Rumble...
In the dark clouds capping the sky, a thunderclap suddenly exploded!
That entity occupying the space outside the spatial barrier seemed to have heard Shinji's provocation and immediately gave its response.
"Hmph!"
Shinji snorted lightly.
As the second God Tree took root, the collapse of World No. 4 naturally began to further accelerate.
In order to determine how much time World No. 4 had left, Shinji released the tech ball Little Yuan again, letting it re-collect data and run the model once more.
Spending more than half a day, Little Yuan completed the data collection, ran the model again with the new data, and obtained a result of 32 days.
"It's a bit longer than I imagined!"
Shinji muttered inwardly.
He originally thought that with the planting of the second God Tree, the collapse of World No. 4 would be faster; he didn't expect it to only shorten from 46 days to 32 days.
However, after sizing up the God Tree beneath his feet, which was obviously a large section shorter and smaller, Shinji felt relieved again.
Isshiki Otsutsuki's Little Ten-Tails obviously could not compare with Kaguya Otsutsuki's mature God Tree that had taken root in the shinobi world for a millennium.
Therefore, the Small God Tree transformed from the Little Ten-Tails was far inferior to the Big God Tree in terms of efficiency in absorbing planetary energy.
Shinji reached out and pressed on the Small God Tree to sense it.
This wave of absorption by the Small God Tree was different from the Big God Tree. The Big God Tree absorbs planetary energy to prepare for nurturing the next Chakra Fruit. Whereas the Small God Tree absorbs planetary energy merely to develop itself.
Because a God Tree in a juvenile state cannot nurture a Chakra Fruit!
This process often requires a millennium; even if artificially accelerated, it requires at least several hundred years, because planetary energy is not that easy to absorb. Especially for a juvenile God Tree with weak absorption power, the absorption efficiency in the early stage is very slow.
If the Small God Tree were planted in the shinobi world, Shinji might need to wait for hundreds or thousands of years like Kaguya Otsutsuki did before, in order to wait for the God Tree to mature.
But the current situation was somewhat special.
With the absorption by the internal Big God Tree and the erosion by the external Hegemon, World No. 4 was in a state of accelerated collapse.
In this state, even for the juvenile Small God Tree, the absorption efficiency would be greatly improved. After all, World No. 4 already had no power to resist. And the planet's core energy is the best nutrient to nourish the God Tree. If the Small God Tree can absorb the core energy, it can greatly accelerate its development. So although Shinji currently cannot judge how long the Small God Tree needs to go from juvenile to mature, it definitely won't take thousands of years like Kaguya Otsutsuki.
"Energy absorption is like rolling a snowball; if the snowball at the beginning can be rolled big enough, the speed later can increase geometrically!"
In this regard, Shinji was still confident.
After all, Kaguya Otsutsuki who came to the shinobi world back then was at most a Six Paths level Otsutsuki. Aside from having some schemes and plotting against Isshiki Otsutsuki, her other abilities could be considered average.
This could also be seen from the fact that she fell into the hands of her two sons.
Compared to Kaguya Otsutsuki, Shinji's advantage was much greater. Not to mention that his current Kekkei Mora strength was a large chunk stronger than Kaguya Otsutsuki when she planted the tree, just his identity as a Lampbearer gave him an advantage in planting trees that crushed all Otsutsuki.
One must know that World No. 4 does not only have one planet; it's just that the planet Shinji is on is the core of World No. 4. As long as this core exists, and as long as there is enough time, World No. 4 will continuously evolve, birthing one brand new planet after another in the starry sky.
But no matter what the newly born planets are like, their energy density cannot be compared with the world core planet. Therefore, Shinji, who can directly extract the energy of the world core planet, is far more than just a little bit more convenient in the efficiency of tree planting than the Otsutsuki who need to constantly search for evolving planets in the starry sky!
As for the Big God Tree, Shinji actually didn't need to worry too much, so in the following days, Shinji was basically over at the Small God Tree.
In order to let the Small God Tree absorb planetary energy better, especially the core energy buried deep underground, Shinji even personally dove deep into the underground, chiseled open the hard mantle zone, and let the Small God Tree's root system invade directly into the core.
This would be very difficult to accomplish under normal circumstances, but World No. 4 was being attacked from both inside and outside, plus the Lampbearer guarding the world had already died, so it simply could not resist.
In the blink of an eye, thirty days passed.
At this time, World No. 4 was already a doomsday scene. Five days ago, the entire world already had no distinction between day and night; everywhere the eye could see was chaos.
Lightning flashed and thunder roared in the sky, and on the ground, earthquakes, mountain floods, and tsunamis occurred simultaneously!
Shinji looked into the sky with a look of apprehension, thinking to himself: "It's about time!"
According to the tech ball Little Yuan's speculation, there were at least two days left before the complete collapse of World No. 4, but Shinji didn't want to take too much risk. Now was not the time to confront the Hegemon head-on, and since he planted two God Trees at once this time, running away was not as convenient as before, so he could only make arrangements in advance.
The first to be put away was naturally the Small God Tree.
Shinji was the Jinchuriki of the big Ten-Tails after all. Although he could also suppress and control the Little Ten-Tails, it was ultimately not as handy.
Thus, he formed a seal, then pressed a palm on the trunk of the Small God Tree.
Accompanying a violent tremor, the Small God Tree rapidly withdrew the root system buried deep underground, and then transformed into the appearance of the Ten-Tails.
Compared with a month ago, the Little Ten-Tails was obviously a circle larger, looking even somewhat bloated.
Shinji landed on the Little Ten-Tails' head and laughed: "You're full, right?"
"Urgh..."
The Little Ten-Tails directly let out a burp.
Shinji looked speechless, then stored the Little Ten-Tails into the time-freeze space of Daikokuten.
The reason for storing it in the Daikokuten space instead of the Kamui space was that Shinji considered that World No. 4 had already been seriously polluted by the Hegemon. The Little Ten-Tails was very likely also subjected to some kind of unknown pollution, and the flow of time in the Daikokuten space is static, so the pollution on the Little Ten-Tails cannot spread, making it naturally more convenient for Shinji to clean up later.
Having dealt with the Little Ten-Tails, Shinji immediately rushed back to his own God Tree.
Sensing briefly, Shinji discovered that the Hegemon had not been idle these days and had been constantly trying to pollute his God Tree.
"Hmph!"
Shinji snorted lightly, then put away his own God Tree.
Boom!
At this time, another thunderclap that shook people's eardrums until they hurt exploded in the sky. It seemed the Hegemon sensed that Shinji was about to run, so it was very angry!
"See you in the next world!"
Shinji smiled, then activated the power of the Lamp to open a spatial rift, disappearing from the spot.