Chapter 31: Shards of the Shikon Jewel, Power to Suppress Everything

Ye Xuan is not a saint without desires, nor is he a superman who can treat himself as an ordinary person and accept the constraints of the weak after obtaining power that surpasses everyone.

Wanting to restrict him, the only thing that can restrict him is a strong person who is stronger than him.

So, he respects Li Lao, who obtained the "Emperor Yanwang · Zhong Li" template.

After obtaining power, he is willing to sacrifice his personal emotions and constantly make himself compatible with the real Zhong Li, just to make this country better.

He cannot do this.

However, the concentration of Qi between heaven and earth today is not high, and no one among the holders of treasures from the Myriad Realms of the Cosmos has been born who is stronger than Li Lao, so Li Lao can suppress all the petty people.

But in the future, as more and more treasures from the Myriad Realms of the Cosmos appear, there may be templates and treasures stronger than "Zhong Li" itself.

By then, what should Li Lao, who is not enough to suppress them, do? And what kind of appearance will Da Xia become because of their appearance?

Ye Xuan doesn't know the answer, because the "good" and "evil" of human nature are too complex and not fixed.

The hero who destroys the evil dragon will become a new evil dragon, and the demon who wants to destroy the world will also turn toward the light because of some experiences.

No one can know what the future of this world will be like.

Ye Xuan can only let himself grow as quickly as possible, growing until no matter what kind of disaster happens in the future, he has the power to suppress everything.

Lin Miao didn't speak, just speeding up the movements on her hands.

She actually didn't quite understand Ye Xuan's words, but from Ye Xuan's tone, she heard a bit of complexity.

Although she didn't understand, she felt it would be better to keep silent at this time.

After putting the last piece of mutated bird meat with a better part into the bag, Lin Miao put away the Garuda Knife, and then picked up the bag, a satisfied smile hanging on her face.

"I'm done."

"Should we go hunt for others next?"

Because of awakening the superpower, Lin Miao's body was nourished by Qi, so her physical fitness was much better than ordinary people.

Even two big bags of meat were not considered very heavy for her and could be borne.

However, another bag would probably be the limit.

After all, there were already several hundred catties here.

"I'll send you back first."

"Next, I have a guess to verify."

Ye Xuan looked at the bag in Lin Miao's hand and shook his head.

Since he had already thought that the mutated bird flock might be because of some treasure from the Myriad Realms of the Cosmos, he naturally wanted to search for it. With his sword-controlling art, it wouldn't take long for him to walk around the entire 【Wuyin Mountain Range】.

But if he brought Lin Miao, it would be somewhat troublesome.

"Eh?"

"Alright then."

Lin Miao heard Ye Xuan's words, was stunned for a moment, and then said regretfully.

She didn't ask Ye Xuan what guess he wanted to verify.

She was just a chef, why should she know so much?

Anyway, the meat is enough now, so going back is fine. They aren't coming here only once.

And the Hangcheng Nature Reserve has a place to stay; they don't need to go back, they can just live here directly.

The driver told them this information on the road.

After safely sending Lin Miao back, Ye Xuan returned to the 【Wuyin Mountain Range】 again. He stood at the place where he fought with the mutated bird flock before, his gaze swept across the surroundings, and then he raised his hand and waved, and the long sword at his waist flew out, hovering under his feet.

He stood on the sword body, and the long sword carried him into the air, overlooking the entire mountain range.

"Whether it is a treasure from the Myriad Realms of the Cosmos or a heavenly treasure, they have an inseparable connection with Qi."

"A heavenly treasure that can induce the mutation of a bird flock, in essence, is nothing more than condensing a large amount of Qi to promote the mutation of the bird flock; even if the heavenly treasure itself has the ability to improve the bloodline of the eater, its growth also inevitably requires a large amount of Qi."

"Treasures from the Myriad Realms of the Cosmos are also the same."

"After inducing the mutation of the bird flock, these mutated birds instinctively absorb Qi, which inevitably causes the concentration of Qi in the area where they live to decrease."

"Just look for areas with higher or lower Qi concentration than other areas based on this change."

Ye Xuan pondered in his heart, shuttling between the mountains and forests, perceiving the Qi concentration in every place; soon, he found some abnormalities.

In a valley about two kilometers away from the battle location just now, the concentration of Qi was significantly lower than the surrounding area, as if it had been drained by something.

"It's here."

A sharp light flashed in Ye Xuan's eyes, and he flew toward the valley by sword.

When he landed in the valley, the scene in front of him made him slightly stunned.

In the center of the valley, there was a huge ancient tree, with a thick trunk and lush branches and leaves, but strangely, there was no grass growing around the ancient tree, and the ground was covered with fine cracks, as if it had been sucked dry of vitality by something.

Ye Xuan approached the ancient tree and reached out to touch the trunk, immediately feeling a faint fluctuation coming from inside the trunk.

"Sure enough, there is something hidden inside."

He took a step back, raised his hand and waved, and the long sword turned into a golden sword light, directly slashing toward the trunk of the ancient tree.

"Crack!"

The trunk was slashed open by the sword light, revealing a pitch-black tree hole.

Inside the tree hole was a shard about the size of a thumb, presenting an irregular shape, the surface smooth as jade, yet faintly revealing a deep purple light.

"This appearance... a shard of the Shikon Jewel?"

The Shikon Jewel, a treasure from a work called "Inuyasha," was a psychic jewel created by a priestess named Midoriko by fusing her own soul with the souls of countless demons in her struggle against them.

The complete Shikon Jewel possesses the power to enhance the user's demonic power, spiritual power, or physical strength, and even break through the limits of life, and can even realize the user's wishes.

No matter how unreasonable the wish is, the Shikon Jewel will realize the wish according to the user's strongest obsession in their heart; it's just that the realization of the wish is often in a distorted way. Except for the person who made the "correct wish," no one can bear it.

Even if the shard Ye Xuan is facing now is only a shard of the Shikon Jewel, it also possesses the ability to enhance one's own strength, and even realize one's own wishes to a certain extent, just in a "distorted" form.

"So, is it that someone accidentally dropped the shard of the Shikon Jewel into this tree before the Qi recovery, and after the Qi recovery, the shard of the Shikon Jewel transformed into a real item and fused into the ancient tree?"

"The bird flock mutated because of the demonic power emitted from the shard of the Shikon Jewel

"So, the Ancient Tree's Wish"

Ye Xuan looked at the barren, cracked earth in the vicinity and the vibrant vitality of the ancient tree, which stood in stark contrast to its surroundings, and he roughly formed a guess in his heart.

"Not wanting to die, wanting to live forever."

That was likely the wish.

(End of chapter)