At night, the moon climbed up to the treetops.
Zhou Yuanyuan felt so bored.
Don't ask her why she's bored, because she's now a tree, a tree that doesn't need to sleep. When Zhou Yuanyuan was a human, besides studying, she could chat with others every day. Even when she didn't feel like chatting, she could still read or watch TV. Now she's become a tree, without books or TV. There's nothing else to do except stand there for 24 hours a day.
Zhou Yuanyuan didn't dare to chat with the old tree demon, for fear that other tree demons would know that she was an imposter sapling.
The old tree demon was irritated by Zhou Yuanyuan's behavior of letting the little white rabbit go. He thought that this was a little tree that had no ambition to make progress, and was unwilling to waste his energy to give Zhou Yuanyuan some advice.
In this way, Zhou Yuanyuan spent an hour doing nothing.
Perhaps the little rabbit's narrow escape told its companions the dangers of this place, or perhaps these tree spirits have been "animal killers" for too long. In this small woods at night, everything is silent. Apart from the rustling sound of leaves in the wind, not even the chirping of insects can be heard.
There is no sun at night, and Zhou Yuanyuan cannot absorb the green light like she can during the day. It is so boring!
Zhou Yuanyuan was so bored that she decided to play with the little balls of light under the tree roots. She first rolled a small ball under the taproot a few times along the taproot, but she found that no matter how she rolled, the ball would never escape the top of the taproot. Hey! That was really fun!
Zhou Yuanyuan was now excited. She glanced at the other five small balls of light, which hadn't moved yet, and directed them to start rolling as well. The six balls first rolled simultaneously in one direction, then in another. As Zhou Yuanyuan became more proficient, the order of their rolling varied, while the frequency remained identical, forming a small circle.
Zhou Yuanyuan didn't notice that when she started playing with the light ball, the light cast by the bright moon in the sky became much clearer. White spots of light that looked like the ones Zhou Yuanyuan had seen in the sunlight during the day separated from the moonlight and scrambled to get into Zhou Yuanyuan's small tree.
The entry of the white light ball once again brought Zhou Yuanyuan a comfortable feeling. Zhou Yuanyuan was surprised and happy. Has she found another way to practice at night?
Since this was the case, Zhou Yuanyuan didn't miss the opportunity to absorb the moonlight. She increased the speed of the light ball's movement, and sure enough, the speed at which the white light entered the tree also increased. The small white light followed the path Zhou Yuanyuan had taken with the green light during the day, all the way to the light ball at the root.
The white dots of light flowed into the green ball of light, like rainwater flowing into a stream, blending in without a trace of resistance. As the white dots of light multiplied, the green ball of light paled slightly, and the size of the ball gradually grew. By the time the green ball could no longer hold the white dots, the six peanut-sized green balls had undergone a dramatic transformation. Not only had their color turned milky white, but their size had also dramatically changed, shrinking to the size of eggs. What surprised Zhou Yuanyuan even more was that the balls of light were no longer just lights, but had transformed into balls of spiritual fluid.
By this time, the sky had brightened, and the moon gradually disappeared into the horizon. After absorbing the white light spots all night, Zhou Yuanyuan had obtained six egg-sized spiritual liquid balls. It seemed that her speed was not fast enough!
Zhou Yuanyuan was a little frustrated. However, these spiritual liquids looked delicious. How about trying one?
When Zhou Yuanyuan thought of this, she inserted a small tree root into the spirit liquid ball like drinking water.
The spiritual fluid slowly nourishes the entire tree along the root, first the trunk, then the branches, then the leaves, and the bark...
What a delicious taste! The legendary nectar from the heavenly palace must be just like this, right?
Nourished by the spiritual fluid, Zhou Yuanyuan's consciousness "saw" the tree, which had been on the verge of death just minutes ago, regain its vitality at a speed visible to the naked eye. Several wilted leaves turned emerald green, even the half-yellow, half-green leaf.
Not to mention that Zhou Yuanyuan didn't feel hungry at all at this time, and her whole body exuded vitality.
Hahaha... She seemed so great that she had actually invented a method for photosynthesis in plants! Zhou Yuanyuan happily shook a few leaves on the branches, making them rustle.
"Huh? Little girl, did I finally catch you some prey last night?" The old tree demon felt as if he had just squinted his eyes and was distracted when the withered tree beside him suddenly came back to life. It looked like this couldn't have happened without absorbing a few larger prey!
"Hmm," Zhou Yuanyuan mumbled. She couldn't possibly tell the old tree demon that she ate sunlight and moonlight until her experiment was successful. If the old tree demon mistook her for an outlier within the tribe, she didn't know if she could withstand the wrath of the old and middle-aged tree demons.
"Hmph! This little girl is lucky. The prey automatically runs to her!" The middle-aged tree demon said with a hint of sourness. It hadn't caught a single piece of food all night, while Zhou Yuanyuan was able to eat her fill. This made the middle-aged tree demon feel a little jealous.
Zhou Yuanyuan ignored the middle-aged tree demon's words and remained silent. The old tree demon thought Zhou Yuanyuan was frightened by the middle-aged tree demon and stopped talking to her.
Zhou Yuanyuan breathed a sigh of relief. She really didn't know how to communicate with the old tree demon. The old tree demon didn't speak, which saved her a lot of saliva.
The sun rose again. After knowing the benefits of sunlight, Zhou Yuanyuan no longer wasted a second and directly absorbed the green light in the sunlight. At night, Zhou Yuanyuan did not waste half a second and absorbed the white light in the moonlight...
Day after day, no one knew how long it had passed, but Zhou Yuanyuan discovered that there were some inherited techniques in her mind, which were about the Guishu clan's transformation into human form.
Zhou Yuanyuan was overjoyed. Did she finally have hope of starting a new life?
When she was a human, Zhou Yuanyuan didn’t think it was that good. But after she turned into a tree, Zhou Yuanyuan felt that being a human was the best. She could learn, enjoy life, eat delicious food, and travel around the world... She desperately hoped that she could return to her adult form as soon as possible.
Besides absorbing sunlight and moonlight, Zhou Yuanyuan now has one more thing to do: practice magic. After truly becoming human, Zhou Yuanyuan plans to explore the outside of the mountain. Having spent so long as a tree halfway up the mountain, Zhou Yuanyuan has only seen running rabbits, tigers, wolves, and other animals, never a human. Of course, these animals, without exception, became food for the other tree demons of the osmanthus clan.
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