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

Chapter 174 One Man Was Responsible for a Million Soldiers
“As early as the day when the immortal platform collapsed, I should have died in the land of Guixu and left my seed on Tianxin Island, so that I could preserve a trace of the Tao and the path to heaven. But I didn’t expect... my body would be stolen from the land of Guixu by two cultivators.

Sometimes I was awake, sometimes I was asleep, but my body's instinct kept absorbing the luck they sent, and I couldn't even refuse. They wanted to make me grow again, and used my power to conduct various experiments, but it was all useless. Under the will of heaven, my luck was exhausted. Even if I used this acquired luck to barely maintain my life, I still couldn't hold up the immortal platform and rebuild the path to heaven.

I guess no one in the immortal cultivation world has been able to ascend to heaven in the past few thousand years, right?"

There is a hint of bitterness in the sound of the barrier tree.

Ruan Xing lowered his eyes. After the battle at Xiantai, a large number of high-level cultivators in the world of immortal cultivation died, and many sects disappeared in the long river of time. For a long period of time afterwards, apart from blocking the news and concealing it in order to recuperate, there were almost no immortal kings or other figures in the world of immortal cultivation.

The only one who is relatively close to the present time is Immortal Lord Guangyou of the Xuanbing Sect.

But in the eyes of outsiders, he has ascended to the spiritual world.

But in the eyes of those who know the inside story, he has fallen into oblivion.

It’s just that his life span has not come to an end, so the fact that the immortal world has lost the path to heaven and cannot ascend can continue to be concealed.

The implication of the barrier tree is that it must help the seeds germinate, otherwise no one in this realm will ever be able to ascend, because it itself has lost this ability.

Ruan Xing said softly: "I can believe what you said, but shouldn't you also show your sincerity by removing the restrictions on me?"

"I can't do it." The barrier tree said frankly, "To be honest, now even the barrier outside the National Master Palace is not under my control. I can occasionally make some small changes when I am awake, but I can't control it. There are even roots thousands of miles away, but they don't act according to my ideas. I tell you all this because I don't want you to be accidentally hurt by me. There is a solution, that is, after I die completely, all the functions I just said will disappear."

"I can even tell you that if I don't die, I will fall into evil in a dozen years at most. There are so many techniques in my memory that I can use, but I threw away a magic technique... This proves that I subconsciously hope that the person who saved me can kill people everywhere and turn this place into a mess. This is a sign that I have become a demon. I have absorbed too many people's luck, memories, and their messy thoughts, which have greatly affected me."

Therefore, the evil fall of the barrier tree fourteen years later was also one of the reasons that catalyzed the occupation of Nanzhou by the demon cultivators.

This is difficult to handle.

Ruan Xing frowned, "What do you want me to do?"

"It's very simple. It takes time for a seed to germinate. It's just that it's very fragile before it grows up. And who knows... someone else might come to destroy its growth. In the early stages, I will transform all my strength into nutrients for it, which can speed up its growth, but it will take at least several years. As for when I can rebuild the path to heaven after it grows up, I don't know."

Ruan Xing was surprised for a moment, "So, you don't need the luck of those mortals for the seeds to absorb?"

"Of course." The barrier tree smiled. "I have suffered so much that I am about to become a demon. How can I let my seeds follow my old path? It's just that those mortals have suffered misfortunes here for thousands of years because of me. I hope you can protect them after this. At least, they can live like normal people. If all these people are put into the world of immortal cultivation, I'm afraid only one in ten will survive in a few years."

After thinking for a while, Ruan Xing finally made up his mind, "Okay, I promise you."

The barrier tree breathed a sigh of relief.

However, Ruan Xing still had to plan carefully when dealing with Liuyang Study, so he discussed with the barrier tree for a while.

It takes several years for the seeds to absorb nutrients, so the barrier tree will not die completely within a few years, and Ruan Xing is not willing to wait that long.

The barrier tree had to tell her reluctantly that she could temporarily control the tree roots growing in the back mountain of Liuyang Study so that they would not make any attacking actions at critical moments, but she was powerless against the barriers of Xumi Realm and Liuyang Study.

“Or you can also take a piece of my body’s roots and make it into a protective spiritual weapon.” The Barrier Tree sighed.

"That's a good idea." Ruan Xing lowered his head, "But what I need most now is something that can break the barrier."

Otherwise, the situations she faces are always very passive.

Hey, wait.

What is her most powerful attack right now?
It's a self-destructive puppet!
The materials for the self-destruct puppet require corpses...

There are countless corpses at the roots of the barrier tree!
These corpses had only their luck absorbed by the barrier tree, and their own realm was still at the Jindan stage.

However, most of them cannot attract souls because of the long time.

But it’s not a big problem. If she can succeed with a few hundred, it will be a huge improvement for her.

The only difficulty was... she couldn't produce so many puppets in one day.

And she can only stay in the Xumi Realm for one day, otherwise she will not be able to keep this identity and cannot return to Liuyang Study on the Black Hawk.

Thinking of this, Ruan Xing hurriedly asked, "Since the Netherworld Ghost Record is the technique that came from you, can you make a puppet for me?"

The barrier tree immediately understood her idea, "You want to use these corpses?"

It seemed a little reluctant. Although all these people died here, it was not its intention, but in the final analysis, it was because of it that these people, under the guidance of the two monks, followed one after another towards the same path of death.

However, it soon figured it out. As long as it could destroy Liuyang Study, no more monks with good fortune would be sent into the underwater bubbles.

So it said without hesitation: "I can help you draw runes on these corpses, but you have to do the puppet essence yourself."

"That's enough." Ruan Xing said happily.

Every time she refined a puppet, the part that she spent the most time on was drawing the runes.

As for the puppet's essence, she still had two large pieces of soul-nourishing wood in her storage bag that she hadn't used. If they were all cut into thumb-sized pieces of wood, at least a few hundred pieces could be separated, which would be enough.

These puppets could help her not to be at a disadvantage even if she had to fight against three Nascent Soul cultivators, Master Zhai, Fu Chen and Jin Huan, at the same time.

Quantity can also make up for quality.

Ruan Xing simply didn't plan to go back after this simulation. He just sat down and started refining the puppet with the barrier tree to see how long it would take.

Half are used to make normal puppets, and the other half are used to make self-destructive puppets.

Ruan Xing taught the barrier tree the rune patterns of the self-destructive puppet several times, and the barrier tree understood how to do it.

The barrier tree moved very quickly. All of its roots began to move, dipped in the blood ink brought by Ruan Xing, and began to draw together.

Ruan Xing began to split the soul-nourishing wood to create the essence of the puppet.

At the beginning, I did it one by one, but sometimes the failure of summoning the spirits meant a lot of time wasted at once.

I simply didn't care about the success rate. After I became proficient in it, I just refined several at a time and kept the successful ones.

After working for nearly six hours, they finally finished the production. A rough count revealed that there were more than a hundred successful puppets.

Even one storage bag was not fully packed, Ruan Xing packed it separately in two batches.

After taking a look at Sun Xian, who was huddled in the corner suffering a mental breakdown, Ruan Xing let out a sigh of relief and ended the simulation.

Opening her eyes from the Shuttle Spirit Boat, Ruan Xing looked back at her puppet army with some lingering feeling.

After thinking for a while, he let out a long sigh.

Unable to break the barrier, even if Ruan Xing led the puppet army into Liuyang Study under disguise, the puppets would explode and they would not be immune to damage... Unable to cut the God Binding Rope, Cui Yurong's magical weapon, the Netherworld Ghost Fire, would be useless...

It's really a headache. The other two people on the Shuttle Spirit Boat saw her frowning and sighing, and they were very confused.

Ruan Xing did not hide it from them and explained casually: "I need a very, very powerful weapon to destroy a very, very hard shield, but I don't have such a weapon at the moment..."

Jian Lai listened, and suddenly took out one of his eyeballs and handed it to Ruan Xing.

Ruan Xing was stunned for a moment.

It is the snow marrow of Hanshan Mountain.

Yes... this thing has been used as Jian Lai's eyes for too long, and she almost forgot that it is the material for refining spiritual weapons!
But... Ruan Xing smiled bitterly, "My weapon refining skills are not yet up to the level of refining spiritual weapons..."

And even if she urgently used the points to refine and study, there was no source available.

Before his death, Xu Shengping did give her a method of refining a spiritual weapon, but that method required a willing soul.

The souls of most mortals and low-level monks will dissipate directly after death. Only evil spirits with deep resentment and obsession may remain, and they need to do so voluntarily, which is a very difficult thing.

Unless we find a cultivator with a soul at the Nascent Soul stage or above, what conditions would such a person need to put forward to get him to volunteer?

No... Ruan Xing suddenly thought of Cui Yurong.

She is a ghost cultivator, her yin energy and soul are naturally powerful, and she also has obsessions. I am her benefactor, so is it okay for her to voluntarily become a spirit of the weapon?

No, no! Turning the heroine into a spirit is fine as long as she thinks about it. If she can really do it, the heavens might send down 1,800 thunderbolts to kill her.

She couldn't gamble on something with such a low probability.

Moreover, if you want to refine a spiritual weapon, you need to open the chains on Cui Yurong. If you want to open the chains, you need to refine a spiritual weapon first.

No solution.

She shook her head and lay down in a more comfortable position. "Forget it. I can't think of it now. I'll talk about it later."

She should simulate it first.

She first used text simulation, selected a random item, and brought out a section of tree roots given to her by the barrier tree. She was lucky enough to get the root in just two tries.

She needed this tree root to freely enter and exit the Xumi Realm and the National Master's Palace.

This can be considered as a small back door opened for her by the barrier tree.

Afterwards, real-life simulation was used to begin evolving how to complete Liuyang Study via the most appropriate route.

But every time, she was defeated by that barrier.

She tricked Jinhuan and Fuchen out and killed the master of the temple. The barrier could not be opened and the tree roots in the back mountain were beyond her reach. She could only barely control the situation for about an hour. By the time Fuchen and Jinhuan came back, she would be dead with the help of the tree roots in the back mountain.

After tricking Jinhuan and Fu Chen out, she went out to kill them. With the help of hundreds of puppet armies, she finally won the victory after going through untold hardships. However, when she returned to Liuyang Study, she was blocked by the barrier and could not get in. Even if she turned into Jinhuan and the other two, she could not trick the master of the study, because the master said that if he could open the barrier by himself and come in, he would not open the barrier no matter what she said.

In the end, Ruan Xing got tired of killing, so the three of them decided to fight to the death inside the barrier. However, this choice almost always resulted in mutual destruction.

After dozens of simulations, there was almost no progress.

In other words, she was stuck.

Stuck in the barrier.

"What should I do..." Ruan Xing rubbed his eyebrows helplessly.

She has used up nearly 100,000 points and now only has more than 90,000 points left.

Suddenly, a cold hand covered Ruan Xing's forehead.

She stared over blankly.

Jian Lai pursed his lips, and his slightly helpless voice came from the mind link.

"Master...don't bother me...I am willing..."

Ruan Xing took a moment to react before he understood what Jian Lai was saying.

He knew what method Xu Shengping had given her, and he also knew that his own soul was in the Mo Sui, and after being nourished by the Soul-Nourishing Wood, Jian Lai's mental state was almost the same as that of a normal boy of twelve or thirteen years old, except that he could not speak clearly.

only……

"no!"

Ruan Xing decisively refused.

"I would rather not go to Liuyang Study and escape from Nanzhou with my sister Hu San and the others than let you die."

Jianlai has been with her since her mortal days until now, and is a reliable support.

Sometimes, she only felt at ease when Jian Lai was by her side.

She didn't know what a person's soul had to go through to become a spirit weapon, and she didn't know whether he would still be himself after becoming a spirit weapon.

Anyway, she has a simulator and there is still a lot of time in the future. Perhaps after she becomes a spirit and returns to the abyss, the problem of the barrier can be easily solved.

There is no need to risk the sword.

Even if it would be doubly difficult for her to find a place to settle down in the world of immortal cultivation with so many people, she would not give up Jian Lai.

But if you choose to give up this opportunity, the previous 100,000 points invested will be in vain.

And there is a high probability that Cai Wen will be sacrificed.

The heroine Cui Yurong may suffer a lot of unnecessary torture in Liuyang Study, and eventually transform into the paranoid and cruel ghost cultivator in the book.

Jian Lai squatted down and looked Ruan Xing in the eye. With only one pure black eye left, he looked a little ferocious, and the empty eye socket on the other side was strangely sunken.

You can still see that he has a somewhat stubborn expression.

"As long as I can protect my master... I am willing to... become anything..."

Ruan Xing turned his head away and closed his eyes, "...No."

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