Ch116 - Come on, cheer up. There’s plenty of time in any case~ (1/2)
9.1 – Come on, cheer up. There’s plenty of time in any case~
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Xue Ling had encountered unexpected events in several previous worlds when he transmigrated over, so he had already prepared himself to face an embarrassing situation when he opened his eyes.
But there was none of that this time. His environment was incredibly safe, and there was nobody who knew him that would come by and greet him…
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The sky was blue, the grass was green, and not far away, there was a small creek flowing by. The sound of water was nearby, the air was fresh, and life was good.
Xue Ling had not experienced such tranquillity for a long time.
This time, he did not need any disguise, nor did he need to use any strange masks to camouflage himself and work hard not to let himself go OOC, because his current identity had no relatives, no friends, and no acquaintances at all.
He couldn’t even walk, because his roots were fixed in one place and he couldn’t pull himself up from the ground for the time being.
Yes. This time, Xue Ling transmigrated into a tree.
He was just a small sapling. A sapling that had lived for tens of thousands of years, and already had its own consciousness…
It was not actually an ordinary tree. His identity was quite superior, and his species was also very amazing, miraculous to the point where if someone knew his identity, he would run the risk of getting cut into pieces at any moment.
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Xue Ling’s body was a tree, but what he could do was coalesce his spirit into a spiritual body and then hover above the sapling. And because it was a small sapling, he found it darkly humorous to give himself the appearance of a young, cute little boy.
That little face was so cute that the system was momentarily stunned. Even though the expression on its host’s face was very dangerous, seemingly wanting to chop it up and feed it to the dogs, it still could not bear to turn its gaze away. “System, shouldn’t you explain this?” His voice was soft and tender, and extremely cute.
The system felt a bad feeling travel through its fox body – its host was breaking all the rules!
“H..host! ” The system raised its paws and expressed that it loved its host so much that it absolutely would not make things difficult for him. The reason its host had become what he was now was only because this world was a little strange.
“This world is a world without a future.”
“No future?”
“Yes. This is a world that was constructed off a novel, and it belonged to the levelling-up genre and was supposed to be very long. The reason the story has no future is because this novel has been dropped.” The system looked very serious as it explained this to Xue Ling, but it was busy thinking in its head that it was a pity its host currently did not have a concrete body, as it really wanted to burrow its head into this little cute boy’s arms.
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Its host was too cute as a child!
After he grew up… let’s not talk about after he grew up.
“Dropped…” Xue Ling was surprised, and somewhat dazed. This was the first time he had come to a story that had been abandoned. And two of his tails were in this world, but he had no idea where to go to find them. After all, it was a long, levelling-up type novel, which meant that this world’s world building would be very broad, and the background and depth must also be very ambitious. “What about the protagonist?”
“A dropped novel means that the protagonist’s future will be foggy. From host’s perspective, this will make it easier to accomplish the tasks.”
“Then why did I become what I am now?”
“I found some bodies, but they can’t be used, and I could only pick this one when there was no other way. This world is rather advanced, and based on host’s OOC frequency, I was worried that you would break down… and then get kicked out of the world.”
Xue Ling: “…” What the hell did it mean saying that he liked to OOC? He had been very dedicated the whole time, okay?!
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“I know what host is cursing about, but several of your characters would never like men, but you still managed to make them gay.”
Xue Ling wanted to complain. Was it his fault for falling in love?
“Forget it.” Since the world was so special, Xue Ling didn’t bother arguing with the system. He would definitely have to stay here for longer in a world like this because cultivators would not grow old nor die, and as a tree, as long as nobody tried to destroy him completely, he would always have ways to hold on. “Give me the story, then.”
The predecessor of this body was only a vague consciousness. After tens of thousands of years, it had only managed to develop a fuzzy sense of consciousness, but a single incident completely destroyed it. Perhaps it was a disaster that affected its life as a tree, or perhaps it was just the fate that awaited the Tree of Enlightenment.
That’s right. He was a Tree of Enlightenment. In the world of cultivation, every tree and blade of grass could cultivate, and when they cultivated to a higher level, they could transform into a human figure, but the Tree of Enlightenment was not included in this category of ‘every tree and blade of grass’.
The Tree of Enlightenment was a most miraculous plant. Each of its leaves could bring about comprehension and allow practitioners to enter a state of insight, which was very precious to cultivators. It was also because of how precious it was that the Tree of Enlightenment became so valuable.
There were innumerable Daos on the Tree of Enlightenment. All the tens of thousands of Daos in the three thousand worlds could be found on this tree. And it was because they were the carriers of Dao that they themselves could not achieve Dao enlightenment.
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This was also the reason why it was still only a vague consciousness after tens of thousands of years. Although the tree had its own thoughts, this was something not allowed in the world, so he was hit by a big disaster, which came in the form of the protagonist.
The tree’s position was exposed because of the protagonist, and it was then surrounded by many practitioners. It was planted and grew up here, and at most, it could only hide itself. It had originally thought that this place was not so potentially dangerous, but it ended up being thoroughly dissected for no reason.
There were so many practitioners that it could not even be left with an intact corpse. Nobody understood what it meant to recycle at all – there was only one such Tree of Enlightenment, so they thought it would be too foolish to just pluck out all its leaves and leave. Since they couldn’t be certain that someone else wouldn’t come by and dig up the tree to take it away as soon as they left, they simply split up the tree. It was better to just cut it up, and everyone present would get their share.