Changsheng: Peak at the Beginning

Jiang Xinxin and Jiang Xiaoguan walked around the mountain temple twice and finally determined that the mountain god here should have been deposed when King Xian entered the mountain. King Xian obviously would not continue to allow the incense and faith in the mountain god to remain, so he must have taken away something that was vital to the mountain god.

Jiang Jiuri was not interested in mountain gods. He took out a compass and checked for a while. He finally determined the location of the huge husband and wife tree mentioned by the village chief. "We still need to walk down the mountain for a while. It is estimated that we got lost in the miasma and lost the direction and missed the husband and wife tree."

After they packed up, they walked down a little further and found a relatively flat place. However, there were suddenly more poisonous insects in this dense forest, which showed that they had not found the wrong place.

We cut down trees all the way in. If it weren't for the obvious gaps left by the cut branches, anyone else might not have been able to get out. Although this small platform doesn't look big when looking from above, it took us a long time to finally find the huge couple tree.

This time Jiang Xinxin didn't need to say anything, Jiang Jiuri could tell at a glance that this huge banyan tree was very strange. Not to mention the branches and leaves that covered the sky, even the roots crawling on the ground seemed to be hundreds of meters long. Once you got here, you could hardly see the sunlight outside. The biting cold wind added a lot of weird atmosphere to this place.

Jiang Jiuri stood on a raised root and looked up at the tree for a while, but could not see anything. Jiang Xiaoguan pointed out to him, "The earth's energy is suppressed here. This couple tree alone may not be able to do this. It seems that there must be something hidden in the trunk."

Jiang Jiuri listened to the intermittent howling of the eagle owl coming from his ears, accompanied by gusts of cold wind. The atmosphere was almost the same as that inside the bronze door. When he heard Jiang Xiaoguan say that there was something in the couple tree, he quickly flew up to check the situation.

The roots of the Couple Tree are so huge that it takes seven or eight people to hug them together. The height of the trunk is also not low, almost ten meters. Jiang Jiuri was very skilled in martial arts and climbed up safely. After searching for a long time, he finally saw something red below in the gap in the middle.

"There really is something hidden in this tree trunk. I'm afraid we'll have to split the trunk open to get it out."

Jiang Xiaoguan followed him up the tree, took a closer look and explained, "This should be a place where King Xian was buried. The tree burial method was used to suppress the earth's energy and the mountain god at the same time."

Jiang Xinxin drew out the Three Poisons and asked the two of them to move aside: "Just split the tree trunk in half."

Jiang Xiaoguan and Jiang Jiuri quickly slid down with the rope. Jiang Xinxin stepped on the branch and swung the sword to the ground. The couple tree then split open smoothly, revealing a crystal coffin soaked in red liquid.

Jiang Jiuri moved closer to check the crystal coffin, muttering, "This King Xian is really good at this. Any old trees or single mountains near the tomb are considered bad places and must not be used to bury people. Especially this old banyan tree, which is the first of the five evils in the Yin house. He also left the coffin suspended in the air. If it weren't for the excellent feng shui of this insect valley and the unique water dragon halo, it would have been buried not with a meritorious official but an enemy."

Jiang Xinxin released her spiritual sense to investigate a little and found that the person buried in the bright red liquid was wearing a hideous pure gold mask, holding a dragon and tiger cane in his hand, and wearing clothes embroidered with various animals. It seemed that he was the high priest beside King Xian.

There were living insects swimming constantly in the medicine, as if they could sense the vitality of the living people. The movements of those insects became more and more obvious, as if they wanted to break out of the crystal coffin.

Realizing that because the couple tree had cracked, the suppressed earth energy underneath was ready to pour out, Jiang Xinxin quickly pulled Jiang Xiaoguan and Jiang Jiuri back away.

Whether it is spiritual energy or earth energy, if it gathers, it must disperse, if it is collected, it must be released, so that it can form a complete cycle. Otherwise, if you just take it without replenishing it, the heaven and the earth will automatically think that the spiritual energy or the earth energy is insufficient. Even if you can consume the original source to replenish it for a while, over time, the heaven and the earth will only survive with a short tail and continue to weaken the spiritual energy and the earth energy.

After King Xian came here, he constantly suppressed and absorbed the earth's energy and spiritual energy. A thousand years is nothing in the eyes of heaven and earth, otherwise this place would have been turned into a barren desert by King Xian long ago.

As Jiang Xinxin walked away, she couldn't help but strike the crystal coffin with a sword. The sword energy directly split the crystal coffin and the high priest buried inside in half. The earth energy finally broke free from the restraints, and the huge impact directly smashed the couple tree that stretched for a hundred meters above. Even the sky changed immediately. Dark clouds gathered quickly, and violent storms, thunder and lightning were right in front of them.

The three of them couldn't help but look back as they ran from a distance, seeing the thunder striking the platform without hesitation. The mighty power of heaven made Jiang Jiuri and Jiang Xiaoguan couldn't help but be shocked.

Back at the mountain temple, Jiang Xinxin listened to the continuous thunder outside and couldn't help shaking her head, "This King Xian is really a piece of shit!"

Jiang Xiaoguan couldn't help but say, "Today's lightning looks different from what we've seen before."

Jiang Jiuri didn't quite understand what Jiang Xiaoguan was referring to, but he knew that what Jiang Xiaoguan was talking about was definitely not louder thunder or more lightning, but something related to the supernatural.

Jiang Xinxin nodded and confirmed: "King Xian's act of seizing the earth and spiritual energy of Zhalong Mountain angered the Heavenly Dao. The Heavenly Dao doesn't care whether this is a blessed land for gods or not. As long as He knows that King Xian, a mere mortal, dared to do such a serious act of deceiving the Heaven, He will not tolerate the existence of King Xian."

As she spoke, Jiang Xinxin felt a pity for the spiritual creatures in the mountain that were born from the spiritual energy imprisoned by King Xian. "It's just a pity for the spiritual creatures that benefited from King Xian's actions. Even if King Xian hadn't seized the spiritual energy and earth energy, they would have at most been born a little later. But now, after all, they have benefited from King Xian's act of deceiving the heaven, and now they will die under the thunder."

Jiang Jiuri curled his lips upon hearing this, "Xinxin, you tend to overthink things sometimes. How do you know that those spiritual creatures benefited passively? Not all of them are eager to take shortcuts."

Jiang Xiaoguan also spoke to comfort Jiang Xinxin, saying, "Plants are simple but also cruel. Even if they don't have spirituality, they will only pursue and grab everything that is beneficial to them, regardless of where these benefits come from. They are even more ruthless than humans in killing and ostracizing their own kind."

Jiang Xinxin had to correct her statement again: "What I mean is, those plants that were taken care of by the mountain gods in the past. Because of the care of the mountain gods, they are more likely to give birth to spirituality than ordinary ones. But one day, King Xian came here and killed the mountain god and cut off the inheritance of the mountain god. It is even very likely that he took the mountain god and refined it into a tomb guardian beast. They could have had a bright future, but because of King Xian's selfishness, their future was completely cut off, so I feel pity and pity."