Regardless of whether Ning Cheng’s claim of fighting the Western Buddha Lord was true or not, the Witch Ancestor Emperor did not dare to be rude to Ning Cheng, who had something to ask, so he hurriedly said, “Please speak, Daoist Sovereign Ning.”
“Back then, many powerful people besieged the Five Elemental Sage Emperors, and the Five Elemental Sage Emperors were unable to defeat them, and finally turned the Jian Mu into Jian Mu nails to retreat from the enemy. It is reasonable to say that those Jian Mu nails should not have disappeared, so why has no one ever mentioned it? Could it be that the Jian Mu was useless after being turned into nails?” Ning Cheng had forgotten to ask this question in his moment of excitement when he saw Yu Qing at that time.
Hong said with certainty, “Naturally not, how could a Chaos treasure like Jian Mu, which opened up the heavens and the earth, be useless?”
“Could it be that the Jian Mu nail can still come to life?” Ning Cheng did not even care about Hong’s suspicion and eagerly inquired. The Jian Mu nail in his hand had been tested countless times by him, and it just did not have any breath of life. He had come this time just to ask if the Jian Mu nail could come to life.
Hong nodded, “As far as my witch tribe’s heritage knows, the Jian Mu nail can indeed come to life, but it is no different from not coming to life.”
“How so?” Ning Cheng asked, still expectant.
Hong said once again, “Does Daojun Ning know where the Jian Mu comes from?”
“I know, last time Daoist also told me that the Jian Mu was the wood that opened up the chaos.” Ning Cheng replied.
“That’s right, but at the time when the Chaos was opened up and the universe was broken apart, the Jian Mu was subjected to tremendous pressure and fractured. The remnants of the fractured Jian Mu transformed into four types of trees, namely, the World Tree, the Chaos Tree, the Tree of Life and the Wheel of the Year. To this day, it is estimated that none of them are left.” Hong sighed.
Ning Cheng’s heart moved, he did not know about the other trees, but he did have a sapling of the Wheel of the Year tree. After experiencing tens of thousands of years in the Xuanhuang Pearl, the Year Wheel sapling had by now grown into a large tree several feet tall.
“But apart from this remnant, the Jianmu has a main trunk. This main trunk is the real Jianmu, and it was the main trunk of the Jianmu that the Five Elements Saint Lord obtained back then. The Five Elements Saint Lord turned the main trunk of the Jian Mu into a Jian Mu nail, and now that countless hours have passed, the only way to bring the Jian Mu back to life is to find the four trees that were once broken from that Jian Mu.”
Hearing Hong’s explanation, Ning Cheng even more politely clasped his fist and asked, “I would like to hear more about it.”
Compared to these races with ancient heritage, Ning Cheng’s insight and strength were not at all proportional. Even if he could look for all sorts of ancient briefs to study, there were many things that he did not know.
Hong said, “That is grafting, as long as one has the Jian Mu nails and finds the original four broken trees, one can make the Jian Mu come to life and stand between the universes again through grafting. Daojun Ning, do you know why the many remaining powerful people joined forces against the Five Elemental Sovereigns back then?”
“Wasn’t it for the sake of the Jian Mu?” The many strong men had dealt with the Five Element Saint Lord just for the sake of the Jian Mu ah, this Ning Cheng had known for a long time, but now that Hong had asked this, he was a little puzzled instead.
Hong shook his head, “Naturally it was for the sake of the Jian Mu, but that wasn’t the root cause, in fact they wanted to destroy it. And because of this, after the Five Elemental Saint Lords turned the Jian Mu into Jian Mu nails, many powerful people chose to withdraw of their own accord.”
“Why?” In fact, Ning Cheng had always had doubts in his heart, even if the Five Elements Saint Lord’s Jian Mu nails had forced the rest of the many strong people away. But he was also heavily injured, so why didn’t the Violet Sky Daoist, who had never made a move, take the opportunity to do so? Besides, it was too much to say that the fight for the Jianmu was not to take it for oneself, but to destroy it, right?
“Because it is clear to all that once the Jian Mu is transformed into a fusion of trees and realms in one’s own realm, then no one will be able to defeat it. After the Five Elements Saint Lord obtained the Jian Mu, he was besieged by many powerful people before he could turn it into trees in his own realm.” Hong explained.
“Fellow Daoist Hong, do you mean that those strong people were afraid that the Five Elements Saint Lord would transform the Jian Mu into a tree in his realm, and that was why they were anxious to destroy it?”
“That’s exactly what happened, so when the Jian Mu was destroyed, many strong people chose to leave. Because of the characteristics of the Jian Mu, it was destined not to be obtained by anyone.”
Hearing Hong’s words, Ning Cheng became even more interested in the Grafted Jian Mu. The Western Buddha Lord Qu Bodh Holy Buddha was already powerful, and now that he had enlightened the Flowerless Avenue he was surely even more powerful. If he could graft the Jian Mu, his strength would rise wildly, and if he met the Western Buddha Lord again, let’s see how arrogant he would be.
“Fellow Daoist Hong, if I have the Jian Mu and the remaining four kinds of forked branches that branched out from the Jian Mu back then, how can I graft them?” Ning Cheng now had both, and did not care to ask the question cryptically. In the Five Elements Universe, his strength was already at the peak level, and he was not afraid that Hong would know about it.
Hong seemed to understand Ning Cheng’s mind and said with a sigh, “Even if someone has one of these four types of Jian Mu forked branches and also has Jian Mu nails, it would still be impossible to graft them.”
Ning Cheng looked at Hong in confusion, just now it was you who said that it was possible to graft, now it was also you who said that it was impossible to graft.
Hong explained, “Even though each of the four trees, the World Tree, the Chaos Tree, the Tree of Life and the Wheel of the Year, are all heaven-opening treasure trees, and can even support a realm world. In fact, these four trees are merely forked branches that split from the Building Wood, and are far inferior to the Building Wood. So to graft, one must first have nirvana.”
Hong also did not wait for Ning Cheng to ask further questions and said carefully, “In fact, there is still a legend in the outside world that says that back then, the forked branches of the Jian Mu were split into five kinds of trees after it was suppressed by Chaos, and there is another kind called the Nirvana Tree apart from the World Tree, Chaos Tree, Life Tree and the Wheel of the Year. In fact it is not at all clear what constitutes a Nirvana tree.
The so-called Nirvana tree is the tree of the World Tree, the Chaos Tree, the Tree of Life and the Wheel of the Year after nirvana, and only after nirvana can these four trees be grafted to the Jianmu nail. I don’t have to tell you how difficult it is for this kind of tree to reach nirvana, and I don’t have to tell you that Ning Daojun also knows that. The World Tree, for example, was destroyed and turned into countless fragments scattered across the endless universe, can you bring it to nirvana and reborn? There is also the Tree of Life and the Wheel of Life, I heard that they have to use up all their vitality to create new shoots before they can be considered nirvana, how difficult is that? How can you diffuse new shoots when you’ve exhausted all your vitality?”
Ning Cheng suddenly thought of his Year Wheel tree buds in his heart, could that be nirvana?
Seeing that Ning Cheng seemed to be thinking, Hong took the initiative to say in order to befriend Ning Cheng, “Even if one has the four trees, the World Tree, the Chaos Tree, the Life Tree and the Year Wheel, after nirvana, and has the wood building nails, it would not be possible to successfully build wood in a false realm.”
“And why is that?” Ning Cheng was even thinking about how to graft the building wood, and now this old man Hong was saying that it wouldn’t work, so how could he not be anxious?
Hong smiled faintly, “Back then, my Witch Clan was also one of the races at the beginning of Chaos, and there was the foundation of my clan on top of the three great treasures of my Witch Clan. There was a mountain in my tribe called Mount Witch. In the Witch Mountain, there are clouds and fine rain all year round, and if you want to make the grafted Jian Mu alive, you must have some rootless water from the Witch Mountain.”
“Wushan clouds and rain?” Ning Cheng blurted out, wasn’t the rootless water in the Witch Mountain, the Witch Mountain Cloud and Rain?
Originally, I thought that this was just an idiom, but I never thought that the Witch Mountain was still the root of the Witch Clan’s foundation.
“Good name, if it wasn’t for the fact that this is a treasure inherited from my Witch Clan, it would be even more aptly called this.” Hong first praised Ning Cheng for the name he said before continuing, “If Daojun Ning wants it, my Witch Clan can instead send some Witch Mountain Rootless Water to Daojun Ning. Daojun Ning can just go to my Wushuang to pick it up himself.”
Hong’s tone was extremely serious, as if to express how precious the item he was giving to Ning Cheng was.
Understanding Hong’s meaning, Ning Cheng cupped his fist to Hong and said, “Fellow Daoist Hong, whether or not I can find the Jian Mu Nail or find the Nirvana Tree, the Wu Clan is my friend. Whether it’s that Green Lotus Saint Lord Xing Xi or the Western Universe’s Qu Bodh Holy Buddha coming to the Witch Clan, I’ve helped to carry on.”
What was Hong’s reason for such an attitude? Wasn’t it because the Witch Clan had a low base and wanted him to help out a bit.
“Thank you, Daoist Ning, in fact, half a year ago, there was already a person who came to my Witch Clan to beg for this kind of rain.” When Hong saw that Ning Cheng understood what he meant, he was even more delighted and happy. By saying this, he was also showing that his Witch Clan was not hiding anything halfway from Ning Cheng.
“Oh, who was that?” Ning Cheng asked, he possessed the new shoots of the Yearly Wheel and had the Jian Mu nails, which was why he desperately needed this Witch Mountain Rootless Water. Could there be someone else who possessed them like him?
“I don’t know how strong that fellow Daoist is, but the prohibitions and blocks of my witch clan are like flat avenues to him. In fact, even if my witch clan did not agree, he would have easily taken away the rootless water of Mount Wu. Luckily, this friend was very reasonable, and after taking my Wushan Rootless Water, he left an extremely generous reward and promised to take a shot for my Witch Clan. By the way, his name is Ye Mo.” Hong’s mouth was saying words of praise, but only he knew if there was depression in his heart.
Ning Cheng understood, no wonder he was so powerful. He and Ye Mo had sort of joined forces a few times and was extremely clear about Ye Mo’s strength, which was definitely not below him.
“Oh, could it be that Daoist Ning also knows that fellow Daoist Ye?” Seeing that Ning Cheng was not surprised, Zu Di Hong asked with some doubt.
Ning Cheng nodded his head, “That’s right, I know him. This person is open and honest and will not take advantage of your Witch Clan. Since he said that he would help your Witch Clan once, then he will definitely help once. As for us taking away the Witch Mountain Rootless Water, I would also ask Daoist Friend Hong to conceal it for us.”
Hong said with a straight face, “Don’t worry, Daoist Ning, I will definitely not tell anyone else.”
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Three days later, Ning Cheng and Yu Qing left the Witch Realm under the personal compliments of the Witch Ancestor Emperor Hong. In his realm, there was an additional bottle of Witch Clan Rootless Water.
This Rootless Water had been picked up by both him and Yu Qing personally from the Witch Mountain, which was located in the deepest part of the Witch Realm and was guarded by countless strong people of the Witch Clan. Clouds and mists filled the area all year round, and fine rain was misty. Even with Ning Cheng’s strength, he could feel the benefits of that misty rain in the Witch Mountain for cultivation.
“If only that Witch Mountain was from the Extreme Bliss Heaven, if it was from the Extreme Bliss Heaven, they would suppress Brother Cang Wei and we would snatch away their stuff.” Having left the Witch Realm a long way away, Yu Qing was still pining for the Witch Mountain.
Ning Cheng smiled, “If the Witch Mountain is the very foundation of the Extreme Bliss Heaven’s clan, I’m afraid that there is nothing we can do even when we get close. Do you think that the strength of the Extreme Bliss Heaven is the same as the Witch Clan? That’s a far cry from heaven.”
“I’m just worried that when that Qu Bodh comes out of seclusion, we’re no match for him.” As soon as he spoke of the strength of the Western Buddha Lord, Yu Qing’s heart was filled with worry.
Ning Cheng said with a straight face, “You’re right, one must have near worries if one doesn’t have far worries. I am going to enter my realm to graft the Jian Mu, if there is something particularly urgent, you wake me up.”