Moreover, besides being angry, it even contained demonic energy.
The fox demon also sensed the life force and demonic energy in the bamboo forest, and couldn't help but be somewhat surprised.
Encountering someone like herself excited her.
She immediately ran towards the place where the demonic aura was.
Lin Xi and Duan Zhengcun followed closely behind.
Finally, as they walked, they arrived at the stone bridge that Duan Zhengcun had mentioned, which spanned the stream.
"In the water!"
The fox demon noticed something and pointed at the water, exclaiming in surprise.
In the water, a dark shadow was slowly rising from the depths and finally emerging to the surface.
The thing in the water was the giant salamander that Duan Zhengcun had seen that day.
That giant salamander was indeed very large; even Lin Xi had never seen one so big.
Furthermore, this giant salamander also possessed a demonic aura.
However, after a closer look, Lin Xi discovered that although this salamander was considered a monster, its cultivation was not deep; it had only reached the stage of having developed intelligence, let alone the stage of being able to cultivate into a human.
It probably can't even speak yet.
However, compared to other creatures, this salamander already possesses a very high level of talent to have reached the stage of chain repair.
Lin Xi looked around at the surrounding area again.
She was trying to find out where the vitality was strongest around her.
She could feel the strong vitality within the bamboo forest when she was outside it.
Strangely, even after being in the bamboo forest for so long, she still couldn't figure out which area was the source of the emanating energy.
Ordinary bamboo could not possibly exude such a strong vitality.
So Lin Xi was just thinking about whether there were some rare and precious herbs or other rare plants hidden in this large bamboo forest.
If her guess is correct, then the anger must have spread outwards from one place, and there must be one place where the anger is stronger than in other parts of the bamboo forest.
But the truth is, from the entrance of the bamboo forest to the stone bridge, she walked almost to the middle of the bamboo forest and found no place where the vitality was stronger than other places.
Even from the entrance of the bamboo forest to here, the concentration of vitality along these paths was almost the same.
Seeing the fox demon trying to communicate with the salamander in the water, Lin Xi unusually summoned the Frost Star Umbrella, then stepped onto it and soared into the air.
The Cold Star Umbrella carried her directly to the sky above the bamboo forest, allowing her to fly over the entire forest from a bird's-eye view.
In this way, one can not only observe the size and shape of the entire bamboo forest, but also perceive the atmosphere of the entire bamboo forest more conveniently and quickly.
The bamboo forest was larger than she had imagined; the stone bridge they had just reached was only a quarter of the way into the entire bamboo forest.
However, after flying over the entire bamboo forest, the vitality of the forest did not change much and remained quite uniform.
This situation finally made Lin Xi realize that her initial guess might have been wrong.
This bamboo forest doesn't hide any rare plants or natural treasures; it is this bamboo forest itself that is the greatest "source of vitality."
That's right, this bamboo forest is a single, continuous structure.
Lin Xi just fell into a misconception.
Just like when she enters a mountain and discovers a strong spiritual energy on it, she will subconsciously guess whether there is a treasure hidden somewhere on the mountain, and whether that treasure is emitting a strong spiritual energy.
But the truth is, it is the mountain as a whole that exudes a strong spiritual aura.
It can also be interpreted as this mountain becoming a spirit.
The current situation is simply that "a mountain" has been transformed into a "bamboo forest".
However, it would take thousands of years for the entire mountain and bamboo forest to reach this state.
After all, mountains and bamboo forests are different from common creatures. Their "size" is too big. To cultivate a chain into a spirit, it not only requires a huge amount of energy, but also a long period of time.
Once a large area like a mountain or bamboo forest becomes sentient, it will greatly benefit the creatures living within it.
The most common benefit is that the plants and animals in this area will grow better.
If any of these plants or animals have a talent for self-cultivation, then the bamboo forest or mountain will be an ideal place for them to cultivate, making their self-cultivation efforts much more efficient.
No wonder that in an era where spiritual energy is so scarce, this wild stream, which is not far from the city and only about half an hour's drive away, could nurture a giant salamander that had cultivated itself into a demon.
After figuring out why the bamboo grove was angry, Lin Xi returned to the stone bridge.
The fox demon communicated with the salamander in the water for a long time and learned some useful information from it.
Just as she was about to share it with Lin Xi, she turned around and found that Lin Xi was gone.
When asked about Duan Zhengcun, Duan Zhengcun looked up at the sky with a dazed expression and then said something.
"The master has ascended to heaven."
Upon hearing this, the fox demon's eyes widened instantly, and her first thought was—the master has successfully ascended to immortality!
She actually had the good fortune to meet the legendary "ascended" master!
Just as they were getting excited, they saw Lin Xi stepping back onto the ground under the Cold Star Umbrella.
The fox demon then realized that Duan Zhengcun's "ascending to heaven" was only in the literal sense.
However, even with flying on a sword, the fox demon had only seen it once a few hundred years ago, and since then, she had never seen anyone else fly on a sword.
In those years, when people from special departments routinely came up the mountain to issue notices to the monsters there, they seemed to use earth-遁术 (a type of magic) to get up the mountain. Later, they gradually started driving or walking up the mountain.
Therefore, Lin Xi's ability to fly on a sword is enough to prove that she is extremely strong!
After seeing her land, the fox demon glanced enviously at the Cold Star Umbrella in Lin Xi's hand before telling Lin Xi the information she had just learned from the salamander.
Although the giant salamander cannot speak yet, it has indeed developed intelligence.
Relying on her monstrous instincts, the fox demon managed to communicate with the giant salamander relatively smoothly.
They came here to resolve Duan Zhengcun's problems, so the questions she asked were about Duan Zhengcun.
She asked the salamander if it knew why Duan Zhengcun had become so weak, and whether it had done anything to Duan Zhengcun.
Only then did the salamander realize that Duan Zhengcun and the fox demon were in cahoots!
It first expressed its condemnation of the fact that the fox demon had joined forces with a human of another race, and then denied the situation, saying that it had not done anything to Duan Zhengcun.
Although Duan Zhengcun tried to take the small fish away from the water in front of it that day, he ultimately failed to take away a single fish due to the combined intimidation of its gaze and aura.
It was just watching him from the water; it absolutely did not attack him.
As for why Duan Zhengcun has become like this, the baby fish said it might be because his actions angered Zhu Ling, so he suffered retribution.
Bamboo Spirit?
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