Beside the clear lake, the breeze is not dry, and peach blossoms are falling like rain.
Jiang Yuebai tucked her hair behind her ears and looked at Arisaema, who was wearing dark green clothes and looked elegant and refined.
There wasn't even a trace of a demon on him, and he only looked like a human cultivator in the late Nascent Soul stage.
If he is really an orchid monster, then isn't this transformation too perfect
Jiang Yuebai sniffed and found no weird smell, but rather a natural orchid fragrance, very elegant.
Could she do the same
Jiang Yuebai greedily desired to take advantage of the demon race's bloodline and maintain the appearance of a human.
Tian Nanxing's eyes swept across the two white Ganoderma lucidum on Jiang Yuebai's head and praised: "It seems that you have practiced Tai Sui's "Immortal Herb Sutra" very well."
"Tai Sui? Have you seen him?" Jiang Yuebai perked up.
Tian Nanxing nodded, "Tai Sui suddenly appeared, and the small earth spirit world could not bear his harm, so I followed the order of the sacred tree and sent him to the boundary river and went to the upper world."
Jiang Yuebai nodded. Tai Sui's power was too strong. Thinking back to the unlucky Yuanying of Bai Yang Sect, he almost destroyed the entire Bai Yang Sect after encountering Tai Sui. It was too terrible.
Now that Tai Sui, Ao Juan, and Master Fuyi have all gone to the upper realm, Jiang Yuebai is even more fascinated by it.
But she had already promised the Supreme Elder that she would wait until Lu Nanzhi reached the middle or late stage of the Core Formation before going to the upper realm together. At this moment, she could only suppress her anxiety and solve the problem of her own demonization first.
Originally he thought it would be difficult, but when he saw Arisaema, Jiang Yuebai felt hopeful again.
"May I ask, Senior, why did you come to see me?"
"I'll take you to see the sacred tree, but before that, I want to talk to you first." Tian Nanxing said.
Jiang Yuebai was stunned. "Didn't you say that you have been..."
"Is it right to expel the demons?" Tian Nanxing asked frankly.
Jiang Yuebai felt a little embarrassed, "It seems that rumors are hurting people again."
Arisaema looked at the tranquil lake, and the petals fell on it, creating ripples.
“It’s not that I was expelled. I was indeed rejected by a considerable number of the plant and tree demon tribes. Before the time for me to serve the sacred tree came, I left the demon tribe on my own and went to the human race to live.”
"Why?" Jiang Yuebai played the role of a qualified listener. The key was that he was not very familiar with the person, so he had to get close to him first and then find out how the person transformed.
Tian Nanxing smiled with starry eyes as she glanced at Jiang Yuebai, seeing through everything but not saying anything.
"After the catastrophe of the sky falling, the vitality of the demon race was greatly damaged. They started to stir up clouds and mist over the Illusionary Wave Sea and stayed in the Qingqiu Demon Territory for more than 100,000 years to recuperate."
"Before the Heaven's Fall, the overall strength of the demon race and the human race was comparable, but now the demon race is far inferior to the human race. The human cultivators have studied various ways, formations, talismans, and even music and painting, and a hundred flowers are blooming."
"But because of the different bloodlines within the demon race, they cling to their own magic and supernatural powers and kill each other. Although this is the nature of the demon race, if things continue like this, the demon race will be destroyed sooner or later."
"Don't you humans have a saying, 'Learn from the barbarians in order to defeat them'? That's why I left the demon race to learn from the human race's strengths."
Jiang Yuebai was a little embarrassed. "Senior, is it really appropriate for you to tell me this? I am a human, not a demon. Moreover, humans and demons basically don't interact with each other nowadays, and there are no major conflicts, right?"
Tian Nanxing looked at Jiang Yuebai meaningfully, which made Jiang Yuebai feel inexplicably guilty.
"No conflict? Where do the materials used by humans to make pills and weapons come from?"
"Ah, this..."
"You only see the monsters in the Monster Realm that are born with intelligence, but you have never seen the monsters outside that have low intelligence and are hunted wantonly by humans. Are they not monsters and unworthy of practicing and seeking immortality?"
Jiang Yuebai frowned and said, "Senior, everything in the world has its own way. There is no right or wrong in the way. There is always self-interest. Even a saint like Buddha saves all living beings for the purpose of reincarnation in the next life and for his own Buddhahood. There is no need to argue about right or wrong or whether one is worthy or not. I have known since I was a child that if I am weak, I will be beaten!"
"Cough cough cough!" Jiang Yuebai was choked by his own saliva and was scolded as expected, "Cough cough, it's okay, you continue."
"… I can't find a demon among the plant demons who dares to break the old rules and is strong enough. You have studied the Immortal Grass Sutra and learned my grafting technique, so you should know the advantages. Therefore, I would like to invite you to participate in the demon tribe's divine sacrifice ceremony and let them see the power of my grafting technique."
Jiang Yuebai didn't understand, "Isn't this an internal matter of your demon race? I'm a human, why must it be me?"
Tian Nanxing looked at Jiang Yuebai seriously, "You have an inseparable connection with the demon race. The reason behind this is probably only known by the sacred tree."
"Origin?"
Jiang Yuebai thought about it carefully, and it was true that there were some. He accidentally obtained Jia Xiuchun's bloodline, obtained the power of Qinglian in Cangyan Land, met Tai Sui in Chaotian Realm and obtained the "Immortal Grass Sutra", and was enlightened by the old monster Gurong in the Fengyun Club maze and was given the white vine...
Everything seemed like God was pushing her towards the demon clan.
Jiang Yuebai wiped his face. Since he couldn't avoid it, then...
"What good will it do me to participate in the divine ritual?"
Tian Nanxing smiled, "If you are really a human, you will always base everything on your own interests. First of all, of course, you should solve your current predicament."
Tiannanxing pointed at the small Ganoderma lucidum on Jiang Yuebai’s head with his chin.
"You can't transform perfectly because your demonic power is gathered in the Ganoderma lucidum and has not yet merged with your soul. According to your current demonic power level, you can't reach the demon race's divine elixir realm, which is the human race's golden elixir realm."
"You are now at most in the late stage of foundation building of the demon race. If you are willing to participate in the divine sacrifice ceremony, I will teach you the art of plant magic in the next six months. When you can reach the divine pill realm, you can transform the Ganoderma lucidum on your head into your sea of consciousness and hide it."
"In addition, I will find several suitable spiritual plants for you and help you graft them, so that your little Lingzhi will have stronger power, for example, true immunity to all poisons."
Jiang Yuebai was very excited, but also a little worried. Of course she wanted to transform perfectly, but there might be a price she couldn't afford.
The most important thing is that she is a human, not a monster.
"You should take me to see the sacred tree first. After I figure out everything, I can consider whether to participate in the sacred ceremony."
Tiannanxing was not in a hurry either. After Jiang Yuebai left a note for Xie Jingshan who was out, he rolled up his sleeves and the two of them seemed to turn into leaves and floated out of Taoyuan.
Blown into the air by the wind, a corner of the huge tree crown was revealed among the rolling clouds above, the leaves rustled, the sun shone brightly, and thousands of vines hung down from the clouds, penetrating deep into the mountains and rivers.
Jiang Yuebai looked into the distance and saw a giant tree that connected the sky and the earth, taking root in the center of the distant earth and merging with the mountains.
The waterfall on the mountain was like a white silk ribbon, rushing down from the tangled tree roots, stirring up mist and forming rainbows.
It is majestic and magnificent, and extremely shocking.
The cries of a few phoenixes echoed for a hundred miles. Jiang Yuebai saw a bird that looked like a phoenix spread its wings and fly high, followed by hundreds of birds, flying among the vines and waterfalls.
"The sacred tree was the first tree in the world when the universe was created. It is so many tens of thousands of years ago that even the sacred tree itself cannot remember."
Tiannanxing's voice entered their sea of consciousness, and they soon landed on a mountain below the sacred tree and returned to their original appearance.
When she got closer, Jiang Yuebai realized even more how huge the sacred tree was. The tree trunk in front of her, which was thicker than a mountain, was just a root from the sacred tree.
There is a cliff on the mountain. A small brick-walled courtyard is built against the mountain. There is a fenced medicinal garden and some weeding and farming tools placed in the corner of the house, which is full of life.
"This is where I used to live. Go ahead and put your hand on the tree roots and feel them carefully. Then you will be able to 'see' the tree spirit."
(End of this chapter)