fifth form

Chapter 3107 A Long and Unlucky Life

"Cousin?"

"Dongfang Shuo, what kind of seclusion are you in?"

"Why is Dongfang Shuo lost in thought? Has he fallen ill again?"

"My husband is doing well!"

……

With his powerful mental strength, Zhang Xuezhou successfully advanced through seven levels in his first attempt at the cultivation method.

He felt that the subsequent cultivation would be the same. As long as the green light could withstand it, Zhang Xuezhou even thought that after cultivating a few more times, he might be able to step into the eighth level. And after dozens or hundreds of cultivations, he might reach the ninth level of spiritual communication mentioned by Montespatton.

As it turns out, Zhang Xuezhou was overthinking things.

Perhaps because he had had too smooth sailing before and hadn't felt the difficulty of the cultivation method, Zhang Xuezhou encountered tremendous difficulties when he reached the eighth level of the unity of man and weapon.

At this level, divine weapons are in harmony with their master's mind, but how could Zhang Xuezhou and Green Mang achieve such a state of perfect unity?

This is not only his nurturing, but also the feedback that Green Mango needs to provide.

Zhang Xuezhou sometimes even thought about nurturing the spirit after the green light was extinguished, but he couldn't be sure that he could guide it successfully. The spirit wood staff that had lost this bit of intelligence might also turn into mortal.

After nearly two days of back-and-forth clashes, Zhang Xuezhou finally managed to guide the green light to integrate with his own thoughts after they came into contact.

This will lead Zhang Xuezhou to learn about everything belonging to Green Mang's memories, and will also cause Green Mang to search back through Zhang Xuezhou's memories.

As for whether Zhang Xuezhou discovered through his spying that there were memories that allowed them to understand each other, or whether Green Mang had normal perception and could recognize human memories, these are all unknowns.

Perhaps for this reason, Montesbatton has been lingering on the eighth level of the cultivation method.

"black!"

When Zhang Xuezhou came into contact with the green light, it was as if he were walking on empty air, and everything he felt was black.

This darkness lasted for an extremely long time, making Zhang Xuezhou feel as if each day was an eternity.

It wasn't until the sprout broke through the soil that Zhang Xuezhou felt the purple sunlight.

"This ancient chaotic seed lay dormant for three hundred years before breaking through the soil; that's an extremely long time!"

"Luckily it grew, otherwise we would have lost everything by using up so much of the Breath Soil to cultivate it!"

"We've been waiting too long for the growth period; let's accelerate its development!"

……

The sound of whispered conversation continued.

Perhaps it was because he had engaged with the Green Mango mindset to guide his memory that Zhang Xuezhou was able to clearly hear the content expressed by the voice.

This memory involved the origin of the Spiritwood Staff. But he couldn't make out the speaker's face.

When the memories resurfaced, Zhang Xuezhou felt bloated and in pain.

The spiritwood staff had now transformed into a giant, woody vine, as if it were desperately nurturing a gourd hanging on its stem, continuously supplying it with nutrients and power, and cultivating it to maturity.

In this cultivation process, the spiritwood staff is not the main focus; the true protagonist is the gourd that hangs there.

"The Chaos Ancient Seed gave birth to the Gourd Seed. With the Gourd Seed, we have an alternative space, and perhaps we can even develop supernatural powers and wonderful techniques!"

"It's already good enough that this fast-growing species cultivated in the soil has any capacity. Don't expect it to have any special abilities. Besides, even if we successfully cultivate it, we'll just exchange it. Who cares what kind of magical powers it has!"

"makes sense!"

The voice came again, and Zhang Xuezhou had already 'seen' the profound content in Green Mang's memory, and also clearly saw the protagonist who spoke.

This was a man and a woman, whose faces were no different from the axe-wielding man and sword-wielding woman that appeared when the spiritwood staff struck them, except that the man and woman did not have two legs below their waists, but rather huge snake tails.

The snake's tail behind the man was jet black with scales, while the snake's tail behind the woman was pale yellow with various terrifying grayish-brown markings.

A man and a woman, standing upright, are nearly ten feet tall, and they are working with shovels and scissors.

The man kept shoveling up the pale yellow clumps of soil on the ground. With each shovel, the soil seemed to churn as if it were alive, which looked quite mystical.

The woman used shears over a meter long to prune the giant vine's branches and leaves, preventing it from wasting its transformed nutrients on unimportant areas. This was an extremely difficult growth period.

When Zhang Xuezhou accessed his memories again, he saw that the shovel in the man's hand had turned into an axe, and a woman holding scissors was moving her body upwards, trying to pick a gourd as big as a small mountain.

The woman's scissors were extremely large, and the dragon-scale-like marks on them indicated that they had undergone excellent forging.

But the scissors proved ineffective at cutting the gourd, which made the man laugh out loud. The snake-like body that had been slithering up his waist and abdomen began to chop the gourd with an axe.

"Your double dragon scissors are no match for my coiled axe," the man laughed loudly.

"Even in its broken state, that axe is still a divine weapon that is hard to find in the world. If I could obtain a fragment and integrate it with the Twin Dragon Scissors, I would surely possess the power of an axe like yours!"

The woman was somewhat indignant, so she took the scissors and started randomly cutting the vines and leaves.

Only after a burst of water sprayed out did the woman hurriedly put away the scissors.

"It's just a useless water hyacinth! We need to seal it up quickly so no one will notice, or we won't be able to get anything good in return!"

"Who in this world can go without water?"

Memories are interrupted at this moment.

When the memory resurfaced, Zhang Xuezhou saw the man and woman staggering towards the vines.

From the waist down, the two no longer had snake bodies, but instead transformed into two legs.

The axe the man was holding was covered in blood, while the woman's double dragon scissors had been replaced by a long sword. The sword was clean, and the woman's body was covered in blood, with wounds that looked like she had been cut across her waist.

"Gun, how dare you sell me counterfeit goods!"

"I accept the loss from the exchange, but that gourd of yours cost my brother his life, so killing you wouldn't be unjust!"

Two streaks of blood-red light flew over. The man with the axe raised his axe to block, while the woman with the sword staggered and hid behind him. The two of them, along with their weapons, were sent flying more than ten feet away.

A group of burly men dressed in animal skins came into view, followed by flying limbs and roars.

The bloody ordeal only faded from memory after the men and women were chopped into mincemeat and their bones were removed for a frenzied ritual.

Without the stimulation and nurturing of men and women, and with the animal-skinned men being unskilled in raising livestock, Zhang Xuezhou's memories had already withered when he revisited them.

Withered yellow leaves and woody bark continued to fall, and this massive vine was eventually cut down and divided.

Some people used it to make wooden sticks for self-defense, others carved it into wooden knives, and still others tried to refine it into rattan whips.

However, no matter how it is used, this vine that was forced to grow is more like a strong exterior but a weak interior. Many ways of using it are not satisfactory, and its trunk is far from meeting the standards of a magic weapon or a weapon.

A raging inferno marked the end of the giant vine, leaving only some roots that hadn't burned into the ground.

Everything was in ruins, but the growth of the giant vines was just beginning.

This growth period is very long, long enough to span almost an entire lifetime.

The vacant lot was overgrown with weeds, and birds brought tree seeds with them. The saplings grew here until they became big trees.

The tree has been born and died dozens of times before the vines finally grew to a height of over a meter.

But unlike the vines of the past, this vine has developed its own consciousness over a long period of time.

After an endless, tedious period, Zhang Xuezhou saw his own face and the traces of the water hyacinth appeared.

Seemingly terrified of the water hyacinth's parasitism, the vines and the water hyacinth engaged in a life-or-death struggle.

This vine, whose fate was not good, was eventually cut down, thus ending its long and unfortunate life.

"Logically speaking, with your bad luck, I should stay away from you, but I can't bear to see your fate so miserable!"

The vine's life was very unlucky. Zhang Xuezhou sighed a couple of times and expressed his sympathy, indicating that the spiritwood staff would have a better life with him from now on.

Of course, he, like the new emperor, liked to make empty promises.

As he continued to express his attitude and make grand promises to the Spiritwood Staff, Zhang Xuezhou felt a jolt in his heart, and then a verdant light filled the entire world he perceived.

In the dim light, Zhang Xuezhou felt an endless allure emanating from his soul.

The sudden reversal of priorities sent a chill down his spine. He felt that Montesbatton's nurturing technique was not working properly, and he seemed to be about to be surrounded and devoured by the green light.