Chapter 151: A Barrier Breakthrough with Massive Tremors

If you look closely, that was precisely Wu You’s spiritual conception of the Mountain Tree when he first created it.

Right now, these wild conceptions were rapidly expanding, supported by a homologous source of spiritual energy.

This process closely mirrored Wu You taking on the role of a bystander, watching his "former self" stroke by stroke delineate the magnificent tree of his imagination.

This gave Wu You a very peculiar sensation.

Under such an immense infusion of spiritual energy—even though Wu You was now merely acting like a transit relay, rapidly absorbing, transforming, and outputting it—his head still felt somewhat heavy and dizzy.

Fortunately, it did not last long. In less than a minute, Wu You felt the output of spiritual energy finally cease.

"Phew..."

Sarasota let out a heavy sigh of relief, reaching up to wipe away non-existent sweat from its brow, though it did not disturb Wu You.

Its pressure just now had been no less than Wu You's. In that single minute, about a dozen of the "believers" of average mental fortitude had suffered mental breakdowns and sudden deaths.

These were not symptoms of a vegetative state, but genuine brain necrosis combined with cardiac arrest; after a short while, their bodies would grow cold.

In the places where deaths occurred, emergency services were dialed across various regions, while some families directly drove their loved ones to the hospital themselves.

In an old residential compound in Qiantang, Wang Shenyu finally stopped his agonizing screams.

While their son had been studying properly in his room, he suddenly began to shriek like a madman. Panicked, his parents rushed into his room.

What met their eyes was Wang Shenyu clutching his head, rolling agonizingly on the floor, occasionally slamming his forehead against the corner of the table with loud thuds.

He wailed for nearly a minute before he finally began to calm down.

"Shenyu, are you alright... I'm calling an ambulance right now!"

"Yes, yes, yes, to the hospital, take him to the hospital!!"

His father's voice was filled with anxiety, and his mother's tone carried a sobbing note.

Wang Shenyu’s head felt heavy and dizzy, accompanied by intermittent stabbing pains, and he vaguely heard the shouts of his parents.

He opened his bloodshot eyes, feeling as though he hadn't slept for a week.

"I... I'm much better... There's no need to go to the hospital."

Wang Shenyu's mother hugged her son tightly.

"You scared your mother to death! Come on, we're going to the hospital for a check-up, we have to!"

A few minutes later, Wang Maocai drove his Wuling Hongguang, carrying his wife and son, speeding toward the nearest hospital emergency room.

The hospital's final diagnosis was severe sleep deprivation and excessive mental exhaustion, with a recommendation for plenty of rest.

This made Wang Shenyu's parents feel that their son's recent academic improvement had truly not come easily.

...

As the many believers of the demon suffered their torment and were sent to the hospital one by one, the transformation of the Mountain Tree was also nearing its end.

All the glazed radiance was drawn back into the Mountain Tree, making every leaf and every branch of the tree seem to emit tiny specks of fluorescent light, which only gradually dissipated after a long while.

The tree remained the same tree, and its size had not changed, yet it possessed a strange new aura.

It was a spiritual fluctuation characteristic of someone standing at the pinnacle, about to break through into a new realm.

System Prompt: Potential alchemy for the Mountain Tree at level four was successful.
Alchemical Creature: Mountain Tree, Name: None yet
Talents: Indomitable Resilience, Natural Affinity, Vaporizing Mist, Spiritual Stance
Abilities: Purification, Soul Benevolence
Basic Evaluation: Silver Senior (Upgradeable, requires Mortal-Transcending Energy materials)
System Description: This is an ancient tree that touches the boundaries of miracles.

When the system evaluation confirmed that the Mountain Tree had entered the Silver Senior tier, Wu You finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The unpredictable nature of potential alchemy had truly given him a fright.

Of course, this was also related to misjudging the consumption required for potential alchemy.

In all previous alchemical creations, the final spawned creatures were almost entirely capped at Bronze Senior. Only after tempering and upgrading could they cross the Silver threshold and enter the true supernatural tier in the system's sense.

As for this potential alchemy, it directly began smelting at the Silver Intermediate level, and the spiritual energy consumed was on a completely different scale compared to pre-Silver creations.

After all, pushing a sedan might only take two people, but dispatching a platoon to push a main battle tank would still be useless.

So, should he continue today?

Wu You gritted his teeth and decided to get it over with in one go. Besides, the next step was merely nurturing, which would not consume his own spiritual energy.

Entering the cultivation interface, he selected to cultivate the Mountain Tree.

Prompt: This cultivation will consume 1,000 points of Mortal-Transcending Energy materials and 5,000 points of Alchemical Energy. Do you wish to confirm?

That was nearly half of Wu You's entire existing reserve. If the confirmation option required manual clicking, he didn't know if his hand would shake.

Confirm cultivation!

Gold-red bright light spots, ten times the amount of the first time, emerged around the Mountain Tree and were rapidly sucked into its core.

System Prompt: Super-tier advancement has begun.

After receiving the system prompt, Wu You waited in mid-air for a full minute, but could not sense any changes at all.

"Sarasota, can you perceive anything?"

The Primordial Demon shook its head from side to side. "Clearly, I cannot, Master."

Wu You switched into the Mountain Tree’s observation mode.

Immediately, he felt the transition from absolute stillness to extreme motion.

The Mountain Tree's massive roots showed no movement in the sections above two hundred meters, but deep down past the two-hundred-meter mark—

All the roots were completely vitalized. As if imbued with life, they surged through the deep earth at an incredible speed.

They expanded rapidly in all directions, already covering half of the Qiantang area and showing no signs of stopping.

Above ground, Wu You, sharing his senses with the Mountain Tree, perceived the magnetic fields and fluctuations of the ley lines and the starry sky.

These magnetic fields and electrical waves had colors at this moment, appearing like massive tracts of colorful, mesmerizing lines intertwined throughout the endless space within his field of vision.

It was as if full preparations had finally been completed.

The next moment, an invisible stance storm instantly swept around the Mountain Tree, encompassing Qiantang and a large surrounding area.

The roots deep underground plunged straight into the magma layer, and endless earth energy poured from both the sky and the underground into every inch of the Mountain Tree's body.

"Crack, crack, crack, crack..."

The overly rapid growth tore the exceptionally tough bark, straining the sturdy trunk and branches of the Mountain Tree.

Wu You and Sarasota shared a single thought in their minds: Insane speed!

Growing at a rate of at least ten meters per second, the Mountain Tree was expanding rapidly—not only upward, but also outward in every direction its branches could reach.

At the same time.

All signals in the southeast coastal region of China plunged into a state of chaos.

Countless night owls experienced static on their television screens; countless computers running games lost connection or flashed with garbled text; cell phones and landlines became completely unable to make calls...

Countless gamers playing in teams across the southeast coast, especially those near Qiantang, were cursed by their teammates at this moment as "AFK dogs" and "noobs," with countless accounts being reported.

Because it was late at night, many people assumed it was an isolated equipment malfunction on their end; some cursed and went straight to sleep, while others ran around checking their equipment.

Cell phones couldn't even make calls, let alone browse, and many screens even went completely fuzzy. Most people had no choice but to wait for dawn to resolve the issue.

The places that genuinely caused panic were critical institutions such as hospitals, research units, airports, and military facilities.

The mixed multi-magnetic field and stance storm arrived without any warning.

Almost all critical equipment fell completely paralyzed, and communication with the outside world was entirely severed, leading relevant units to temporarily speculate whether they had been subjected to a super-strong electronic jamming attack.

Emergency communication vehicles were dispatched to the surrounding areas.

Wu You stared in shock at the Mountain Tree's continuous growth, which showed no signs of stopping.

At this rate, even though the rising mist could keep it hidden, it had already exceeded a thousand meters in height. Would it end up clipping airplanes?

One must know that, although he wasn't familiar with flight paths, Xiaoshan International Airport was not very damn far from here!