i am a tree

Originally, most of the dens of foxes were tree holes or soil holes forcibly snatched from weak animals such as rabbits. They generally did not dig holes by themselves, mainly because their claws did not have the advantage in this regard.

But the young fox in front of me seemed to want to break the rules. It stretched out its two short front paws and began to dig holes under the two rocks. It worked intermittently for ten days before finally Make it satisfying.

This little fox does not remember me or have any attachment to me, but because the place where I live has a strong aura. Nanmu once said that a fox is a kind of animal with deep spirituality. Ethnic groups with a particularly high rate of transformation, let alone spiritual cultivation.

After it came back from foraging every day, it just lay obediently in the cave, closed its eyes lazily, and enjoyed the surrounding aura.

The speed of my cultivation is not slow, and the astrolabe is like a black hole, desperately absorbing the surrounding aura. Although most of the aura has been absorbed, I can't use it. I can only watch them dissipate into the air, but such a huge The amount, even if only one percent of it is absorbed, is quite impressive.

Many of my tree roots that were deeply rooted in the ground slowly penetrated the little fox's nest, and the little fox obediently dug a little deeper and bigger, and lay down next to my tree roots, as if A sweet kid.

It’s not that there are no other animals that have sensed the aura have come here. The larger animals can only look at this cave with a sigh of relief, while the smaller animals, the little fox, rushes up to fight with them and protect their own cave. territory.

If there are no animals around, the little fox will run out of the cave, lie on the stone, bask in the sun for a while, and occasionally, it will rub against my tree trunk, let the whole tree be in its rough It shook violently under the movement.

Day after day, time is like a stream in a deep mountain, gurgling by, leaving pebbles with smooth edges.

Under the nourishment of spiritual energy, the little fox became more and more agile. Although he hadn't stepped on the real path of cultivation, he was far different from those ignorant fellows who lived by instinct. Even the intruder During the fight, they also began to dig pits and set traps, twists and turns, and once even played a real trick, attracting a leopard to a tiger.

I am also facing a bottleneck, and the speed of absorbing spiritual energy with the astrolabe has slowly weakened, as if it has reached saturation.

That is the feeling that there is a world difference between a layer of veil.

After taking this step, I can really succeed in transforming, but this step is like a star that is out of reach, I can't see it, I can't touch it, and I am slowly groping with only a trace of intuition.

At this time, 18 long years have passed. Logically speaking, such a long time is enough for me to grow from a small sapling to a big tree. It would be as it is now, no more than a meter tall and no thicker than an arm. If I hadn't been convinced that I was a tree, I would have thought I was probably a shrub in a woodland swamp.

It frustrates me to grow so slowly. At this rate, I don't know how many years it will take to grow as tall as these giant trees next to me.

The little fox is gradually able to communicate with me.

I don’t know why, but it is full of admiration for me. It looks at me innocently with its black eyes, and when it is happy, it tears and bites my leaves with its mouth. It even learned to climb trees.

In the natural state, the lifespan of a fox is generally about ten to 15 years, but this little fox has lived for nineteen years and is still healthy and lively.

Breaking through the limit of lifespan is the first step to becoming a demon cultivator.

Of course, there are not only me and the little fox in this forest, but there are two demon cultivators or spiritual cultivators who have spiritual intelligence and have transformed or are about to transform.

So in the past ten years, there have been no natural disasters, but there have been several man-made disasters.

A low-level demon cultivator like the little fox will naturally not attract the attention of other creatures, because there are too many low-level demon cultivators like the little fox in this world, as long as you are not a particularly rare species, you will not Being noticed, what's more, there is always a little bit of incense among demon cultivators of the same kind, just like ordinary people still love children, even if they are not their own flesh and blood.

But because of the existence of the astrolabe, the place I am in is like a light in the dark, attracting intelligent creatures around, like moths rushing to the flame, one after another, even the ants are unwilling Later, an ant nest was built in the ground next to the stone.

Several demon cultivators and spiritual cultivators appeared nearby out of thin air, and their spiritual consciousness swept across my tree over and over again. My spiritual consciousness was hidden in the astrolabe, but they didn't find it.

A few monks found the little fox, held it in their hands and looked left and right. The little fox was struggling desperately and screaming, which sounded horrible. Those monks soon realized that it was just a There is nothing unusual about a little fox that has just begun to have intelligence, except that this little fox is the most common grass fox, but it is a bit rare to have intelligence. After all, it is not rare to be rare. , after all, this little fox is lucky.

They let the little fox go, and the little fox ran back to the cave very quickly, leaning against my tree roots and shivering, looking extremely frightened.

These monks were not reconciled, they wandered around here, and one of them was a spiritual practitioner, and even lived nearby. The reason why this place can gather spiritual energy is still unknown, but it is also considered to be able to find such a place to practice good.

This spiritual practice is a piranha.

These demon cultivators and spiritual cultivators basically don't have any caves, and they don't know how to build any houses. Most of the time, they are still in their original form.

There are three flowers growing on the branches of this piranha. The flowers are huge in shape, bright in color, and the fragrance is so strong that you want to sneeze. The man with the fragrance of orchids also likes to wear a thin red gauze dress, which is half exposed, and even the two spots on the white chest can be glimpsed from time to time.

With it sitting here, other spirit cultivators and demon cultivators would avoid it.

Because he has a weird personality, eats everything, likes raw food, and is moody, two demon cultivators who annoyed him were swallowed by this piranha, and the next day, their flesh and blood were completely melted. Let this piranha immediately bloom another fragrant flower.

When I saw this scene, my branches and leaves trembled, and I felt a little chill for no reason.

The piranha came over, and touched my leaves with white jade-like hands, "Don't be afraid, I won't do anything to you, you are still so young, even if you want to eat it, you have to wait for you to transform into one." Right." He licked his lips and said intoxicatedly, "I don't like to eat your food, this is what I like to eat." The place where he pointed was a piece of clothing.

——It was left behind by the demon cultivator he ate.

I just want to shout for help.

The little fox was also scared to death, and even went out to look for food quietly. Seeing the strong pressure brought by the piranhas, the thick brown-red fur on its body had already fallen off a lot, and patches of baldness appeared on its body. Even so, it refused to leave the vicinity.

Every night I hugged my tree root and shivered, my eyes were full of fear and grievance, and I almost shed tears.

The little fox, nourished by the aura, has an excellent sense of smell and hearing, and even moves much more agilely than before. Catching food is no longer a difficult task for it, even though Even in the face of natural enemies such as tigers and leopards, they can retreat calmly.

Probably frightened by the man-eating flower, the little fox actually learned from the squirrel and secretly brought back a lot of food from the outside and hid it in the cave.

Since I have been discovered by the piranha to have spiritual intelligence, I stepped out generously, relying on every photosynthesis, absorbing the surrounding aura, tempering the tree body and spirit.

The astrolabe and my spiritual consciousness are blended together. Perhaps it is because of this that these monks have not discovered this secret.

The piranha swayed its huge and gorgeous flowers, and turned into a human form on the spot. He swayed and walked towards the nearby forest.

It should be said that such a vicious and coquettish piranha, it should be impossible for monks to be willing to get along with him, but this is not the case. Every day, the piranha waits for the sun to rise, stands up yawning, and conjures up Basin of water to wash and dress up, and then go to the nearby monk, although it is very likely that he will run back with an angry face after a while, but it is like fleas that cannot be killed, and the next day, he will go there on time up.

As far as I can see, he has basically never practiced. At the beginning, I was surprised by this, because this piranha has a high level of cultivation. According to what Nanmu said, he has at least reached the fusion stage , in spiritual practice, it is quite good.

Later, I learned that his method of cultivation is different from other spiritual cultivation methods, relying on the evil method of devouring other monks to increase his own cultivation, which is also in line with the eating habits of piranhas, but this method of cultivation After all, it hurts the harmony of nature, that's why the piranha is rejected and resented by other monks. If you don't pay attention, you will be calculated or plotted by them, and then there will be a hunting and anti-hunting hunt.

So piranhas are doomed to be lonely.

I am very interested in that mysterious monk. After all, it is really rare to subdue such a creepy spiritual cultivator, and the means must be quite clever.

Of course, the little Jiujiu in my heart wanted to learn some experience from this mysterious monk, not to mention that he could subdue this piranha, at least not let him look at me and the little fox drooling every day.

Unfortunately, I can neither move freely nor dare to release my consciousness at will.

If the secret with the astrolabe is discovered, it is estimated that the piranha will not drool at me, but swallow me directly.

Cultivation is actually a rather boring and boring thing. Fortunately, as a tree, not to mention other advantages, at least in terms of patience, few people can match it, rooted in the middle of those two rocks, and after a long time, the two The stone has already been squeezed by me into a huge crack. Besides me, there are many weeds growing in this crack, which are thriving.

Those grass seeds scattered by the wind will never miss a place where they may take root.

I don't know how other practitioners cultivate. I only know that there is no shortcut to spiritual cultivation. You can only take one step at a time, and move forward slowly. After ten years of cultivation, not only the attack power is low, but also the defense ability is not high.

If we have to talk about the benefits of this way of practice, then the only thing that is easy to pass is the catastrophe. For spiritual and human cultivation, the catastrophe is extremely terrible. If it happens, it is a matter of narrow escape, and the probability of falling is very high Scary, but for spiritual practice, many times, it is just a slightly troublesome test.

If there is no reason for wanting to save the big tree, I have no objection to this cultivation method of laying a solid foundation and exchanging time for cultivation, and I even like it, but now, with the passage of time , I don’t know where the big tree is yet, my cultivation base is still progressing slowly, I can’t help but feel a little restless, and even the astrolabe is a little ready to move, as if a demon was born, it began to absorb the surrounding at a very fast speed Spiritual energy poured into my tree trunk.

Cultivators are generally extremely sensitive to the aura of heaven and earth.

Such a crazy gathering of spiritual energy almost immediately attracted the attention of the surrounding monks.

The piranha wandered around, and when it saw displeased monks, it went up to give them a head-up. When it was tired, it came back and yawned and went to sleep. Of course, before going to bed, it didn’t forget to walk up to me and the little fox and play with us. Fan, say something like "You guys are going to grow up soon, I'm waiting to eat you, look, the leaves are all gone and the hair is bald, tsk tsk", which makes people see nonsense with black lines.

He's only a little quieter at night when he's sleeping.

The huge flower disc was gathered up, and under the moonlight, it was less ferocious and more gentle.

On this day, the piranha ran to the towering giant tree next to it to bask in the sun. The red gauze and black hair fluttered in the wind, which seemed a bit poignant. At this moment, there was a commotion in the sky above the forest.

The piranha stood on the top of the tree, as if it had become a part of the tree, shaking slightly with the shaking tree body.

Yu Astrolabe, who was absorbing spiritual energy, stopped abruptly, like an engine that had lost power, silently, and even the most common spiritual energy transformation stopped.

I have a headache, I'm used to relying on the astrolabe, suddenly, it's like eating without chopsticks, although I can barely make do with my hands, but it's always awkward.

The little fox whined a few times, thinking about it, he was not used to the sudden food shortage, but since the old man in green clothes regarded the astrolabe as a treasure, of course it has something extraordinary. From this point of view, it should be what happened.

I was thinking about it.

I saw a phantom passing by me, barely stopped beside the piranha, and looked into the distance together with him.

It was a young man in a gray suit.