The whole world is cultivating qi, only I am cultivating the body

Looking carefully at the faces that reappeared one after another, Zeng Wenyu suddenly realized that these faces were the same faces that were on the tree before. They were just moved from the dead tree to the newly grown tree. The only change was that another face reappeared in the place where the face that had disappeared due to the axe's chopping.

After the entire trunk of the tree was covered with human faces, the evil energy underground completely disappeared, but the tree in front of them exuded an evil aura for a moment. If Zeng Wenyu and Mu Zhi were not sharp enough, they would not have been able to detect the aura at that moment.

After all, it was just a tree growing on the ground, and it had not become a monster. Naturally, it posed no threat to Zeng Wenyu and Mu Zhi. However, after the faces on the tree moved from one tree to another, they still stared straight at the axe in Zeng Wenyu's hand, as if they had a deep resentment towards the axe.

Zeng Wenyu thought about it carefully and understood that those faces did not see him swinging the axe. When they opened their eyes, they only saw the axe hitting the tree, and Zeng Wenyu pulled the axe off the tree. They simply thought that the axe was not a good thing and did not extend this resentment to Zeng Wenyu. Moreover, when they occasionally looked at Zeng Wenyu, there was gratitude in their eyes?

After exchanging a glance with Mu Zhi, they both came to the same conclusion that the faces on the tree had no intelligence and no associative ability. As for why they were grateful to Zeng Wenyu, Zeng Wenyu thought it was because of the previous act of tearing the tree trunk apart. In their eyes, this was destroying the tree, but in the eyes of those faces, Zeng Wenyu had bought them a new place to live.

After putting the axe into the storage ring, those faces gradually closed their eyes after they could no longer see the axe. Taking this opportunity, Zeng Wenyu and Mu Zhi slowly left the tree. After walking a certain distance, the two stopped.

"Sister Mu Zhi, can you tell where the source of that energy just now came from?" Zeng Wenyu asked in a low voice.

"I can't tell. My cultivation and consciousness are suppressed here. My consciousness can't leave the body 500 meters away, and my cultivation has been suppressed to the lowest point of the realm." Mu Zhi shook his head, "But I can feel that there is no threat to me here, so those 'corpses' just now retreated after they couldn't lure you and me."

"But what are those trees and the bloody red liquid that flows out of them? Even the books in my sect don't record these things."

Mu Zhi looked at the trees next to her and thought for a long time, then suddenly looked up and walked towards a tree. She stretched out her right hand, wrapped it in spiritual energy, and touched the tree.

As Mu Zhi's right hand rubbed the tree, the spiritual energy wrapped in Mu Zhi's right hand decreased visibly. At the same time, the faces of the trees that were rubbed by Mu Zhi opened their mouths, and they were swallowing the spiritual energy in Mu Zhi's hand.

"Sure enough," Mu Zhi said in a low voice, retreating from the tree to Zeng Wenyu's side, "This is a strange tree called the human face tree from the Tianqi Continent in my mother's memory. It was brought down by the Jiamu Sect of the Five Elements Sect. These human face trees were re-refined by the ancestors of the Jiamu Sect using secret methods. They began to mature after absorbing a large amount of blood from the human race in this world. The mature human face trees will lure and prey on the cultivators of this world, using the same method that they just used to lure us."

"But if it was really brought down from that time, why has no one in the entire Tianyi Continent ever heard of this human face tree?"

"Perhaps we should ask Senior Bai Miluo who created this place. I suspect that the reason why we can't see human-face trees in other places on Tianyi Continent is because of Senior Bai Miluo. Perhaps after the war that year, he collected all the human-face trees scattered across the entire Tianyi Continent and planted them here. With his cultivation, this is completely possible, and it won't take much effort."

"That's not right. With Senior Bai Miluo's cultivation, he was able to easily gather all of these human face trees and plant them here. Why couldn't he destroy them? Isn't it a simple matter to destroy them?"

Zeng Wenyu originally thought that Mu Zhi would fall into deep thought after hearing what he said, but who knew that Mu Zhi just shook her head and said, "It can't be destroyed. Do you know how much spiritual energy these human face trees have absorbed? And the juice in the trunk of the human face trees is the blood of the human race on Tianyi Continent."

"So what?"

"Didn't I tell you that back then, Qing Jizi, the ancestor of the Jiamu Sect, used a secret technique to transform these human face trees. After absorbing the blood of the humans of Tianyi Continent, these human face trees became closely related to the humans of this world. Destroying them would destroy the luck of a part of the human race, and would also kill the descendants of the cultivators whose blood they absorbed. At that time, the war had just ended. How many of you humans were left? And this is only the world of Tianyi Continent. All the places attacked by the upper realm have human face trees. I guess this is only a small part. If you go to other realms, I'm afraid there are such places everywhere."

"That's not right. With Senior Bai Miluo's high level of cultivation, even if this human-faced tree was refined by secret methods, it should be able to remove those factors that are unfavorable to us humans, right?"

“That’s right. So I suspect that senior is making a big move. Otherwise, these human-faced trees would have been destroyed long ago.”

Zeng Wenyu was not surprised to hear Mu Zhi say this. The life-and-death battle that year ended with a tragic victory for the lower world, but those invading monks were not defeated. They were just sealed and exiled to other places. One day the seal will loosen. According to the ghost girl, those monks who knew the situation back then had already fought with those invading monks, which meant that the seal had been torn open a little, so it was not surprising that those powerful people would make arrangements in advance.

But Xiaoxue said that the aura of Bai Miluo here has become very weak. What does this mean? This means that someone is destroying Bai Miluo's arrangement, and both Xiaoxue and Mu Zhi can feel that the aura that makes Bai Miluo's aura weaker is the aura of the sea clan, which means that it is the sea clan monster that destroyed his arrangement.

"Didn't our sea tribe's monsters participate in the battle back then?"

"The sea tribe..." Mu Zhi had a strange look on her face. "Of course these sea tribes participated in the war back then, but the sea tribes that joined your camp... probably only accounted for less than one percent of the many monster races in the sea. The rest all defected to the higher-ups..."