Chapter 826: Three Ancient Trees of Xuanhuang
“This is too fast!”
Li Fan was suddenly quite surprised.
To go from Lingmu Realm to Jiushan Province, one has to cross almost half of Shilin Province.
Based on the normal flying speed of a Nascent Soul cultivator, it would take at least five or six days.
If Lin Ling took Li Fan flying in the sky, it would probably take half a day.
But with the help of the power of the earth veins, he achieved it in almost a moment.
What’s more important is that it goes underground and is silent!
Today, the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance and the Five Elders Council are in a state of confrontation. The border between Shilin Prefecture and Jiushan Prefecture is guarded by numerous defense lines.
However, when Li Fan and his companions were moving back and forth, they did not attract the attention of either side at all.
"The power of the earth veins is pure and exclusive. It seems that the Xuanhuang Realm has not yet found a way to travel safely through the earth veins." Li Fan thought to himself as he recalled all the knowledge he had searched for before about the earth veins.
After arriving in Jiushan Province, the flow of the earth veins seemed to be blocked by something.
Suddenly, the rapid water became gentle.
Li Fan also sensed an uncomfortable emotion from Lin Ling.
So he signaled her to return to the ground.
Before coming out from underground, Li Fan carefully observed the surroundings and made sure that there was no one else around before coming out.
"The atmosphere here makes people feel so uncomfortable." Lin Ling frowned slightly.
"Jiushanzhou was transformed from the corpses of ancient strange beasts. It is normal for you to feel a little repulsed by it." Li Fan explained roughly.
"Such a large area was transformed from a corpse?" Lin Ling's eyes widened immediately, "Then its strength when it was alive must have been terrifying. No wonder the seniors are restricted here..."
Lin Ling muttered.
"Senior?" Li Fan's heart suddenly skipped a beat.
"Yes! I was able to run so fast underground just now, all thanks to the help of my seniors!" Lin Ling said innocently.
As she spoke, she took out a branch and boasted proudly, "Master, look, this is the gift that the senior gave me."
Li Fan couldn't help but narrow his eyes slightly.
The branches were withered and yellow, but it was not like they were devoid of vitality. It was because of the long-term infiltration of the earth veins. From them, one could still sense the vigorous and powerful earth veins.
Li Fan had seen this branch once before.
It was during the 115th generation, in Ximen Yu’s cave in Yueyang Prefecture.
"The earth vein tree?"
He immediately remembered Ximen Yu's speculation about the origin of this tree.
Back then, Ruomu was severely injured by the monks, and some of its huge trunks fell off its body and fell into the world.
After several years of reproduction, each of them evolved into a different ancient tree.
This earth vein tree is one of them.
Growing backwards, the roots of the ancient tree are spread all over the Xuanhuang Realm.
"How did you communicate with that [Senior]?" Li Fan looked at Lin Ling and asked.
Lin Ling tilted her head and glanced at Li Fan, seemingly unable to understand what Li Fan meant.
After a while, she simply transmitted the entire process of her communication with the ancient tree to Li Fan.
The communication between ancient trees is not the same as that between humans.
Almost at the moment of reaching the earth vein, the two had already established induction and connection.
And the information exchange was completed in a very short time.
The ancient earth tree showed great fondness for Lin Ling, the newly born descendant.
Not only did he not attack her, he even offered to help her.
At the same time, Lin Ling also learned about several other ancient trees in the Xuanhuang Realm from the ancient tree of the earth vein.
First up is Ruomu, the oldest being in the world and the ancestor of all spirits...
The ancient tree did not tell Lin Ling his name.
He just told the forest spirit that the mother tree's temperament changed drastically and her mood was unpredictable. Even if it was a tree spirit of the same kind, he would not look at it differently. Instead, he might devour these scattered ancient trees to nourish himself.
You need to stay away from it as much as possible.
Then there are two trees of the same level as the ancient earth vein tree.
They were the strongest ones that separated from Ruomu that year.
One is the [Wanling Ancient Tree], and the other is the [Tianhua Ancient Tree].
Although the two come from the same source, they go in completely opposite paths.
The ancient tree of all spirits chooses to reproduce itself as much as possible.
There are countless branches scattered in the world.
Even if a disaster strikes, as long as there is one immortal plant, it will be able to grow back if given enough time.
However, the Tianhua ancient tree follows the path of [all things return to one].
He kept shrinking and refining himself, hoping that one day he would be able to return to being like Ruo Mu.
…
Some visual information about the [Wanling Ancient Tree] and the [Tianhua Ancient Tree] flashed through Li Fan's mind.
What surprised him a little was that he had actually come into contact with both of them during his reincarnation experience here.
The branches of the Wanling Ancient Tree were exactly the material that Jiao Xiuyuan used to refine his clone.
"It has spread out and spread all over Xuanhuang. It is vaguely consistent with Fellow Daoist Jiao's [Ten Thousand Puppets Dao]."
"I just don't know what the relationship is between Jiao Xiuyuan and the Ancient Tree of All Spirits."
As for the Tianhua ancient tree, Li Fan had only met it once.
That was the huge tree with a human face that was seen in Qingfengtang, a lending organization on Wanxian Island.
In the 115th generation, the Five Elders raided Wanxian Island and planned to relocate the entire island.
At that time, the entire space was blocked, and all means of communication and transmission were ineffective.
Li Fan still paid a large sum of money to find out how to escape from Jiao Xiuyuan.
It was through Qingfengtang that he managed to escape.
"This tree with a human face is one of the several offspring of the Tianhua ancient tree."
"The female voice that was with the spirit tree. But I don't know who it is."
…
Except for these two powerful ancient trees.
The ancient earth vein tree also introduced several younger generations who were one level weaker than Lin Ling.
Like Lin Ling, they are all trees in the world, and have developed their own intelligence.
Most of them hide in the caves and small worlds of the Xuanhuang Realm.
The cave heaven and the small world are entrusted to Xuanhuang, so these spiritual trees can also be vaguely connected with the ancient trees in the earth veins.
However, Lin Ling is the first one who can transform and walk out by herself.
So the ancient tree of the earth vein is very excited.
However, the ancient earth tree did not seem to care much about the fact that Lin Ling was under the control of the cultivator.
I just want to remind Lin Ling that all the spiritual trees in the world have their own destiny.
Just practice according to your innermost thoughts.
Lin Ling, who was born not long ago, naturally didn't quite understand, but just agreed obediently.
…
“I didn’t expect so many things to happen in a split second.”
"And this is even without my noticing. This is true even if I can fully control Lin Ling."
"The methods of the ancient tree are truly mysterious and unpredictable."
"Fortunately, both the ancient tree and the forest spirit are relatively gentle. Unlike Ruomu, who is quite extreme."
"Otherwise, they will join hands and do something to me from behind..."
“It’s really hard to guard against.”
Li Fan sighed slightly.
(End of this chapter)
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