The sacred tree has a spirit, which is called Pang Ling.
"Pang Ling!"
"My name is Pang Ling!"
"I have a name!"
Her petite and delicate body twirled happily among the leaves, with the hem of her skirt emitting bits of divine light.
The radiance that concealed the power of life flew out from the leaves and fell to the ground below.
The flowers and plants that had just emerged, once touched by the green light, began to grow at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the several-inch green grass instantly grew taller.
She was so excited that she felt like she had been reborn in another form and she was celebrating for herself.
"My... child."
Pang Jian stared at the spirit of the little tree in a daze.
This small tree was condensed from the "Gate of Purgatory" and implanted in Qianli Yunze. Two years later, it had a visible soul body and could communicate with him smoothly without thinking.
He felt strange and inexplicably emotional.
"Then, how should I address you, my father? Dad?"
Pang Ling, who was dancing, asked curiously.
Pang Jian had a strange look on his face. He felt as if his soul was floating in the clouds and his head was dizzy when she called him "father" and "dad" over and over again.
"Pang Jian, just call me Pang Jian!"
He snapped sternly.
"Oh, whatever my father says is what it is. If you say Pang Jian, then... Pang Jian."
Now that he had a name, Pang Ling clapped his hands in joy and exclaimed sweetly, "Dad, it's rare for you to come here. You must stay with me for a while. You can't leave in a hurry."
"call!"
The leaf she was on flew away from the branch and floated in the air.
"Father, let me show you around. With your help, I have seized the broken land called Tianyuan, and you haven't even been there to see it."
The leaves where her spirit was were flying away into the distance.
"I don't want to be seen by the Wood Tribe!"
Pang Jian quickly expressed his opinion.
"No."
The leaf where Pang Lingling's body was located was floating in the air in a rather cheerful posture.
A slender green river of light condensed through the trajectory of the leaves, floating in the air above Yunze, releasing a thick breath of life.
"I have a name now. My name is Pang Ling. I am now a complete living being!"
Her laughter resounded in Pang Jian's soul.
Pang Jian, with mixed feelings, followed the guidance of this strange leaf and walked from Qianli Yunze, where the Erosion Vine took root, to another piece of broken land.
Along the way, there really was not a single member of the Wood Tribe.
Occasionally, they would encounter some ferocious beasts with undeveloped intelligence, which would look at the leaves where Pang Ling was hiding with strange eyes and lead him to roam around Qianli Yunze.
There would be a ferocious beast with murderous eyes, suddenly rushing towards him.
At this time, there must be towering ancient trees intercepting the ferocious beasts along the way, binding them to the muddy ground, making it impossible for them to approach Pang Jian at all.
"The Corrosion Vine, the World Tree, is one of the sources of filth and has the power to destroy a world."
Pang Jian recalled what the girl from the Li family said.
Looking at the innocent and petite Pang Ling in the leaves, I felt her joy and pure heart.
Pang Jian had no way of connecting her to the evil and filthy source that Li Yuqing had mentioned.
"Li Yuqing may have made a mistake. The foreign god possessing the wooden man is the so-called source of filth."
Pang Jian said secretly.
Not long after.
"Tianyuan City."
Looking up at the majestic city, Pang Jian frowned.
The structure and layout of this city is similar to that of Tianyun City, and it was originally ruled by the Shangguan family.
Today, Tianyuan City is filled with dense vegetation, and piles of dead bones can be seen everywhere in the empty streets.
The mortals and cultivators who did not leave in time and remained in Tianyuan City could not withstand the infection of the dirty and strange forces.
Their flesh and blood were consumed, leaving only dry bones.
There was a sense of dead silence and desolation, and the air was filled with foul smells and the odor of corrosion.
"This is not my fault, it was just like that when I received it..."
Like a little girl who had done something wrong, Pang Ling timidly stated in the leaf: "All this was caused by the energy floating up from the lower world. It has nothing to do with me."
"I know."
Pang Jian took a breath.
He is also a member of the human race. Although he has no feelings for the people of Tianyuan City and Tianyun City, he still feels some emotions when he actually visits this place and sees so many dead bones.
It is not difficult to imagine that there must be many similar scenes in the broken lands of the fourth realm.
Those who were not relocated to the third realm and failed to escape from the filthy land in time should have suffered the same fate.
There is probably no one else like him in the Fourth Realm who possesses the Chaos Sea and has successfully undergone marrow cleansing in the Bagua City of the Fifth Realm.
Not as special as him, nor as talented as Li Yuqing, it is extremely difficult for the people in the fifth realm to survive in such an environment.
"Father, I have chosen a place and I will take you to see it now."
The leaves where Pang Ling was standing were rippling with circles of ancient tree rings. She said with a smile, "I think my father would like that place. I have arranged for someone to clean it up. Let's go over there quickly."
She led the way.
Pang Jian listened to her whispers and followed the leaf where her spirit was, to an elegant mansion in Tianyuan City.
After entering, Pang Jian saw a uniquely shaped pool in the mansion, with rockery and flowing water, and bright lotus flowers blooming in the pool.
Next to the pond, in a small flower bed, hundreds of flowers are competing for beauty.
"Father, I know you may not be used to staying in the place where I have taken root for a long time. After all, it is still too desolate there, and there are no people like you, just trees. So..."
"I found this place for you."
The leaves wrapped in Pang Ling fluttered, scattering wisps of green luster, injecting a faint vitality into the green lotus and the flowers in the flowerbed.
“There’s also a recliner here.”
The leaves floated to a chair and stopped.
Looking at the swaying leaves and the little girl with a fawning look in her eyes, Pang Jian felt warm in his heart and he lay down on the wooden recliner as he was told.
Facing the pond full of lotus flowers, Pang Jian also felt relaxed and happy.
He thought to himself, if there were no chaos and disasters in the world, if there were no frequent appearances of foreign gods, if there were no irreconcilable conflicts between the alien races of the fifth realm and the human race...
Living comfortably in such a city, with his younger sister Pang Lin by his side, and a few good friends like Zhou Qingchen and Qi Qingsong.
It must be a good life.
pity…
On the way to the mansion, he saw too many dead bones. Dead bones could be seen everywhere, in street corners and alleys, in open wooden and stone houses, and next to some dead wells.
This is not a peaceful and prosperous era. Every world is filled with wars and disasters.
The tree wants to be still but the wind does not stop. If he is content with the status quo, if he really stops and feels comfortable.
There is a strange creature in the "strange fog" that is comparable to a level 10 thunder dragon, a foreign god who wants to kill Xiaoshu, and an insightful person who is spying on this place from another world...
These ferocious and powerful extraterrestrial beings will reappear at some point in the future and will make him taste the bitter fruit of his laziness.
"Father, can you stay with me for a few more days?"
Pang Ling begged softly.
"good."
Faced with such a spiritual little tree that could make spirits visible, Pang Jian really couldn't bear to refuse.
He could guess that there should have been some dead bones in this elegant mansion.
Pang Ling should arrange for the members of the Wood Clan who obey her orders to clean up all the dead bones early, so that they won't be an eyesore when she comes over.
"Father, I am actually very scared. I am really afraid of death."
"The guy who targeted me will definitely appear again. I don't know when he will come again."
"Your presence around me makes me feel safe and less afraid of Him."
"… "
By the pond filled with filthy strange energy, Pang Jian looked at the lotus flowers and listened to Pang Ling expressing her inner thoughts.
Pang Ling, who had just condensed into a spirit body, enjoyed the time with him and talked non-stop.
"Take a break. I'll arrange for the members of the Wood Tribe to continue working for me."
Seeing that Pang Jian was a little tired, she stopped considerately, and her spirit led the leaves to fly into the sky.
She was in mid-air, releasing her thoughts and ideas and communicating with the members of the Wood Tribe.
At this time, Pang Jian rubbed his temple and glanced at his spiritual sea.
After the previous battle, the power of the sun, stars, and moon in his spiritual sea was consumed the most, and the light was slightly dim at this time.
The Ice Pool, the Fire Pool, and the Thunder Pool were replenished a lot because of the three powers hidden in the flesh and blood of the ferocious beasts he swallowed.
"The future is unpredictable. The battle may happen in the next moment."
"First, keep the power of the sun, moon and stars full."
He took out the magical copper box, whispered to Pang Ling, and then lay down in it to absorb the light of the sun and the moon.
A world in a box.
A dazzling sun was extremely close to Pang Jian, so close that he seemed to be able to touch it!
When the rolling heat wave hit, the sun seemed incomparably huge, and the sunlight it released was absorbed into his spiritual sea by using the "Hutian Yangqi Jue".
In the spiritual sea, the sun he condensed gradually became brighter.
"The sun, how come it suddenly becomes so close?"
He looked intently.
The next moment, wisps of golden divine consciousness floated out of his sea of consciousness and suddenly entered his eyes.
His eyes instantly turned golden.
With a pair of golden eyes, Pang Jian looked at the huge sun above his head again. He suddenly felt that the distance between him and the sun was rapidly shortened.
The sun, which was releasing raging flames, became larger and larger in his sight, and he seemed to be flying towards the sun!
Sudden.
“Wow!”
A magnificent golden palace suddenly came into his sight.
He suddenly lost color, and his pupils felt a stinging pain, as if they were stabbed by the light blooming from the palace.
The sun hanging high in the sky, outside the purgatory world, actually has a golden palace hidden inside!
This discovery shocked Pang Jian so much that his scalp went numb.
"Real? Or imaginary?"
His heart was pounding as he focused his attention and looked again. He saw that at the highest point of the golden palace, there was a staircase reaching straight to the sky.
At the end of the stairs, there is a golden throne full of sacred majesty.
Three-legged golden crows were flying above the golden throne, their wings burning with the sun's divine fire, as if they were expecting something.
The throne carved with mythical birds, dragons, phoenixes, unicorns, black tortoises and other exotic beasts is currently vacant, but above the empty seat, there are spatial ripples that Pang Jian is familiar with.
It was as if a powerful and mysterious being was about to come over from another world.
…
ps: I'm just asking for a monthly ticket~
(End of this chapter)