Chapter 13: Heaven-Earth Spirit Root Void Heaven-Piercing Willow

When Lin Zhangqing woke up, his face was still covered with tears. Pulled himself together, sat up, and wiped away the tears. Checked his physical condition and found that he had returned to normal.

It was not the state of skin and bones. Lin Zhangqing breathed a sigh of relief.

If he walked out in the state of skin and bones, his family wouldn't be scared to death. Seeing that there was no problem, he felt relieved.

Lin Zhangqing's heart moved, a small willow tree one foot high with three thin branches floated in mid-air, its roots tied into the void.

This is Lin Zhangqing's contract brother or sister, the true heaven-earth spirit root Void Heaven-Piercing Willow.

The Void Heaven-Piercing Willow and Lin Zhangqing did not sign any native contract.

It was a Life-and-Death Bond presided over by the Void Heaven-Piercing Willow mother tree and witnessed by heaven and earth. So this Heaven-Piercing Willow is Lin Zhangqing's contract brother (sister).

The Life-and-Death Bond is composed of two parts: living together and dying together. Of course, these are the two main effects, and there are other capabilities bestowed by heaven and earth, such as mind-to-mind connection, damage transfer, spiritual energy mutual connection, etc.

Living together means, if the Void Heaven-Piercing Willow can live for a thousand years, and Lin Zhangqing can live for a hundred years, then one person and one plant can live for five hundred and fifty years on average.

Dying together means, if Lin Zhangqing dies, the Void Heaven-Piercing Willow will also die and fall directly. Conversely, if the Heaven-Piercing Willow dies, Lin Zhangqing will also die directly.

Mind-to-mind connection means that as soon as one person or plant has a thought, the other knows and understands it. Conversely, it is the same.

Damage transfer means that if one person or plant suffers a fatal injury, it can transfer part or all of it to the other party, playing a role in sharing the damage.

For example, Lin Zhangqing's heart was stabbed by a sword, and he would surely die if it were on him, but transferring it to the Heaven-Piercing Willow would only be a minor injury.

Spiritual energy mutual connection means that one person and one plant can borrow spiritual energy from each other when necessary.

The Life-and-Death Bond makes the relationship between one person and one plant recognized by heaven and earth. It is both the entrustment of the Void Heaven-Piercing Willow mother tree and the blessing of heaven and earth.

After all, it is witnessed by heaven and earth and bestowed with blessings. Avoiding one person and one plant from easily falling.

Countless epochs ago, the Void Heaven-Piercing Willow mother tree nurtured 108 children, which are 108 heaven-earth spirit roots.

But the universe where the mother tree is located simply cannot support so many heaven-earth spirit roots, so the mother tree can only use space power to send the children to different cosmic time and space.

This heaven-earth spirit root wandered in the universe for a long time. So long that the vitality as a heaven-earth spirit root was almost wiped out.

Finally, it drifted to the small world where Lin Zhangqing is. By chance, it fell to the Lin family.

And because Lin Zhangqing's special spirit root matched this heaven-earth spirit root, it was finally able to take root and sprout.

However, it wandered for too long, and its origin was severely lost, so it desperately absorbed Lin Zhangqing's spiritual energy. Almost sucked Lin Zhangqing into a human dry.

Even so, it did not fully recover. Now its spiritual consciousness is still very weak. Don't know how long it will take to recover.

So Lin Zhangqing didn't know whether it was a brother or a sister. However, regardless of whether it was a brother or a sister, he decided that it would be called Lin Changliu in the future. Lin Zhangqing had already acknowledged this brother or sister in his heart.

The Void Heaven-Piercing Willow is a heaven-earth spirit root with five elements and space attributes. Its instinct is to live in the void, so the Void Heaven-Piercing Willow usually exists in the void, and others cannot see it. And its roots are all over the void, able to absorb the free spiritual energy in the void to grow.

With a thought, Lin Changliu returned to the void, and there was no trace in the real world.

Lin Zhangqing closed his eyes and communicated with the sea of consciousness. There was a tiny light spot in the sea of consciousness. Touched the light spot lightly. Lin Zhangqing in the cultivation room disappeared immediately.

The whole person appeared

After walking around, he discovered a bottomless pit in the center. Lin Zhangqing knew its purpose. Throwing items containing spiritual energy into it could accelerate the growth of the Heaven-Piercing Willow.

That's right, this was the internal space of the Heaven-Piercing Willow. If it could continue to grow, one day this space would become a world.

The perimeter of the space was protected by a layer of transparent light. Through this light, one could see the universe and stars outside. This space must be located in the void of the universe.

Looking at this small space, he wondered if he could plant something here. With a thought, Lin Zhangqing returned to the cultivation room. He looked around and collected the pits of the hundred-year Vermilion Fruit from the ground. Only after confirming nothing was left behind did he open the door to the cultivation room.

His grandfather had been waiting outside the whole time.

Seeing Lin Zhangqing appear, his grandfather let out a sigh of relief. "Did you succeed?"

Lin Zhangqing nodded, just about to speak.

His grandfather immediately reached out to stop him from speaking.

"Don't say it. Don't tell anyone. Just keep it to yourself. This is to protect you, and also to protect our family."

Lin Zhangqing thought for a moment and nodded.

His grandfather then took out two jade boxes; these were what he had promised Lin Zhangqing earlier—the spirit seeds for the Bloodthirsty Thorn Vine and the Spirit Gathering Tree.

After thanking his grandfather, he hugged him tightly. The corners of his eyes were slightly moist; his family always made Lin Zhangqing feel safe and warm.

He had just narrowly escaped death and experienced such bizarre events. It felt as if a long time had passed, but in reality, it had been less than two hours in total.

However, Lin Zhangqing still felt very tired. He returned to his room, lay on the bed, and fell into a deep sleep. He slept until evening when his mother came to call him for dinner.

After eating, he returned to his room and closed the door securely.

He entered the space and found a spot to plant the hundred-year Vermilion Fruit pits. He cast a Spirit Rain Technique and was immediately stunned. The rain curtain covered over 200 square meters. Lin Zhangqing blinked, not understanding what had happened.

After thinking about it, he cast the Nourishing Origin Catalysis Technique on the location of the pits, and something that thrilled Lin Zhangqing happened.

The pits cracked open and grew directly into a small sapling ten centimeters tall. What was going on? He knew his own secret arts well.

At most, it should have produced a month's worth of growth, but this was not the effect of one month; it was at least a year.

He understood a little now: the effects of spells and secret arts here were more than ten times stronger than outside.

Thinking of this, he cast a Fireball Technique. The fireball was the size of a human head and flew over several dozen meters to smash into the light curtain. After the flames dissipated, there wasn't even a mark on the light curtain.

Confirmed: the spells and secret arts were amplified by about ten times.

He was rich, he was rich! Lin Zhangqing jumped around the space in excitement. After a while, he calmed down.

He had to make good use of this space.

He must never leak the news, so the confidentiality work had to be done well. If necessary, he would have to silence people; he couldn't be soft-hearted about that.

Or perhaps just bring people into the space? He would deal with that specific situation if it ever arose.

What kind of spirit herbs and spirit plants should he choose to plant?

With these questions in mind, Lin Zhangqing returned to his room and lay on the bed, deep in thought.

The space inside was too small, so for now, he could only plant high-value spirit herbs and spirit plants.

As for the issue of "digesting" the output, if there was really no other way, he would just have to let his grandfather help handle it.

After all, his grandfather had a Foundation Establishment third-layer cultivation base and could enter and exit the market more safely than he could, as long as he didn't bring out too many spirit items at once.

It seemed his ten mu of spirit fields as a Spirit Plant Master benefit needed to be put on the agenda; it would just happen to cover up the space's output slightly. He needed to find a secluded location where there weren't many people.

As for finding high-value spirit herb and spirit plant seeds, he would have to wait until the spirit fields were ready and check the Affairs Hall to see if any could be exchanged.

(End of chapter)