Nether Tree Realm

The sofa in the basement became Fang Xiu's exclusive seat. Every day, Fang Xiu would spend some time here meditating through the Necro Tree. The meditation time wouldn't be too long; if it was too long, it would be easy to get lost in the sea of light of the Gaia Consciousness.

Fang Xiu lay in the sea of light, or to be precise, he lay on a giant Necro Tree. The thick Necro Tree, over ten meters tall, spread out a thin membrane, like an oasis in the sea of light, sheltering Fang Xiu from wind and rain.

This was the reflection of the Necro Tree within the Gaia Consciousness, while in the real world, it was just a small sapling only one meter tall.

Fang Xiu sat cross-legged on the thick branches of the Necro Tree, leaning against the main trunk in silent meditation. Occasionally, when he was tired, he would open his eyes and admire the boundless sea of spirits.

However, today, what Fang Xiu was focused on was not the Gaia Consciousness, but rather the real world above his head.

It was a pitch-black sky, as if it were the opposite of the real world. In this world, the ground was light, and the sky was dark.

He noticed that occasionally, faint spiritual light would fall from the dark world above his head, slowly descending into the vast sea of light below his feet.

Some flickered like fireflies, others fell like stars.

Fang Xiu suddenly had a realization: "That is the trace of a life passing away!"

Every light spot represented a soul, some human, some from cats, dogs, and other animals, and some from flowers, plants, and trees.

Sometimes, looking out, it felt as if a rain of light was falling from the dark sky, dreamlike and magnificent. However, Fang Xiu, knowing the truth, felt a sense of sorrow from death and the taste of reincarnation.

Occasionally, light spots would fall into the Nether Tree Realm where Fang Xiu was located, floating around him, as if once they entered this Nether Tree Realm, they were disconnected from the reincarnation of the Gaia Consciousness.

More and more light spots gathered, but most were plant spirits, some were the souls of mice, insects, and fish. The strongest was the soul of a dog. The next day, Fang Xiu heard that a golden retriever kept by the family next door had died.

These animal and plant spirits were different from the souls with the Three Souls Seven Spirits structure that Fang Xiu created. They had no intelligence, no memory. Once they left their bodies, they completely transformed into pure spirits.

Fang Xiu could not devour these spirits, as it would pollute his soul. Only the power transformed by the Necro Tree could allow Fang Xiu to gain improvement without any side effects.

Therefore, although these spirits fell into the Nether Tree Realm, Fang Xiu only paid a little attention to them. After realizing they had no effect on him, he didn't pay too much attention.

However, today Fang Xiu had a sudden idea: "Perhaps I can use my Soul Domination talent to decorate this monotonous Nether Tree Realm with them."

"Create a Nether Tree Realm completely shaped by spirits, instead of being so monotonous. Let this Nether Tree Realm have a sky and earth, with all living beings, just like, just like the legendary Immortal Realm."

Fang Xiu's soul, sitting on the branches of the Necro Tree, suddenly opened its eyes. With a wave of his hand, he saw dozens of large and small light spots surrounding the Necro Tree simultaneously begin to rotate.

As Fang Xiu pressed his hand downwards, he saw that with the Necro Tree as the center, the Nether Tree Realm rooted in the Gaia Consciousness began to show land.

This illusory land revealed a completely black color, quickly covering the Nether Tree Realm, which was only a dozen meters in length and width.

"It really works, and it seems the territory has expanded a bit!" Fang Xiu was a little happy. He originally just wanted to decorate the Nether Tree Realm, but he didn't expect it to also have the effect of expanding the Nether Tree Realm.

"Drip-tock!" However, at this moment, something even more unexpected happened to Fang Xiu.

From within his soul, the sound of a clock turning appeared. Subsequently, a silver light rushed out from his chest and merged into the sky of the Nether Tree Realm.

The Necro Tree itself had integrated one of Fang Xiu's main souls, which was equivalent to Fang Xiu's clone. At this moment, Fang Xiu did not expect that the Silver Clock, which he had been unable to find and did not know where it was hidden deep within his soul, also detached from his soul and merged into the Nether Tree Realm.

"Drip-tock! Drip-tock!"

Fang Xiu raised his head and saw a Silver Moon appear in the sky. However, the faint traces on the moon looked like time scales to Fang Xiu, no matter how he looked at them.

However, there was a large black spot on the Silver Moon. This black spot made the Silver Moon look pitted and uneven.

"That was the place where the Silver Clock was polluted when I died and reset before."

Fang Xiu felt that the connection between this Nether Tree Realm and himself had deepened. Even the information transmitted from the Silver Moon in the sky vaguely told him that if he died again in the future, it would no longer be a rewind of fifteen minutes as before, but a rewind of one day, and his soul would resurrect from here.

And no matter how far his body was from his soul, Fang Xiu himself could instantly return to his body through the special connection channel between his body and soul.

"Does this mean the save point is fixed?" Fang Xiu glanced at the Silver Moon in the sky and found that his mastery of its power had improved, and it had also become stronger.

He surveyed this Nether Tree Realm. In an area of only a little over a hundred square meters, there was a moon. This looked truly bizarre.

Afterward, Fang Xiu closed his eyes and continued to complete his daily meditation task. The pure soul power transformed by the Necro Tree gradually integrated into Fang Xiu's soul, causing his Spirit Value to increase little by little, and his illusory soul became more solid.

After completing the day's meditation task, Fang Xiu's soul gradually faded and disappeared from the Necro Tree, returning to his body in reality.

He opened his eyes and stretched, preparing to go out for morning exercises as usual. However, at this moment, he suddenly noticed that the little ghost girl Chen Jin was watching television.

"Getting up so early to watch..."

Before Fang Xiu could finish speaking, he suddenly noticed that the time on the television was actually 23:40.

Fang Xiu was stunned for a moment, opened the door of the secret room, and walked out of the storage room. Through the window, he could see that it was a pitch-black night outside.

And Fang Xiu remembered that he had entered the Nether Tree Realm at around ten o'clock, and had stayed inside for a total of ten hours. According to logic, it should be eight o'clock in the morning by now.

"What's going on?"

Fang Xiu returned to the underground secret room again. His going in and out caused Chen Jin's dissatisfaction. Her small head, sitting on the bed facing the television, turned around and glared fiercely at Fang Xiu, disliking that Fang Xiu was disturbing her watching television.

However, Fang Xiu immediately lay down on the sofa and entered the Nether Tree Realm, going in and out multiple times.

From the outside, it looked as if Fang Xiu was crazy, constantly lying down and falling asleep, then opening his eyes, checking the time, and repeating this many times.

When he opened his eyes for the last time, Fang Xiu finally confirmed that the time inside the Nether Tree Realm had changed, a change had occurred.

According to his calculations, one hour outside was roughly equivalent to ten hours inside the Nether Tree Realm.

"It's because of the Silver Clock. It transformed into a Silver Moon and merged into the Nether Tree Realm, not only fixing my save point but also causing the time flow rate in the Nether Tree Realm to change."