Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 190 Evolution of the Ginseng Fruit Tree
Liang Yu smiled and said, "I'm glad Fellow Daoist Changsheng likes it."

Having said that, they were about to enter the Hall of Longevity together. At the entrance of the hall stood a divine tree, about ten feet tall, exuding an aura of immortality—the Ginseng Fruit Tree.

Upon seeing these people, the ginseng fruit tree couldn't help but wave its branches in greeting.

Speaking of which, the ginseng fruit tree was originally obtained by Liang Yu after he pacified the Immortal Mausoleum. However, since he only wanted to obtain the Fusang Divine Tree at the beginning, he did not have any need for the ginseng fruit tree for the time being, so it was left untouched in the Immortal Mausoleum and was not even moved to the Wuji Immortal Mountain.

It's quite a coincidence that before he committed suicide, the Celestial Venerable of Longevity also relied on the Ginseng Fruit Tree to live a second life. Later, when he committed suicide, he released the Ginseng Fruit Tree back into the starry sky. Unexpectedly, after millions of years of wandering, the Ginseng Fruit Tree returned to the Celestial Venerable of Longevity's side.

Yuanshi Tianzun murmured, "Is it just my imagination? This ginseng fruit tree seems to be somewhat different from ordinary elixirs of immortality?"

Liang Yu and the Underworld Lord naturally discovered this as well.

This ginseng fruit tree participated in the entire process of the merging of the Celestial Venerable of Immortality and the Immortal Tomb, and even enjoyed the blessings bestowed by the Great Universe. This led to a mysterious connection between the ginseng fruit tree, the Immortal Tomb, and the Celestial Venerable of Immortality. Although it did not directly coexist with this place like the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree, it seemed to have gained higher authority as a result, and could even mobilize some of the power of the Immortal Tomb.

Even the tree itself grew stronger due to the laws of the Immortal Tomb and the Dao Fruit of the Longevity Celestial Venerable, its fruit even containing the laws and Dao traces of the Immortal Tomb. In other words, eating this ginseng fruit might greatly accelerate the cultivation of the obscure and difficult-to-understand Ancient Scripture of Burial of Immortals. Of course, this did not change the essence of the ginseng fruit tree; it simply intentionally produced this special fruit.

Afterwards, the ginseng fruit tree can continuously absorb immortal divinity from the immortal tomb and the longevity celestial being as they evolve, and then feed back its own immortal divinity and mysteries to the immortal tomb, thus achieving a win-win situation.

However, it was from this point that the ginseng fruit tree reached a crucial crossroads.

If the ginseng fruit tree also follows the methods of the immortals of the Longevity Celestial Venerable and the symbiotic methods of the Enlightened Ancient Tea Tree, further integrating with the Immortal Mausoleum and condensing into a whole with the Longevity Celestial Venerable and the Immortal Mausoleum, with the person and the tree sharing the same fate and heart, working together to build the Immortal Mausoleum, then although it will lose the ability to fly freely and can no longer leave the Immortal Mausoleum, it will also receive the full protection of the Longevity Celestial Venerable, and may even possess a certain combat power itself.

This was naturally the best outcome for the Celestial Venerable of Immortality. After all, the elixir of immortality contained the secrets of eternal life and was a true remnant of the immortal path. If he wanted to further expand his immortal mausoleum, having an immortal elixir that resonated with his will would indeed make things much easier.

Even if this continues, in the distant future, the ginseng fruit tree could continue to grow and evolve by relying on its immortal divinity and the laws of immortality, eventually becoming a truly supreme immortal medicine. It might even be able to directly wield the laws and unleash immortal light with its immortal divine medicine body. In that case, it might be able to cultivate without giving up its immortal divine medicine body and possess supreme power.

However, if the ginseng fruit tree does not choose to further integrate with the immortal tomb, but instead maintains this state and continues to grow stronger, it will allow itself to continuously grow and evolve, eventually even advancing in its consciousness. Then it will have the possibility of breaking free from the body of the immortal elixir and transforming into a human form.

This was an unexpected surprise for Liang Yu, as he had long planned to transform these immortal herbs into human form. However, so far, among the immortal herbs he had seen, only the Chaos Green Lotus and the humanoid immortal herb had this potential, and both were in special, difficult-to-replicate states. Now, it seemed that the ginseng fruit might be the third immortal herb with the potential to take human form, and although the conditions were demanding, it did have a certain degree of replicability.

With these three samples of immortal herbs that evolved in different ways for research, Liang Yu now has ample opportunity to cultivate other immortal herbs into human form. The thought of a dozen or twenty seeds, essentially reincarnations of immortal kings, arriving in the mortal realm is incredibly exciting. Moreover, even if the ginseng fruit tree ultimately chooses not to transform, its continued growth will still be of immense value to Liang Yu and his companions. After all, the process of immortal herbs continuously repairing themselves under the laws of immortality and their immortal divinity, regaining their existence within the realm of immortality, is also very meaningful. This process of transformation from mortal to immortal is still highly beneficial to the path of immortality in the mortal world.

Therefore, whether it takes on a physical form or not, it only has a huge impact on the Celestial Venerable of Longevity.

Liang Yu said, "Fellow Daoist Yuanshi's insight is indeed sharp; it is indeed different from other immortal medicines. This ginseng fruit tree has begun to evolve."

The Underworld Lord also activated his Origin Heaven Divine Eye to observe the changes in the ginseng fruit tree, a process that was very useful to him. After all, these immortal medicines were transformed from fallen immortal kings; in essence, this was the rebirth of an immortal king's corpse. Naturally, this was also very useful to the Underworld Lord, an anomaly who had proven his Dao through corpses and transformed himself using the Reincarnation Seal.

Seeing these people staring at it with gleaming eyes, the ginseng fruit tree had a sudden illusion that it had become transparent, and it couldn't help but shrink back slightly. But faced with these people, the ginseng fruit tree could only submit and could not resist, so it quickly relaxed, spread its branches, let down its guard, and generously allowed them to look at it.

Liang Yu keenly noticed this detail; clearly, the ginseng fruit tree's intelligence had evolved significantly, and it was estimated that it wouldn't be far from reaching a state like the humanoid divine tree, capable of freely communicating with other life forms. Therefore, his prediction was indeed correct; the ginseng fruit tree did indeed have the potential to transform into human form.

Seeing this, the Celestial Venerable of Longevity laughed and said, "Fellow Daoists, don't frighten it. We can study it slowly in the future."

Upon hearing this, Liang Yu and the others finally gave up. Of course, this was also because the ginseng fruit tree hadn't changed much yet, and they couldn't figure out much in a short time. To understand its secrets, they would indeed need to dedicate a significant amount of time to research it later.

Liang Yu asked, "This ginseng fruit tree will likely be of great help to Fellow Daoist Changsheng on your path to becoming an Earth Immortal. I wonder what Fellow Daoist Changsheng plans to do with it?"

The Celestial Venerable of Longevity said, "This tree was obtained by Fellow Daoist Wuji, so naturally it is up to you to decide."

Liang Yu pondered for a moment and said, "Then let it choose its own future path."

In any case, the ginseng fruit tree wouldn't lose out no matter which path it chose, so it might as well do him a favor. Clearly, the Celestial Venerable of Longevity still had some affection for this ginseng fruit tree.

The Celestial Venerable of Longevity then said, "Speaking of which, this Immortal Tomb was also obtained by you and the Underworld Venerable. In other words, even I should be at your beck and call."

Liang Yu said, "Fellow Daoist Changsheng, you are too kind. Since we share the same ideals and want to do something for the world, this is nothing. Besides, I have also benefited greatly from it."

(End of this chapter)