Nine Netherworld Demon Subduing Record

Seeing the bottomless lake water all around him, Fu Qing hesitated for a moment before taking a step.

But when he finally stepped on it, the water felt real, and Fu Qing felt no different from stepping on a marble slab.

Ahead lay a deep, dark abyss, with only the tree emitting a faint fragrance.

Holding his breath, Fu Qing slowly walked towards the tree. He soon discovered that the water around the tree had been completely drained.

He heard the sound of the tide behind him and glanced back. The water gate was slowly closing.

"How come even the road is blocked? Will we die here if it can't be repaired?" he wondered anxiously.

However, the most important thing right now is how to cultivate the magic. Fu Qing didn't ask about this matter. He just walked towards the small tree out of curiosity.

As they got closer, they saw the small tree swaying slowly. It had only five leaves, and all the leaves moved in unison, creating shimmering shadows. Fu Qing stared at the tree for a while before deciding to reach out and touch it.

But as soon as his fingers touched it, Fu Qing felt as if he had been struck by something. Although he couldn't see it himself, five phantom images of himself appeared behind him, exactly like the small tree. The further back the phantom images went, the less clear they became. The last phantom image had completely turned into dust.

Before him appeared a large tree, its entire body as black as ink, like glue, with golden veins inside, radiating out along its roots, trunk, branches, and leaves.

Suddenly, Fu Qing felt herself floating up towards the tree branches. Eventually, the gel enveloped Fu Qing, and in Fu Qing's vision, her whole body was stretched.

At this moment, the spiritual veins in his body lit up completely, merging into the branches of the tree.

He actually became the tree itself.

At this moment, beams of light and shadow drifted before Fu Qing's eyes.

That was the first time he saw this world, the first time he opened his eyes, and the first time he saw the nurse carry him into his mother's arms.

He saw himself entering the classroom for the first time when he was seven years old.

He saw himself at fifteen, when he first learned to ride a bicycle.

……

In the end, what he saw was himself at nineteen, playing the piano and singing by the campfire on the grassland.

The memory abruptly ended.

Those fragments, one by one, merged into the leaves.

As he grew older, the leaves, from their initial tender buds to their eventual lush foliage, became part of different stages of his life.

Just then, Fu Qing discovered that runes of magic were forming in his mind. Without having to consciously understand them, Fu Qing immediately recognized the words.

"The Thousand Paths of Life!"

The tree slowly shrank until it took the shape of Fu Qing. Only then did Fu Qing feel as if the tree had taken root inside his body.

Fu Qing suddenly felt inexplicably refreshed.

"The Thousand Paths of Life Technique? I wonder what its function is?" Fu Qing wondered to himself.

At that moment, Fu Qing suddenly felt a burning pain in his chest, and the sun-like core in his chest suddenly lit up.

The golden veins that filled his entire body's spiritual meridians seemed to be controlled by the sun within his body, being dragged and rotated, eventually flowing entirely to his left hand.

At this moment, the runes seen in the green ocean lit up again. They were the runes representing the Way of the Spirit Medicine. The golden pulses filled his left hand, aligning with the runes of the Way of the Spirit Medicine.

Fu Qing discovered that as the rune slowly merged with his left hand, branches and leaves began to grow, intertwining to form the shape of an arm.

At this moment, the arm began to change. The first change was that the index and middle fingers extended; the second change was that the thumb and index finger pinched together; and the third change was that the index and middle fingers touched together.

"I turned into a tree?" Fu Qing was somewhat surprised.

But at this moment, he had an even bigger question in his mind: why did the magic seem to have been driven away by the sun and went straight to his left hand?

"Could it be that I'm going to cast the spell with my left hand?"

Once the fusion was complete, the tree trunk and branches on Fu Qing's left hand disappeared, and it returned to the shape of a normal hand.

Staring at his left hand, Fu Qing felt as if he had some kind of connection. He made a fist with his left hand and extended his index and middle fingers at the same time.

Suddenly, a leaf appeared between the index and middle fingers, and the leaf was exactly the same as the small tree from before.

"This... how do I use this?" Fu Qing was completely stunned. Although he felt that he had become a Daoist Master, he did not know how to cast spells.

"Could it be that I'm going to flick the leaf away? I'll try." Fu Qing not only imagined how Chen Xing'an used that talisman before, but also imitated it.

Fu Qing placed his bow in front of his chest and then flicked it forcefully. The leaf flew straight out and suddenly dissipated into countless points of light when it was about six meters away from Fu Qing.

"It really works! Hmm, the effective range is six meters..."

Fu Qing was very surprised; he had hardly used any strength, yet the leaf had flown that far.

"But what's the point? I can't exactly throw leaves at people, can I?"

The leaves were so light and airy that it was hard to say what kind of harm they could cause.

Seeing that it had no effect, Fu Qing held the leaf in his hand and examined it carefully.

"The way of elixirs... perhaps it's about consuming them as medicine?" He slowly paced around to examine them.

Fu Qing picked up the leaf and put it to his lips, but as soon as the leaf touched his lips, he felt a flash before his eyes, and he seemed to have been teleported back to the place he had just walked.

"This... teleportation?"

Suddenly, Fu Qing seemed to have thought of something.

He suddenly took a long stride and ran, flashing leaves at the same time and slapping them on his face.

He was suddenly seen in a flash, and found himself back there.

"It really is teleportation!"

He tried a few more times and discovered that the teleportation did follow some patterns.

It can only teleport you to where you were two seconds ago, and it can only be used once every five seconds. The leaf can be placed anywhere on your body.

"This... looks like just an evasion skill? And it has a cooldown?"

While excited, Fu Qing was also somewhat frustrated, as this dodge skill seemed to have no offensive capabilities whatsoever.

"How am I supposed to fight that demon? I can't just dodge, can I?"

Thinking that the magic he had worked so hard to obtain was such a useless skill, Fu Qing couldn't help but feel speechless.

He began to recall the previous fusion process, and suddenly remembered that the hand had changed into three different forms during the fusion.

He clenched his thumb and forefinger again, and this time another leaf appeared, but it was completely different from the previous one. This one was smaller.

He gripped the leaf tightly and pressed it against his body!

At that moment, Fu Qing felt as if he had passed through himself. He took a step back and saw another version of himself appear in front of him, making the same movements as he had just done.

"What is this? A clone?" Fu Qing was puzzled as he watched his own phantom vanish in an instant.

"What can you do in such a short time?"

At that moment, he remembered the method for forming that last magic seal.

He pinched his thumb and middle finger together again, and another different leaf appeared in his hand, which he then stuck to his body.

"..."

Fu Qing found that it had no effect.

He began to ponder again: "The first leaf made me rewind two seconds, the second leaf showed my previous shadow. The first two are related to time, the first leaf represents rewinding, returning to my state two seconds ago, the second represents my current state, so the third one..."

Feeling as if he was thinking in the right direction, Fu Qing stared in one direction and slapped the leaf onto himself!

He found himself suddenly in the place he had expected.