From a carp to a dragon god

Chapter 44: The Plum Tree in the Wasteland

After breakfast, Yu Bajie ordered someone to harness the carriage, and she took her brother directly to Lingshan to hide there for two days.

In the twenty-fifth city of Danhuang Dongtian, Huang Wenxun took Li Zhen to look at goods everywhere. It is estimated that they will not be able to return for three or two days. The people from Huangsha City may come over, so it is better to hide away for the time being.

"Sister, are we going to your Futian?" Yu Shuyang sat outside the carriage, looking at the two resting horses pulling the carriage.

This Xima is a lizard beast with the blood of snakes and pythons. It looks very similar to a horse, with fine scales all over its body without a single hair, and it walks very steadily.

The Danhuang Cave Heaven is filled with the Qi of the snake clan, and the birds and beasts living there also develop snake and python blood in their bodies over time.

"Didn't you say yesterday that you planted two water talismans and raised two spiritual waters? It's just right that you can help me take care of Xiaomei." Yu Bajie explained casually.

She was a wood-born woman who raised a black plum tree and placed it on the sacred mountain in Danhuang Cave Heaven, where it absorbed the evil energy from the earth.

This sacred mountain is located at the easternmost end of Danhuang Cave Heaven. Its layout is similar to that of Xiyu Blessed Land. It is also where the spiritual fields are located. Many spiritual farmers can be seen working along the way.

Unlike Xiyu, the Danhuang Dongtian people are divided into noble and humble groups, with the Zhe clan in the ancestral city as the major clan and the other clans in the surrounding cities as minor clans. During the annual spring and autumn sacrifices, the minor clans are required to offer money and goods.

These cultivated spiritual fields in front of us are all public fields belonging to the ancestral city. The spiritual farmers responsible for cultivating them are clansmen from various surnames in the city, who take turns to work here voluntarily.

Spiritual fields cannot be cultivated every year. Every three to five years, they must be rotated and stopped to cultivate the spiritual soil and restore the earth's qi.

The spiritual fields that are in a period of wasteland are not completely abandoned. You can plant spiritual root trees there to speed up the absorption of the evil energy from the earth and shorten the period of wasteland.

Yu Bajie's natal black plum tree was not placed in the abandoned spiritual field. She was worried that others would not be able to take good care of it, so she planted it on an uncultivated spiritual mountain.

This piece of wasteland is the evil land of Danhuang Cave, which is also the evil cave in Feng Shui. Apart from overgrown weeds, no spiritual plants or crops can grow there.

"This barren mountain is almost as big as Donggeng Garden. It takes great generosity to leave it uncultivated like this." Yu Shuyang couldn't help but feel deeply moved.

There are also evil lands in the Xiyu blessed land, but people are reluctant to abandon them. Planted here are spiritual roots and precious medicines that the Xiyu Immortal has searched for. It can be said that there is almost no production, mainly for the purpose of purifying the earth's Qi and absorbing the evil spirits.

"You're just meddling in other people's business. Just stop worrying about it, okay? Come with me quickly to see Xiaomei." Yu Bajie said as she opened the magic ban.

She set up a mysterious and hidden yang formation here to prevent the spiritual root of the black plum tree from being stolen or damaged.

The black plum tree grows very tall, looking about two or three meters tall. The trunk, branches and leaves are all black, a very typical iron-branch black plum.

"It looks really good. It must be of the fifth rank, right?" Yu Shuyang asked while touching the tree trunk which was as thick as a bowl.

"It's too early. It's been almost two years since the late sixth grade, and it hasn't bloomed yet. I wonder if it needs to be upgraded." Yu Bajie said with some concern.

She practices the plum blossom method. Although she has been raising this spiritual plum since she was a child, she is not a spiritual plant husband, nor does she know how to garden. She relies entirely on the fate of her spiritual root.

Yu Shuyang took out a chicken-fat yellow Ganoderma Lucidum Ruyi and knocked it up and down on the plum tree. This Five Ganoderma Lucidum Yaocao Sword contained the yin and yang of the earth and could measure the vitality of the spiritual root tree.

After knocking a few times, he actually heard some unusual noises. There seemed to be some kind of noise in the tree trunk, but it was so faint that he might not be able to detect it even if he just sat and watched.

"Eighth sister, something seems to be wrong. It seems like there is a wood spirit hiding here?" Yu Shuyang asked his eighth sister.

The wood spirit is the juvenile stage of the wood guest. It looks like a yellow bird, a nightingale, and likes to eat the sap of spiritual roots and precious trees. It mostly grows on ancient trees.

"That's impossible. The Danhuang Cave Heaven is full of snake and python qi. Not to mention the wood spirits, even the wood guests would find it difficult to survive." Yu Bajie found it unbelievable.

Snakes and pythons are incompatible with birds. Even the poultry and spiritual birds in the Danhuang Cave cannot be kept alive, let alone the tiny wood spirits.

"Eighth sister, today I'm going to show you my skills." Yu Shuyang decided to show off. He put away the Five Zhi Yao Grass Sword and switched to the Hundred Scales Slashing Origin Sword. Today was his chance to draw blood from the sword.

Holding the golden collar in his right hand, he cast a spell with his left hand to bless the Taibai Jieyue. A sharp murderous intent emerged, and he didn't need to cast a spell to kill anyone.

He just beat the tree at the foot of the mountain, and a lot of Taibai murderous intent hit the tree. This murderous intent was only aimed at intelligent living things and did not cause any harm to Lingmei, who had no emotions.

The two siblings stared at each other for a long time, but they didn't see the wood spirit appear.

"Is this your method? I don't see any effect. Is it useless?"

"That shouldn't be the case. Normally, he would run away under the threat of murderous intent. Could he be scared to death?" Yu Shuyang couldn't believe it and knocked on it with the Ganoderma Lucidum Ruyi again.

There were still slight noises coming from the tree trunk, accompanied by rustling sounds, which did not seem to be from the wood spirit.

"It's okay, brother, I still have a trick up my sleeve." Yu Shuyang didn't believe it.

He inserted the Five Zhi Yao Grass Sword into the soil, cast a water magic talisman, gathered a ball of Ren Yang water energy, transformed it into a drop of spiritual water, and poured it on the Ganoderma Lucidum Ruyi.

I saw a green Ganoderma lucidum emerging from the ground like bamboo shoots sprouting in spring, followed by black, yellow, red and white Ganoderma lucidum.

This is the five-colored Ganoderma lucidum that was grown with the help of the earth's Qi. Whether it is spiritual energy or medicinal properties, it is incomparable to the Iron Crow Spirit Plum Tree.

Just like that, in the blink of an eye, a small black dot flew out from the plum tree and landed on the five-colored Ganoderma lucidum. Upon closer inspection, it should be a wood ant.

"Jiu Silly, cast the spell quickly, don't let it run away."

"Don't worry, Eighth Sister, he can't run away."

Yu Shuyang cast a spell, and the five-colored Ganoderma lucidum blended with each other, wrapped the wood ants and turned into a soil ball. This soil ball was unusual, with Ji Yin soil inside and Wu Yang soil outside.

Ji Yin Earth is like a swampy quicksand pit; once you fall into it, you can’t get out. Wu Yang Earth is like a mountain and as hard as iron; once you’re trapped in it, you can’t get it out.

He took out the Ganoderma Lucidum Ruyi, picked up the small ball of soil, and handed it to Yu Bajie.

"Sister, this wood ant looks unusual. It doesn't look like it was born naturally. It looks like a puppet that was refined. Is someone trying to harm you?"

Yu Shuyang felt that this was not a coincidence. If it were an ordinary wood ant, it would also be afraid of Taibai's murderous intent. All sentient beings with perception would be afraid of it.

“I really can’t imagine who would want to harm me. I usually stay in the cave and in Huangsha City and rarely interact with others.

Your brother-in-law is a very friendly person, and he's definitely not going to get into trouble." Yu Bajie thought about it over and over again, but couldn't find anyone suspicious.

Yu Shuyang looked at his sister and knew that she was confused.

"In that case, then you are not targeting my sister and brother-in-law. I am afraid they will be implicated. If that is the case..." Yu Shuyang paused.

Then he continued, "That's because of the Spiritual Root Treasure Tree. Will anyone want to destroy the Spiritual Field?"

He had a guess that maybe the wood ants were released by someone with the purpose of destroying the spiritual root tree, targeting the spiritual field Lunhuang.

The answer to this question is very simple. You just need to check the spiritual root trees in the Lunhuang Spiritual Field to see if there are wood ants.

　There is another chapter before and after, I am still writing it, please wait.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)