Bamboo Mound

He could clearly feel that his consciousness had established a subtle connection with the Green Spirit Bamboo. Although this connection was not yet stable, it was undoubtedly a huge breakthrough.

At this moment, Ning Chang's consciousness had mostly shifted to the Green Spirit Bamboo, and he had even become somewhat rusty in controlling his own body.

Only after completely covering the green bamboo did he relax, and an even stronger sense of unease surged in.

He could easily feel the breeze brushing against the bamboo tips, the resistance of the swaying bamboo branches, and the tingling sensation at the broken ends of the leaf stalks, like the follicles after a beard has just been plucked.

It was as if he himself was this Green Spirit Bamboo, and his body was being held by one hand!

He could even perceive the straight and orderly veins within the Green Spirit Bamboo! Under the cover of his spiritual power, they resembled the pipes at the bottom of a clear pool of water, slender yet clearly visible.

He could also see... well, when his consciousness was inside the Green Spirit Bamboo, he couldn't see anything because he had no visual senses; his vision was completely dark, and he could only sense his environment by releasing his spiritual energy.

"What a novel feeling. What would happen if I could control it?" Ning Chang thought to himself.

He concentrated his mind, canceled control over his physical body, and focused all his consciousness on the Green Spirit Bamboo. Then, he tried to use his consciousness to direct the Green Spirit Bamboo's movements as if he were controlling his own arm.

No matter how he tried, even issuing commands along the veins of the bamboo, the Green Spirit Bamboo remained unresponsive, standing there quietly.

"Difficult to handle..."

He tried every method he could think of, and felt no resistance whatsoever, but he just couldn't make it tremble even a little.

He once again found himself in a dead end, and the record in the "Plants and Trees Understand Each Other" stopped at the phrase "driving it as if it were an arm" after successfully transferring consciousness.

Suddenly, the Green Spirit Bamboo seemed to have lost its backbone. All the bamboo stalks withered rapidly, and the branches fell off one after another. Before they even hit the ground, they turned into dust and drifted a short distance on the still breeze.

Just as he was confused and stunned, a memory, as if it had been stored in a memory stone, surged into his mind through the consciousness he released!

Caught completely off guard, Ning Chang was pulled directly into the consciousness space!

"This is... Green Spirit Bamboo?"

Ning Chang opened his eyes after the flash and found himself in a desolate rocky beach, with a clump of green bamboo seedlings standing alone in front of him.

He immediately concluded that this was the Green Spirit Bamboo! Even if the Green Spirit Bamboo he had grown was sprouted from bamboo shoots, and even if this clump of bamboo was not green.

He turned his head to observe the surrounding environment, only to find that his view was fixed on the Green Spirit Bamboo, and he could not move his position even a little bit!

Like an observer, they watched over the growth of the Green Spirit Bamboo.

"That's good, maybe we can still find a way to control the Azure Bamboo."

With this in mind, Ning calmed down and sat down with her knees relaxed.

The bamboo seedlings appeared extremely weak in the harsh environment of the rocky beach; their slender stems trembled in the wind, as if they would break at any moment.

Even though they have grown into clumps, there are only a dozen or so leaves, with curled tips, showing a slightly fragile pale green color, struggling to find soil from the surrounding barren gravel and draw meager nutrients.

However, in this seemingly hopeless situation, the roots of the bamboo seedlings stubbornly extend downwards, like tentacles groping in the dark, inch by inch exploring deeper vitality.

As time slowly passed, the bamboo seedlings gradually adapted to this barren land and began to show their tenacious vitality.

As new bamboo seedlings emerge, their stems gradually thicken, and the originally sparse leaves gradually increase. New leaves sprout from the nodes of the seedlings, like tender green elves swaying gently in the breeze.

The color of the bamboo seedlings gradually changed from the initial light green to a richer, deeper green, as if the unique vitality nurtured in this barren land was gradually condensing within them.

After watching for an unknown amount of time, and with the passage of time, this small bamboo seedling finally grew into several tall and straight bamboo stalks.

They stand side by side, like a group of soldiers holding their ground, forming a unique landscape on the barren rocky beach.

Here, Ning Chang seemed to feel no fatigue; her legs were not numb, and her eyes were not tired, just like when she first came in.

Just then, a faint ripple swept by, and a mysterious call quietly spread throughout the area. The bamboo stalks seemed to be summoned as well. Although they did not move, Ning Chang felt that they had changed direction.

Before we knew it, dark clouds had gathered over the entire rocky beach, forming a huge whirlpool when we looked out!

Lightning flashed and shone, as densely as autumn rain.

"Tribulation lightning?"

Ning Chang murmured uncertainly. In fact, he had never seen what the tribulation lightning of this world looked like. According to Ning Tongyu, the tribulation lightning only appeared when one broke through to the Transformation Realm and ascended.

However, this did not prevent him from recalling the forms of tribulation clouds in the films and television shows he had seen before, most of which were no different from this, only their scale was not as grand as what he had witnessed in person.

He was currently positioned only on the edge of the swirling dark clouds, so he could barely see its entirety.

After an unknown amount of time, even after the Green Spirit Bamboo had grown two more mature bamboo shoots, the lightning in the dark clouds in the sky finally reached its limit.

Finally, after a certain trigger, all the lightning suddenly disappeared without a trace, and then in an instant, ten thousand bolts of lightning crashed down, indiscriminately bombarding everything in the area!

A dense array of blue and white lightning flashed across his vision in an instant! Then it vanished in the blink of an eye.

It wasn't until half a breath after the lightning disappeared that Ning Chang reacted and quickly bent his arm to block it.

Sitting still for so long slowed down his thinking and reactions.

But after two more bolts of lightning struck, he realized that these lightning bolts could not affect him in the slightest. He looked around and closed his eyes to wait for the tribulation clouds to dissipate.

Although there was no harm, the glare was so intense that just one glance would make him dizzy for a while.

After a long while, as if several years had passed, Ning Chang, who could no longer hear the roaring sound, slowly opened his eyes and was amazed by the scene before him.

The entire rocky beach has dropped by about half a meter, and in its place are a continuous glassy crystalline mass containing various impurities!

"Wow, with such immense power, even the very edge is cleaved like this, what must be happening inside..."

"But then again, it's one thing for sand to be split into glass, but why can pebbles also be heated into glass?"

"What was it again, something like carbon dioxide? I forgot, but it doesn't really matter, it's just..."

Ning Chang then focused his attention on the present moment, searching for signs of the Azure Bamboo.

Under the bombardment of the lightning, the bamboo that had grown there had been completely destroyed, or rather, there was no trace of bamboo left on this piece of glass!