Chapter 832: The Three Ancient Trees of Xuan Huang
Chapter 826 – Xuan Huang Three Ancient Trees
“This is too fast!”
Li Fan’s heart was suddenly quite astonished.
Going from the Spiritwood Realm to the Nine Mountains Prefecture was almost halfway across the Shi Lin Prefecture.
With the normal flying speed of a YuanYing cultivator, it would take at least five or six days.
Lin Ling brought Li Fan with her, and if she flew in the sky, she estimated that it would also take a small half day’s effort.
But with the help of the power of the earth’s veins, surprisingly, he had reached it in almost a moment.
More crucially, traveling underground was silent!
Now that the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance and the Five Elders Association were in a state of confrontation, the borderline between Shi Lin Prefecture and Jiu Shan Prefecture was guarded by a heavy line of defense.
However, when Li Fan and the others traveled through, they did not cause the two sides to notice in the slightest.
“The power of the earth veins is pure and xenophobic. It seems that nowadays, in the Xuan Huang Realm, no method has been found to be able to safely travel through the earth veins.” Li Fan recalled all the knowledge he had previously searched about earth veins and secretly pondered.
After arriving at the Nine Mountains Prefecture, it seemed as if the flow of the earth veins had been blocked by something.
All of a sudden, it turned from turbulent to soothing.
Li Fan also sensed an uncomfortable emotion from Lin Ling’s side.
So he signaled her to return to the ground again.
Before drilling out from the ground, Li Fan also observed cautiously. Only after ensuring that there was no one else around did he break the ground.
“The aura here, it’s so uncomfortable ah.” Lin Ling frowned slightly.
“The Nine Mountain State, it was transformed from the corpses of ancient beasts. It is normal for you to feel slightly repulsed by it.” Li Fan roughly explained.
“Such a large piece of land was transformed from corpses, huh?” Lin Ling’s eyes widened at once, “Then it must have been terrifyingly strong in its lifetime. No wonder all the seniors have to be limited here. ……”
Lin Ling muttered.
“Seniors?” Li Fan’s heart suddenly jumped.
“Yeah! Just now, I was able to run so fast underground thanks to senior’s help!” Lin Ling said full of naivety.
Saying that, she also took out a branch and rather proudly flaunted it, “Master, look, this is the gift that senior presented to me.”
Li Fan could not help but narrow his eyes slightly.
The tree branch was withered and yellow, but it was not the same as the appearance of dissipated vitality. Rather, it was due to the perennial infiltration of the power of the earth’s veins. From it, it seemed that the vigorous and powerful power of the Earth Vein Collapsing Tendrils could still be sensed.
Li Fan had seen this branch once before.
It was at the time of the 115th World, at the cave of Ximen Yu in Yueyang Prefecture.
“Tree of Earth Veins?”
He instantly remembered Ximen Yu’s speculation about the tree’s origin.
Back then, when Ruoki was heavily injured by a cultivator, some of its huge trunks fell off from its body and crashed into the world.
After a number of years of reproduction, each of them re-diffused into different ancient trees.
This Tree of Earth Veins was one of them.
Growing upside down, the roots of the ancient tree spread all over the Xuan Huang Realm.
“You and that [senior], how did you communicate?” Li Fan looked at Lin Ling and asked.
Lin Ling cocked her head and looked at Li Fan. It seemed that she could not quite understand the meaning of Li Fan’s words.
After a while, she simply transmitted the entire process of her communication with the Earth Vein Ancient Tree to Li Fan.
Communication between ancient trees was not the same as humans.
Almost the instant they reached the earth chakra, the two had already sensed and connected.
And within a very short period of time, the exchange of information was completed.
For Lin Ling, the newly born not long after junior, the Earth Vein Ancient Tree showed great affection.
Not only did it not attack her, it even took the initiative to help out.
At the same time, from the Earth Vein Ancient Tree, Lin Ling also knew about several other ancient trees in the Xuan Huang Realm.
First is the most ancient in the world, as the ancestor of all spirits, the Ruomu ……
The Earth Vein Ancient Tree didn’t tell Lin Ling His name.
It only instructed Lin Ling that the Mother Tree had a drastic change in temperament and was temperamental. Even if it was a tree spirit that existed as a kindred spirit, He would not look at it differently. On the contrary, it was possible for them to devour these scattered ancient trees to nourish themselves.
They need to stay as far away as possible.
And then there were two existences that were of the same caliber as the Earth Vein Ancient Tree. They were both the strongest ones that had detached from the Ruomu back then.
One was the [Ancient Tree of Ten Thousand Spirits] and the other was the [Ancient Tree of Heavenly Hua].
Although both came from the same source, they were heading towards completely opposite paths.
The Ancient Tree of Ten Thousand Spirits chooses to multiply itself as much as possible.
It has scattered countless branches throughout the world.
Even if it suffered a calamity, as long as there was one plant that did not perish, given enough time, it could all grow back again.
The Ancient Tree of Heavenly Flower, on the other hand, is following the path of [All Laws Return to One].
Constantly shrinking and refining itself. Thinking that one day, it will be able to change back to a [Ruomu] like existence.
……
Some picture information about the [Ancient Tree of Ten Thousand Spirits] and the [Ancient Tree of Heavenly Flower] flashed through Li Fan’s mind.
What surprised him a little was that he had actually come into contact with both of them during his reincarnation experiences in this world.
The branches of the Ancient Tree of Ten Thousand Spirits were clearly the kind of material that Jiao Xiuyuan had used to refine his split body.
“Opening branches and spreading leaves all over Xuanhuang. It’s vaguely compatible with fellow Daoist Jiao’s [Ten Thousand Puppet Dao].”
“I just don’t know what kind of relationship there is between Jiao Xiuyuan himself and the Ancient Tree of Ten Thousand Spirits.”
As for the Ancient Tree of Heavenly Flower, Li Fan had only had a passing acquaintance.
It was the large tree with a human face that he had seen in the Green Wind Hall of the Ten Thousand Immortals Island’s lending organization.
In the 115th century, the Five Elders Association raided Ten Thousand Immortals Island to relocate the entire island.
At that time, the entire space was blocked, and all means of communication and teleportation were disabled.
Li Fan still paid heavily to inquire from Jiao Xiuyuan about a way to escape.
It was through the Green Wind Hall that he managed to escape.
“This human-faced tree is one of the several sub-bodies of the Tianhua Ancient Tree.”
“Together with the Spirit Tree, that female voice. Yet I don’t know who it is.”
……
In addition to these two powerful ancient trees.
The Earth Vein Ancient Tree also introduced Lin Ling to a few descendants who were a tier weaker.
Just like Lin Ling, they were all trees of the world that had given birth to their own spirits.
Most of them hid in the Xuan Huang Realm’s caves and small worlds.
Cave heavens and small worlds are hosted in the Xuan Huang, so these spirit trees are also able to vaguely connect with the Earth Vein Ancient Tree.
However, like Lin Ling, this was the first one that was able to transform itself into a form and walk out.
So the Earth Vein Ancient Tree was very excited.
As for Lin Ling being in a situation where he was under the control of a cultivator, this Earth Vein Ancient Tree didn’t seem to care much.
It only instructed Lin Ling that the spirit trees of the world each had their own destiny.
Just follow your own deepest thoughts and cultivate.
The forest spirit that had just been born not long ago naturally seemed to understand, but just obediently responded.
……
“I didn’t realize that so many things had actually happened in an instant.”
“It’s still in a situation where I’m completely unaware of it. Even if I could completely control Lin Ling, it would still be the same.”
“The Ancient Tree’s methods are still truly mysterious.”
“Fortunately, both this Earth Vein Ancient Tree and the Lin Spirit are both relatively gentle in nature. Unlike Ruo Mu, who is quite extreme.”
“Otherwise, they would have joined hands to shade me behind my back ……”
“It’s not really a good defense.”
Li Fan sighed slightly.
(End of chapter)