon beast was smaller than the great tree Chu Feng had condensed.
But the aura it radiated was far more powerful than Chu Feng's tree.
However, the two were fundamentally different in nature.
From Chu Feng's tree emanated a strange power that grew denser as it grew.
The crimson demon beast that Jie Tianran had condensed did not inherently possess that strange power.
But when it opened its enormous maw, its mouth exuded a bizarre devouring force that drew out the strange power from within the heavens and earth, pulling it into its gaping jaws.