Why had the roots started moving on their own? Could this tree have become a spirit?
Of course not...
What happened was this.
As the roots kept winding around Li Xiaoya, countless roots gradually enveloped his entire body, binding him tightly into something like a cocoon of roots, without leaving even the slightest gap...
They seemed to have been drawn to Li Xiaoya, which was why they wrapped themselves around him...
However.
Once Li Xiaoya was bound inside, the surrounding motes of light vanished in an instant, and not a trace of life aura escaped...
Had anyone been able to see Li Xiaoya inside that root cocoon, they would have seen that his entire body had become translucent, shimmering with a faint blue-green glow. Specks of blue-green light kept emerging from the roots, and as that light streamed into Li Xiaoya, the blue-green glow on his body grew stronger at an exceedingly slow pace...
It looked as though Li Xiaoya was absorbing those blue-green motes. If a cultivator had been present, their divine sense would have detected the astonishing life aura contained within them. As Li Xiaoya continued absorbing that life aura, the life aura within his own body also grew stronger...
Indeed.
When the One-Horned Wood Beast had attacked him, Li Xiaoya had been forced to use the life law and unexpectedly discovered that he could merge with the vitality of trees without the slightest feeling of rejection...
Ever since he had been blasted into this godforsaken place, Li Xiaoya had hardly spent any time comprehending the life law. Yet he had merged with it so easily, as though something unseen were guiding him. It felt rather strange...
However.
This unexpected discovery showed Li Xiaoya that the benefits of the life law did not end there. It also made