As the stick bird "Feng Hong" told me, the story about the ginseng doll named Sanbao gradually became known to me...
About 1,100 years ago, probably during the late Tang Dynasty, Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, a wild ginseng quietly broke ground and grew next to a mysterious lake deep in the primeval forest of Changbai Mountain.
This ginseng has been special since its birth.
Because it grows very quickly and emits a medicinal fragrance that is far stronger than that of ginseng of the same year, it soon attracts mallet birds and poisonous snakes - the two most common animals near ginseng.
The appearance of mallet birds and poisonous snakes protected this ginseng plant from being eaten by other animals. And the demonic energy emitted by ginseng and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth absorbed can in turn make them stronger...
Within a few decades, his spiritual intelligence was opened, and he changed from an [animal] to a [monster] - so it was logical that he became the original guardian monster of this ginseng!
Then, as time passed, the two guardian demons became smarter and smarter, and their cultivation level became higher and higher...
It was the Stick Bird who first opened up his spiritual wisdom, and later became stronger and named himself Feng Hong. The weaker viper was forcibly given the name "Little Flower", but there was nothing he could do about it.
It also named the nearby lake Crescent Lake.
A bird and a snake, just guarding a ginseng plant by the Crescent Lake, living a very happy life.
In this way, four hundred years have passed!
Feng Hong and Xiao Hua's talents are limited. It is rare to reach the middle stage of Demon King by relying on the medicinal energy of this ginseng. Their life span is only about four hundred years.
When their cultivation base could not continue to break through, they had a premonition that their end was approaching decades in advance. And the ginseng plant that I was guarding seemed to be continuing to grow, with no signs of stopping!
So while Feng Hong was overjoyed, she also discussed with Xiao Hua, and the two demons decided to take the initiative to choose the next generation of guardian demon for this ginseng plant - they should choose carefully and no longer take chances.
It didn't take long for them to find suitable successors and cultivate them carefully.
Finally, before he died, he let his successors, the mallet bird and the poisonous snake, open their minds and transform from animals into monsters!
Feng Hong and Xiao Hua told the story of this ginseng plant to their successors, and at the same time passed on their names to them - that is to say, the new Hammer Bird and Viper were also named Feng Hong and Xiao Hua...
So, this has become a custom!
The second generation of guardian demons only lived for three hundred years - this was not because they were weak in cultivation, but because they encountered a tiger demon who coveted this 800-year-old ginseng!
After a battle with him, although they joined forces to kill him, their own vitality was also damaged.
The second generation Fenghong and Xiaohua quickly found new successors to protect the ginseng, and endured it for decades, waiting for them to open up their wisdom and pass on the task of protecting the ginseng and the two names...
That's it, until the fourth generation "Fenghong" and "Little Flower" appeared - that is, the mallet bird and the triangular-headed viper in front of me now - not long after they had just opened their spiritual intelligence and became [Guardian Demon], this ginseng plant It turned out that spiritual wisdom was also opened!
It’s become a sperm!
It is a very rare thing for plants and trees to become spirits and cultivate into monsters. It’s more than a hundred times more difficult than turning an animal into a monster!
Generally speaking, it requires strong opportunities and luck.
The former "death-killing demon tree" in Lianghe Town is now green glass because people have been hanging on its branches for hundreds of years, and spiritual wisdom was born under the nourishment of a large amount of corpse energy.
As for the old pine tree in Gele Mountain that is "acquainted" with the fat squirrel demon Xiaosong, it is probably due to the special circumstances in the history of Gele Mountain itself...
As for ginseng becoming essence?
This thing is inherently easier than other ordinary plants - because as long as ginseng grows long enough, it will 100% be able to open up your intelligence and become a "ginseng doll"!
However, due to the preciousness of wild ginseng, the vast majority of ginseng has never reached the age of "maturing" and has long been picked and eaten by humans or animals...
So much so that ginseng dolls are rarer than ordinary plants and become monsters.
In short, this Changbai Mountain wild ginseng took a thousand years to become a spirit when the fourth generation [Guardian Demon] appeared!
It transformed into a ginseng doll, jumped out of the soil, and opened its eyes to look at the world in ignorance.
The transformation of the ginseng doll is a very special state.
It is neither an ordinary blinding illusion nor a real body that has turned into a human being... but a blurry area between the two.
It's actually a very large ginseng plant, but it can stay in human form for as long as it wants to. And even practitioners find it difficult to see through it!
For example, right now, I focus all my energy on my eyes, and I can briefly see that it is a ginseng plant standing there with its thick taproot, which is a bit funny.
But as long as you are distracted for a moment, you won't be able to see through it.
Maybe someone with a higher cultivation level than me can easily see through it, right?
In addition, ordinary blinding illusions only affect the spirit and will not affect the actual touch.
But for this ginseng doll, if you pinch its face or rub its head, it will feel very close to a human being - although it may not be exactly the same, it is different from the plant feeling of touching the ginseng body.
All in all, very magical.
If you look at it from the perspective of the spiritual world, ginseng is just a relatively common elixir, but the ginseng doll is the most precious treasure in the world!
Fenghong and Xiaohua liked the ginseng doll very much, so they named it "Ginseng Bao", which means doting on it.
Although they did not live too long, they had the experience and knowledge passed down by the previous three generations of [Guardian Demons]. In addition, times have changed after all, and I occasionally fly out of Changbai Mountain to see the human world outside...
Therefore, we also know the preciousness and danger of ginseng dolls!
So after Feng Hong and Xiao Hua discussed it, they decided not to settle by the Crescent Lake for a long time. Instead, he took the ginseng treasures with him and kept moving around and changing places of residence in the vast Changbai Mountains.
This can ensure the safety of the ginseng treasure to the greatest extent!
But what I never expected was that Shen Bao was still very young after all - he had just become a spirit in less than a hundred years, and he had always been carefully cared for by them as if he were a child.
So much so that while the mind is pure for discussion, it is also a bit silly, bold and willful.
So sometimes it would sneak out to play by itself while Feng Hong and Xiao Hua weren't paying attention.
Although he will be caught soon and given a hard education. But he is still a "habitual offender", one who refuses to reform despite repeated admonitions.
I never expected that Shen Bao could run so far this time!
From the deepest part of the Changbai Mountains, we ran to the outer area of the Grand Canyon. As a result, Feng Hong and Xiao Hua searched for several days but couldn't find it, and they were almost going crazy!
