“Is there a way to shorten the time needed to grow?” Yang Kai frowned. Although he had already guessed that this would happen, when these words came out of Mu Zhu’s mouth, it still gave him a headache.
“I’ll give it a try!” After Mu Lu finished speaking, she turned around and flew into the depths of the medicine garden. From the looks of it, she didn’t want to waste any time and would definitely try her best to shorten the growth cycle of the Fresh Body Fruit.
Mu Zhu glanced back and smiled bitterly, “Even if we try our best, we can only shorten the time by half.”
“That’s more than 1500 years…” Yang Kai couldn’t help baring his teeth. This was an incredibly long time, and although it wasn’t a big deal for him to wait for 1500 years with his current cultivation, he had only lived for less than two hundred years.
In comparison, 1500 years was quite terrifying.
“Who did you encounter? A Demon Saint?” Mu Zhu asked curiously.
“He’s even more powerful than the Demon Saint,” Yang Kai smiled bitterly. This was the Great Demon God, and all the Demon Race in the Demon Territory had been born because of him. With a single command, the Demon Saints could not help but obeying his orders and were even willing to be swallowed whole.
Mu Zhu exclaimed, “There is such a character in this world?”
Yang Kai then replied, “Yes, he has lived for countless years, but his situation is somewhat similar to mine now. His physical body was destroyed and his Divine Soul survived, but that guy didn’t have the Soul Warming Lotus, so how could his mere Divine Soul survive for tens of thousands of years? Could it be that his Divine Soul has already reached an undying and indestructible level? Hiss…”
“Several tens of thousands of years…” Mu Zhu was even more shocked. The Divine Soul was a very mysterious thing, and everyone had a Divine Soul, but the Divine Soul was also extremely fragile. No matter how strong one was, without the protection of their body, once their Divine Soul was exposed, it wouldn’t be long before their Divine Soul was destroyed.
Even for someone as strong as Tian Yan, if he wanted to leave the Divine Movement Mirror, he would first need to shape his physical body.
Mu Zhu found it difficult to imagine how a person without a body could survive for tens of thousands of years just by relying on their Divine Soul. Moreover, this person was even more powerful than the Demon Saint. Just what kind of existence was he?
Just as he was about to open his mouth to ask, Yang Kai’s eyes suddenly lit up, a thoughtful look appearing on his face as he muttered something.
Mu Zhu listened carefully to Yang Kai’s words.
“undying and indestructible, undying and indestructible…” The light in Yang Kai’s eyes became brighter as he suddenly laughed, “How could I have forgotten about it?”
“What is Master referring to?” Mu Zhu was puzzled, not knowing what Yang Kai was thinking that made him so happy.
Yang Kai’s eyes lit up as he stared at Mu Zhu and said solemnly, “undying and indestructible, didn't you think of something?”
Mu Zhu seemed to have grasped something, but before she could react, Yang Kai’s Soul Avatar floated to the side and soon arrived in front of a small tree as tall as a man, staring forward with a burning gaze.
There wasn’t a single leaf on this small tree, and it was so barren that it looked like it could die at any moment, but on the contrary, it was full of vitality.
It could be said that in the entire Medicine Garden, even if all the vitality of all the plants were added together, it wouldn’t even compare this tiny tree.
“Eternal Tree!” Mu Zhu shouted, instantly understanding why Yang Kai was so excited just now.
According to the legends, as long as one could refine the Eternal Tree, they would be able to obtain an undying and indestructible body. At that time, they would be able to live as long as the Heavens and Earth, as well as the sun and moon.
The Wood Spirit Race was a race that had interacted with all kinds of spirit flowers and grasses since ancient times, so they were naturally familiar with the legend of the Eternal Tree, but after all, it was only a legend, so no one knew if it was true or false. It could even be said that before meeting Yang Kai, Mu Zhu and Mu Lu had even suspected whether there really was such a thing as the Eternal Tree in this world.
“You want to refine it!” Mu Zhu stared at Yang Kai.
“Of course,” Yang Kai nodded, “Is there any other way?”
The Fresh Body Fruit was a way out, but Yang Kai couldn’t afford to wait more than 1500 years.
“But didn’t you try before?” Mu Zhu frowned.
Yang Kai smiled slightly, “I’ve tried it before, but I’ve never tried it in this state. Perhaps this time there will be an unexpected surprise!”
“Then you must be careful!”
Yang Kai didn’t say anything more. Since he had already found another way out, what was there to hesitate about? At worst, he would just fail, which was better than just waiting here.
The Soul Avatar transformed into a mass of pure Divine Sense and slowly wrapped itself around the Eternal Tree. Soon, the entire Eternal Tree was enveloped by this Divine Sense.
The Eternal Tree was obtained from a special Secret Realm in the Lower Planes Star Field. Yang Kai remembered that there was a Seven Colored Divine Bird, Peacock, guarding it, and the Seven Colored Radiant Light emitted from its body was indestructible…
At that time, he had only felt that the Divine Bird Peacock was incredibly powerful, but now that he had become a Great Emperor, even with the Great Emperor’s eyesight, he still felt that the Divine Bird Peacock was invincible…
This was definitely not a Divine Bird from the Lower Planes Star Field, but for some reason it had appeared there.
After obtaining the Eternal Tree, Yang Kai had tried many times to refine it, but to no avail. On the other hand, the Eternal Tree’s leaves had saved many people’s lives, and the price he had paid was that the entire Eternal Tree had become barren, without a single leaf.
It was precisely because his repeated attempts had been fruitless and the leaves were gone that Yang Kai no longer paid any attention to the Eternal Tree. That legend had also been thrown to the back of his mind. If it weren’t for his body being destroyed and his desperate situation, he probably wouldn’t have even thought about it.
The physical body was not only a form of protection for one’s Soul, but also a kind of restraint.
Immersing one’s mind and discarding many distracting thoughts, losing one’s physical body was a great loss, but it also allowed him to see things from a completely new perspective.
Everything in this world was originally formless, like the moon in the well, like the flowers in the water, the Heavenly Dao was ever-changing, the Heavens were ever-changing, neither living nor dying, neither clean nor impure…
There was great terror between life and death, but one could only survive if they were trapped in a place of death.
As his consciousness sank, he gradually came to a realization.
Inside the medicine garden, Mu Zhu looked around in surprise. Under her gaze, Yang Kai’s Soul wrapped around the Eternal Tree, and the Soul power visible to the naked eye merged into the small tree, quickly disappearing.
It looked like the Eternal Tree had swallowed Yang Kai’s Soul.
Mu Zhu turned pale with fright and quickly called out, “Master, Master…”
How could there be any response? In fact, there was no trace of Yang Kai’s aura in her perception, causing Mu Zhu to panic. If Yang Kai’s physical body was destroyed, there was at least hope of reconstruction, but if even his Soul was destroyed, then his soul would truly be destroyed. She had never imagined that refining the Eternal Tree would result in such a scene. If she had known this would happen, she would have stopped Yang Kai no matter what.
The shouts startled Mu Lu, who was deep in the medicine garden, as a small figure rushed over and asked about the situation.
After a long time, the two sisters looked at each other and began crying.
Mu Lu said, “Master is gone, what should we do now?”
Mu Zhu was also crying as she comforted, “Don’t panic, something must have happened, he can’t have disappeared for no reason.”
Mu Lu said, “Then we must quickly think of a way to save him.”
“Yes, think of a way, think of a way!” Mu Zhu nodded repeatedly.
The two sisters stared at each other for a moment before Mu Zhu said something, “I can’t think of anything.”
The two sisters once again hugged their heads and cried…
After a while, Mu Zhu finally stopped crying and wiped her swollen eyes, “If only the Patriarch was here, she would know what to do.”
Mu Lu said helplessly, “But Master isn’t here, and we can’t leave this place, so how can we find the Patriarch?”
The Mysterious Small World was a world of its own, and this world could only be opened by Yang Kai and his Embodiment. Although the two of them had been here for many years, they didn’t have the ability to open it.
“Then we can only cultivate diligently. Only by becoming stronger can we tear apart this world and escape from here. When the time comes, we can go find the Patriarch…”
As they were talking, Mu Lu suddenly reached out and pulled her back. Mu Zhu looked at her and asked, “What’s wrong?”
“Sister Mu Zhu, look!” Mu Lu pointed towards the Eternal Tree.
When Mu Zhu looked over, she couldn’t help feeling surprised because the branches of the Eternal Tree were gently waving about, as if someone was stretching. This scene was quite astonishing.
Mu Zhu’s eyes lit up, “Master is fine!”
There was no wind in the medicine garden at all, and the Eternal Tree had not moved for so many years. At this time, its branches were dancing, obviously because Yang Kai’s Soul had merged with it.
Under the attention of the two little wood spirits, the bare branches danced even more vigorously, as if they were throwing a tantrum, causing the air to crackle.
In the next moment, a familiar voice rang out in their minds, “Hey, how did I become a tree? What the hell!”
This voice belonged to Yang Kai!
“Master?” Mu Zhu stared at the Eternal Tree in front of her in disbelief.
“That’s right, it’s me!” The Eternal Tree’s branches danced as it replied, its voice filled with depression.
Yang Kai couldn’t help feeling depressed. After immersing his Divine Soul into the Eternal Tree, he suddenly felt a kind of constraint, which was quickly followed by this current situation.
Although he wanted to refine the Eternal Tree and obtain an undying and indestructible body, he had never expected to succeed in such a way!
After transforming into an Eternal Tree, Yang Kai was indeed immortal, but what could he do with this body? If he encountered danger, would he use his branches to whip the enemy? Not to mention that this little tree didn’t even have a single leaf on it, Yang Kai felt completely naked.
Looking at the funny scene in front of them, even though Mu Zhu knew this was not the time to laugh, she still couldn’t help laughing. Mu Lu flew over and circled around the Eternal Tree, “Master, Master, are you alright?”
“Am I alright?” Yang Kai asked angrily.
TO BE CONTINUED...
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