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Chapter 956 Palm Blood

"People are divided into men and women, and I am a man." Song Jiang was patient and tried hard to teach Chou'er some basic human common sense.

After hearing this, Chou'er frowned and said, "Men? Women? Aren't they all human beings?"

"Then who are you?" Song Jiang asked back.

Unexpectedly, Chou'er said without thinking, "I'm not a human..."

Song Jiang was completely speechless. Since this ugly boy was not a human, it didn't matter whether he was a man or a woman. So Song Jiang followed up on his question and asked, "Then what are you? A mountain demon?"

Chou'er shook his head and said, "My father is a thousand-year-old banyan tree... I am the fruit of his banyan tree."

"Banyan tree? A thousand-year-old one..." After Song Jiang went over this information in his mind several times, he suddenly remembered that he and Meng Zhe had indeed encountered a thousand-year-old banyan tree before. At that time, in order to find out something, Meng Zhe had passed a trace of spiritual power to it. As a result, the old banyan tree became obsessed with this and wanted to retain that trace of Meng Zhe's spiritual power. Although it did not succeed, it finally pierced Song Jiang's palm and took a drop of his blood.

  Everything seemed to make sense now. After the old banyan tree gained spiritual consciousness, it was unwilling to be a dumb tree again. It used some method to become a spirit. But there was one thing Song Jiang couldn't understand: why did this ugly boy say that his father was determined to become himself?

Unexpectedly, just when Song Jiang was puzzled, the voice in his mind sounded again, "It seems that your blood is not useless... a small drop can actually make the banyan tree become a spirit."

"Shut up!" Song Jiang yelled irritably.

The ugly boy beside him said blankly, "I didn't say anything."

Song Jiang then realized that he had lost his composure. He seemed to be unable to distinguish between what he was thinking and what he actually wanted to say. So he had to change the subject and said, "By the way, Chou'er, where exactly is this place? How did I get here?"

"This is my home... Of course you were brought back by my father." Chou'er answered honestly.

Song Jiang thought, well, he didn't ask anything, so he changed the question, "Since this is your home, can you take me out? Then I can take you to my home to play, what do you think?"

When Chou Er heard that Song Jiang wanted to take him out to play, he clapped his hands in joy, but then he said anxiously, "But I have never left here, I don't know how to get out?"

After hearing this, Song Jiang knew that there was something going on, so he patiently said, "This is easy... Tell me how your father got out?" Chou'er thought for a moment and said, "He got out from the sky..."

If an ordinary person heard Chou'er say this, he would definitely collapse. After all, no ordinary person can fly, so how can he get out of the sky? But after hearing this, Song Jiang realized that this space should not be real, but a space created by the old banyan tree itself. This is why the voice in his head said that this was a chaotic place that was neither yin nor yang.

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It was the first time that Gu Hao had seen such a self-deceiving demon who was unwilling to admit that he was ugly. Meng Zhe's patience was running out at this moment. If he had not been worried about Song Jiang's safety, he would have already crushed this daring banyan tree demon to dust. So he suppressed his anger and continued to ask in a deep voice, "Where is Song Jiang? Although you can't become him, I can help you become yourself."

This sentence was too tempting for the banyan tree spirit. He immediately turned his ugly face around, his eyes full of disbelief, "Really?"

Meng Zhe really couldn't bear to see Song Jiang's body with such a weird face, so he rolled his eyes and said, "Of course it's true... How can I take my words as a joke?"

After getting the approval of the White Tiger Lord, the Banyan Tree Spirit was very excited, as if his long-cherished wish was about to come true, so he quickly said that as long as the Lord could help him, he would abide by the law and swear allegiance to the Lord until death! But Meng Zhe scoffed at this and was not interested at all...

In fact, when Gu Hao saw the other person's appearance, he could understand why he was so obsessed with becoming Song Jiang. After all, he opened his spiritual consciousness because of a wisp of true energy from the White Tiger God, and naturally he admired Meng Zhe very much in his heart. Later, he saw that Meng Zhe valued Song Jiang very much, so he became jealous. In addition, Meng Zhe finally took away the true energy and turned him back to his original form, which made the old banyan tree even more jealous and hateful, so he deliberately pierced Song Jiang's palm in the end and took away the crucial drop of blood.

Originally, when things had developed to this point, as long as the banyan tree spirit could bring Song Jiang back safely, the matter would basically be over. According to Meng Zhe's previous principles for dealing with such matters, he would most likely lock the spirit in an ancient book and let it practice hard inside. Regardless of whether it could succeed or not, it would not come out and harm people in Song Jiang's name.

Unfortunately, the banyan tree spirit seemed to have bad luck, or he should have realized that something was wrong when he could no longer maintain Song Jiang's appearance, but his attention was always on not wanting Meng Zhe to see his ugly appearance and on Meng Zhe's willingness to help him. As a result, when he wanted to take Song Jiang out with confidence, he found that he could not go back at all.

The banyan tree spirit first closed his eyes with joy, wanting to go back and fetch Song Jiang. However, after trying several times, he still stood there motionless. He then looked at Meng Zhe with a panicked expression and said, "Why is this happening? Why can't I go back?!"

Meng Zhe frowned upon seeing this and said in a deep voice, "You'd better figure out what went wrong quickly, otherwise you won't even have the chance to be a tree again..."

After hearing this, the banyan spirit tried several more times, but still failed. It turned out that he took advantage of the fact that he and Song Jiang had a "blood connection" and knocked Song Jiang unconscious and sent him back to the space where his real body was. The banyan spirit could also use the blood to travel back and forth between the real world where Song Jiang was and the space created by his real body... But once this blood connection was broken, it would be difficult for the banyan spirit to return to that illusory space, even if that was his own real body.

At this time, Gu Hao heard the loophole in the banyan tree spirit's words and asked coldly, "According to what you said, you need to have a blood connection with others in order to travel between the real space where the other person is and the illusory space where your true body is. Then how did you find Song Jiang? Don't tell me that it was just with that pitiful drop of blood in your palm."