Lingyan abruptly stopped, his hands beneath the green robe clenching into fists, his hands and arms instantly covered with uneven, grayish-white tree bark.
He stood there watching, watching as Ling Hong enveloped A Ying with his spiritual power. Under the protection of his branches, A Ying's eyes were closed, and her face was rosy.
He and Ling Hong share the same origin. Apart from differences in spiritual awareness, virtue, and pursuits, they are the same in every other way. Even their appearances were once identical; Ling Hong once looked exactly like him.
However, Ling Hong later refused to become a tree like him, standing eternally and waiting for the impossible, so she broke with him and left, changing her appearance in the process.
He changed his clothes to resemble him by five or six points, and because he thought the color of blood was the most beautiful, he changed his green robe to a red robe.
Now……
Now……
Now that he's good to Ah Ying, that's good, that's good.
Ah Ying is only a little over 2,000 years old. For the past 2,000 years since he couldn't find his master and became a tree, Ah Ying has always been the one who took care of him and resisted the spirits, preventing them from harming him.
So that's why.
He can't be so selfish; he's lived for 10,000 years, yet he wants Ah Ying to die with him.
Ah Ying has not yet seen the world's splendor, nor has he seen the Earth and China where he lived. He has not yet experienced joy, anger, sorrow, or happiness, nor has he tossed and turned for a person or a thing.
Ling Hong is his branch, growing from his roots. He is the same as him, except that he is young and has a surging spiritual power. A Ying is with him and can live for at least 8,000 years as his companion spirit.
Lingyan stopped and slowly retreated, until she was out of the plant pod. She stood at the door of the plant pod, her eyes red and moist.
Jiang Si nestled in the bird's nest, gazing at the spiritual eye in the quantum brain.
She wasn't intentionally trying to monitor the Spirit Eye; all the surveillance cameras inside the plant pod were turned off, but all the cameras in the spaceship's corridor were on.
Lingyan came out of his room, ran all the way to the plant pod, then backed out of the plant pod, staring straight at the plant pod, her whole body filled with helplessness and reluctance to part, her eyes reddened, and her eyes misted with tears, all of this made her sad.
Even with two golden conch shells stuck on his wrist, the effect of nourishing his spiritual power and physical body was not significant. Even her blood, which made his face rosy after drinking it, did not last for more than 10 minutes.
He ran from his room to the plant pod, his rosy cheeks turning pale, yet he still gave the illusion that he was very well and powerful.
How could there be such a foolish tree in the world, always thinking of others instead of itself? If it were just a little selfish, its life would be unrestrained and wonderful.
Ling's red eyes never shed a tear. He stood at the entrance of the plant pod for a long, long time before turning away, as if he had never been there.
"Smack!"
A slapping sound rang out from inside the plant container.
The sleeping creatures were awakened by the loud slapping sound, and they all sat up from their trees, peering out to see where the sound was coming from.
Before the other creatures could find the source of the slap, they heard Ah Ying's trembling voice: "Ling Hong, get out of the tree pit of the Spirit Eye!"
Ling Hong's cheek was turned to the side after being slapped. She licked her lips and casually suggested, "Ah Ying, why are you being so fierce? It's just that I slept in Ling Yan's tree pit. If you feel like you're at a disadvantage, you can sleep in mine too. It's no big deal!"
Aying was so angry that her face turned red. She grabbed a branch and lashed it at Linghong: "Who wants your rotten tree pit? Get out!"
Ling Hong tilted her head and grabbed the branch that A Ying had lashed out at her. With an extremely good temper and a greasy tone, she said, "A Ying, where did you get so angry? I'm sleeping in the pit of the Spirit Eye Tree, nourishing your spiritual power and your body. Feel it for yourself, isn't your body and spiritual power much better?"
"And your wings, aren't they especially shiny and strong now?"
When Ah Ying heard his words, her pupils constricted. He was lying in the tree pit, holding Ling Yan, who was channeling spiritual energy into him to nourish his body.
He has his own tree and doesn't care about this messy tree giving him spiritual energy to nourish his body.
"I don't need it, I'm giving it back to you!" As if offended, A-Ying poured out his spiritual power, trying to return it to Ling Hong. His face and body turned pale and swayed as his spiritual power was poured out.
Ling Hong's expression suddenly changed, and she focused her mind, intending to envelop him.
Ah Ying discarded the branch in her hand and quickly jumped out of the pit.
Just then, the other companion spirits attacked Ling Hong: "Ling Hong, we are not dead yet, don't push your luck."
"That's right, Linghong, Aying is Lingyan's companion spirit, not yours. She doesn't need your spiritual power to nourish her, and she doesn't need you to transform into Lingyan's appearance and lie in Lingyan's tree pit to hug him!"
"Ling Hong, you don't even have the ability to create your own companion spirit, yet you steal others'. What kind of towering tree are you!"
More than 1,000 companion spirits attacked the spirit indiscriminately, and other sentient trees, even if they could not transform into human form, could freely transform their branches.
Faced with so many attacks, Ling Hong was unable to defend herself and turned into a tree, falling into her own tree pit.
More than 1,000 companion spirits were not going to let him off so easily. Even though he had turned into a tree, they each gave him a beating on his trunk.
After Ah Ying had exhausted the more than 1,000 companion spirits, she took out a knife from her spatial button and slashed at his upper body, intending to amputate another limb so that he would only be a tree stump and see how he could still transform into a human.
Just as Ling Hong's blade was about to strike him, he transformed back into human form, dodged the blade, grabbed Ling Hong's wrist, pulled him into his arms, and imprisoned him. He whispered in Ling Hong's ear in a sinister tone, "Ah Ying, you're really cruel to me. Even though I and Ling Yan are from the same source and look the same, you treat me like this. But it doesn't matter. I wanted you to be my companion spirit, so no matter how cruel you are to me, I'll endure it."
Ah Ying loosened his grip on the knife, and it was about to fall when his other, unrestrained hand grabbed it and thrust it into Ling Hong's stomach from his side.
Ling Hong's hand, which was gripping his wrist, paused, and her body became sluggish.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Ah Ying broke free from him, pulled the knife out of his stomach, and without hesitation or pause, slashed down at his neck.
Just as the knife was about to reach Ling Hong's neck, at the critical moment, Ling Hong transformed into a tree once again, and the knife sliced directly at the top of the tree.
With a forceful pull, Ah Ying chopped off a large section of the tree.
The top of the spirit tree was cut off, and bright red blood flowed from its red trunk.
Ah Ying plunged the knife in her hand into the root of the Spirit Red Tree and said coldly, "Spirit Red, if you come near me again and dare to lie down in the Spirit Eye in the tree pit, I will chop you up and roast you for my master."
Ling Hong: "!!!!"
Everyone wanted to use him to grill meat, not even worried about getting a toothache from it.
Ah Ying bent down, picked up the section of tree trunk he had cut off, and said to the surrounding creatures, "Everyone, please bleed Ling Hong and trim the bark so he can taste what it means to wish he were dead!"
Upon hearing this, the other creatures were filled with righteous indignation. Some drew their knives, some their scissors, and some their swords; everyone was armed.
Ah Ying, carrying a section of Ling Hong's body, made way for her.
Numerous companion spirits surrounded Ling Hong, some slashing him with knives, some peeling his skin, and some stabbing him.
The once vibrant red trunk of the Linghong tree was now a bloody mess, as if it had been pulled from a pool of blood, with fresh blood gushing out.
Even more strangely, a companion creature took a saw, flapped its large wings, and flew to the top of the tree, where it began sawing downwards...
The sawing, bit by bit, didn't kill him, but it caused him pain, made him bleed, and damaged his mental and physical strength, preventing him from transforming into a human in an instant.
Jiang Si sat up from the bird's nest.
The holographic projection in front of Agares vanished instantly, and he looked at her: "Jiang Jiang..."
Jiang Si hummed in agreement, placed the olive-green bird egg on the little roc's belly, and stood up from the nest. Looking at Lingxi, who had the nest and Lingxi nestled beneath her, she said, "Lingxi, go to the plant pod and coil up the spirit!"
Lingxi licked Jiang Si's hand with her snake-like nature, and her huge body transformed into the size of a python as she swam towards the plant pod.
After Lingxi left, Agares asked, "What happened?"
Jiang Si supported her belly with her hands and looked up at Agares.
She originally wanted to say, "Agares, with your current physical and mental strength, you can only live to be 500 years old at most. At 500 years old, you will be old and frail, no longer as handsome as you are now."
She is incomparable to him, and cannot be compared to him. What will he do then? Will he pretend to be generous like Lingyan and find her a young man who is worthy of her and treats her well?
Agares looked down at his young wife, taking in her expression, but his heart was in turmoil, as if a large hand was stirring up his mind.
He asked in a low, extremely slow, and careful voice, "Jiang Jiang, what happened? Please tell me."
Jiang Si kept all her words to herself, and when she finally spoke, her voice was cold: "Nothing happened, I'm just hungry and want to find something to eat."
"I have some here..."
"I'm going to find something to eat!" Jiang Si deliberately ignored him, deliberately drowned out his voice, and deliberately walked away after saying that, ignoring him and not wanting to eat his food.
Agares turned around and looked around, only to find that his little wife was gone, having vanished using her invisibility ability.
Ah Ying carried a section of the reddish-brown tree trunk, opened the door to the room where the Spirit Eye humanoid lived, and went inside. She saw the Spirit Eye, which had transformed into its true form, lying on the bed in front of the large window.
Aying stared at him for a moment, then took a section of the red tree trunk from Linghong to the bathroom. She went to the toilet, broke the trunk into small pieces, put them into the toilet, and flushed it down the drain.
After rinsing the entire tree trunk, Ah Ying took a bath, as if she wanted to wash away the scent and aroma that Ling Hong had tainted her body, and everything else that had tainted her.
Ten minutes, twenty minutes, half an hour, an hour later, Ah Ying came out wearing the shirt and trousers that Lingyan had bought for him.
Dry-looking but slightly damp, he quietly walked to the bedside, slowly sat down, and gradually lay down beside the trunk of the Spirit Eye Tree. He rested his head against the trunk and hugged it with his arms, like a wounded beast that had found its den, its cave, and was hiding inside, letting out a pitiful whimper!
Lingxi went to the plant cabin and hovered on the red trunk of the Linghong tree.
The other companion spirits were surprised to see this: "Lingxi, did the Spirit Eye send you here? You must keep a close watch on him and make sure he never has the chance to become human again."
"Lingxi, this is a bad tree. It does nothing but cause trouble. It just angered Aying. Hold it tightly and absorb its spiritual energy. Don't let it grow up and transform into a human!"
Lingxi flicked its tongue at the other living beings, as if to tell them that with him coiled up in the tree, this tree could not possibly transform into a human.
The other creatures understood his meaning and left one by one, returning to their own trees, where they were enveloped by the branches and leaves of their own trees and fell asleep on their own trees.
Jiang Si appeared in the plant pod, only revealing herself next to Ling Hong, and waved to Ling Xi, who was hovering around Ling Hong's body.
Lingxi fell off Linghong's body and hovered around Jiang Si's feet.
Jiang Si patted Ling Hong with her hand: "Become a human!"
As soon as she finished speaking, a naked, wounded, bruised and swollen Ling Hong appeared before her, his true appearance unrecognizable.
Seeing Jiang Si glaring at her, Ling Hong said fiercely, "What are you doing?"
Jiang Si glanced sideways, wrapped the willow branch around Ling Hong, and slipped it inside his wrist.
Ling Hong instinctively tried to shake him off.
Jiang Si's powerful mental strength suppressed him, rendering him unable to move an inch: "Little darling, there's a saying from our ancestors: 'Where poisonous snakes roam, there's always an antidote within seven steps.'"
"So I'm thinking, it's no coincidence that your roots grew from the Spirit Eye's perfectly healthy roots 2,000 years ago. Do you think it's possible that you are the antidote that nourishes his inner decay?"
Ling Hong cursed, "Are you sick, you zombie? I am me, he is him. We share the same origin, but we are two completely different trees."
"What does his death have to do with me? Why should I use my life to give him the antidote? Besides, if I were his antidote, he would have killed me long ago. Why wait for you? It just makes you look so capable!"
Jiang Si was rebuked and scolded by him, but she was neither angry nor annoyed. She took out a 10L bottle from her space, put the end of the tobacco stick into the bottle, and opened her mouth with a cold and ruthless voice: "Whether you are his antidote and whether you can save his life, I will only know after I try."
"So, let's just use less blood today, 10L will do. If it's effective, we can continue using more later. Anyway, we still have about 10 days to reach the fourth civilization, so we're not in a hurry, let's take it slow!"
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