I'm trapped in a cube

"It's me." Bai Zhou held the face of the Chali clan and said painfully.

"Apprentice, do you remember what I told you? Apprentice must always believe in the master, cannot disobey the master's orders, do not doubt what the master does, and sincerely support everything the master does..."

"Do you remember these?"

Bai Zhou trembled and read these words word for word.

The sound echoed in the fish school, and all the fishmen stopped and looked at the master and disciple.

"Remember."

"Okay, now tell me the way to eternal life."

…

The apprentice kneeling on the ground stared at Bai Zhou for a long time, with fear and strangeness in his eyes.

His eyes glanced at the fish-man armor Bai Zhou was wearing, at the flying parts floating around, and then at the death-like Jeff among the fish...

Finally, his eyes returned to Bai Zhou's face.

Bai Zhou's dark eyes were staring at him.

His face was reflected in the pupils.

The tree roots shrank slightly, and the roots wrapped around Bai Zhou's neck dug into his skin.

Bright red blood seeped out from the depression.

The parts on the back of Bai Zhou's neck shone slightly, but Bai Zhou didn't make any move and continued to stare at his apprentice.

Roots stagnate.

The disciple's whole body slumped down, and even the center of the tree roots lay softly on the ground.

His voice suddenly became lifeless, robotic, and echoed.

"Eternal life...eternal life..."

"Master, I tell you everything..."

The voice suddenly sped up, as if he was chanting some mantra:

"The so-called eternal life means eternal death. The end of death is life, and the end of life is death. Infinite life represents infinite death."

“If you want eternal life, you must pay the price by eternal death.”

"The moment you pay for eternal death, eternal life will come to your door..."

These words were spoken very quickly. After Bai Zhou finished listening, he could only look at his disciple blankly, not understanding at all.

But the apprentice seemed to know that these spell-like principles had no practical effect at all. After a sigh, his voice began to echo again.

"Master, let me demonstrate again."

"I can only demonstrate once."

He stood up and looked at the sky.

"Master, you told me the story of Xiaoyaoyou. I liked it very much, but I don't quite understand the principles..."

While chanting, his figure began to slowly twist, his feet turned into tree roots and plunged into the ground, and his head and arms turned into twisted and stretched branches, stretching into the sky.

"In ancient times, there was a big tree who regarded eight thousand years as spring and eight thousand years as autumn. I like it very much."

As soon as he finished speaking, the tree that the body transformed into grew rapidly, and countless branches spread out, but these branches were bare without any leaves.

The huge tree crown covered Bai Zhou under his feet, like a big umbrella, which instantly opened up the thick fog around him. The branches swayed slightly, as if greeting Bai Zhou.

"Is this what Da Chun looks like?"

"However, even after eight thousand years, this tree will not rot, because it is eternal death, eternal death..."

"Master, do you understand? Once I understand, I will start the next step."

The growth rate of the big tree slowly slowed down, but at this time it was already overwhelming the sky. Countless aerial roots extended from the tree and penetrated into the earth. These aerial roots also spread towards the surroundings.

"Death will always spread."

"Life continues to expand, and so does death. The tree is slowly dying, and when it is completely dead, it will be completely alive."

"I feel like calling him Dachun is not appropriate. Master, please give him a name."

Bai Zhou raised his head and looked up at the towering tree without leaves, his eyes full of complexity.

"How about calling it Immortal Wood?"

"good."

After answering this sentence, the voice from the tree roots did not come for a long time.

Bai Zhou's eyes slowly became frightened.

Just when he was about to break the branches around his neck and rush forward, the sound started to sound again.

However, this time there were still some faint ticking sounds.

It's like water droplets hitting the surface of the water.

Tick ​​tock, tick tock...

An ethereal and illusory narrative voice slowly came out from the tree roots, as if someone softly shouted a word between the caves.

"Master."

"I actually don't like Kunpeng very much. He's too big and needs to ride the wind. I don't think that's true freedom."

"It's good to be a free little fish. You can go wherever you want, swim from the sea to the sky, and then swim from the sky back to the sea."

"Who says fish can't swim in the sky?"

The voice echoed, as if shouting echoes in the cave, making the voice appear more ethereal.

"Master, let me continue..."

"Eternal life is to abandon half of your existence and let this half die forever, so that the other half can live completely."

"That's the price."

"I abandoned my body and left my soul behind. From then on, the two became completely opposite things."

The branches swayed slightly at this time, as if to remind Bai Zhou.

"In addition, there is one important thing I forgot to mention. Do you remember what I said before, knowing the way to eternal life will come at a price, right?"

"The price of learning immortality is that everything around you will be stained by death. Death will even wrap around you like a thick fog, accelerating the passing of everything around you. Even if you achieve immortality, these fogs will linger forever."

"Just like this island..."

With these words, the fog that had just dissipated came again, surrounding the entire big tree in the center.

"That's almost it. When the soul separates from the body, it will fall into a state of ignorance, leaving only instinct. But I have finished teaching everything I want to teach."

"Master, you always say that you know everything, but now you still come to ask me..."

The voice started to talk nonsense, and kept saying some clueless things to Bai Zhou.

"There is a fish in the North Ming Dynasty, and its name is fish...it turns into a fish, and its name is fish..."

"It seems like I'm not reciting it right, Master..."

The voice became softer and softer, even a little inaudible, leaving only some nagging whispers.

He seemed to be reciting some confusing article and mixed it up with his own understanding. The word order was confusing and the wording was extremely strange, making it impossible to understand.

Bai Zhou leaned his head on the branch and closed his eyes, as if listening to something.

"Keep on carrying it, apprentice..."

"continue."

But Bai Zhou's call has received no response.

The roots of the tree hang limply.

The tree is still there, but motionless...

Bai Zhou looked up high, and the branches stopped shaking and fell into silence.

He anxiously looked around the big tree, but still couldn't find any life.

Until a transparent outline suddenly protruded from the lifeless bark.

A slender little eel, like a long strip of jelly, swam out through the bark of the tree, soft and beautiful.

After the little eel glanced at Bai Zhou, he swam towards the sky without looking back.

Skyrocketing...