Chapter 171 The Essence of Wutu
"Guchi" - "Guchi" - "Pa!"
"Ah, cut -" He shivered like a cold, and subconsciously took a breath, but he didn't expect to use too much force, and directly condensed a lump in the The mud that was ready to go was sucked in, causing Su Ziyi to sneeze, and his consciousness began to dimly return.
what happened to him?
His mind was still dizzy. When he moved his eyelids, he felt that there was something heavy on his eyelids and he couldn't open them. His body and limbs were also terribly heavy. There was a force of suction that could not be ignored from behind, which made Su Ziyi feel sore and numb in his back. It was so unbearable that it was difficult to move. Under such circumstances, he continued to lie paralyzed on the ground for a long time.
After a while, all his consciousness returned completely and he remembered everything.
And at the moment when the memory came back to his mind, a cold shock instantly woke him up. He suddenly jumped up from the ground, but he didn't expect that the degree of soreness in his body was worse than he thought. As soon as he lifted his body He slumped back less than an inch higher and made an exaggerated "snap" sound.
Only then did he realize that the touch under his hands was soft and his body was also sticky.
This made his mind go blank for a moment. He rested his two elbows on the ground, and the hands on his abdomen trembled slightly and slowly started to move up from touching his body, but everything he touched was sticky, and even felt sticky due to the touch of his palms. It rubbed against his hand and was covered in a thick layer.
It wasn't until he touched his face and covered his eyes that he couldn't open that his panicked heart finally calmed down.
His index finger turned directly into a hook. Although it was not very strong, it was still inserted into the layer of stuff wrapped around his face. Then he picked the stuff hard and dug it down his face, making his heavy eyelids feel a little cold. wind. This encouraged him, and he hooked up all four fingers of his hands and randomly pulled off the layer of things on his face.
After picking away everything stuck to his eyelids, Su Ziyi could finally open his eyes and take a good look at where he was.
But when he opened his eyes, it was like seeing the stars in the evening. There were a few bright stars mixed in the gray and blue sky, making people realize that night was coming. Su Ziyi thought so at first, but then he realized that if it was true, the sky shouldn't be so close. So after blinking and focusing his eyes, he could see clearly the shining stars. It's just the light refracted by the water droplets hanging overhead.
And the place where these stars hang is no other place, it is a dome built by countless blood-threaded channel worms.
There are countless small water droplets hanging on their bodies. As they squirm, those small water droplets reflect bright light, like moving stars; or they fall directly due to scratching and turn into a shadowless meteor shower. Disappeared in this space completely filled with brown light. After blinking, Su Ziyi felt something cold on his cheek. After touching it, he realized that the water droplets on it had fallen onto his face.
So, did you survive?
Su Ziyi could no longer remember how he survived the attack of the foundation-building ghost. He only knew that his body was terribly empty, with almost no spiritual power, like a mortal. His overly sore muscles made it difficult for him to stand up, so he turned his head and looked towards the light source, and this sight made him feel mixed emotions.
He had no idea that the yellow light that spread throughout the space was actually emitted by the spirit of Wutu that he was looking for!
What you can see is a stone base made of white rock. It looks like a small arm connected to the palm. The arm was inserted straight and firmly into the ground, and the five fingers were brought together and bent to form an inward-butting nest. In the middle of this nest, there was floating a brown crystal the size of a walnut. The color was so clear that it looked like It's like the finest crystal, very eye-catching.
Like the essence of Jiamu and Renshui, the essence of Wutu is also so pure and dazzling, exuding a calm sense of the earth from the inside out, giving people an extremely solid feeling.
As soon as Su Ziyi saw him, his anxious heart finally calmed down.
He turned back and closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and made a nest on the ground with the back of his head. It was soft and sticky, but it made Su Ziyi feel extremely weighty in his heart. At this time, his five senses had gradually recovered, and he knew that everything under him and on his body was all silt. He had not been able to open his eyes before because the layer of silt next to his skin was slightly dehydrated and condensed into a lump, covering his eyelids. Sincerely.
But even so, Su Ziyi felt very good.
He still remembered the mud sea he was in before. Although the surface was yellow, there was more black and gray inside, and it was also mixed with a strong stench, which gave him a headache. But there is none here. Apart from the faint smell of mud, there is nothing else that makes people feel uncomfortable. It is just like the silt in the waterway before, but with less water.
After lying on the ground for a long time, I finally had some strength in my body, but my muscles were still horribly sore. He used both hands together and sat up with great difficulty, half-collapsed in a pile of mud. As he did this, the mud stuck to his body made a "squeaking" sound, and his whole body suddenly shook. The space became lively.
Glancing at the motionless Wu Tu Zhijing, Su Ziyi took out a Qi Replenishing Pill from his storage bag and immediately sat up with his legs crossed and his eyes closed to meditate. It was only after he meditated that he realized that there was so little spiritual energy in the air here. However, as he continued to practice his mental skills, bursts of spiritual energy came from the mud under his buttocks, and they became stronger and stronger. Stuffed into his body.
Looking further, Su Ziyi discovered that these spiritual energies did not appear out of thin air, but emanated from the white stone base.
It's just that these spiritual energies are not accepted by the air, and only melt into the mud underneath. As a result, the entire ground has more and more spiritual energy in the mud, and the original yellow color actually has a hint of crystal!
Su Ziyi didn't notice the changes in the mud because he was completely immersed in cultivation. This aura emanating from the stone seat was extremely mysterious, and it actually contained a hint of the earth. Su Ziyi, who was in direct contact with it, became more and more silent, and his whole mind was completely immersed in this thick and wonderful feeling. .
He felt like he was a rock. Although his body was heavy and he could not move at will, he had thousands of years of time to watch all the changes in time. No matter whether the sun rises or sets, the flowers bloom and fade, it always stands there, unchanged, just as it was when it was born. It sticks to its original intention for thousands of years, and finally finds a hint of understanding and a touch of the vitality of the world. Mystery.
After gaining a hint of wisdom, it couldn't help but think deeply. People have spirits and flowers have essence. So what is it? Humans create thousands of worlds with their hands, and flowers and trees distinguish the years with their four seasons, so what can they do?
The emptiness in his heart made him inevitably confused, and he even began to doubt the meaning of his birth.
It thinks and asks itself. Such self-torture makes it forget the surrounding scenery and ignore the changes in the world, until a little outsider breaks into its world. It stood on its body with its two slender legs, and searched for tiny insects in its crevices with its slender beak. The slightly painful and numb feeling made it realize, At this moment, earth-shaking changes have taken place in it.
The originally smooth surface had been occupied by a group of small and soft moss at some point. They had grown up along the thin slits covering half of its body facing the sun, and established their own little kingdom. And on the day when the kingdom was established, they invited bugs, ants, and mosquitoes and flies to settle in, making it completely lively.
As time goes by, the moss kingdom is getting stronger and stronger, and there are more and more outsiders. Even small grass roots have taken root in it and grown green leaves. When people look at it from a distance, it looks like A mass of green. Then the big bugs came, and so did the birds, and in the end it even saw people.
It turns out that in the time it didn't notice, it had become a small world, creating a safe place for a living being.
And is this the reason for its existence?
It is not sure of the answer. In order to determine whether the answer is correct or not, it carefully protects the little creatures on it. However, the sun is too strong, the rain is too bursting, and the wind is too rough. He accidentally died, which made him even more exhausted and confused.
I don’t know how long these days lasted. I watched the moss dry up and become green again. A group of ants left and a new group came. Yesterday’s ones are always different from today’s ones, but after all, every day is different. It's lively. And even without its protection, these creatures are using their own unique methods to protect themselves and allow themselves to continue.
At this moment, it finally understood.
It's not anyone, it's not the sun, it's not rain, it's just an ordinary stubborn stone. It can't be a protective umbrella for others, nor can it interfere with other people's life processes. All it can do is stand here and be a silent spectator. Be a witness to your own life journey. Who is it? It's just a stone.
It's just a stone born in the ground and growing in the ground.
As soon as the whole idea came into my mind, there was a "click" in my mind, as if something invisible was broken. With the interruption of this voice, the spiritual power that had originally poured into his veins began to gradually fade away, and the consciousness that had sunk into his heart gradually recovered. When he opened his eyes again, Su Ziyi's eyes were clear and he was exceptionally awake.
Moving his shoulders, Su Ziyi felt that the pressure on his body had completely disappeared, and the fog in front of his eyes was reduced. He felt the situation in his body with his fists, and felt that his mind had never been so clear. The power has never been so powerful. This made him realize that at that moment, he had actually had an epiphany.
The sudden enlightenment not only broadened his mind, but also increased his strength. He reached the middle of the tenth level of Qi refining. As long as he worked a little harder, the late tenth level was just around the corner.
This is extremely exciting good news, but after the epiphany, Su Ziyi was not so excited, but his eyes became firmer.
Without the reference of the sun, Su Ziyi didn't know what time it was now. He stood up directly with one hand on the ground. After discovering that there was still a trace of soreness in his muscles, he determined that this time should not have passed too long. He turned his head and looked around, and found that the dome he had seen before was made of blood-threaded channel worms. In fact, the entire top of his head was made of a piece of hard yellow mud. The blood-threaded channel worms were just It just occupies the middle position.
And beyond that, something new emerged.
It looked black and gray, but after getting closer, I discovered that it was originally green, and it was also a vine rooted at the top. And this vine is not an ordinary thing, but a spiritual grass - lacquered water green vine, which can remove bad toxins in water and is a necessary ingredient for most yellow-level high-level detoxification pills.
Although it is not a rare item, it is still a good thing.
And looking at the length and diameter of the vines, you can tell that they are quite old. They are more effective when used to make elixirs, and they are also rare and good things to keep outside. Therefore, without thinking, Su Ziyi stepped on the ground and jumped up. Just when he was about to hit the top, an iron dagger appeared in his hand and was inserted directly into the mud, firmly hanging him in the air. , and then grabbed the vine with one hand.
And that's not the only one.
In addition to this one, there are still many lacquered green vines left on the yellow mud wall. Some of them are large and some are small, but no matter which one is taken out, it is a rare fine product, so Su Ziyi continued Kill them all one by one and put them in the storage bag. This finally gave him a sense of satisfaction in entering the water realm. After all, he had been enduring hardships before and had not received any substantial benefits.
Even if the essence of Renshui he had obtained before was still the essence of Wutu in front of him, although they were rare things, he didn't know what their use was, so compared with them, this lacquered water green vine gave him more peace of mind. Feel a little bit.
The place was either big or small, about an acre of land, so it didn't take long for Su Ziyi to pack up all the spiritual herbs. It was also in the process of cleaning up that he discovered that in addition to the lacquered green vines, there was also an extremely short but very precious half-animal, half-plant spiritual creature - the blue butterfly insect.
The growth method of this green butterfly insect is like the Cordyceps sinensis on the earth, but its effect is different. It is a spiritual material that can energize the human body. If a cultivator is seriously injured, using a green butterfly insect can protect the breath of the dying person and breed the vitality of the human body bit by bit. It is a kind of existence that is even more divine than the Heart Protection Pill.
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Apart from these two, there is no other gain.
But Su Ziyi was already quite satisfied.
It was only after packing these things that Su Ziyi turned his attention to the essence of Wutu. Before, although the Wutu Essence was there, it tickled his heart, but he was not sure if it would cause other abnormalities after he moved it, so he still wanted to search this space for useful things. , and then deal with the matter of the Wutu Essence.
The soles of his shoes kept rubbing against the dirt, making "wow" and "wow" sounds until he stood still in front of the white stone platform.
It was only when he was close enough that Su Ziyi discovered that the white stone platform was more mysterious than he thought. Not only because of the appearance, but also because this white stone platform is carved with countless mysterious lines that are difficult to see through. But Su Ziyi knew at a glance that they were formation lines, and the level was quite high.
He didn't know which one was more powerful than the one on the stone pedestal he saw last time in the Lake of the Meteorite Forest.
But no matter what, he couldn't figure out the function of this formation as he didn't have much research on the formation. However, these two experiences made him suddenly have some interest in formations. He planned to take some time to study the formations after returning home. Even if he could not achieve great results, at least he would be better than being blind now. Be strong.
After seeing the formation, Su Ziyi turned his attention to the essence of Wutu.
He took out the Jiamu Essence from his storage bag, and the moment the Jiamu Essence appeared, a thick black line immediately connected the two, and even faintly pulled the Wutu Essence outward! This situation was beyond his expectation. He quickly put away the Jiamu Essence in his hand. In an instant, the Wutu Essence, which was floating peacefully in the air, trembled suddenly and almost fell from the stone. The seat is out!
This action couldn't help but arouse Su Ziyi's heart.
But after half a day, even the Wutu essence returned to stability, and nothing abnormal happened. This made Su Ziyi feel relieved, but also felt that the essence of the Five Elements was a bit mysterious.
He didn't know what the Five Elements Essences were for, but judging from the competition among Mrs. Zhou's group, they must be of great benefit to practitioners, but he still had no idea how they were beneficial. He looked at the Jiamu Essence in his hand with some trance, and hesitantly released a ray of spiritual power, surrounding the entire Jiamu Essence on the outer layer. However, he still had some doubts as to whether he should go deep inside. Can't make up my mind.
He was a little worried that if his temptation went wrong, it would cause other problems.
But after hesitating for a long time, he couldn't find a better way, so he just gritted his teeth and used a ray of spiritual power to poke it in, and then stared with wide eyes without daring to make a sound. However, when he could feel the spiritual power swimming happily in the Jiamu Essence, he didn't find anything wrong, which really made him feel at ease.
Then, he gradually increased the input of spiritual power.
It may be that the spiritual power input was not enough at the beginning, so it did not cause the Jiamu Jingjing to behave strangely. After Su Ziyi transferred almost a quarter of the spiritual power in his body into the Jiamu Essence, it finally gave a stingy response. I saw that the cyan gemstone that originally seemed to be covered with dust began to emit a trace of light from the inside out like the spirit of Wutu on the stone base. It was not very bright, but it was somewhat prominent in the brown environment.
This made Su Ziyi immediately grasp the key.
He sent most of the spiritual energy in his body into it, and after the Jiamu Essence absorbed three-quarters of the spiritual energy in his body, the light emitted by the Jiamu Essence was comparable to that of the Wutu Essence. . One is green and the other is brown, and the light that is not very dazzling directly divides this small world into two distinct halves.
At the same time, after absorbing the last quarter of the spiritual power, the Jiamu Essence flew out of Su Ziyi's hand completely uncontrollably, hovering in the air like the Wutu Essence. After it flew into the air, the spirit of Wutu, which had been passively connected before, also reacted. The light on its body was extinguished for a short while, and then suddenly exploded into a ball of light, which stung Su Ziyi's eyes. Blinded.
When Su Ziyi opened his eyes again, the Wutu Essence, which originally glowed brown, had been wrapped in a ball of brown light, and countless brown filaments separated from its body, slowly moving towards the Jiamu Essence.
The black thread connecting the essence of Jiamu and the essence of Wutu has never been broken, but the moment those brown filaments on the essence of Wutu touched the black thread, the black thread suddenly seemed to be soaked in water. Like a rope, it split into countless black filaments, and turned into cyan in the blink of an eye. It met the brown filaments without any fear, and quickly twisted with the opponent like a twist, never again Let go and tightly connect the essence of Jiamu and Wutu.
The scene in front of him made Su Ziyi swallow his saliva involuntarily.
Afterwards, he remembered that in addition to the essence of Jiamu, he also had a piece of essence of Renshui that he had accidentally obtained - Mrs. Ren Zhou and the others could not have imagined that the treasure they worked so hard to get was actually Finally it fell into the hands of this little shrimp like him.
But no matter what, it's his now.
Taking out the Renshui Essence and looking at the other party's dark appearance, Su Ziyi found it difficult to compare it with the shiny Jiamu Essence and Wutu Essence, but in fact they both belonged to Treasures of the same level. He took a deep breath, glanced at the two Five Elements Essences floating in the air, and finally sat up cross-legged to meditate helplessly.
No matter how much he tried to activate the essence of Renshui, his body was empty at the moment and he simply couldn't do it.
Just like last time, as soon as he meditated, the spirit of the earth spread along the mud below. But in addition, there is another strange but quite fresh breath coming from the sky, filling the vacancy caused by the essence of Wutu. As soon as this new breath came into contact with Su Ziyi, his whole body relaxed, his mind became extremely clear, and he could feel that the damaged wounds on his body were healing at a very fast speed.
This made him intoxicated. His whole body seemed to be immersed in the boundless primeval forest. Every breath he took was filled with the freshest green smell. Every inch of his skin came into contact with the coldest green. Air. There is no contamination from external objects, as if this forest has always existed without any change since the creation of this world.
There is no doubt that Su Ziyi once again had an epiphany.
Only this time, he is no longer an ordinary stone, but a whole green forest with no visible edges. He didn't know how big his body was, but he knew that in his body, there were trees, rivers, and animals... These individual individuals made up him, making him one of the most majestic beings on the entire continent.
A tear oozed out from the corner of his eye, slid down his cheek, and fell into his clothes.
By the time Su Ziyi woke up from his epiphany, his cultivation had reached the late stage of the tenth level of Qi refining, and was only a hair away from the eleventh level of Qi refining. This line seems easy to break through, but in fact I don’t know how many practitioners are stuck on this line and find it difficult to break through for months or even years.
But Su Ziyi was very confident.
Because he still has a useless essence of Renshui in his hand.
After gaining experience with the Jiamu Essence, activating the Renshui Essence was too familiar to Su Ziyi. It's just that unlike the Jiamu Essence and the Wutu Essence, the Renshui Essence also emits a thick black light after activation, but the black thin lines it emits are not the same as the other two Five Elements Essences. The entanglement is just a corner, floating quietly in the air.
But even so, Su Ziyi didn't dare to underestimate it.
Perhaps the essence of the Five Elements had a miraculous effect in guiding Ren to enlightenment, so Su Ziyi successfully achieved enlightenment this time.
This time, he is not a tiny drop of water, nor is he as big as the vast ocean, but a carefree cloud floating in the sky. It is blown by the wind from the seaside across the plains, through the hills, across the plateaus, and deep into the desert, becoming one of the few things in the hot zone that makes people feel cool just by looking at it.
However, although he was floating in the air without any worries, he could see many things at a glance that others could not.
It saw the mortals who were so poor that they were so hungry that they were unable to work due to the scorching heat. They were lying on the ground with squinted eyes. They were so quiet that they didn't even breathe loudly. With their dark skin, they looked like mummies. ; It also saw young animals biting the mother's nipples to draw blood due to hunger and thirst. Although the mother was in pain, she could not bear the child's hunger and thirst. She could only endure the pain and let the mother bite her, with huge tears stuck in her eyes. They don't dare to fall out, because they are reluctant to let go of any drop of water.
The miserable condition of the earth undoubtedly made it feel pitiful, and it made it start to think about what it could do.
It floats to the person's head, bringing a sense of coolness. The painful look on the person's face is slightly reduced, but the person still cannot open his eyes. It stopped on the top of the animal's head. Although the animal looked up, it only glanced once, then closed its eyelids and allowed the child to continue biting it and drinking its blood... What it could do was not useful to them. Too much meaning.
This can't help but make it a little confusing.
It came from the sea and was born in the boundless sky. It has seen violent storms and violent floods that broke down river banks. It knows full well how destructive it and its kind are, and it also knows that this destructive power is not limited by People like it, so he chose to wander all the way from the coast to the inland, but he didn't expect to see such a situation.
They seem to need their share of destructive power.
But if I really did it, would I still exist?
It is not a small cloud that knows nothing. What he has seen along the way is enough for him to know what will happen if it turns into rain.
It will no longer be what it is.
It can no longer be a carefree cloud, but can no longer help it, letting people and the earth drive it and enslave it.
It will lose everything it has.
But - he couldn't bear to have him just watch with such cold eyes.
While it was thinking, it didn't know when more and more companions gathered around it. They pushed one by one and were so close together that even their breathing was intertwined. This made their faces change from white to pale. It turns into gray, and then turns from gray to black. Finally, when it got darker than ever, all the clouds protested in unison, condensing themselves and trying to squeeze out the surrounding ones. Unexpectedly, at the moment they condensed themselves from air into water, the air Following the trend could no longer hold them up and let them fall from the clouds.
Whether they want it or not.
But it thought, this would be good, and it wouldn’t have to worry about it anymore.
It fell to the ground in compliance with God's will. It did not become water to quench the thirst of humans and animals, nor did it become water that filled rivers and streams. Instead, it directly penetrated through the thick mud and immersed into the deep underground. In this place without any light, it discovered that there were many existences like it. They gathered into a large underground water, broke through the rocks, and rushed towards the unknown future in the darkness.
It didn't know how long it had been drifting with its companions. It only knew that when light appeared in front of its eyes again, it was no longer in the desert. In front of it was a patch of greenery, surrounded by crops that were growing gratifyingly. It flows in the river that was broken through the embankment before, swaying towards the distance along the way, but along the way, what it sees is no longer sorrow, but joy.
It saw countless plants becoming upright and energetic because of them, and also saw the smiles of sweaty old farmers when they saw them. These beautiful things gradually drove away the gloom in its heart. It no longer feels that falling to the ground is a bad thing. Although it is no longer as free as in the sky, the scenery on the ground is also very beautiful.
Such beauty takes it all the way to the end.
But when the salty smell wafted over, the fragments that had been hidden deep in its memory for a long time emerged, and it became uncontrollably excited because it felt the familiar smell, that was where it came from in the first place! It's the sea!
It and its companions happily rushed into the embrace of the sea with overwhelming force. Just like the sea, it felt extremely happy. It felt that the experiences along the way were so wonderful and worth it. Such joy made it feel a little carried away. It intuitively felt that its body was getting lighter and lighter. When it came back to its senses, When it came, it realized that it was no longer in the sea and returned to the sky again.
It turned into a cloud again...
All things have no intention at all, but a peck and a drink bring about cause and effect, and the separate things in the world are connected from then on.
All things that seem to exist independently are not actually like this. They are more or less involved with their surroundings, encountering new things and welcoming new life at different stages of growth. Whether they are humans, monsters, or mortal beings with undeveloped spiritual intelligence, they always join this world with their own unique characteristics and have a relationship with this world.
In this world, no one is independent.
We are all closely related and exist.
——Zheng!
It's like the sound of metal and stone breaking, coming from the tendons. The powerful force is no longer restricted, and goes all the way up along the opened tendons, straight into the heart and lungs of the person, awakening the intoxicated consciousness.
When I woke up, I realized that time is long and everything is changeable.
He was also successfully promoted from the tenth level of Qi refining to the eleventh level.