Yang Qian never thought that one day he would be able to see such a magical scene: the birth of an innate spiritual treasure.

Isn't it said that innate spiritual treasures are born and raised by nature? Just like the Heavenly King Seal in Yang Qian's hand. But the scene before him somewhat overturned Yang Qian's cognition.

It seems that this "born and raised by nature" is not what he had previously thought, like fruits growing on trees and crops growing in the ground, but it may also mean that this natural creature in front of him is cultivated by itself.

Or maybe this innate spiritual treasure in the shape of a long sword is quite special, so it causes such strange changes before our eyes.

In addition, the refining materials that were sucked out from the ground before should not be things that existed here. After all, there are more than a dozen kinds of materials, and they have many different characteristics. It is impossible for them to be naturally bred in a mountain. It can only be that they were buried here in advance and waited for this day.

Is this the ultimate purpose of the guidance? Do you want me to send the Fate-Defying Knife over? Yang Qian guessed secretly in his heart.

Yang Qian naturally did not just stand there and stare blankly for half a year. He used this time to walk around the entire mountain and even went to the other side of the mountain a few times. On the one hand, it was to explore the surrounding environment, and on the other hand, it was to absorb more sword intent by walking around.

Because it is obvious that [Realm of Heaven's Bend] is not the limit of sword intent. The strength of sword intent emanating from the golden sword alone is obviously at a higher level. Yang Qian hopes that he can also add icing on the cake and go one step further.

In just half a year, he had absorbed a vast amount of sword intent, but it seemed that he was still a long way from reaching a higher level of sword intent.

Yang Qian did not dare to leave the mountain too far. Firstly, he was worried about missing something, and secondly, he did not want to be trapped by the hurricane outside.

Every time he came back, Yang Qian could feel the progress of the changes from the rippling sword intent on the golden sword.

From weak to violent and then weak again, this means that the changes of the golden sword are nearing the end.

As the aura of the innate spiritual treasure spread out, Yang Qian widened his eyes and stepped back a distance.

Suddenly, the golden light stirred up by the golden long sword was retracted, and the sword intent that had been constantly emanating outward was all retracted in an instant!
A long sword with a restrained brilliance was hovering several feet above the ground, and then it slowly moved.

"What will happen?" Yang Qian was very alert, but he didn't think about leaving, because he just followed the clue of the knife all the way here, and the knife opposite had saved him. He was going to wait and see if the knife would give him guidance for the next stage.

However, as Yang Qian was looking expectantly, the golden sword suddenly flashed a stream of light and came towards him at an unimaginable speed!

Yang Qian knew that his body could not withstand the sharp aura and terrifying sword intent. Once his body was broken, the sword intent would penetrate directly and crush his soul. At that time, it would be meaningless for his body to repair itself.

dodge?

It’s too fast, there’s no time at all!
A golden light flashed, and Yang Qian thought he was doomed. Before he could feel doubt and resentment, his eyes blurred and he appeared in a void.

The surroundings looked very much like a desolate place in the middle domain.

It’s a bit like the illusion I once had in the Sword Realm.

However, with Yang Qian's current cultivation, he could tell that this seemed like an illusion but it was not. He could feel that he was trapped in some strange combination of time rules. He even found that he could not move, but was fixed in a fixed time cage, only his mind was still active.

"This is the rule of time. I didn't expect that the rule of time could be used in this way. Is it like backtracking? No, backtracking cannot involve an outsider like me. What is it then?" Yang Qian didn't know much about the rule of time, but he knew better than ordinary cultivators. He looked around with curiosity and doubt.

Soon Yang Qian discovered something unusual: the speed of time. "The speed of time here is thousands of times faster than normal! No, it may be tens of thousands of times faster!"

Yang Qian thought of a word: time cage.

But before long, new changes once again drew Yang Qian's attention elsewhere.

It was a small tiny dot of light, which then gradually became brighter, and then expanded and grew larger, finally forming something that Yang Qian was not unfamiliar with: the lower world.

Only then did Yang Qian realize that the time here had passed by more than ten thousand times, perhaps a million or even hundreds of millions of times. A world was formed before his eyes.

Then the world in front of me began to evolve, and my perspective was suddenly pulled from the void into the world that was being born in front of me.

After entering the world in front of him, Yang Qian found that he still could not move and could only be a spectator. There was a high mountain in his sight.

This mountain is extremely huge, and there is an equally huge tree on the top of the mountain.

As time goes by, the trees, with lush branches and leaves at the beginning, absorb the light of the sun and the moon and exude a hint of fairy spirit.

Yang Qian understood that the endless years had made the tree almost immortal.

But at this moment, the spiritual energy of the tree began to dissipate, the branches and leaves withered, and finally it lost all vitality and turned into a huge dead tree.

Yang Qian was stunned when he saw this. On the one hand, he didn't understand why he was dragged here to see this, and on the other hand, he was curious about how such a huge tree, which was at least the size of three or five cities, could become an immortal, but it died inexplicably?

why?
Just as he asked something in his mind, Yang Qian's gaze changed again.

This time Yang Qian seemed to have entered underground and saw a broken core surrounded by a tangled wooden network.

“Is this the core of the tree?”

Yang Qian knew that plant-like creatures relied on things like crystals to practice cultivation, not inner elixir.

If the core of the tree is in front of us, it is no wonder that such a broken core withered and died. This is just like the shattered Dantian of a cultivator.

Of course, Yang Qian also saw the culprit that caused the core of the tree to shatter and die: three worms.

These three worms were shaped like earthworms, but they had ferocious heads and sharp teeth. They were the ones that gnawed the core of the tree into pieces. At this moment, they were still frantically gnawing at the core debris, and waves of suction spread throughout the body of the giant tree through their mouths, sucking in waves of vitality and finally flowing into their mouths.

As the body and core of the tree were devoured, the three worms began to change rapidly. Although they did not grow much, still more than a foot, their aura changed drastically. They became somewhat similar to the previous tree.

Then the insects began to rush out of the tree's corpse, spread their wings and flew away in three directions. (End of this chapter)