The Heavenly Azure Ship sped all the way until it reached the Thought Sifting Bamboo Sea in the eastern region of the Azure Cold Country.
It was a boundless sea of bamboo. The air was filled with the fragrance of the Xiang Fei Bamboo.
The Thought Sifting Bamboo Sea stretched for four million li * (500m per li). It was the land where the Ming Luo Clan lived. No outsiders lived there.
In ancient times, there was no sea of bamboo growing in this place. The native plants were cedar trees.
However, after the disappearance of the last Ming Luo Tree Sovereign countless years ago, all the cedar trees in this place disappeared and were replaced by countless Xiang Fei Bamboo.
The Ming Luo Clan declined generation after generation but the Xiang Fei Bamboo never withered.
The Bamboo Palace who had been ignoring the decline of the Ming Luo Clan suddenly gave a strange order in the Thought Sifting Bamboo Sea …
When the Heavenly Azure Ship reached the periphery of the Thought Sifting Bamboo Sea, Qing Dai suddenly stopped the ship and kept it into her storage pouch.
Ning Fan sensed that there was a strong forbidden force above the Thought Sifting Bamboo Sea …
This forbidden force seemed to be aimed at escaping treasures and the escaping light of Void Fragmentation Realm cultivators. It was really strange.
"Big Brother Lu, my Ming Luo Clan lives in this Thought Sifting Bamboo Sea. According to the Bamboo Palace's order, we can't use the Heavenly Azure Ship when we arrive at the Thought Sifting Bamboo Sea. Otherwise, it will be against the rules of the Bamboo Palace. "
"The Bamboo Palace set up such a rule?" Ning Fan was surprised. Then, he understood immediately. The forbidden force that filled the sky was most likely set up by the Bamboo Palace.
"Yes. After the disappearance of the last Ming Luo Tree Sovereign, the Ming Luo Clan declined and this place began to be filled with Xiang Fei Bamboo. After that, the Bamboo Palace set up a forbidden force in this Thought Sifting Bamboo Sea and gave three orders. No cultivators are allowed to use large escaping treasures here. Void Fragmentation Realm cultivators are not allowed to enter the Thought Sifting Bamboo Sea. Other than the Ming Luo Clan, no other cultivators are allowed to cut down the Xiang Fei Bamboo here. Don't you think these three orders are strange? "Qing Dai smiled mischievously.
"These three orders are indeed very strange. It seems like the Bamboo Palace is protecting the Ming Luo Clan but it doesn't seem like it … "
"That's right. The Bamboo Palace has never protected my Nether Luo Clan. When my Nether Luo Clan was bullied by other clans, no one had ever interfered … Xiang Feizhu is the divine bamboo of the Bamboo Palace. Perhaps the Bamboo Palace just wants to protect this sea of bamboo." Qing Dai smiled and didn't take it seriously.
The Azure Sky Ship was restricted by the Sky Restriction Power, so it could not fly into the Thought Sifting Bamboo Sea.
Among the three of them, Ning Fan's cultivation base was at the Void Inquiry Stage while Qing Dai's cultivation base was at the Void Glimpse Stage.
Teng Xianrou revealed her cultivation base to be at the Void Inquiry Stage but her true cultivation base was at the First Heavenly Layer of the Void Fragmentation Realm. She was restricted by the restrictive force of this place and actually could not fly into the sea of Thought Sifting Bamboos …
"Lu Bei, I can't fly in …" She knitted her brows and secretly transmitted her voice to Ning Fan.
If she wanted to enter the sea of Sifting Bamboos, she would have to walk through the four million miles of bamboo forest, but she did not know how long it would take.
"Forget it, you can rest in the Cauldron World first and guide the female guards in their cultivation." Ning Fan did not give Teng Xianrou a chance to refuse. He directly activated his Cauldron Ring and kept her inside his Cauldron World.
Appearing in the Cauldron World out of nowhere, Teng Xian Rou revealed an extremely dissatisfied expression.
At the instant she appeared, Bing Ling, Yue Ling, and the other female guards immediately went up to greet her and called her Big Sister Qian Rou.
This Gold Core female cultivator came over and tugged at her clothes, praising the immortal material used to make her clothes.
The Harmonious Spirit female cultivator came over and touched her long hair, praising her for taking good care of it.
Of course, there were also a lot of low-level female cultivators who came to ask her extremely low-level cultivation questions.
Most of these questions were related to the bottlenecks of Harmonious Spirit and Gold Core cultivators. In Teng Xianrou's eyes, they were idiotic questions that were not worth answering, but she had to answer them.
Ning Fan had already told the female guards about how he had subdued Teng Xianrou. Of course, what Ning Fan did not tell the female guard was that Teng Xianrou was a Void Fragmentation old monster …
The female guards didn't know Teng Xianrou's cultivation, so they weren't afraid of her and were instead very enthusiastic. Ning Fan told them that if they had any questions regarding their cultivation, they could ask Teng Xianrou because she knew everything …
Teng Xian Rou had the urge to smash her head against tofu! She was a dignified Void Fragmentation Realm old monster. Why should she answer the retarded questions of a group of low level cultivators?!
Is the Jindan round or flat?
She had crossed the Jindan Realm many years ago! Gold Core turned into Nascent Soul, and Nascent Soul turned into Demon Soul. She had long forgotten what a Gold Core looked like!
Besides, anyone with common sense would know that the Golden Core was round … Who asked such an idiotic question?!
Harmonious Spirit was so difficult. What if you don't want to?
If you don't want to, why are you still cultivating?! Go home and do some embroidery! Why are you acting cute here?!
How can I please my master?!
Wait, why are you asking me these idiotic questions?!!! How would she know how to please Ning Fan? She was too lazy to please Ning Fan!!! Why should she please Ning Fan?!!!
Aggrieved, truly aggrieved!
If it was in the past, she would have already slapped the Harmonious Spirit juniors away when they asked these idiotic questions!
Unfortunately, she was now Ning Fan's slave. She had to suppress the displeasure in her heart and smile while answering the idiotic questions of the female guards.
She felt that her pride as a Void Fragmentation cultivator was being worn away bit by bit …
She felt that she had never felt so aggrieved in her twenty thousand years of cultivation …
She was shocked and thought, Could it be that Ning Fan deliberately sent these low level female cultivators to wear away my pride? He did it on purpose!
Teng Xianrou wished she could pinch Ning Fan into a ball and give him a good beating. However, when she recalled Ning Fan's harmless smile and thought that Ning Fan might have purposely sent the female guards to ask these idiotic questions to anger her, she gradually calmed down.
She gritted her teeth and swallowed all her dissatisfaction. Then, she squeezed out an ambiguous smile and answered the idiotic questions of the female guards.
Ning Fan wanted to anger her but she was not angry. She could not let Ning Fan's plan succeed!
"Five hundred years! As long as I endure these five hundred years, I will be free! "
...
Teng Xianrou really misunderstood Ning Fan.
The questions of these female guards were all original. They had nothing to do with Ning Fan.
Some of these female guards were abducted from Yue Country while some were obtained from the Endless Sea. After they followed Ning Fan, they no longer needed to fight with others. Their lives were very leisurely and ordinary. Their thoughts were very close to life, just like mortal women.
Mortal women, after all, were always concerned with all sorts of problems.
The reason why they asked these strange questions was because they had been living too leisurely in the past few decades.
Inside the Si Luo Bamboo Sea, Ning Fan and Qing Dai were flying side by side. Their spirit sense was spreading far and wide, trying to sense the local conditions and customs of the Si Luo Bamboo Sea.
Only the Underworld Sieve Clan lived in this four million kilometer area.
Other than the Nether Luo Clan, there were actually countless mortals living here …
These mortals coexisted harmoniously with the Underworld Net cultivators, and there was actually nothing wrong with it.
The Nether Sieve Clan had already declined, and the remaining clansmen had experienced glory and disgrace. They were used to the fickleness of human nature in the cultivation world, so they didn't look down on mortals like other cultivation clans.
Mortals also knew that there were Immortal Masters in this world. In their opinion, the Underworld Sifting Clan was the Immortal of the Sifting Bamboo Sea.
Beneath the dense sea of bamboo, one could occasionally see mortal villages.
Between the bamboo fences and thatched cottages where mortals passed by, low-level Mingluo Tree Demons could occasionally be seen chatting and brewing tea with mortal elders …
Such a harmonious scene between immortals and mortals was simply unbelievable in the cultivation world!
If the other cultivation clans saw the Nether Raja Clan lowering their status to associate with mortals, they would definitely laugh endlessly.
However, from Ning Fan's point of view, the actions of the Nether Luo Clan were in line with the Great Dao!
Immortals were people who stood on the mountain. If they were to descend from the Dao Mountain, they would be no different from mortals …
The reason why he protected the Nether Luo Clan was because of the Mingluo Tree Demon's request. At this moment, he felt some admiration towards the Nether Luo Clan from the bottom of his heart.
From time to time, there would be an old woodcutter who was cutting bamboos in the Sifting Bamboo Sea. When he raised his head and saw Ning Fan deliberately slowing down his travelling light, he would wave his hand to greet him.
This was originally very common in the mortal world. There was no need for a reason to show goodwill between people.
However, in the cultivation world, if someone showed goodwill to him for no reason, Ning Fan would certainly think twice to see what the other party was planning …
Ning Fan's expression changed. He yearned for this kind of life where he didn't have to scheme against others. However, he could no longer return to the past and become a mortal …
In order to descend from the Dao Mountain and turn from an immortal to a mortal, one would at least need to have a cultivation base that reached the peak.
At that time, no matter if you want to be a cultivator or a mortal, no one would dare to provoke you.
Once you embark on the path of cultivation, you could only keep moving forward before you reach the peak!
Even if the Nether Luo Clan lived in this place and got along well with the mortals on the surface, they were being bullied and humiliated by the other tree clans …
The cultivation world was after all not a paradise. No matter how peaceful it pretended to be, there was always a sea of blood behind it that could not be concealed …
The Sifting Bamboo Sea was only four million li * (500m per li) wide. Even if Ning Fan deliberately slowed down his travelling light, it did not take him too long to reach the central region of the sea of bamboos.
At the center of the sea of bamboos, there was a huge emerald green bamboo city.
On top of the city, there was a plaque with three words written on it: Sifting Bamboo City!
Outside the Sifting Bamboo City, there was a group of Gold Core Realm guards clad in tree armor.
As soon as they saw a cultivator flying towards them with an extremely loud travelling light, the group of Gold Core Realm guards immediately became nervous.
Currently, the Nether Luo Clan no longer had any friends. If a high level cultivator were to come, he would certainly be a troublemaker …
The few Gold Core Realm guards exchanged glances with each other and were about to take out their spirit arrows to sound the alarm.
At this moment, Qing Dai's comforting laughter that carried a hint of majesty entered the ears of the guards and even every corner of the entire Sifting Bamboo City.
"It's me. I'm Qing Dai. I'm back."
Normally, she would lower her head in front of Ning Fan. However, in front of these low-grade clansmen, she was quite dignified.
Qing Dai and Ning Fan withdrew their travelling light and landed outside the Sifting Bamboo City.
As soon as the guards saw that it was Qing Dai who came, each of them immediately revealed a respectful expression and bowed to her.
"We, the members of the Nether Luo Clan, greet the High Priest!"
Six rays of travelling light flew out from the Sifting Bamboo City and landed at the city gate like smoke. They turned into six Divine Transformation Realm old men who were clad in tree armor.
Among the six old men, only two of them were Mid Divine Transformation Realm cultivators while the rest were Early Divine Transformation Realm cultivators.
As soon as they saw Qing Dai, the six of them bowed to her.
"We, the priests of the Nether Luo Clan, welcome the High Priest back!"
"Grandpa Gu Luo, Grandpa Xu Luo, you two can dispense with the formalities. Qing Dai can't bear your kowtow."
At first, Qing Dai still had a dignified expression on her face. However, when she saw the two Mid Divine Transformation Realm old priests, her eyes immediately turned red as if she had seen her family members.
After her mother passed away, these two old men treated her like a junior and nurtured her step by step to become the High Priest of this generation.
She would never forget their kindness for the rest of her life.
As soon as Qing Dai said to dispense with the formalities, all the people of the Nether Luo Clan rose to their feet.
Priest Gu Luo and Priest Xu Luo looked at Qing Dai. Their murky eyes were filled with gratification and joy.
"It has been ten years since the High Priest left Sifting Bamboo City this time. I suppose it must be very tiring for you to travel for ten years. This time, you should stay at home for a few more days and go out to look for the remains of our ancestors later." Priest Gu Luo looked at Qing Dai's travel-worn face and could not help but feel a little distressed.
For all these years, he and Xu Luo had always treated Qing Dai as their granddaughter.
If it wasn't for the sake of looking for the remains of their ancestors, they would definitely not let Qing Dai go out to explore the world.
"Mm. This time, I can stay in Sifting Bamboo City for a few more days … I have found all the remains of the ten Void Refinement Realm ancestors. It was Big Brother Lu who helped me find them. "
"What?! All the remains of our ancestors have been found?! "Gu Luo's face turned pale with fright.
"Big Brother Lu?" Xu Luo was a cautious person.
He squinted his old eyes and carefully looked at Ning Fan who was standing beside Qing Dai with vigilance.
The other four Divine Transformation Realm priests also carefully looked at Ning Fan with a solemn expression.
These Divine Transformation Realm cultivators could not sense Ning Fan's qi at all!
Ning Fan's qi was deep and restrained. Obviously, his cultivation realm was far beyond their imagination!
Gu Luo also put away his surprised expression and looked at Ning Fan with a vigilant expression. At the same time, he secretly transmitted his voice to Xu Luo.
"This person is unfathomable. He is at least at the Void Glimpse Stage!"
"No. More than that … Even though he did not reveal his qi, his hidden aura force is much stronger than Qing Dai's … This person is probably a Void Inquiry Stage old monster." Xu Luo analyzed.
"What?! Void Inquiry Stage! If this person harbors evil intentions towards our Ming Luo Clan, we won't be able to resist him! "Gu Luo was shocked. This time, it was fear.
Ning Fan saw everyone's subtle expressions. He knew that his arrival had scared the members of the Ming Luo Clan.
"My name is Lu Bei. I was entrusted by an old friend to protect the Ming Luo Clan. This is the token."
Ning Fan patted his storage pouch and took out the Black Wood Token to show it to the six priests.
The moment they saw the Black Wood Token, the demon blood of the six Divine Transformation Realm priests boiled. Each of them wore a shocked expression.
"Tree … Tree Sovereign Token!"
They did not call it the Black Wood Token but the Tree Sovereign Token because it was the token of the past tree sovereigns of the Ming Luo Clan!
This item had disappeared along with the disappearance of the last Ming Luo Tree Sovereign. Why would it appear in Ning Fan's hands?!
"This item was given to me by the last tree sovereign of the Ming Luo Clan. He is not dead yet!"
Ning Fan's voice was very soft. He did not use telepathy but used a divine ability to make his voice so soft that only Qing Dai and the six priests could hear him. The other Gold Core Realm guards could not hear him!
His words were like a huge stone that was thrown into the middle of a lake, immediately causing a huge wave!
The six priests were shocked. Even Qing Dai covered her mouth with her hands in shock.
Ning Fan had never told her where he got the Black Wood Token from but now, he said it out loud!
The last Ming Luo Tree Sovereign who had gone missing was actually not dead!
This news was too shocking, too puzzling, and too unbelievable!
How many tens of thousands of years had passed since the last tree sovereign went missing? No one could remember.
What kind of person could live for such a long time? Could it be an immortal?
Why did the last tree sovereign not send any news to the clan after he went missing?
Even Qing Dai found it hard to believe Ning Fan's words.
However, after Ning Fan activated the Black Wood Token and forced out a trace of the tree sovereign's blood from it, everyone could feel the aura force coming from it. Thus, no one doubted Ning Fan's words anymore!
There was no mistaking this bloodline aura force. It definitely belonged to the tree sovereign of the Ming Luo Clan!
Moreover, the qi of this blood was very dense. It had been sealed in the Black Wood Token for no more than a year.
This was the strongest evidence that the last Ming Luo Tree Sovereign was still alive!
Since the last tree sovereign was still alive, his intention of giving the Black Wood Token to Ning Fan was self-evident …
Ning Fan was someone worthy of the trust of the Ming Luo Clan!
Ning Fan was the new tree sovereign who was conferred the title of the last tree sovereign!
The handing over of the Black Wood Token meant that the position of the tree sovereign would be passed on!
Gu Luo, Xu Luo and the other five priests wished they could immediately kneel down in front of Ning Fan and address him as the tree sovereign.
However, when they saw Ning Fan's eyes that rejected them, they immediately stopped their kneeling posture.
Ning Fan did not want others to know that he was the current tree sovereign who held the Black Wood Token.
If this matter is spread out, no one knew if there would be old monsters in the Tree World who would make things difficult for Ning Fan because of the Black Wood Token or his identity as the Ming Luo Tree Sovereign.
"Big Brother Lu, let's go into the city and talk about it in detail. This isn't a good place to talk." Qing Dai reminded him softly.
"Mm."
Ning Fan nodded his head and followed Qing Dai and the others into Si Luo City.
However, the moment he entered the city, he suddenly turned his head and revealed a strange expression.
"Was it an illusion …?" He shook his head and muttered to himself.
...
Millions of li * (500m per li) away, a gigantic Xiang Fei Bamboo suddenly let out a soft whimper.
The whimper was very soft. It was obvious that it had not stopped even though it was already late at night.
"Mu Luo is still alive. He is still alive … I knew that he wouldn't die so easily."
"He still owes me a pot of wine and a promise. He won't die so easily …"
Mu Luo was the name of the last Ming Luo Tree Sovereign …
This name had once spread across the Tree World. But now, only a lonely Xiang Fei Bamboo still remembered it.
It was because he still owed her a pot of wine and a promise.
The hollow bamboo had a soul dwelling. The root of the soul was in the heart of the bamboo. The root of the soul and the heart of the bamboo were inseparable …
"If there comes a day when I kill all my enemies, I'm willing to give up my position as the Tree Sovereign and bring you to live in seclusion in a desolate mountain that no one knows about … At that time, there will only be moonlight above our heads. Other than a pot of wine, there will only be you by my side. I will never abandon you in this life."
...
On a desolate mountain in Yue Country in the Rain World.
The clone of the Ming Luo Tree Demon was sitting in a lonely pavilion outside the grass hut on the mountain. He was looking at the boundless moonlight above his head. He took a pot of wine from the table and drank alone …
There was no sadness, no distress, no other expression on his face. There was no smile on his face.
His heart had already become barren. It had been ravaged by time and there were no longer any emotions left. There was only the figure of a woman that could not be erased.
He did not forget that promise. He was finally no longer the Ming Luo Tree Sovereign.
However, he could no longer return to the Tree World …
As for her, she must have already turned into dust and passed away.
In this life, he would never be able to fulfill that promise … In this life, he would never see her again …
"I'm sorry …" The Ming Luo Tree Demon closed his eyes and sighed under the moonlight. No one heard him. (To be continued.)
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