This is?

Suddenly, a feeling like a moisturizing spring rain, no, a more comfortable feeling swept over her body than bathing in the spring rain.

Laiyou felt that this inexplicable and magical power came from the villagers kneeling under the tree.

Tiny shoots sprout from the dry branches.

The buds are budded, and the leaves grow, and the edges of the leaves are divided into tiny strips.

The shoots stretch and grow, re-sprout shoots, green leaves grow, and branches sprout.

The villagers who smelled the flowers raised their heads and were stunned by the miracle in front of them.

"This, this"

"The Divine Tree Has Appeared"

"The Divine Tree has appeared!"

"Pray that the tree of the gods will rain down!"

One after another, the villagers prostrated their heads and prayed with great reverence.

The power condensed into Laiyou's body is getting stronger and stronger.

With a sigh of contentment, she desperately sucked the thin moisture from the air and soil and condensed it into a single root.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but the kneeling villagers feel a lot cooler.

The old village chief touched the ground with his hand, and his spirit was shocked.

Afraid that he would hallucinate, he took his son's hand beside him and pressed it to the ground.

"There's water!"

The young man screamed, and his hands were about to dig into the ground.

The village chief hurriedly grabbed his son, who had lost his mind, looked at the soil where water had seeped out, and asked everyone to go back and bring the guy who could use it.

The sky is not alive, but Laiyou Village, which has been dry for more than half a year, has dug a well under the tree.

Dozens of people just folded their hands around the well, and when there was no place, they were stacked on top of each other.

Dozens of pairs of eyes stared unblinkingly at the water slowly oozing from the bottom of the well, and their scabbed lips opened and closed for fear of startling the water away.

In this way, the villagers of Laiyou relied on this well to find a glimmer of life in the drought that had not been encountered in a century.

Three months later, a torrential rain declared the end of the disaster.

Since then, the ancient tree is no longer a legend handed down by the elders in Laiyou Village, but a sacred tree worshiped by the villagers.

Time goes on, but for Laiyou, everything is different.

Since the water was brought to save the people, her thoughts have become clearer and clearer, and she has more memories that she didn't have before.

Naturally, she knew that these memories were her inheritance, and she finally knew that the power condensed from the villagers was the power of human faith.

This power is very important to her, and she vaguely feels that if she can gain enough faith power, she will have a transformation that she can't imagine.

In the following decades, the population of Laiyou Village increased a lot, and worship under the Laiyou tree has become a tradition in the village for decades.

It seems that Laiyou is still the same Laiyou, but it is a little different.

She can now feel a lot of complex emotions, flowers, insects and butterflies on her body, birds and ants on the ground, flowers and trees around her, it turns out that they have the same joys, sorrows and sorrows as herself.

After trying it many times, Laiyou also found that although the grass, trees, insects and birds have rich emotions, they are not aware of this, as if they can't feel themselves.

Laiyou vaguely understands that feeling, a long, long time ago, I was the same as them, right?

Gradually, Laiyou became a little lonely, and she longed to go further afield, to feel the sense of freedom conveyed by the birds, and to be able to talk and express her thoughts and emotions, as everyone in Laiyou Village can do.

One day, a young man dressed in a Taoist robe with a face of no more than twenty came to Laiyou Village, and stood under the Laiyou tree for a long time, the light and surprise in his eyes frightened Laiyou.

After leaving from under the tree, the man went directly to the village chief's house, revealing that he was the village chief's child, who had gone missing decades ago.

The old village chief, who is the man's father, is no longer alive at this time, and the current village chief, who is the eldest son of the old village chief, naturally does not believe it.

His younger brother was eight years old when he disappeared, and now more than forty years later, how can he be like this when he is nearly fifty years old.

Unexpectedly, the young man took out the things of his youth, and told many things about his childhood among his brothers.

The village chief looked carefully, and really found the shadow of his younger brother in the young man.

After some conversation, I realized that the younger brother who had always thought that he had been eaten by a wild beast was actually taken away by an immortal, and now he has become an immortal.

As soon as the news spread, the entire Laiyou Village was a sensation.

They are isolated from the world, and the words of the immortals are unheard of, but when they think of the sacred tree that has grown for an unknown number of years, everyone feels that it is really so, there are really gods and gods.

The man tested all the villagers, but unfortunately none of them had spiritual roots.

In the end, he left behind a book of exercises that could be practiced by mortals.

Unbeknownst to the villagers, the man had been standing under the tree for a long time before leaving.

Strange to say, since that year, the tree has not bloomed.

At first, the people of the village regarded the immortal exercises as a treasure, but after a few months, they did not see anything unusual.

Until one day, a villager held the branch of a tree that his child had broken off mischievously, and when he silently recited the mantra of the exercises, he felt refreshed, which was obviously different from the past.

The villagers were very curious, and when they came to the Laiyou tree, they found that the practice under the tree was really more effective.

Since then, in the early morning, villagers will come to practice martial arts under the Laiyou tree every day.

At this time, Laiyou felt that her breathing was getting heavier and heavier.

Ever since the heart of the grass and trees was taken away by that person, she felt that she was not as good as she was by the day, as if the countless years of the past had finally realized her existence, and the time had brought her no longer the accumulation of strength, but the rapid decline of her body.

Does she hate?

How can you not hate.

She has lived for an unknown number of years, she has guarded generations of villagers, and Laiyou thinks she is powerful.

It wasn't until the man who called himself an immortal arrived that she realized how weak and powerless she was, and she couldn't even protect herself.

If the loss of the heart of the grass and trees made it impossible for Laiyou to grow, then what happened next brought her a catastrophe.

When the first villager secretly scrapes off her first piece of skin with a machete, Laiyou begins to fall into a nightmare from which she cannot wake up.

From a piece of skin, to a branch, from sneaky to bright, from cutting off branches to drilling holes in her trunk, from walking alone to in groups.

The daily peeling and scraping of bones made Lai You's pain unbearable, and she never became numb from disbelief.

The dawn of the morning no longer meant life and growth for her, but the beginning of another day of purgatory.

Gradually, not a single leaf was seen on the tree, and if it were not for the sap that could be absorbed from the heart of the tree, the villagers suspected that the ancient tree was dead.

Although it is a pity, the growing body makes them want to stop, and the elderly even feel that they are much younger.

Whew—

Whew—

The full moon was in the sky, breathing heavily, she didn't know how long she could survive, she couldn't live, but she couldn't choose to die.

She never expected that one day she would envy the little grass at her feet that had emotions but no ego.