The divine beast Phoenix, it sounds indeed impressive.
In fact, it is truly impressive.
But compared to the Vermilion Bird, it's just a little punk.
There's no fault in that statement.
Because the Phoenix is indeed a subordinate, a lackey of the Vermilion Bird...
Ye Fan suddenly felt like he had encountered a dumb dog.
It's truly bizarre!
The mountain pheasant actually possessed the Vermilion Bird bloodline???
It makes no sense!
The Vermilion Bird is a being of immense prestige even in the Immortal Realm, how could it suddenly appear in the cultivation world?
Even if it was a descendant born from the Vermilion Bird's dalliance, it shouldn't have left the Immortal Realm!
Even though Ye Fan had lived for over a million years, he was a bit bewildered at this moment.
But soon, something even more baffling happened!
A streak of green light erupted from the sleeping Banana-kun, violently tearing apart the golden flames that enveloped it!
The Vermilion Bird, which was striking a pose, seemed to sense something and turned its head to look in the direction of the green light.
A strange and comical scene unfolded.
Upon seeing the green light, the Vermilion Bird acted as if it had seen a ghost, and its golden phantom immediately trembled!
Several golden feathers were even startled loose and fell!
Then, as if trying to appease, the Vermilion Bird retracted all the golden light in the room back into its body...
The green light continued to overflow from Banana-kun's body, twisting and spiraling upwards.
In just a few breaths, it condensed into a large, emerald green tree.
Instantly, an unimaginable life force exploded within the room!
Ye Fan and the little demoness were instantly green...
Not only that, but the demonic energy within the little demoness also began to churn uncontrollably!
At this moment, her dantian was like the sea under a storm, completely churned into a mess!
By all rights, this level of demonic energy disturbance should have been difficult even for the little demoness to handle.
Serious injuries would have been the minimum.
It might have even resulted in the complete destruction of her cultivation!
But strangely, the little demoness felt no discomfort whatsoever.
Instead...
She felt a sense of exhilaration...
At this moment, she felt like a newly sprouted seedling, greedily absorbing the nourishment from Mother Nature.
And the demonic energy emanating from her body gradually became tinged with green...
Actually, calling it a tree might be inaccurate, as it was only about a foot tall at most.
But even this miniature green tree completely dwarfed the Vermilion Bird in terms of aura!
The golden Vermilion Bird gazed at the green tree with anticipation, appearing to want to approach but hesitating.
Finally, its desire overcame its fear, and it slowly moved towards the green tree.
And its form also began to shrink...
By the time it reached the green tree, the Vermilion Bird had completely transformed into a golden speck of light, no bigger than a fingernail.
The speck of light playfully circled in the air a few times before landing steadily on a branch.
Seeing this, Ye Fan was utterly dumbfounded...
This appearance...
This familiar aura...
If he remembered correctly.
This thing was called the Tree of Life!
His initial guess of it being the World Tree was already unbelievable, but he never expected something even more ridiculous to appear!
Damn it all!
I must still be dreaming...
The phenomenon lasted for only a moment before dissipating.
The room returned to normal, and the two demons continued to sleep peacefully.
"Ye Fan..." the little demoness seemed somewhat dazed, "What... what is going on."
"Let's talk outside," Ye Fan gestured softly and led the little demoness out of the room.
Outside.
The little demoness sat on a stool, looking at Ye Fan with a face full of question marks.
"Barring any surprises, the mountain pheasant flows with the Vermilion Bird bloodline," Ye Fan stated directly.
"Vermilion Bird?" the little demoness murmured, "Is it a more powerful existence than the divine beast Phoenix?"
"You can consider the Phoenix to be a subordinate of the Vermilion Bird," Ye Fan replied concisely.
"But isn't the Phoenix a celestial beast?" the little demoness asked, confused, "How could there be a more powerful existence?"
In her understanding, the Phoenix was already at the pinnacle.
Moreover, there were common sayings like "flying onto a branch to become a phoenix," but she had never heard of flying onto a branch to become a Vermilion Bird.
Ye Fan's words were somewhat beyond her comprehension.
"Who told you there's only one type of celestial beast in the Immortal Realm?" Ye Fan was speechless, "Aren't there also different ranks among demonic beasts?"
"...That seems to be true..." the little demoness nodded as if enlightened, "Then what about that big banana's tree? Why did it seem more powerful than the Vermilion Bird?"
"It is indeed very powerful!" Ye Fan exclaimed, "Because that is the Tree of Life!"
The World Tree, as the foundation of the entire cultivation world, was indeed magnificent.
But compared to the Tree of Life...
As the name suggests, there was no comparison at all!
Because the entire Divine Realm was nurtured by the Tree of Life!
Below the Divine Realm was the Immortal Realm, and then came the cultivation world.
If you had to compare, calling the World Tree a grandson would be generous!
"What is the Tree of Life?" the little demoness felt she couldn't keep up with Ye Fan's pace, "I've never heard of it?"
"The Tree of Life nurtured all the gods and the entire Divine Realm. The Divine Realm created the Immortal Realm, and then came the cultivation world," Ye Fan replied simply, "You could say the Tree of Life is the root of everyone's existence."
Little demoness: ???
Isn't the Immortal Realm the absolute end?
How did a Divine Realm appear?
Were the Immortal Realm and the cultivation world created by this Divine Realm?
...
At this moment.
The little demoness's worldview completely collapsed, and she fell into a state of system shutdown...
Ye Fan ignored the shutdown little demoness and frowned in thought.
While the mountain pheasant being a descendant of the Vermilion Bird seemed absurd, it could be勉强 accepted if forced.
However, the matter of Banana-kun being a descendant of the Tree of Life seemed utterly impossible to comprehend...
Although from the phenomenon just now, the Tree of Life bloodline within Banana-kun was already very thin, so thin it could be almost ignored.
But it was still the Tree of Life!
A descendant of the Tree of Life running to the cultivation world?
Was this joke too big?
Because the Tree of Life, like the World Tree, existed in an independent space and could not be moved!
Most importantly, the Tree of Life has no so-called descendants!
Because if the Tree of Life disappears, the entire Divine Realm, as well as the subordinate Immortal Realm and cultivation world, would cease to exist!
*Snap!*
Everything would be gone, reduced to zero!
Banana-kun was less a descendant of the Tree of Life and more like a greatly weakened Tree of Life itself!
So the question arose!
If the Tree of Life was weakened to this extent and had left the Divine Realm, was there a problem with the Divine Realm of this era?
No, not "was there."
There *must* have been a problem!
And a huge one at that!!!
But if that were the case, why did the cultivation world still exist so well?
If the Divine Realm was fine, why would the Tree of Life weaken and drift to the cultivation world?
This seemed like an unsolvable problem...
Ye Fan felt that his accumulated knowledge was clearly insufficient...
Or perhaps...
This was a Tree of Life that had drifted over from another world?
Thinking of his granddaughter's jade pendant, Ye Fan felt that this possibility could not be ruled out...
With this thought, Ye Fan suddenly realized a grave problem.
Unknowingly, he seemed to have fallen into a vortex of what was called 'conspiracy'...
Was it a coincidence?
Or was it a deliberate arrangement by the damn system?
His transmigration in this life seemed to be much more complicated than he initially thought...
Even if he refused to cultivate, some things were unfolding inevitably...