Chapter 0745 The Prince Underground
Tuo Kaicheng is the son of the fourth generation Tuo family self-sacrificing king, and the only demon slave who has escaped from Zhibu State. If what Ban Yao said is true, he is already five or six thousand years old, longer than Yi Shijun and Taoist Fu Yuemang.
"This is impossible." Yi Shijun shook his head immediately after listening to Mu Xingqiu's brief introduction, "If your story is true, this Tuo Kaicheng must be fake."
The long-haired Ban Yao hundreds of steps away was surprised, "Who are you? You actually know my story, this should be a secret, passed down from generation to generation by the self-sacrificing king, and you are just a human."
"Haha, 'just a human'." Yi Shijun repeated this sentence in a mocking tone, turned around and flew away, circled half a circle, and stopped a few hundred steps to the left of Ban Yao, forming a tripod with Mu Xingqiu.
Mu Xingqiu did not hide it, and roughly told the crisis inside and outside Zhibu State.
The half-demon listened attentively, his long hair swaying slightly, and an indescribable expression occasionally flashed across his skinny face. Mu Xingqiu did not miss any of his changes, and was secretly alert in his heart.
"So that's how it is. I thought the demons would appear in the world five hundred years or even longer." Tuo Kaicheng sighed softly.
Mu Xingqiu and Yi Shijun in the distance looked at each other, and both felt that this half-demon was not simple. After hearing so much news, he was most concerned about not being trapped in Zhibubang.
"Tell me your story, prince." Yishijun said in a strange voice, still not believing that there would be a demon who could live longer than himself, "You escaped from Zhibu State, why are you back?"
"My story? Escaped from Zhibu State?" Tuo Kaicheng didn't seem to understand these two sentences. Slowly, he smiled, like a person who slept too deeply and woke up unexpectedly and was still in a dream. It would take a while to completely return to reality. "My story is very long, you have to be patient. In fact, I have never escaped from Zhibu State."
The old king of Sheshen State did not lie. What he told was the secret passed down from generation to generation by his ancestors. There was indeed a "Tuo Kaicheng" who returned to the capital and told his father about the magical experience, and left a strange skill and a little man in the Niwan Palace, but he was not the prince himself.
It was an illusion.
The real prince Tuo Kaicheng was invaded by the demon species due to an accidental incident and entered Zhibu State in a daze. Here, like all demon slaves, he had to suppress the demon species and remove the memory. After doing both, he went to plant trees.
Tuo Kaicheng did it, and thus he turned from a prince into a demon slave, but he didn't know it. He just felt that he was clumsy and not very suitable for the work of planting trees, so he received a lot of punishment. When Zhibubang wanted another batch of black wood, he was the first to be selected as a woodcutter.
Cutting black wood is a very dangerous job. If you are one step late, you will be burned to death by the Taoist fire. Tuo Kaicheng fainted before he cut down a black wood. What happened next was the biggest adventure of his life.
Tuo Kaicheng was wrapped up by something, leaving only a small gap in front of his eyes, and then sank into the ground, moving slowly on the island. At first he was scared because the state at that time was like being buried alive. Soon after, he found that the wrapping on his body was injecting nutrients into his body. He would not die, but he could not move.
The prince became a strange creature moving underground, with only a faint light flashing in front of him. He gradually recognized that the thick layer of roots wrapped around his body, and the faint light was also emitted by them.
Tuo Kaicheng endured the loneliness and fear that even Taoists could not imagine. He did not go crazy or lose consciousness. Instead, he recovered his previous memories and felt that the roots not only provided the necessary nutrients for the body, but also contained abundant power.
At first, he used the magic techniques he had learned to absorb the power in the roots in order to give himself something to do. Gradually, he liked this feeling and immersed himself in it. There seemed to be a voice guiding him, correcting his cultivation methods, and even teaching him the skills to use this power.
After learning enough methods, Tuo Kaicheng could completely break free from the roots and return to the ground, but he was reluctant to do so. The power in the roots was vast, but he could only absorb a very small part of it. He had a feeling that being able to be wrapped by the roots required a great opportunity. Once he was free, he was afraid that he would never be able to enter this state again.
After a while, Tuo Kaicheng missed his father and brothers in Sheshen Middle School, and he also wanted to try his new magic. He realized that there were real and fake creatures on the ground, and the fake creatures were controlled by some kind of magic, so he could take them.
So, a small official from Zhibubang on the island was burned to death because he was too close to the black wood forest out of curiosity. Not even his body was left. In fact, he turned into a stone, and the five elements of water illusion in his body was completely removed and replaced with a similar spell.
The stone grew four legs and jumped into the sea at night. It took almost a year to find the way out. Outside, the stone turned into Tuo Kaicheng's appearance and went all the way to the capital of Sheshen Kingdom to bring shocking news to his father.
Prince Shitou did not let the royal family come to Zhibubang to rescue people because there was no one to save. Tuo Kaicheng volunteered to stay underground and wanted to come out when he was strong enough. As for those roots, they never spoke clear language, let alone asked for rescue.
Tuo Kaicheng knew that the magic he had comprehended was too unique. Once it was spread, it would likely attract the attention of the Taoist sect. Therefore, he only taught a few simple tricks to reshape the Niwan Palace of some of Tuo's descendants, especially King Sheshen, and left a little man inside so that he could contact the Tuo royal family directly when needed.
The magic in Prince Stone's body gradually disappeared, and he died in the palace not long after. No demon clan discovered his true identity until he was buried.
As time goes by, life underground remains unchanged, and the country of Saishen is like a pool of stagnant water. The ambitions of the previous generation have long since dissipated, and the fear of orthodoxy has gradually faded away. The family love that has developed into the heart has finally been diluted in the river of time, and has become more and more... The more obsessed you are with absorbing the abundant power from your roots.
But contrary to expectations, not only was Tuo Kaicheng unable to possess the power, but the power that had been absorbed into the body was also slowly lost, part of it melting into the soil, and part of it returning to the roots.
Tuo Kaicheng patiently tried various methods and ignored external affairs. After a few years, he entered a state of half-asleep and half-awake, almost becoming a part of the roots. Only in this way can he occupy more power. As long as he wakes up , the power will be lost quickly.
At the same time, Tuo Kaicheng's perception gradually expanded, and he was finally able to detect all the subtle changes in the entire island, but he rarely thought about it and simply accepted it. He discovered that there was more than one human or demon clan wrapped in roots and wandering underground like him. Those demon slaves who were burned to death when cutting down black wood would be wrapped in roots by chance, and usually they would be successful. None.
Ke Tuo Kaicheng's consciousness is also getting weaker and weaker, which is the price he must pay in order to obtain more power.
He even forgot the time and just moved around underground, never leaving the remote peninsula. At some point, his consciousness returned to Tuo Kaicheng's mind, and he first noticed that there were a large number of false creatures on the ground. , and then found that he was not within the scope of the island, and the power in the roots was weakening.
Out of an instinctive reaction, Tuo Kaicheng activated most of the spells in the small illusion, and the wood and stones turned into human forms again and possessed mana.
Takusei waited underground for a long time before slowly regaining control of his body. He could no longer absorb power from the roots, but was in danger of being absorbed. So he cast a spell to get rid of the roots, returned to the surface, and discovered everything It's all different from what I remember.
"The sacred tree is dying..." Tuo Kaicheng looked at the burning island. Various ideas came to him, some of them contradictory, but he had not yet decided which ones to keep and which ones to expel.
Mu Xingqiu listened carefully, and Lord Yishi rarely interrupted at will. In fact, his impression of the prince who sacrificed his life completely changed. At this time, he suppressed the excitement in his heart and asked slowly: "The mud of the contemporary king of sacrifice." Are there any human figures in Marumiya?"
"Yes." Mu Xingqiu said.
A smile appeared on Mr. Yishi's face, "Prince Kaicheng, can you still contact the little people in Niwan Palace?"
Tuo Kaicheng fell into talking to himself, "The sacred tree gave me power and regarded me as a part of it. Killing the god means killing me. Both the orthodoxy and the demons are my... enemies."
"Don't be in a hurry to make enemies." Mr. Yishi advised, only fifty steps away from Tuo Kaicheng, "The Taoists are hiding, and it will take a few years for the demon species to break out of the void. They are all outside the Stop State, no matter what Anyway, the only serious thing is to leave here first.”
"Leave?" Tuo Kaicheng looked at Mr. Yishi, his mind gradually stabilized, "No, I won't leave. The sacred tree is the source of power. What I gain is only a drop in the ocean. Too much power enters my body and flows out. They all belong to Me, I want to get it back."
"The sacred tree is about to be burned down, brother." Mr. Yishi admitted that Tuo Kaicheng was qualified to call him a brother, "Zhibu State will also be destroyed. You have slept for thousands of years and just woke up. Don't you want to die like this?" "
"The sacred tree will die, but the power will not." Tuo Kaicheng finally remembered all the past events and knew what his character should be. "Death is the transfer of power. I once killed my brother with my own hands in order to inherit As for the throne, I am now the only successor to the sacred tree. The sacred tree has no consciousness and will not resist, so I will act on its behalf. I will be the first conscious god in the world!"
The more Yishi heard, the more surprised he became, "Since you want to be a god, then break the restrictions of the orthodoxy first."
Takusei turned to look at Mr. Ishi, his eyes burning brighter than the burning Dao fire, "I have to inherit all the power of the sacred tree first, and I don't want to share it with any humans or monsters."
"As you wish..."
Mr. Ishi is still showing weakness, but the successor of "God" has already taken action. Heat waves surge from his body, almost melting steel.
Mu Xingqiu controlled the lightning in the sky to fight, and the entire country was shaking.