Twisted Dreams-Chapter 70 - 42: Creating Extraordinary Plants
The next day, Half-Mountain Villa.
Li Yang sat in the courtyard, looking solemnly at a sapling in front of him.
This was a peach tree sapling, newly purchased.
The peach tree sapling was the first step of the plan and a crucial one.
He wanted to create an Extraordinary Plant, one capable of sharing Spiritual Power.
This Extraordinary Plant would be like the Treasures of Heaven and Earth in cultivation novels.
Like in novels, consuming it would greatly enhance one’s abilities, or grant ’Cultivation Talent’, a ’Spirit Root’, and so on.
Li Yang would water the peach tree with the Desire Potion.
So that the fruits or leaves of the peach tree, once consumed, would grant Spiritual Power and also infuse a trace of Demon Qi.
In other words, humans who ate the leaves or peaches could cultivate, but they would be very weak.
So weak that they couldn’t manifest the Demon Body, and could only use a little superpower.
They wouldn’t know that what was inside them was the Demon Power; they would just think they were lucky Awakened or Cultivators.
This was irrelevant to Li Yang.
As long as it was a Demon, it would provide Li Yang with Spiritual Power, even if it was a Demon.
Li Yang considered whether to pour the Desire Potion into the water supply to turn everyone in the city into Demons.
But he quickly dismissed this idea.
That would dilute the Desire Potion too much, so much that one might not even sense what Spiritual Power was.
For now, what needed to be done was to transform the essence of the plant.
So that when consumed, it could provide its inherent power, which wasn’t difficult for Li Yang.
When it came to sharing Spiritual Power, no one understood it better than Li Yang.
Li Yang received shared Spiritual Power from various Demons every day.
He could transform the plant following the correct path.
Consuming the plant would be like consuming Spirit Flower Immortal Herbs in novels, gaining Spiritual Power.
In novels, this ’Spiritual Power’ should be called ’Spirit Power’.
The difficult part was the second point.
How to make the plant possess Spiritual Power?
This involved common knowledge among the Extraordinary.
To possess Spiritual Power, one must have a Sea of Spirit to contain it.
The Sea of Spirit is inseparably connected to the soul.
The stronger the soul, the broader the Sea of Spirit.
The reason that humans can absorb Spiritual Power after becoming Demons is that their souls become stronger, naturally creating a Sea of Spirit.
But, how difficult it is to create such a Spirit Tree out of thin air?
It is equivalent to creating an Extraordinary Creature from nothing!
An Extraordinary Creature must have a Sea of Spirit, and to have a Sea of Spirit, it must have a soul.
He wasn’t a creator god, how could he give a plant a soul from nothing to open a Sea of Spirit?
"Everything needs trying; let’s first transform the peach tree to share its own power."
Li Yang reached out his hand to the peach tree sapling and began the first transformation.
Power of Death and Spiritual Power surged from his palm.
These two completely different powers transformed the essence of the peach tree sapling.
The peach tree sapling changed. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎
The sapling turned an extreme black, with slight energy ripples flowing.
"Did it succeed?"
Li Yang looked at the sapling with surprise, his eyes showing the Soul Fire, observing the energy contained in the sapling.
After observation, it’s predicted that the leaves of the peach tree would carry Death Qi in the future.
Consuming the leaves would transform dying people into Living Dead.
These Living Dead would need to rely on the peach tree leaves to stay alive, far inferior to Li Yang’s pure Death Power.
However, lacking the support of Spiritual Power, Li Yang needed to frequently infuse the peach tree sapling with Power of Death to maintain the Death Qi within the tree.
Li Yang was quite satisfied.
At least the first step was successful.
Consuming the leaves could grant the Death Power within them.
If the peach tree had Spiritual Power, consuming its leaves would also grant Spiritual Power.
Li Yang began the second transformation.
Attempting to grant the peach tree sapling Spiritual Power.
If this transformation was successful, not only could it create a group of Extraordinary beyond the Demons, but it could also provide other ways to obtain Spiritual Power.
He reached out his hand again, pure Spiritual Power flowing into the peach tree sapling, hoping it could retain some of it.
Unfortunately, no matter how many attempts, Spiritual Power flowed through the peach tree sapling like water.
The peach tree sapling didn’t absorb a single bit of Spiritual Power.
Li Yang’s Spiritual Power was almost completely depleted.
He looked at the peach tree sapling with reluctance.
If this tree couldn’t hold Spiritual Power, it would be worthless!
Li Yang frowned:
"How can a peach tree have a Sea of Spirit?"
Suddenly, Li Yang thought of something.
He thought of a way to infuse this tree with Spiritual Power!
...
At midnight, Li Yang carried the sapling to the North City Suburban Cemetery.
Black Soul Fires welled up in his eyes.
Under the third Talent, Soul Profound Meaning, Li Yang could see things ordinary people couldn’t.
And those were ghosts!
The ghosts maintained the appearance they had before death, wandering confusedly in the cemetery.
An ordinary person would likely be scared out of their mind by such a scene.
But Li Yang felt no fear; he was even a bit excited.
After all, he was the Death God!
Li Yang walked through the ghosts as if strolling in a garden until he reached a gloomy woodland at the back of the cemetery.
Li Yang planted the peach tree in the woods, then began chanting arcane and cryptic spells.
The ghosts in the cemetery sensed something and looked towards the dense forest, slowly gathering around Li Yang.
To open a Sea of Spirit, a soul is needed first.
This cemetery conveniently had many souls.
Attaching a soul to a dead object is challenging, but imprisoning souls in a living but soulless sapling was manageable.
Beads of cold sweat dripped from Li Yang’s temples, as the mental effort was too great.
He revealed his Demon Body, commanding the ghosts as the Death God to possess the peach tree sapling.
Facing Li Yang, the ghosts’ dull faces finally showed fear; under his spell, they swarmed into the peach tree sapling.
Li Yang certainly wouldn’t imprison just one soul in the peach tree. To create an Extraordinary Plant capable of sharing Spiritual Power, a vast amount of Spiritual Power was needed.
With several souls imprisoned in the sapling, it was tantamount to having multiple Seas of Spirit.
From Li Yang’s perspective, a strange scene unfolded.
The peach tree sapling imprisoned hundreds of souls, which let out horrific wails, sending shivers down one’s spine.
Soul Fire flickered in Li Yang’s eyes as he took a small black bottle from his coat.
It contained the Desire Potion, a complete Deceit Potion.
The entire Deceit Potion was poured at the base of the sapling.
The rich Demon Power fueled the growth of the peach tree sapling.
The peach tree sapling grew visibly, reaching nine meters tall, far surpassing the average height of peach trees.
Grotesque thorns appeared on the twisted trunk, resembling twisted demonic claws reaching for the dark sky.
Strange faces appeared on the tree’s body, terrifying and evil, inducing unease.
The imprisoned souls quieted down.
A complete anomaly had emerged.
A Demon Tree with a singular consciousness and hundreds of souls was born.
At the same time, profound information appeared in the Demon Tree’s consciousness.
Deceit Demon
Awakened Talent: Enchantment!
The Deceit Demon understands human nature; its words have powerful enchantment abilities.
By obtaining the deepest secrets of humans, the Deceit Demon would gain Spiritual Power.
Awakened Talent: Concealment
The Deceit Demon excels at hiding, capable of using various methods to remain unseen and possessing swift Earth Escape abilities.
This Demon Tree was indeed an anomaly, reaching Tier Two and awakening two Talents right upon creation.
"Master!"
Due to the effects of the Deceit Potion, the Demon Tree, despite lacking a mouth, could speak.
It spoke with the voices of dozens of men, women, old and young, all at once.
Mysterious, absurd, making one feel intensely uncomfortable.
