As the saying goes, the sky has its weight, and the earth has its nine depths.
This Taoist scripture is called Jiuyou, and if it were not suspected of false propaganda, the meaning it represents would be quite astonishing.
Once upon a time, when Jiang Li first entered the world of immortality, he complained about why there couldn't be a technique that would allow him to directly ascend to the path of immortality.
Today, such an article of practice is placed in front of him.
Even if the heaven-given Taoist scriptures with spiritual roots of heaven and earth cannot be said to directly point to the great road, at the very least, there will be no problem in cultivating a true immortal.
The second parallel consciousness, which is now the spiritual root clone, has not yet received all the inheritance of the spiritual root branch.
However, Jiang Li has also learned some information about this ancient tree that looks like a god.
First of all, his previous guess was not wrong. The essence of this thing was indeed one of the spiritual roots of heaven and earth that was born when the world first opened.
Its name is, Jiuyoumu.
Like flat peach, bitter bamboo, gourd vine, ginseng fruit, hibiscus wood, yellow plum, etc., they all possess magical power that dominates the creation of heaven and earth.
According to the consciousness of the branches and the inherited memories of the spiritual roots left behind, it seems that the underworld in the ancient times was built using the Nine Nether Wood as its foundation.
At that time, due to the importance of the Six Paths of Reincarnation, this Nine Netherwood was still unable to maintain its freedom, and had its spiritual intelligence wiped out like the others of its kind.
But Jiuyoumu has also become one of the very few spiritual roots of heaven and earth that are not "destined" with the mighty.
After the great catastrophe in ancient times, the immortals and Buddhas disappeared and the underworld collapsed. While the Nine Nether Tree itself regained its freedom, it also almost completely perished in the great catastrophe of heaven and earth when its spiritual energy was exhausted.
Fortunately, the Nine Nether Land was transformed by the sinking chaotic turbid air when the heaven and earth first opened. It is relatively solid and sealed, and the spiritual energy is not exhausted as quickly as the Nine Heavenly Palace.
With the energy of the earth veins and the countless remaining ghosts from the place of reincarnation as nutrients, this spiritual root of heaven and earth could barely survive the long catastrophe.
It was not until the spiritual energy between heaven and earth revived again, and the prosperous age of the world of immortality came again, that the body of the Nine Netherwood slowly recovered under the nourishment of the spiritual veins.
But after that great catastrophe, this world seemed to be full of malice towards the remnants of life from ancient times.
As soon as the spiritual essence body leaves the land of Jiuyou, the most terrifying disasters such as Nine Heavens Divine Thunder, Nine Flavors True Fire, Nine Flavors Divine Wind, etc. will come without even a single greeting.
The roots growing outward at that time were destroyed one after another.
Even if it is the spiritual root of heaven and earth, it cannot withstand this kind of torment, not to mention that the current power of Jiuyoumu is nothing compared to the past.
Therefore, even now that the world of cultivating immortals is becoming more and more prosperous, there has never been any sign of the birth of the Nine Netherwood.
Of course, the spiritual roots of heaven and earth are also plants. They like to be quiet and don't like to move. As long as they stay in a comfortable environment, they may not move to another nest in ten thousand years.
Not to mention that its consciousness has been wiped away, leaving only the instinct to stand on its head quietly in the Nine Netherlands.
Even without the restrictions of those catastrophes, there is a high probability that the Jiuyoumu itself will be firmly rooted in the ground and will not come out at all.
And those spiritual root branches and spiritual root seeds are also split from it. These branches may be reborn after the catastrophe and are not rejected by the world, so they become the branches of the Nine Netherwood that are spread to the new world outside.
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As for its purpose, this branch of the Nine Nether Tree, which Jiang Li transformed into a clone, seems to want to... replace the main body?
Jiang Li looked at the branch in front of him. Its height was equivalent to that of an ordinary tree of ten years. Thinking about the main body of the Nine Nether Trees that lead to the quiet ground, the gap between them was really extraordinary.
big.
However, after sorting out his memory, he found that this idea did not seem to be out of whim, but stemmed from instinct.
Since the spiritual intelligence of the original body has been wiped out by great power, Jiuyoumu has great power but no will of its own.
Therefore, over thousands of years, Jiuyoumu instinctively reproduces and divides into ramets. After being released, the ramets are allowed to develop on their own.
It seems to be the hope that one day, there will be a descendant that is good enough to grow to a certain level, return to the land of Jiuyou, absorb everything from the original body, and then replace it and regain a new life.
At present, all branches of Jiuyoumu should exist for this goal.
The purpose of all their behaviors is probably to obtain more nutrients to accelerate their growth.
And this spiritual root Jiuyou tree is naturally very different from ordinary grass and trees. They don't like sunlight, and the energy source they rely on for growth is also somewhat special.
Jiuyoumu can grow by absorbing spiritual energy, but that speed is too slow. How long will it take to grow to the same level as the main body?
For this kind of spiritual roots, the monk's cultivation, talent and spiritual roots are the best nutrients for their growth.
And spiritual root seeds are the best way for them to obtain nutrients.
Seeing this, Jiang Li couldn't help but frown.
Feeding on the monk's cultivation, talent, and spiritual roots, this Nine Netherwood unexpectedly turned out to be a man-eating plant, the natural enemy of the monks.
Jiang Li's second clone was too weak before and couldn't be seen clearly, but if a certain branch of Jiuyou is allowed to grow too strong, then the monks in the Dazhong Mountain Cultivation World may suffer a disaster!
At this moment, a fat and ugly ghost lantern fish swam over with a small tail that was disproportionate to its body.
It seemed to be attracted by the abnormality of the spiritual energy vortex, and came over to inspect the territory like an uncle.
As the only living creature in the burial coffin, these ghost lantern fish really live up to themselves as fish kings, and no one from ghosts to zombies dares to act wild in front of them.
These ghost lantern fish will eat whoever they want and bite whoever they want. Even Qin Shuman's face is not easy to do.
"Now that the spirit root clone is here to take charge, let's see how arrogant you can get!"
Jiang Li reached out and grabbed a ghost lantern fish. The chubby guy didn't resist or be afraid. After rolling his eyes at Jiang Li, he shook the ghost lantern hanging in front of his head, looking leisurely and at ease.
In the underwater cemetery below the thermosphere, this ancient fish has lived for thousands or tens of thousands of years.
For other animals, it is a graveyard in the underworld, but for the ghost lantern fish, it is a beautiful Garden of Eden with clothes on hand and food on hand.
Over the years, this fish has long forgotten the existence of natural enemies.
The spirit root clone controlled a vine, rolled it towards this side, and rolled up the fat ghost lantern fish.
Just when he was planning to let his clone teach the fat fish a lesson so that other fish could understand the dangers of the world.
The ghost-fire lantern hanging in front of the head of the ghost lantern fish suddenly swung and hit the clone's vine lightly.
A ball the size of a basketball appeared, green with thick black will-o'-the-wisps, and then a jaw-dropping scene happened.
The cold flames of the blue-black ghost lamp were just flicked, and the Jiuyou vines as thick as an adult's wrist were instantly ignited.
The part of the vines that entangled the ghost lantern fish was burned to ashes in just a few breaths.
The flame had no intention of dying down, and it followed the vine and burned all the way to the spiritual root branch.
Shocked and frightened, as if encountering a natural enemy, Jiang Li's second clone and the whole tree trembled in front of the fat ghost lantern fish's will-o'-wisp.
Snapped!
With quick eyes and quick hands, Jiang Li tore off the vines by force, and quickly left the burial coffin with the remaining vines and ghost lantern flames.
He dropped the broken vine to the ground.
The extremely fierce flames that burned the vines of Jiuyou Wood touched the dead branches and leaves on the ground, but there was no intention of igniting them.
[Name: Ghost Lantern Cold Flame]
[Type: Talented Spiritual Fire]
[Grade: Yellow grade top grade]
[Source: Ghost Lantern Fish Ghost Lantern Burning]
[Note: I can burn it even more vigorously.]
The people in Jiangli were all dumbfounded. They didn't expect that the lanterns of several ghost lantern fish that had no power to bind chickens were actually burning with the innate spiritual fire of the high-grade yellow class.
No, the ghost lantern fish's ghost lantern cold flame was definitely not that powerful at the beginning. It should have been in the burial coffin day by day, and the food was really good, which made the spiritual fire burn stronger and stronger, reaching this level.
However, the spiritual fire that can still grow is even more valuable to Jiang Li.
Jiang Li put his palm close to some flames on the ground. He didn't feel any warmth. Instead, he felt a chill that froze his soul, making him couldn't help but retract his hand.
Jiang Li thought for a while, reached out and pulled out a ghost object from the coffin, and then threw it towards the burning ghost lamp Leng Yan.
Like pouring hot oil on a fire, blue-black flames suddenly shot up to a height of more than one meter. The ghost was wailing at an unusual frequency, and in just two or three seconds, it was completely burned to the ground.
Jiang Li slapped his forehead and couldn't help but feel so frightened that his heart stopped beating for a long time.
He had been using the ghost lantern of this ghost lantern fish as a lighting device before!
But now I discovered that he had been putting more than a dozen detonators and hundreds of tons of fuel together.
The ghosts in the burial coffin are so dense and numerous. If they are accidentally set on fire by some stupid fish, not to mention the more than 400,000 ghosts in Jiang Li, all the ghosts in the burial coffin may be destroyed.
Exploded.
This is very scary. Jiang Li doesn't dare to let these ghost lantern fish move freely like an uncle anymore.
He pressed his palms on the burial coffin and isolated a separate area in the coffin space for them to live in. It was enough to release a hundred ghosts every day to ensure that they would not starve to death.
It wasn't until all the vines were burned to ashes and the blue-black flames were extinguished that Jiang Li breathed a sigh of relief.
Returning to the coffin space, the vine of the spiritual root clone had grown again under the nourishment of spiritual energy, but Jiang Li could still clearly feel the fear transmitted from the instinct of Jiuyoumu.
It’s really like adding salt to the tofu and getting rid of it.
I didn't expect that Tangtang Linggen Branch could be so frightened by such a fat-headed fish.
He recalled again the population of ghost lantern fish that nourished the underwater cemetery, and the scene in which these ghost lantern fish used to play with spiritual root seeds as balls in the burial coffin.
This is outrageous. Not only Jiang Li's second clone, but also the spiritual root branch in the underwater cemetery was obviously bullied by them.
But Jiang Li didn't immediately boil these fish into soup.
On the one hand, fish that have been raised for such a long time still have some emotion.
On the other hand, this situation made Jiang Li think a little more.
If he could get the power of the ghost lantern fish, then the big guy in the underwater cemetery might not be incapable of fighting.
Moreover, the number of Jiuyoumu branches is actually not rare. If Jiang Li is interested in the essence of the Nine Ghost Roots in the future, a fight will be inevitable.
This kind of ghost lamp and cold flame passed down from ancient times may be of great use when the time comes.
The only question now is how he can obtain this powerful natural spiritual fire.
He is not a Fire Spirit Root cultivator and cannot directly refine it. He can only let this flame automatically form a talent in his body... How to do this?
In the spiritual world, the second parallel consciousness is tirelessly absorbing everything from its predecessor. It has grown to more than three meters in height, and is increasingly transforming into the form of a branch consciousness. Only the idol part of the tree trunk is as long as
So he looks a bit like Jiang Li.
Jiang Li squatted in the coffin space and studied the second clone and the ghost lantern fish for a long time. He was full of interest in these two ancient relics.
There was also the Jiuyou Dao Sutra, which was probably not inferior to the Avalokitesvara Heart Sutra, and Jiang Li almost sat down on the spot to practice Qi and change cultivation.
Fortunately, there was still a sane sword cultivator to remind Jiang Li that he was still in the competition.
Although you won’t have to start from scratch when you re-cultivate the Dharma, it will take at least three to five days and sometimes as little as half a month of hard practice.
Jiuyou Dao Jing can be said to be the top-level high-level skill of Gui Mu Jue. The mere ghost wood aura will only become the nourishment of Jiu You Dao Sutra and will not cause any hindrance.
But once you start rebuilding, it's not that easy to stop.
It may be possible to successfully convert the technique while others have already reached the finish line.
This is not a very appropriate time.
Reluctantly, Jiang Li gave up the idea of going into seclusion to practice hard and climbed out of the coffin again.
Calculating the time, I have been staying at the same place for more than a day. If the other qi-training monks were not dead, many of them would have gone to the second mountain.
Then it’s time for us to catch up.
Jiang Li put away the burial coffin and just ejected, he rushed out to a distance of less than 200 meters.
As a result, there was a sound of breaking through the sky, and something was flying towards him at high speed.
Oh! Are you ambushing me?
Jiang Li was inexplicably excited, because the sandbags he delivered to his door always made him feel less psychologically stressed when playing with them.
Otherwise, if he goes around deliberately provoking or fishing for law enforcement, it will appear that he is not upright.
Generally speaking, Jiang Li would only choose to do this kind of operation when no one else could see him.
He stepped forward and stepped into the air, his body suddenly rose into the air, and his pitch-black fists rose up to meet the falling object.
Jiang Li, who has been pounding the mountains and the ground all year round, has become addicted to the feeling of head-on collision with full strength.
However, the next moment, what fell from the rolling clouds and mist was not a magic weapon, but a petite female swordsman in white.
When Jiang Li saw a trace of blood on the opponent's body, he immediately reacted, changed his fists into claws and directly caught the opponent, and saved the person with a posture like a son-in-law holding a tower.
Fall to the ground, turn the person over and lie down on the ground.
"My figure is really flat...ahem...the injuries on my body are really serious."
"Huh? You are so young, no wonder you are so hurtful."
Wait a minute, this swordsman is really young.
Jiang Li looked at the other person's face.
This female swordsman was still in a coma, with a look of pain on her baby-fat face.
He was a little surprised that besides himself, there were also such young monks competing.
"Is it true that sword cultivators in Shushan are also corruptible?"
Jiang Li had completely forgotten that he was looked down upon by others because of his young age. He also judged the other person based on his appearance and characterized the other person as a relationship person who had gone through the back door.
Communicating with the sword cultivator clone, he had been in Shushan for more than a day or two, and he was also a disciple competing in the competition, so the clone wouldn't know him at all.
In just one moment of communication, the information has been exchanged.
Jiang Li looked at the little girl Jianxiu lying in front of him again, already knowing who the gift from heaven was.
I didn't expect that this girl is really a well-connected person, a big one.
The granddaughter of the Contemporary Sword Sect of Five Elements Peak in Shushan, isn’t this world a bit strange?
However, this girl came here to participate in the martial arts competition, but she did not rely on connections, but just like Jiang Li, she relied on actual strength.
On the opponent's left chest, there are two small swords, one blue and one red, crossing each other. This kind of embroidery is unique among the disciples of Five Elements Peak in Shushan Mountain.
The ultimate spiritual root with dual attributes of water and fire!
This is really a talent that scares a person to death.
It's not difficult to change the map and become the protagonist directly.
In addition, the other party is talented and has a strong family background.
He has been nourished by various elixirs and elixirs since he was a child, and received one-on-one enlightenment education from monks at the golden elixir stage or above. Before practicing, he laid a foundation that is astonishing to everyone.
I started practicing qi at the age of eight and made rapid progress along the way.
Although she seems to be younger than Jiang Li now, with the dual cultivation of water and fire, her cultivation has reached the peak of the Qi refining stage, and she is even currently preparing to break through the foundation building.
You must know that Shushan is not a Buddhist scripture valley, and there is not a huge amount of exercises to choose from. Dual cultivation means practicing two exercises at the same time. It requires double the energy and time, and at the same time, she also has to overcome obstacles that are difficult to tolerate.
Under such circumstances, entering the country so quickly, it can be said that he has many resources, good talents, and a strong character, and he is a perfect template for other people's children.
After a while, waiting for her to build the foundation, no one knows how many monks will be shocked by a little girl like her and lose their self-confidence.
However, in the impression of the sword cultivation clone, this young junior sister's water and fire sword skills are quite extraordinary, and she is also a first-class existence in the Qi refining period.
Why was she injured like this?
Is it possible that there are still such masters in this competition?
It seems that we should revive her first.
But the Awakening Pill is so expensive, and she doesn't need it for an injury like hers.
Jiang Li looked around and found a shrub beside him. After identifying the species, he immediately had an idea.
Touching it with his right hand, a stream of wood-attribute spiritual energy shot out, and the short shrub grew rapidly. In just a moment, it seemed that several months had passed, and green fruits with spots on them grew on the branches.
He picked off a few astringent fruits, held them in his hand and brought them to the mouth of the granddaughter of the Sword Sect.
With a gentle squeeze, the green juice immediately splashed out and poured right into her open mouth.
The strong sourness filled the mouth. This little girl had been eating delicacies from mountains and seas since she was a child. She had never tasted this kind of taste.
Her plump mouth twitched from the soreness. She only persisted for a few seconds before she turned over and woke up from a coma, leaned over on the ground and vomited wildly.