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[Tiger, March 3, when spring is warm and flowers are blooming]
After absorbing the Stone Dragon Vine, I felt that my spiritual thoughts became more solid. They were like clouds and mist before, which would disperse at the touch of a finger. Now they are like flowing water, which can wrap around other existences and feel everything better and more delicately.
When a person cultivates spiritual energy to form a golden elixir, he or she continuously compresses and condenses the spiritual energy, causing it to become more and more viscous and eventually form a solid golden elixir.
The demon cultivator's soul forms a divine elixir, and divine thoughts are equivalent to spiritual energy. The final result is the same, the only difference is the process of cultivation.
The plant and wood demon clan mainly relies on absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon, especially the moon's energy.
The moonlight is most intense only when the moon is full each month, which means that the cultivation of the plant and wood monsters is more difficult and time-consuming than that of humans. Fortunately, plants and trees are long-lived.
Unless there is a major disaster, plants and trees are basically immortal. Even if they wither, as long as there are seeds to continue, their spirit and intelligence can be reincarnated into new seeds.
The feeling of plundering the vine monster just now made me feel that I could wipe out all these plant monsters, including the entire Wanmu Forest, and plunder and absorb them all. I estimate that my soul will be able to directly reach the Divine Pill Realm, or even beyond it.
As soon as I had this thought, I received the thought from the sacred tree.
The old man asked me to follow the rules of nature. Okay, I am also afraid that doing so will lead to divine punishment. If I provoke a powerful monster again, it will not be worth it.
I still feel awkward and not used to the demon body. I always feel like I am controlling a magic weapon instead of my own body.
I had a conversation with Old Dead Tree today, and learned that the way for the plant demon clan to obtain the qualification for the divine sacrificial ceremony is to enter the Insect Valley, where there are all kinds of strange insects mixed together, except for those great demons who have achieved success in cultivation or can coexist with insects.
It is almost impossible for the plant demons below the Divine Pill Realm to survive for a long time in there. For 99% of the plant demons that enter there, three days is already the limit.
Any plant monster that can survive nine days in the Insect Valley and is below the Divine Pill Realm will be qualified to participate in the divine sacrifice ceremony.
During this period, most of the plant demons have begun to accumulate strength and prepare to go to the Insect Valley.
I asked the old dead tree for the direction to the Worm Valley, and prepared to split a section of my own vine and go explore.
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[Tiger, March 15]
My branch vine almost didn't make it back. Just as I reached the entrance of the Insect Valley, I ran into a bunch of black caterpillars. Fortunately, they didn't eat my entire vine.
The black caterpillars were toxic, making it difficult for me to concentrate. Fortunately, I also have poison, and my poison is quite strong, so I killed them with poison before they could bite me to death.
Poison really is a good thing, I need to smoke more poisonous weeds.
I miss my old strong body so much. I don’t know if the little white grass and white vine can help me strengthen my body.
In the past few days, my real body has been rooted under a tree, absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon to practice in the normal way of the plant demon clan. Although the progress is slow, it has changed my state of mind.
In the past, my daily practice was full and I never slacked off for a moment. I always felt that time was precious and should not be wasted on meaningless things.
Now, I can actually listen to a group of little grass monsters appreciating the feces and urine of various monster beasts with great interest. I can listen with relish for an entire afternoon and even have the idea of trying it.
No, no, I must not fall!
I'd rather observe and just try.
In addition, the moonlight in the demon realm seems to be different, and it feels very spiritual. Perhaps this is why the animals and plants in the demon realm are more likely to give birth to intelligence and become demons
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[Tiger, April 6]
The forest is very interesting.
Today we observed honeysuckle, which looks like caterpillars, has soft thorns all over its body and secretes a red sweet liquid that can attract surrounding insects.
The sweet liquid is extremely sticky and difficult for young insects to escape.
However, honeysuckle does not have the ability to directly devour these insects, so honeysuckle has companion insects such as stinging bugs.
The legs of the stinging bug are covered with wax so they won't get stuck, and the sharp spikes on their heads can easily pierce the insect's body and suck its body fluids, after which the stinging bug will poop on the honeysuckle.
These plants are always keen on eating shit. I suddenly remembered that when I was a kid in the mountains, I liked to find sweet grass to chew in my mouth. That's not... uh...
From now on, before refining the elixir, I must clean all the spiritual medicines thoroughly.
The honey syrup grass that has turned into a monster has its innate magic skills related to its habits. It can spray out extremely sticky syrup to hinder the opponent's actions. The syrup can also quickly attract the surrounding insect swarms.
Whenever a honey grass turns into a monster, its companion stinging bug will also be upgraded to a spirit insect. The spikes on its head can break through the defense and suck the opponent's essence and blood to feed the honey grass monster.
In addition to honeysuckle, I also noticed several species of spiders. They always follow the honeysuckle, weave webs on the ground near the honeysuckle, rely on the sweet smell secreted by the honeysuckle to attract insects, intercept them halfway, and don't even leave their shit for the honeysuckle. They are truly hooligans among insects.
I was puzzled at first, until today, when I suddenly discovered a kind of toad that would prey on spiders near honeysuckle.
Toads are huge in size, and during the process of hunting they will stick the special seeds of honeysuckle on their bodies and carry them to other places, helping the honeysuckle to sow and expand its territory.
Mutual benefit, even if there is a loss, it will be turned into a gain in some way. Is this what "suffering a loss is a blessing" means? Is this also part of the cycle of nature
The reason why plants want to expand their territory is because of their special... let's call it the spiritual network.
For example, the honey grass monster, in addition to being able to absorb the essence of the sun and the moon with its own body, can also draw from the offspring of ordinary honey grass scattered in other places. Little by little, it adds up to a lot. The larger the population, the faster it can cultivate.
Therefore, reproduction and expansion of the tribe are equally important to the plant and wood demon tribe, and the plants and trees will do everything they can to achieve this.
For example, producing delicious fruits, tricking small animals into eating them, and then excreting the remaining seeds together with feces, which can even be used as fertilizer. The plan is very clear.
Today I also discovered an interesting pitcher plant. This plant is very smart and reacts very quickly.
There are three hairs in the insect trap. If only one or two of them are touched, the trap will not close, thus preventing dew from dripping in.
Only when a bug enters and touches the three hairs back and forth will the clip close tightly.
The whole process was incredibly fast, taking less than half a breath.
This is just an ordinary pitcher plant without any intelligence. I want to use it to practice the white vine's entanglement magic and increase the speed of swinging out and retrieving the white vine.
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[Tiger, April 25]
It seems that I have destroyed this patch of pitcher plants. No matter how I tease the three hairs, they will not close together again.
Forget it, go find other little monsters to play with.
There are dangers lurking on every side of the forest, but some of the little monsters are still very friendly, especially the flower monsters who rely on plants for survival.
I told them that I came from the human territory, and they insisted that I tell them stories from the human tribe.
I just made up a touching love story about a flower fairy who fell in love with a human, and in the end, she sacrificed her skills to save the human and even died.
As a result, I was surrounded and scolded by a group of flower fairies and grass fairies.
They said that their cultivation was accumulated through decades or even hundreds of years of hard work, and it was impossible for a flower demon to give up its cultivation just to save a person.
All the flower fairies united to protest, they would eat people and never save people, what kind of love is that? Where is the fragrance of nectar
There was also a grass monster who asked me if humans were delicious, and how they tasted compared to the old sour feces of the monsters by the lake.
I really don’t know, I haven’t eaten either of them!
Tired of being asked so many questions, I could only shrink into the ground and go look for the snake-willow tree demon I met yesterday.
The snake willow is a special spiritual tree in Wanmu Forest. It is said to have a trace of blood from the ancient sacred tree, the hollow willow, which has continued to mutate to this day. It is the only living tree in the entire Wanmu Forest.
In the entire plant demon clan, spiritual plants with the blood of sacred trees and fairy herbs have their own independent territories. They usually don't appear in the forest of trees, and they don't even need to participate in the sacred sacrificial ceremony. I'm afraid I won't have the chance to see them.
The snake willow is nearly seven hundred years old and has yet to transform. It looks like an ordinary willow tree, but each of its branches has the ability to strangle its prey like a snake.
Any prey that touches the branches of the snake willow will find it difficult to escape, even if it is a tiger or a lion.
I felt a bit of spatial force from it. It would instantly devour the internal organs of its strangled prey, as if they had been transferred using the spatial force.
Snake Willow's strangulation magic is more powerful than my entanglement magic, and it contains some techniques to tie up the prey so that it suffocates and cannot struggle.
The method of strangling plants is not only on the ground. I now discover that all plants are not as young and gentle as they appear.
Just like the bitter ivy, the part above the surface is dry and yellow, who would know that it controls the entire wasteland underground
The same is true for all the trees in the forest. Above the ground, they are buzzing and sitting in rows, waiting for bees. In fact, the roots underground are killing each other in the competition for nutrients and water.
I am not willing to be outdone, so I have marked out a piece of territory. Anyone whose roots dare to cross the line will be plundered and absorbed. Even if the sacred tree comes, it can't do anything to me.
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[Tiger, May 4th]
A gentleman is like an orchid
From now on, this word will be a derogatory word to me!
After staying in Wanmusen for more than two months, I found that among the plant monsters, the orchid population is the largest.
There are many types of orchids, some of which can grow on rocks or trees, some can grow in mud, and some can grow on the ground.
Orchids have different shapes, colors, appearances, and smells, and they can attract bees and butterflies in all directions.
In the forest of trees, if flowers want to be pollinated, they must first use their own nutrients to make some honey to give back to the hard-working insects.
But orchids imitate the stamens of other flowers to trick insects into coming to their flowers.
The insect searched around with great effort, but found no nectar. However, it rubbed itself against the orchid's pollen and then flew to another orchid to complete the pollination.
Very clever, but too unkind!
In addition to their gorgeous flowers, some orchids have no bottom line, making their flowers appear like female insects to attract male insects that need to reproduce.
The male insect came excitedly and left heartbroken, rubbing himself all over the orchid's pollen. He was then attracted to the next orchid, thinking it was a real female. He rubbed himself against it and completed the pollination, but it turned out to be a fake female again.
My true love was given to the wrong person!
The master of making money out of nothing!
The orchid family is truly a master of deception. According to the rules of sorcery and the habits of plants themselves, orchids are a type of demon with great potential.
Using its abilities to deal with the bugs in the Bug Valley seems like a good choice.
Arisaema is a member of the orchid family. I suddenly feel a little worried about the contract with him.
I asked Wan Musen about Arisaema. His reputation is really bad, but the overall reputation of the Orchid Clan is not good, especially the Zerg, who despise the Orchid Clan.
This is completely opposite to humans' impression of orchids. It is understandable. For insects, orchids are free stuff. They are made to work without being paid.
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[Tiger, May 20]
Today, I was lucky enough to see a fire ear transforming. I heard from other grass monsters that the fire ear was the bloodline of one of the Nine Ears of Wheat, the immortal grass.
After the Fire Ear transformed, it looked like a little girl of about twelve or thirteen years old, with red hair, a red skirt, orange eyes, and the ends of her hair were like ears of wheat, with a hint of fire as it swayed.
In fact, I have always been wondering why the demons have to transform into the appearance of humans
Huo Suizi has not yet reached the Divine Pill Realm, and her cultivation even looks weaker than my current demon body.
Could it be that the demon race's transformation does not depend on the level of their cultivation, but on some kind of perception
Huo Suizi has a companion, a ruby snake, which leaves Wanmu Forest with her after she transforms.
Here, it is an enviable thing for the little grass monster to have a monster beast as a companion, which proves that it is very valuable. Moreover, with the protection and feeding of the monster beast, it can survive and practice better.
Speaking of companion beasts, the plant and flower fairies went crazy, saying that they would be willing to grow in Lord Lu Ling's garden and be eaten every day.
It turns out that the demon race also has mindless worship.
There were also some monsters that wanted to be my companion beasts, but I poisoned two or three of them to death and chased away five or six. The other grass monsters expressed their incomprehension.
Of course they can't understand. I really can't accept monsters shitting and peeing on my head.
While absorbing the moonlight tonight, I have been thinking about Huo Suizi's transformation. Thinking back on what I have observed and studied during this period, I have some feelings in my heart.
A snow-silver halo appeared above the white vine, like moonlight, and I suddenly realized something.
I seem to have never explored what kind of spiritual plant this white vine is
It's ordinary, but I can tell it can easily absorb the toxicity of highly poisonous plants. It also integrated very well when I grafted it with the immortal vine. It doesn't quite conform to the rules of the Arisaema grafting technique.
Is it because the white vine is special, or is it because the Yunzhi grass has also been integrated with the original essence of the green lotus
I’ll have to ask the sacred tree next time.
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[Tiger, June 6]
Arisaema came to see me today, and each tribe has begun selecting monsters to participate in the sacrificial ceremony.
Yuehua Liushang is expected to appear in mid-September, so in early August, all the plant and wood demons from all over Wanmusen will enter the Insect Valley for a nine-day trial. He needs me to work harder.
He said everything was fine with Xie Jingshan and asked me if I had chosen a spiritual plant to graft.
I asked Arisaema for a section of its body.
Arisaema is transformed from gladiolus, which is not the ornamental gladiolus in the mortal world, but an orchid that can actually breed sword energy.
He has studied the art of spiritual plant grafting for many years, so his body must be very powerful.
I'm not stupid. Of course I choose the best things.
Tiannanxing was a little surprised by this, but he did not refuse in the end and said that I had good taste.
After helping me graft the gladiolus onto the white vine, he also left me two small magic spells of the orchid family, so that I could start practicing after I completely integrated the gladiolus.
After Tian Nanxing left, Youcao really started calling me a "little bastard" behind my back.
Let them be. There really isn't much time left for me, so I'll divide myself into three parts and start learning by doing three things at once.
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[Tiger, July 15th]
Thanks to the method of finely controlling spiritual energy, I was able to learn the magic very smoothly. My current strength is comparable to that of the demon clan in the early stage of Jindan.
As long as I don’t encounter a natural enemy that specifically restrains me, I will be invincible.
This time, I started learning the little magic from scratch, and also made grass from scratch. I have a deeper understanding of nature, and I began to understand the natural cycle that the sacred tree talked about.
In nature, we cannot just plunder blindly. We must leave a way out for everything. Everything has its meaning of existence. We cannot kill everything, otherwise we will end up hurting ourselves.
Only when there is give and take can things last long. If you plunder the world, you must also give back to it. But there is nothing about me that the world would like.
I can't be stopped from plundering the world, so why not let the heaven strike me down, and I can also strengthen my body... uh... I mean, when I have the ability in the future, I will definitely give back to the heaven and earth, do more good deeds and plant more trees.
After several months of personal experience, my soul has now merged more perfectly with my demon body. I have even gradually gotten used to being a grass, and the resistance in my heart has gradually diminished.
Especially when using magic, the demon body is more efficient than the human body.
[Tiger, August 1st]
I went to the Worm Valley again and saw the white deer that I had whipped twice with a cane.
They actually told me that they were the examiners for this selection? !
Do I not need to take the exam anymore
(End of this chapter)