The Lingdao Tree is a rare plant in the No. 51 Reverse Realm. It was accidentally discovered during an exploration of the Emerald Castle. The trunk of this tree will have a protruding image of a woman, which looks like the result of the assimilation of a woman and the tree.
It grows many arm-like branches with lush leaves, but few flowers, and only one flower blooms every few years.
The first team that discovered the Lingdao Tree witnessed with their own eyes that a powerful high-level black creature became the guardian of the Lingdao Tree after consuming the flowers blooming from the Lingdao Tree. That black creature killed many creatures that approached the Lingdao Tree, including other black creatures.
Furthermore, the black people who had consumed the spiritual flowers would regard the trees as idols and worship them like gods. This discovery aroused great interest in the Church of Nature, and the church searched hard for other spiritual trees. After several years, another one was discovered, and the spiritual flowers on it had never been picked.
The church conducted experiments on this, making multiple samples of the spiritual flower, and used some of the samples to conduct research on the death row prisoners in Emerald Castle as test subjects.
The results of the research were shocking. All the death row prisoners who had taken samples of the spiritual flower became loyal believers of the 'Spirit Tree'. They claimed that they would receive some illusory voices and have almost real thoughts in their hearts. These voices and thoughts made them try their best to support the Spirit Tree, to protect it, and to hunt for it.
The Natural Church was ecstatic about this discovery, and many priests involved in the research believed that if the Spirit Tree could be used, it might be possible to strengthen the church.
Later, however, the Church of Nature discovered that the number of Spiritual Trees was too scarce. In addition, their flowering period was long, and they only bloomed once every three years. Moreover, each time they bloomed, a Spiritual Tree would only produce a maximum of nine spiritual flowers, and there had never been more than ten-digit flowers.
This means that even if it can be utilized, it is impossible to increase the number of believers in large numbers.
So the Natural Church changed the scope of use. They used the spiritual flowers on those people who had potential or great influence.
They believe that controlling a group of such "believers" is more practical than gaining a large number of ordinary believers who have little influence.
With this decision in mind, the Church of Nature has conducted nearly a hundred years of research on how to effectively utilize spiritual flowers, and has only achieved breakthrough progress in the last decade.
The Church of Nature mixes in other plants with psychedelic effects, grinds them into powder together with spiritual flowers, and makes "spiritual incense". With the addition of some secret methods, it aims to plant "beacons" in the spiritual will with a goal, so that after a period of fermentation, they will unknowingly become supporters of the Church of the God of Nature and become the most loyal "believers".
Just as the black people protect the Spirit Tree, believers guided by the "Sign" will also loyally protect the Church of the God of Nature.
As for controlling the 'Spirit Fragrance', the one with the most experience and the highest success rate is none other than this old man, the saint Shang Yao who also comes from the 'Emerald Crown'.
In addition to being a saint, Shang Yao is also the only heavenly harmonizer in the Church of Nature. The harmonizer's intuition and mental strength are far superior to those of other ascenders.
Therefore, such means of influencing the mind and will are most effective when performed by Shang Yao.
At this time, in this hall, besides Shang Yao, there were two other saints. They were paying close attention to Shang Yao's condition. If anything was wrong, they would immediately interrupt the secret method Shang Yao was performing.
After launching the secret technique, Shang Yao emptied his body and mind very skillfully, so that his spirit could be active enough to resonate with the "primer" mixed in the spiritual fragrance, and then link his spirit with the spiritual fragrance that had been absorbed into the target's body on the other side of the Emerald Castle.
Next to Shang Yao, there was a small golden incense burner with smoke rising from it. With the help of the fragrance from the burner, Shang Yao's mind became more and more ethereal. He could even "see" himself and the other two saints in the hall from a spiritual perspective.
Afterwards, he entered a wonderful state, his spirit merged with the spiritual fragrance far away, and colorful lights immediately flashed before Shang Yao's eyes. He knew that he was entering the target's spirit.
This requires a baptism like a storm, because people's spirits and thoughts are as fleeting as a storm. However, today the Saint Wuhua sent the Ultimate Notebook, and the Lingxiang was hidden in the notebook, so now, the target should be reading the notebook.
This made his mind relatively focused, and the storm that Shang Yao endured was relatively alleviated. Sure enough, not long after, those dazzling lights disappeared, and Shang Yao entered the target's spiritual world and was located at a deeper position, that is, in the target's deep consciousness.
Normally, the changes here are difficult to detect, even at the Heavenly Rank. Unless one is a Harmonizer, other Ascendants will never be able to detect the changes coming from the deep consciousness, from the subconscious.
But after entering the target's deep consciousness, Shang Yao discovered that it was extremely dark and empty, with occasional flashes of light in the deep, like stars.
Apart from that, it was like being in the blackest night.
Shang Yao had never expected that the deep consciousness was so dark. After all, according to the information he had obtained, the target was only in his early twenties. At this age, no matter how cunning he was, his heart should not be so dark.
Suddenly, Shang Yao became a little worried. Would it bring disaster to the church if such a person became a believer
But this thought only flashed through his mind. Shang Yao immediately visualized his own body, allowing his figure to appear in the target's deep consciousness, regaining the feeling of being full of flesh and blood. He then stretched out his hand to grasp the spiritual fragrance that had already entered the target's body, and began to solidify it into a 'beacon'.
But at this moment, darkness suddenly surged up, and two red rays of light lit up in front of Shang Yao. Then the light expanded and stretched up and down, forming the outline of a pair of eyes.
Those eyes were so huge that Shang Yao looked as small as a speck of dust in front of them.
Shang Yao was instantly scared out of his wits.
As an experienced person, he also knew that when he was operating in the deep consciousness, even if the target was not aware of it, his inner world would react on its own. However, those inner reactions usually manifested themselves in severe weather such as violent storms, lightning and thunder.
But now, a pair of eyes appeared in the target's deep consciousness. Shang Yao knew very well what this meant. It meant that the target had noticed and would engage in conscious confrontation next.
Shang Yao hurriedly forced himself to rise up, trying to escape from the target's deep consciousness to prevent his own spirit from being shocked and causing fatal, irreparable and irreversible damage.
But at this moment, he vaguely saw a hand reaching up from the dark shadow below. The hand was extremely huge, and its palm was spread out as if to encompass the heaven and earth.
With this
At the same time, a red light flowed, outlining a body that was so huge that it was far beyond Shang Yao's vision.
Shang Yao could only see that this figure had goat-like curved horns on his head, complex magic patterns on his body, and two wings that seemed to cover the sky and the sun spread out behind him.
The next moment, he was captured by the giant hand.
Immediately afterwards, Shang Yao saw that the ball of spiritual fragrance he had materialized before had quickly solidified into a landmark, and then slammed towards him fiercely!
Shang Yao suddenly understood that this was a backlash. The other party wanted to inject the Taoist symbol into his body and make him a believer!
He suddenly screamed, "No!"
In the hall of the Green Forest Cathedral, Shang Yao's body twitched violently. Seeing this, the two saints nearby hurriedly used the methods they had prepared to wake Shang Yao up.
Fortunately, after Shang Yao woke up, his body had returned to normal. There was no twitching or trembling, but his eyes were a little vague, as if he had not come back to his senses.
A saint couldn't help but ask, "Are you okay?"
After hearing this, Shang Yao raised his head and smiled: "I'm fine."
“We have succeeded.”
"The beacon has been buried!"
... ... .
In the hotel living room, Tianyang suddenly trembled all over, as if he had been electrocuted. He was stunned for a moment, then carefully checked himself and used his senses to sense the surroundings, but found nothing unusual.
He shook his head, stopped being distracted, and continued reading the notes sent by the Sage of the Emerald Crown.
"I have become an Ultimate. Yes, I am very sure of this. Even though I am only at Rank 8 and have not yet reached the Rank 10 that an Ascendant can reach, which is the current limit as far as we know, I am very sure that I am already an Ultimate."
"Now it seems that becoming an Ultimate has little to do with job level, and it also confirms Gao Wen's previous conjecture. As long as you advance to the Heavenly Rank, you have the possibility of becoming an Ultimate."
... ... .
After reading the information on this page, Tianyang was greatly shocked. He had always believed that the path of an ascender should be gradual, and only after being promoted to level 10 would one have the opportunity to become an ultimate. But now this notebook denied this.
As long as they are promoted to Rank 7, the Ascender may receive a "revelation" at a certain stage and suddenly become a terminal one day.
If obtaining the sublimation node is the darling of fate, then the ultimate is the gift of fate.
But such a gift always makes Tianyang feel a little uncomfortable, because it comes without any rules and too easily. This way is simply mocking those who keep working hard and sprinting on the road to sublimation.
Tianyang frowned and continued to look down.
'I have not announced this news to the church yet. Although they claim that if I become the ultimate, then I will immediately become the head of the church, but I have no interest in the head of the church.'
"By the way, after becoming a Terminator, I also have a Terminator's attitude. According to the knowledge that was forcefully instilled in me, only one Terminator of each class will be born. Only when the current Terminator dies, the next Terminator of that class will be born."
'And the ultimate form of the hunter is the bow god...'