Begin As A Tree: Don’t Worry. I’ll Become A God

Chapter 6: Newcomers Come, Old People Leave

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Gu Xiao was shocked.

After so many years, it was not easy to meet the fifth living person.

He did not expect this kid to jump off the cliff as soon as he came up the mountain.

At the critical moment, Gu Xiao stretched out a willow branch and wrapped it around his waist, pulling the young man who was already hanging in the air back.

The young man was dumbfounded after being dragged back.

‘Shouldn’t I be jumping off the cliff? According to the time, I should still be in the air. Why… why am I back?’

This young man was also someone who did not believe in the supernatural. Since he had been pulled back inexplicably, he would jump again.

He jumped again.

Then he was yanked back again.

This time, he clearly felt that someone was stopping him.

“Who? Who’s there? I want to die! It has nothing to do with you!”

Gu Xiao could not be bothered to talk nonsense with him. He knocked him out on the spot with a willow branch. Then, he pulled him to his tree trunk and began to enter his dream.

In this world, strength was respected by the strong. In Gu Xiao’s opinion, this young man’s death wish was most likely related to his weak strength.

‘It doesn’t matter if you’re weak. I’ll just give it to you.’

When the young man woke up, he had already been reborn.

The young man was very excited. He thought that he had encountered an immortal, so he bowed to the heavens and the earth, but not to the old willow tree, Gu Xiao.

After bowing to the heavens and earth, he muttered and was about to leave.

How could this do? It was clearly Gu Xiao’s credit, so how could he let others benefit from it?

A gust of wind blew over, causing the willow leaves to rustle.

The young man’s body trembled as if he had sensed something. He turned around and saw Gu Xiao.

It turned out that it was not the heaven and earth that had given him the opportunity, but this divine tree.

The young man immediately ran back and knelt in front of Gu Xiao.

“Lord Divine Tree, I’m sorry! I was blind and didn’t know that you were the one who gave me this opportunity!”

Gu Xiao could not be bothered to talk nonsense with him. This kid’s brain was a little different from ordinary people’s.

Who else would jump a second time with their eyes closed after getting dragged back from failing to jump off the cliff the first time?

Gu Xiao said, “I gave you a Mortal-grade cultivation technique, Crimson Flame Cultivation Technique. If I can give you a cultivation technique, I can naturally take it back from you.”

The young man knelt on the ground, not daring to look up.

“I’m willing to serve Lord Divine Tree for all eternity! I’ll never break my oath!”

Gu Xiao nodded. This person was still very sensible.

“What’s your name?”

The young man respectfully replied, “This disciple’s name is Bai Mingxuan.”

“Bai Mingxuan, since you’re willing to be my believer, fine. Go and complete your unfinished business now.”

The young man was indeed in trouble. It was precisely because he was powerless to resist that he wanted to die.

Hearing Gu Xiao’s words, Bai Mingxuan suddenly raised his head.

“I… I understand!”

Bai Mingxuan went down the mountain.

At this moment, Gu Xiao seemed to have suddenly remembered that the Crimson Flame Cultivation Technique should be a cultivation technique specially for women.

The cultivation technique that a woman cultivated… There shouldn’t be any big problems if a guy cultivated it…

After that, Gu Xiao’s life returned to the perspective of a nurturing game.

The two Windtooth Wolves grew up very quickly every day. As the saying went, once their wings hardened, birds would want to fly into the sky and roam around.

The demon beast believer also felt that the time had come. It should bring the two little demon beasts out to travel.

Thus, it bid farewell to Gu Xiao and left with the two Windtooth Wolves.

With the efforts of the believer and the two cubs, Gu Xiao was surrounded by dense willow trees. Now, even if a few troublesome enemies came, he had a certain ability to fight back.

Days passed one after another.

Gu Xiao’s roots grew deeper and deeper.

Although his progress in absorbing nutrients was still slow, fortunately, he improved a little every day.

Bai Mingxuan worked very hard. Gu Xiao could even check the system’s experience feedback every day. Bai Mingxuan’s cultivation level was almost comparable to Ling Yao’s, and his experience points had grown much faster than before.

A year passed, but Ling Yao and Bai Mingxuan had not returned. The demon beast believer and the two young cubs would occasionally come back to visit Gu Xiao.

Six years passed in the blink of an eye.

The demon beast believer and the two cubs improved very quickly.

As their strength increased, they gradually looked down on the domains within a radius of a hundred miles. They wanted to go further away and officially bid farewell to Gu Xiao.

Gu Xiao did not have much feelings about the Qilin beast believer, but he had raised two little Windtooth Wolves from a young age and had to watch helplessly as they left home to fight.

Gu Xiao said to them, “Be careful when you get out!”

The Qilin demon beast left with the little Windtooth Wolves.

Time was like a long river.

With limited time, this concept became more and more vague to Gu Xiao.

The four seasons changed, and flowers bloomed and fell.

Two years passed in the blink of an eye.

Gu Xiao received a system notification on this day.

[Your demon beast believer, Gang Ji, has passed away. Do you want to check its life?]

Gu Xiao was stunned. So that demon beast also had a name.

“Check.”

The memories of the demon beast began to appear in front of Gu Xiao.

For the last time, the demon beast bade farewell to him and went to a forbidden area 500 kilometers away.

There was a divine spring in that place. It was said that drinking a mouthful would be extremely beneficial to one’s cultivation.

However, the divine spring there was also guarded by demon beasts.

The demon beast was too powerful, so in the end, it was defeated and killed.

After reading it, Gu Xiao sighed. This demon beast believer had accompanied him for the longest time.

After a long time, Gu Xiao became more and more numb to feelings.

If not for the fact that the demon beast had always been by his side and the two little cubs made him feel like he was enjoying the joy of family, Gu Xiao would probably be a block of wood for the rest of his life.

After a while, the two demon beast cubs actually returned with Gang Ji’s corpse.

At this moment, they had already grown very strong. Along the way, they relied on their cultivation techniques to prevent Gang Ji’s corpse from rotting.

The two cubs dug a hole beside Gu Xiao and buried Gang Ji’s corpse.

For Gang Ji, the second life was given to it by Gu Xiao. When it was alive, it was Gu Xiao’s believer.

Even after it died, it was still willing to give everything it had to Gu Xiao and let its corpse become Gu Xiao’s nutrients.

One of the cubs said to Gu Xiao, “To continue living in another way, to continue serving Lord Divine Tree in another way. That’s what Father Gang Ji wanted.”

Gu Xiao was very touched. He originally thought that he would leave it at that and not absorb the nutrients from the corpse of the demon beast believer, but on second thought, this was also its long-cherished wish.

Gu Xiao thought about it and decided to absorb Gang Ji’s corpse.

The two little Windtooth Wolves stayed by Gu Xiao’s side.

Their father passed away one day and was buried by Gu Xiao’s side.

Similarly, it was also absorbed by Gu Xiao.

After a while, one day, Gu Xiao received a notification from the system that Bai Mingxuan had broken through again.

This made Gu Xiao very happy.

The two demon beasts had already grown up. It was time to build a home and reproduce.

Originally, Gu Xiao had planned to welcome the third generation of the Windtooth Wolf, but he did not expect that after the two of them found a partner each and built their homes, there would be no reaction.

They went missing for some reason, and another few decades passed.

On a certain day, Ling Yao returned.

Under the system’s prompt, Gu Xiao calculated that Ling Yao should be in her sixties now, but her appearance had not changed.

Ling Yao came to Gu Xiao and knelt down.

“Lord Divine Tree, my father’s revenge has been avenged. My mission is complete.”

“However, I hope that I can bring my father’s old subordinates to settle down on the mountainside here. I hope that Lord Divine Tree will allow it!”