Reborn: All beasts recognize their master, dig up the divine bones

"This is the price you must pay to become a lord. There was once a lord who refused to believe in evil, and as a result, the couple died tragically the day after their wedding," the lord replied.

Nangong Xi: ...

Is it so miserable?

Isn't the price to pay to become a lord too high?

"Then how do you fall into a deep sleep every night?" Nangong Xi looked at the lord.

"No matter what I'm doing, I'll fall asleep without realizing it." The lord replied.

Nangong Xi: ...

It seems that the Hanyue Territory is really weird!

"Miss Nangong, the place ahead is where we planted the Ten Thousand Year Old Hanyue Tree yesterday. This can be regarded as the place with the most spiritual energy in the entire Hanyue Territory." The lord said, pointing ahead.

"Once upon a time, the only ten-thousand-year-old Hanyue Tree in Hanyue Territory grew here." The Great Elder sighed.

"How did that thousand-year-old Hanyue tree wither?" Nangong Xi asked.

"It withered inexplicably the day after it turned ten thousand years old. We thought that this was the limit of its growth," explained the lord.

"It withered just after it turned ten thousand years old? Don't you find it strange? Why would a lush and green thousand-year-old tree suddenly wither overnight?" Nangong Xi was very puzzled.

The lord brought Nangong Xi and the others to the withered thousand-year-old Hanyue trees, and sure enough, they saw the Hanyue trees that were still full of vitality yesterday.

Now it has completely withered, as if all the vitality had been suddenly sucked out of it.

"Lord, do you want to know the truth?" Nangong Xi looked at the lord and the elders.

She was afraid that these people wouldn't be able to bear it after knowing the truth.

"Yes." The lord answered without hesitation.

"What if the truth is not what you want to see?" Nangong Xi said and looked at the lord.

"That requires understanding as well." The lord said in a firm tone.

"Okay." Nangong Xi responded and began to perform the time reversal technique.

She turned back time to yesterday when it was just getting dark, and looked at the Hanyue Territory at night in the picture, which was something the lord had never seen before.

He was chosen as the lord from birth and was raised by the previous lord until he grew up and took over the position of lord.

Therefore, he had never seen the night sky of Hanyue Territory since he was a child.

"So this is what the nights in Hanyue Territory are like." the lord muttered.

As the time reversal method progressed, everyone saw that the entire Hanyue Territory was covered by a layer of bright green light.

"There really is a bright green light." The lord exclaimed upon seeing this.

It’s not that he didn’t believe what Yan Li said, but that the other people in Hanyue had never told him about this.

"Lord, look." The great elder suddenly pointed at the screen and exclaimed.

Everyone looked towards the screen, and saw a green humanoid creature lying on a Ten Thousand Years Cold Moon Tree, absorbing the tree's life force.

"What is that?" Nangong Xi looked at the lord and others.

"I don't know. I've never seen it before." The Great Elder shook his head in horror.

As time went on, that thing was seen absorbing the life force of the Ten Thousand Year Old Cold Moon Trees one by one.

The lords finally understood why the Eternal Cold Moon Tree withered overnight. It was because that thing sucked away all its vitality.

"That's a tree demon." As soon as the words fell, Hanyue, who was caught and beaten by Nangong Xi yesterday, led his ancestors to arrive.

"Ancestor, have you always known about the existence of that thing?" The lord looked incredulous.

"Yes, I have always known it." The old ancestor Hanyue nodded.

"Then you also know that the vitality of the Ten Thousand Year Cold Moon Tree will be sucked away by it?" the lord asked again.

"I know." The ancestor Hanyueling did not deny it.

“Since you knew all this, why did you ask Miss Nangong and the others to plant more Ten Thousand Year Cold Moon Trees yesterday?” The lord looked puzzled.

Although he firmly believed that his ancestor would not do anything to harm Hanyue Territory, he really didn't understand why he did this.

"Because only when he is full, the guardian beasts of Hanyue Territory will not suffer." The ancestor of Hanyue Territory sighed.

"Why? What does this have to do with the guardian beasts?" The lord was very puzzled.

"The tree demon needs to absorb enough life force every day. It is reluctant to move the thousand-year-old Hanyue Tree, so it uses the guardian beasts to replenish its life force." The ancestor of Hanyue explained.

"Isn't the life force of the Millennium Cold Moon Forest enough for it to absorb?" The lord was puzzled.

"That's right. The Hanyue Tree will only be valuable to it when it grows into a ten-thousand-year-old Hanyue Tree." The Hanyue leader nodded.

"No wonder I always felt that the guardian beasts of Hanyue Territory always died or disappeared inexplicably. It turns out that they were harmed by the tree demon." The lord suddenly realized.

"Old man, can't we catch that tree demon?" Nangong Xi looked puzzled.

Since the existence of the tree demon either harms the Hanyue Tree or the guardian beast, why not destroy it?

"How can it be so easy? If you want to destroy the tree demon, it has to self-destruct." The ancestor Hanyue sighed.

"Self-destruction?" Nangong Xi's eyes flickered when he heard that.

"How is this possible? Isn't the tree demon constantly absorbing life force just to survive? How could it possibly destroy itself?" The Great Elder had a worried look on his face.

"Ancestor, why do I fall into a deep sleep at night?" The lord looked puzzled.

"This is all for your protection. You may not know that in the entire Hanyue Territory, you, as the lord, have the strongest life force." The words spoken by the ancestor of Hanyue Territory surprised the lord.

He thought of hundreds of reasons why he suddenly fell into a deep sleep, but he never thought that it was to protect himself.

"If I don't let you fall into a deep sleep so that the tree demon can't sense you, you will definitely not live long. Therefore, I have cast a sleeping spell on you since you were born." The ancestor Hanyue then revealed the truth.

Lord: ...

It turns out that I have been under a sleeping spell since I was a child!

But I don’t know it at all!

"Ancestor, is there really no way to destroy the tree demon?" The lord raised his head and looked at Ancestor Hanyue.

"There's nothing we can do." The old ancestor Hanyue shook his head in frustration.

"It's not that there is no solution at all." Nangong Xi suddenly said.

"Does Miss Nangong have any good ideas?" The lord looked at Nangong Xi and asked.

"Yes, I can help you kill the tree demon, but I have conditions." After saying that, Nangong Xi looked at the ancestor Hanyue.

"Miss, have you heard it?" The old ancestor Han Yue's eyes lit up when he heard it.

"I need the heart of the tree demon." Nangong Xi said.

"The heart of the tree demon? It is at the origin of the tree demon. After we kill the tree demon, I will take you to get it." The ancestor Hanyue agreed very readily.

"Okay." Nangong Xi nodded.

"Miss Nangong, I wonder what method you are going to use to deal with the tree demon?" The lord looked at Nangong Xi with curiosity.