Long Feng and Ming De's Secret (Part 2)

  In the dark void, she walked alone, and after a long time, she stopped.

  She saw that Hongmeng was like a giant egg, where various spiritual roots were nurtured. Among them, there was a seemingly eternal green lotus, and one day, a living spirit disk Pangu was born. Pangu held the Qinglian body fragment transformed into one of the heavenly treasures, the Heaven-Opening Axe, which split open a space in Hongmeng... Finally, his body fell to form the vast heaven and earth.

  Mountains and rivers, heavenly spirits and earthly treasures, after a long period of time, a toad accidentally obtained the lotus flower transformed from Hongmeng's green lotus, and cultivated it into a jade certificate, calling itself Hongjun, the first saint in heaven and earth. Hongjun preached in the Purple Mansion of the Great Luo Heaven, recruiting disciples: Pangu Yuan Shen transformed into Sanqing as an inner disciple, Nüwa as an inner disciple, Jieyin and Zhunti as registered disciples, they all eventually cultivated into Hunyuan Wuji Dajin Xian, that is, saints.

  Sages are indestructible and immortal.

  Even saints have to fight for the aura of heaven and earth. Without enough aura, it's hard for the Taoist lineage to continue, and the disciples under the gate are more likely to turn into dust in the great calamity of heaven and earth...

  Since Pangu opened the sky, Honghuang was born, and there have been living beings competing for the right to dominate the world, that is, the fate of Qi. Of course, for the millions of living beings in Honghuang, this is also a great disaster for heaven and earth. From the initial dispute between dragons, phoenixes, and qilins, to the dispute between witches and demons, to the dispute between demons and humans, to the war of sealing gods... Honghuang has experienced destruction and trauma time and time again. Although Hongjun and other saints had to take action to repair it, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth gradually dissipated.

  What led to the complete collapse of the Honghuang was the sudden and unexpected war between gods and demons. This war can also be called the twilight of the gods, with countless fallen gods, demons, and spirits. Although the demon god Luo Hou was finally killed, several great saints were injured and had to seal themselves as Yuanshen. The Honghuang collapsed due to the impact of the massive divine power of the gods and demons, causing widespread destruction... Those who managed to survive fled in all directions, while those with remaining aura utilized their intact pre-heavenly treasures to establish new realms outside of heaven.

  With his body merged with the Tao, Hong Jun, the ancestor of the Tao, had to come out again to stem the tide. Unfortunately, this time there was no help from other saints, and for a while, he couldn't find suitable heavenly materials and earthly treasures to repair the chaos. Hong Jun could only reluctantly condense the fragments of the chaos into a star suitable for human habitation, move the weakest humans to it, lay down prohibitions, issue Taoist orders, strictly forbidding gods, demons, and immortals from fighting in the mortal world, interfering with the rise and fall of imperial dynasties... As for the rest, he didn't care what they did or how they lived, let them fight and struggle as they pleased.

  The ancestor merged with the Heavenly Way and left, and the crowd really didn't have much energy to fight anymore. In the past, when the saints were present, the Three Emperors and Five Emperors also competed for the human world's vital energy. Now that the saints are all sealed, the Primordial Chaos is destroyed, and the human planet has been placed under a ban, higher-level beings cannot enter, and some cultivators mixed among humans, with levels too low to exit... The vital energy and so on have become fleeting clouds for them, and what's most important is still to improve their cultivation, break through the ban in the void, and return to the Heavenly Court.

  As a result, the remaining spiritual stocks and spiritual objects on Earth became the objects of competition for these monks to collect and improve their cultivation.

  Yunzhu saw that it was quiet here, no wonder the spiritual energy of the earth was getting less and less. The cultivators in later generations were only left with legends, where could they be seen or touched? Draining the pond to catch fish, isn't this exactly what humans are doing to the earth?!

  Who said that humans are the main characters of the world? The main character of the world has been changing, from the dragon, phoenix, and qilin at the beginning of heaven to the later witch and demon, and then to humans... Heaven is not benevolent, treating all things as grass dogs, great calamities will not come just because humans migrate to Earth! Zombies, haven't they become humanity's greatest enemy? Even nature refuses to provide shelter for humans, wind, frost, rain, snow, various disasters, food, water sources, too little can be used... This situation is so similar to when humans gradually became the main characters of the desolate wilderness and the witch and demon gradually exited the stage!

  Is it because human life is short, so the vision is shallow? No, nor is there a lack of wise people, but such people are after all too few, and self-interest is the driving force for most humans.

  The primordial spirits were broken and shattered, many of the pre-heavenly spiritual roots were injured but survived the great war. They drifted to Earth for various reasons, with merits and virtues protecting them, and they had their own means of self-preservation, evading batch after batch of cultivators' searches... When the apocalypse arrived, on an Earth where spiritual energy was depleted, they were the first to sense it. Fearing annihilation in the great calamity, they emerged from hiding one by one, seeking people with abundant vital energy to parasitize and thus survive this disaster — Yunzhu was very fortunate; she saw a pre-heavenly seven-colored jade orchid spiritual root fall onto her body...

  Fortunately, the earth in the great calamity, the spiritual energy and magical energy gradually grew, although complex and chaotic, the Yulan tree was able to sustain itself... Unfortunately, the ignorant and unaware her did not know that without enough spiritual energy, the Yulan tree could not leave her body. In the end, that explosion, the Yulan tree had no choice but to exhaust its spiritual power to protect her soul, and in their interdependent life and death, it actually merged with her soul into one entity.

  Compared to Yulan Tree's survival history, his own apocalyptic and transmigratory experiences were simply not worth mentioning.

  Upon seeing this, Yunzhu suddenly understood that this was the ancient information left behind by the soul of the Yulan Tree's essence in her own recognition sea after her cultivation had greatly increased. Her heart felt an indescribable complexity, she owed the Yulan Tree too much, although she hadn't harmed it to the point of turning it into flying ash, yet it had also become a part of her own soul, she was it and it was her, the two could no longer be separated or independent.

  All she could do was to live on, no matter where she was or how many times she reincarnated, she had to make herself stronger and cultivate herself, so that her spirit would not perish, because only if she existed, the Jade Orchid Tree would exist...

  Even if she owes the whole world, she absolutely cannot owe it!

  The divine consciousness arrived in the space, and the originally over three-meter-tall Yulan tree had grown to about four meters tall. On the tree, there was another color of flowers, from bright orange to golden orange... shining brightly, extremely beautiful.

  This Jade Orchid Tree, apart from its own flowers and fruits being able to bring various benefits to ordinary people or cultivators (think ginseng fruit and peaches), has another innate ability. That is, it can absorb, gather, and lend the world's luck and fortune. The luck and fortune obtained by flowing through its true body will make its abilities improve and evolve. Whether it stays in the body or not is not that important, but the luck and fortune transmitted from it will become even more pure and powerful. Those who receive this luck and fortune will have fewer hardships and difficulties in their fate, and their life will be even smoother. Of course, there are also some restrictions to this. For example, ordinary people born without a foundation cannot bear luck and fortune that exceeds their own fate, or they will explode and die...

  Because of this, the Yulan tree was able to survive several catastrophes after Pangu opened up the sky and earth without being destroyed. Yunzhu gently stroked its sturdy trunk, thinking that it's a pity that the cultivators on Earth are getting worse with each generation, and humans are even more so, having eyes but no insight, so even if they discovered its uniqueness, they wouldn't be able to cherish and utilize it properly. Otherwise, it wouldn't have had to struggle until the end of the world, exhausting its spiritual energy... Everything is fate.

  The Yulan tree is still recovering and has only bloomed in five colors: white, yellow, red, purple, and orange. Who knows when it will recover to its normal state of seven colors?

  A warm and gentle feeling rose from the depths within, Yunzhu knew that Yulan tree was not sad, it rejoiced in every experience of its own, with joy and sorrow, with ups and downs, this is life.

  It's also true that she let go of her last bit of sorrow and melancholy.

  Everything looks forward.

  From the knowledge left in the sea of recognition by Yulan Tree, she has come to understand that those "alien stones" obtained by her ancestors are not ordinary spirit stones. They were born from the four primordial elements of wind, fire, water and earth, as well as the wood spirits and essence of the sun. Some had the opportunity to evolve into spiritual intelligence and become Golden Immortals, while others did not have this chance and were taken by saints. All were destroyed in the war between gods and demons, leaving only a small root source that survived and drifted to Earth, where they were inadvertently mistaken for precious stones and collected. After going through dynastical changes, they finally fell into the hands of her ancestors from the Gualgiya clan who followed the Qing army into the pass.

  In the midst of obscurity, there is a destined fate. If it weren't for the Cloud Pearl having this innate spiritual root Seven-Colored Jade Orchid in her hand, these elemental source stones would forever only be a beautiful "pebble". Even if a cultivator were to stimulate the root of its power, it would still be instantly destroyed by its violent and massive energy... The safest ones are those three space stones that are common in the Desolate Expanse but extremely rare on Earth. Cloud Pearl shifted her gaze to the three large silver-white boulders placed between the Jade Orchid tree and the spiritual pool, wondering how much space she could open up on them with her current divine consciousness strength?

  It's better to wait until I'm stronger before talking about it. Yunzhu, who had received many cultivation methods from the Desolate Ancient Era, thought that since she had space, there was no need to rush into this matter.

  She had the habit of storing "grains" in her nest like a little hamster after experiencing the end of the world, but now it's not the end of the world, and her maturity is no longer comparable to what it used to be. She has become more rational in everything she does.

  She looked around and the space had expanded a bit, but not much. On the two-meter-wide soil path by the spiritual pool, the emerald green bamboo stalks stood upright, about four or five meters high, and more than ten small bamboo shoots had emerged from below, it seemed that in no time they would form a small bamboo forest. The five tea seedlings planted on the spiritual path opposite the magnolia tree had also grown to over one meter high, and when there was free time, their young buds could be picked to make tea.

  Behind the magnolia tree, the small fruit forest has already produced a large number of fruits. The crisp and sweet apples, the yellow-green emperor orange, the bright yellow Taiwan mango, the rose-scented grapes, the plump and juicy purple-red cherries, and the fist-sized red-skinned peaches are all ready to be picked. The newly planted watermelon has also produced fruit. Only the newly planted silver pampas grass, lychee, longan, and olive trees have not yet borne fruit, but the small saplings have already grown to a height of two meters.

  On the right side of the reclaimed land, two mu of melons, fruits and vegetables are growing very vigorously, with tomatoes and corn bearing fruit that bends the branches; in a one-mu medicinal field, ginseng, lingzhi, Tianma, safflower and other crops are all doing well...

  The remaining two or three mu of land are still empty. There is also the piece of land in front of the Lingchi and to the right of the Yulan tree, which is just suitable for placing a few houses... Yunzhu carefully considers this possibility, with houses she can put up beds, desks, books, and some personal items, and doesn't have to scatter them around in space, looking messy and disorganized.

  ……

  The author has something to say: Taking a leave of absence from everyone: Yu will be returning home on the 9th, so there won't be any updates that day. I'll be taking a long trip... hopefully I won't get carsick!

  The following is the main body of the text:

  In the dark void, she walked alone, and after a while, stopped.

  She saw that Hongmeng was like a giant egg, where various spiritual roots were nurtured. Among them, there was a seemingly eternal green lotus, and one day it gave birth to the first living being, Pangu. Pangu held a fragment of the original body of the green lotus, transformed into one of the heavenly treasures, the Heaven-Cleaving Axe, which split open a space in Hongmeng... Finally, his body fell apart and formed the vast expanse of heaven and earth.

  Mountains and rivers, heavenly spirits and earthly treasures, after a long period of time, there was a toad who accidentally obtained the lotus flower transformed from Hongmeng's green lotus, and became a jade certificate of creation, calling himself Hongjun, the first saint in heaven and earth. Hongjun preached in the Purple Mansion of the Great Luo Heaven, recruiting disciples: Pangu Yuan Shen transformed into Sanqing, Nüwa as inner disciples, Jiying and Zhunti as registered disciples, they all eventually became Hunyuan Wuji Dajin Xian, that is, saints.

  Sages are indestructible and immortal.

  Even saints have to fight for the aura of heaven and earth. Without enough aura, it's hard for the Taoist sect to continue, and the disciples under the door are more likely to turn into ashes in the great calamity of heaven and earth...

  Since Pangu opened the sky, Honghuang was born, and there have been creatures competing for dominance over heaven and earth, that is, the fate of Qi. Of course, for the millions of living beings in Honghuang, this is also a great calamity for heaven and earth. From the initial dispute between dragons, phoenixes, and qilins, to the dispute between witches and demons, to the dispute between demons and humans, to the war of sealing gods... Honghuang has experienced destruction and trauma time and time again. Although Hongjun and other saints had to take action to repair it, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth gradually dissipated.

  What led to the complete shattering of the Primordial Chaos was the sudden and unexpected Great War of Gods and Demons. This war can also be called the Twilight of the Gods, with countless gods, demons, and spirits falling from the sky. Although the demon god Luo Hou was finally killed, several great saints were severely injured and had to seal themselves as primordial spirits. The Primordial Chaos could not withstand the impact of the massive divine powers and collapsed... Every place was in ruins, and the lucky survivors fled one after another. Those who still had a chance to escape utilized their intact pre-heavenly treasures to open up new realms outside the sky and resettle there.

  With his body merged with the Tao, Hong Jun, the ancestor of the Tao, had to come out again to hold back the chaotic tide. Unfortunately, this time there was no help from other saints, and for a while, he couldn't find suitable heavenly materials and earthly treasures to repair the Hong Huang. Hong Jun could only reluctantly condense the fragments of the Hong Huang into a star suitable for human habitation, move the weakest humans to it, and lay down prohibitions and issue Taoist orders, strictly forbidding gods, demons, and immortals from fighting in the mortal world, interfering with the imperial dynasty's fate and the succession of the heavenly mandate... As for the rest, he didn't care what they did or how they lived, let them fight and struggle as they pleased.

  The ancestor merged with the Heavenly Way and left, and the crowd really didn't have much energy to fight anymore. In the past, when the saints were present, the Three Emperors and Five Emperors also competed for the human world's vital energy. Now that the saints are all sealed, the Primordial Chaos is destroyed, and the human planet has been placed under a ban, higher-level beings cannot enter, and some cultivators mixed among humans have levels too low to exit... The vital energy and so on, as far as they're concerned, became fleeting clouds, what's most important is still to improve their cultivation, break through the ban in the void, and return to the Heavenly Court.

  As a result, the remaining spiritual stocks and spiritual objects on Earth became the objects of competition for these monks to collect and improve their cultivation.

  Yunzhu saw that it was quiet here, no wonder the spiritual energy of the earth was getting less and less. The cultivators in later generations were only left with legends, where could they be seen or touched? Draining the pond to catch fish, isn't this exactly what humans are doing to the earth?!

  Who said that humans are the main characters of the world? The main character of the world has been changing, from the dragon, phoenix, and qilin at the beginning of heaven to the later witch and demon, and then to humans... Heaven is not benevolent, treating all things as grass dogs, great calamities will not come just because humans migrate to Earth! Zombies, haven't they become humanity's greatest enemy? Even nature refuses to provide shelter for humans, with wind, frost, rain, snow, and various disasters, food and water sources are scarce... This situation is similar to when humans gradually became the main characters of the desolate wilderness, and the witch and demon gradually exited the stage!

  Is it because human life is short, so the vision is shallow? No, nor is there a lack of wise people, but such people are after all too few, and self-interest is the driving force for most humans.

  The primordial spirits were broken and scattered, many of the pre-heavenly spiritual roots were injured but survived the great war. They drifted to Earth for various reasons, with merits and virtues protecting them, and they had their own means of self-preservation, evading batch after batch of cultivators' searches... When the apocalypse arrived, on an Earth where spiritual energy was depleted, they were the first to sense it. Fearing annihilation in the great calamity, they emerged from hiding to seek out people with abundant vital energy to parasitize and thus survive this disaster — Yunzhu was very fortunate; she saw a pre-heavenly seven-colored jade orchid spiritual root fall onto her body...

  Fortunately, the earth in the great calamity, the spiritual energy and magical energy gradually grew, although complex and chaotic, the Yulan tree was able to sustain itself... Unfortunately, the ignorant and unaware her did not know that without sufficient spiritual energy, the Yulan tree could not leave her body. In the end, that explosion, the Yulan tree had no choice but to exhaust its spiritual power to protect her soul, and in their interdependent life and death, they actually merged into one entity with her soul.

  Compared to Yulan Tree's survival history, his own apocalyptic and transmigratory experiences were simply not worth mentioning.

  Upon seeing this, Yunzhu suddenly understood that this was the ancient information left behind by the Yu Lan Tree's essence in her own recognition sea after her cultivation had greatly increased. Her heart felt an indescribable complexity, she owed the Yu Lan Tree too much, although she hadn't harmed it to the point of turning it into flying ash, yet it had also become a part of her soul, she was it and it was her, the two could no longer be separated or independent.

  All she could do was to live on, no matter where she was or how many times she reincarnated, she had to make herself stronger and cultivate herself, so that her spirit would not perish, because only if she existed, the Yulan tree would exist...

  Even if she owes the whole world, she absolutely cannot owe it!

  The divine consciousness arrived in the space, and the originally over three-meter-tall Yulan tree had grown to about four meters tall. On the tree, there was another color of flowers, from bright orange to golden orange... shining brightly, extremely beautiful.

  This Jade Orchid Tree, apart from its own flowers and fruits being able to bring various benefits to ordinary people or cultivators (think ginseng fruit and peaches), has another innate ability. That is, it can absorb, gather, and lend the world's luck and fortune. The luck and fortune obtained by flowing through its true body will make its abilities improve and evolve. Whether it stays in the body or not isn't that important, but the luck and fortune sent out through it will become even more pure and powerful. Those who receive this luck and fortune will have fewer hardships and difficulties in their fate, and their life will be even smoother. Of course, there are also some restrictions to this. For example, ordinary people born without a foundation cannot withstand luck and fortune that exceeds their own fate, or else they will explode and die...

  Because of this, the Yulan tree was able to survive several catastrophes after Pangu opened up the sky and earth without being destroyed. Yunzhu gently stroked its sturdy trunk, thinking that it's a pity that the cultivators on Earth are becoming less and less knowledgeable with each generation, and humans are even more so, having eyes but no insight. Even if they discovered its uniqueness, they wouldn't be able to cherish and utilize it properly, otherwise it wouldn't have had to struggle until the end of the world, leaving only a little spiritual energy to support itself. If that were the case, she would have gained even more benefits from it in the apocalypse, and it wouldn't have had to exhaust its last bit of spiritual power to explode and cross over with her... everything is fate.

  The Yulan tree is still recovering now, and it has just opened white, yellow, red, purple, and orange five-color flowers. When will we see the seven colors when it returns to its normal state?

  A warm and gentle feeling rose from the depths within, Yunzhu knew that Yulan tree was not sad, it rejoiced in every experience of its own, with joy and sorrow, with ups and downs, this is life.

  It's also true that she let go of her last bit of sorrow and melancholy.

  Everything looks forward.

  From the knowledge left in the sea of recognition by Yulan, she has come to understand that the "alien stones" obtained by her ancestors are not ordinary spiritual stones. They were born from the four primordial elements of wind, fire, water and earth, as well as the wood spirit and the essence of the sun. Some had the opportunity to evolve into intelligent spirits and become golden immortals, while others did not have this chance and were taken by saints. All of them were destroyed in the great war between gods and demons, leaving only a small root that survived and drifted to Earth, where they were mistakenly believed to be precious stones and collected. After going through many dynasties, they finally fell into the hands of Gualgiya's ancestors who followed the Qing army into the pass.

  In the midst of obscurity, there is a destined fate. If it weren't for the Cloud Pearl having this innate spiritual root Seven-Colored Jade Orchid in her hand, these elemental source stones would forever only be a beautiful "pebble". Even if a cultivator were to stimulate the root within, it would only be instantly destroyed by its violently massive energy... The safest ones are those three space stones that are common in the Desolate Expanse but extremely rare on Earth. Cloud Pearl shifted her gaze to the three large silver-white boulders placed between the Jade Orchid tree and the Spiritual Pool, wondering how much space she could open up within them with her current divine consciousness strength?

  It's better to wait until I'm stronger before talking about it. Yunzhu, who had received many cultivation methods from the Desolate Ancient Era, thought that since she had space, there was no need to rush into this matter.

  She had the habit of storing "grains" in her nest like a little hamster after experiencing the end of the world, but now it's not the end of the world, and her maturity is no longer comparable to what it used to be. She has become more rational in everything she does.

  She looked around and the space had expanded a bit, but not much. On the two-meter-wide soil path by the spiritual pool, the emerald green bamboo shoots stood upright, about four or five meters high, and more than ten small bamboo shoots had emerged from below, it seemed that in no time they would form a small bamboo forest. The five tea seedlings planted on the spiritual path opposite the magnolia tree had also grown to over one meter high, and when there was free time, their young buds could be picked to make tea.

  Behind the magnolia tree, the small fruit forest has already produced a large number of fruits. The crisp and sweet apples, the yellow-green emperor orange, the bright yellow dragon mango, the rose-scented grapes, the plump and juicy purple-red cherries, and the fist-sized red-skinned peaches are all ready to be picked. The newly planted watermelon has also produced fruit. Only the newly planted silver ginkgo, lychee, longan, and olive trees have not yet borne fruit, but the small saplings have already grown to a height of two meters.

  On the right side of the reclaimed land, two mu of melons, fruits and vegetables are growing very vigorously, with tomatoes and corn bearing fruit that bends the branches; in a one-mu medicinal field, ginseng, lingzhi, gastrodia and safflower are all growing well...

  The remaining two or three mu of land are still empty. There is also the piece of land in front of the Lingchi and to the right of the Yulan tree, which is just suitable for placing a few houses... Yunzhu carefully considers this possibility, with houses, she can put up beds, desks, books, and some personal items, and doesn't have to scatter them around in space, looking messy and disorganized.