In the beginner meditation room, the moment Shi Feng merged the Starlight into the main branch of the Tree of Life, all of the mana in the great hall seemed to answer a call, surging toward the branch in a single flood.
In just two or three seconds, a thick, misty layer of mana had formed around the Tree of Life. And after the mist appeared, the compression of mana didn't stop — it gradually condensed further, coalescing into droplets of incredibly concentrated magic water.
The instant the magic water formed, it seemed to come alive, each droplet voluntarily merging into the roots of the Tree of Life to replenish its mana.
As drop after drop of magic water was absorbed, the Tree of Life began to tremble faintly, as though some living creature was stirring from slumber.
"It seems like the effect is pretty good." Shi Feng looked at the trembling main branch of the Tree of Life, a hint of joy crossing his face.
When he had seen the Tree of Life's withering rate reach 94, he had nearly despaired.
Reviving a tree at that level of decay was incredibly difficult. Fortunately, there was no such thing as outright failure when it came to restoring the Tree of Life — you simply had to continuously supply it with high-purity energy and highly concentrated life force, sustaining it until it recovered.
The only catch was that obtaining such high-purity energy and highly concentrated life force was extremely difficult, with barely a handful of sources across the entire Divine Realm. So reviving the Tree of Life was far from easy.
Luckily, his trip to the Western Continent had gone well enough for him to acquire a piece of Starlight. Without it, the revival of the Tree of Life would have been nothing more than a hopeless dream.
Time passed, and seven or eight hours slipped by without notice. As the roots of the Tree of Life continued to absorb the magic water, the withered branches gradually regained their vitality, eventually sprouting lush, green leaves.
As more and more leaves appeared on the branches, the life force they radiated grew ever more concentrated, filling the entire hall with a vibrant, thriving energy.
"It's only just awakened, and already the life force is this dense? What rank of Tree of Life is this, exactly?" Shi Feng sensed the life energy in the room and couldn't help but feel a measure of surprise. "If a player rested in here, their recovery speed would probably more than double."
In the Divine Realm, even a Tier 3 class player venturing into Level 100 zones would suffer erosion from the various exotic energies present, forcing them to return to a city to rest — otherwise the hunger and bodily sluggishness would eventually be fatal.
This was precisely why Stone Forest City had developed so quickly.
But even returning to a city to rest took a considerable amount of time. Wealthier players would choose to consume mana-rich foods to speed up recovery, though the improvement was only a matter of a few dozen percent at best.
Yet simply staying in this room could boost recovery by over a hundred percent. It was almost unbelievable.
Top experts in the Divine Realm consumed those recovery-boosting delicacies as a matter of course — anything to squeeze out more time for leveling and adventuring. Higher-ups within various powers would go to great lengths to procure ancient recovery potions in order to outpace rival factions and level up as fast as possible. As a result, the prices of those ancient potions were staggeringly high.
At minimum, twenty to thirty gold coins. For the better ones, over a hundred!
And those ancient potions were consumables that lasted only four to six hours, yet even with their recovery boost factored in, the total improvement barely exceeded double.
Now, merely through a single branch of the Tree of Life — one that had barely been revived for any length of time — he was achieving this kind of effect. If word got out, every major power in the Divine Realm would be green with envy.
An ancient potion could only benefit a single person. But every player inside a room housing a branch of the Tree of Life would enjoy the same effect…