Exploring Immortality Cultivation-Chapter 872 - 201: Plant Zombies

"You actually... actually managed to overcome the Divine Plague Curse. Incredible, really incredible." The Primordial Spirit Master Xie Xiaoxian, with a pale face, forced a smile towards Wang Qi, suppressing the boundless distractions in her heart.

"The Divine Plague Curse was created more than a hundred years ago. During this time, Mr. Feng has always prohibited everyone from learning this spell, fearing that one day it might backfire on the caster." Another Primordial Spirit Master also smiled and said, "People have been trying to find countermeasures to make this remarkable spell practical. Unexpectedly, you actually did it..."

The two masters appeared sincere, clearly not realizing that if the world should ever suffer from a calamity caused by the Divine Plague Curse, Wang Qi would be the main culprit, definitely and absolutely.

Wang Qi himself felt a bit embarrassed by their words. He waved his hand, "This Divine Plague Curse is truly... truly unique. My ability to develop it was merely a coincidence."

The essence of the Tribulation God Plague is a thought of Wang Qi himself. Naturally, Wang Qi wasn't afraid of being infected by this thought. Thus, he could personally come in contact with the Divine Plague Curse. This is the first reason.

The second reason was the emergence of the Wanxiang Diagram.

The appearance of the Wanxiang Diagram, a kind of "advanced language", greatly reduced the difficulty of "programming". Wang Qi dataized all his cultivation methods, expressing them using the Wanxiang Diagram. Naturally, the Heart Demon Great Curse he temporarily composed was also expressed in this manner.

When there's a traceable path, solving the problem becomes easier.

Moreover, Wang Qi had studied the recorded attempts by predecessors to solve the Heart Demon Great Curse.

To Wang Qi, stopping the Divine Plague Curse from causing destruction wasn't that difficult; the hard part was how to correctly insert instructions. After all, souls don't have manual input devices and can't connect to keyboards. It took Wang Qi quite a while before he finally found the right approach and halted the deterioration of the Divine Plague Curse.

However, without the risk of deleting memories, the Divine Plague Curse cannot be completely eradicated. In other words, barring any surprises, these two masters would have to endure the rising distractions in their minds for the next hundred years or so—why one hundred years? A century, without obsessive-compulsive disorder or the like, should be enough time to get used to anything.

Regarding this, the two masters didn't mind. According to Xie Xiaoxian, under the Divine Plague Curse, being able to save a life is already good enough; asking for more would be ungrateful. Moreover, this injury is a work injury, and according to the benefits of the Immortal Alliance, they could stay in the best ward on Qingshan Cliff for eternity without issue.

Just then, Wang Qi heard a message from Liu Yi: "Wang Qi, there's something happening, come over for a moment."

Although the two masters' lives were saved, they were suffering from excruciating headaches, with countless distractions in their mental states, finding it difficult to wield their mana. Wang Qi then ordered the swarm to watch over them, preventing Mei Gemu from launching a surprise attack, and then he proceeded to the location Liu Yi pointed out.

Then he was stunned: "Hey, hey... are there really so many tree demons in this Ten Thousand Great Mountains?"

Now, this forest of gymnosperms had completely turned into a chaotic dance of demons. The roots of each tree had pulled out of the soil, sliding back and forth on the ground like octopus arms, dragging their massive trunks as they ran haphazardly.

Not only the roots, but the trunks of these trees also twisted wildly like maggots.

Trees aren't meant to walk, with their centers of gravity too high. All the trees wobbled as they moved, like drunken, big-headed dolls. From afar, this forest looked a bit like pollen chaotically moving above hot water, and a bit like a mass of maggots twisting madly, chaotic and disgusting.

Wang Qi was just about to approach when Liu Yi pulled him back thirty steps: "Don't get too close."

"What's wrong?"

"Can't you feel it? These trees' qi intent is very similar to Mei Gemu's?" Liu Yi's face looked very grim. "Look carefully."

Wang Qi didn't understand what Liu Yi was asking him to observe. But soon he understood. He saw a tree, twisting its trunk and using its crown to "walk", directly colliding with another ordinary tree. He was just beside that tree earlier, and although he didn't specifically sense it, he knew that tree was just a mundane tree containing spiritual energy, showing no signs of Spirit Awakening Demon transformation. But under Wang Qi's watch, a subtle wave of spiritual power was transmitted, and this tree suddenly demonized. Immediately, the gigantic root system, unimaginable to beasts, absorbed the earth's primordial qi with full force. Without a cultivation technique, the demon essence of the whole tree climbed continuously, its spiritual wisdom self-sustaining, quickly surpassing the Spirit Awakening Stage... Qi Storage Early Stage... Qi Storage Late Stage...

Once the Qi Storage Perfection was reached, this tree also joined the ranks of movement.

Simultaneously, synchronously demonized weren't just this one tree. All trees touched by those bizarre tree demons transformed, with no exceptions.

From a bird's-eye view, it looked like a twisted, mad forest was slowly devouring a normal one.

"This is... this is..." Wang Qi also vaguely sensed something ominous.

From afar, he felt a hint of small thunderbolt's qi intent coming from the center of that tree demon group. He could even vaguely see flames.

Those were the tree demons struck down by the small thunderbolt.

Among these tree demons, there were already individuals at the Core Formation Stage.

Although these tree demons advanced quickly, they lacked spirit wisdom and hadn't awakened divine skills, nor did they have any cultivation methods; ten to one they'd fall under the small thunderbolt. However, the growth rate of these tree demons was truly too fast.

"It must be the Divine Plague Curse. I sensed its aura but didn't dare touch it, hence I asked you to take a look." Liu Yi swallowed, his voice almost forced out: "I've only heard in legends about 'Demon Emperor's Inspection, the World Awakens', which tells of a time before the rise of the Human Clan, when if the Demon Emperor toured the world, all beings, even non-living ones, seen by him could skip a hundred years of hard work, get an opportunity, and transform into demons... This seems quite similar..."

Wang Qi never expected the Divine Plague Curse to trigger such consequences. Ultimately, the essence of the Divine Plague Curse is information, not material, which means this spell, capable of killing even immortals, essentially couldn't break an egg.

With no inherent nature or spirit wisdom, mundane vegetation doesn't even work with the Heart Demon Great Curse, so how could it be enlightened by it?

--Is my Heart Demon Great Curse and Divine Plague Curse really such nutritious things?

However, Wang Qi did not question Liu Yi. This Grandmaster from the Dark Department had long helped Teacher Feng with dirty work and was worldly-wise, unlikely to make a mistake in recognition.

"Could it be that the Banished Immortal is too powerful, causing my Divine Plague Curse Technique to mutate?"

"No, that's not right... Just now I also probed when contacting those two elders, the Divine Plague Curse Technique transferred by Mei Gemu into their bodies showed no mutations."

"Furthermore, Teacher Feng has used the Divine Plague Curse Technique on Immortals too, and there were no mutations back then, right?"

——Could it be that in the brief hour Mei Gemu escaped, the Divine Plague Curse Technique iterated into a mutation?

——No, no, the faster the iteration, the faster the mana operation of that Banished Immortal, and the faster the mana operation of the Banished Immortal, the longer and quicker the erosion of the Divine Plague Curse Technique; he shouldn't be so foolish.

Wang Qi was baffled and couldn't understand. He wanted to probe into the situation of these tree demons, but dared not touch them easily. If the Heart Demon Curse really had mutated, causing unknown changes, touching them without caution would spell trouble.

After contemplating for a while, Wang Qi walked to another tree. He pressed his hand against the tree, mana flowed through it in a circle, nodded, and said: "Still okay."

Liu Yi found it strange. He had already made it clear that these tree demons suddenly appeared, possibly due to the effect of the Divine Plague Curse Technique, and these trees had no issues and didn't need inspection. While he was puzzled, Wang Qi had already fetched a fist-sized blob of amber-colored liquid from his storage bag.

Liu Yi, recognizing the object, exclaimed: "Empyrean Nectar!"

A supreme treasure of Spirit Awakening, Empyrean Nectar, a single drop transforms one's fate, embarking on the demon path thereafter.

One drop of Empyrean Nectar is enough for a mortal to skip Spirit Awakening Stage reinforcements and enter Qi Storage Stage directly. About three drops can complete Qi Storage. In theory, as long as there is enough Empyrean Nectar for these trees, even wood can complete all cultivation before transformation.

And now, the blob Wang Qi took out was the size of a fist.

The blob of Empyrean Nectar was completely infused into the tree by Wang Qi. A formidable and ancient Qi Intent emanated from this ancient tree, infinite essence surged from the roots to the treetop. The coniferous tree's crown trembled slightly, all needle leaves emitted a bright green light, showing endless vitality.

Then, white Life Fire burned on Wang Qi's body. It's the essence of life, the Power of Negative Entropy, the Life Flame. Soon, the light from the Life Flame was a specialized form in the spiritual domain, Holy Light.

Holy Light guided the demon soul of the tree demon in shaping. The newly formed Demon Essence was pulled by Wang Qi's mana. The Wanxiang Diagram inside Wang Qi reorganized once more, producing a brand new arrangement. Operators were condensed and, along with Wang Qi's mana, were injected and solidified inside the tree demon.

Simultaneously, one artificial magic foundation after another was inserted into the tree demon by Wang Qi.

He was consuming his own mana and resources, laying the foundation of data-based cultivation for the tree demon—it's akin to "Transmitting Technique" to the tree demon.

Soon, a tree demon equivalent to a Golden Core Stage avatar of Wang Qi broke free from the soil.

This process took just over ten minutes.

Although Liu Yi's face was filled with worry, he couldn't hide his amazement.

If he didn't care about quality, just quantity... Now that Wang Qi is merely in the Golden Core Stage, he can still mass-produce Golden Cores!

He couldn't help but ask: "What are you doing?"

"I'm not suitable to contact those mysterious tree demons myself, so I created this thing." Wang Qi patted the tree demon and said: "It can't be remote-controlled by Divine Thought, commands must be input directly, and it only receives, not outputs."

"What do you mean?"

"Its Demon Essence circulation is locked by the magic foundation I've set, unable to emit externally. Human Divine Thought entering its body won't get any feedback." Wang Qi explained briefly. The mechanism of this tree demon is "input only."

Liu Yi asked in confusion: "What's the use of this guy?"

"You'll see." Wang Qi placed his hand on the special tree demon, injecting instructions. The tree demon moved towards the direction of its abnormal companions using a method akin to the movement of a meat worm, colliding along the way with countless 'mad' trees.

During this process, the anomalies in the forest were still spreading. Liu Yi and Wang Qi had to retreat twice more. When the tree returned, Wang Qi used mana to grasp the several-ton giant tree and flew to the sky, saying: "First retreat to a safe distance and discuss!"

The two retreated, pulling back a full 10 miles. Then, Wang Qi put down the tree and re-input instructions. The tree immediately took root in the soil again. Its crown gently shook, all branches stretched toward one direction. In the end, the alien force astonishingly found that all the leaves of the tree demon were placed in a single plane.

"Its cultivation technique is in the same lineage as mine, capable of converting all things into Yin Yang Yao Text, which consists only of 'yin' and 'yang'." Wang Qi explained: "When the Demon Essence carrying Divine Plague Curse Technique flows through the Yin Yang Yao-based artificial magic foundation, it gets translated. Then, those Spirit Sense constructed purely from Yin Yang Yao Text will reflect on these leaves."

"These needle leaves, those enlarging represent yang, those shrinking represent yin, wriggling represents yang, stillness represents yin."

"As for translating Yin Yang Yao Text into algorithms we can understand, that should be a basic skill in Wanfa Sect!"