i am a tree

This woodland swamp is vast and stretches for an unknown number of kilometers. There are endless bushes, and occasionally you can see hills climbing with extremely gentle slopes.

There are abundant underground water sources here, which slowly seep out of the ground in various ways, nourishing moisture-loving plants such as Carex, and the dead branches, fallen leaves and decaying grass that have accumulated slowly over the years, in this case , turned into peat, and over time, the forest gradually turned into a swamp. Like this kind of place, the aura is stagnant, not to mention cultivation, even if you pass by occasionally, those practitioners will not raise their eyes to look up.

That was of course the case.

But now this theory is broken, because of the existence of big trees.

Since the big tree was reborn, apart from not remembering me, there have been no obvious changes in other aspects.

I still walk out of the tree on time every day, but no longer collect dew and light spots, but sit cross-legged on the branch above my head, with the robe hanging down, even There is a trace that can touch my leaves.

He closed his eyes, as if growing on that tree trunk.

If the tree moves, it will move; if the tree is still, it will be still.

If it weren't for the faint white breath on his body, I would have thought he was asleep.

Dashu seems to be cultivating, and at a completely different speed from before, he is making great progress day by day, but he seems to be a machine for cultivation, lacking the wisdom of the original Dashu.

I remembered what Nanmu once said, the road to practice is extremely difficult, just like climbing the road of Shu, every step is walking on the edge of a cliff, if you are not careful, you will fall down, your body will be smashed to pieces, and you will not even get reincarnation.

Before stepping into the road of cultivation, there is a preparation stage. My ability to draw spiritual energy is only in this preparation stage. Ordinary human beings, not one in tens of thousands of people, can have this kind of physique and get Chance enters this preparatory phase.

Originally Dashu was probably at this stage of preparation, but now, I can clearly perceive that he has formally stepped into the world of practitioners.

Whether this is good or bad, I still don't know.

Just seeing the big tree with eyes closed, meditating on top of my head all day, but not even looking at me, even if it is a tree, it still hurts my heart.

The Narcissus flower spirit would stumble over every day and sit on my branch. At the beginning, it would fly to the big tree and circle around him. Later, I found that the big tree looked up at him except at the very beginning. , After that, there was no more movement.

The Narcissus flower spirit was a little dazed, so she had to imitate the appearance of the big tree, sitting on my branch, crossing her legs, and began to practice like that.

Its slender body weighs almost nothing.

I don't know why it is so attached to me and Dashu.

A chafer flew to the side of the daffodil and landed on a leaf of mine.

The swamp is home to countless insect and invertebrate life like millipedes, centipedes, beetles, flies, moths, butterflies, and even scorpions.

This beetle had a copper-green light on its back, landed on my leaf, looked around, and immediately began to bite my leaf. After a while, my leaf was covered with a net. Hollows and gaps, not even the veins of the leaves were spared, half-gnawed.

I originally thought that this daffodil flower spirit who likes to stick to me would not just watch my leaves being ruined by scarabs. Unexpectedly, he is useless than I imagined, and the scarabs are still far away from him. He flew up and hid far away, watching the beetle raging on my leaves arrogantly.

Also with a look of disgust.

This guy has nothing but good looks, cleanliness, and fluff.

After the beetles gnawed away at my leaf, they were probably full for the time being. They lay down on the bare veins of the leaf, motionless, and seemed not planning to leave my place for the time being.

I had to suffer in silence.

As a tree, this kind of thing will happen often, just get used to it, there are many leaves, it doesn’t matter if one leaf is missing, when there are many leaves, don’t worry, I comfort myself in my heart.

Even so, when I saw the beetle that had rested for a while and started to attack the second leaf unceremoniously, I was still worried.

The big tree was still cultivating there without moving.

Since the rebirth of the big tree, the gray birds that originally built their nests on it have also disappeared.

Now no one will come to help me clean the pests off my body.

I have to figure it out on my own.

Now the big tree doesn't need my aura anymore, so I guided the little aura along the trunk of the tree to rush towards the scarab.

The beetle shook for a bit, its front mouthparts were biting my leaves tightly, and its six legs were even more firmly attached to my leaves. I couldn't manipulate the tree body at will. Looking at all this, I could only stare blankly. , There is no way at all, I can only use the spirit of perseverance to guide the aura over and over again, thinking that if I am lucky, I can rush it away.

When facing the food, this beetle is very determined. After trying for a long time, maybe my strength is too weak, but I still haven't made any progress.

The wind blew, and the leaves shook involuntarily.

There was a rustling sound, which seemed to be a silent sigh.

My tree roots are slowly growing underground, because right next to the big tree, our roots are inevitably entangled together.

Since the big tree was reborn, it has even absorbed a lot more water and nutrients, lost many small roots, and grew new ones at an extremely fast speed, and those new roots robbed the surrounding Everything, so that the leaves of a few trees next to it and the weeds on the ground began to turn slightly yellow, looking like they were malnourished.

Me too.

If I were just a young tree, then I might be obedient to all of this, but I am not, and the doting of the big tree in the past made it impossible for me to accept everything now.

That strong sense of gap.

The feeling of falling from the clouds is nothing more than that.

So I pretty much let that beetle gnaw on my leaves.

It's kind of self-defeating.

That day, the beetle had already gnawed away half of my leaves.

The other leaves also became more and more dry and yellow because the roots could not absorb enough nutrients.

A meteor-like light flew over.

It fell to the ground with a "bang", this feeling is very familiar.

Sure enough, when everything around calmed down, he heard a familiar voice coming from the pit, "Hey, hey, it happens every time. This place is really weird. I've never been so embarrassed before." He supported himself With a crown of hair, he wiped the dirt on his face with annoyance, "Oh, you're all right."

He ran towards the big tree with an excited expression on his face. After seeing the big tree, his face was full of relief, "I was still worried that Mo Yao would kill you. After finally escaping, run back and have a look."

Even with such a big commotion, Dashu remained unmoved at all, and looked at Nanmu calmly.

Nanmu scratched his head, as if he had finally noticed something was wrong, "It doesn't seem right, what's wrong, what did Mo Yao do to you? Oh, my God, this little tree is not your heart Meat? You actually let this scarab eat its leaves?" Nanmu looked at the tree in disbelief.

Dashu heard his words and moved his eyes to me.

Looking at the beetle, the beetle seemed to be frightened, and immediately climbed to the ground along my tree trunk, and burrowed into the ground.

"Hey, what's going on here." Nanmu scratched his head irritably, walking up and down under the big tree, not knowing what he was thinking, "But why did your cultivation base soar so much all of a sudden? It has entered the foundation building stage." Nanmu clicked his tongue in amazement, "It's like a puppet, only cultivated, but deprived of intelligence."

At this time, Nanmu took out a jade box, "I have to find a way."

Like his hand, he squeezed a formula, and a ray of light hit Dashushu.

The big tree shook violently, and even its roots in the ground moved, as if it was about to break through the ground, and the soil layer loosened slightly.

The big tree sitting on its own branch finally responded.

He raised his hand, and lightly waved his palm in the direction of Nanmu.

Nanmu's face changed, and he stepped back abruptly, a hole was immediately blasted where he was standing.

"Hey, I said, I want to help you. Don't be ignorant of good and bad. You are ignorant now. If you continue to practice, you will go crazy sooner or later!" Nanmu yelled.

However, Dashu obviously couldn't hear or understand what he said. His chaotic thoughts only knew that there was an enemy attacking his body.

The two of them acted like destructive madmen, using low-level spells one after another like thunder in the palm, turning the forest upside down.

Here Nanmu has to take care not to hurt the big tree, while the big tree over there is desperately attacking, the two of them advance and retreat, for some reason, Nanmu ran to my side.

I looked at raising my hand, and it was another big tree that was about to be struck by thunder in the palm of my hand.

Suddenly there is a feeling of disheartened.

I suspect that Nanmu standing next to him did this on purpose.

The big tree raised his hand, and on the translucent palm, light flickered, and the surrounding spiritual energy was absorbed, and after being compressed to the limit, it would form a palm thunder.

The big tree, which was already in a state of ignorance, didn't have the slightest scruples when it was killed.

The palm thunder formed by the compressed spiritual energy was about to hit Nanmu.

If I had hands and feet, I would definitely cover my eyes with my hands. It would be too miserable to see myself being blown up.

The thunder in the palm mixed with the sound of wind and thunder did not hit me.

When Dashu raised his hand and was about to attack, for some reason, he paused for a moment, and the flashing light in his palm was forced to stop, becoming flickering, like a light tube with unstable voltage.

The big tree was backlashed by the impact, and the translucent figure twisted, sometimes thin and sometimes thick, and the edges were even the same as the surrounding air.

Dashu's facial features have been out of shape to the point of being unrecognizable, half of his dry face and one side of his delicate face are jumbled together like a terrible jigsaw puzzle.

He took three steps back, clutching his chest, vaguely, I saw the place where his hand was covering, there was a white light overflowing, slowly calming down, as if smashed into a small pond with a boulder same body.

Seeing the danger pass, Nanmu, who was screaming at the side, jumped out again, walked to the big tree three times, looked at the big tree that had no energy left to attack, and clicked his tongue, "Not bad, not bad, still stay!" Lost a bit of wisdom."

He took out the jade box again.

The big tree moved his hands slightly, but on his terrifying face, there was a pair of ruthless and sentimental eyes, just like this world, the avenue is ruthless, but it nourishes all things, it is both the most merciful and the most cruel, Under the gaze of these eyes, no one can talk and act on his own, not even Nanmu who is far stronger than Dashu.

So Namki sighed.

He looked at the big tree still lying on the ground unable to move, and sat aside with a troubled face, staring blankly at the sky in a daze.

The white unidentified object in Dashu's body here is constantly walking along his limbs and bones. Everywhere he goes, it seems to fill in the gaps and repair the damaged and injured body of Dashu. When he didn't notice, the internal injury caused by Dashu's backlash from the palm thunder had already improved.

Maybe it's because the aura I guided was absorbed by the white light and turned into a part of Dashu's body. I can clearly feel everything that Nanmu can't see.

A few days later, Nanmu left behind a jade slip, several bottles of medicine pills and a ring-shaped magic weapon, and left.

Before leaving, he was still reluctant to part, and repeatedly chattered with Dashu, "Hey, I said, if you change your mind, you can come to me according to the method on the jade slip. I can't stay here for long. Who knows if Mo Yao will Will follow again, he is a madman."

After Nanmu left, the forest returned to its former tranquility.

But this is only on the surface. If you look carefully, you will find that everything has changed.

With the big tree as the center, those trees, flowers and plants slowly withered, like a vicious infectious disease, and all living things around them gradually disappeared, from beetles to ants, from gray birds to hares living under the trees.

The small pond has also turned into a stagnant pool. It used to be covered with cartilaginous grass and foxtail algae, but now it has disappeared. The water quality that was originally clear has become turbid, and thick green algae are floating on it. The massive growth made the whole pond exude a faint stench.

The narcissus bush next to it is still a little green, but the leaves are also yellow, and the tip of the leaf is curled up. As for the flowers blooming on the slender stems, they have already withered, and the narcissus spirit has disappeared.

It's slowly dying here.

unexplained.

Only the big tree is still a cage of green onions.

And I am still alive, except for some malnutrition.

The big tree is still sitting on the trunk of the tree to practice, and he doesn't seem to be aware of what is happening next to him.

The aura around me is getting thinner and thinner. The aura I can collect every day is only one-third of what it used to be. I didn't waste this little bit of aura. I slowly let it grow along The body of the tree is flowing.

When I did this, Dashu noticed.

I felt that he glanced at me with a penetrating look, but he didn't express anything about it, as if he meant to let me go.

I remembered what Nanmu said, the big tree still retains a trace of wisdom.

It even forgets everything.

But he would rather hurt himself than hurt me.

So I've let go of her indifferent appearance now.

It's just that looking at the surrounding environment like a wasteland, and thinking about the lush vegetation in the past, it's still a bit sad.

Although it is not certain, all this should be related to the big tree.