Cultivation begins with separation.

Chapter 72 Ancient Jianmu
Nine hundred and twenty-six years of Qiantian.

Yi Feng brought nine fourth-year students from Xuanyin Taoist Academy into Shenmu Taoist Academy.

Among them, Weng Lan and Tai Shi Yingxue were prominently listed.

Yi Mo was greeted by three fourth-year students. In addition, there were many other students watching Yi Mo and his group of ten from afar.

“Have met Fellow Daoist Yi.

Daoist Yi is quite patient. He has been applying to become an exchange student at our Taoist Academy since his second year, and now he has even gone to great lengths to travel across states to discuss Dao at our Shenmu Taoist Academy."

A young man smiled and said:

"In the past, our Shenmu Daoyuan's opponents were only Xianjin Daoyuan, Lingshui Daoyuan, Yanghuo Daoyuan, and Houtu Daoyuan."

Yi Mo glanced at this person,
"I wonder what you call your friend?"

"Lu Qiusheng."

"Friend Lu, are the top ten of you fourth graders ready?

When does it begin. "

“Oh, regarding the discussion of the Dao, there have been some changes.

Of course, the discussion of the Dao will not be cancelled.

It’s just that the top ten Taoist friends in our Taoist temple all have important matters to attend to, so we selected ten Taoist friends from the top fifty to discuss Taoism with your Xuanyin Taoist Temple.

Of course, if you can win, the conditions you proposed will still be valid."

Taishi Yingxue frowned, but said nothing.

Weng Lan looked angry and wanted to say something when Yi Feng said:

“Are you sure?
If we defeat those ten people, I will become the acting chairman of your class for a year."

“Don’t worry, Fellow Daoist Yi, Chief Sun Qingyu has already agreed.

Besides, we can’t break the contract when discussing Taoism in front of so many students from the Taoist Academy.”

"That's good."

"In that case, fellow Taoists from Xuanyin Taoist Academy, follow me. We have arranged accommodation for you and we will start discussing Taoism tomorrow."

There are towering trees everywhere in the Shenmu Taoist Temple. Most of them are spiritual trees, but there are also some ordinary trees that have a long lifespan but are not spiritual trees.

Perhaps seeing Yi Feng's interest in the surrounding trees, a female student following Lu Qiu Sheng said:

"Does Friend Yi also study trees?"

"Well, I came here this time just to see the Tongtian Divine Tree."

“Oh, has Brother Yi studied trees?

"Fellow Daoist Yi, do you know which tree is the oldest in our fairyland?"

Yi Feng hasn't spoken yet.

Weng Lan said unhappily:
“Isn’t it the sacred tree that reaches the sky?

The Taoist temple has recorded that our Tiandu Spiritual Realm was the home of monsters tens of millions of years ago. It was not until the Tongtian Divine Tree touched the Immortal Realm that the ancestors of our human race crossed over from the Immortal Realm along the Divine Tree.

Apart from the Tongtian Divine Tree, what other trees can live for tens of millions of years?"

The female student looked at Yi Feng with a smile.

"Does Fellow Daoist Yi think so too?"

Yi Feng said:

“It should be a legend that it can touch the fairyland. However, the Tongtian Divine Tree should be the highest and longest-lived spiritual tree in our Tiandu Spirit World.”

Yi Feng served as the chief for three terms. He had been to Xuanyin Cave Heaven and Xuanyin Blessed Land, and had come into contact with millions of spiritual trees. He learned that although the lifespan of a spiritual tree was not necessarily determined by its level, high-level spiritual trees could generally survive for a long time.

The Tongtian Divine Tree is the most famous seventh-level spiritual tree in the Tiandu Spiritual Realm. In the fairyland, there is probably no tree longer-lived than this tree.

Lu Qiusheng smiled and said:

"Student Xia Ying, stop showing off your unfounded theory. Even in our Divine Wood Taoist Academy, most people believe that the Tongtian Divine Wood is the oldest tree."

“How can you say it’s unfounded?

We in the Changsheng Society have a history of studying trees for more than 100,000 years. Over the past 100,000 years, we have conducted more than billions of studies on the Taigu Jianmu and Tongtian Shenmu.

The final results all show that the lifespan of the ancient Jianmu tree is much longer than that of the Tongtian sacred tree."

"What a joke! Jianmu is just an ordinary tree. We have a Jianmu forest in our Taoist temple, but we haven't seen any Jianmu trees there that are over ten thousand years old."

"Where is the ancient Jianmu?"

"That's just a mutated Jianmu tree. It will probably die in a few thousand years."

"It's ridiculous. The ancient Jianmu has existed since our Shenmu Daoyuan was established 100,000 years ago. How could it be possible that it died?"

“The Tongtian Divine Tree has lived for tens of millions of years. It may have existed since the beginning of the Tiandu Spiritual Realm.

You, the Changsheng Society, are just a group of students. You didn't understand the Tongtian Divine Tree when it was still at the sixth level. Fifty thousand years ago, after the Tongtian Divine Tree broke through the seventh level, it was only visible to the chief, so it was even more impossible for you to understand it. "

"Student Lu, you."

"etc".

Yi Feng interrupted.

"What is the ancient Jianmu?"

"Don't worry about it, Friend Yi. This is just an ordinary tree. Just because it has lived for a long time, it has been given the name 'Ancient'."

In the fairyland, many cultivators like to give some spiritual objects or their own magic weapons a resounding name.

What Yi Feng cared about was naturally not the name, but what Fellow Daoist Xia Ying said about an ordinary tree living for more than 100,000 years, which aroused his interest.

Seeing that Yi Feng was interested, Xia Ying immediately told Yi Feng with great enthusiasm about the extraordinary features of the ancient Jianmu.

From a few simple rounds of in-depth research into tree tissue, the Changsheng Society believes that the ancient Jianmu has survived for more than 100 million years.

However, since the ancient Jianmu was just an ordinary tree, many people do not believe it.

"Do I need to be a chief to see the ancient Jianmu?"

Lu Qiusheng stopped walking, but before he could say anything, Xia Ying spoke up first:
"No need, the ancient Jianmu is in the center of the Jianmu Forest. I'll take you there."

"Thank you, Brother Xia."

"You're welcome. Follow me."

As she spoke, Xia Ying changed direction and asked Yi Feng to follow.

"Let's go to our residence first. Fellow Daoist Yi is very obsessed with trees. He may not come back at night."

Taishi Yingxue said to Lu Qiusheng, and shouted to Yi Feng,
"Chief Yi, don't forget tomorrow's discussion."

Flying above a dense forest, Yi Feng looked at the trees below.

The trees below are all of the same kind. The root system of this type of tree is very developed. Many huge roots are exposed above the ground, intertwined with each other, and directly cover the soil.

The trunk of Jianmu is very straight, and each trunk looks like a cylinder carefully trimmed by a craftsman, with branches and leaves only appearing at the top.

Yi Feng followed Xia Ying and flew over the forest for a long time.

Xia Ying never stopped talking along the way, constantly bragging about how extraordinary Jianmu was.

He also told Yi Feng that the goal of their Changsheng Society was to use Jianmu as the main body to cultivate a spiritual tree that was no less powerful than the Tongtian Divine Tree.

Yi Feng occasionally responded, but most of his attention was on the trees below.

Suddenly, Yi Feng's gaze focused and he looked into the distance.

Deep in the mountains, I saw a tall pillar that reached the sky and pierced through the clouds.

“That’s the ancient Jianmu.

It is 3341004 feet high and 146112 feet wide at the bottom.

In the entire Tiandu Spirit Realm, except for a dozen or so spiritual trees above the sixth level that are higher than the ancient Jianmu, the rest of the spiritual trees are inferior to it. "

Xia Ying's tone was somewhat amazed.
"And this is just an ordinary tree."

Yi Feng was also amazed.

Using the measurements my father taught me, this ancient Jianmu is 1113668 meters high and 48704 meters wide at the base.

Compared with this ancient Jianmu, the Taichu Purple Apricot on Zijin Mountain looks as short as a weed.

Soon, the two arrived near the ancient Jianmu.

But before the two could get close, a flying boat flew towards them.

"Friend Yi, let's go downstairs to register."

Xia Ying said this and flew down.

Yi Feng had heard from Xia Ying before that although this ancient Jianmu was just an ordinary tree, because of its long lifespan, the Shenmu Taoist Academy had arranged many people to take good care of it, and even the students of the Taoist Academy had to register if they wanted to get close to it.

At the reception, there was not a single student queuing.

After Xia Ying signed a large pile of documents, she was finally allowed to leave by the management staff.

As he approached the ancient Jianmu, a strange feeling arose in his heart.

Yi Feng stroked the bark of the ancient Jianmu tree, and an unprecedented desire arose in his heart.

At some point, Yi Feng's entire body was pressed against the tree trunk.

Xia Ying opened her mouth wide, looking stunned.

If Xia Ying knew the word "chikan", she would be able to summarize Yi Feng's behavior at this moment.

Xia Ying was originally talking incessantly.

But she couldn't say anything at this moment, her mouth opening and closing unconsciously.

Could it be that this fourth-year chief of Xuanyin Taoist Academy is a pervert?

Thinking about how she had been alone with this pervert for so long, Xia Ying couldn't help but shudder.

"Friend Yi, I have something to do. After you finish reading this, just go back the same way you came."

Xia Ying said something in a low voice, and left quietly without caring whether Yi Feng heard it or not.

Yi Feng hugged the tree trunk and fell asleep without knowing when.

Between ignorance and unconsciousness.

Yi Feng felt himself being burned by raging magma, bombarded by thunder, swept by a storm that tore through space, and enveloped by a flood that submerged the earth.
Endless natural disasters appeared again and again. No one knew how much time had passed, and Yi Feng felt a little numb.

Slowly, the power of various natural disasters seemed to be decreasing.

The scorching magma began to turn into warm water, and the violent thunder became gentle, giving me a tingling and comfortable feeling, and the storm was somewhat cool.
The sun rose and set, and I don’t know how much time passed.

All natural disasters become its "food", making it grow bigger.

I don’t know when, a desire arose in my heart.

That is the longing for the great sun in the sky.

As the desire arose, Yi Feng began to slowly break through the space and quickly approach the sun.

The process of approaching is painful. The sun is hotter than magma, and the heat becomes more intense as the distance gets closer.

But the desire in my heart outweighs the pain in my body.

I don’t know what happened, but it finally touched the sun.

Yi Feng felt like his body was burning.

Under the tremendous pain, he couldn't help but start swallowing the sun. A sense of satisfaction as if he had drunk nectar emerged, overpowering the pain of the burning body.

Pain and happiness coexist.

For the sake of happiness, he swallowed the sun without any care.

I don’t know how long time has passed.

As the sun exploded, Yi Feng felt his body shattered into pieces.

And his consciousness, attached to an insignificant root, was sucked into the space crack caused by the explosion.
(End of this chapter)