Yuan Zhu stepped around the illegal bone structure the Auspicious White Deer had built on its own—suspected to be a doghouse. Playing the role of tour guide, he stood at the very peak of Herb-Holding Mountain and took the lead in gazing down at the beautiful scenery of Cold Pool Valley.
Because the mountain was high, the waters deep, and clouds and mist coiled around it, the scene in Cold Pool mountain stream looked somewhat like an ink-wash painting. On top of that, there were no animals or insects, only vegetation and the sound of running water, giving the whole place a secluded, unique mood. It truly did have a touch of immortal air.
Behind him happened to be a newly transplanted Reverse Growth Mulberry Tree sapling. Its trunk was as thick as a hemp stalk and three meters tall, with three forked branches at the top that looked bare, bearing only two tottering purple-black mulberry leaves in total.
Its fragile appearance made one worry whether it could even survive.
However, buried three meters directly beneath this mulberry sapling was an Insect Pillar Foundation Stone, forming the core node hub of the 108 Heavenly Stems and Earthly Fiends Array on this mountain.
At this very moment, the roots the sapling had drilled underground had already connected with the Stone Vascular Channels extending from the Foundation Stone, continuously injecting Shadow Power (nutrients) into it and urging it to grow strong.
If one observed closely, the mulberry sapling was coming back to life little by little, nurturing new buds. Its only two purple-black leaves were also slowly releasing thin Alien Species (shadow) Immortal Dao Spiritual Qi outward like an air purifier.
The reason the White Deer chose to build its "doghouse" here was precisely because its biological instincts had detected the extraordinariness