Just as I was about to finalize my reformation, someone had come bringing the news of the Moon-Whispering Willow going berserk yet again .
Now all the disciples were being called to the Medicinal Garden to try and hold it down again, this guy was one of the people who was sent to call people for help .
But from the look of things, he didn't manage to gather that many volunteers, since the Moon-Whispering Willow was rumoured to be able to injure those who goes near it without a permission .
The tree can attack those who try to get close to it, forcing all the disciple to be cautious about whether to help or not, everyone valued their own lives .
Even though no casualties had fallen in the hands of that tree, reckless people who dared to venture close to it got severe injures from time to time .
Making tending to the Medicinal Garden a dangerous task, especially now that the full moon was upon us, Master had always managed to calm it in such times, but with Master gone, the Moon-Whispering Willow might be uprooted for the safety of the disciples .
At least that was the opinion of the guy leading us to the Medicinal Garden, I took only the people who dared to volunteer for this kind of work, only 5 guys joined me as we start heading to the Garden .
My information about the Moon-Whispering Willow came from the guy leading us, he was in quite the hurry to recruit others, his explanation wasn't that comprehensive, he didn't even realize who am I .
But all this was currently usless and in fact I preferred it that way, even when Bi Ji tried to say something, I motioned for him not to, this guy leading us was already panicking and was having already enough hard time .
Me shocking him with my identity might cause more harm than good, but what surprised me was the fact that Ti Tu volunteered to come along, I was starting to become even more suspicious of that guy .
He mentioned that he was like a cockroach before and only want to do his best in hope of surviving, but wasn't he putting his life at risk by coming with us, shouldn't he be the one to dismiss the idea of helping in such a dire situation, even though suspicions gnawed at my hearts towards him .
Due to him wanting to help, I still didn't do anything to dissuade him or take any action regarding those suspicions of mine, let's deal with the trouble at the Garden first .
Actually, I didn't feel much threatened by that Moon-Whispering Willow going berserk, if even Senior Brother Fu ans Mu Lu managed to pin it down before with the help of other Disciples, then I should be completely able to handle it .
I also was a bit curious to see that tree who I suspected to be a spiritual Tree, a tree that give birth to a Spirit and awakened her consciousness .
As we were still not enough to go and back the Senior Brothers and Sisters up, the guy leading us still kept going around recruiting helping hands, we were 7 before, but now we had become 30 after visiting two halls .
The disciples at those two halls, first wanted to refuse bluntly and directly, but once they recognized me in the row of people behind that guy, they instantly swallowed their words and accepted to lend a hand .
Whether because of fearing that I will make things difficult for them in the future or because words about how strong I was had already been spread around, they agreed to lend a hand and that's all that mattered .
After reaching 30 people, Ai Fu was the name of the guy who was leading us, he was another Inner Disciple, one of the few who didn't leave the Dojo when it mattered the most, for that I looked at him favorabl .
After seeing that we were already forming a small garrison, he directly led us to what I could only describe as a greenhouse, one that was quite big and even had a dome that was currently covered with sheets .
A building this big and I have never seen it or stepped inside it, even though it was right behind the Main Hall .
As we reached this place, I was starting to hear the sound of weapons clashing and the pained cries of those who were currently fighting inside .
Ai Fu had given us instructions and handed us a few grappling hook to those that looked capable enough, then we finally entered the Greenhouse like Garden .
What cane to my view first was a person being swatted by a green and full of vitality tree branch that was quite wide, then without even managing to release even a shrill, that guy was directly blasted towards us, that was only one branch from that tree .
I managed to go and catch the person who was sent flying and brought him down, before he get even more injured or cause this place any more danage than it already suffered .
The glass here was shattered, bodies of other Disciples lay there breathing but all unconscious, many planet were damaged, blood soaked the place that once seemed to have been lush with green once before .
The people who were still standing uprightly to a certain extent in front of that demon possessed like tree were none other than the all my senior brothers and only one senior sister, all seemed to be doing their best to uproot that tree .
But as if not caring about what they were trying to do in the slightest, it kept on evading them and instead it went around them and hit only those it deemed as targets .
It kept throwing people away across the Garden like they were weighting nothing at all, its branches were moving like tentacles, but the difference was how tough those branches were, only Senior Brother Bai seemed to be able to left a deep mark on its branches .
Senior Sister Liu Ru Yu was the only another person able to effectively attack those branches, her sword attacks and the weird hot and red aura cladding her seemed to make the tree's branches retreat a few times .
But the second her attack would land, the branches would instantly be burned to crisp, seeing this I couldn't help but note this as quite weird .
But now wasn't the time to dwell much about something like this, the Moon-Whispering Willow looked like a normal willow tree, only the fact that it was quite huge in size and was attacking currently with its numerous branches seemed to be the only things distinguishing from other normal willow .
We were given instructions to close in the tree and calmly pin its branches in place and the Senior Brothers and Sisters will take care of uprooting it with their attacks, we were to only support the Senior Brothers and Sisters, those were the words Ai Fu said .
But the second these guys saw the tree in front of them throwing people even stronger than them away without seeming to be having that much of a trouble, not to mention the faint killing intent amplified by the tree current strange aura, made all these guys unable to even move a muscle .
And just as Ai Fu wanted to take the lead, a branch suddenly extended towards us aimed at Ai Fu as if it was aware of his thoughts about uprooting it .
Reaching that guy in time to kick him away from the way of the incoming branch like spear, as if already becoming aware that its attack failed, it launched another assault with the same extended branch .
It turned slightly in the air and continued to aim at where he was landing, kicking the air and beating the branch in terms of movements speed, I managed to reach the still stunned Ai Fu and withdraw my Retribution Sword .
The second I did this, the tree branch directly retreated as if it was scared of something, wait, that's it .
It was really scared of something that's why it retreated like that, the tree branch sensed the Resentment Energy in my sword, Resentment love to consume vitality and from the looks of it, this tree in front of me had plenty .
You, you are....? .
After he landed, Ai Fu looked at me and was quite bewildered, thinking of who I might be, but his bewilderment was solved soon enough .
Junior Brother Tian come here and support me .
As one of the tree branches suddenly retreated and stopped attacking completely as if paralysed, this alerted the other seniors, just as they looked at the direction where that branch retreated from, they all spotted me and Senior Brother Fu directly called me over to go and help him as he was currently being held captive by that tree .
You....you....you are Senior Brother Tian Long !!! .
I wasn't free to respond at the moment, since Senior Brother Fu was suddenly in quite the critical situation, before he even finish warning me about the branches attacks coming from underneath the soil .
I was already able to see that one was already moving towards him with my True Eyes, a few of my suspicions regarding that tree was already confirmed, that tree had indeed become a spiritual being .
I saw that light particles of spiritual energy seemed to be gathered together and united in one place, making me misunderstood that area as the tree heart, but there was something strange, well to be exact, there was two colorful lights seemed to be fighting in that tree heart .
One was white while the other was red, the first was much stronger than the latter and more superior in terms of amount as well, but that red light seemed to not be willing to give up, it gave me a sinister feeling .
But now wasn't the time to think about this, Senior Brother Fu was on stake here, dashing towards him while he was still warning me about the possibility that it attack me from underneath, I urged the power of resentment in my sword and as if facing a fearsome opponent, the branches directly retreated .
All of them, the ones holding him in place was no exceptions, but weirdly enough the other branch attacking from underneath hadn't .
Urging my senior brother to sidestep to the left, he did without asking questions and right after he did, a branch pierced to where he just was before and instantly was cut down cleanly by me .
Trying to infuse some more resentment energy into the tree was futile as this branch was surprisingly not even its, it was just controlling the other trees here to attack .
At least that line of Red Spiritual Qi was, after I cut down that branch, a streak invisible to the naked eyes appeared from the branch I just cut in half and it directly sunk into that Moon-Whispering Willow tree and started to support the first streak of Red Energy .
The tree seemed to be using the other trees branches to do its dirty work, but if that was true, then why this was the only tree in the whole garden that yet to have Red Spiritual Energy coursing through it like the rest .
If this tree was indeed the one controlling those branches to attack and with how abundant the Spiritual Qi it have, it shouldn't be struggling to fight against my Senior Brothers and Senior Sister like this .
They should have been all defeated thoroughly without much effort, but the fact that they are managing to keep this stalemate, is already beyond my comprehension, is that true toying with us, perhaps .
That is even more ridiculous, but that the only logical explanation, if that tree wanted and if it was in control of those other trees, it can swatt us all like flies, but it didn't, which is beyond suspicious .
Organizing my thoughts, while analysing what information I already have, I finally came to a conclusion, but wanting to make sure if my line of thought was correct, I turned to senior brother Fu who just escaped death miraculously .
Shock was still apparent on his face, but as I called him, he just seem to have regained back his senses and just as he was about to say his thanks, I stunned him with my question .
" Senior Brother, I want to know the exact time on when this tree start rioting like this ? .
He thought for a few seconds before he finally gave me an answer, after receiving an answer from him, I couldn't help but wonder if there was some try to sabotage this tree here and if it had anything to do with Master passing away .
What are you thinking about, share your thoughts with me ? .
" Senior Brother, do you trust me ? .
Well, I would have been dead if I didn't, so yes, of course I trust you .
" Then I hope you will help me with this.... .
Are you certain that this going to work, we could still try to pin it down one more time and hope Uncle Li would come to our rescue .
After hearing what I will be trying to do, he looked at me with mixed emotions, before he finally said this, wanting to once again try and pin the tree down, which hadn't bear any success, but I just brushed his doubts and worries off and said with a serious nod :
" I'm certain that it is going to work, but even if it didn't, I will still going to be fine, there's is no need to worry about me, just go and spread the details to the other seniors .
He stared at me for a while and a scream suddenly sounded from another direction, there was a guy who was thrown away and hit a close wall, witnessing this Senior Brother Fu seemed to be finally making up his mind .
I will do it, but always remember to give priority to safety first, okay ? .
I nodded my head and he instantly started to flicker across the tree, his movement skill was unparalleled, among all of Master's disciples Senior Brother Fu was still the fastest and the strongest in terms of speed .
His task was for him to go around and ask the other people fighting the branches to retreat, looking at the awkward looks they gave me and the blank look on some of their faces, I was very much clear about what they might be thinking, but I had no time to explain much about what I'm going to do .
Circling around the tree while letting the resentment energy loose, made the tree branches finally stop attacking and all these branches returned to the trees they had sprouted from .
Seeing this scene, a few gasps of shock was released and finally people started to feel that I might really have a plan and started to retreat, Senior Sister Liu Ru Yu didn't seem to like my actions much, but with Senior Brother Bai's help, she was finally convinced to leave the tree to me .
I looked at how much damage had already befallen the Garden and recalled the words said by my Senior Brother Fu about how important was this place to Master and my resolve towards solving the problem here grew even stronger .
In front of the many shocked eyes, I was currently being engulfed by purple energy circling around me and stopping any tree branch from moving, one step after the other, I finally reached for the tree trunk and let the power of resentment circling around me to open a path for me to touch the bark of the tree trunk, the place where that energy gathered in a heart shaped like organ was .
Just as I did, my mind suddenly felt weird as if I was suddenly establishing a connection with the tree in front of me, at least it tried to establish such a connection, but my Soul Power was blocking its tries, even though I was quite shocked at this discovery, I still decided to continue gambling anyway and allow the connection to be established .
The second I did, I heard the weak murmurs of someone asking for help, the one word ' help ', kept repeating in my mind, then I heard the shouts of many people warning me about an incoming attack .
All the trees branches in the garden were suddenly aimed at me and seemed to be finally ready to deal a finishing blow, but just as they came into contact with the power of resentment, they instantly dried up, then they faded away and turned to nothing but ash .
I returned to focus on the changes that was happening with the tree, a few more red streaks directly sunk into the tree heart and started to once again fight for dominance with the spiritual qi of the tree, but now the stalemate was finally started to be broken, leaning more in favor to that weird Red Spiritual Energy side .
I couldn't help but look at this with a frown on my face, the voice I heard before seemed to be a child voice, could there be a baby inside this tree, my True Eyes didn't find anything like that, so no I don't think that it can be possible, but if that so, then what exactly was happening right now and where did that voice came from .
Letting my conscious invade the tree in a more thoroughly manner, I finally managed to scoop some understanding of the predicament that tree was in and there was no simple way to describe it, but one thing was very much clear at this point, what I was watching was miraculous and quite amazing .
There was no babies inside that tree, in fact the tree was the baby .