"Screech!!!!!"
As he spoke, a flock of Ice Air Wing Birds swooped down from the sky, their speed so great that they appeared as blurs, riding the increasingly strong wind!
"Quick, follow me into the cave!" Jiang Shaoxu tugged Jiang Yuan, ready to duck into the tree hollow.
Jiang Yuan didn't budge.
At this moment, Jiang Shaoxu suddenly recalled various scenes from the National Government's training period.
Her nerves, which had been taut because of the Ice Air Wing Birds, relaxed.
"Captain, these Ice Air Wing Birds shouldn't be a match for you, right?" Jiang Shaoxu asked.
Jiang Yuan answered her question with action.
A formless light swept across the sky, and the large flock of Ice Air Wing Birds, along with the wind, froze in mid-air.
Then they plummeted down, one after another, with a series of crackling sounds.
Not a single Ice Air Wing Birds survived.
By now, Jiang Yuan's magic was no longer confined to the standardized magic of the star system.
He could manipulate magic to achieve many effects that were previously impossible, and with the profound mysteries of fusion magic, every seemingly ordinary spell was a result of fusion.
Its power was extremely formidable!
"Wow! Captain, you've gotten even stronger!" Jiang Shaoxu looked like a fangirl.
Jiang Yuan's mood was calm, completely unaffected by Jiang Shaoxu.
"I'm going to a higher place next. What are you planning to do, go back or stay here?" Jiang Yuan asked.
"Are you really going to see the Winged Tribe Great Ceremony? The So wind is coming soon, even a Super-Order Mage would find it hard to survive in such an environment. Captain, why don't you wait until the So wind passes…"
Jiang Shaoxu paused mid-sentence, suddenly remembering something.
That was, the Winged Tribe Great Ceremony and the So wind happened simultaneously.
With the blessing of the So wind, the Winged Tribe could fly higher during the ceremony.
"Consider yourself lucky to have met me. I'll send you down the mountain first, and then continue up." Jiang Yuan sighed.
Without waiting for Jiang Shaoxu's answer, he directly opened a spatial rift in front of her, and an irresistible force pushed her in.
By the time Jiang Shaoxu came to her senses, she had already crossed space and arrived directly at the foot of Baiba Mountain.
The wind here was much weaker, far from the oppressive, storm-is-coming feeling on the mountain.
"Jiang Yuan!!!"
Jiang Shaoxu shouted in displeasure.
He had to go to Baiba Mountain even at such a dangerous time.
She couldn't understand what Jiang Yuan was thinking.
No, she had to call people to go into the mountain and find Jiang Yuan!
With that thought, Jiang Shaoxu immediately set off for the Qinling Military Department stationed in Qinling to seek their help.
If that didn't work, calling the Forbidden Army from the Ancient Capital would also do.
She still had that capability.
......
On Baiba Mountain, after Jiang Yuan sent Jiang Shaoxu down the mountain, he continued his ascent to higher altitudes without stopping.
The higher he went, the stronger the wind became.
The So wind at high altitudes started earlier.
By the time he entered the territory of a Monarch-level Winged Tribe demon, the So wind had officially arrived.
"Woo woo woo woo~~~~~~~ Woo woo woo woo~~~~~~~"
The sound of the wind was like crying, wailing incessantly beside Jiang Yuan's ears.
Aside from the Winged Tribe and some special demons, it was very difficult to survive in the So wind.
Because the So wind's strength was continuous; it would attack relentlessly, gradually eroding surface defenses, eventually scraping off everything, skin and flesh included, leaving only bones.
It could be said that countless bones were buried in Baiba Mountain.
Of course, this amount of So wind was still too childish for Jiang Yuan.
An Emperor-level physique was not something a small So wind could break through.
At his current altitude, Jiang Yuan could already see the destructive plant within the plant consciousness network.
A towering purple tree, reaching into the clouds, appeared crystal clear and dreamlike in the sunlight, looking exceptionally sacred.
"It seems that even if I changed a lot of the plot, what was supposed to happen still happened," Jiang Yuan muttered to himself.
That's right, this ancient purple tree in front of him, sacred in appearance but a devil at heart, was the Tian Guan Zi Duan God Tree!
Jiang Yuan came to the foot of the Tian Guan Zi Duan God Tree.
He looked up.
Its height extended into the cloud realm, becoming part of the support for the celestial layer along with other ancient trees.
In fact, Baiba Mountain was the Tian Guan Zi Duan God Tree's original home; it was taken to Kunyu Mountain and now escaped back here.
"Come on, let me see how you became a plant demon."
Jiang Yuan plunged his hand into the trunk of the Tian Guan Zi Duan God Tree, reaching deep inside, but the Tian Guan Zi Duan God Tree remained still.
This was understandable.
For such a massive body, this tiny wound was smaller than a mosquito bite, and Jiang Yuan wasn't even causing any destruction.
His first task was to communicate.
Green light surged around Jiang Yuan, and green starlight cascaded like a waterfall, flowing into the opening he had made.
In an instant, Jiang Yuan clearly felt the consciousness of the Tian Guan Zi Duan God Tree right before him.
"Human!"
"Tell me everything you've experienced."
Jiang Yuan commanded.
An Emperor's aura surged, pressing down on the consciousness of the Tian Guan Zi Duan God Tree.
The Tian Guan Zi Duan God Tree was awestruck; its entire trunk trembled, causing many demons living on it to jump down.
"You are a Human powerhouse."
The consciousness of the Tian Guan Zi Duan God Tree was very clear, but communication was not smooth; it could only convey very simple messages.
"Tell me your life story," Jiang Yuan commanded again.
The Tian Guan Zi Duan God Tree did not resist and gave all its memories to Jiang Yuan.
Thousands of years of memory scenes began to play.
The Tian Guan Zi Duan God Tree was initially just an ordinary tree in Qinling, a twin tree with the Oath Tree, not even considered a giant tree.
Until one day, by chance, it developed a nascent consciousness and began to instinctively absorb energy from the air and earth.
It was the only one in the entire Qinling that developed consciousness; even those thousand-meter-tall ancient trees had no consciousness.
The Tian Guan Zi Duan God Tree absorbed more and more energy, and its trunk grew taller and larger.
Then, a force from an unknown source entered its body, and from then on, it began to consume blood and flesh.
The specific method was to use its tall trunk to constantly attract demons to inhabit its body.
Every now and then, it would make these demons kill each other, and their corpses would naturally be decomposed by the Tian Guan Zi Duan God Tree.
This continued until a few decades ago, when it was taken away from Qinling by a group of humans to another place.
Finally, now, it returned to Qinling.
These were all the previous memories of the Tian Guan Zi Duan God Tree, from the Totem era to the modern day.
It encompassed the law of the jungle in the demon world.
In the eyes of humans, it was a flesh-eating devil, but in the demon world, it was just a sneaky old trickster.
Survival of the fittest, that's just how it is.
However, none of this concerned Jiang Yuan.
What he cared about was how the Tian Guan Zi Duan God Tree became a demon.
Now it seemed the most crucial factor was consciousness.
Only by developing consciousness could it actively absorb energy and complete its cultivation as an Outliers (different species/alien creature).
Only by developing consciousness could it actively absorb energy and complete its cultivation as an Outliers (different species/alien creature).