Comprehension Ability: I Forge a Villainous Longevity Family

Chapter 576: Chapter 450: Framing_2

After Chen Zhixing examined it closely, he couldn’t help but express admiration in his eyes.

"Such a clever design, whether it’s the tree species, geographic location, or the method of extinguishing the spiritual mechanism... The Daluo Taoist Lands truly deserves to be a Holy Land specializing in these unorthodox methods. To think they could even manage such a miraculous technique, and succeed in just one attempt."

This ancient tree’s daily inhalation and exhalation of spiritual mechanism is transformed into Tao practice by a method set by the Daluo Taoist Lands. Chen Zhixing temporarily couldn’t understand how, but the amount converted and absorbed by the Spirit Realm is the same.

Because its own spirit was catalyzed into a ’Black Bodhi’ by True Monarch Yimiao, this Longevity Realm ancient tree has no spirit left, and now is like a conversion machine without any spirituality, merely mechanically absorbing Earth Vein power to transform it into navigation for the Spirit Realm to absorb.

Moreover, due to the presence of the Black Bodhi externally, this ancient tree will not develop intelligence again!

It’s simply because the Black Bodhi and this tree are still one!

"Strikingly exquisite, should it be said it’s fitting for the Three Great Sacred Lands to transform even such whimsical ideas into reality."

Even with Chen Zhixing’s current perspective, the methods of the Daluo Taoist Lands are astonishing, in no way inferior to his ancestor Chen Changfeng’s unknown Array of Circulation Stars.

After Chen Zhixing observed under this ancient tree for a day, the answer he derived amazed him even more.

"Just the spiritual mechanism that this ancient tree inhales and exhales daily is no less than the Tao practice provided by a thousand great cultivators at the Peak Realm. In other words, just the existence of this tree could equate to all the cultivators in the East Profound State providing Tao practice to the Spirit Realm... Unfortunately, this violent extraction can only be an emergency measure and cannot be sustained."

Chen Zhixing found it somewhat regrettable as he discovered why he could arrive beneath this tree so peacefully without encountering any cultivator’s obstruction.

There wasn’t even anyone guarding the Daluo Taoist Lands.

"This tree is going to die..."

Clearly lush with foliage, its roots penetrating thirty thousand meters into the earth, one tree able to inhale and exhale a state of land, yet it is still going to die.

Chen Zhixing even speculated that the reason for this tree’s rapid demise also involved his own not insignificant causal relationship.

"On one hand, because the Earth Vein of the West State has nearly been exhausted over a hundred seventy years, this ancient tree has almost nothing left to absorb and had to root in the magma layer. On the other hand, a large wave of spiritual mechanism was forcibly harvested before, and these spiritual mechanisms were likely taken by the Spirit Realm and Celestial Saint Palace."

Chen Zhixing recalled the existence known as the Cyan Wood Taoist Lord, and the event where the Celestial Saint Palace demanded compensation from the Daluo Taoist Lands after using that Emperor’s Weapon.

"Probably three months left to live, hmm, at most three months, even if you root yourself into the magma layer, there’s no saving it."

The Earth Vein Ancient Tree has no intelligence, so naturally, it doesn’t answer Chen Zhixing’s words.

It’s originally just a plant, and even like a ’vegetative’ human, unlikely to harbor any fear of death like normal sentient beings.

Indeed, the situation is exactly so.

No normal creature would root themselves in a magma layer, just like the Fire Spirit Lotus was harvested by Chen Zhixing, despite growing for tens of thousands of years, couldn’t develop intelligence and remained just spiritual intelligence.

Earthly fire is toxic, extinguishing spirituality.

The Earth Vein Ancient Tree is another case.

Originally having intelligence, it was harvested, turning it into a ’Black Bodhi’.

Thus it became a... plant plant?

Yet even so, it should retain some instincts, like a vegetative human would react to being burned or twitched when electrocuted. An existence like the Earth Vein Ancient Tree wouldn’t root in a magma flow.

But now, it’s rooted.

Not because it wanted to, but controlled by the Daluo Taoist Lands to root there. This is because after realizing it had no more mining value, the Daluo Taoist Lands planned a final exploit by using it as a primer to trigger an underfire eruption!

Using the volcanic eruption’s fiery lava to cover today’s West State’s yellow sands!

When the magma solidifies, followed by several torrential rains, perhaps less than a thousand years later, the West State will rejuvenate spiritual mechanism, becoming land suitable for life again.

"Hmm, so this is the way great cultivators in the Cultivation Realm transform and utilize a piece of land?"

...

Things were quite like Chen Zhixing imagined.

Just ten days after arriving here, he already saw crimson veins forming gradually on the tree trunk of the Earth Vein Ancient Tree.

A vein different from Earth Vein’s power.

After sensing it, Chen Zhixing discovered that this tree was actually converting magma into Tao practice.....

"Is this even possible?"

He felt it was somewhat incredible.

In the Cultivation Realm, it’s well-known that underground magma is hard for cultivators to absorb since the flames contain fire toxins. Even cultivators practicing the Fire Tao wouldn’t want to bathe in magma. Only brainless creatures or those with muscle-grown brains like Demonic Beasts enjoy living around lava streams.

An impediment to cultivation!

Creatures long dwelling near magma are often not very smart!

This is one aspect.

On the other hand, magma is hard to convert into spiritual mechanism, the same with cultivators, relying on natural forces takes hundreds of years to convert.

Even a plant like the Fire Spirit Lotus Seed that roots in flame flow requires centuries to bear fruit once.

So what’s the Earth Vein Ancient Tree’s current situation?

His once-calm expression gradually became stern, and after confirming his suspicions, Chen Zhixing’s gaze at the ancient tree changed.

"Is it...going to explode?"

He swallowed subconsciously.

Not the three months Chen Zhixing anticipated, because this Earth Vein Ancient Tree was consuming its spiritual mechanism to forcibly neutralize the fire toxins in the flame flow. In other words, it was instinctively exchanging its life for energy, then supplying it to spiritual mechanism harvesting!

But such absorption is abnormal!

After another day’s probing, seeing the increasingly radiant Earth Vein Ancient Tree, Chen Zhixing’s heart started to throb with unease.

"This thing isn’t neutralizing and swapping; damn it, it’s forcibly retaining fire toxins in its trunk... A small amount’s fine, but at this accumulation rate, once it truly erupts, the West State’s magma flow fire toxin could be several times higher than normal...

If it detonates, the entirety of West State will be covered...

By then, it wouldn’t just take a thousand years to recover primordial energy, even ten thousand might not suffice!"

Could this be a natural evolution?

Chen Zhixing found it hard to believe.

Had he not confirmed multiple times that the Earth Vein Ancient Tree had no intelligence, Chen Zhixing would have suspected this tree was exacting revenge on the Noble Family.

"Could it be someone exploited a loophole in the Daluo Taoist Lands’ setup, plotting a trap here...hold on!"

At this thought, Chen Zhixing’s expression turned even more grim.

Exploiting a loophole?

Ever since arriving in the West State, he hadn’t encountered other high-tier cultivators. If things were truly as he thought, then when the Daluo Taoist Lands pursue it for the cause and effect, they’d find he was the only one around recently...

Chen Zhixing’s vision darkened, realizing someone was framing him, yet even before anything happened, it seemed this future ’black pot’ couldn’t be shaken off!

"Motive, prior offenses, and the last person to contact... Damn it, if it isn’t me, who else could it be!"

Framed!

Yet making him tongue-tied for defense!

As he thought about it, Chen Zhixing suddenly laughed.

What was his original reason for coming here?

Did someone plan to do misdeeds in his name?

Fine then, since his reputation wasn’t great, his relationship with the Daluo Taoist Lands was already dead-end; with one more misdeed, he wasn’t afraid.

But borrowing aside, better not let him find out who. Otherwise, when he goes to collect dues, those people better not be unable to repay!

"So, this thing called reputation..."

With a buzz.

A flicker of flame quietly emerged where Chen Zhixing contacted the Earth Vein Ancient Tree.