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Chapter 842 Coming out of seclusion
Wang Ping has been in seclusion for fifty years. He has absorbed nearly half of the two "Wood Spirit Origins" in the locust tree trunk, and the locust tree trunk has grown to more than sixty feet high.

The lush branches and leaves are like a giant umbrella, covering all areas in the starry sky fantasy. The locust flowers in the sky are scattered on the ground, turning into nutrients for the wood spirit energy.

The faint light emitted by the starlight illusion and the light halo brought by the wood spirit energy shine through the lush branches and leaves to the ground, forming constantly flickering mottled light spots, adding a mysterious color to the area.

The long period of staying awake in seclusion made Wang Ping's emotions become somewhat cold. If it were not for the spiritual impact on humanity of the believers of the magic array, he could only pass the time by sleeping.

The Zhongzhou continent remains the same as it was. The people and monks in the north and south have only been busy with two things in recent years. The first thing is naturally to open up the land, and the second thing is to hunt for treasure. As time goes by, more and more people find treasures underground, and some people explore mineral veins, and then form habitats based on the mineral veins.

Civilization is reviving, but it is also declining. The most obvious decline is the deviation of the unified writing system, which is caused by the deviation in the different understandings of culture by the pioneering families.

Zi Luan was very aware of the importance of writing, which was related to the inheritance of a Taoist temple. Therefore, he specially sent Qigong practitioners to various places in the south to teach and educate people, so as to maintain the unity of writing and culture.

The situation in the north was much more chaotic, especially after being infiltrated by Westerners and Easterners, where customs and culture had changed greatly, and even some settlements began to practice blood and flesh sacrifices again.

Because the Underground Cave Gate had been under closed management for many years, they had no experience in worldly affairs and had not provided any guidance at all. As a result, many places under their management were in a state of hostility for many years due to cultural differences.

Xia Yao of Yunhai Grassland attaches great importance to these things, but she can only take care of the area near Beiguan, and she has to be very careful about it.

When Wang Ping was in seclusion and had nothing to do, he used the puppets he had set up to preach and maintain the previous customs of Zhongzhou.

Spring goes and autumn comes...

Time passed quickly as civilization slowly recovered, and another fifty years passed quietly.

September 105, 9th year of the Gregorian calendar.

The south in early winter is still sunny, and the land is covered with continuous fields of mature rice, dyeing the earth golden, which looks pleasing to the eye. There is also a light rice fragrance in the air.

The government office of Zhonghui City sent out agricultural officials to inspect the conditions of farmlands everywhere early in the morning. People in some places were already harvesting rice, and some villages were carrying out sacrificial activities before the autumn harvest. At this time, some small gangs of bandits were most rampant. They needed to ensure that the autumn harvest in various places proceeded normally. After all, food was extremely precious now.

At noon.

The sun in the sky was still scorching, but with the cool sea breeze, it was not too hot. The people busy in the fields around the city had just finished the lunch sent from home and were about to find a place to sleep before continuing to work when a light green energy beam suddenly rose from the clouds in the direction of Qianmu Mountain.

Soon after, they felt a cool touch on their bodies. Many people found that the pain that had accompanied them for a long time suddenly disappeared, and their spirits were better than ever.

"It's the Lord of Changqing Daxing of Qianmu Temple."

Someone suddenly shouted.

Then he knelt on the ground and prayed devoutly, chanting the title of "Gao Shang Ren Wen Wu De Chang Qing Da Xing Fu Jun".

north.

Deep in the Zhenyang Mountain base, which had been closed for a hundred years, Rong Yang, who was in seclusion absorbing the aura of the fire spirit, suddenly opened his eyes, and his consciousness instantly crossed tens of thousands of kilometers and descended to the south.

"What a lucky guy!"

Rong Yang sighed softly, with a hint of jealousy in his tone. It took him thousands of years to cultivate into a fire spirit, while Wang Ping only spent a hundred years in seclusion to reach this point.

In the mountains to the north of Zhushan Road, deep in an underground palace hidden underground, Zhigong also woke up from her trance. Her consciousness also descended to the south. After a long time, she sighed and said to herself, "There are indeed people with great luck in this world."

After saying that, she activated the deduction array that connected the power of the mountains and veins, and deduced everything that might happen in the future.

Lake and mountain country.

A magnificent palace on a beautiful mountain was filled with fairy air. Taoist Yuxing, who was resting on a cloud bed, frowned slightly and then said softly, "Troublesome guy."

Zhongshan State.

Kaiyun, who was playing chess alone in front of a high tower on the mountain, looked towards the Zhongzhou Continent and said with a smile: "How different are Wei and Ah? How different are good and evil? Is this your thought?"

This sentence is the opening of the 20th chapter of Tao Te Ching. This chapter can be regarded as the essence and a monologue of a saint, but it was copied by Wang Ping for his own thinking. It is not Wang Ping’s self-monologue.

"I look forward to playing against you again."

He said this and chuckled as he dropped a piece.

Southeast Islands.

Huge waves suddenly surged on the surface of the deep pool in the central area of ​​Huixin Island, and Ao Hong's huge dragon body jumped out of the deep pool, accompanied by a loud dragon roar.

From the sound of the dragon's roar, it can be heard that Ao Hong is in a very good mood. After Ao Bing was plotted against, he thought he would be very successful, but he did not expect to be trapped in Linshui Prefecture. He could not get rid of the Taiyin Sect next to him, and could not integrate into Xizhou. This greatly reduced his prestige in the hearts of the lower-level disciples.

There were even disciples from Linshui Prefecture who openly opposed him, because in the eyes of many people, the Third Prince's fall was due to his betrayal.

After a dragon roar, Ao Hong landed in a gorgeously decorated pavilion near the deep pool. His eyes swept across the nearby garden that had not yet grown up. He subconsciously cursed Ao Bing in his heart, but then he thought that Ao Bing had already fallen, and his mood improved a lot.

"Hongze, please go to Qianmu Temple on behalf of your master and hand over my visiting card as soon as Lord Changqing comes out of retreat." After Ao Hong landed, he instructed Hongze who was waiting beside him.

Hongze did not respond immediately after hearing this, but looked as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.

"Just say what you want to say. Why are you hesitating?" Ao Hong showed a dissatisfied look.

"Master, Lord Changqing doesn't pay attention to these red tapes. If you want to express your sincerity, you might as well go to Qianmu Temple and wait now." Hongze suggested.

Ao Hong thought for a moment and nodded in agreement, saying, "You're right, I thought it was too complicated."

After being reminded by his apprentice, he suddenly felt as if his hands and feet had been bound over the years, and he was not as free as before when thinking about problems.

He was actually affected by Ao Bing's death.

He turned his head to look at the garden that was destroyed by Ao Bing's men. Ao Bing hated doing these boring things the most. When Ao Hong just started practicing, he was controlled by Ao Bing and could not do any of the things he liked.

"Why do you always have to control me?"

Ao Hong said this, then turned into a stream of light and flew towards Qianmu Temple, and in a blink of an eye he arrived at the blockaded perimeter of Qianmu Temple.

As a courtesy, Ao Hong stopped outside the blockade of Qianmu Temple and looked at the dense wood spirit energy in the clouds in the direction of Qianmu Temple. At this moment, the overflowing wood spirit energy was quickly gathering towards the mountains. Under the starry sky illusion in the mountains of Qianmu Temple.

The branches of the locust tree are more than two hundred feet long, and the dense branches are enough to cover the sky and the sun. The surface of the bark wrapped around the huge branches automatically forms mysterious wood spirit runes.

The starlight illusion constructed before was almost unable to accommodate the locust tree. Hu Qianqian sacrificed the inner elixir in her body and used all her strength to extend the area covered by the illusion upwards a lot before it could barely accommodate it.

The ground is covered with locust tree roots. At this moment, the locust trees are constantly absorbing the power of the earth through these roots, absorbing back all the wood spirit energy that had been fed back before.

The flowers, plants and trees in the mountains of Qianmu Temple withered at a speed visible to the naked eye. In a blink of an eye, the mountains were covered with dead branches and rotten wood. Upon seeing this, Liu Shuang and others who were practicing in Qianmu Temple flew up immediately.

In front of the locust tree.

Wang Ping was feeling a complex rune system taking shape in the wood spirit's body. This rune was carved from the rich wood spirit energy and it replaced the original spiritual vein in Wang Ping's body.

This is like a beautiful painting, or like writing an unknown text. It is taking shape not slowly, but growing at a speed almost visible to the naked eye.

Wang Ping was so absorbed in watching that he forgot the time.

Yu Lian was also fascinated. She revealed her true form, with her huge body wrapped around the tree trunk and her head seemed to want to drill into the trunk to find out what was inside.

Half an hour later.

The "painting" inside the locust tree was completed, but the power it triggered did not stop. It continued to spread along the roots to the earth. The withered flowers, plants and trees in Qianmu Temple were instantly reborn. As the runes spread into the air, countless green crystal substances emerged from the ground.

A quarter of an hour later.

Wang Ping's soul consciousness reacted and he subconsciously controlled the wood spirit to stop constructing those runes because it would consume the spiritual energy in his body.

At the moment when the wood spirit stopped constructing runes, an extra memory appeared in Wang Ping's consciousness. He saw a vast grassland. As time went by, some humanoid creatures established gathering places on the grassland. Suddenly one day someone came to him, and soon their consciousnesses communicated.

This man's idea was simple: he wanted to gain strength to protect his tribe.

He succeeded.

Soon, a civilization developed rapidly on the grassland.

Tens of thousands of years passed in a flash, and the original grassland developed into a magnificent city.

Suddenly, there seemed to be some sounds echoing from the depths of the universe. After hearing these sounds, Wang Ping felt that his consciousness immediately entered the universe, and time and space kept changing in his sight.

A moment later, he saw a huge planet appear in front of him. There were countless consciousnesses with the same aura as him. But just when he was about to explore it clearly, a powerful energy shock erupted from the depths of the universe.

And the memory was interrupted at this time.

Wang Ping also woke up suddenly and saw Yu Lian's huge eyes staring at him.

"what happened to you?"

Yulian asked.

Wang Ping transferred this memory to Yu Lian, who digested it in an instant and said, "What can this memory explain?"

"It doesn't explain anything. It's just one of countless chaotic memories."

After Wang Ping finished speaking, he once again used his primordial consciousness to sense the wood spirit in the locust tree, feeling an endless supply of energy, and then a surge of energy was fed back to his primordial consciousness.

Wang Ping's originally illusory soul gradually became solid under the blessing of this energy, and more mysterious and dense runes appeared between the magic circle constructed by the four talismans.

A quarter of an hour later.

Wang Ping's soul became no different from a real person. Under Yu Lian's gaze, he slowly approached the locust tree and stretched out his hand to place it on the trunk of the locust tree which was covered with wood spirit runes.

Then, in just a moment, the locust tree that blocked out the sun and sky merged into the soul, or in other words, it turned into a human form and merged with the soul. There was a dense layer of wood spirit runes on the surface of his newly transformed human body, which looked a little creepy when printed on his face, but then these runes penetrated into the body, and then revealed human skin and appearance.

Before Wang Ping's physical body appeared, he first transformed into a blue Taoist robe and put it on. After he completely turned back into human form, he shook his wide sleeves with some high spirits.

Then he looked into the huge vertical pupils of the nearby Yu Lian, and saw that Yu Lian's huge body shrank rapidly, then flew up into the sky and landed on Wang Ping's shoulder, stretching its neck and rubbing Wang Ping's cheek.

The touch of flesh made Wang Ping feel happy. He gently stroked Yu Lian's head and looked at Hu Qianqian who was on the auspicious clouds above.

Hu Qianqian immediately removed the auspicious cloud, then clasped her fists and bowed, saying, "Master!"

"Thank you for your hard work. Please remove the illusion."

As Wang Ping spoke, he glanced at the ground that was damaged by the roots of the locust tree and shot a ray of mysterious light at the ground. As the mysterious light sank into the ground, countless vines suddenly emerged, leveling the ground in a blink of an eye and creating a dense forest.

When the forest was formed, Hu Qianqian removed the starlight illusion at the right time, and the space around Wang Ping shook, and then disappeared. When he appeared again, he was already in the dojo on the top of the mountain.

Standing in front of the old locust tree, Wang Ping felt the difference in his body. His internal organs were made up of pure energy, his meridians had become woven runes, and the original heart was replaced by a bright solid substance similar to a green gem. The wood spirit energy inside it was dozens of times that of Wang Ping's previous qi sea.

"I feel like you've become much stronger. Have you acquired any new spells?"

Yulian asked curiously.

Wang Ping replied: "Now I will enlighten the puppets. If they don't need to be conscious, I can easily enlighten a puppet of the third realm. If I only enlighten a small number of 'Soldier Talismans', I can let them maintain my previous strength. As long as the 'Armor Talismans' have enough spiritual energy in their bodies, they can resist most attacks."

"More importantly, this body can regenerate infinitely. When used with the 'Doppelganger', it can almost keep itself immortal. The prerequisite is still to have enough spiritual energy."

"Finally, my soul has been trained to be as strong as my physical body. I think it will be fine if I leave my physical body and go into outer space for a decade."

Yu Lian thought for a few breaths after hearing this, and asked directly: "Can you face Cang Ji head-on now?"

Wang Ping nodded, "Of course, my current body can provide a constant supply of energy. Coupled with the characteristics of the 'Star Sea' and the strength of my soul, my attack and defense methods have been raised to a higher level."

(End of this chapter)