"Wait a second..."
Before Xue Feng could finish, Fang Mo rubbed his forehead. "What the hell is with turning into a tree? A perfectly good cultivator gets punched once and turns into a plant?"
"I don't know either."
Xue Feng's face was filled with helplessness. "When I found that elder, his skin had already turned into gnarled bark. Sprouts were emerging all over his body, and he was on the verge of death. His primordial spirit was collapsing, and his mind was unclear, so there wasn't much he could explain."
"I see."
Fang Mo stroked his chin thoughtfully.
"Even the Nine Tribulations Scripture of Heaven and Man was something I only learned a little about after consulting the Joyful Union Hall's sect master..."
Xue Feng continued, "It was said to be an evil art no less formidable than those of the Seven Great Demonic Sects. It had nine techniques, corresponding to grass, wood, earth, stone, beasts, fish, birds, insects, and fungi. Yet these nine techniques had no fixed order. Once mastered, they possessed the world-shaking power to pierce the other shore with a single thought and reverse reincarnation with one punch."
"Emmm..."
Fang Mo said nothing, because his instincts had already told him something was wrong.
"According to the Joyful Union Hall's sect master, the Rebirth Gang were the true madmen of the entire cultivation world."
Xue Feng let out a long sigh. "The people of the Rebirth Gang did not look to this life, only cultivating for the next. Their First Hokage had grasped the true meaning of reincarnation and believed that no matter how much good a person did in this life, their memories would be washed away in some future life. That meant they could still become evil in another life, leading them to suffer when reincarnated