"Hahaha, as for my purpose, naturally there is one!" Qin Lie said with a hearty laugh. "This tree is called the Sui Tree. It is the fire tree beneath which the sage of the Suiren Clan attained enlightenment. A Strange Fire known as Sui Fire burns upon this tree. Within that Strange Fire, fire spirits are born—the Sui Fire Sprites. I need Sui Fire Sprites to cultivate my technique and temper my body, to truly break through into the Imperishable Realm. However, the Sui Fire Sprites only emerge from the Sui Tree to pick Heavenly Fire Fruits when the Heavenly Fire Fruits ripen once every ten thousand years..."
"You mean there are others coveting the Sui Fire Sprites as well?" Ye Xiwen immediately guessed what he meant.
He was secretly shocked. This Sui Tree was probably an extraordinary existence as well. The Suiren Clan had been an immensely powerful existence from an age so ancient that, in the old legends, he had been the first Human Emperor of the barbaric wilderness era before the emperors of the human race, an unparalleled being who led humanity out of the wilderness and beyond their ancestral homeland.
His strength had shone through all ages, and even now countless experts still had to look up to him. Yet that era was simply far too distant.
So distant that even the legendary Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors had not yet been born. Deities were said to be eternal, immortal and undying, yet quite a few had perished unexpectedly for all kinds of reasons. Whether any deities from that time still survived was unknown. Those legendary experts of ancient times could now only remain legends within legends.
Yet the Sui Tree had survived from that era. Even a pig, having lived for so long, would have