Full-Time Magister: What kind of demonic tree is this? It's clearly a sacred tree!

Chapter 123 Bifang

Four days passed in this way, and no more demons came up to the island. It seemed that they had cleared out all the demons from this area of ​​the sea.

Just as they were preparing to head to the next stretch of sea, a clicking sound, similar to chopping down a tree, rang out.

Then the sea surface in this area slowly bulged up, and a mountain slowly rose from the sea.

Zhang Chen sensed a familiar presence, and a smile appeared on his lips. Mu Nujiao was unaware of what was happening, but she felt a slight tremor in her body as she felt the imposing aura before her. However, she was quickly soothed by Zhang Chen's reassuring embrace.

"Hey! Can't you come out a little faster each time?!" Zhang Chen laughed when he saw Baxia carrying a giant demon in its mouth.

Zhang Chen then urged his wife, who was nestled in his arms, "Would you like to pet the little turtle?"

Mu Nujiao looked at Baxia, who had a fierce expression, and shook her head, which was almost buried in Zhang Chen's chest.

"Never mind then! Come in." Zhang Chen took out the Sacred Tree Dao and acted very aloof. He nodded and went straight inside.

Zhang Chen raised the sacred tree, and in less than a breath, the monarch-level demon, which was originally as large as a small mountain, was completely absorbed. It was just a pity that there was no essence left. Zhang Chen had finally bought a vessel for the dead, but he hadn't used it yet. He also couldn't compete with Mo Fan's little mudskipper.

Just as Zhang Chen and his companion finished cleaning the strange bones and scales off the monarch-level creature and placed it under the sacred tree, they heard a crisp sound.

The fruit that Jiang Feng had transformed into had cracks that grew larger and larger, and the light on it shone brightly to the extreme. Zhang Chen and Mu Nujiao subconsciously closed their eyes.

A creature resembling a crane but with only one leg, covered in blue feathers with crimson stripes, surrounded by wisps of white flames and radiating infinite light, burst forth from the fruit and soared into the sky, carrying a ball of fire in its mouth.

As it moved further away from the sacred tree, its size increased exponentially.

People far away in Tinoua could clearly see the godlike giant crane, while waves of heat swept in from the sea.

People in the harbor could see by looking down at the sea that the water level dropped by a full ten meters in the short time the giant crane appeared, and all the ships that were floating at sea were now stranded on the beach.

Suddenly, black warning lights lit up the city, accompanied by terrifying alarms, and the crowd was thrown into panic as they scrambled to get to the safe zone.

The high-level mage in the city sensed the aura from afar, collapsed to the ground in despair, muttering, "Where did this come from! This aura...it's all over—it's all over!"

On the other hand, Mo Fan looked at the newly grown maggot and flipped onto its black belly, resulting in its death. After collecting its corpse, he turned his head in confusion, sensing the direction from which the heat wave was coming, and saw an unimaginable giant crane. He could not see its full appearance because he was under the giant crane's wingspan.

He turned his head and saw Mu Ningxue, who was in a daze. He decisively picked her up and carried her back to the boat, then steered the boat away into the distance.

The giant crane seemed to sense something was wrong, and then disappeared from everyone's sight, returning to the foot of the sacred tree.

"This is... Bifang?" Zhang Chen looked at the one-legged giant crane in confusion. The giant crane actually spoke in human language: "Yes! That's right! I didn't expect it to become a totem beast."

"Aunt Jiang Feng!?" Mu Nujiao said. "Yes! It's me! Little Nujiao." Jiang Feng said. Zhang Chen looked at the black realm in the distance and said with some amusement, "Aunt Jiang Feng, what is your strength now? You directly scared that city into raising the highest level of black alert."

"It's somewhere between a monarch and an emperor. After I became a Bifang, many memories that weren't mine appeared in my mind. But if I'm with the Sacred Tree, ordinary demons who have just stepped into the emperor realm are no match for me," Jiang Feng said modestly. "Isn't that a sub-emperor?! Such a huge gain!? Do you now know what this Sacred Tree is? And why it could turn you into a Bifang?"

Zhang Chen asked the question that had been weighing on his mind for a long time: "In the memories I have, the totems also call it the Sacred Tree. It is from a very ancient era, when humans had not yet learned magic and could attach themselves to various ancient beasts."

"When it was first discovered, it directly triggered the mutual devouring of ancient beasts, because cultivating under the sacred tree could integrate its demonic bloodline into one's own body."

"Furthermore, it can elevate one's bloodline or transform into a better ancient beast, thereby increasing strength, provided that one possesses some good ancient beast bloodline within them. Therefore, in that era, it directly stimulated the desire among ancient beasts to devour each other!"

"Afterwards, four ancient beasts stopped participating in the devouring among the ancient beasts and focused on sublimating their bloodlines under the sacred tree. When they were strong enough, they came out to stop the infighting among the ancient beasts and killed or expelled some stubborn ancient beasts on the spot, thus finally ending the period of infighting among the ancient beasts."

"I don't know what happened after that. My memories end here. All I know is that I belong to the Vermilion Bird lineage among the four ancient beasts, and that the Vermilion Bird I could sense was dead. My next step is to find what the Vermilion Bird left behind and use the Sacred Tree to transform into the Vermilion Bird!"

Zhang Chen nodded and fell into thought.

It seems to be related to what Jiang Shaoxu said. As for why Jiang Feng turned into Bifang, it's probably because Yan Ji's ancestors had Bifang's bloodline integrated under the sacred tree. Who hasn't had a powerful demon in their ancestors!

"Okay, do you remember what I told you back then? You had to find nutrients for the Sacred Tree." Zhang Chen said happily, having an A-Emperor as a bodyguard made him feel incredibly good. "You don't need to tell me, I'll do it. The Sacred Tree is far from what it was back then, and its effects are far inferior. You must have used something to speed up my hatching process! But it still took a year!"

Jiang Feng said in a light tone, and then it came out from under the sacred tree again, but this time it controlled its body size, only about the size of an ordinary crane.

It said, "You all wait here. I just scalded a lot of demons to death. I'll bring them to you."

"Okay!" Zhang Chen pondered. That should be the half-cup of Time Elixir from the Ruins Town. Jiang Feng concealed her aura and had only been gone a short while when Mo Fan called. "Hello, what's up?"

"I'm glad you're alright, Commander. Have you seen a giant fire crane?"

"I saw it, it's gone. What happened?"

"Holy crap! You son of a bitch, could this have something to do with you?!" Mo Fan, who seemed to know Zhang Chen inside and out, guessed it immediately.

"Would you believe me if I said no?"

"Stop talking nonsense, tell me now!"

"It's Flame Princess! She's finally emerged from the fruit—"

For the next three days, Zhang Chen and Mu Nujiao stayed on the island. Jiang Feng returned about once every half day, but each time she brought back a demon that the sacred tree could absorb for half an hour. The two of them then skillfully began to collect valuable materials from the demon.

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