Stars fall and locust trees grow

Li Chi woke up from a long and broken nightmare.

He opened his eyes and everything was dark.

After slowly exhaling a few long breaths, he tried to sit up, but his head hit something and was forced to lie back down. He grimaced in pain and a thin layer of sweat broke out on his forehead.

Holy shit! Where is this?! What happened?!

My dear, am I blind?!

Li Chi rubbed his eyes hard, but there was still no light around him.

He hurriedly used his hands and feet to grope around, and after a moment, he finally realized that he was trapped in a small coffin.

"Could it be that I am really dead this time? I even used a coffin... But..."

Li Chi muttered to himself softly while reaching out and randomly touching himself twice.

"His limbs are intact, his eyes, ears, mouth and nose are all there, and he doesn't feel any discomfort on his body. It looks like he hasn't been dead for too long..."

According to the Juyun Sect's usual practice, failed test subjects like his would be thrown directly into the Corpse-Eating Pond in the back mountain of the sect. Now that they were mercifully rewarding him with a coffin, it was probably because of his cousin Qi Luoxing's consideration.

After all, the top leaders of Juyun Sect are still counting on Axing to help them revitalize the sect!

"I don't know how Ah Xing is doing now?!"

Li Chi kicked his legs, "He probably didn't expect that I would come back to life again this time!"

His head was dizzy and the air in the coffin was not fresh. He really didn't want to lie there any longer, so he planned to break out of the coffin immediately.

The spiritual realm where Li Chi is located consists of four seas and six continents, with countless cultivation sects. However, due to the strict hierarchy, there are less than twenty that can be ranked.

The levels of cultivation here are divided into nine realms, namely the Mortal Realm, Xuan Gu Realm, Dan Yuan Realm, Di Ying Realm, Ling Zun Realm, Hua Zhen Realm, Tian Chu Realm, Tian Sheng Realm and Tian Wai Realm. Each realm is divided into nine levels, and each level is further divided into early, middle, peak and great perfection.

Li Chi had previously practiced in the Juyun Sect, a fourth-level sect in Jiangzhou, for thirteen years.

Because of his own talent and the practice of forbidden techniques, his training speed is much faster than that of ordinary people.

However, at the age of seventeen, he has already reached the peak of the third level of Xuan Gu Realm. Even though he is buried underground at this moment, he can easily break open the coffin in front of him.

Li Chi rubbed his palms together, preparing to mobilize the spiritual energy in his body, but suddenly found that his sea of ​​​​consciousness was empty, without even a trace of spiritual energy.

"Um?!"

He didn't believe it and tried again several times until his palms were sore, but the coffin lid still didn't move.

"Ahaha?! Where's my Aura?!"

Li Chi gathered his spiritual consciousness and felt it carefully within his body, and found that his sea of ​​​​consciousness and the veins around his body were dead silent, without any ripples, no different from that of an ordinary mortal.

He immediately calmed his thoughts and his brain began to work rapidly.

"Could it be... because the forbidden technique experiment failed, causing the spiritual energy in the body to dissipate?!"

"I didn't encounter this kind of situation the last time I died?!"

Li Chi rolled his eyes.

But after thinking about it, I'm afraid there is no other reason except the forbidden reason.

Ahhh! He pulled a face, feeling indescribably depressed.

What a rubbish sect! Rubbish forbidden techniques!

This was the energy that I had painstakingly cultivated for thirteen years, and it was gone just like that...

What to do now? !

He had finally managed to save his life, and he didn't want to wait here to die.

"Hello, is anyone around?"

"..."

"Is there anyone alive outside?"

"..."

He yelled a few times at the top of his lungs, but everything around him was silent. He waited for a long time, but no one responded.

"..."

“Forget it! It’s better to rely on yourself than on others! Although my spiritual energy is gone, my physical strength is still there. Now I can only do my best and leave the rest to fate.”

Thinking of this, Li Chi immediately supported his body with his arms, then gathered all his strength on his right foot and pushed it upward with force.

I saw that the coffin lid, which weighed about 100 kilograms, was lifted up at one corner, and then slid down the edge of the coffin to the ground, revealing the dazzling sunlight outside.

He subconsciously stretched out his arms to cover his eyes. Although he couldn't open his eyes, he was happy in his heart.

It turned out that the coffin lid was not nailed shut, and he was not buried underground.

It was not until this moment that he felt a little bit of the joy of rebirth.

After his eyes finally adjusted to the light outside, Li Chi half-deadly stood up and crawled out of the coffin.

He leaned against the coffin and looked around, and found that this was not the Juyun Sect he was familiar with.

Looking around, all you can see is a stretch of rolling mountains. Among the mountains are rugged rocks, but there is no grass, tree, bird or animal. Countless towering peaks are looming in the rising and changing clouds, which is beautiful yet desolate.

At this moment, he was on a solitary peak among these mountains.

There are many strange rocks and steep mountains here. Compared with other peaks in the ridge, the only difference is the plant about half a person's height growing in the crevice of the rock under the coffin.

It was a huge radish, green all over, with a dozen flat, emerald green tassels standing on the top, making it look lush and green.

Li Chi curiously stretched out his hands to measure it, and found that the widest part of the radish was about eight inches, which was even thicker than his waist.

"How can a carrot grow between rocks?!"

In this desolate land with no grass at all, it is really outrageous that such a big radish can grow so openly.

When Li Chi was in Juyun Sect, although he was forced to immerse himself in the practice of forbidden techniques most of the time and did not know much about those plants and herbs, he also knew that it was too unusual for a radish to grow to such a size. However, he looked at the radish from top to bottom and from left to right several times, but still could not figure out what it was.

Just when Li Chi was thinking about whether to pull out the big radish, he suddenly felt an indescribable hunger in his stomach.

This feeling was something he had never experienced in his life. It was like a huge wave suddenly rising from the calm sea, which swallowed up all his senses in an instant, leaving only this unbearable hunger that could not be ignored.

"Ahhh! I'm so hungry!!! Why am I so hungry!!!"

Li Chi bent down uncomfortably, covering his growling belly, and countless delicious thoughts began to race through his mind.

Beggar's chicken, roast goose, smoked fish, mountain mushroom soup, sweet and sour spareribs, sukiyaki balls, braised pig's trotters, longan and red date soup...

These were his favorite foods before the fasting but they were rarely available to him.

Li Chi entered Juyun Sect at the age of five. At the age of twelve, he broke through the mortal realm and entered the first level of Xuan Gu realm, becoming the sect's experimental subject.

In order to ensure the pure physique of these experimental subjects, he was forced to practice fasting by the old masters of the sect on the first day he entered the inner courtyard. Therefore, until now, he has not eaten any decent food.

Now troubled by this indescribable feeling of hunger, Li Chi felt that he seemed to have no other choice except this strange big radish in front of him.

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The radish is not an ordinary radish, and the mountain is not an ordinary mountain.