The years of being a bottle tree spirit

This day, Mu Ping, who was sleeping soundly, suddenly felt a tingling pain on her body, as if her skin had been slightly scratched, which made her wake up suddenly. After waking up, she was surprised to see several ancient "general horns" standing around her tree. Japanese people in costume period.

These people had dark faces, and they wore undyed gray-white clothes. The fabric looked rough and leaky, and the style was also the oldest recorded by ancient Japanese people. They wore straw sandals on their feet. They were obviously engaged in physical labor and had little money.

What surprised Mu Ping was that there were some particularly ugly things on these people's bodies. Some were lying on their shoulders, some were on their backs, some were biting at people's legs, and there was a sting in their mouths. Indistinct voice.

What is this stuff?It looks so ugly, is it the monster Ding mentioned?Probably not!Most of the monsters that Ding mentioned seem to be rational, and she never said that there is such an ugly type. It is not so much a monster, but more like the dirty or cursed spirits she has seen in anime.

Could it be that what I was reborn was not the real ancient times, but the ancient Japan in a certain anime. If this ugly thing is filthy or cursed, I might be reborn in the ancient times of the Onmyoji of Two Stars or the cursed world, is it possible?Or is this a yokai so weak and irrationally inferior to a goblin?

Speaking of which, when Ding came here, he didn't have this thing on him. This thing only appeared on adults?Or is it new in recent years?She was thinking about the first supernatural things she saw in her life, and she saw those people turning a blind eye to the ugly things in her body.

Each of them took some very old stone axes and hacked at her tree trunk. With their movements, she could feel the pain from time to time. In the period when humans were behind props, it was also difficult for these people to cut down the mu bottle.

"This tree is so hard that even the biggest stone axe can't cut through the bark. It's not easy to cut it down."

"How about another one!"

"No, other trees are not as tall and strong as this one, so they can't be sold at a higher price."

"Our village is counting on it this winter."

"With the Gubo that the lord bought this tree, everyone's life will be easier in the future."

"I didn't expect trees to be so valuable."

"Hmph! Ordinary trees are not worth exchanging for grain and silk. Can you see a tree around that can grow so tall? So thick?"

"It can't be cut with a stone axe, and the hardness of this tree is stronger than other trees. No wonder the lord wants to buy it back and make it a load-bearing pillar."

"It's just too hard, what should I do if I can't cut it?"

"If it doesn't work, I can only dig the roots, cut off the small roots, leave the big roots, and send the whole tree to that adult."

"This is also a way, but it's getting late today, and there are few people coming here. Let's call more people to dig trees together tomorrow!"

"Okay, let's do that."

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Seeing the backs of these people leaving after they couldn't cut her down, Mu Ping stayed for a while before realizing that these people wanted to cut her down because she was too tall, and traded her to someone as a load for building a house column.

How can a small tree that has only grown for more than ten years be used as a load-bearing pillar?Even if it looks thick and tall, it is hollow, hey hey!After figuring out whether it is better to choose again, she reacted and immediately complained.

However, when making complaints, she also subconsciously 'looked' at her current body shape objectively, uh... taller and thicker than any tree in the surrounding woods. Non-stop sleep, free to grow all these years.

It has grown to a height of more than 30 meters, and the diameter of the tree is at least 10 meters. It is a "thick" and "strong" body. If such a tall tree is made into a pillar, if it is not hollow, it is not enough to build a house, even a castle tower. more than enough.

The ancient Japanese had never seen a bottle tree, and they didn’t know that bottle trees were hollow, so it’s no wonder that their tree body seemed to be targeted by big shots, alas!If you are a human being, what does it matter to you whether others want to cut down trees?

Now that she has become a tree, the relationship is very important. Even if the days of becoming a tree are extremely boring, she has nothing to do except bask in the sun and the moon every day, and she doesn't want to die.

But in today's situation where people are swordsmen and I are fish and meat, what should I do if I can't move and escape?If only I could run myself, hey!She remembered that in the past few years, she was keen on hunting all kinds of prey and adding new varieties to her fruiting ability.

It often pulls out one or several roots to catch prey. Since those roots can be pulled out, is it possible for other roots to control leaving the ground? If all the roots are pulled out from the ground.

Can't I escape here and avoid the fate of being cut down?She used to think that she was a plant and would die if all the roots left the soil, but now that she was facing a crisis, even if she might die or be seriously injured, she would give it a try.

After Mu Ping made up her mind, she immediately tried to control all the roots to come out from the ground. However, although she used to grow the canopy and increase the photosynthetic efficiency to increase the growth of the bottle tree during the drought period, reduce the root system to seek water, absorb water, This kind of substance does the nutrient pressure.

But during the years when she often fell asleep, the root system of her tree body grew freely, and instinctively made the root system deeper and farther, even extending to the point of underground rivers and underground caves. The whole underground world nearby.

At this moment, she wanted to pull out all the roots, but she moved the surrounding ground to shake, and all the animals ran around. The people who were rushing to the village down the mountain mistakenly thought that there was an earthquake, and fled desperately to the gentle area below the mountain...

The great changes around made Mu Ping stop immediately. Even if people in the village wanted to cut her down, she couldn’t cause landslides and landslides just because they wanted to cut down a tree. Not only people, but also the creatures in this area couldn’t. Because he is completely destroyed.

Or think of other ways?If you are really a monster, you can shrink yourself a bit, or decompose yourself into many parts. If you use a small body to extract it from everywhere, it will not cause huge damage to the local environment.

As she thought about it, the body of the tree that hadn't moved at will for a long time unexpectedly changed for a long time today. In the trunk space that has expanded a lot, more than [-] roots grew on the core above the trunk space. The vine, and then just as it bears other fruit.

Thirty tree vines began to bear fruit at the same time, but the shape of these fruits became more and more like miniature versions of her tree body. At the same time, she could 'see' from the outside, that the tree inside her body was clearly Dry space has not changed.

The volume of the outside of the tree body is rapidly shrinking with the growth of the fruits, and many underground root systems disappear out of thin air. The huge tree body is getting smaller and smaller, 20 meters, 10 meters, 5 meters, 3 meters, until it finally shrinks to one meter high. Variety.

At this time, the 'trunks' in the fruits in the trunk also grew to about one meter and stopped growing. Looking at this scene, although Mu Ping hadn't figured out the specific function of these small bottle tree fruits, the changes in his own tree body made him she understands.

Her 'Ruyi' bottle tree ability is responding to her wishes in its own way, and now she can escape here with her own will and avoid the fate of being cut down. As for the effect of those bottle tree fruits, I can study it later .

After Mu Ping thought it through, he immediately pulled out the very shallow root system of his tree that was now deeply embedded in the soil, and controlled the root system to run away from the village, which looked like a deeper mountain, like a human leg.

When all the roots were pulled out, she was ready to be injured or dying. She didn't expect that other than a little discomfort and a feeling of wanting to return to the soil immediately, there would be no other effects. Even if she ran in the mountains, she would The roots of the tree were not damaged in any way.

Looking at the defensive tree roots, she remembered that her tree body has the ability to transform her body into the hardest and most flexible part of the absorbing material, and learn from each other's strengths to complement each other to form a stronger and more flexible quality.

The bones and meridians of various prey she absorbed, as well as the rocky soil in the earth, became more and more, and the hardness and flexibility of her own tree body became stronger and stronger. No wonder those people could not cut through the bark of their own tree body with such a big stone axe.

After leaving the local area, she headed towards sparsely populated areas with lush vegetation at night, occasionally seeing familiar medicinal materials, seasonings or plants, prey, fish, shrimp and crabs, and would absorb them to enrich her own fruit varieties. During the day, she hid in the woods Masquerading as a small tree to rest.

At the same time, she took advantage of the rest time to study the function of those 'bottle tree' fruits. After many attempts, she found that those 'bottle tree' fruits were like her branches, or separate bodies. , planted like a normal sapling.

They will grow like ordinary bottle tree saplings, and they don't seem to have any mutation ability, just like ordinary bottle trees, but after Mu Ping tried to transfer his consciousness to the sapling, the sapling turned into her tree immediately. The main body has all the abilities of her body.

At the same time, the miniature tree in her body also turned into an ordinary bottle tree sapling. What surprised her even more was that when she was driving for several days and tried to transfer her consciousness to the ordinary bottle tree sapling every day, she unexpectedly All succeeded, every time she shifted her consciousness, that sapling would transform into her body, as would the other bottle saplings planted along the way...

Through these attempts, she discovered that the mutant abilities of her tree body did not exist in the tree itself, but resided in her soul consciousness. Wherever her soul consciousness was, these abilities would be reflected in the bottle tree.

And those bottle tree saplings are like her avatar, she hasn't tested whether there is a distance limit, but at present, no matter where she is, as long as she uses the branch of the bottle tree that bears fruit from her tree, she can It can be easily transferred, just like a fixed-point teleportation array.

If the bottle sapling without her consciousness suffers any damage, she will not be harmed, and she will feel the same pain. Even if she dies, she will not be affected much, but the trunk space will be reduced, just like the death of fruit saplings will weaken the body. A bit like the body...