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Chapter 855 - 712 Heavenly and Earthly Spiritual Roots!

Chapter 855: Chapter 712 Heavenly and Earthly Spiritual Roots!

"Isn’t this just to see Junior Brother’s abilities?" Zhang Decheng replied with a smile.

"Let’s go, first check on the situation with the Head Teacher," Wang Zijia stopped insisting and wanted to check on Head Teacher Ding Haiping.

"Who is this...?" Zhang Decheng, who had wanted to ask several days ago but hadn’t found a suitable opportunity, now took advantage of the fact it was just the few of them to ask, looking at Lei Ting.

Lei Ting completely ignored him, showing no interest in Zhang Decheng whatsoever.

Wang Zijia turned and glanced back, saying, "This is Lei Ting, my Taoist Boy from the past. He followed me for many years."

"Due to some reasons, he has slept for quite a lengthy period. It was only recently I dug him out. Affected by the corruption of the End of Dharma, although he survived, there were some issues. Fortunately, he just managed to keep his Celestial Immortal cultivation, which is lucky, I guess."

Those around, originally intending to follow Wang Zijia’s pace, stiffened unanimously, then turned their heads abruptly towards Lei Ting.

"Celestial... Celestial Immortal?" Zhang Decheng uttered, dumbstruck.

Although they too felt that this Immortal was not simple, a Celestial Immortal serving as a Taoist Boy??

Just what was the situation with this Prince of Daqian from eight thousand years ago!

Was someone of this caliber involved in a struggle for succession?

And he failed?

Their thoughts kept churning, and they couldn’t help but recall the chess match in the sky a few years ago.

It became clear to them that his identity was definitely not limited to being the Ninth Prince of Daqian.

"Mm, although Lei Ting wasn’t very strong back then, his current cultivation should be enough for him to walk around in the Spirit Suppressing Realm!" Wang Zijia said nonchalantly, "Let’s move on, forget about him. We need to check on the Head Teacher."

The group looked at each other, speechless for the moment, exchanging looks without a word.

They all realized that Wang Zijia was even more extraordinary than they had thought!

As their thoughts differed, they followed Wang Zijia’s steps, but their attitude had subtly changed.

Even Zhang Decheng was less casual and a bit more reserved.

...

The group passed through a complex of buildings and finally arrived at the deepest part of the Palace Group, an ancient Immortal Palace made of Chinese white jade.

When Wang Zijia saw Head Teacher Ding Haiping, he was somewhat dumbstruck.

Inside the Great Hall was not the aura-shrouding Head Teacher, but a nearly mutated monster.

The hall was huge, with a height of at least ten meters.

In the hall, countless Runes and Arrays were in operation, suppressing a bizarre creature at the center.

It was a strange tree!

All white, leafless, with roots at the bottom spreading out like Tentacles, and branches growing horizontally like a towering tree, spreading at the top of the hall.

In the middle was a massive trunk, six to seven meters tall, so thick that it would take several people to encircle it.

On the trunk, there seemed to be a human silhouette, faint and indistinct.

It was as if a person had half merged into the strange white tree.

There was a hollow at the silhouette’s navel on the trunk, and a foot-long oval Star mirror was inlaid there, its Spiritual Light dim and the depths of the starry sky circulating within.

The entire tree, whether it be roots, branches, or trunk, as well as the naked human silhouette on the trunk, was exceptionally smooth and white, just like the skin of white jade!

It looked like a white flesh tree.

The roots were still moving slightly, the branches swayed lightly, and the trunk heaved as if breathing, as if a person was breathing, sleeping.

It looked as if it wasn’t for the Immortal Tool acting as his Innate life magic treasure, suppressing it, with numerous seals stabilizing its status,

The Head Teacher, who had mutated like this, would probably have already become Sinful.

...

Wang Zijia examined the white flesh tree carefully, and the group fell into silence.

After a while, Li Zhengfang finally spoke to Wang Zijia, "What do you think, Junior Brother, is there any hope of saving Haiping?"

"How did it get like this?" Instead of answering Li Zhengfang, Wang Zijia asked with a frown, "I remember the Head Teacher followed the Space Sword Dao path, right? Even if there was a problem, it shouldn’t have resulted in such an unnatural growth, should it?"

The group all shook their heads. Li Zhengfang said, "After the battle at the Delta, just like you, Haiping was swept into the Void and vanished, lost without a trace for over five years."

"In that time, because his Soul Lamp didn’t extinguish and remained fairly stable, the Sect never gave up searching for him. Yet like you, there was no news at all."

"Until more than a year ago, the Haoyang mirror domain that Haiping left with me suddenly activated. I sensed it immediately and actively fished it out. At that time, Haiping was already on the brink of collapse."

"After that, we tried everything to just barely suppress and seal him, allowing him to slumber and thus preventing his condition from worsening. That’s all we could do."

Could it be that Ding Haiping had fallen into grave hardship, swept into some unknown area?

With that thought, Wang Zijia didn’t inquire further. It was clear from their words that Li Zhengfang and the others knew no more than this.

Levitating, he passed through multiple seals and finally arrived in front of the snow-white flesh tree, hovering at the human silhouette on the trunk.

Although the human silhouette was not very distinct, with most of it merged into the tree, it was still possible to make out Ding Haiping’s likeness through the contours of the face.

Wang Zijia extended his hand, and points of Spiritual Light converged in his palm, forming a Demon Seeding light group.

As Wang Zijia lightly touched the flesh tree with his left hand, the stimulated trunk, even though sealed, instinctively writhed.

Furthermore, strands finer than hairs, glowing wood-like fibers extended, attempting to wrap around Wang Zijia’s fingers.

As it squirmed, the mouth part of the face opened slightly, and Wang Zijia’s hand released countless light spots that poured inside.

The bizarre sealed tree had no means to resist.

As a result, a large clump of the Demon Seed was unsurprisingly stuffed into the Head Teacher’s body by Wang Zijia.

With the Demon Seed entering the body, Wang Zijia began the process of erosion.

However, he suddenly froze.

"This is... Dao power? There’s Dao power inside the Head Teacher’s body?"

"Hmm? Something feels off; is it another polluting force of the same quality as Dao power?"

Feeling the unusually slow progression of the erosion, there was even another force, weaker yet distinctly crafty, contending with Wang Zijia for the rights to pollute the body.

Both sides wanted to mold it into their own image, using Ding Haiping’s body and his Dao cultivation as a battlefield, tugging and infecting it.

As the two forces pulled at each other, the body made of flesh-like trees began to tremble, and in the squirm of the fleshly body, all kinds of deformities were revealed.

Wang Zijia had no doubt that he could eventually beat the other force, after all, that power was quite weak, and it was like rootless duckweed, whereas Wang Zijia could support the Demon Seed at any time.

Yet, whether Ding Haiping’s body, already on the brink of collapse, could withstand it was uncertain.

"Senior Brother, it’s me. Your consciousness should still be resisting, right? Don’t reject my invasion. I need to permeate you entirely with my Dao to ensure that you are not completely polluted by the power inside you, thereby undergoing a detrimental mutation."

As Wang Zijia spoke, the flesh-like tree body trembled.

Clearly, Ding Haiping did indeed still have consciousness.

Then, Wang Zijia felt the force that had been contending with the bizarre power a moment ago being actively guided and started polluting Ding Haiping’s core extraordinary origin, morphing it into his own shape.

The situation reversed in an instant. In just a short time, Wang Zijia completed the process of Demon Seeding Ding Haiping.

Name: Ding Haiping

Cultivation: Peak of Crossing Tribulation

Dao Cultivation: 6,000 years (10 billion/10 billion)

Spiritual Roots: Hollow Wood (mutating due to detrimental pollution, 300 million/2 billion)

Cultivation Method: Wanyu Immortal Manual (Earth Immortal Volume)

Status: Undergoing detrimental mutation of spiritual essence

Dao Cultivation from First to Sixth Grade: Numerous

Seventh Grade Dao Code: Haoyang Soul Spirit Dao Code

Callable Value Degree: 1.153 trillion

Spiritual Essence Mutated by Pollutant: In ancient times, there were divine trees naturally nurtured by heaven and earth, blessed by principles, possessing the ability to create of the Saint Realm, called the Heavenly and Earthly Spiritual Roots.

With the death of such Spiritual Roots, over countless years of evolution, they would give birth to rare treasures of heaven and earth, spiritual essence.

It is said that this essence can create everything and even turn a stubborn stone into a spirit, paving the way to celestial attainment, hence its reputation.

However, with the Spiritual Roots tainted, the birthed spiritual essence would become the filthiest thing in the world, capable of spawning unparalleled Demonic Beings!

...

Wang Zijia was dumbstruck upon seeing the information about Head Teacher Ding Haiping.

Over one trillion in usable value is no small matter; even the average Earth Immortal might not have such astounding accumulation.

But when he saw that most of the value came from the so-called spiritual essence mutated by pollutants, his eyes widened in shock.

Heavenly and Earthly Spiritual Roots?!?!

Are there still Heavenly and Earthly Spiritual Roots nowadays???

According to the records, the Heavenly and Earthly Spiritual Roots were extinct at the beginning of the Third Era, and by the Fifth Era, at the End of Dharma, not even the remnants should have remained.

And now, the Head Teacher has actually seen the corpse of the Heavenly and Earthly Spiritual Roots?

...

Lost in thought, Wang Zijia, who was originally planning to directly exchange away this abnormal state, suddenly paused for a moment and decisively exited the Sea of Consciousness.

Coming back to his senses, Wang Zijia’s eyes sparkled as he looked at the flesh-like tree in front of him.

"Lei Ting!"

At Wang Zijia’s call, Lei Ting, who was standing at the edge of the Great Hall, floated over to Wang Zijia and bowed.

"Master."

"Go all out, extract the polluting force; not much, but the most fundamental part of it must be taken."

Lei Ting, hearing this, did not hesitate for a moment. His entire being transformed into countless streaks of lightning and surged into the body of Head Teacher Ding Haiping.

"Crack! Squeak!"

In an instant, the snowy white flesh-like tree that was Head Teacher Ding Haiping began to quiver, with Lei Ting’s light flashing upon it.

As the lightning wandered over the tree, its cells squirmed as if each one had its own life.

Those streaks of lightning seemed to be trying everything possible to force out the pollution.

But all was in vain. They tugged at the pollution, which showed no sign of coming out.

Half a moment later, after Lei Ting had tried countless methods to no avail, Wang Zijia’s brow suddenly furrowed. Ding Haiping’s condition could not endure much more turmoil.

"Stimulate the pollution, make it converge."

With Wang Zijia’s words, the lightning on the Head Teacher’s body began to change.