Chapter 410 The Mysterious Little Tree
This world is unusually peaceful.
A gust of wind blew, and the small tree in the center made a rustling sound, and the sound actually echoed throughout the world.
Ning Qi and the will of the Mountain and Sea Realm stayed ten miles away.
Ning Qi tried to take a step forward, but a pattern that was even denser than the barrier he had seen when he entered the portal before emerged, blocking Ning Qi's way forward.
He knew that he would probably need the key to open it again, and this time it would be obviously more difficult than before.
The will of the Mountain and Sea Realm stopped behind, still looking at Ning Qi with a look of surprise and doubt.
Just now, when Ning Qi passed through him, the contact between the two made him truly understand Ning Qi's identity.
The will of the Mountain and Sea Realm never expected that Ning Qi would be the will of the small world below him...
But when he thought of this, he denied it in his heart. How could this be possible?
After all, the will of the small world will be the same as his.
Although it is the will of the world, the will is limited by the scope of the world itself and is trapped within the world. It should not be able to leave.
Then, how could Ning Qi be the will of the small world below him?
The will of the Mountain and Sea Realm was full of doubts and contradictions at this moment, and always felt that this could not happen.
In front, Ning Qi did not try to move forward, but stared intently at the small tree in the center.
This place is the center of the world and also the last secret place in the mountain and sea world.
All the secrets are hidden in a circular area with a radius of ten miles ahead.
Ning Qi moved his hand, and he felt the broken leaves between his fingertips swaying more frequently and more vigorously, generating a greater pulling force that Ning Qi could feel even without carefully perceiving it.
Ning Qi immediately understood that the fallen leaves came from the small tree ten miles ahead.
This little tree is very sick, half of it is yellow and half of it is green.
It has both tenacious vitality and signs of decay. The tree combines prosperity and decline in one, which is quite contradictory and strange.
It is even difficult to determine whether it will be reborn or die, everything is unknown.
The half-green side of the tree was facing Ning Qi and the others, while the withered and yellow side was on the other side.
Ning Qi scanned the fresh green half of the tree and discovered that every leaf on it was different and kept changing.
Ning Qi saw leaves from ordinary trees such as willow leaves, palm leaves, elm leaves, and sycamore leaves, as well as leaves from various spiritual trees, leaves from flowers and plants, and leaves from vines...
Each leaf shines with its own light, transparent and crystal clear, like a leaf-shaped gem, full of magical power.
And through the new green, look at the withered yellow side.
The other side showed a completely opposite appearance, all yellow and dull, like the same kind of leaves.
The leaf was exactly the same as the broken leaf in Ning Qi's hand. It was impossible to tell what kind of leaf it was, and there was nothing strange about it.
But what surprised Ning Qi even more was that the withered half of the tree had lost a thick branch, leaving a large part of the entire tree missing, giving it a strange and incomplete beauty.
Looking through the small tree to the world on the other side, Ning Qi discovered that the whole world was actually in a similar state to that of the small tree.
When he first entered this world, he saw a world full of sunshine, green grass, and flowers, full of vitality.
But it was not until he came here and actually looked through the area ten miles ahead that Ning Qi observed the truth of the entire world.
The other half of the world had no sunshine at all, nor was there green grass. Instead, it was covered with dark clouds, and the ground was covered with withered yellow. Even at the end, there were large areas of scorched earth.
Ning Qi's mind was slightly moved, and he didn't understand why this world presented two such completely different scenes.
Was this scene caused by the small tree or something else?
After looking at the small tree, in the core area with a radius of ten miles ahead, the small tree is actually only half a meter tall and occupies a very small area.
The remaining area is also clearly divided into two halves.
Above the sky, a vague existence can be vaguely seen, nailed to the dome.
Energy was constantly leaking from its body, most of it falling downwards and being injected into the small tree in the center, while the rest flowed to both sides.
The small tree swayed slightly in the gusts of wind, as if it was because of the injection of energy that it did not die completely.
Ning Qi looked at the will of the Mountain and Sea Realm behind him.
The Will of the Mountain and Sea Realm walked up to him, pointed at the vague cloud-like existence in the sky of the world ahead, and said, "That is my true will."
Ning Qi was shocked when he heard this, even though he had guessed it the moment he saw it.
The Mountain and Sea Realm is the spiritual world. The powerful will born from the spiritual world is trapped in this space with a radius of ten miles, which is really regrettable.
Ning Qi asked, "How could the Second Patriarch of Shanhai have such a powerful force that they could trap the will of the Realm Lord here?"
Beside him, the shadow of the will of the Mountain and Sea Realm smiled bitterly, "Of course not."
He simply sat down, looking at the main body inside with a rather powerless look, and said with a wry smile: "It's impossible for me to be sealed by just the two of them, but if we add the small tree in there, it will be different."
Ning Qi was slightly surprised.
"What kind of tree is that little tree? Has it always been like this?"
"How is that possible!" The Will of the Mountain and Sea Realm suddenly gritted its teeth and said angrily, "It has only been relying on my main body to continuously supply it with power that it has been able to achieve its current state."
Ning Qi became even more confused.
The will of the Mountain and Sea Realm took a deep breath before suppressing his emotions.
"You should sit down and listen to me. You probably can't leave this world now anyway."
In order to find out the truth, Ning Qi had no choice but to do as he was told.
The two of them sat cross-legged on the ground.
Ning Qi still held the broken leaf in his hand, but what surprised him was that the broken leaf seemed to have absorbed the nourishing power when it arrived here, and was slowly repairing the defects on the leaf veins and filling the broken leaf surface.
He was afraid that if he stayed there any longer, the withered leaves would eventually become like the half-green tree facing him and completely recover their vitality.
The will of the Mountain and Sea Realm naturally sensed it as well and glanced at the broken leaf in Ning Qi's hand.
However, his eyelids twitched noticeably, looking quite unnatural.
It seemed that the changes in the leaves were completely absorbing his vitality.
Seeing this, Ning Qi put it away directly, and the expression of the will of the Mountain and Sea Realm improved a little.
However, at the moment of putting them away, Ning Qi also felt a reluctance emerging from the remaining leaves.
The will of the Mountain and Sea Realm said, "In the past, Shan and Hai returned from the small world. Haoshan obtained the inheritance of Mount Buzhou and also brought out a seed from it."
"At that time, the two of them had not yet broken up?"
Ning Qi had heard about the Mountain Ancestor and the Sea Ancestor from Zhao Yujun, the leader of Yuehai Immortal Sect, before, so he asked.
The will of the Mountain and Sea Realm shook its head.
"They had just lost their teacher at the time. Qinghai was in a coma for a long time because of this. She didn't know that Haoshan had killed her father, so their relationship had not yet broken down."
At this point, he seemed to smile.
"The real break between the two was also because of that seed."
Ning Qi subconsciously asked, "Could the seeds you mentioned, Jie Zun, be the seeds of this small tree?"
The will of the Mountain and Sea Realm nodded.
"That's right. It was because of it that I was sealed by the two of them, and that's why they broke up."
Ning Qi listened silently, waiting for his next words.
"Back then, after Haoshan obtained the inheritance of Mount Buzhou, his cultivation level improved rapidly. He also detected the existence of me, the will of the Mountain and Sea Realm."
"So, after Qing Hai regained consciousness, he hid the fact of her father's death from her and continued to use Qing Hai, and then he found me."
There was a gleam in the eyes of the will of the mountain and sea world, as if recalling the past.
"At first, the two of them showed me great respect and said they wanted to offer me a treasure, and that treasure was the seed."
"It's also my own fault. I sensed the aura of a higher world from that seed, so I became greedy and curious and accepted the gift from them."
"But after I accepted it, Haoshan used some kind of spell to activate the seed. It immediately unleashed a force that even I couldn't escape for a short while. It held my will in place, as if it were parasitic on me. It then took root, sprouted, and began to grow..."
Ning Qi was horrified when he heard this.
I never expected that just a seed could actually fix the will of the spiritual world, and even parasitize it, seizing the power of the spiritual world's will as nutrients, so that it can take root and sprout.
If this seed had fallen into the original Zhenwu Realm, and he, as the will of the Zhenwu Realm, had found the seed and accidentally been parasitized by it, wouldn't he be powerless to resist?
This little tree is dangerous!
Especially for the world will, even the world may be threatened by it.
Ning Qi could only comment this way.
The will of the Mountain and Sea Realm saw Ning Qi's expression and immediately understood what he was thinking.
"You're right. This tree's growth depends entirely on absorbing the power of the world. Even with my spiritual power, I can't do anything to it!"
He continued with what he had said before:
"Back then, after Shan and Hai used their seeds to immobilize me, they worked together to seize my power. Their cultivation levels rapidly increased, and they became the two strongest people in the Shan and Hai worlds. Thus, we have the Mountain Ancestor and the Sea Ancestor."
Ning Qi asked curiously, "Then how did the two of them break up?"
The will of the Mountain and Sea Realm coughed and suddenly smiled.
"Ahem, haha, the two of them broke up on the spot because of that seed. After the seed parasitized me, it suddenly emitted a burst of light, enveloping them who were trying to seize my power. Qinghai didn't know the truth about Haoshan killing her father in her small world, but after being illuminated by the light emitted by the seed, I don't know what she saw, but she actually started fighting with Haoshan on the spot."
Ning Qi was speechless.
The development of the plot really made him feel very different. He never expected that the two ancestors of Shan and Hai would break up in this way.
He looked at the small tree in the center again. The appearance of this small tree could be said to be the origin of the great changes in the Mountain and Sea Realm.
Of course, if we talk about the real source, it is still the Buzhou Mountain inheritance obtained by the Mountain Ancestor.
The species of the small tree was also brought out by the Mountain Ancestor from the inheritance of Mount Buzhou.
Thinking of this, Ning Qi frowned slightly.
"I remember that the Mountain Ancestor and the Sea Ancestor broke off their relationship hundreds of thousands of years ago. Did it take this long for this tree to grow this big?"
When this question was mentioned, the will of the Mountain and Sea Realm hesitated for a moment.
"Do you know how much strength it has absorbed from me over the years?"
Ning Qi looked into his eyes.
The Will of the Mountain and Sea Realm panted slightly and said, "It absorbed as much energy as two of my current selves!"
"If I hadn't been drawing strength from the Boundary Sea to replenish myself, and if Shan Hai and the others hadn't sent cultivators to sweep the surrounding small worlds and use their energy to nourish myself, I would have been sucked dry by it long ago!"
Upon hearing this, Ning Qi suddenly understood why the Mountain and Sea Realm wanted to devour the small worlds around it.
It turns out that it was forced to do so!
"Jiezun, haven't you tried to expel it?"
The will of the Mountain and Sea Realm shook its head again, faster than a child's rattle.
"You think I haven't tried?"
He pointed again at the will of the original being nailed to the dome in the space ahead and said, "That's what happened after I tried it!"
Ning Qi also looked at his original will.
He had only taken a quick glance before, but now Ning Qi truly activated his golden pupil to break illusions.
The will of the Mountain and Sea Realm seemed to be cooperating with Ning Qi's observation. His original will no longer appeared as a vague cloud, but transformed into a human figure exactly the same as his shadow.
As the human figure appeared, Ning Qi suddenly saw a figure and followed him into the acupuncture clinic to get a full body acupuncture treatment.
However, the tools used in acupuncture are not metal needles, but wooden thorns.
The figure's limbs, chest, abdomen, neck, and head were densely packed with wooden thorns, making him look like a human hedgehog.
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After Ning Qi fully saw the state of his original will, the will of the Mountain and Sea Realm returned to its previous cloud-like form.
It seems that this form will suffer less damage from needle pricks than the human form.
Ning Qi withdrew his gaze, his expression becoming more solemn.
He asked, "Did this little tree prick you with these thorns, or did the Mountain Ancestor and the Sea Ancestor do it?"
The will of the Mountain and Sea Realm replied, "Both."
"In the beginning, it was Haoshan who stabbed me with the wooden thorns he had obtained. Every time his cultivation level increased, he would stab me a few more times. As a result, more of my strength was transferred to him, and he became stronger."
"Later, when the tree was fully grown, it pricked me quite a few times with its needles, probably about one-tenth of them."
Ning Qi's frown deepened.
It sounds like the Mountain Ancestor still has hidden tricks up his sleeve, and this little tree is also extremely ferocious.
"Could it be that the Mountain Ancestor can still control this little tree?" Neji asked again.
The will of the Mountain and Sea Realm was silent for a moment.
"I don't know the details, but if he could really control it completely, this scene wouldn't be happening."
He pointed at the small tree and said, "The trees on our side are now showing signs of new green and vitality. You probably understand that this side of the world is controlled by Qinghai, while the other half is controlled by Haoshan!"
"If Haoshan could really control this little tree, it wouldn't be half withered and half green."
Ning Qi asked, "You mean, the other half of the withered and yellowed trees were caused by the Mountain Ancestor?"
"Yes, Haoshan can't wait to become an immortal!"
"Can't wait?"
"After so many tens of thousands of years, the little tree has only grown so much. How could he wait that long?" The Will of the Mountain and Sea Realm smiled, "That's why we launched the Spirit Realm War!"
(End of this chapter)
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