Moreover, with his knowledge, Ning Tianya could not tell which tree in the pool was! Neither did he know what those little pearls were.
It could stand out from the water like this and become a pearl, and it seemed to be mixed with something else.
Ning Tianya had never seen anything like this!
Where did this little boy get such weird things from?
This pink and pretty child actually put on a solemn face right now. He sat in the water naked, his face was serious, and his fat little hands made one strange gesture followed by another, before putting back onto his belly.
A stream of inexplicable energy just poured out of his small body and entered the water, and then the water surged and waves of white waves hit the bridge as more and more little pearls appeared again. Pushed by the waves, they climbed up the tree.
One layer… Two layers, three layers…
Ning Tianya finally counted them. The leaves of this tree had ninety-nine layers. The higher up, there were fewer leaves. On the top, there was only one leaf.
At present, many pearls were going up, but most of them stayed on the first or second layers, and they stacked up thickly.
Ning Tianya found that instead of following the rules of first come, first served, some pearls that first reached the first layer also gradually rose to the second and third layers…
And many pearls that appeared later also entered the first layer…
Slowly, the pearls bounced up, and the first pearl appeared on the sixth layer.
The way up for the pearl was so difficult, it encountered all kinds of obstacles, bounced, rolled and bumped its way up.
Ning Tianya was actually stunned.
A thought suddenly burst into his mind —”Would there be a pearl that could go up to the 99th layer?”
At this moment, the first and second layers of pearls had begun to fall, dripping from the leaves and falling into the water.
Immediately after entering the water, the pearls dissolved and turned into clear water, and then the water flowed back to reach the original path once more. Then it was washed up by the rolling waves, forming pearls again, and rolling forward again …
Over and over again.
The little person was sitting in earnest in the waves while the pearls continued to appear and disappear, as though he was doing martial cultivation…
However, Ning Tianya suddenly gained an understanding, which made him tremble with excitement.
Then he fell into a strange state.
He finally realized that, wasn’t this tree equivalent to a world? Weren’t these ninety-nine layers of leaves equal to the various cultivation levels of human beings?
And those small pearls that appeared, disappeared and repeated from scratch, weren’t they the humans?
And the pool below, could it be the great river of Samsara?
And that bridge, the bridge to rebirth?
A person turns into nothingness in the great river of Samsara, then becomes the purest soul, enters the bridge of rebirth, begins a new life, and a new cycle…
When entering this world, everyone was on the first layer. As some people struggled, others went to the second floor, and then to the third floor…
Everyone struggles; some people struggle for their whole lives at the lowest level, so they finally fall from the lowest level and turn into nothingness.
But some of the strong ones reach the third layer, the fifth layer… even the tenth layer…
But they have to die eventually, and once they reach a certain limit, if they cannot climb to the next level, they will fall into the river of samsara; there is no difference.
There are only some exceptionally dedicated people who are constantly climbing, constantly going beyond, layer after layer…
But where is the end? Is it on the 99th layer?
Ning Tianya watched, holding his breath. Now, with the continuous impact of the water, more and more pearls gradually reached a certain number and no longer increased. Every time, there were countless pearls falling from the tree. Smashed, and countless pearls poured into the tree, jumping and rolling forward.
The entries and exits had similar numbers.
A relative stability was maintained.
The number of pearls on the upper layers was increasing, though it was intensely difficult for every new one, it increased slowly after all…
Gradually, five or six appeared on the 60th layer, immediately, one of them suddenly jumped and reached the 61st layer.
Ning Tianya’s heart also jumped.
It felt as though he himself jumped from eighth-grade to ninth-grade Supreme Martial Artist.
Another pearl also jumped forward, following the flow of the water, but it dropped out of the 60th layer and into the water, turning into powder.
Ning Tianya suddenly felt sad.
This falling pearl, Ning Tianya watched it jump from the bottom to the 60th layer step by step, it was a disaster on each step, but now that it was here, it actually fell down.
The water flow continued and the pearls were still tumbling.
In each layer, there were conflicts between pearls, just like the various conflicts in the world. Some were leveraging on others, some were colliding left and right, some were bumping up and down, and some were stepping on others to jump up…
In other words, they were trying their best to earn opportunities and their own future. They were all trying to earn themselves more time…
Finally, there were pearls on the 63rd, 65th… and 70th layers.
Wherever the pearls went, the water flow would follow.
So long as one pearl reached the next level, many others would follow to jump up…
The higher up, the fewer pearls there were.
Finally, they reached the 90th level…
The pearls of this layer seemed to have reached a bottleneck. More and more pearls came up, but none of them could reach the 91st layer. Therefore, on this high-up 90th layer, these pearls had begun to roll and fight against each other, and they collided with each other…
Then countless pearls fell from the high 90th level…
For a long time, this 90th level actually turned out to be like the first, before new advances were made…
91st, 92nd…
It went all the way up to the 98th level, before the gathering, fighting and striving started again…
Then, eventually, some pearl finally leaped up to the 99th level.
The 99th level had only one single leaf, it could hold only one pearl.
New pearls jumped up but were beaten down by the original pearl, and more came up again to be beaten down…
But for the one on top, although he was the only one, he was also jumping, jumping toward the endless void. It seemed to be still exploring if there was a new layer above this?
So, at last, for a moment, this pearl leaped up violently and did not fall back onto the leaves but deviated from the direction and fell down from the 99th level.
Down into the pool.
At this moment, Ning Tianya felt a severe shock in his heart!
It turned out that even on the 99th floor, it was possible to fall!
Then, this process continued. Finally, the little guy seemed to be finishing his martial technique. With a tired face, he put down his hands and breathed heavily.
All the pearls suddenly fell into the pool and disappeared, the waves calmed down and the strange bridge also disappeared.
The small tree in the pool also restored its original humble appearance.
The little guy exhaled, walking away with his bare buttocks. He looked at himself with pity for a while and said, “Ah, yet another weekday… it’s so hard…”
Ning Tianya’s heart leaped.
He was practicing a martial technique indeed!
What kind of technique was that?
This kind of magical martial technique was based on the model of a whole world? And it let practitioners be freely away from the world? Or was the whole world under the control of the practitioner?
Upon thinking this, Ning Tianya felt a chill down his spine.
He just watched sentient beings live and die like this and practiced martial techniques himself?
Then…
The little kid put on his split pants and left.
That tree actually stayed in the pool?
Ning Tianya suddenly felt a little tempted.
With his knowledge, he knew pretty much all the flowers and trees on this continent, but he singularly had never seen such a tree. It had to be extraordinary!
Of course, Ning Tianya was not so greedy as to want something that belonged to a little kid. He just wanted to examine it.
Seeing there was no one around, Ning Tianya came down the tree lightly, like a gust of smoke. In the next moment, he had already come to the side of the pool.
He tilted his head and looked at this strange little tree, now standing in the pool so quietly, motionless, every leaf becoming needle-shaped like a pine tree.
If he hadn’t seen it with his own eyes just now, he wouldn’t believe that this tree could have such a change!
Ning Tianya waved and that tree came to the edge of the pool automatically.
He stretched out his palms and gently stroked the leaves but found no abnormalities; he wanted to tear off a leaf and take a look, but when he tried to, he felt excruciating pain on his fingertips.
He couldn’t help but panic!
With his current cultivation, not to mention leaves, even an extremely sharp magical weapon wielded by a Supreme Martial Artist might not be able to cut through his skin!
Now, it was actually pierced by this little leaf?
And it was when he mobilized martial technique!
This was simply incredible!
Ning Tianya was surprised, and then something even more bizarre happened — Ning Tianya found that he couldn’t move!
The matter was ridiculous to speak of — A peak-level ninth-grade Supreme Martial Artist, who was already qualified for the Nine Heavens Imperial Court, was pierced by a tree in the Lower Three Heavens and paralyzed, unable to even blink… Pfft!
Supreme Ning sat down sadly on the ground. His eyes staring, he made a rather funny posture in confusion and stayed in the same position.
“Thief!” A childish voice cried out. “Stealing my tree!”
It was the voice of that little boy from just now!
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh…
A figure flew over extremely fast. An odd voice respectfully said, “Greetings, Prince… I will deal with this shameless guy immediately…”
Ning Tianya felt dejected.
Immediately, someone else arrived again from far away and a lot of people bowed together. “Your Majesty!”
Then, that eunuch with a weird voice started explaining the matter. A figure clad in bright yellow took two steps, as though he was observing Ning Tianya. Then, an authoritative voice sounded coldly. “Little thief… Push him out and execute him!”
