I imitate others' cultivation, and I will never reason with you.

Chapter 173 Seeing the Truth

Ruan Xing was watching this huge war intently, but as the Sendai tree fell, its huge root system connected large tracts of land, and suddenly divided the entire land into two parts!
Only then did Ruan Xing realize that the battlefield they were on was not a normal piece of land at all, but was suspended in the sky!
At this time, a demon cultivator jumped directly down to the split ground against the strong wind, and the other male immortal cultivator who had just fought with her followed without hesitation.

The overturned fairy tree turned over as if it was top-heavy, and the demon cultivator fell on a thick branch and spit out a mouthful of blood. Seeing the fairy cultivator chasing him, he did not dare to stop and ran down the tree trunk. As he was running, he suddenly fell into a tree hole. He slid in the tree hole like sitting on a slide, twisting and turning for a long time before reaching the bottom, and fell dizzy.

As the bubble memory progressed, Ruan Xing's gaze also shifted to this demon cultivator.

She climbed up and saw something that looked like a candlestick as big as a wooden basin next to her. It was emitting a faint fluorescence. It took her less than a second to determine that it was a good thing. She quickly held it in her arms and planned to get out of the tree hole.

However, the Sendai tree was already falling, and she couldn't tell upside down in the tree hole, and she couldn't walk steadily. Before she had walked a few meters, a humanoid creature rolled in front of her.

If a fight breaks out here, no matter what good things we have, we won’t be able to enjoy them alive.

So she immediately raised the object in her hand and said to the male cultivator: "Even if you kill me now, you will be trapped in the Guixu Land and die here with me. Why don't we work together to break out first? I can give you half of the essence of the Xiantai Tree in my hand."

She actually didn't know what this thing was, but that didn't stop her from making up a bunch of nonsense to trick the male cultivator.

The male cultivator thought for a few seconds before asking, "How do we get out?"

He just followed her because he saw that the demon cultivator jumped decisively and thought that she had some special means of escape. He didn't expect that by some coincidence, they both fell into the tree hole together.

The best way now is to cooperate naturally so that both of you can survive together.

There was a violent turbulence in the air, and Ruan Xing's perspective returned to the sky. The leaves of the completely collapsed Xiantai tree all turned yellow and fell off overnight, leaving only a hint of green in the middle that seemed a little abrupt.

The tree crown shook, and green seeds flew out and flew into the two pieces of land that were still in the air.

The moment the Xiantai tree fell to the ground, the large piece of land where its roots were attached suddenly disappeared. The space closed, the land of Guixu was formed, and the explosion was confined to Guixu.

However, the higher the level of cultivation, the closer they were to the Xiantai Tree during the battle. As a result, almost no cultivator, whether immortal or demonic, above the Nascent Soul stage could escape, and most of the remaining small fry also died in the aftermath.

Only a few monks who saw that the situation was not right and fled early were lucky enough to survive.

After this battle, the world of immortal cultivation fell into a period of decline.

Both the immortals and demons lost their high-level monks at the top of the pyramid.

Some sects even lost their inheritance because their high-level monks were wiped out.

When Ruan Xing saw this, he felt that he understood something.

The green seed is the seed of the Xiantai Tree. Because it was about to collapse and its fate had run out, it produced a seed. However, before it could fall to the ground and sprout, its essence was taken away by the demon cultivator. No wonder the seed has always wanted to sprout here.

Because of the fall of the Xiantai Tree, the connection and protection were lost, and the remaining two pieces of land, Tianxin Island and Floating Island, were affected. Their existence was wiped out in the eyes of the cultivators and they became an unknown place without any spiritual power.

If it weren’t for Immortal Lord Guangyou who brought the seeds out from the land of absolute spirituality, the seeds would probably never have seen the light of day in this lifetime.

The place containing the remains of the Xiantai Tree became the Guixu Secret Realm. After being acquired by the Xuanbing Sect, it was renamed the Jintai Secret Realm, probably for the sake of taboo.

As time passed, the immortals and demons recuperated and recuperated, and when a new generation of leaders came in, all these past events were buried in history.

Our ancestors seemed to have intentionally concealed this tragic war and left no records.

She thought about it for a while, but found that after half a day, the bubbles had not dissipated.

I thought the origin of the seeds had been explained clearly at this point, but I didn’t expect there would be a follow-up?
Ruan Xing waited curiously for a while, and the scene in front of him finally changed.

The two monks who fell into the tree hole were now sitting face to face in the same room. On the table in the middle was the essence of the Xiantai tree that was glowing with fluorescence.

The seeds have been left in the land of absolute spirituality, so it is impossible for them to have seen this scene. Therefore, this is the memory of the Xiantai tree.

Ruan Xing pricked up his ears and listened to the conversation between the two more carefully.

The demon cultivator woman coughed lightly and said, "I was careless before. I didn't expect that this was not the essence of the Xiantai tree, but the body of the Xiantai tree. Since it is alive, we can't divide it. This is what I brought out, so it belongs to me. Whatever you want, I will compensate you separately."

"What a joke!" The immortal cultivator snorted coldly, "The immortal platform is gone, the two islands disappeared, and the Dao Yun is nowhere to be found. Don't you think I don't know how important the immortal platform tree is to the entire immortal cultivation world?"

In the past, although there were minor frictions between immortals and demons from time to time, they could barely coexist peacefully, because Xiantai was bound by its own laws of heaven. All cultivators could go to the two islands of Xiantai to bathe in the divine light and comprehend the rhyme of Tao after they became gods and before they ascended to heaven.

The immortal cultivators naturally do not welcome the demon cultivators when they see them on the Immortal Platform. Many of them also think that since it is called the Immortal Platform, the demon cultivators should not be allowed to come up. However, the Immortal Platform's divine light treats everyone equally. The demon cultivators also want to ascend to the spiritual world here. Therefore, although the immortal cultivators have accumulated grievances and dissatisfaction, there is no large-scale opposition.

The demon cultivators don't really like to go to the Xiantai because of their different philosophies. The immortal cultivators pursue ascension and immortality, while the demon cultivators believe that they have already become powerful enough to dominate a region and act tyrannically. Why bother going to a spiritual world where they know nothing? What if they end up at the bottom of the social ladder there? How can they be as happy as they are now?

However, the Saint Demon Lord was confident of his power and that the overall strength of his demon cultivators was better than that of the immortal cultivators. So he began to think about using his own reputation to lead the army of demon cultivators to monopolize the Immortal Platform, and that was how the fight broke out on the Immortal Platform.

Many demon cultivators are willing to respond to the Holy Demon Lord. Not only because she is the most powerful demon cultivator, but also because many of them have the same idea as Xie Feng, who wants to come and see if there is any benefit to be gained.

The demon cultivator woman said calmly, "Then what do you want?"

"The Xiantai tree belongs to me."

"No!" The demonic woman flatly refused.

The immortal cultivator sneered, "You want to grow immortal trees in the barren land of the northern border?"

The demon cultivator woman retorted, "Is your Nanzhou a rich place?"

He tapped the table with his fingers and shook his head gently. "It seems that you are the same. You followed Saint Demon Lord to die without knowing anything. Let me tell you, it is not easy to raise the Xiantai tree. Its luck has run out. I need to replenish its luck so that it can sprout and grow. I happen to have a technique that uses luck to enter the Tao. Now that many sects no longer exist due to the Xiantai Incident, the world is in chaos and everything needs to be rebuilt. I will use this technique to establish a sect and then specifically support this Xiantai tree."

"It seems that you have already planned it. However, all the people with great luck in the world are chosen by heaven and protected by the sect like treasures. Who can be used as food by you?" The demon cultivator said disdainfully.

The immortal cultivator said calmly, "Luck is something that is not only innate, but also acquired."

The demon cultivator woman hesitated and said, "You mean, dynasty... official luck? Haha, the emperors of the current mortal countries are all puppets cultivated by various sects. With the intervention of cultivators, how can there be any luck!" "I can create a country without the intervention of cultivators!" The immortal cultivator said calmly, "Use the immortal tree as the base, set a circle as the boundary, and only mortals exist in it. Let them evolve freely without intervention, and they will naturally develop luck!"

It is not difficult to capture some mortals. If what he said is true, this is indeed a good method.

The demon cultivator pondered for a moment and replied, "Then what can I get?"

"It takes time to cultivate the Xiantai tree. When it really grows up and rebuilds the Xiantai, you will become the first cultivator to ascend."

"Are you painting cakes for me?"

"You can choose not to believe it, but I promise that you will not be able to walk out of this door today. Even if you do, the Sendai tree will not survive in your hands and will only slowly wither."

The demon cultivator looked at him hatefully and said, "I will send someone to check every thirty years."

"can."

After the two men finished their conversation, the demonic female cultivator helped him capture many mortal children and kept them in a region isolated by heavy mountains. They planted the Xiantai tree nearly a thousand meters below this area and created the prototype of a barrier, which was slowly evolved and perfected according to the rules of the Xiantai tree itself.

With the help of magic control, these children are taught to farm and weave, read and write, and establish a political power. After a dozen years, when they are on the right track, the magic is removed and they are allowed to develop on their own.

These children had long forgotten their childhood experiences when they grew up. They only remembered that they were born and raised mortals. No more stories about gods, immortals, or demons were passed down.

Scenes flashed by one after another, and Ruan Xing was dazzled. Soon, the first group of mortals with good luck appeared. They were accepted into the sect by the immortal men and founded a sect called Liuyang Shuzhai. When these mortals reached the golden elixir stage, the immortal platform tree came to life and began to grow roots.

Thousands of years passed, and the Xiantai Tree grew more and more roots, and its rooted area became wider and wider. The functions of the Xiantai Tree developed by Liuyang Study also became more and more, and even part of the roots were taken and carved and refined into a mirror-like spiritual tool. However, it never grew a trunk, nor branches or leaves.

In the third thousand years, the immortal cultivator who encountered a bottleneck in his cultivation and was unable to break through the Guixu period finally died with hatred in his heart.

He didn't even touch the threshold of ascension.

The new master did not know the truth about the Xiantai Tree. He only knew that it was the biggest secret in the sect and was related to the cooperation with the demon cultivators. He kept in mind the practices of the previous master and slowly passed these things on to the next master.

From then on, only the monks who were selected to be trained as the next master and elder could know the truth passed down by their ancestors. The other monks were nothing more than nutrients for the Xiantai tree.

So much so that after another two thousand years, the Sendai Tree had lost its name and turned into a Boundary Tree or Sumeru Tree.

In the last scene, the Xiantai tree, which had regained consciousness, pulled its roots and found a memory obtained from the Holy Demon Lord who led the war. It changed it into the shape of a book and quietly threw it into a border village far away from the capital, and then fell into a deep sleep again.

The bubbles dissipate.

Ruan Xing felt lost.

That book of ghosts in the underworld... turned out to be the Xiantai tree's means of saving itself.

It threw the book into the barrier for hundreds of years before a red-headed Taoist finally came to study the theories of gods and ghosts in it.

Perhaps this is the direction planned by heaven. According to the original hatred of the heroine towards Liuyang Study and the hero, it is not surprising that she would destroy the entire sect.

But the process was disrupted by Ruan Xing.

She touched other bubbles that were farther away, but the memory fragments inside did not contain any important content. Some of them were just about the changing seasons, wind and rain.

It seems that the first bubble she encountered was not random, but was intentionally shown to her by the Sendai tree.

Or rather...the Sendai tree is awake now.

Ruan Xing looked at the spiral staircase and the endless tree roots, with a complicated expression, "What do you want me to do?"

If it was about destroying Liuyang Study, she would have done it without Xiantaishu's instructions, but since Xiantaishu told her the whole process, there must be other reasons.

There was a fleeting, gentle sigh in my ears.

"Let it sprout. Also, the 170,000 people in the barrier are in your care."

Ruan Xing was silent for a while. "I have always been selfish and used to being a lone wolf. I can't afford the lives of so many people. If you want me to use my luck to support it like they did, I'm sorry, I can't do it."

Although she had killed many people, she was by no means a person who killed indiscriminately. Using so many innocent lives to support a sapling that might only be useful at some point in time went against her original intention.

She would rather destroy the barrier tree and Liuyang Study together.

Of course, based on the restrictions in her body and the experience from the last simulation, she probably couldn't defeat the barrier tree...

It's just a simulation. To be honest, what does it matter? Even if she was killed by the barrier tree this time, at least she got more information this time than ever before.

As long as she doesn't go to the back mountain and doesn't enter the barrier, after destroying Liuyang Study, it won't matter if she stays dormant for a few years and waits until the Guixu period to deal with the barrier tree.

"That's not the case. This is my request."

The barrier tree was not angry, and continued to explain to her in a gentle voice, but there was a hint of melancholy in its tone.

"I thought it would be the child who got my technique. Since she owed me a favor, she would naturally help me find seeds and help them germinate. But I didn't expect... it would be you. Although you also got a little help from the technique, you have already delivered the seeds to me. You don't owe me anything."

"So, are you going to threaten me with it?" Ruan Xing pointed his finger at his heart.

Here, there are restrictions left by the barrier tree.

"I'm sorry, but that wasn't my intention. I was unconscious most of the time." The barrier tree's voice was a little apologetic. "Not only are you bound, but I... have become a different person in these thousands of years."

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