I Outworked the Entire Cultivation World

Chapter 401: Chapter 362: Cultivation Begins as Grass

In the morning forest, the trees were lush and green, with a thin mist lingering, carrying a touch of damp chill. Sunlight, like fine golden sand, scattered through the gaps between the trees.

Among the thick decayed leaves and rotten wood, young grass struggled to squeeze out, shaking its blades to absorb the sunlight and dew.

Drip!

Dew from the tree dripped down, hitting the little white grass body below that looked like a cloud of mist.

It felt cool and a bit ticklish.

Jiang Yuebai moved uncomfortably, wanting to stretch her tendons and bones, but suddenly couldn’t feel the presence of her hands.

She wanted to open her eyes... uh...

She had no eyes, no hands, and no feet!

She had turned into a little white grass growing under a slender banyan tree, a newly born, weak little white grass incapable of taking care of itself.

The Divine Tree told her that she must start over as grass and experience the Path of Grass and Wood from survival, in order to truly understand the cultivation methods of the Grass and Wood Demon Clan, better integrate her divine soul and demon body, and lay the foundation for later learning of the Grass and Wood Demon Technique and forming a Divine Elixir.

This was also so she could better transform between human and grass form, better absorb the Emperor’s Liquid in the Moonlight Flowing Cup, and become a top-notch grass.

So, she was very weak now, still needing sunlight, dew, and energy, and had to grow from the lowest level of little white grass to a Big Immortal Ganoderma in the next six months.

The Cloud Mushroom Grass is a relatively low-level category in the Immortal Ganoderma Clan. In the juvenile stage, it appeared like Jiang Yuebai, with pairs of white cloud-like leaves, and as it grows, new leaves emerge while the old leaves gradually evolve into Cloud Mushrooms.

At this moment, she only had two leaves, with only the roots stuck in the ground.

How to describe this feeling, it was like having half of her body stuck in the mud, unable to pull out.

Jiang Yuebai tried to extend her divine thought to perceive her surroundings. The world in her ’eyes’ gradually became clearer, just that her vision was a bit low, and a bit too minute.

She saw massive moss, lush and dense, looking like a small ’forest’. This thing once appeared merely green to her eyes.

Gigantic red ants crawled over the moss, with claws flashing terrifying cold light, easily snapping the small insects in the moss.

Jiang Yuebai felt a bit of pain in her waist if she still had one.

She turned her gaze elsewhere as a thousand-legged purple centipede, more massive than Ao Juan, charged fiercely, swinging its iron-whip-like antennae around. Jiang Yuebai hurriedly raised her leaves like raising her hand in surrender, fearing she’d be whipped to death.

There were other Cloud Mushroom Grass around the trees, varying in size, growing around the roots like clusters of fallen white clouds.

Jiang Yuebai tried to ’call out’, but there was no response; those were ordinary Cloud Mushroom Grass without spiritual wisdom.

A large shadow descended from above. Jiang Yuebai lifted her ’head’ to see a paw grabbing a large stone covered in mud and moss, ready to smash down on her fragile form.

No!!

Smack!

[Grass, you were smashed flat by a monkey, Immortal Grass Scripture skill level −233]

Jiang Yuebai was smashed hard into the ground by the stone, sap splattering everywhere, while the stone maliciously ground against her, to the point where she was indistinguishable from the rotting leaves and soil.

It didn’t really hurt, but it was infuriating. When had Master Wangshu ever suffered such humiliation?!

The stone was lifted, and Jiang Yuebai saw a scrappy-looking monkey, wiping the stone covered in her leaf sap on its abdomen, which bore a reddish hue, seemingly injured.

The sap of the Cloud Mushroom Grass has paralyzing, pain-relieving, and healing effects, so...

Smack!

[Grass, you were smashed flat by the monkey again, Immortal Grass Scripture skill level −233]

Jiang Yuebai was furious.

[Grass, you were smashed flat by the monkey again and again, Immortal Grass Scripture skill level −233]

Smack!

Jiang Yuebai was livid.

Smack! Smack!

Jiang Yuebai was helpless; after all, she was just a weak little grass incapable of taking care of herself.

[Grass, you have been smashed to pieces by the monkey, beyond recognition]

Damn monkey, someday I’ll grow on your grave!

A scrappy-looking monkey exhausted Jiang Yuebai’s two small leaves, leaving only the roots deeply buried in the soil.

The scrappy monkey went to wreck havoc on other Cloud Mushroom Grass, and after a while, finding the medicinal effects not as good as Jiang Yuebai’s, came back, marking its territory on the tree beside Jiang Yuebai.

Uh... can’t bear to watch!

Jiang Yuebai buried her divine thought underground, observing her roots, which were still the original White Vine, sensing various fluctuations transmitting through the soil, and noticing the different moistures in various areas of the soil.

At this time, a stream of heat was seeping down from the soil above, carrying nutrients that grass yearned for.

Jiang Yuebai’s roots extended tiny tendrils involuntarily, approaching the stream of heat, but she trembled abruptly and stopped instantly!

That was the scrappy monkey’s...!!

Puh puh puh!

Jiang Yuebai tried hard to retract her roots, but even this tiny action made her feel increasingly weak and thirsty.

Not enough Spiritual Energy?

Plunder!

Jiang Yuebai used her divine thought to perceive the spiritual energy between heaven and earth, directly plundering it with the Immortal Grass Scripture. Though she no longer had a human body, her experience in cultivating the Demon Clan Cultivation Technique remained.

[You have plundered nature’s spiritual energy with the Immortal Grass Scripture, the little white grass grows rapidly, Immortal Grass Scripture skill level +233]

[...skill level +666]

[...skill level +999]

[Grass, you must learn to accept nature’s gifts]

Gift my foot!

The cold wind in the forest intensified, shaking the thin-leaved banyan tree above Jiang Yuebai, as rays of micro light, like fireflies, flew from all directions to the little white grass with only roots left.

Tender leaves sprouted anew, swaying and fluttering in the wind, surrounded by clouds of mist, making the grass leaves dream-like and illusory, emitting a faint glow, illuminating a small area.

Whoosh!

A shadow suddenly swept over, and before Jiang Yuebai could see anything clearly, she felt a coolness and a bit of pain on her head.

She tried moving her leaves...

Huh? Where are my leaves?

She released her divine thought again to see, and there, not far away, was a grey furred rabbit squatting, chewing her leaves with its mouth twisted askew!

[Grass, your leaves were eaten by a Swift Wind Rabbit, Immortal Grass Scripture skill level −444]

[The grass that shows itself in the forest is sure to be nibbled by rabbits]

Jiang Yuebai cried, being a grass is too hard!!

It was hard to develop above ground, so Jiang Yuebai directed her growth underground, once again plundering the spiritual energy of nature to stimulate root growth.

The White Vine sensed the direction with the most abundant spiritual energy and soil nutrients underground, extending continuously forward, passing by earthworms, punching through an Earth Rat’s nest, startling a flower snake ready to ambush, until Jiang Yuebai crashed into another root thicker than hers.

The moment she touched the root, it was as if countless electric currents raced through every part of it in her mind, outlining the full extent of the root system.

So vast!

Dense and sprawling over a dozen miles, with innumerable tiny tendrils piercing deeply into the bodies of underground insects and rats to siphon nutrients. Jiang Yuebai even saw a Swift Wind Rabbit, its entire body decaying, sucked dry to just a skin.

With such a massive root, what kind of terrifying plant would be above it?

Curiosity piqued, Jiang Yuebai extended the White Vine, striving to break through the soil and leaf litter layer. The White Vine twisted like a snake, looking around.

Hmm?

A barren grassland stretched beyond sight, not a single tree in view; then, what were these roots...

Jiang Yuebai lowered the White Vine and saw clusters of fist-sized small grass, yellowed and tender, seemingly harmless.

Jiang Yuebai released her divine thought to examine the grass and suddenly sensed spiritual wisdom within one of the grasses.

”Eek~ I am so weak and small, please don’t eat me~”

Jiang Yuebai was speechless. Had she not emerged from below, she might have truly believed its nonsense!