Zhou Yuanyuan only needed to take a look to feel that the fine sand on the beach must be soft to step on, just like the beach where she went to see the sea for the only time in her previous life, full of the smell of sunshine and sea water.
In a flash, Zhou Yuanyuan was standing barefoot on the beach. The soft sand was like a breeze, "kissing" her smooth little feet.
Zhou Yuanyuan looked around and saw a lush island in the middle of the sea.
"Master, here's something good." Xiaoyu waved at Zhou Yuanyuan from the island. Oh! No! She lifted her short legs and swung them at her. Today, Xiaoyu looked like a little white teddy bear, with curly fur and big, wet eyes. Zhou Yuanyuan's heart melted.
In a flash, Zhou Yuanyuan had already arrived on the island from the beach.
Xiaoyu rubbed Zhou Yuanyuan's trouser leg happily, then slowly ran ahead to lead the way.
The island was covered in a variety of trees, which covered an area of about ten miles in radius and were lush and green. Xiaoyu skillfully weaved in and out of the trees, running and showing her good mood.
Zhou Yuanyuan recognized coconut trees, banana trees, orange trees, apple trees, and some trees she couldn't name. After Xiaoyu and Zhou Yuanyuan ran through the woods for more than ten minutes, they arrived at the center of the island.
In the center of the island was a flat area, about two to three hundred square meters. In the center of the flat area stood a small tree, less than one meter tall.
The trunk of the small tree was only as thick as Zhou Yuanyuan's wrist. What surprised Zhou Yuanyuan was that it didn't look like a real tree at all. The entire tree was a lush green, a brilliant, translucent green. What surprised Zhou Yuanyuan even more was that this small tree didn't look as lush and green as the trees she had just seen. It only had a sparse five or six leaves on its head.
If Zhou Yuanyuan hadn't felt the strong vitality emanating from this tree, she would have mistaken it for a fake tree carved out of jade.
"Master, look, does this tree look familiar?" Xiaoyu walked around the green tree excitedly, her voice full of excitement.
Look familiar? What does that mean? Not really. Zhou Yuanyuan was a little dumbfounded.
"Oh~! It's that little osmanthus tree, the little osmanthus tree that the master turned into." Xiaoyu was a little anxious and hurriedly gave Zhou Yuanyuan some hints.
Zhou Yuanyuan's sea of consciousness had been upgraded, not only expanding but also revealing beaches and islands. This alone delighted Xiaoyu. It's worth noting that not all cultivators' seas of consciousness display such a landscape as Zhou Yuanyuan's. Some cultivators' seas of consciousness remain a small pond or a pitch-black mass throughout their lives. Xiaoyu had never seen a sea of consciousness appear like Zhou Yuanyuan's, a vast expanse of water.
Although Xiaoyu wasn't a human cultivator, the place she'd been in was quite impressive! While bored, Xiaoyu overheard the gods chatting. They said some cultivators were favored by heaven, cultivating vast and boundless seas of consciousness. Generally speaking, the wider a cultivator's sea of consciousness, the greater the potential for spiritual advancement. The stronger their abilities became. Those whose seas of consciousness could be upgraded were rare. Not to mention Zhou Yuanyuan, who was only a Nascent Soul cultivator, even some immortals who had ascended to immortality had a serene sea of consciousness. It was impossible for them to experience such a vast array of sights.
What struck Xiaoyu as most magical was that this emerald tree, whose shade she couldn't even tell, was, despite its somewhat strange color, identical in shape to the osmanthus tree Zhou Yuanyuan had transformed into in the trial space. When Zhou Yuanyuan first became a tree, she couldn't hunt and nearly starved to death from lack of nutrients. The few leaves on her head had nearly fallen off!
"I don't know." Zhou Yuanyuan shook her head, a little confused.
Back when Zhou Yuanyuan was swallowed by the Chaos Pearl and transported into the Trial Dimension, not only was her spirit torn from her body, but she also lost all her memories. When she first transformed into a laurel tree, Zhou Yuanyuan believed she had always been a tree, unaware that she had once been a person. Without even a sense of self, how could she have paid attention to her current appearance? Have you ever seen a tree that can look in the mirror?
"Ah? Xiaoyu thought Master could help her resolve this." Xiaoyu wilted. When Zhou Yuanyuan's elixir had just broken and she had become an infant, her sea of consciousness had experienced a violent tremor. Fearing that Zhou Yuanyuan's sea of consciousness was unstable, Xiaoyu quickly released a portion of her own innate spiritual energy to stabilize it.
Just when Xiaoyu was feeling overwhelmed, a mysterious force from the newly appeared island infused her spirit, resolving her imminent collapse. It was this same force that "sucked" Xiaoyu under the tree.
When Xiaoyu arrived at the tree, Zhou Yuanyuan was bathing in the spiritual rain after the thunderbolt. Most of the spiritual rain absorbed by Zhou Yuanyuan's body was absorbed by the Jade Tree. After absorbing the energy of this spiritual rain, the Jade Tree released a vitality even more advanced than Xiaoyu's innate spiritual energy, which continuously infused Xiaoyu's spiritual body.
This vitality was so rich that it repaired Xiaoyu's half-dried spirit body like a tonic. Xiaoyu hurriedly explained to the Chaos Pearl and fell into a deep sleep.
When Xiaoyu woke up, she found that her spirit had become much thicker. A thick spirit body means that her energy is full! All of this is inseparable from the new jade tree. Xiaoyu was so excited that she asked Zhou Yuanyuan to quickly enter her sea of consciousness to check. Xiaoyu always felt that the appearance of this little tree was related to Zhou Yuanyuan.
"Even if two trees look exactly alike, what does that even mean?" Zhou Yuanyuan was left feeling a bit dizzy after hearing Xiaoyu's babble. What about the "little laurel tree in the Chaos Orb Trial World" and the "little jade tree that mysteriously appeared"? Aren't they all trees? Don't they all look very similar? For Zhou Yuanyuan, aside from being able to distinguish between broadleaf and coniferous trees, and between flowering and non-flowering trees, she didn't really pay much attention to anything else.
"No, Master, this tree is different. It must have a close relationship with you." Xiaoyu was scrambling. How could she explain it? Xiaoyu's innate spiritual energy was a vital energy, capable of bringing the dead back to life, yet also bringing immense benefits. General Zhou had only been able to repair his damaged body and live for so many years thanks to a strand of Xiaoyu's innate spiritual energy. In Xiaoyu's opinion, the vitality of the "jade tree" in Zhou Yuanyuan's sea of consciousness was far more powerful than its innate spiritual energy.
The vitality contained in Xiaoyu's innate spiritual energy is already powerful enough. Xiaoyu can't think of anything more advanced than it, except for the legendary "life essence".
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