In the dim light, Xia Xiao didn't know he was lying on the ground. His vague consciousness kept paying attention to the direction of the root veins. Seeing that they all pierced into the sea of ​​​​spirituality, Xia Xiao searched for them in the severe pain, allowing them to continue to flow along the tendons and veins, like blood, to every part of the body.

Whenever the evil spirit reached a place, Xia Xiao's body would change. He felt stronger and full of strength. But this was not surprising, because Xia Xiao had always been on guard against the impulse of bloodthirsty killing. As long as they did not appear, it would not be a problem for the body to have some slight changes.

A person has many tendons and blood vessels, and the evil spirit seeped into him bit by bit, causing him to twitch. He was like a dissected fish in the carriage, still jumping tenaciously with the memory of his muscles. This should have been funny, but no one could imagine the pain he was enduring.

Xia Xiao eats pain and cooks dishes with suffering. He has grown up to what he is today, bit by bit, and has long been accustomed to it. There are many people like this in the world. A meal for the rich costs more than ten taels of silver, while a few copper coins are a luxury for ordinary people. They are all human beings, but their minds are very different due to different environments.

Xia Xiao was even more extreme. He could endure pain that ordinary people could not endure, and he could accomplish things that ordinary people found shocking and difficult. Just like at this moment, he clenched his teeth and endured the instinctive rejection of his tendons. He felt that his tendons had already twisted into a ball, but the demonic energy shuttled through him in an extremely domineering manner, causing hundreds of ants to bite and crawl. He rubbed his feet on the ground, and after a long time, his shoes were worn out. His hands were constantly scratching the floor of the carriage, and his nails were covered with blood, but these pains were extremely weak in his consciousness and were all covered up.

His body rolled irregularly, his palms kept beating, he opened his mouth but couldn't roar, tears, snot and saliva were all over Xia Xiao's face, his hair was torn off in several pieces, together with his scalp, his head was covered with bloody spots. His miserable state made Qingxunzi shield the space to prevent Azhu and Shangshan from noticing, otherwise what would happen?

His clothes were torn, Xia Xiao bent over and struggled in pain for a long time. But on the meadow, he just frowned, feeling whether the connection between his tendons and the magic energy was successfully established. He was waiting, waiting for everything to succeed before starting the next step, but he couldn't be impatient and could only wait for time to pass.

When the demonic energy from the root system spread all over Xia Xiao's body, it grabbed him tightly like a hook, and Xia Xiao became a demon, with black and red energy floating all over his body, dotted with hot flames, and his skin cracked and bloody. This made Qing Xunzi feel distressed, but gradually, Xia Xiao's movements became smaller, and finally he lay on the ground like a dead body.

"You're quite capable, brat."

Qing Xunzi smiled with relief. In his eyes, Xia Xiao's evil spirit had been withdrawn and he was no longer making as much noise as before.

"Next, try to control it. Remember, it's control. Use your mind to make it grow into the shape you want to see, instead of pulling it out of shape. Do you understand?"

"Understand."

Xia Xiao knew the difference between the two. As long as he could control the demonic energy seed to grow into a tree, he would be successful, so he stared at it and gave orders.

The discomfort in the body continued, but it was not as painful as before. Xia Xiao endured it, looking forward to it, watching the black spot formed by the demonic energy gradually emerge into a protruding object, and he was extremely excited. Then, it suddenly protruded, from a very thin black toothpick-like object to a thick and strong one, growing into a big tree.

This was an exciting moment. If Xia Xiao could get such benefits every time he walked around the gate of hell, he would be willing to do it again, but the opportunity was not that good.

The bare tree trunk began to sprout bulges again. They continued to grow, becoming branches and then bulges again. This cycle repeated several times until it became a black tree with bared fangs and claws.

Xia Xiao thought of the persimmon trees without a single leaf. They were like this every winter. When all the golden persimmons were picked, only bare branches were left. The branches were all sharp, like the sharp claws of a demon, making extremely exaggerated movements, as if they could pierce all living things on them as punishment.

After looking for a long time, Xia Xiao looked around and found that there was no more demonic energy in this space, except for this tree. Although it was strange, it was better than the black and red clouds before.

"Successful?"

Xia Xiao was a little surprised, Qing Xunzi asked:

"From your tone, is it too simple?"

“It’s really not as difficult as I thought.”

As long as you survive and don't lose anything, it's not difficult. Xia Xiao was telling the truth, but if others knew about it, they would be furious. Such a difficult thing was just an ordinary thing in Xia Xiao's mouth.

"It's good that it succeeded. Now let's start creating the sun by using the tree to conceive the sun!"

“How do we establish contact?”

"Let's make it first, and don't worry, it won't hurt as much as before."

Xia Xiao nodded, and drew out some of the demonic energy from the tree, gathering them into a ball, which was held high by the branches. It was far smaller than the sun, and even though it gradually rose into the air under Xia Xiao's will, it was only a dozen meters wide. The previous tree was even smaller, without the soul-stirring power, and was much shorter than the vitality tree.

The black ball was in the air, just like a black dot on the sun, so tiny. Even if it wasn't hidden, it would be hard to detect it, but Qingxunzi continued:

"Wrap it with your vital energy, leaving a thin thread of connection to the tree, and you will achieve your goal."

The sun in this space is not a real blazing sun, so it is not difficult to do this, it just takes some effort. But without the intense pain before, Xia Xiao can easily try again and again, and finally complete his masterpiece.

Since falling into the devil's way, Xia Xiao has been looking for ways to control the power of the devil and suppress the devil's energy. Yuan Qi has such an effect, but it cannot cure it, and it may even be counterproductive. Although it is now completed, Xia Xiao has also paid a heavy price, that is, his whole life will be affected by the devil's way.

He didn't know how much time it took, but when he wanted to stand up, his body was unable to move.

"Your body is injured, you can use your energy to start recovering."

Xia Xiao did as he was told. When the vital energy surged to all parts of his body and penetrated his tendons and veins, he suddenly felt a pain, which made him twitch violently. If the flame and the air want to share the same channel, they must ensure that they do not conflict with each other. If they attack each other, Xia Xiao will be in a very dangerous situation. Therefore, Xia Xiao carefully controlled the vital energy and did not feel uncomfortable because of the weak demonic energy in it. This feeling made Xia Xiao excited. Being possessed by a demon was completely different from treating the demonic energy as the sixth power of oneself.

Xia Xiao, who had regained his vitality, was like a fish that was about to die of drought and returned to the pond. The sudden comfort made him exhale several times. He recovered from his flesh wounds and felt that he had changed. This was an extremely significant change, not just a few centimeters taller or a few more muscles, which surprised him a little.

Qing Xunzi looked at him expressionlessly. He didn't know whether he should be happy or sad, but Xia Xiao didn't know. He was still in shock and couldn't get out of it for a long time. It was too late to regret now, but it was not easy to accept this reality, because the newly grown third eye was too strange!