Chapter 1 Cultivation, Birth, Awakening
One day in the summer of 2009, the manager of a small bookstore in Yunlong put down the novel in his hand, walked to the door, looked outside, and sighed:
"This damn weather, it was clear and clear just now, and now there's lightning and thunder. I really don't know what God is thinking. Business was not good to begin with, and now no one will come to rent books. I can't survive this day." , Alas, it would be great if I were a god, immortal, carefree, and much happier than mortals...!!"
Before he finished speaking, a bolt of lightning as thick as a bucket flashed across the sky, hitting him without any bias, and Yunlong didn't even have time to shout for help. His vision went dark and he didn't know anything.
The sky is clear, the clouds are thin, and the breeze is blowing. On a path on the coast of the East China Sea, a black shadow is moving slowly. When they got closer, the full picture of the black shadow emerged: as thick as a sea bowl, two feet long, and its whole body was wrapped in fine black scales. It reflected light like fine iron under the sunlight, and it was triangular and slightly slender. On the oval head, a pair of deep-set snake eyes revealed a cold and ruthless gaze. The snake moved extremely slowly, as if it was rubbing on the ground, and slowly moved towards the woods beside the road. Half an hour later, it had disappeared into the woods, leaving only a scratch about half an inch deep on the ground.
Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it is already the first day of July at the Qiantang River Estuary. That night, the air is humid, the temperature is sultry, the sea water is churning, and soon it starts to rain. As time went by, the rain became heavier and heavier, and the clouds in the sky accumulated to the extreme. As a bolt of lightning flashed across the night sky, the wind blew, the rain poured down, and there was a burst of lightning and thunder in the sky - the storm finally began.
At this time, the tide began to rise continuously, and the waves came to the shore one after another. Although they were broken into pieces when they hit the shore, they became more and more courageous and came one after another. It can be said that "rocks penetrated the sky, stormy waves crashed on the shore, and thousands of piles of snow were rolled up." Suddenly, a bolt of lightning flashed across his face, illuminating a black shadow swept by the waves:
The black snake body and the triangular and slightly oval snake head are not the same strange snake that appeared on the coast of the East China Sea a few months ago. But why does it appear here? I saw it shaking its head and tail, twisting its snake body, and then rushed to the shore with the push of the wave. The speed was as fast as lightning, which was different from what it was a few months ago.
"Bang!" With a sound, the waves had hit the shore. Reflecting the electric light, the black snake's whole body appeared, and it turned out to be very different from a few months ago. The iron-like scales on the whole body have dimmed, and the dark skin is packed with wrinkles and scratches. You can imagine what kind of temper it has gone through; the snake's mouth has cracked, the snake's skin has rolled outwards, and the body under the skin has also given birth. New skin. It turns out that this strange snake is about to shed its skin.
The black snake hissed in a low voice, and then quickly climbed up a big tree. The tree was about five feet in diameter, towering into the clouds, with lush branches and leaves. It was much taller than the surrounding trees, admiring itself in isolation. Appears to be outstanding.
The black snake flexibly circled and climbed among the branches, and after an hour it climbed to the top of the tree. Surprisingly, the top of the tree does not have the dense branches and leaves as expected. Instead, there is a platform composed of entangled branches. There is a small tree in the center of the platform:
The tree is five feet high and about five inches thick. It has nine branches. At the end of each branch is a small fruit. The fruit is as big as a chicken egg. The whole body is crystal green, and the core shines with a faint blue light, like calm. The deep sea.
This fruit is called the Blue Sea Holy Spirit Fruit. Its effect is very miraculous. It can open up the spiritual intelligence of living beings and strengthen their ability to sense the two forces of wood and water in the five elements. At the beginning, it bloomed once every ten years and bloomed once every ten years. As a result, if no one collects it after the results, it will fall off on its own after an hour and dissolve into the ground. Every time one drops to the ground, the time for the second result will be three times longer and the effect will be three times stronger. This spiritual tree has already produced nine fruits, which is truly an anomaly in the world.
But at this time, the black snake didn't care how precious and rare the fruit was. In its simple mind, it only had the instinctive command "Peel the skin!". It coiled its body around the spiritual tree and rubbed it slowly but firmly. , although the spirit tree is small, its texture is incredibly hard, and it can actually cut through the hard skin of the black snake. The clouds mixed with lightning in the sky flashed more and more weirdly, and gradually moved towards the tallest tree. Finally, nine bolts of lightning struck down at the same time, intertwining and merging in the sky to form a thicker electric dragon, which swiftly pounced on the spiritual tree at the top of the tree and the black snake wrapped around the trunk!
The black snake's shedding has reached the most critical moment. Nourished by the spiritual energy of the spiritual tree, he has a vague feeling that he is becoming stronger! Just when the black snake's head was about to peel off its skin and shed its skin, the electric dragon from the sky pounced on it like lightning - "Boom!" With a sound, the spiritual tree and the black snake were pounced by the electric dragon.
The power of this bombardment was so great that even the space was torn apart, and from the crack in the broken space, a group of souls shining with purple light floated out, and fell on the animal closest to it - the black snake! The lightning strike and the possession of the unknown soul caused the black snake to taste great pain.
It felt paralyzed all over, and then, a tearing pain came straight into its mind, and it couldn't help but let out bursts of screams. Its whole body was so black that it could no longer recognize its true appearance.
The spiritual tree is even worse. Because wood is an insulator, most of the electric shocks are borne by the spiritual tree. Only a small amount of electricity is transmitted to the black snake due to excessive bombardment. It turns out that the spiritual tree has become a spirit over the years. Today But it's about to pass the tribulation. Because the power of lightning was too great, Lingshu had no choice but to adopt the most helpless method - the inheritance technique!
I saw the spiritual branches shaking for a while, and waves of blue-green light rushing towards the nine blue sea holy fruits and the black snake that was still entangled in the spiritual tree. In the blink of an eye, the originally graceful and green spirit tree had become dry and scorched, as if it had lost all its vitality in an instant. A gust of wind blew by, and the tree trunk turned into bursts of flying ash, dissipating between the sky and the earth, leaving only the nine pieces. There is a blue-green Holy Spirit Fruit and a piece of tree seed the size of a thumb.
The Bihai Holy Spirit Fruit has also changed. It has shrunk in size. Its appearance has changed from emerald green to bright green, making it look round and round. It flashes fluorescence against the night sky, like nine green stars. Nine Blue Sea Holy Spirit Fruits fell to the ground, just surrounding the charred black snake in the center.
I don't know when the storm has stopped, the dark clouds have dispersed, and a bright moon hangs in the night sky. At this time, it is the full moon.
The nine Blue Sea Holy Spirit Fruits seemed to be stimulated by the silver moonlight, and began to flash with bright green light. Flashing and flashing, they coincided with the rise and fall of the tide, forming a natural Nine Palace Spirit Gathering Array, pulling the moon all over the sky. The moonlight shines on the nine spirit fruits respectively. After slowly swallowing and transforming inside the nine spirit fruits, they all shoot towards the black snake in the middle.
The lunar moonlight was worthy of being the most yin and pure spiritual power of heaven and earth. When it illuminated the black snake, a miraculous change immediately occurred. Just hearing a clicking sound, the black snake's epidermis began to fall off, revealing pieces of crystal clear silver luster. As the last piece of epidermis fell off, the black snake's brand new body was revealed:
The black snake, no, it should be called the silver snake. The silver snake's body was now bigger and doubled in length, reaching four feet in length. Its silver and flawless scales shone dazzlingly in the moonlight. . The external changes are huge, but the internal changes of the Silver Snake are truly earth-shaking!
In Silver Snake's sea of consciousness, amidst the chaos and boundless thick fog, a dragon-like soul, a purple human-shaped soul, and a green tree-shaped soul are slowly approaching and merging.
Although the three are hugely different and have different powers, the dragon-shaped soul belongs to the bloodline origin of the Silver Snake, but it is in a sleeping state and has never awakened;
The human-shaped soul belongs to the mortal Yunlong in the future world, who is extremely weak, was struck by lightning, and is also in a coma; the tree-shaped soul belongs to the spiritual tree that gave birth to the Blue Sea Holy Spirit Fruit, but suffered a thunderstorm and had to use the inheritance. The skill consumes most of the ability, and it is also in a state of exhaustion;
Under this unprecedented and unprecedented chance coincidence, the three merged into one. In the end, a new soul with the inherited memory of the Silver Snake, the memory of the future generations of Yunlong, and the special abilities and knowledge of the Spirit Tree was born!
After the Silver Snake's new soul was formed, the most surprising change occurred in the Silver Snake's head: the original triangular and slightly oval head has turned into a strange shape as narrow as a deer and as wide as a crocodile, with two snake eyes. It protruded outwards fully, and the light of wisdom flashed in the eyes. A half-foot-tall silver sharp horn appeared on the top of the head in the middle of the eyes. Mysterious lines naturally appeared on the surface of the sharp horn, which looked simple and majestic.
The Silver Snake adapted its body and twisted its body, raising its head to the sky. The lines on the sharp corners of its head flashed with silver light, forming a tiny Nine Palaces Spirit Gathering Array. At the same time, it opened its mouth wide, emitting silver light for a moment. The inner elixir the size of a dragon's eye shot straight out and hovered in the sky for a while, pulling a large amount of moonlight to fall on the center of the miniature "Nine Palaces Spirit Gathering Array" above the sharp corners, and began to absorb the lunar moonlight.
The long night finally passed. Silver Snake put away the inner elixir that had grown to the size of an egg and the "Nine Palaces Spirit Gathering Array" above its head. It climbed to the nine "Blue Sea Holy Spirit Fruits" and seemed to hesitate for a moment before placing the nine. The "Blue Sea Holy Spirit Fruit" was swallowed one by one.
Every time he swallowed a spiritual fruit, Silver Snake's eyes became more alert. When all nine spiritual fruits were swallowed, Silver Snake's eyes had emitted a foot-long light. After a long while, Silver Snake slowly crawled to The original position of the spiritual tree was then coiled into a snake formation, and it seemed as if a immobilization technique had been cast on it, making it motionless. Immediately, the silver snake began to emit blue and green light, and the sharp horns on its head also shot out streaks of electric light from time to time, wrapping around its body.
