The World Tree

Celia and Celic gaped as they looked at Blaive but then realized that Blaive cultivated differently from how humans do it because he is a tree.

A tree who cultivate through absorbing Fantasma given by nature. His roots extended to the ground and absorb Fantasma freely, he devours living things and absorbs the Fantasma accumulated in their bodies.

He acquired Wind Scythe, Water Blade, Blinding Light, Earth's spike, Darkness barrage, Strike from heavens(Lightning skill) and the most useful skill he got is Minor teleportation.

These skills are from the bandits that the wolf devoured. They are still the same entity, so anything that the wolf devoured and digested, Blaive also benefited from it. The belongings of the Bandits also devoured and stored inside Blaive's body. He can get it using his Transformation skill: Produce. With this skill, he can produce and reproduce inanimated things like currency. His plan for acquiring every type of currency is to produce more. He plans to devour ores and produce currency, that's how you make money.

As for the three Iron level Rank III bandits, they were actually devoured but cannot be digested. Their level is higher than Blaive so they cannot be digested by the meantime.

This is the rule of digestion. If what you devoured is higher level than you, you can't digest them. There is also a restriction in Endless Hunger, you cannot devour someone that has higher Cultivation than yours without killing them first. Even the wolf form is larger than Iron level Rank III bandits, it cannot chomp them directly because Blaive is still Iron level Rank II. When they died, that is the right time to devour them.

The bandits are wronged when they said that the wolf is at Bronze level Rank III. They only assumed that the wolf is at that level because of its power emanated but actually same as Blaive, Iron level Rank II. Clones that Blaive Produced is weaker than him. The strongest has only 80 percent of Blaive's total battle power and the weakest has 40 percent. It still depends on how large the DNA Blaive produces. If he uses his hair to produce a clone, it only has 40 percent of Blaive's power. If he produces a clone using his severed arm, his clone can have 70 to 80 percent battle power.

Severing his arm is also painful for him. Without the regeneration abilities of reptiles he devoured and the healing abilities of medicinal plants, he can't regrow his arm after all.

As for Celia and Celic's Cultivation method, Blaive knows nothing about it.

[Hey Nica, how do humans cultivate?] Blaive is now determined to know how humans cultivate so that he can help Celia and Celic.

[Let them sit cross-legged and let them focus on their belly button. Make them inhale and exhale normally. It is meditation but one's mind needs to focus on their belly button. Fantasma is stored in their belly button and also it rotates in their body.] Nica explained.

[In addition, you can help them accumulate Fantasma even more if you produce Fantasma.]

[Produce Fantasma?] Blaive looked confused.

[Fantasma is produced by nature and you are one of nature. You are a tree. The tree produces oxygen along with Fantasma it accumulated. Trees have no cultivation bases and expel Fantasma they accumulated. That is why Cultivators choose to meditate in the forest because it has dense Fantasma produce by trees and other plants.

[You are different from other trees. You have a cultivation base and you can cultivate. But you are also a tree that can produce Fantasma. Aside from having a Transformation skill: Produce, you can naturally produce Fantasma.] Nica explained it thoroughly.

Blaive, who is now enlightened regarding how a human cultivated got agitated and grabbed the ladies out of excitement.

The ladies were shocked and at the same time confused. They followed Blaive without asking him.

Blaive cut 2 the nearby tree leaving only 30 inches tall trunk then said "You two, sit here and start cultivating"

"But we don't know how to cultivate." Celic said. Celia nodded in agreement.

"Just try to meditate. Inhale and exhale is all you need to do and also clear your mind and concentrate on your belly button. Just inhale and exhale so, start doing it now." Blaive explain.

Celia and Celic wanted to argue a little bit but they saw how determined Blaive is so, they followed his command.

Celia is on the right side and Celic is on the left. They started to inhale and exhale as they concentrated their attention towards their belly button. They started to feel nature, they feel more calm and lightheaded as they do it.

Blaive transformed into a java rose apple tree and flower sprouted from his branches. Pollens fell from the flowers and landing into the ground. It scattered around and then it transforms into Blaive's original form, World tree.

It is not big, its height is roughly 5 meters tall but it scattered into the ground.

Then it started to absorb Fantasma rapidly and released it into the air. Dense Fantasma lingered towards them, making the ladies feel lightheaded even more and feeling that they are floating in the air.

Fantasma surged into their body and accumulating into their Belly button region. Bronze color spots appeared in their soul but didn't notice it. They continued cultivating.

Blaive is also cultivating using his original for, World tree. It is not actually the real world tree but he gave himself this name. Every tree is originated from a single tree and it was the world tree. It is the ancestor of all trees and all living things that existed long long long ago right after the world of Setria are formed. Parts of its body became different type of living things especially animals. It also became their food. The DNA of the world tree lingered in these plants and animals and pass it through generations. It came to the end of its life and transformed into a two human, a girl and a boy and became the ancestor of humanity.

It is only based on a legend on how humans appeared in Setria. Some said through the evolution of apes, some said that we are aliens who migrated from other planets, some said that God made us and so on. In these legends, the legend of the world tree is also included. Blaive tried to ask Nica but she has no answer towards the question.

That is the reason why he named himself 'World tree'.

The bronze spots in their souls are in gradually increasing. Soon, 8 hours passed, Celia and Celic opened their eyes and bronze light appeared in their eyes.

"BRONZE LEVEL!" They shouted in unison.

"I heard people took weeks or even months to attain Bronze level Rank I. How could it be so fast??" Celic's eyes grew wide as she gaped in astonishment.

Then Blaive who is in his true form suddenly talked. "try to feel your surrounding." Then Celic and Celia noticed that Fantasma is dense in this place by five folds than any other places.

"This... " they gaped and unable to talk a single word.

There is no need to explain why because they already knew, Fantasma there is thicker than any other part they have been.

"I produced hundreds of my sapling and let them absorb Fantasma and released it in the air that you absorbed." Blaive talked while still on his true form, World Tree.

A branch fell from Blaive and it suddenly transformed into a wolf. The wolf walked away from them, deeper to the forest.

A branch also fell and it transforms into Blaive. "This is just my clone. Come and I will teach you magical techniques I knew. After the wolf came back, we will eat our dinner. You must be hungry after 8 hours of cultivation."

Celia and Celic suddenly got agitated and followed Blaive immediately.