Druid in the Xianxia world

Chapter 109: Transformation in the wilderness, ancient trees with annual rings!
Zhong Cang reacted and apologized, but it didn't have much effect. The "sparring" still made Zhong Cang physically and mentally exhausted.

However, after the battle, Mo Shuyu, feeling much better, still expressed his own views.

"You still have to improve. If you can't break through, these improvements can also increase your foundation."

"...Thank you for your advice, teacher. I understand."

……

After being taught for another afternoon and understanding some of the mysteries of yin and yang and the four spirits, Mo Shuyu and Gu Yan left.

After the two left, for the first time, Zhong Cang did not practice, but rested for the whole afternoon.

At midnight, when the moon was at its highest point in the sky, Zhong Cang took out the laurel toad.

"boom!"

After using it to bless his own luck, Zhong Cang danced the Great Divine Dance facing the moon again, performing a natural ritual unique to druids.

"Om..."

After dancing for a while, Zhong Cang, who was in resonance with the heaven and earth, obtained another drop of Emperor's Blood.

Not daring to delay, the moment Emperor Liujiang appeared, Zhong Cang filled his body with the power of nature, and in his mind, he conjured up an ancient tree that seemed to have the vicissitudes of life. Countless information related to the ancient tree with its annual rings was also injected into the ancient tree by Zhong Cang, making it come alive, as if it were alive.

When the ancient tree rings were completely materialized in his sea of ​​consciousness, Zhong Cang immediately changed his body using the power of nature as a medium.

"Wow..."

Like plasticine, under the influence of natural forces, Zhong Cang's body continued to stretch and lengthen, his skin turned into brown bark, and circles of annual rings also appeared inside the ancient tree.

Perhaps it was luck, or perhaps it was because he broke through the limits of the first heaven that Zhong Cang's status was elevated.

In short, this wilderness transformation did not have the difficulties and dangers that Zhong Cang had expected.

He transformed successfully with ease.

Soon, a seemingly ordinary ancient tree appeared in the dense garden of Huangni Village.

Of course, it only looks ordinary on the outside.

Closing his eyes and feeling inside, Zhong Cang discovered that there were thirty-six circles of annual rings in his body.

"Thirty-six, not fifteen or sixteen... Does the age in the previous life count as well?"

Because he didn't know the effect it would have on him, Zhong Cang didn't pay too much attention to it. Soon, he began to realize the power of the annual ring texture.

After some experience, Zhong Cang discovered that the ancient tree he transformed into had only one ability - the tree's rings could replace death.

Fortunately, although its ability is small, it is indeed powerful. Just as Zhong Cang thought, it contains the power of time.

"Annual rings replace death. Thirty-six rings represent my thirty-six lives. No matter what kind of injury I suffer, after transforming into an ancient tree with annual rings, I can recover by consuming a layer of annual rings."

"And this kind of recovery is the kind that goes back in time, allowing me to return to the state I was in a year ago. Therefore, my recovery will have almost no side effects."

This ability is very powerful, but when used on ancient trees with annual rings...it actually has little effect.

After all, the ancient tree has no special abilities other than its growth rings, and it cannot move. If a hostile human or monster can kill it once, they can kill it a second time, and a third time... Such limitations are also the magic of nature. There are many creatures with powerful talents, but perfect creatures are rare.

As Zhong Cang was thinking about this, he thought of the tardigrades and the immortal jellyfish in his previous life.

The former has extremely strong endurance and can survive in the Arctic, tropics, deep sea, hot springs, or even in a vacuum.

The latter is a creature that can be called immortal, with the ability to rejuvenate - "reincarnate" from the mature stage to the juvenile polyp state and grow again. Such a Turritopsis dohrnii jellyfish has no limit on lifespan at all, and its magicalness is even more than that of the annual rings of ancient trees.

"My previous life was an ordinary world, a world where miraculous creatures like the Turritopsis dohrnii and tardigrades existed. Because of the spiritual energy in this world, the biodiversity is as diverse as the stars, numerous and unique. With so much life, it's not uncommon to find some plants and animals that are weak but have extraordinary abilities."

"And the ancient trees with their annual rings, their abilities are weak on themselves, but it's different on me."

Thinking of this, Zhong Cang returned to himself from the ancient tree with its annual rings, and turned his consciousness to the sea of ​​his own heart.

As expected, after the transformation was completed, the spirit seed tree in his sea of ​​consciousness also gained thirty-six more growth rings.

But what made Zhong Cang frown was that perhaps his understanding of the mystery of annual rings was not deep enough, and the ability of annual rings to replace the dead did not appear on his spirit tree.

This also means that if he is killed or seriously injured in his ancient tree form, he can return to his original state. However, if he transforms into a human or other form, he will lose this ability and will die if killed.

“…It’s a bit troublesome.”

Zhong Cang sighed as he did not obtain the ability he wanted most.

Fortunately, the appearance of annual rings on the spirit seed is still beneficial to Zhong Cang.

What made Zhong Cang raise his eyebrows was that among his many abilities, the two that combined best with the annual rings were memory and... flowing wind.

The perfect fusion of the Memory Tree's ability to pick up relics from the sea of ​​sand and the power of time was not beyond Zhong Cang's expectations. It was originally related to memory, not to mention that both memory and time were "illusory", so it was easier to combine them.

But the perfect combination of the power of flowing wind and the annual rings that he had just realized was beyond Zhong Cang's expectations.

……

"The combination of sand sea relics and tree rings has given me the ability to controllable memory and time travel."

In the past, although Zhong Cang could occasionally see memories of the past on some objects that contained special spiritual charm, such viewing depended on luck, just like scooping up a grain of sand from the ocean. This is why Zhong Cang called it "picking up relics from the sea of ​​sand."

But now, everything is different. Using his magic power and the ability to retrieve relics from the sea of ​​sand, Zhong Cang can rewind and watch everything that happened to objects or people in the past thirty-six years.

This makes it impossible to hide any secrets from Zhong Cang.

"Using this to solve cases can make all detectives unemployed..."

Of course, this is a world of immortals and heroes, not ancient history, so Zhong Cang, who has obtained this ability, would not do this.

But even so, this ability is still very useful to Zhong Cang.

"I can use the remains of the Sand Sea to reflect the ancient methods or incomplete things in some ruins."

"As for other people's messages and insights, I can also use time travel to view them."

"If I gain some powerful abilities in the future, or if my understanding of time deepens even more, I could even go back in time and attack the enemy directly... Okay, that's a bit far-fetched."

(End of this chapter)