Chapter 13: The Way
It is a rich forest, with giant trees covering the sky and the sun and vines and grasses, and inhabited by countless and diverse original creatures.
Beneath the giant trees, dense foliage obscured the sky, and only a few rays of sunlight stuck like pillars of light on the forest ground. Groups of primordial creatures that emitted light chased and danced around this pillar of light, suddenly scattering, suddenly converging, very beautiful.
On the ground, there are most crystal-like plants, which cling to the roots of the tree, clinging to the bottom of the tree like vines, and emitting a faint fluorescence in the crystal-like transparent body.
These fluorescents are weak, but they are the main source of light in this densely forested place. Countless of them are connected in this forest, bringing plenty of light to the original creatures living inside.
If you follow the forest all the way to the center, you will soon find a huge shadow walking forward, and if you can reach it, you can see a huge tree in the center of the forest.
How big is it? Standing in front of this tree. You can't see the curvature of the tree and think it's a wall, and then you look up and the trunk goes straight into the sky, but you can't even see the canopy.
Countless crystal-like vines were only a dozen meters thick, and they were also wrapped around the giant tree and winded upward, and then countless roots hung down in the middle, growing downward like umbrellas, and then inserted into the ground.
Zhou Ming already liked this forest when he saw it with his own eyes for the first time. This kind of place where the atmosphere of plants and trees is vigorous faintly evokes Zhou Ming's memory and reminds him of those days when he lived among the lotus leaves.
Above the giant tree, within the canopy, between the two branches, there was a very conspicuous anomaly. It was a giant web of crystal vines woven together to form a vast web, and then covered with the stems and leaves of a kind of thing, and the stems and leaves were covered with a kind of black soil.
Above the soil, there was a green grass and a hundred flowers blooming, as if it was a meadow that had been moved to the top of a tree, and at this time, there was a behemoth lying on the grass.
Zhou Ming opened his eyes, looked at the Sun Star, opened his mouth and inhaled, countless Sun Essences gathered one after another, and soon condensed into a sphere with a diameter of five or six meters on the side of his mouth. However, compared to Zhou Ming's current size, it is still just a candy.
"Ahh With a bite, Zhou Ming took this Sun Essence Sphere in his mouth. Zhou Ming's current body size is almost thousands of zhang, but because the hammock under him is too comfortable, and he is too lazy to make a bigger one, Zhou Ming has always maintained a hundred-zhang body shape.
Of course, when he was first sent here by the Yuan Shi Immortal King, Zhou Ming still found a meadow to rest on the shore of Taiyin Lake. Taiyin Lake is the lake that Zhou Ming gave to this forest.
The lake to the east of the giant tree is the source of water for the main forest, and it is also the place where countless desolate creatures that have escaped from the original creatures gather the most. Taiyin Lake is very big, very big, but Zhou Ming didn't determine how big it was.
Unlike the small island where I was at the beginning, everything felt very big on the flood. Why do you think Zhou Ming should stay at the size of a hundred zhang? Because living in this canopy, this size is the most suitable for the environment.
As for why Zhou Ming, a little fox-like creature, didn't live below, but had to run to the trees to build a nest. That's of course because, below, you can't appreciate the beauty of Taiyin Lake.
It's very amazing, it's been a long time since I came to this forest, not to mention the time I've been asleep, and my waking time has added up to 1,276 flood days. As for why I remember it so clearly, the branch on the right near the hammock has been covered with a piece of "positive" by itself.
In these days, Zhou Ming gradually found that he seemed to be in love. He fell in love with the Taiyin Star in the sky, and seemed to be favored by the Taiyin Star.
Not only can you easily trigger a piece of moonlight, but you can also feel the majestic power of the Taiyin Star in the sky. It's as if you can mobilize that power if you want to. But unfortunately, it was an illusion, Zhou Ming tried, but he couldn't do it.
Removing the furry tail that covered his body, Zhou Ming shrank his body, got up from the hammock, and then paced to the edge of the hammock.
The footsteps did not stop, Zhou Ming jumped lightly, but jumped down directly, without using any force, and let his body fall freely.
Zhou Ming has been in this forest for a long time, so long that I don't know when it started, Zhou Ming began to think about a question, what is the Tao?
There seems to be a sentence in my memory in my previous life that describes the Tao, which roughly means that it is the root of the world, the mother of heaven and earth, and from where all things are born, but I don't know what it is, so I call it Tao.
What is the Tao? Zhou Ming chewed on this question, and then in a long period of thought, he found an answer. Just like now, he, who didn't use any force, would fall straight from the sky, is this the way?
Then a purple flame slowly ignited on his body, and the speed of Zhou Ming's fall immediately slowed down, and finally stopped on the surface of Taiyin Lake, the calm lake surface seemed to be hit hard, and a huge wave rippled, is this the way?
The purple flame on his feet slowly disappeared, and Zhou Ming stepped on the surface of the lake, just the moment he touched it, the lake water immediately condensed, and from under his feet, an ice flower spread, is this the way?
The Origin Immortal King once said to Zhou Ming that they had no meridians and bones, so the kind of cultivation method in the memory of his previous life in his mind was useless at all. said that he only needs to eat, sleep, and sleep, and wait until he is tall and an adult, and when the time comes, he will also master supernatural powers and have good combat power.
This is true, Zhou Ming walked on the surface of the lake step by step. This is the magical power that I got when I woke up this time, and I can't get familiar with it yet, so that there is a little leakage of breath.
However, supernatural powers are not the point, the immortal king said such a sentence, which very clearly affirmed the existence of the Dao: "When I watched the future, I saw the birth of the immortal Dao. You should also know how many fellow believers the Immortal Dao will add to us seekers. ”
So, how do we seek this Tao? How can we get in touch with it? Zhou Ming, who was not short of time at all, patiently thought about it and began to think about it. Then in the process of thinking (in a daze), he inadvertently rolled down the hammock, accompanied by a sense of weightlessness and a sharp decline in his body, Zhou Ming suddenly had a flash of inspiration, is this the Tao?
So, in the days that followed, the questions in Zhou Ming's heart came out one by one. Why do the sun alternate with each other, why can you stand in the air with the Purple Flame, why do those original creatures need to eat and drink to survive?.......
Like a curious baby, Zhou Ming's gaze at the world suddenly changed, as if no matter what he saw, a why was automatically added in front of him. For a moment, Zhou Ming suddenly felt that he had always felt that he had become familiar with this desolate forest, and he began to become unfamiliar.
In his mind, the memories that had been precipitated in the depths were wriggling, but they were deliberately ignored by Zhou Ming. Once again, he used the Divine Pattern to reproduce some of the chemicals in his previous life's memories, but there was still no chemical reaction when put together. Therefore, the cognition that was once regarded as the truth is not sure to be correct in the flood wilderness.