Sorrow

This is?

Suddenly, a feeling as moist as the spring rain, no, more comfortable than bathing in the spring rain, swept through her body.

Laiyou felt that this inexplicable and magical power came from the villagers kneeling under the tree.

Tiny buds sprouted from the dry branches.

The buds bud, grow leaves, and the edges of the leaves divide into small strips.

The young branches stretch and grow, buds sprout again, green leaves grow, and flower buds appear on the branches.

The villagers who smelled the fragrance of the flowers raised their heads and were stunned by the miracle in front of them.

"This this"

"The sacred tree appears"

"The sacred tree appears!"

"Ask the sacred tree to send down the rain!"

One after another, the villagers kowtowed and prayed with great piety.

The power condensed into Lai You became stronger and stronger.

Laiyou let out a sigh of satisfaction, desperately absorbing the thin moisture in the air and soil, and then condensed it into a root.

I don't know if it was an illusion, but the kneeling villagers felt a lot cooler.

The old village chief touched the soil on the ground with his hand and was shocked.

Afraid that he would hallucinate, he took his son's hand beside him and put it against the ground.

"have water!"

The young man yelled and dug his hands into the ground.

The village chief hurriedly grabbed his irrational son, looked at the soil where water had seeped out, and asked everyone to go back and bring us something that could be used.

The weather is not good for people, but Laiyou Village, which has been experiencing drought for more than half a year, dug a well under the tree.

Dozens of people gathered around the well with hands held up, stacked one on top of another when there was no space left.

Dozens of pairs of eyes stared unblinkingly at the water slowly seeping out from the bottom of the well, and their dry and crusted lips opened and closed for fear of scaring away the water.

In this way, the villagers of Laiyou found a glimmer of hope in the drought that had not happened in a century by relying on this well.

Three months later, a heavy rain spelled the end of the disaster.

Since then, the ancient tree in Laiyou Village is no longer a legend passed down by the elders, but a sacred tree worshiped and enshrined by every villager.

Time continues to move forward, but for Lai You, everything is different.

Since diverting water to save people, her thoughts have become clearer, and she has gained some memories that she didn't have before.

Naturally, she knew that these memories were the inheritance she had received, and she finally understood that the power gathered from the villagers was the power of human faith.

This power is very important to her, and she vaguely feels that if she can gain enough power of faith, she will undergo a transformation that she cannot imagine.

In the following decades, the weather was good and the population of Laiyou Village increased a lot. Worshiping under the Laiyou tree has become a tradition in the village for decades.

Lai You seems to be still the same Lai You, but there are some differences.

She can now feel many complex emotions, including the flowers, insects and butterflies on her body, the birds and ants on the ground, and the surrounding flowers, plants and trees. It turns out that they have the same joys and sorrows as herself.

After trying many times, Lai You also discovered that although plants, trees, insects and birds have rich emotions, they are not aware of this, as if they cannot feel themselves.

Lai You vaguely understood that feeling. A long time ago, I was the same as them, right?

Gradually, Laiyou became a little lonely. She longed to go to farther places and feel the sense of freedom conveyed by flying birds. She also longed to be able to talk and express her thoughts and emotions, just like everyone in Laiyou Village.

As much as one person can do it.

One day, a young man in Taoist robes, no more than twenty years old, came to Laiyou Village and stood under the Laiyou tree for a long time. The light and surprise in his eyes shocked Laiyou.

After leaving under the tree, the man went directly to the village chief's house, revealing that he was the son of the village chief's family who had been lost decades ago.

The old village chief, who was the man's father, was no longer alive at this time. Naturally, the current village chief, the old village chief's eldest son, didn't believe it.

His little brother was already eight years old when he disappeared. Now, more than forty years later, how could he look like this when he is nearly fifty years old?

Unexpectedly, the young man took out a childhood object and told many stories about the brothers' childhood.

The village chief looked carefully and actually found the shadow of his younger brother's childhood in the young man.

After some conversation, I found out that my younger brother, who had always thought he was eaten by a wild beast, was actually taken away by an immortal and has now become an immortal.

As soon as the news spread, the entire Laiyou Village was shocked.

They were isolated from the world and had never heard of the immortals. However, when they thought of the sacred tree that had grown for countless years, everyone felt that it was indeed the case and that there were indeed immortals and gods.

The man tested all the villagers, but unfortunately, no one had spiritual roots.

In the end, he left behind a book of exercises that mortals could practice.

The villagers did not know that the man stood under the Laiyou tree for a long time before leaving.

Strangely enough, since that year, the Laiyou tree has never bloomed again.

At first, the villagers regarded the Immortal Kung Fu as a treasure, but after several months, they didn't see anything strange about it.

Until one day, a villager held a branch of Laiyou that his children had naughtyly broken off, and while silently reciting the exercise formula, he felt refreshed, which was obviously different from before.

The villagers were so surprised that they came to the Laiyou tree and found that practicing Qigong under the tree was indeed more effective.

Every morning after that, villagers would come to practice martial arts under the Laiyou tree.

At this time, Lai You felt that her breathing was getting heavier and heavier.

Ever since the heart of grass and trees was taken away by that person, she felt that she was getting worse day by day, as if the countless years in the past had finally realized her existence, and what time brought her was no longer the accumulation of strength, but a rapid speed.

Weak body.

Does she hate it?

How can you not hate it.

She lived for an unknown number of years, and she protected generations of villagers. Lai You thought she was powerful.

It wasn't until the man who claimed to be an immortal arrived that she realized how weak and powerless she was. She couldn't even protect herself.

If losing the heart of grass and trees made Lai You unable to grow, then what happened next brought her catastrophe.

When the first villager secretly scraped off her first piece of skin with a machete, Lai You began to enter a nightmare from which she could not wake up.

From a piece of skin to a branch, from being sneaky to being upright; from cutting off branches to drilling holes in her main trunk, from walking alone to being in a group.

The daily peeling and scraping of skin and bones made Lai You miserable, and she went from disbelief to numbness.

The morning light every day no longer means life and growth to her, but the beginning of another day of purgatory.

Gradually, no more leaves were seen on the tree. If the sap could not still be sucked from the heart of the tree, the villagers would suspect that the ancient tree was dead.

Although it is a pity, their increasingly strong bodies make them want to stop. The elderly even feel that they look much younger.

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The full moon was in the sky, and Lai You was breathing heavily. She didn't know how long she could survive. She couldn't live, but she couldn't choose to die either.

She never expected that one day she would envy the grass at her feet that had emotions but no self.

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