"True Person, I found a way to cultivate the Demon-Devil Symbiotic Tree!"
Luo Chen froze at those words. "What did you say?"
"The Demon-Devil—"
"Wait!"
Luo Chen cut Sang Jinghe off and glanced at Fu Hongzhang, who was exchanging resources with Tian Xuan. Fu Hongzhang looked bewildered.
When he noticed Luo Chen looking at him, he hurriedly lowered his head.
"Come outside with me."
Luo Chen rose calmly and walked out of the room, then cast a soundproof barrier.
Knowing he had spoken carelessly in front of others, Sang Jinghe said in alarm, "Please forgive me, True Person. I wasn't thinking—"
"It's fine."
Luo Chen waved a hand. He understood; Sang Jinghe had simply been too excited.
Besides, precious as the Demon-Devil Symbiotic Tree was, it was a newly bred hybrid with no record anywhere in the Mountain Sea World, ancient or modern. It hardly mattered if a Fu Family cultivator heard its name.
What surprised him was that Sang Jinghe had found a way to cultivate it.
The Demon-Devil Symbiotic Tree had been created by the Heaven Refining Devil Monarch, who took a True Scale Tree as its foundation and fused into it the hearts of a Tier 5 Ancient Demon and a Tier 5 Ancient Devil.
It resembled a spirit tree without quite being one, and a demon or devil without being either.
From the moment the hybrid took shape, it had been Tier 5.
But because its creation offended the harmony of heaven, it found it exceedingly difficult to gain sentience. As Taisui had said, only by undergoing Tribulation Lightning and surviving heaven and earth's wrath could it gain sentience and bear fruit.
And according to Taisui's conjecture, that fruit might be immensely beneficial to Body Tempering!
Unfortunately, after obtaining the tree, Luo Chen had not even