Bamboo Mound

The blood that came out stained the bamboo tip red, or rather, it didn't even stain it red, as the blood quickly slid down the bamboo body, not a drop of it could stay on it!

"He even uses cunning! Is this what they call intelligence...?"

He admitted that in a sense, he had lost miserably due to carelessness and underestimating his opponent... but he learned a lot from his defeat!

Moments after Ning Chang's body was pierced by the Green Spirit Bamboo, he felt the tangled bamboo branches growing inside his body, completely destroying everything inside him!

At the same time, it penetrated his meridians and dantian, and began to absorb his spiritual power at will!

"pity..."

"No matter what, you're just a bamboo, you can't kill me no matter what," Ning Chang thought.

Ever since the first bamboo shoot sprouted and pierced his face, Tianyuan Spirit Body has never stopped operating. In other words, even though he is now pierced by bamboo and his internal organs are shattered, it has no impact on his life. It's just that it's a little difficult to break free.

But he doesn't intend to break free immediately.

Since this Green Spirit Bamboo can use schemes, he can no longer regard it as just a bamboo.

He also needs to use some cunning!

Even if Ning Chang paid more attention to it, it was still just a bamboo. It was already quite remarkable that it could use a feint to attack from the east and a false attack.

Ning Chang remained motionless, even placing all the Azure Bamboo leaves he controlled on the ground. As for the spiritual energy absorbed by the Azure Bamboo, or rather, merely channeled, it remained unchanged, and he still held complete control over it!

The river water was diverted to the ditch, but the ditch was still filled with river water.

Ning Tongyu, who was secretly watching, was about to come to Ning Chang's aid when the Qingling Bamboo pierced him, but then realized that Ning Chang's vitality had not weakened in the slightest and the spiritual power on the bamboo leaves he controlled had not dissipated at all. So he shook his head and sat back down.

"A naturally occurring spiritual core, with such strong expansiveness and self-control,"

The spiritual energy drawn by the Green Spirit Bamboo was not used directly to expand its own scale, but rather it was guided along its root system to the first Green Spirit Bamboo that grew.

Using his spiritual power, Ning Chang discovered an irregular crystal at the base of the Green Spirit Bamboo that shouldn't have been there.

"This is... a demon core?"

"Wait, this is a plant? A plant extract?"

Like a demon core, this was the first time Ning Chang had ever seen a plant with a structure similar to a demon core, especially one he had grown himself.

Just as the spiritual energy reached the 'demon core' and showed some signs of entering, the Azure Spirit Bamboo seemed to sense a fatal crisis. Its body shook violently, and its leaves rustled, as if trying to expel all the spiritual energy.

But such a good thing is impossible. At the same time as the spiritual energy stopped, Ning Chang also realized that his spiritual energy had slowly lost control after entering the 'demon core'. The Qingling Bamboo now knew that it had also been affected.

Ning Chang immediately concentrated his mind and easily locked the 'demon core' with his spiritual power, preventing it from connecting with other Green Spirit Bamboo!

Even so, the clump of green bamboo in the courtyard remained still, but did not turn into dust as before.

Meanwhile, within the root system, Ning Chang could also feel several faint fluctuations impacting his spiritual power, but they couldn't shake it at all, causing no serious harm.

So after maintaining the seal on the 'demon core', Ning Chang withdrew his spare spiritual power and used the bamboo leaves to cut the bamboo that was piercing him into sections and force it out of his body, allowing him to fall back to the ground.

He then immediately took a bottle of third-tier Rejuvenation Pill, took out the Hidden Knowledge Stone which contained the meaning of herbs and trees, and began practicing the technique.

The move Qing Lingzhu used on him gave him another idea. If it were someone else without a life-saving technique like the Heavenly Origin Spirit Body, they would probably be dead by now!

As it was being sealed away, the 'demon core' trembled incessantly, with a strange frequency.

Since the Azure Bamboo is no longer a threat, I will first learn the "Communication Between Plants" technique to see if I can communicate with it.

Although communicating with plants is simply attaching one's consciousness to and controlling plants, what if it were possible? And even if communication is not possible, it is still necessary to try to see if specific control can reproduce the previous move.

Compared to the Heart Demon Swiftness, Rapid Growth, and Rain Summoning Technique he had previously learned, the Plant and Tree Communication Technique was more profound, which made him realize that he was only at the Spirit Platform Realm, and it was not as easy for him to use as it was after he had acquired the Primordial Spirit at the Fetal Heart Realm.

But since he had already learned it, and there was no restriction that the technique could only be used in the fetal heart state, Ning Chang continued to study it.

......

Several hours later, he finally opened his eyes. It was true that the Hidden Knowledge Stone recorded everything, but it would take him a lot of mental effort to understand it. After several hours, he had barely managed to transform the general concepts into his own ideas.

Then, realizing that the 'demon core' had become very weak in resisting, it immediately began to try to use the power of plants and trees to communicate with the green bamboo.

He calmed his mind, cleared his mind of distractions, and followed the instructions of the cultivation method to compress and condense his consciousness layer by layer, transforming it into a tiny probe. He carefully sent his consciousness out of his body towards the direction of the Azure Spirit Bamboo's 'demon core'.

But as soon as it started operating, the out-of-body consciousness seemed to have wandered into a foggy jungle, in a state of chaos, unable to find its way.

No matter how far he goes forward, if he retreats even slightly, he will return directly into his body, as if he had never left in the first place!

The whispers of the grass and trees, the pulse of the sacred plants, seem both far away and close at hand, ethereal and hard to grasp.

After several attempts, Ning Chang still couldn't grasp the feeling of projecting his divine sense outwards, so he had no choice but to hold his hand on the bamboo and use spiritual power as a medium to perform the exercise again.

In an instant, his vision turned into a vast expanse of blue, his mind felt itchy, and a strange sensation was transmitted through his right hand.

Because he cultivated the ability to communicate with plants, Ning Changdang immediately believed that this was the ability to control the senses of plants.

Regarding control, the technique only stated that it could be controlled as easily as an arm, but no matter how he tried, he did not feel any feedback or movement, so he had to give up and try to see if he could communicate with the 'demon core'.

Given its current strength, I might have died if I had been any later.

As spiritual energy, carrying consciousness, approached the 'demon core' and stopped at the edge of the spiritual energy used to suppress it, a faint but peculiar emotion was transmitted to Ning Chang through the tremor of the 'demon core'. After several minutes of interpretation by his nerves, he finally understood its meaning.

It was because I had trapped it for too long that fear and resentment remained within the entire 'demon core'!

Realizing that communication was no longer possible, Ning Chang stopped paying attention to the 'demon core' and began to attach his consciousness to the entire Green Spirit Bamboo.

As time went by, Ning Chang became more and more skilled at releasing his consciousness, and the flow rate per unit also began to increase. Before long, he had invaded the entire Green Spirit Bamboo!