Add some practice: start with a lucid dream

"Show me." He spread his hands and begged.

Chen Ze handed it over, expecting her to say something wise, but in the end, he came back and said helplessly,
"I can't see it."

"You humans have weak organs, and you can't do anything without the help of tools."

"Then I'll change your body?" Chen Ze continued casually.

"No." Hui shook his head seriously.

"What I envy most are you humans. Although you are weak, you are favored by the world and have the potential to reach the heavens."

"Really?" Chen Ze saw the opportunity and followed the clues to ask,
"How majestic was your body before? It was hundreds of meters long, so thick and strong. How many years have you lived?"

"Oh, by the way, there are other... um, beasts, are there other beasts like you?"

"We are not beasts." Hui rolled his eyes at Chen Ze. He wanted to speak up, but halfway through he seemed to feel childish, so he became discouraged again.
"We are blessed by God, spiritually enlightened animals, and we are fundamentally different from other wild beasts."

"Although it doesn't mean the right thing, you can call us monsters. It's what everyone calls us anyway. It's a convention, so it doesn't matter."

"Are there many monsters among you?" Chen Ze smelled the secret.

You must know that this brainless, ahem, brained beauty is actually a giant snake demon who has lived for countless years!

"Very few." He raised his head and looked into the distance.

“Some places have more, some places have less.”

"In ancient times, there were many, but then they became less and less."

"Is it related to the environment of heaven and earth?" Chen Ze grasped the essence.

"Yes." Hui confirmed,
"Compared with the world in the past, it is simply not the same world as it is now."

"All beasts, by chance, are blessed by a treasure land, or are favored innately, or even because of the aftermath of monks fighting magic, setting up formations, refining elixirs, or sacrificing weapons, they may develop their spiritual wisdom and turn into monsters."

"It's like a dog is born to swim, and knows how to find herbs when bitten by a snake. After our demon race was reborn, we opened up our spiritual intelligence, and knew to follow our instincts to find those places with rich Yuan Qi, and devour heavenly materials and earthly treasures."

"Well, it's mainly herbs and the like."

"Actually, the birth of those precious medicines is similar to that of the demon clan, except that most of them don't have legs and can't walk, so they can only be eaten."

"Then how did you activate your spiritual intelligence?" Chen Ze suddenly interrupted.

"I forgot about it a long time ago." Hui shook his head without thinking.

"When I really start to remember, well, let me think about it, it might be as long as six or seven people connected together."

More than ten meters long, Chen Ze translated silently in his heart.

"You can only swallow one hippo in one mouthful. If it's too big, you can only swallow half of it first."

The circumference of the torso will not exceed one meter, Chen Ze continued to recite silently.

"At that time, I lived with a big white snake in the mountains. I was not as thick as anyone else when I crossed my path. I guess it could swallow a mountain of meat in one bite!"

Three words: Eat together. Chen Ze couldn't help but curse in his heart.

"Maybe because of the friendship between the same clan, all the precious medicines it doesn't like will be given to me."

"Those days were carefree and I still miss them."

At this point, Hui smiled, but his smile quickly faded.

"Until one day, a slovenly monk ran up to the mountain, split the mountain with a sword, chopped up the white snake, and took away all the bones and flesh."

"Later I found out that the man took the flesh and blood for the purpose of revolt and to make weapons for his soldiers."

"Uprising? He is so powerful, why does he need to revolt?" Chen Ze was a little confused, but he quickly reacted,

"Oh, I understand. The emperor also had the support of monks at that time, right?"

"Well, of course." He tilted his head slightly and curled his lips to express disdain.
"There are many twists and turns behind this. You people like to engage in these overt and covert fights."

"Wouldn't it be better to live a simpler life? You have food and sleep, but you have to fight to the death."

"It's so heartless. I know that the big white snake has never eaten a person, nor has he ever gone out to provoke anyone. However, because he was dressed in snake skin and flesh, he was stigmatized and lost his life in vain."

"Hahaha. Later I heard that the monk ruled the world and became the emperor. I wasn't surprised either."

"Emperors have been ruthless since ancient times, right? Some people may be born to be emperors."

"The person you are talking about." Chen Ze felt itchy after being told that, and he couldn't wait to verify his guess.
"You won't call him Liu Bang, right?"

"It's him, I remember it clearly." There was a look of relief on Hui's face.
"But he's not that bad. At least he let me go, as well as some other unworthy little monsters."

"Compared to those people later, he is simply a good person."

Mentioning "those people", Hui gritted his teeth and his face was slightly distorted.

"Are you demons divided into good and bad?" Chen Ze changed the subject in time.

"Of course they are divided. Even you people are divided into good and bad, so of course we are divided as well." Hui introduced,

"Some demons bring disaster to one side; some demons roam the world; some demons are deviant and have perverted hobbies; some demons will also protect the people and be worshiped by them. You can't say for sure."

"Do you eat people?" Chen Ze's curiosity was still unsatisfied.

According to the conventions of supernatural myths, evil monsters seem to like to eat humans.

"Normally I don't eat it." He looked at Chen Ze as if he were an idiot.
"You are also a person with cultivation, you should understand."

"Ordinary people don't have much meat or magic power, so what's good to eat? It won't fill their stomachs."

"What we are fighting for are those precious medicines and blessed lands. There is no way to kill people to seize the territory. But except for those with sick minds, no monster likes to eat people."

"That's true." Chen Ze was convinced that even his seemingly "cannibalistic" behavior was for the purpose of refining the gods and was a substitute act limited by the environment of heaven and earth.

It can be said that it is almost unprecedented, so it is difficult to find a precedent to clarify any doubts when encountering obstacles in practice.

"What about monks? Can you improve your cultivation by eating monks?" Chen Ze then asked.

"also can not."

"It's OK for demons to eat demons, but you people are the most special. So no demon likes to provoke humans, and winning may not necessarily bring any benefits."

"Oh." Hui suddenly corrected with a hint of satisfaction,

"It's us, us humans. I'm human now!"

"Then you monsters." Chen Ze organized his words and continued with the dissatisfied look in his eyes,

"Can't I be like you and find a human body to take over?"

"Seizing the body is more difficult than ascending to heaven." Chen Zeke patiently spread the common sense about Taoism.

"The soul and the body are matched one to one. This has been the case since ancient times. Let alone the demon taking over the body, even if the demon takes over the body, the demon cannot do it."

"I heard that even those great demons who have cultivated to the point of becoming a Yin Shen or a Yang Shen, and even you and us human monks, are unable to seize a body."

"So everything has a lifespan, and no one can live forever."

"Unless they are those big shots with big names, they might still be able to do it." "For example, the four great Taoist masters are so powerful that they are so powerful that little monsters like us can't be seen."

Having said this, Hui couldn't help but brag about himself,
"I'm really becoming more and more like a human being. Look at my eloquence. I can even be a storyteller in the future."

"." Chen Ze selectively ignored the cockroach's display of beauty,

"Isn't it easy when I help you reincarnate?"

"You?" Hui glanced at Chen Ze with deep meaning,
"Even for a freak like you"

"You have to rely on the 'Mother's Nest' to do this kind of thing."

"The brood?"

"The brood."

"It can't be this, right?" Chen Ze took out a jar of black tree sap and gestured.

"That's it." Hui's eyes became solemn,
"This thing definitely came out of the mother's nest."

Chen Ze understood that this so-called "Mother's Nest" was probably another name for Wai Xu.

Just like "Lingqiao" and "Abi", these pronouns point to the same place.

"How much do you know about the Brood Nest?" Chen Ze glanced at Wu Jigui, whose temperature had reached [-] degrees in the corner, and silently speeded up his speech.

This kid is different from Xiao Qiang. His vitality may be even stronger than Xiao Qiang's.

He shouldn't die in a while, right?
At least it's not cooked yet.

"I don't know much." Hui began to narrate from her perspective.

"As long as I can remember, the environment of the world has been deteriorating."

"By the time I can swallow an elephant in one bite, chaos will already arise."

"Don't look at me like that!" Liu Liu raised his eyebrows and glared at Chen Ze angrily.
"We demon tribe relies on eating to cultivate, eating exotic flowers and plants, eating heavenly materials and earthly treasures, and eating caves and blessed lands."

"Okay, I understand you." Chen Ze finally understood why Hui had such a strong obsession with rice.
"But you don't have any skills or anything?"

"There is no skill." Hui replied, "We demon clan rarely gather to communicate. Most of us dominate the mountains and become kings. As long as we eat good food, our bodies will naturally function and refine."

"Unless in the legend, those mythical beasts or ferocious beasts from long ago have the supreme inheritance of the demon clan and can master magical powers comparable to those of the human race."

"But I just heard it from hearsay. I don't know if it's true or not. Maybe it's just a rumor."

"You monster clan are so happy?" Chen Ze couldn't help but complain a few words,
"So you are uniquely blessed. You can become stronger just by eating."

"No." Hui shook his head with a heavy expression.
"The price is the bodies of our demon clan, which is a great tonic not only for each other, but also for the human race."

"Refining weapons, refining elixirs, cultivating spiritual beasts and elixirs, setting up formations, and drawing talismans, all can use the flesh and bones of the demon clan."

"Sometimes we all think that the monsters are all big fat pigs that are easy to feed, specially bred by heaven and earth for the humans to kill and obtain treasures."

"It turned out to be okay. The human monks know that they can't catch the whole thing, and they still have some restraint."

"But later, the world changed, the caves and heavens and blessed places dried up, the precious medicines that could be seen everywhere in the past became rare, the practitioners' moral conduct declined, and the world was completely in chaos."

"We, the demon race, were the first to bear the brunt. We were almost completely exterminated by the human monks in a short period of time. They peeled off the skin and cramped the muscles, boiled the bones and flesh, drained the blood and sucked the marrow, and refined various treasures to use to fight each other, or to keep improving our cultivation."

"I can only escape, run as hard as I can, and eat as hard as I can. The more I eat, the more I can protect myself."

"It just so happens that the higher our demon clan's cultivation level is, the larger our body size will be. We don't even have any skills, so naturally we don't have the ability to change."

"As long as human cultivators soar in the clouds and mist, and their Dharma eyes are swept away, we monsters will have no way to hide."

When talking about the sadness, Hui's eyes drooped, showing a rare look of loneliness.

It's a pity that Chen Ze's interruption completely ruined the atmosphere.

"How did you learn so many idioms?"

"You don't really want to take the postgraduate entrance examination, do you?"

"Huh huh huh" Hui immediately turned into an angry expression,
"This is called speaking well, and making witty remarks!"

But then she thought of business again,
"Where did I go, the brood."

"This statement seems to have appeared suddenly, just... very suddenly."

"When we were fleeing, we didn't know who spread the news first, saying that there was a place called the Mother's Nest."

"The Brood is the destination of all demon clans and the reason why we run around. We should all go back there."

"Originally there was no demonic message, but later, something spread from the mother's nest appeared."

"It's just so, so incredible."

"The efficacy of those things makes no sense at all and does not follow any rules."

"They can even be used to reincarnate, seize a body, extend life, merge, transform, and rebirth demon flesh and bones."

"No matter what is irrelevant, as long as it is blended with the things from the Mother's Nest, it will definitely produce some effect."

"As long as you can think of it, there is absolutely nothing that the thing from the Brood cannot do."

"For example, you, even though you are very strong, I don't understand how you practice."

"But if you want to help others, no, don't be a monster. Your moral conduct is far from enough. It's far from enough!"

"But with these juices, you can easily save me and take me into a human body."

"Those things seem to be born to break laws, violate rules, and come into the world just to create counterexamples."

"Most demons believe it after seeing with their own eyes the mysteries of the Brood."

"There are several big demon leaders who will gather the remaining demon clansmen who are still alive and set out to find the mother nest."

"I'm timid. Seeing them gather together in this posture makes me afraid of being found by the human monks, so I hide and don't dare to follow them."

"Later I heard that they were indeed discovered, fell into a trap, and were killed in a sea of ​​corpses. However, the leading demons took the opportunity to escape."

"I just found out that they sold their own kind on purpose. They must be cooperating with humans for some ulterior purpose!"

"Treacherous! Cunning! Vicious! Insidious! I learned them all from humans. They are simply the scum of my demon clan! You are a traitor!"

"You are a human being now." Chen Ze reminded him at the right time.

"Oh" Hui's expression froze, and he couldn't say the rest of the curse words.
"Anyway, I don't know what happened to those big monsters and whether they found their mother nest."

"He's dying."

At this time, Hui suddenly pointed at Wu Jiagui and reminded him. After a while, he sniffed the small Qiongbi and added,
"It's almost ready."

"I know." Chen Ze didn't take it seriously. The remains of the ink fountain in his hand glowed slightly, vaguely reflecting millions of countless textures.

He had just listened to the story while carefully exploring the fragments.

After trying eighteen methods in a row, Chen Ze finally found the technique and discovered the secret. (End of chapter)