"This is a phantom projection of the sect's supreme treasure, the Shennong Ruler."
The Spirit Vine did not elaborate, merely gesturing for Li Ye to step forward. "Go touch it."
Li Ye took a deep breath—Shennong Ruler? Wasn't that Shennong's treasure? Earlier, he had wondered whether the Sui Fire had been created by Suiren. Now, it seemed that was indeed the case.
Since a projection of the Shennong Ruler was here, did that not mean the Four Seasons Sect was connected to Shennong?
This sect appeared to be even more terrifying than he had imagined.
Though those thoughts ran through his mind, his feet did not stop. He had already arrived before the Shennong Ruler. After giving a slight bow, he reached out and touched the bronze-colored ruler.
There was no imagined artifact spirit passing down teachings. Instead, a string of characters surged straight into his mind.
It was a spell called the "Azure Lotus Flight Art."
It could transform one's spiritual power into fluttering azure lotus petals, use one's own spiritual power to sense things, and then let those life-filled lotus petals erase the suffering of spirit plants and spirit beasts.
—Just like the Dawnlight Seed-Soothing Art and the Earth Sentiment Technique he had learned before, he first had to understand where the pain came from before he could dispel it.
After Li Ye received the spell, the Shennong Ruler before him glimmered faintly. A crystalline lotus seed, seemingly carved from green jade, emerged before him.
Name: Flight Azure Lotus Seed
Mood: None
Status: Forged from Spiritual Power
Bindable: "Wood"-attribute spirit beasts whose spiritual power attributes match its own.
Along with the lotus seed came a piece of information—this lotus seed was a Primal Spirit Plant. Such spirit plants were formed from primal energy and spirituality. They did not