Longzang

Chapter 591 Eating Without Getting Fat
When Wei Yuan finally saw Qingming in the distance, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Upon returning to Qingming, he imprisoned the women and children in the dungeon, placing them with the other women and children. However, looking at the dungeon, Wei Yuan suddenly felt a strong sense of insecurity.

The Qingming dungeon is currently built in the mountains, dug directly into the rock wall, using the natural rock strata to form the cells. This type of dungeon is sufficient to imprison ordinary cultivators, but it cannot hold those with powerful supernatural abilities. Not to mention ordinary rocky mountains, even the Nether Iron Mountain could not imprison Wei Yuan.

Wei Yuan immediately ordered someone to find Yu Zhizhuo and find a way to reinforce the prison. Then Wei Yuan began to inspect all the women and children he had captured.

They all had the appearance of witches. After Wei Yuan found Sun Yu, he had him randomly select a woman, cut open her stomach, and examine her. Inside, she was also a witch, not human. After examining her, Sun Yu used his Daoist magic to heal the witch's wounds. Under the powerful innate Daoist magic of his Dharma form, her originally severe injuries could now be fully recovered in two days.

Wei Yuan witnessed the entire process and finally understood the terrifying nature of research-oriented talents. In Sun Yu's hands, a body could be opened and manipulated every two or three days, and then, let alone die, it wouldn't even harm one's health. An ordinary person or a shaman might be physically fine after a while, but would most likely suffer a mental breakdown.

Sun Yu then randomly picked another child to look at, and it was also a witch, not a human.

Wei Yuan wasn't sure if he had actually brought Hongye's woman and child back. After hearing Wei Yuan's worries, Sun Yu said, "Then open them all and take a look. It won't take long."

Wei Yuan nodded slowly, although he had a feeling that even if he had looked at everything, there would probably be no result.

Wei Yuan then returned to his residence, took some medicine, and sat in meditation to regulate his breathing and accelerate the recovery of his Dao power.

An hour later, Sun Yu came to Wei Yuan and shook his head.

Wei Yuan then took a leaf from the laurel tree and used it to enhance his fortune, casting a divination. The final divination showed that the person Wei Yuan captured was neither useless nor entirely useful, but rather somewhere in between.

Wei Yuan was also helpless. That's the downside of the way of Qi and Feng Shui; it's often ambiguous. This kind of result is naturally good when applied to others, and many Feng Shui masters make a living from it, interpreting their so-called heavenly secrets however they want. But when applied to oneself, it's frustrating, like a laurel tree losing a leaf for nothing.

Thinking of this, Wei Yuan suddenly had a thought: Why are they the leaves of the Laurel Immortal Tree? Why the Laurel Immortal Tree again? What about the other immortal plants? What about the Ice Glass Divine Tree?
Thinking of this, Wei Yuan remembered that he had sensed something unusual in the mortal realm while he was on the run. At the time, it felt like a certain immortal plant was about to advance in rank. However, he was in a hurry to escape, and after returning to Qingming, there was no movement in the mortal realm, so Wei Yuan almost overlooked it.

He immediately entered the mortal realm and quickly located the Ice Crystal Divine Tree. The Ice Crystal Divine Tree's territory was in a corner of the central city, far from the various research institutes and the Battle Saint Hall that Wei Yuan frequented. It was also located on opposite sides of the city from the Heaven and Earth Creation Research Institute, where cultivators were currently concentrating on tasks and training their spirituality.

The Ice Crystal Divine Tree has few followers, less than ten thousand, making it the least popular among all immortal plants, second only to seaweed. This is because seaweed is located in the deep sea, and mortals have not yet built submarines, so they cannot go there to worship it for the time being.

When Wei Yuan found her location, he was momentarily speechless. The Ice Crystal Divine Tree was located in a small courtyard, the most ordinary kind, with several gaps in the walls. In the courtyard was a dilapidated mud house, with holes even in the door.

The Ice Crystal Divine Tree is hiding in this room.

Wei Yuan entered the courtyard, and in an instant, thousands of mortals in the surrounding area turned to look at him, their eyes filled with something inexplicable. For a moment, they reminded Wei Yuan of the Dream-Eating Puppet. Wei Yuan scanned them with his divine sense, instantly checking their condition, but found nothing particularly outrageous. These mortals were still under his control; they simply hadn't recognized Wei Yuan, mistaking him for a follower of other immortal plants.

In the eyes of these mortals, anyone who is not a follower of the Ice Glass Divine Tree is a heretic or a cultist, not even those who believe in the Creator Immortal.

Upon discovering this, Wei Yuan was somewhat taken aback, then anger surged within him. He thought to himself, "How dare a mere immortal plant disrespect me?" He strode to the front of the house, flung open the door, and a burst of azure light rippled out, almost blinding Wei Yuan.

Inside the house was a hidden world. The ground was a cold pool, in which grew an ice-blue jade tree. The tree's trunk grew in one corner of the pool, but its crown extended along the roof, replacing the roof and covering the pool like an umbrella.

The humble room is dark, but the sacred tree shines brightly.

Each leaf emits a faint blue glow, like starlight or ice jade, illuminating the room like a fairyland.

A peerless beauty sat bathing in the icy pool. Startled by the sound of the door opening, she turned around abruptly and saw Wei Yuan. Her mouth gaped open in surprise, and she almost cried out in shock.

She instinctively covered her chest, barely concealing eight-tenths of her ample bosom, but inadvertently revealed half of the most important part. Realizing her mistake, she quickly covered her face, then vanished into a tree trunk in a flash.

"This is really unnecessary..." Wei Yuan thought to himself. With his photographic memory, he would remember everything that was presented to him clearly. As long as he didn't keep blocking it, it was as if he hadn't blocked it at all.

After complaining, Wei Yuan suddenly realized that she did it on purpose!

"Wow, that's impressive..." Wei Yuan exclaimed, realizing that his position as the Creator Immortal Venerable was actually quite useful. No wonder so many immortals spent all their time managing their mental worlds and seemed to enjoy it so much; it truly was a source of endless fun.

After a moment of reflection, Wei Yuan suddenly realized that the Ice Crystal Divine Tree had already advanced! It had reached the stage of spiritual manifestation and had officially entered its mature stage, a step ahead of other immortal plants.

The Ice Glass Divine Tree's growth period and requirements are no shorter than other immortal plants. Among all immortal plants, only a few Immortal Orchids naturally grow faster than others, with the Red Lotus Bodhi being the slowest. Ice Glass, Laurel, and Langya are about the same, while the Seaweed's growth is still unknown.

However, this Ice Glass Divine Tree was growing at an unusually fast pace, and its spirituality was terrifyingly high. Wei Yuan hadn't paid much attention to it before because it was a celestial plant given to him by the Xu family as payment for a debt. Wei Yuan thought that given the Xu family's character, it was impossible for them to give him such a high-quality celestial plant.

Besides absorbing spiritual energy, the immortal plants mainly survive by intercepting the gifts of heaven and earth from the Creator Immortal. During this period, Wei Yuan killed a large number of Dharma Aspects, which were used to fill these bottomless pits.

Wei Yuan then thought of another question: everyone lives by the gifts of heaven and earth, so why hasn't the laurel tree made any progress yet, while the ice glass divine tree, which came later, has already done so?
Wei Yuan suspected that the laurel tree had a problem with its digestive function, otherwise how could it explain that it could eat so much without gaining weight?

(End of this chapter)