Chapter 322
His casual announcement shocked all the plants and trees present. What kind of strange power could cause a tree to change its temperament so drastically?
"I think you are crazy!" Ruomu's eyes were filled with anger, "Do you know what you are talking about!"
"I'm very sober." Yinmu looked at him, "Do you dare to say that you didn't have that predictive dream?"
Following Yinmu's emphasis, Ruomu rummaged through his memories for a long time before he remembered the vague dream he had some time ago. He could no longer remember what the dream specifically described, and could only manage to recall a few fleeting fragments.
"If you don't believe it, you naturally won't remember the content!" Yanmu showed that kind of crazy smile that made Shu extremely uncomfortable. "Plants and trees are the creatures closest to heaven and earth, so there is this ray of hope. You can't doubt it. You have to believe it with all your heart, and then the opportunity will favor you!"
"Don't trust Yuchuan. He appears just to make you willingly follow the decision of Heaven without resistance! It is common for new tree species to be born between heaven and earth, but there has never been a new tree species that does not communicate with Jianmu, and there has never been a new tree species that can foresee the future——" Yanmu's tone was very firm, "Why don't you ask him if he has ever had a prophetic dream?"
"He doesn't have predictive dreams. He is a lackey of the Heavenly Dao. The Heavenly Dao doesn't need to spend too much effort on him." Yinmu said, "Do you dare to ask him? Do you dare?"
Yenmu kept emphasizing this, and the atmosphere suddenly became terribly suffocating.
"Sir, I'm not a lackey of the heaven!" Suddenly, a white shadow rushed over and collided violently with Yinmu. Both of them fell on their buttocks. "You are crazy!"
Bai Ze felt like his limbs were paralyzed by sleep, and it took him a long time to wake up. After waking up, he looked at the empty courtyard and listened to his stomach growling. He flicked his fur with his paws and fell into a daze - he had a vague feeling that he had slept for a long time, but when he woke up, there was no one by his side. This was obviously unscientific!
According to their family tradition, if there is a sick person at home, they will leave one person to watch over the animal no matter what happens. Although it is awakening and is not considered sick, it is impossible to leave it alone at home and not care about it! Something must have happened!
Bai Ze jumped out of bed with his limbs a little stiff from not moving for too long, lowered his head and sniffed the ground. A lot of information was fed back to his mind - there were familiar smells and unfamiliar smells. These smells intertwined together made his head a little dizzy. The only thing that was certain was that there were a lot of them.
Bai Ze lowered his head and sniffed, trying to find the direction of the aura. He just found the special training ground that the master had built for them, and then he heard someone talking nonsense in the training ground. When he listened carefully, he found that the person was scolding the master!
Mr. Baby, who scolds his baby in its home, is lawless!
What were the phoenixes doing? They just let strangers scold them and didn't stop them?!
Bai Ze was so angry that his furry claws popped out sharp claws. He swung his tail to open the door and hit the person who was cursing happily in the field with a hammer on the head—hammer first! Then deal with the situation later!
But Bai Ze overestimated his own strength when he just woke up. He did knock the person over, and he also fell heavily to the ground. However, due to his usual strict training, Bai Ze didn't care about the pain at all. He jumped up and was about to take advantage of the victory, but he kicked the ground with his powerful hind legs... but didn't get up.
Shirazawa: “???”
It looked down at the familiar green vines that were wrapped around its two paws, then turned its head to see its three companions who were also pinned by the vines—they were the only four of them at the same line of sight and height.
The flame of grievance was burning in his heart. Bai Ze pouted and tears started to well up in his eyes: "The teacher scolded you in front of you, why did you still endure it!!!"
The familiar green vines bound him, and the aggrieved mood was about to spread into a raging fire. Before the golden beans in his eyes fell, a pair of familiar hands picked him up and touched his head as usual.
Bai Ze felt that Mr.'s hands were very cold, and the coolness almost penetrated into his bones through his hair. He couldn't help but shiver. Bai Ze looked up and saw that Mr.'s face was so pale that it was almost bloodless.
For no apparent reason, an extreme sense of uneasiness surged in its heart.
It arrived too late and had no idea what had happened. What on earth had happened?
Because of Shirazawa's unexpected collision, Yumu sat on the ground. He shifted his gaze from Yuchuan to Shirazawa with a strange look in his eyes: "You've raised these alien cubs so well. They are all so loyal to you that they would even die for you—"
"Bang!"
Suddenly, fresh branches hit Yanmu's face. His mouth was entangled by the soft branches. He swallowed all the words back into his stomach, leaving only the sound of whimpering. Fusang's golden hair flew behind her. She said, "Enough."
After being together for hundreds or even thousands of years, no one had ever seen Fusang's face look so ugly. Little Jinwu was even scared and threw himself into Ruomu's arms, trembling.
The branch did not stop after controlling the oak tree to stop uttering hurtful words. It continued to multiply and tied the oak tree into a cocoon.
Shirazawa felt that the master was holding his arm and pulling it inwards. The master's body temperature seemed to be getting colder. Shirazawa heard him say, "I definitely didn't have a precognitive dream."
It thought the gentleman would say something more, but after saying this, the gentleman was like a clam shell washed ashore by the sea, and there was no more word.
Bai Ze tried hard to recall the somewhat disjointed words he heard before it broke in, words like "he doesn't have predictive dreams", "a running dog of heaven", and "a lot of effort". These were very unpleasant words.
"Didn't he tell you to ask?" Bai Ze stretched out a furry paw and pointed at the elm wood on the ground, with a tone of disappointment in his voice, "Why don't you ask?"
According to his experience of listening to stories since childhood, a lot of misunderstandings are caused by the fact that both parties do not have mouths. If they had mouths, they would have solved it long ago! There would not be a lot of heart-wrenching problems at the end!
"Mr. likes to keep things to himself. If he doesn't explain things clearly today, he will have sleepless nights!" The three friends were silenced. Bai Ze, who had just woken up and was still confused, was forced to use his little brain to fight alone. He was like a restless grunt in Yuchuan's arms, roaring anxiously with a baby voice, "We have lived for hundreds and thousands of years. Is there any problem that can't be answered directly? Why do you have to guess!!!"
"The mouth is not for display, ah ah ah ah ah ah——" Bai Ze was talking when Yuchuan covered his mouth. He struggled even harder, using his claws and tail. "If you have any questions, please speak frankly————Sit down and talk————"
The atmosphere finally eased a little after being interrupted by Shirazawa's anxious, sincere and funny interruption. Fuso used its branches to wrap the ash tree even tighter, until no corner of the clothing could be seen.
After temporarily trapping Yuki in the training ground, Fuso sighed. In her eyes, Tamagawa's pale face was reflected: "Tamagawa, we didn't doubt you. But what Shirazawa said is right. Let's talk."
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"So what did those adults talk about behind our backs?" After Qilin gave Bai Ze a summary of what happened during his coma, Bai Ze found a piece of wood to sharpen his claws, and complained angrily while sharpening, "I was the one who solved the knot in your heart, why can't I listen!"
"That's right!" Phoenix rarely agrees with Bai Ze, "Don't young cubs have the right to know?"
"It's because we are too weak." Canglong held his own formation sandbox and drew on it with his five claws. "Mr. is the youngest among the plants, but he will never be left behind in important decisions."
"Canglong, you are always trying to urge us to study harder." Qilin rolled his eyes, "You are becoming more and more like a replica of you, sir."
The teacher is good in every way except that he is too strict when it comes to studying. What's even more terrifying is that Canglong is a curl king. As the youngest cub, Qilin feels a fear of being dominated by the curl king every time he studies.
"The faster we learn and the more we know, the more pressure we can relieve for you, sir." Canglong gave Qilin a formation sand table like a magic trick. Qilin was so frightened that he threw his four hooves around. "Although the last matter has been resolved, have you all forgotten how you, sir, looked at that time?"
The unicorn's hooves stopped pushing the formation sandbox.
Everyone knew that Yanmu was talking nonsense that day, and that the Master was not the kind of person he said he was. The other plants and trees did not misunderstand or alienate themselves from the Master because of his words, but they all knew that the Master began to doubt himself.
Having lived with Mr. Xian for so many years, they had long known that Mr. Xian had suffered a serious injury before his transformation. That injury damaged his consciousness, causing Mr. Xian to suffer from amnesia. He had been trying to recover his lost memories, but with little success.
Although the Master seems gentle and distant, once you get his sincere treatment and are included in his sphere of protection, you will know that he is actually the hardest-hearted person. The ones who are most hurt by the provocative words of the Liangmu are not the plants or the alien beasts, let alone these cubs, but the Master himself. Those provocative words are based on distorted and tampered facts. If any of them come true, the Master will probably blame himself and take all the blame on himself.
Qilin silently pulled back the sandbox he had kicked away: "...I'll learn."
Even Qilin, who usually loves to slack off, started to practice more actively. Fenghuang and Bai Ze felt even more embarrassed to be idle. The four cubs put the tables together under the ivy trellis. Qilin took out a bunch of photo stones and said, "Look at the teacher's lecture video. If you don't remember it well, you can study it again."
Except for Canglong, the other three cubs had painful expressions on their faces. The idle chatter stopped. Some were drawing formations, some were practicing runes. When Yuchuan came back, he felt the strong learning atmosphere of this small world.
A slight smile appeared on his tired face, and then he stuffed a string of candied haws into his mouth.
The four cubs, who had been studying seriously and attentively for the whole morning, dropped the materials in their hands, happily took the candied haws and started to chew them with a crunch - this was a legitimate halftime break!
The phoenix had learned to control its own body size. It turned back into a small plush ball the size of a fist and landed on Yuchuan's shoulder, begging him to feed it candied haws. The other three cubs reacted just as quickly. They immediately became smaller and hung on Yuchuan like plush pendants, as if they had returned to the way they were when they first met.
"In the blink of an eye, you have all grown up so much." With four warm balls hanging on his body, Yuchuan's expression gradually softened, and his body was no longer as tense as before. "You have also become more and more powerful."
Because of the rapid changes in the world, they haven't sat down and chatted quietly like this for a long time. The Phoenix is at his neck, Bai Ze is squatting on his shoulder, the Canglong nest is on his heart, and the Qilin is paralyzed between his knees. Today is a rare good day, and there is the scent of flowers in the breeze.
"When will this be resolved?" Bai Ze touched his forehead with his paw, worry in his beautiful eyes. "You'll get sick if you're so tired every day."
"Are they being controlled by something?" Feng Huang inexplicably thought of the Yanmu he had seen before. His expression of enthusiasm and indifference was intertwined, which seemed quite strange. "Sir, are you looking for a solution?"
Canglong said simply: "Is there anything we can do to help?"
Qilin gently patted Yuchuan's leg with its tail, which was a silent comfort and urging.
Four pairs of sincere eyes were staring at him, and Yuchuan felt as if a warm current was flowing through his heart. The heavy pressure seemed to be melted away by this warm current and leaked out a little.
An inexplicable impulse suddenly rose in Yuchuan's heart, prompting him to ask a strange question:
"Suppose there is an unavoidable disaster in the world, and everyone will die in it. If you are willing to give up important things and make compromises, you may survive. What will you choose?"
Phoenix tilted her head: "What is the very important thing?"
"There is no way to define it," said Yuchuan. "Maybe if you give up these things, you will become unlike yourself."
"I don't know." Phoenix said honestly, "Maybe when that day comes, I will know what to do."
"I feel the same as Phoenix." Qilin raised his head, "I need something definite before I know my choice."
"Why do you have to give up something? Why do you have to compromise?" Bai Ze used his paws to smooth his fur. "It has come to this point. Why don't you find a new way?"
Qilin sighed in a mature manner: "If the new road is so easy to find, why did you assume an 'unavoidable disaster'?"
"That's right." Bai Ze showed a thoughtful look. After thinking for a while, he couldn't come up with a solution, so he just gave up. "Anyway, I won't compromise like this. I won't give up until the last minute!"
The three cubs all expressed their thoughts, but the Canglong, who was hiding in his heart, remained silent. Bai Ze lowered his head from his shoulder, Qilin raised his head, and Phoenix turned around. Everyone was waiting for its answer.
The Canglong did not say that he did not know, nor did he specify the price, nor did he choose to be stubborn. He asked, "Is this the dilemma you are facing now, sir?"
It is alarmingly sensitive.
Yuchuan was silent for a moment, and finally said without hiding: "Yes."
"If I give up something important and compromise..." Canglong asked slowly, "Will I still be myself?"
Giving up the most important thing in life for a chance to survive, even if you survive, you may no longer be the same person as before.
"The tree that scolded Mr. Wang before, did it become like that because it gave up something very important?" Canglong continued to ask, "Is it really still him?"
Thanks to the gentleman's personality, they have dealt with many plants and animals, and the ash tree stands out exceptionally.
"If he completely denies his past self, then what's the difference between that and dying once?" Canglong rested his head against Yuchuan's chest, his blue eyes full of confusion, "What's the point of living like this?"
"Ah, you are the one who thinks the most and the most complicated." Qilin gently kicked Canglong's tail with his hoof, "Is your head tired?"
"I just don't understand." The dragon curled its tail and pulled it back lightly, "Is it so important to survive?"
It is also trying hard to survive. If it is forced to die, it will not be able to leave these three friends who are sometimes a bit troublesome, and it will be even more reluctant to leave its husband. But if it is asked to give up something important in order to compromise, such as taking away its memory, abandoning its emotions, and giving up its past... then it will no longer be itself, and there will be no point in it surviving.
Canglong had many thoughts in his mind, but he was not good at nor used to analyzing himself in front of others, so he shut up and returned to his quiet appearance.
Bai Ze and the other two were still discussing this issue. The husband held them and sat under the ivy trellis, listening to their chirping. Canglong looked up and saw that the ivy trellis divided the sunlight into pieces. Today was a very nice sunny day.
It hopes that every day in the future will be sunny like this.
*
With the cooperation of all living creatures in the world, all the mutated beasts and plants were sent to the special space constructed by Jianmu, and none of them escaped.
No one knew what Jianmu was doing specifically, because he rarely communicated with other plants and trees, and all his energy was focused on the exotic beasts and plants that were sent to him.
If it weren't for the increasingly thin spiritual energy, everything would seem to have returned to the way it was before.
The four cubs were no longer locked up at home. Yuchuan would take them for walks around the house and show them other plants and trees. The cubs were keenly aware that some familiar faces had never appeared again, but they did not raise any questions and just kept it to themselves.
The homework assigned by their teachers is much heavier than usual, so even if the restrictions are lifted, the time they spend outside will be greatly reduced - doing homework takes too much time.
Shoumu would sometimes come to visit. He was the most diligent of all the plants. Bai Ze and the others would occasionally try to get Shoumu to answer questions. Shoumu was honest, but his words were mixed with truth and lies, and for a moment it was hard to tell which was true and which was false.
The husband started to stay at home more often, and everything seemed to return to normal and life was back on track. But for some reason, the four cubs always felt as if there was an invisible knife hanging over their heads, and they had an inexplicable sense of urgency.
The enhanced version of the King of Rolls, Canglong, is online again, making the other three little companions cry and scream. Their inherited absorption and magic abilities are rapidly improving in Mahuajuan. With their current level, it is no problem for them to work together to kill a few adults.
Qilin likes to hold the photo stone and take photos everywhere more and more. Even if the courtyard where it lives has been photographed by it many times, it will still find different angles to continue taking photos, and Bai Ze complained that he is called the "photo stone photography maniac."
The stressful days passed in a flash. On an ordinary afternoon, Bai Ze opened a watermelon with one claw. The watermelon did not break into pieces, but was divided into five equal-sized pieces with great tact.
Last year, Mr. found a kind of green vine on some mountain and told them that this vine could produce a delicious fruit called "watermelon". Maybe because Mr.'s description was too tempting, the four cubs took over the task of planting watermelons without thinking and promised that they would let Mr. eat the big watermelons they planted next year.
In order to fulfill their boast, the four cubs were forced to diligently learn the relevant knowledge of plant cultivation to ensure that the fragile watermelon seedling could survive in their hands. After a year of hard work, they finally harvested the patterned green fruit.
The four cubs spent a long time studying the watermelons they had grown with so much difficulty. Finally, they picked the largest and roundest one and put it on the table. After some open and secret struggles, Bai Ze had the honor of being the one to open the watermelon.
The big green watermelon split open, revealing the bright red flesh. The four cubs swallowed their saliva at the same time, excitement in their eyes. Before, the food they ate was either collected from hunting, or given by other plants and alien beast elders. This was the first time that they grew food from the ground with their own hands!
What an amazing feeling!
The four cubs thought in unison.
After opening the melon, Bai Ze quickly withdrew his claws and picked up the melon closest to him into his arms. He opened his mouth and took a bite - the result of his hard work was sweet!
Under the dense ivy vines, the four cubs were enjoying the melons. After finishing their own share, the phoenix used the tip of its wing to pick up the best-looking piece of melon and placed it in the middle of the table. She then considerately used her spiritual power to make a cover to cover it to keep out dust and mosquitoes.
"In the future, food will taste good no matter how many times you eat it!" Qilin rubbed his swollen belly with his little hoof, "If only we could live to see that day!"
"What are you dreaming about!" Bai Ze poked its head with his horn. "According to what you vaguely revealed, these things will probably appear ten thousand years later - we won't live that long."
"Even Grandpa Turtle can't live for ten thousand years." Canglong said, "It's more realistic to dream in the daytime."
"You can't, but maybe I can." The phoenix raised its gorgeous feathers and said proudly, "My inheritance tells me that my talent is Nirvana. When my life comes to an end or I am seriously injured, I can try to open it. Maybe I can really live for ten thousand years after I have achieved Nirvana again and again!"
Because of her special talent, Phoenix was so proud that her tail was about to fly up: "If you are gone, I will go to your graves and put out all the delicious food to feed you. If I can meet your next bloodline successor, I will take them all in as my little brothers, and they will follow me around and call me big brother every day!"
Bai Ze Cang Long Qilin: "..."
My paws and hooves are a little itchy.
Bai Ze pretended to be sullen and said, "You stinky phoenix, I'm going to make you call me big brother now!"
Qilin was shooting glares: "If I die, I will write in the inheritance book for my next successor that 'the phoenix is the most sinister and cunning alien beast in the world'."
Canglong stabbed him with his sword, drawing blood: "Are you sure your talent can be activated successfully?"
Phoenix: "...You are all petty-minded beasts."
They know about life and death, but they don't have such a strong and clear concept of life and death, so they can laugh and make such jokes without any burden.
The three phoenixes were clearly no match for them, so they immediately changed the subject: "When will the master come back? The melons won't taste good if they're left out for too long..."
Canglong had already cast a preservation spell on the melon, so even after a day and a night the taste would be no different from when it was just cut. However, considering the phoenix's delicate personality, it thought about it and decided not to expose it. If the phoenix got angry and sprayed fire at the three of them, it would not cause any harm, but the temperature of the courtyard would double, which would be too hot in the summer.
Seeing that it had cleverly dealt with the somewhat dangerous topic, the phoenix breathed a sigh of relief. It used its spiritual power to drag the plate of Lianshi over and prepared to continue eating. It had recently shown signs of transforming early, so its appetite had increased greatly. The Qilin had even mocked it for turning into a glutton, but was chased and pecked by the angry phoenix and fell into a mud pit, where it became a ball of mud.
After eating just a few, Phoenix suddenly found that the Lianshi in his plate had "come alive" and was rolling around in the plate.
Phoenix: "...?"
It's gone! The fruit I picked has become a spirit!
Before he could finish his silly words, the Canglong beside him suddenly stood up, and his spiritual power turned into a defensive formation, covering the small world they were in: "Be careful! It's a ground dragon turning over!"
---earthquake?
This was the last thought in Phoenix's mind.
The horrific earthquake mixed with the runaway spiritual energy formed a powerful weapon that fiercely swept across the sky and earth. The densely packed defensive formations outside the courtyard became fragile paper in such a terrifying movement. The runaway spiritual energy destroyed everything with a devastating force, almost condensing into a substantial wave.
The same thing was happening everywhere in this world. The runaway spiritual energy seemed to destroy all living things in this world. Wherever it went, nothing could stop it, until a line of golden light appeared in the east.
That is the "burning" Jianmu.
The golden flames on Jianmu's body formed a rainbow bridge spanning the sky and the earth. The rainbow bridge spread in all directions. At each landing point of the rainbow bridge, there was a small dot flying. The closer these dots were to Jianmu, the more the light on their bodies became similar to that of Jianmu, like countless moths flying towards the flames.
The greater their momentum, the more spiritual energy that ran wild between heaven and earth headed in that direction. As the flames of Jianmu grew brighter, sixty to seventy percent of the spiritual energy gathered in the direction of Jianmu, forming a spiritual energy vortex visible to the naked eye. The vortex was stained with strands of gold, and was swallowed up by the gold inch by inch.
The spiritual energy in other places between heaven and earth was still violent, but it was no longer as ruthless as before. Instead, it had a chance to catch its breath.
On the rainbow bridge constructed by Jianmu, there are also some "moths" escaping from the vortex of spiritual energy. The "moths" escaping from the vortex of spiritual energy appear in various places in the world, blocking out the sky and the sun, and then firmly sink their roots into the ground.
Some giant trees stand alone, while others are guarded by equally huge monsters. In short, everywhere between heaven and earth, towering giant trees rise from the ground, facing the violent spiritual energy that has been weakened a lot.
The violent spiritual energy generated during this kind of calamity and turmoil in the universe was extremely difficult to resist. Some giant trees suffered broken branches and leaves at the mere first contact, some were caught off guard and had half of their crowns chopped off, and some were cut in the waist with hideous scars. In the first wave of encounters, not a single giant tree was unscathed.
The alien beasts that were about the same size as the giant trees were also covered in wounds in the violent spiritual energy. Some of the wounds were so deep that the bones were visible. The blood on their bodies had not even dripped onto the ground before they had been torn into pieces by the spiritual energy.
Outside the protection of giant trees and strange beasts, mountains collapsed and sank into basins, canyons squeezed to form ridges, snow-capped peaks turned into lakes, and cliffs became flat land...
There were no clouds in the sky, but the sky seemed to be pressing down so tightly that it was within reach. On the ground, huge, terrifying, deep cracks penetrated these unrecognizable changes. The world was turned upside down, and it was almost impossible to find a complete pure land.
Amidst such great changes, a leaf fell and landed on the face of a cub with its eyes tightly closed. It slowly opened its eyes and saw a emerald green tea tree that blocked out the sun. Green spots of light were constantly scattering on the tea tree, forming a protective shield that looked extremely fragile. Every impact from the outside would make the shield tremble, but it never broke.
The familiar courtyard has turned into ruins. It pushed away the wood that was pressing on itself and went to dig out other cubs in the ruins. After digging out the other three unconscious cubs and placing them on the open space, it raised its head. The huge tea tree was reflected in its pupils, dyeing its blue eyes into emerald green.
Green leaves kept falling, and soon formed a thick layer on the ruins. At first they were lush green, and then they turned curled and withered yellow. With a light touch, they turned into flying smoke in an instant.
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