Rebirth in the Soul Street: Becoming a Demon King in Another World

The land is flat and the houses are neatly built!

"No Bodhi tree, nor stand mirror."

Looking at the houses in front of him and the village sign with the word "Ming Jing" written on it, Cao Yanling had a feeling of being in another world, as if he had returned to a village in the human world.

However, shortly after Cao Yanling entered, a group of undead holding hoes and sickles rushed out of the village and surrounded Cao Yanling and the other man.

However, after Yu Jin released his aura, these undead souls trembled and put down the farm tools in their hands, and some of them couldn't even stand steadily.

After a long period of negotiations, the villagers finally believed that Cao Yanling had no ill intentions in coming, and he also gained a lot of information from conversations with the villagers.

This so-called Mingjing Village is the boundary divided by the Bodhi tree, but the villagers don’t know how it came about.

Originally, these villagers lived in Bodhi Street, but due to the increasing number of evil spirits, they moved to Mingjing Village. The former soul-suppressing general of Bodhi Street also lived in Mingjing Village.

But one day, the Bodhi Street Soul-Suppressing General went out to clear out the evil spirits and never came back. The exit of Mingjing Village was also blocked, and they have been cut off from the outside world for almost a year.

According to Cao Yanling's guess, the seal should have been set by Lu Qian. After it designed to kill its host and gained freedom, it turned into an evil spirit because of the foul air entering its body. Due to the restrictions on the stone tablet at the entrance of Mingjing Village, it could no longer enter as an evil spirit, but it was reluctant to leave this precious land, so it sealed the entrance and hid it.

“Can you take me to see the Bodhi tree?”

Cao Yanling looked at the old village chief standing beside him.

"Hmm... OK, OK..."

The old village chief was certainly unwilling in his heart, but seeing Yu Jin's cold eyes behind Cao Yanling, he still attracted Lu Lai.

The sacred tree towers high into the sky, its shadows are low in the clouds; the Bodhi tree is silent, and a path is formed of its own accord.

“Is this the sacred Bodhi tree?”

The leaves are as flawless as white jade, and as dense and dazzling as peach blossoms. The trunks are towering and low in the clouds, and the roots are like a coiled dragon.

Under the Bodhi tree, there were many villagers kneeling devoutly. Cao Yanling seemed to see countless old monks worshipping Buddha, and every move was full of piety.

"Okay, thank you, village chief."

After thanking the village chief, Cao Yanling walked straight towards the Bodhi tree. Some villagers wanted to stop him, but they were stopped by Yu Jin's shadow servant.

"You should withdraw now and stop disturbing my Lord."

Yu Jin raised his hand, and the shadow servant turned into a black shadow fence, directly stopping all the villagers.

"Don't worry, my master won't harm the Bodhi tree. If you bump into the shadow fence again, don't blame me for being ruthless."

Outside the shadow fence, the villagers rushed towards it like possessed persons, but Yu Jin's spiritual power exploded, sweeping away all the attacks, and murderous intent gradually gathered in his eyes. With such intimidation and the comfort of the village chief, the villagers finally calmed down.

"Oh! That's interesting, it looks like the effect of mind magic!"

Cao Yanling was somewhat surprised by the villagers' behavior, and then turned his gaze towards the Bodhi tree.

"You did it, right?"

A green magic circle emerged from his hand, and at the same time, the blood of the flower-like deer in his body began to surge. Although he could not perform magical transformation, simple use was no problem.

Cao Yanling touched the Bodhi tree with his hands. With the flash of green light, the trunk opened like a door, revealing a passage as tall as an adult. Then he stepped into it casually.

And this scene, in the eyes of the villagers, was like a miracle!

The villagers present knelt down at the same time and shouted that the sacred tree had appeared.

At first he was extremely narrow, but only then did he understand people. After walking dozens of steps, I suddenly became enlightened.

After passing through the passage, Cao Yanling came to the heart of the tree, which seemed to be another space.

In the wide space at the heart of the tree, a tree lotus was suspended, emitting a faint glow.

"It only has a simple spiritual consciousness?... This shouldn't be the case. At this age, it should have become a demon long ago."

Gently stroking the lotus tree, there was only a vague consciousness rising and falling, but no real wisdom was born.

"Could it be that it is also suppressed by some force like the spiritual locust tree?"

When picking the branches of the locust tree, Cao Yanling explored the inside of the tree, but did not find any birth consciousness inside. Instead, there was an extremely strong force of space. He guessed that it was the force of space that suppressed the birth of the tree spirit.

But what he didn't know was that the tree spirit actually existed, and it was the common tree spirit of the four sacred trees. It was just that he couldn't feel it with his level of perception. And that force of space was the power of another consciousness that existed in the four sacred trees.

However, this is indeed the case with the Bodhi tree. The birth of the tree spirit was indeed suppressed by some kind of force, and it was a force of the same level as the spatial force in the spiritual locust tree.

"Don't worry, don't get excited. I'm just taking a piece of the tree core. I won't hurt you."

Under Cao Yanling's touch, the ignorant consciousness in the tree lotus seemed to reveal fear, and a force similar to the power of the mind surged out, trying to interfere with Cao Yanling's thinking.

"So it was you who influenced those villagers!"

Cao Yanling was not angry at the ignorant tree spirit's resistance. Instead, he smiled, because to Cao Yanling, the tree spirit at this moment was like a cute kitten with bared teeth.

Perhaps, this is the tragedy of the weak!

It was clearly an act of resistance out of fear, but in the eyes of the strong it was seen as cute.

"Since I'm going to take a piece of your tree core, I'll help you!"

As Cao Yanling spoke, a magic circle with white wave patterns appeared in his hand, with countless white threads flowing out of it and stretching towards the tree lotus.

——Source Magic·Soul·Soul Stripping

When controlling the threads formed by soul magic to flow into the tree lotus, he finally felt the power that suppressed the birth of the tree spirit. It seemed to be a force of time, but it was also mixed with some space power.

This force is even stronger than the spatial force in the spiritual locust tree, and time has a stronger ability to erase the soul. Under the suppression of this force, let alone the birth of true wisdom, perhaps within a few years, this ignorant consciousness will also be erased.

Under the influence of soul magic, the ignorant consciousness gradually separated from the lotus tree, and that consciousness seemed to have also felt Cao Yanling's kindness. He used his shallow control over the Bodhi tree to mobilize the vitality in it and flow into Cao Yanling's body.

Originally, Cao Yanling was still worried that his magic power was not enough to separate the soul of the tree spirit. Now that the vitality force has entered his body, it stimulates the vitality of his body. A large amount of spiritual power is born from it, and then transformed into magic power in the guardian spirit space.

In the end, the operation was perfect, and the confused conscious soul was stripped away. Cao Yanling then used Hua Xianglu's talent to mobilize the vitality of the Bodhi tree, causing a tree lotus to grow in the heart of the Bodhi tree, and used soul magic to merge that consciousness into it.

After separating from the lotus tree and becoming independent of another lotus tree, that consciousness will not be suppressed by that force. Under the powerful vitality of the Bodhi tree, it is estimated that it will not take long for that consciousness to truly grow.

"Well, it's time to say goodbye!"

Cao Yanling casually cut off a piece of tree core, and his purpose of finding the Bodhi tree was accomplished. After waving goodbye to that consciousness, he directly left the tree core space.