As the purple flowers continued to grow and fade...
An invisible force seemed to surge up through Luo Zheng's feet.
The instant it entered him, a sharp pain shot through him.
Something spread inside Luo Zheng, racing along the meridians in his feet!
Alarmed, Luo Zheng tried to leap into the air.
But that thing had anchored him firmly to the ground, and his leap failed to lift him.
"Up!"
Luo Zheng's strength erupted, forcibly wrenching him into the air. He saw that two pure green saplings had appeared where his feet had stood.
Were these two saplings what had just burrowed into my body?
The saplings did not stop growing. Instead, they extended at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"This is..."
When he saw the shape the saplings were taking, Luo Zheng's pupils narrowed slightly.
The saplings seemed to grow along the paths of the meridians inside Luo Zheng's body. As they continued growing, they eventually traced out a complete human figure.
"It looks like these saplings would have completely filled my meridians if I hadn't moved away just now?" Luo Zheng said gravely.
"That should be the case," Primal Celestial Venerable reminded him. "Look at the other trees. Don't they resemble certain living creatures?"
After sweeping his gaze over them, Luo Zheng felt a violent twitch between his brows.
He had not noticed it before, but now he realized that every tree in this grove had a distinct shape. The tree on his left had four limbs and crouched on the ground. He could even vaguely make out its head, and its body was enormous. The tree on his right stood on two legs like Luo Zheng, but it was several dozen zhang tall, with a build much like that of the Bald Giant, Bo Fan.