Today's fourth update: Chapter 3738! 4/6!
The lingzhi lineage was not among the most supreme or powerful branches of the Wood Race.
The fundamental reason was that none of their ancestors had produced an Ancestor Wood like the Willow God, one that had stepped into the Demigod Realm.
However, compared with the Wood Race's other branches that likewise lacked a demigod Ancestor Wood to watch over them, the lingzhi lineage was already among the finest.
Especially the Five Zhi Five Elders of the lingzhi lineage.
The true forms of those five were five SSS-tier Undying Divine Medicines.
Having weathered the passage of time, they had, over ten thousand years, merged themselves with the Dao of Five Elements.
Metal, wood, water, fire, earth—each held mastery over one.
The five elements revolved in an endless cycle.
When the Five Elders joined forces, they could contend against any existence beneath the Demigod Realm.
In the present age, all five were peak Eighth Realm powerhouses.
With such a foundation and such strength, how many branches in the entire Wood Race could stand alongside them?
The lingzhi lineage itself had not separated from the Wood Race.
They still took root deep within the Wood Domain and remained an indispensable part of the Wood Race.
However, the various mushrooms beneath them were separated out as an independent race.
Making use of the Xun Race's distinctive ability to spread and reproduce through spores, as well as their capacity for mycelial fission and propagation, they built up the race until it spread across the world.
This was the wisdom of the Wood Race—
There had to be towering trees guarding the center, but also wild grass spreading in every direction.
Plant Races were fundamentally different from Flesh Races, which ruled by dividing territories into clan lands.
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