This is not an MMO game copy

Xia Yan shook his head.

Then, he ignored this little emotional adjustment and summoned the [Sword of Promised Victory] and flew towards the direction that Irena had located with an unknown spell.

Half a day later.

Just before dusk, a foggy valley appeared in front of Xia Yan, and from the air he could see a stream extending from the valley.

Then, Xia Yan followed the stream below and went deep into the valley surrounded by mist. On both sides of the river bank were towering mountains and cliffs thousands of feet high.

Soon, he saw a peach tree upstream of the stream...

...This is a big tree with lush branches and leaves, located on a protruding hill beside the stream. As soon as Xia Yan approached, he smelled a sweet fragrance. From a distance, he saw that the treetops were full of huge fruits that looked like peaches.

But when you come to the front of this peach tree, you can clearly see that what is hanging on the tree is not fruits at all, but human heads.

The Human-Faced Fruit Demon Tree is a man-eating demon tree that appeared in the early part of the Inuyasha story. It can transform the people it eats into human-faced fruits. In the animated version, it is a human-faced peach, while in the comic version, it is more powerful. Each human-faced fruit is the head of a dead person, and even retains a part of the consciousness or soul of the deceased.

But now, the human-faced fruit in front of Xia Yan was not the harmonized human-faced peach in the animated version. Each human-faced fruit was a real human head, including men, women, young and old, hanging on the branches, making a low humming sound.

Looking at the human head fruit on this demon tree, even though Xia Yan knew that the peach fruit man was just a small boss who appeared in the early stage of Inuyasha and whose strength was not up to par, he still felt a little creepy.

But the human-machine monkey was right next to him, so he didn't have to worry. After taking a closer look at the human-faced fruit demon tree, he immediately noticed a detail.

"If no extraordinary power is used to catalyze it, even if it's a man-eating demon tree, it's not a complete tree demon. It will definitely take more than a year or two to grow to this size."

Xia Yan remembered that the animated version and the comic version had different settings in this plot. In the comic version, Taoguoren had ambushed and killed the old immortal a few years before obtaining the fragments of the Four Souls Jade, and ate his master's flesh, leaving only his head planted on a flower in a pot. It was not until he obtained the fragments of the Four Souls Jade that he truly became a monster.

In the animated version, a fragment of the Four Souls Jade is embedded in the Human-Faced Fruit Demon Tree, which grants the tree intelligence and the ability to talk to the Peach Fruit Man, and seduces the Peach Fruit Man into eating the Human-Faced Fruit to obtain the magic to kill his master.

Another difference is that in the comic version, Momokazu does not have a gourd on his body. Instead, he uses magic to shrink Inuyasha and swallows him directly into his stomach.

But it is worth mentioning that no matter whether it is the comic version or the animation version, there is one thing in common that has not changed, that is, the human-faced fruit demon tree has been next to the residence of the peach fruit master, the old immortal, from the beginning.

"Why would there be a demonic tree that grows fruit by eating people in a place where an 'immortal' lives?"

"This 'immortal' knows how to refine the elixir of immortality, so why would he need the human-faced fruit?"

"Also, before this 'immortal' was backstabbed and murdered by the Peach Fruit People, rumors of a Peach Blossom Land were circulating, attracting outsiders to seek refuge there. The so-called 'Peach Blossom Land' is a small, self-contained courtyard box owned by this 'immortal'. While it's not large, the lush green mountains and clear waters are just enough to support the few refugees... Ha, isn't that a coincidence?"

Xia Yan looked up at the mountain next to the human-faced fruit demon tree.

"Oh, I almost forgot... The 'immortal' who can concoct the elixir of immortality is depicted as a white-haired old man in both the manga and anime... I won't comment on his immortality, but what about his immortality?"

"I haven't seen 'Immortality' anywhere yet."

I have to say that this kind of anime involving demons and monsters from ancient times is really filled with a strong weird style in many details.

However, the love stories between humans and monsters in the plot of Inuyasha mask the weirdness of this oriental cultural style. It is estimated that not many people would delve into the story of a man who died physically and only had his head parasitic in the pistil of a flower. In order to help the hero and heroine turn the situation around and defeat the man-eating villain boss Momoko Man, he even sacrificed himself and turned into a "sage" with a disposable bow and arrow.

So, in the story of Inuyasha, after the disposable bow and arrow turned into ashes and dissipated in Kagome's hand, did the "sage" really die?

Xia Yan didn't know either.

But judging from the various clues related to the human-faced fruit demon tree, he could be absolutely sure that this old immortal was definitely not a good person.

next second.

There was no need for the human-machine monkey to take action. Xia Yan grasped the [Sword of Promised Victory] and swung his hand, slashing out a sword light that passed through the human-faced fruit demon tree.

Under the sharp edge of the flying sword, the human-faced fruit monster tree, which was obviously not a complete monster, was instantly cut in half by the sword and fell down at an angle.

But Xia Yan did not stop there. Instead, he raised his hand and used Lei Qingyun's Taoism. His index finger and middle finger pinched a purple-blue talisman condensed from the Tai Chi Yuan Qi void.

There was a boom.

The lightning attracted by the [Thunder Attracting Technique] struck directly on the fallen human-faced fruit demon tree, smashing the remaining body of the demon tree into pieces on the spot.

Then, Xia Yansheng leaped into the air on his sword, turned into a green rainbow, and flew to the top of the nearby mountain in the blink of an eye.

Then, I saw at a glance that on the top of the mountain, there was an ancient building that looked like a temple.

At this time, it seemed that the lightning and thunder attracted by the [Thunder Attracting Technique] alarmed the people in the temple.

Just as Xia Yanfei came up, the door of the temple creaked and was pushed open from the inside.

Then a huge fat man with a bloated belly appeared behind the temple gate, staring blankly at Xia Yan who was flying into the air with a sword.

"Who are you……"

I don’t know if it’s because he ate too many human-faced fruits, which affected his mind and reduced his IQ, or because he was transformed by the fragments of the Four Souls Jade and gained confidence by calling himself the Peach Fruit Immortal. Although he clearly saw Xia Yan flying with a sword, this fat man didn’t take action immediately. Instead, he stood at the door of the temple and shouted at him.

But before he could even finish his sentence, Xia Yan pointed his sword and the flying sword instantly turned into a green light that swept across the peach fruit man's neck and cut off the fat head on his neck.

After killing the peach fruit man with one sword, Xia Yan used his magic power in disgust to pull the peach fruit man's pot-bellied body and head out of the temple gate and threw it into the air. He used the [Thunder Attracting Technique] again to summon lightning, and turned it into ashes like the human-faced fruit demon tree in front of him.

Then, Xia Yan walked into the exquisite house on the top of the mountain, and killed all the monsters inside who were recruited by the peach fruit people as subordinates to help him commit evil. Like a qualified RPG player, he turned the entire house upside down, searched a study and found many scrolls and books. He also moved the courtyard box with an independent little world and the flower pot where the old immortal's head was parasitic outside.

"Well, you are..."

After the flowerpot was moved outside the house, there was immediate movement. An unknown white flower opened its petals, revealing a white-haired old man's head in the pistil.

Xia Yan ignored the "immortal" who only had a head left, but called Irena out from the inner space of the [Great Holy Grail] again, and also asked [No Return Error] to stop his current work and come out together.

"What's wrong with you?"

As soon as Irena stepped out of the interior space of the [Great Holy Grail], she rolled her eyes at Xia Yan in annoyance.

"Do me a favor and use mental interference to break through this guy's mental defenses..."

While pointing at the old man's head on the pistil, Xia Yan ordered [Wugui's Error] to start entering and translating the texts on the scrolls and books looted from the study. He ignored the old man's shouting and told him everything about the peach fruit man and the human-faced fruit demon tree, as well as his speculations.

"You mean-"

Hearing this, the expression on Irena's face suddenly changed. She looked at the old man who kept shouting "This is a misunderstanding" after hearing Xia Yan's "slander" and showed a hint of disgust.

Afterwards, she did not take out her wand, but chose to summon the white staff from the female Merlin spirit base and placed it in front of the old man's head on the pistil.

After a while, the "immortal" who had lost his original body and only had a head left could not resist the mental interference spell cast by Irena, and the voice of constantly shouting "misunderstanding" gradually turned into a sleepwalking murmur.

Next, things happened just as Xia Yan had guessed. The "immortal" whose mind was forcibly controlled by the mental interference spell answered all the questions asked by Xia Yan and Irena.

"Is that demonic fruit tree with a human face related to you?"

“I planted it…”

While mumbling in his sleep, this "immortal" admitted that he was the one who planted the human-faced fruit demon tree from the beginning, and it was he who spread the rumors about Peach Blossom Village to attract outsiders to his Peach Blossom Village. However, he was not kind enough to take in the homeless, but instead raised people in an independent small world in a bonsai to feed the human-faced fruit demon tree regularly.

At the same time, in order to better cultivate the human-faced fruit demon tree, he will also take the initiative to teach the people who are taken in by Taoyuan Township some very basic cultivation methods, and select qualified people from them to serve as disciples and teach them some magic spells.

But that is not really to accept disciples, but to cultivate high-quality fertilizers and medicinal materials. He can also instruct disciples to take the initiative to go out to guide and receive more homeless people to Taoyuan Township, and regularly "replace" a new disciple every few years.

Tao Guoren is the new disciple that this "immortal" replaced a few years ago after eliminating the previous disciple.

Logically speaking, even if Tao Guoren, as a disciple, realized the truth, he would not be able to successfully fight back. However, this "immortal" is not a real immortal after all. He is just using the name of an immortal and cannot be truly immortal. Otherwise, he would not plant and cultivate the human-faced fruit demon tree, hoping to use the human-faced fruit produced by this demon tree to refine the elixir of immortality.

The smooth replacement of disciples over the years had made him lose sufficient vigilance, and he did not immediately notice the changes caused by the Peach Fruit Man obtaining the Four Souls Jade fragments, which led to the successful sneak attack by the Peach Fruit Man.

"nausea."

In response to this, after listening to the old immortal's statement in his sleep, the disgust on Irena's face became more and more obvious. She raised her staff and was about to turn this lingering "immortal" into ashes like the peach fruit man.

"Wait, let me ask a few more questions."

Xia Yan reached out to stop the witch and asked this "immortal":

"Where did you get all the magic you know, the recipe for the elixir of immortality, the cane and courtyard box you and the Peach Fruit Man used, and the human-faced fruit demon tree? These are definitely not things you can possess."

"Also, if I directly destroy the flower that's parasitic on your head...will you really be reduced to ashes and die?!"

"Magic arts, prescriptions, ingredients for the elixir of immortality... the demonic human-faced fruit tree... these are all relics of the immortals I stole when I escaped from... Penglai Island..."

The old immortal muttered in his sleep:

"...Destroy the flower parasitic on my head. I won't die immediately... Peach Fruit Man, that evil disciple... ate my flesh and cut off my path to refining the elixir of immortality and becoming a human immortal... But he doesn't know... that I can also become a ghost immortal through corpse transformation..."

"What did you say?"

Xia Yan's expression froze.

"Penglai Island? The path to human immortality and the path to ghost immortality?"

The third copy: 88. Human Immortal and Ghost Immortal (4k+)

As a small BOSS in the early plot, Momokoto is very weak. Apart from relying on surprise to shrink Inuyasha suddenly, he is simply a weakling among weaklings. Facing Inuyasha, who has recovered his original size but temporarily lost his demonic power and turned into an ordinary human, he was deeply demonized by two fragments of the Shikon Jewel but still failed to crush Inuyasha to death. In turn, Inuyasha blinded one of his eyes.

In terms of physical strength alone, she might not be as good as the centipede witch who was killed instantly by Inuyasha at the beginning of the story after being unsealed.

So, the old immortal who could be ambushed and killed by the peach fruit people could not be that strong.

Even though due to the different systems of supernatural powers, it is inevitable that one will suffer a disadvantage in physical strength, but being so fragile is like an ordinary person being able to drain the magic power of a god. It is really nonsense.

Oh, no, the latter should be even more bullshit.

And now, Xia Yan finally understood how this real "copy" world, where the original plot and settings were full of bugs, evolved into a reasonable logical chain.

Taoguoren's master is indeed not a real immortal. Just like Taoguoren uses the name of Taoguoxianren, that "xianren" also uses the name of an old immortal and does things that are no different from Taoguoren.

The difference is that Taoguoren turned into a monster because of the fragments of the Four Souls Jade and can only go down one path until the end.

The old immortal had two paths to choose from.

Human immortals and ghost immortals.

In fact, these two paths are not niche systems. Even though there are differences in levels, they are indeed two genuine and broad roads.

How prosperous is it?

Let me put it this way, if it is really the [Human Immortal] and [Ghost Immortal] in Xia Yan's impression, then it is the most orthodox Xuanmen system, orthodox to the extraordinary system that has appeared in the entire Inuyasha plot. Whether it is the witches, onmyojis, monks who use spiritual power like Kikyo, or monsters based on demonic power like Touga, in comparison, at best they can only be regarded as the three religions and nine streams among the side doors, and the side doors among the side doors.

Those are the two paths of cultivating to become an immortal in the Taoist Five Immortals system, located one below the Five Immortals and two below the Five Immortals.

In the Zhonglu Inner Alchemy practice, the description of the human immortal is: a person who practices Taoism, does not understand the great way, but obtains a method from the Tao, and a technique from the method, and has faith and perseverance that will never change throughout his life.

The Qi of the five elements, the interaction and misunderstanding, the form and substance are solid, the eight evil epidemics cannot harm, there is more peace and less illness, it is called a human immortal.

To be precise, this is not a true immortal, but one can also be described as "a person who practices cultivation, who may have just heard of the great Dao." This is equivalent to the cultivators in various fantasy and fairy-tale novels. Even the spiritual root systems of the immortal cultivators in the underworld can be roughly classified into this category, with huge differences in the upper and lower limits.

Ultimately, it all comes down to what the cultivators who embark on the path of becoming immortals have gained from their initial hearing of the Great Dao, and what magic they have learned from the Dao.

After all, the Thirty-Six Heavenly Star Techniques are also [techniques], and the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Techniques are also [techniques]. For immortals who obtain different [techniques] from different [Taoism] and then comprehend different [techniques], the difference between their upper and lower limits may be greater than that between humans and dogs.

Judging from the human-faced fruit demon tree, the human-faced fruit... and the actions of this master and disciple, Xia Yan felt that the path to immortality mastered by this "immortal" was probably derived from some kind of longevity [Tao], which led to the [method] of immortality and eventually formed the [art] of medicine and stone.

as predicted.

Under the influence of Irena's mental interference using Merlin's staff, the old immortal's mumbling in his sleep, and the result of [No Return Error] translating the text on the scrolls and books looted from the study.

The path to immortality that this "immortal" wants to embark on is the alchemy and magic of the way to longevity and immortality.

It is also the most widely spread and has the lowest threshold, and is favored by emperors and generals of all dynasties. By taking the elixir of immortality, one can achieve enlightenment and ascend to the Purple Palace in broad daylight.

The difference is that the medicines that emperors and generals take will kill themselves.

But this won’t happen.

The whole process can be simply summarized as follows: planting and cultivating some kind of spiritual plant, using the spiritual plant to gather the spirituality of all things scattered between heaven and earth, gathering the spirituality to produce spiritual fruit, then taking the spiritual fruit as spiritual material, and finally refining the spiritual material into medicinal stone, which is taken orally to replenish the innate lifespan.

Can't get on the table.

But whether in classical cultivation of immortals or in the cultivation of immortals in the underworld, it can be regarded as a broad road that cannot be more serious.

As long as the spiritual plants do not wither, their spirituality is not extinguished, and their spiritual fruits are produced, their life span can be continuously replenished, and they can live forever in the world. In this respect, they can even be compared to the earthly immortals who are ranked among the Five Immortals and live forever in the world without dying.

Even the prospects of the path are very broad, and its upper limit is probably various elixirs of immortality.

However, [Tao], [Fa] and [Shu] are all right ways, but they are inevitably distorted into another form by human greed.

The spirituality of all things that overflows from heaven and earth comes from the growth and withering of silent plants, bamboos, and stones, and also from the food chain of birds and beasts, all of which converge bit by bit in the cycle of nature.

But when it comes to spirituality, how can anything in nature compare to humans?

Human beings’ rich emotions are spirituality, human beings’ souls and flesh are spirituality, and human beings’ self-wisdom is even more pure spirituality.

It takes too long to gather spiritual energy from the food chain cycle of plants, bamboo, rocks, and birds and beasts. Even if you are in a lush forest, you may only be able to produce a few spiritual fruits after working hard for dozens or hundreds of years. If something unexpected happens, even a hundred years of hard work will inevitably be in vain.

Less than: humans.

A human life could be exchanged for a spiritual fruit. Without refining the spiritual material into medicinal stones, simply consuming it could add a significant amount to one's lifespan. More than ten human lives could be exchanged for a lifetime of illness and pain for an ordinary person. The extra lifespan could be used to refine essence into qi, or to practice certain unique techniques that required a lifespan as a price...

...In short, there are many benefits to taking shortcuts, but the only drawback is that doing so may have some self-evident side effects, which can lead to being haunted by resentment and curses at the very least, or even degenerating into a demon at the worst.

Therefore, the human-faced fruit demon tree played a vital role in it, which was to filter out resentment and curses and purify the spirituality as much as possible. Although taking it directly would still affect the mind, as long as it was refined into medicinal stone, it could still purify the medicinal power under the premise of losing some spirituality and weakening the efficacy to a certain extent.

And this is the function of the human-faced fruit demon tree.

It not only eats the spiritual plants planted by the old immortal, but also serves as a filter for taking shortcuts and an assembly line for producing a large number of spiritual fruits in a short period of time.