This is a world where immortals and immortals stand side by side, and immortals are all human.

There are no demons in the world, and all the previous things are just mortals with shallow knowledge, and the fear of inhuman things is realized, and they are called monsters.

This kind of mortal opinion, for the immortals, is just a vulgar view that makes people sneer, for them, there are no demons in the world, this is common sense.

Until the appearance of Shi Lan, this common sense was broken.

Shi Lan is the only demon in the world, a demon turned into a mediocre banyan tree.

Why did it appear? This is going to start with the accidental act of a pair of immortal cultivators.

Shilan is a big banyan tree that grows in a section of the mountain forest through which the Yangtze River flows through the middle of the Shuchuan River.

The place where it grows, the mountains and forests are dense, the flowing water is not alarmed, but it is sparsely populated, occasionally there are boats passing by, and the human language startles the birds and beasts of the mountains and forests, and there is a lively.

This is incompatible with the chaotic expedition at the end of the Han Dynasty, if it is not for the many beasts in the mountains and forests, it is also a secluded resort.

One day, a young man and a woman went up the coast, carrying their bags, but they did not see the wind and dust, and the flowers and plants fell sideways in their passing, as if they intended to let them, not wanting a trace of morning dew to stain their clothes.

"Wow, big brother, what a big banyan tree." The woman who walked behind stopped humming the tune, and jumped to the man's side with some joy, and looked through the hidden leaves to see the banyan tree.

The banyan tree is very large, has a towering posture, it is said that it is a hundred years old tree is a little despised by it, look up, the branches are luxuriant, cover a piece of the sky, if it grows in the place where the road is slightly more unobstructed, maybe there will be rich people to buy this place to build a mansion, or cut it to make heirloom furniture.

"Then settle down here, Shuchuan Road is difficult, mountain roads and waterways are all, and the next journey will be a little bumpy."

"yes, okay." The woman untied her pouch and sword, placed it on the grass next to the root of the tree, stepped forward and reached out and patted the big banyan tree, "I don't know that after living for many years, it has grown into such a size." ”

The man picked up her bag, "There are many snakes and insects in the mountains and forests, let's go to the canopy." ”

As he spoke, he kicked up, climbed the stairs between the staggered branches, and near the canopy, the branches and leaves swayed, just like the flowers and plants before, with spirituality, bowing and making way.

The woman also went up, her toes tapped, and when the branches and leaves were closed, she found a stronger branch to stand firm, but the tree was high and windy, and it was still a little shaky when it was blowing, so what could she talk about?

"Just right, you can try the Muyuan Immortal Technique learned in Jingshan."

"Senior brother, are you going to try that combination technique?"

The man smiled and did not answer, but stretched out two fingers and whispered "water, wood" twice, and his fingers continued to point on a cluster of branches in the crown of the tree in a mysterious way.

Suddenly, the branches swelled and extended, like a coiling dragon out of the abyss, with the man's fingertips circling, tightly formed a platform, and then the man changed his gestures, and said "gold, wood", this time it was not as big as now, just a golden light swept across the platform, and disappeared without a trace.

The woman tapped the place where she landed with her scabbard, and nodded with satisfaction.

Then, in the wind, the edge of the huge wooden disc began to crumble and float up, and if you looked closely, you could see that silver light pierced into the wood, it was a sword, a lot of swords.

The sword landed in the center of the huge wooden plate with the sharpened plank, piled up into pieces, and the man approached, and with a wave of his hand, many metal tools such as axes, saws, and hammers appeared.

The planks were grabbed by countless metal arms that appeared out of thin air, cut into specific shapes or slots by axes and saws as they moved, and came to the man like building blocks, and were stacked layer upon layer under the hammer hammer, with not a single nail missing.

In a few moments, the planks ran out, and a simple log cabin was built, and even two rocking chairs were set up in front of the door of the hut.

The woman was very surprised by the shape of the chair, and after sitting on it, she was even happy and swayed without figuratively, but fortunately, there was only the senior brother next to her, and she didn't care.

After a while, the woman got up again, and pushed open the door of the cabin in a hurry, and the room was very simple, with only a small hall in the middle and two rooms on the left and right, each with a bed in the room.

Suddenly, many leaves floated outside the window, and they all fell on the bed, and the man walked to the woman's side, said "water, wood", and leaned over and tapped between the leaves with two fingers.

The veins of the leaves are connected, and there are no gaps, and then the leaf color fades and the leaf pile swells.

The man withdrew his hand, and then patted it gently, and the pile of leaves rose and fell like flowing water, and after a moment it was calm again, and a light green blanket was spread on the bed.

The sun set, and the two stayed here, the night, the sea of stars, the mountain wind, everything was so leisurely.

The two got up in the morning to practice swords, hunted in the mountains and forests, walked barefoot in the river, and sat on a rocking chair at night to watch the sunset and the sea of stars.

During this period, the man used the banyan tree as an experiment, taught the woman this "combination technique", and tossed the banyan tree, but fortunately, the banyan tree was tall enough, even if the ground was full of stumps and broken leaves, but there was not much change.

It is precisely because of this tossing that the big banyan tree gradually produced a subtle stream of consciousness, which existed in the branches and veins of the big banyan tree, and gradually converged into a main consciousness, which became "Shi Lan", but now it has just been born, in an ignorant infant period, and only has a vague impression of the outside world.

In his spare time, the man would talk about some things, cultivation things, hometown things, and more hometown things, saying that the clouds and streams were clear, saying that the medicine mountain and maple sea, and the woman listened quietly on the side, sometimes happy, sometimes blushing.

It's just that they don't know that the big banyan tree has consciousness, and they also listen together, like a well-behaved child, quietly squatting beside the woman, listening to the man's heroic deeds.

Time passed, and finally the two were still on their way, and the man waved again to build a simple boat with the help of the fallen leaves on the ground, and disappeared between the cliffs against the current.

The sun and the moon rotated, the stars shifted, the banyan trees and the cabins were all there, but the trees grew taller again, and they grew taller year after year, as if there was no end.

Finally, one day, the tree was higher than the cliff, and you could look out over the mountain forest, and at this moment, a sentence suddenly swayed in the sound of the water.

"Big brother, little flower basket ......" was the first sentence that the tree uttered since it became conscious.

As if in response, there was the sound of footsteps treading on the riverside, just like the man and woman who walked on the river many years ago.

The sound disappeared after a few moments, and upon closer inspection, it turned out to be just a cliff side stone falling into the water.

It was many years again, one day, the heavy rain was pouring, the river was rising, the waves were turbulent, and a ship unfortunately hit the cliff wall, and was swallowed by the flood in an instant.

When everyone was desperate, the branches on the river that they didn't know where they came from just stopped everyone, and everyone was surprised, grabbed the roots and climbed under the tree to avoid the flood.

escaped from death, everyone thanked the heavens for having a spirit, only a scholar thanked the tree, this move attracted Shi Lan, and it also paid special attention to this scholar.

In the evening, everyone found some dry branches to build a bonfire, so as not to be frozen at night, people will talk about the world when they are idle, and they will talk about the big banyan tree, and some people will say that the big banyan tree should be a hundred years, and the wood is very good, and if you make furniture, it will be a million profits.

Everyone talked and laughed, but their thoughts were different.

The sky is still hazy, the rain is drifting, the river is wide, the waves are crashing on the shore, under the big trees on the edge of the cliff, the scholar who has been on the tree is independent, sighs softly, looks up at the dense forest in the east, and among the endless trees, the scholar seems to see the distance called the future.

The scholar took his hand and thought lightly, "The morning sun enters Yuanjing, and the ship capsizes and the road is farther." When you reach the north of the heights, you will end the bitter winter clothes in spring and autumn. ”

At the end of the poem, the scholar laughed at himself, and said something to himself about his longing for the world in the east, saying that there are flowers and rivers flowing into the sea, and it is the place where people in the world yearn for it.

Shi Lan listened, and also had a longing, and remembered that the senior brother said that there was a hometown where a cloud stream flowed in the southeast, so he yearned for it more and more, but he was rooted here, and he couldn't move an inch, so he had to bury this longing in his heart.

After a night, the rain and wind stopped, and the group was fortunate enough to wait for the passing boats to come, and continued eastward without a trace.

Not long after, another boat came, and a group of people got off the boat with axes and saws, and the person who came down first, Shi Lan had the impression that he was one of the people who fell into the water not long ago and was rescued by it.

"Well, this tree is good, isn't it?" The man in charge said.

"Good fellow, I haven't seen a tree this big, and it will definitely sell for a sky-high price."

"Then what are you waiting for, let's get to work."

The sound of the knife and axe smashing made Shi Lan extremely irritable, and finally after the knife fell, Shi Lan couldn't help it, and the falling roots broke out of the ground and pushed the man away, but Shi Lan didn't know the size of the force he used, and the man never stood up after being bounced away.

This scene frightened everyone and didn't understand what was going on in front of them.

"Lord Mountain God, forgive me, the villain is offended, and I hope that the adult will not remember the villain, let me wait!"

I don't know who knelt down and bowed first, and then everyone knelt down one after another.

Shi Lan couldn't understand human language, but it could feel that fear, which it didn't like very much, so it didn't swing the branches anymore and let them go.

After another three days, seven ships sailed upstream, and their flags fluttered, and they were very mighty.

The boat stopped far away, the drums echoed through the mountains and forests, and a group of soldiers disembarked from the boats and lined up neatly, and then, the rain of fire poured down towards the big banyan tree, and in an instant the fire soared into the sky, and a large forest burned.

An inexplicable burning sensation converged into Shi Lan's consciousness, it panicked and swung the branches to extinguish the flames, but to no avail, inadvertently a branch crossed the river, Shi Lan suddenly realized, stretched many branches into the water, shook and sprinkled the water on himself.

Before the fire could recede, another wave of fire rain hit, and Shi Lan had no choice but to pull out the roots rooted in the ground and sweep towards the place where the arrow rain came from.

Wherever the roots passed, the earth and stones were splashed, and the phalanx of soldiers was suddenly in chaos, running in all directions, and the scene was extremely tragic.

"Evil animals."

Suddenly, a thunderclap sounded between heaven and earth, and someone stood in the sky.

Shi Lan was frightened by the sound, and looked at the sky for some reason, but saw that the man raised his hand, and in an instant the sky and the earth were gloomy, and the clouds in all directions began to converge, and lightning and thunder roared.

As the man's hand fell, the clouds began to fall, turning into pillars that reached the sky, and the wind and air waves arrived first, bending the branches, and then the white clouds smashed into Shi Lan, submerging the entire forest in an instant, and the clouds scattered, forming a white mist Ze country.

When the clouds completely dispersed, it could be seen that a 100-meter pit had been smashed out of the ground, and the river water was poured back, and the big banyan tree that had once taken root here had turned into sawdust and embedded in the surrounding soil, without a trace of its existence.

"Dao Chief, are you going too far?" A woman dressed in a fox robe stands quietly on the river.