Chapter 43 Chapter 43 Do you know how difficult this is...
Bai Lu asked a good question, which made everyone think deeply. If it were Qiusuo, he would also be stuck for a while.
Moreover, Bai Lu looked so unlucky and cute that Ning Yanhu couldn't help but poke the flower, "You are quite good at growing."
Yan Changming tried to pull out the roots on his legs, but he felt that all his internal organs were surging as if they were about to be pulled out, so he stopped immediately.
He tried again by cutting off a root, but the one in the flesh and blood was still there, and was still growing slowly - I say slowly because it couldn't be discerned by the naked eye. It was already a miracle that it could grow into the flesh and blood in that period of time.
"No, if you pull it out forcefully, you might pull out the internal organs along with it. It's full of vitality and grows fast, so it can survive even if the roots are cut off."
Pei Zhaoting was thinking of using his spiritual power to force them out, while Jin Sunzhi was trying to sprinkle powder on them, and some were even trying to hypnotize the plants. It could be said that each of them showed their magical powers.
"Bai Lu, why don't you try using the Bifang Yang Fire?" Ning Yanhu remembered that the Bifang Yang Fire in Bai Lu's hand had also repelled the Jing Tian Si Di Teng.
"Will wildfires not completely burn it, and spring breezes will bring new life?" Bai Lu thought of the ancient poems she had learned.
"That's better than staying here and taking root. Let's go first." Jin Sunzhi shouted.
Huo Xuexiang saw Bai Lu's eyes flickering, and understood what he was thinking. He just warned him: "Be careful not to get into trouble."
"...Alas, it's a pity that we can't burn our master. Qiusuo is just a wooden puppet, so the effect on him may not be the same as on us." Bai Lu decided to try it on himself. He drew out the Bifang Yang Fire and carefully burned all the roots. This was not his magic flame, so it was not so easy to use and he had to be very careful not to get burned.
After burning off a thick root, my feet instantly felt a lot lighter, but there was still a foreign body sensation in my legs, as if I was wearing a pair of heavy boots.
But just when he burned all the roots and was about to give others a try, he felt a sharp pain in his flesh and blood, and the roots instantly grew and probed towards the ground! At the same time, Bai Lu's face turned pale and his blood boiled!
They used Bai Lu's blood as nutrients to regrow their roots, and quickly and deeply penetrated the ground again.
Bai Lu's feet went weak, but fortunately Huo Xuexiang reached out and held him steadily, injecting spiritual energy into his body and calming the agitated plants. "Wood grows towards the soil, it seems that forcibly cutting it off will only promote its growth."
Bai Lu leaned against her master with an anxious look and said "hmm". It seemed that she had to be careful even when trying to crack the code, otherwise she would soon become anemic.
Jin Sunzhi suddenly had an idea: "Why don't we take tonic medicine while leaving, as long as we can hold on until the end..."
"Hey, hey, you physical cultivators have thick skin and flesh, so don't bring everyone along."
Although Yan Changming could not experience it personally, he had just tried to pull the roots on his legs, and Bai Lu's face turned pale at that instant. You can imagine how painful it was.
But Bai Lu didn't say a word. As expected, he could reach this level. No matter what he learned, he was not as delicate as he looked. There were also a few righteous cultivators on the side, including Jin Sunzhi who claimed that he could leave with great pain. Their words and deeds in this situation made Yan Changming suddenly feel that there were many ruthless people in the righteous path.
"Why don't we gather the vital energy and lure these plants away?" Pei Zhaoting wanted to set up a formation to gather the vital energy.
Yan Changming frowned and said, "The vitality here is strong enough, right? Instead of using the vitality, why not use water to circulate spiritual energy?"
"That's right. Wood is oriented to earth, but plants also like the sun and water. These plants were ordinary plants in ancient times. We shouldn't use the same thinking as we would for dealing with strange beasts."
Everyone discussed and came up with ideas.
"That's right, let's do a safer experiment." Bai Lu also remembered the biology class she had taken. The stems and leaves of plants tend to grow towards places with good light, while the roots tend to absorb water.
Compared to the Bifang Yang Fire that was just picked up from the loot but not refined, Bai Lu is better at water.
He tried to control the water element, condensing water to form a small puddle under his feet, and then injected spiritual energy into it. Slowly, he felt his legs itching, as if the vines were pulling away from his body and heading in another direction where water and spiritual energy gathered.
"Huh?" Seeing this, Ning Yanhu also tried to attract the dew and condense it in one place. Sure enough, the roots slowly withdrew from his body. Although the speed was slow, it worked at least.
Everyone followed their instructions, and the roots left them like a harmless part of nature, making them feel light. It seemed that just as Huo Xuexiang said, these plants acted out of instinct, not deliberately targeting them, but this made them even more terrifying.
As soon as they were freed from the roots on their legs, they couldn't wait to fly up, at least a few inches off the ground, for fear of being entangled again.
"But why is this flower still here!" Bai Lu stretched out her hand to show Huo Xuexiang, "Isn't it planning to leave?"
"My buds are still there." Ning Yanhu showed them the green buds on his calves. In addition to her, several other people's buds had also grown, and none of them withdrew on their own like the roots.
"It's like... it's become a part of my body." Someone murmured, and suddenly became afraid. "I'm afraid it's true. This small part of us has been transformed into the wood element."
"Then I guess we can't force it." Bai Lu looked at the flowers and buds depressedly.
"Let's go out and pull it out. I'm afraid it won't be handled carefully here." Huo Xuexiang looked at Bai Lu and couldn't help but said, "Don't you like this kind of decoration?"
He remembered that Bai Lu would put some floral hairpins on the heads of snow puppets or wooden puppets, and even had two blue mushrooms on her own head.
"Is this what you call decoration? It's growing on my body!" Bai Lu shouted, and then she became more and more scared. "If we had discovered it a little later, would we have blossomed and borne fruit all over our body? We would have turned into a walking tree without even realizing it."
The others originally wanted to laugh when watching this scene, but now their faces changed slightly after hearing what Bai Lu described, because Bai Lu's description was too realistic.
If a flower blooms on Bailu, it's still cute, but if it's covered with fruits, what's the problem? I'm afraid it's a walking tree with roots growing all over its body?
Judging from the fact that they gradually don't want to move, it would be better for them to become motionless plants!
…
Everyone left the dense forest and took off from the air. They probably didn't want to land in the short term.
Bai Lu was flying on the broom, but she couldn't help but look at the little flower on her wrist, which was waving in the wind.
It is different from other jewelry and is very magical. Bai Lu can feel the flower swaying in the wind. It is just like a part of her body.
What a magical wood tribe...
"Master, is it possible that those plants just now could turn into the wood clan?" Bai Lu asked.
Luo Luo once explained to him that the demon clan was divided into many subdivisions, and that spirit beasts and demons could not be lumped together.
"It is indeed possible, but the birth of the Wood Clan is different from that of other clans. They have a long lifespan and very demanding conditions for birth. They are not like other clans that can be conceived through combination." Huo Xuexiang said, "The Wood Clan often needs an unimaginably long time for other clans to develop intelligence, and then slowly gain the ability to think and leave the place where they grow, and there are so many natural disasters during this period."
At this point, only the Wood Clan was born. The Wood Clan had to continue to gain abilities and start practicing to become Wood Clan monks. Perhaps because it was rare for new life to appear, the Wood Clan was very united and cared for flowers and plants.
"In fact, it is said that there are no living things here, but from the perspective of the Wood Clan, this secret realm is full of living things. After all, plants have their own way of communicating, so they are considered to be a kind of underage Wood Clan, right?" Ning Yanhu smiled. The instincts of the plants here are so strong, if there is another opportunity, it is possible that a few Wood Clan members will emerge.
Bai Lu nodded, all living things have wisdom, and modern science has also proved that the roots of plants are connected to each other and can transmit information, which can be figuratively called the "wood network."
"Bai Lu, Bai Lu..." You Yue flew over the sword and moved to Bai Lu's side. Seeing Bai Lu sitting on the broom, he said, "I have a question for you."
"You say." Bai Lu was still looking down at her flowers.
You Yue asked in confusion: "Why do you want to fly a broom?"
Bai Lu was even more confused: "What's wrong with the broom? I also want to ask you, what does the broom represent in the world of immortal cultivation? Is it something bad?"
His master was also vague about this. He wanted to ask his master if he had any trauma, but he had to fool him. Was there any custom that he didn't understand?
"No, it's just a common dust sweeper. But everyone in the Immortal Sect has cleaning skills, and they are rarely used." You Yue said, "I really don't understand why you are flying this. You are a sword cultivator, can't you fly a sword?"
When other people heard You Yue's words, they were all equally puzzled. To them, Bai Lu riding a broom was as abstract as Bai Lu listening to them discussing Taoism in classical Chinese.
This involves the culture of wizards. It is said that early witches smeared flying ointment on a piece of wood and then rode it to fly. Later, it gradually became a broom. It is a bit like sweeping the coffin with a broom in Chinese legends. Wizards also believe that brooms can sweep away spiritual obstacles.
Some wizards still use a small broom called a witch broom to clean their altars.
But Bai Lu couldn't start from the beginning and could only say: "When I saw Hong Chen trying out the sword, some people were holding a feather duster..."
"That's a whisk!" The black lines on You Yue's face seemed to materialize.
"What's the difference? They look quite similar." Bai Lu asked in confusion.
A feather duster is used for dusting, and a whisk is also used for dusting. Oh, and it can also be used to drive away mosquitoes, right?
"The whisks used in the world of immortals are mostly made from the tail hair of mythical beasts, with the meaning of brushing away the dust from one's heart. In Randang Island, this is still a commonly used magical tool." Ning Yanhu explained. Some are directly refined into magical weapons for fighting. In any case, very few are really used to drive away mosquitoes.
Bai Lu was inspired and immediately said, "Yes, that's the function of my broom! To sweep away the dust in your heart. Mine is a little bigger, so it can sweep away everything in one go. And you can see that mine is made of sword plum wood, and it's inlaid with various materials. I can't tell you the specific formula."
Everyone: “…”
This line of thinking seems to make sense, but I think riding directly is a bit extreme...
"No one wants to learn it..." Ning Yanhu began to think that this was another sudden inspiration from Bai Lu.
Bai Lu went to see Huo Xuexiang quietly, but he seemed not to hear anything.
This made Bai Lu a little puzzled. The master should have guessed that this was something from another world, but was he not curious at all? He didn't even take a look at it. Whenever he went to find Huo Xuexiang before, Huo Xuexiang's face was mostly facing him.
You Yue asked a question that everyone was curious about: "Other people are holding the whisk, but you are riding on it, don't you feel uncomfortable?"
"I don't know how much more comfortable it is than yours! You all stand, but I sit. With the spell cast on it, it's just like sitting on a chair." Bai Lu muttered, "Besides, it's less likely to cause safety hazards when holding the steering wheel..."
Only the weapon spirit was not fooled. Unlike the others, he would not try to discern Bai Lu's reasoning. With the professional quality of a weapon spirit, he only looked at the appearance and commented: "No fairy spirit!"
"Who defines fairy spirit! You haven't even become a fairy, so what right do you have to define fairy spirit!" Bai Lu would not allow anyone to criticize her broom.
The weapon spirit said: "I am the spirit of a peerless divine weapon, I..."
Bai Lu imitated his speech: "I am the spirit of a peerless divine weapon~~ I haven't had a master for hundreds of years~"
Spirit of the weapon: “…………”
How can it be so infuriating! The weapon spirit was stabbed in the vitals, and after holding it in for a long time, he said aggrievedly: "Give me back the things I gave you."
"Stingy..." Bai Lu still wouldn't return it. She rode her broom around Ning Yanhu for a few circles and said to the weapon spirit squatting on her cloud, "You said mine first. If you apologize to me, I won't say it again next time."
The spirit of the weapon is dizzy, so does that mean he can just say sorry first?
"Thundercloud!"
Ning Yanhu suddenly shouted, and everyone stopped and looked over.
"Wow..." Bai Lu looked up and saw a large canyon in front of her. The sky in this secret realm was not very high. Dense thunderclouds pressed down. Purple electric light flashed in the canyon, and there was almost no safe space.
"Are we going to pass through here?"
"Passing this place is secondary. This kind of situation... probably requires a certain level of realm."
Ning Yanhu frowned and said, "When a cultivator reaches the Listening to Thunder realm, he will begin to experience thunder tribulations. He must go through three thundercloud tests and listen to thunder at any time, hence the name. After passing this realm, the body can be called a divine body. Even the hair cannot be cut off normally, and the life span will increase again."
The thunder tribulation is just the beginning. In the later realms, all kinds of heavenly tribulations will come, and even the thunder tribulation itself will be upgraded.
Yan Changming looked at Ning Yanhu strangely and said impatiently: "Everyone knows this? Who are you whispering this to?" Once he lost the cover of Master Liuli's appearance, Yan Changming's true nature was revealed.
"It was for me to hear." Bai Lu silently accepted it. Everyone in Xuanshan knew that he was illiterate in the world of immortal cultivation.
Yan Changming: “…”
...Is Xuanshan going to fall? The new disciple doesn’t even know this?
Bai Lu thought about what Senior Sister had just said. What kind of immortal body, hair is hard to break, is it as hard as steel cable? Then can he use the hair of high-level monks as a material for refining weapons? Go back and pull out a few strands of Master's hair to try...
Huo Xue looked at Jie Yun and said simply: "To cross this canyon, you must be at least in the middle stage of the Thunder Listening Realm and have a sufficient level of body forging. I can use the sword light to ward off lightning, and I can bring one person with me."
At least the meaning of the Listening to Thunder Realm is that every thunder here can injure cultivators below the middle stage of the Listening to Thunder Realm. In other words, even cultivators in the middle stage may not be unscathed.
Although it was not stated explicitly, everyone had fought before and estimated from each other that there were only five or six people here who had reached the middle stage of the Thunder Listening Realm. According to what he said, the rest of the people could only wait where they were.
Huo Xuexiang's puppet body cannot release too much power. Taking away one person is already an exaggeration, but there are still ten people left.
"But Senior Sister hasn't reached the middle stage of Thunder Listening yet, so we really can't go together?" Bai Lu suddenly turned to look at the weapon spirit, "Hey, weren't you struck by lightning when you were born? You have experience, right? Otherwise, how about we carry you through?"
Spirit of the weapon: “…”
The weapon spirit yelled in despair: "Have you ever thought that my body was chopped into pieces that time!"
What! Talk about him! Sad things!
Although the disaster he suffered at that time was much more serious and the thunder was even bigger, the result was the same, that is, only one soul was left. Bai Lu was really too much, and she actually wanted to use him to take the thunder.
"Oh, that's right." Bai Lu's eyes wandered as she muttered to herself, "What should we do then... should we turn around and change direction, and go around?"
"The sun is right here. If we go in other directions, it may not be easy." Everyone agreed with this point. Escape is definitely not a solution.
"Forget it, forget it. We can just wait here. Split into two groups. Just be careful not to get hurt." Ning Yanhu made a joke. In fact, he was a little nervous. Before, in the dense forest, they were troubled enough by ordinary plants.
Yan Changming was one of the people with the highest realm besides Huo Xuexiang. He had heard thunder several times before and was simply eager to show off his skills. This way he could save his face and even get rid of them and break into the realm independently.
Especially when he saw that the personnel on the righteous side were also forced to reduce, he felt a little proud.
"That's right. Those who can't get through should stay here. Otherwise, there is no telling what kind of dangers may exist in the secret realm of ancient cultivators." Yan Changming dragged his gun and put it behind his back. He didn't think there was anything wrong with abandoning those who were not at the right level.
Even Pei Zhaoting hesitated to agree. It was really impossible to block people in this realm. He couldn't just wait here without exploring this realm.
"Wait a minute." Bai Lu suddenly had an idea, "I have an idea to bring you all over."
He even smiled at Huo Xuexiang and said proudly, "Master, you can also take a break."
Huo Xuexiang tilted his head: "Hmm?"
Yan Changming couldn't help but interrupt and asked dryly, "What realm are you in?"
Bai Lu's realm is simply a mystery. She looks like she is in the Foundation Establishment Realm, but we only know that her strength is comparable to that of the Thunder Listening Realm. Even when Ning Yanhu wanted to inquire, he was blocked by Huo Xuexiang.
Yan Changming did not wait for Bai Lu to answer, and shook his head again as if talking to himself: "Even if you are at the Great Perfection of the Thunder Listening Realm, you said you want to bring them all over? Do you know how difficult this is?"
"It's not me who leads the team," Bai Lu said with a wink, "it's Faraday who leads the team."
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