Hou Niao was not surprised. For such an ancient tree that had lived countless years, he did not intend to conceal anything,
"To let you know, Elder, I indeed only interacted with three of the Five Elents Pearls, which happened to be the water, earth, and tal pearls by chance. My wood elent power wasn’t gained through the Wood Spirit Orb, but through another encounter."
"My dream is to attain the five elents in full, so I truly wish to find the Fire Spirit Pearl. However, the Fire Spirit Pearl is elusive and hard to find, its whereabouts uncertain. Therefore, I aid for the Wood Spirit Orb instead, to complete the convergence of my five elents."
"I have a natural connection with the Five Elents Pearls, having once possessed them and resolutely abandoned them. I believe this is the true Five Elents Path; if I can comprehend the Wood Spirit Orb in Beimu Forest, I can use it to summon the other three pearls, gathering the power of the Four Elents. This way, the location of the Fire Spirit Pearl would naturally reveal itself."
Elder Beech once again fell into contemplation. Hou Niao noticed it had a habit of always thinking for a long ti before speaking, unsure if it was its nature or if it had lived so long that its mind had rusted?
"In that case, sit on , and I’ll take you there."
Unclear about Elder Beech’s intent, Hou Niao didn’t ask further. Sotis, one needs to learn to keep silent to avoid being annoying.
He leapt onto a branch of the beech and sat down, flanked by Little Mushroom and Little Tail. Their curiosity was high, and in front of Elder Beech, they were like two ungrown children. From their appearance, it was clear that Elder Beech took great care of them.
Once the three of them were seated, the beech took large strides, heading deeper into the forest with determination, walking as if on flat ground. There was no sense of jostling at all, but there was one drawback... it was very slow, extrely slow.
It was as if each step required thought, or as if a landowner was asuring their land, taking a step every few breaths. At such a pace, only a few miles would be covered in an hour, and even without rest, only dozens of miles could be traveled in a day. For cultivation creatures, that was truly a snail’s pace.
Elder Beech wasn’t fond of speaking, and its way of conversing truly tried one’s patience. You might feel like taking a nap, while it was still pondering the previous question...
Therefore, the idle chat continued among the three of them. But as with anything, there cos a ti when there’s nothing left to say, not to ntion that Little Mushroom and Little Tail didn’t have much knowledge. They could only talk repeatedly about matters within the forest, from collecting dewdrops in the morning to absorbing the spirit chanism and counting stars at night...
A month later, even the usually noisy Little Mushroom fell silent. Perhaps it realized this was a very long journey, and both little ones took the sa action, embedding their roots into the beech and entering a brainless cultivation state.
Among all cultivation creatures, when it cos to seclusion, the Demon Clan is the most impatient. They cannot endure prolonged silence akin to slumber; humans are sowhere in the middle, while plant creatures are the most adept at seclusion. Perhaps one self-nurturing session can last dozens or even hundreds of years.
Of course, the most formidable at seclusion are the Innate and Acquired Spiritual Treasures; their seclusion periods might even be asured in tens of thousands of years, but that’s another matter.
This ti, Hou Niao encountered an old tree demon that allowed him to engage in self-cultivation while on the move. He could jump off at any ti, but once he did, he would not have another chance to get back on.
Comparing patience, he feared no one.
On his cultivation path, the Fire of Five Elents was his final shortcoming, and if he could fill it, he would fully prepare to advance to the Nascent Soul.
With a clear goal, he had unwavering determination. Hou Niao was unbothered by the beech’s exasperatingly slow pace and simply sat on the branch, absorbing the spirit chanism to fill his increasingly swollen Dantian.
In the final monts on Hell Star, over several years, he consud a massive amount of pure plant energy, remnants from various plant-based spiritual dicines, which filled his Dantian with this pure plant energy. At that ti, it greatly benefitted his Realm improvent but also imposed corresponding limitations.
The limitation was that after returning to Jinxiu, he found his cultivation stagnant, unable to continue growing through the normal absorption of the Heaven and Earth Spirit chanism. Because there was a difference between the Heaven and Earth Spirit chanism and the wood attribute spirit chanism in his Dantian, this difference prevented them from integrating. Either he prioritized Jinxiu’s Heaven and Earth Spirit chanism and released the wood elent energy, or he prioritized the wood elent plant energy but could not receive the nourishnt of the Heaven and Earth Spirit chanism.
The two could not be reconciled, only one could be chosen.
The solution was simple: as long as the Five Elents were complete, with the Mysterious Light Secret’s operation, integration would be effortless. But the problem was the missing piece in his five-elent abilities.
This awkward phenonon had been troubling him. The lack of balance in his five-elent abilities not only hindered the maximum frequency of his sword but also impacted the growth of his Dantian Magic Power. On Jinxiu Continent, he hadn’t found a way to substitute the big plant dicine.
However, this ti, the problem that troubled him for so long finally showed a glimr of hope. Not only was it possible to find the Fire Spirit Pearl, but he could also supplent the wood elent spirit chanism first during the search. Beimu Forest was indeed the most suitable place for him, so he wouldn’t have to worry about the attribute conflict between inhaling spirit chanisms and the internal plant herb.
In light of this, he graciously accepted the goodwill of the old beech.
The three little fellows on the body had quieted down, while the beech moved forward with heavy steps, over mountains and through rivers, once it started its steps, it never halted.
Could it move faster? Of course, it could! It could even fly.
But it wouldn’t do so. To touch the Wood Spirit Orb, one must endure the tests of its Guardians. Even if the Wood Spirit Pearl’s appearance here was incidental and who knows where it would appear in the future, to these wood spirit creatures, it was a sacred and inescapable duty.
The two little ones did not understand the dangers of the outside world, nor the cunning and intelligence of humans, so it was easy for them to open their hearts to people without realizing the potential risks.
But the little ones were unaware. As the eldest existence in Beimu Forest, it wouldn’t fall for such tricks. To a being as long-lived as it, everything can be deceived, except for one thing: ti.
It would keep walking until this human revealed a flaw, of course, if this human was truly as he claid, it wouldn’t mind taking him to the place he wished to go.
But the journey had only just begun, and there were many tests to follow.
The arrival of a single human didn’t cause any rift in Beimu Forest. The mountain winds blew, branches made a sobbing sound, just like every day for thousands of years.
A tree’s movent within the forest went unnoticed, like a drop of water swimming in the ocean.
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