Ancient Shanyin Scholar Tree

"Leave Blue Star and traverse the stars filling the sky?"

As he looked at the countless stars, Wang Xian turned his head and murmured softly, his eyes growing brighter and brighter.

Yes!

Since one dream was already about to come true, he should give himself a new one.

Only those with dreams would not lose their way!

At that moment, Wang Xian also settled on his new dream: the boundless sea of stars.

"Thank you!"

Wang Xian sincerely thanked Nangong Wu. Her words had completely awakened him from the dead end he had trapped himself in.

Nangong Wu sat up and asked with a smile, "Have you figured it out?"

"Mm, I have."

Wang Xian smiled in reply. The confusion in his heart had faded by seventy or eighty percent. What remained was the future direction of his profession, and that was not something Nangong Wu could help him with.

"Uncle, do you know why we came to Ji City?"

Nangong Wu suddenly asked a question that left Wang Xian utterly baffled.

Wang Xian decisively shook his head. He had actually been quite curious about that himself.

Without saying anything, Nangong Wu took a dry branch from her backpack. It was as thick as a thumb and roughly half a meter long, and she held it out before Wang Xian.

"What's this?"

Wang Xian took the branch with a puzzled expression.

"Uncle, take a look at its attributes," Nangong Wu reminded him.

What good attributes could a dry branch possibly have?

Still doubtful, Wang Xian looked at the branch in his hand.

But when he saw its attributes clearly, all that remained on his face was profound shock.

Branch of the Ancient Shanyin Scholar Tree (Epic Grade)

Attributes: At midnight on July 14, hold this branch beneath the Ancient Shanyin Scholar Tree to receive a blessing.

Ancient Shanyin Scholar Tree?

Naturally, Wang Xian was familiar with it. It was an extremely famous ancient scholar tree in Ji City. There was not a single Ji City resident who did not know of it.

Rumor had it that the ancient scholar tree was over two thousand years old and had appeared even before Ji City existed. Ji City also had many legends concerning it.

However, not long after Datafication began, the ancient scholar tree transformed into a graceful young man and vanished. That was very similar to one of the legends about the scholar tree in Ji City.

In his previous life, Wang Xian had even made a special trip to see it after returning to Ji City...

Wait!

Wang Xian suddenly froze in place. He had just remembered something he had overlooked.

The ancient scholar tree in Ji City had not disappeared yet!

Could it be that this branch was what had caused the scholar tree to take human form and disappear?

"Uncle seems to have remembered something again?"

Nangong Wu's voice rang out.

Wang Xian calmly returned the branch to Nangong Wu, automatically ignoring what she had just said. "Why are you showing me this? Aren't you afraid I'll take it?"

"Of course I'm afraid. But I'm just a weak little woman. If Uncle wants to take it, there's nothing I can do to resist!"

Nangong Wu put on an expression of utter fear.

The corner of Wang Xian's mouth twitched. "Get to the point."

"How boring!"

Nangong Wu muttered before saying, "We came to Ji City for the blessing mentioned in this branch's attributes. An Epic Grade item's blessing must be anything but ordinary."

"And then?"

"Scholar trees are also known as ghost trees. Now that the Ghost Gate has opened, I suspect there must be many powerful ghosts near that Ancient Shanyin Scholar Tree. I'm afraid something unexpected might happen, so I want Uncle to help us."

Wang Xian did not speak. Instead, he fell into deep thought.

He thought of the talents of Nangong Wu, Yue Rushuang, and Feng Luoli.

Perhaps the talents attributed to Feng Luoli and Yue Rushuang had not been photoshopped. Perhaps they truly were Epic Grade, and it was the Ancient Shanyin Scholar Tree's blessing that had turned their talents into Epic Grade.

And Nangong Wu's talent probably was not Ordinary Grade either. It was likely Epic Grade as well.

Otherwise, the Hidden Profession Phoenix Heavenly Maiden alone would have found it difficult to make her the number one Mage in the Dragon Kingdom.

For example, Lord of Stars, a Hidden Profession that could summon countless meteors, was absolutely no weaker than Phoenix Heavenly Maiden in terms of professional strength alone.

Yet the truth was that Lord of Stars was no match for Nangong Wu at all.

Thus, countless people had speculated that Nangong Wu possessed an incredibly powerful talent that greatly enhanced the Hidden Profession Phoenix Heavenly Maiden, allowing Phoenix Heavenly Maiden to crush Lord of Stars.

Seeing Wang Xian lost in thought, Nangong Wu's face darkened.

She knew Wang Xian was hiding countless secrets.

But as someone with countless secrets, shouldn't he be able to keep his emotions from showing?

For that reason, Nangong Wu felt it was necessary to remind this man.

"Uncle?"

"Huh? What is it?"

Nangong Wu's voice pulled Wang Xian from his thoughts. He looked at her with a confused expression.

The dark lines on Nangong Wu's face multiplied.

"Uncle, if someone had many secrets and didn't want others to know about them, what do you think they should do?" Nangong Wu asked.

"What do you mean?"

Wang Xian looked calmly at Nangong Wu, though inwardly he was panicking like crazy.

Had Nangong Wu discovered that he had been reborn?

"Uncle, everyone has secrets, but could you stop wearing the fact that you have secrets all over your face? Your eyes and expression right now look like four huge words are written across your face!"

Wang Xian immediately asked, "What four words?"

Nangong Wu snapped, "I have secrets!"

She was practically going mad. She had never seen anyone so stupid.

"Do I?"

Wang Xian subconsciously touched his face.

"Uncle, you're hopeless!"

Looking thoroughly defeated by Wang Xian, Nangong Wu slapped her forehead, turned, and jumped down from the rooftop, leaving Wang Xian alone in the wind.

Six days later, Wang Xian had reached Level 27. Su Jin was also Level 27, while everyone else had reached Level 25.

The group sat in an electric three-wheeled vehicle and headed toward the city center.

Their destination was naturally the Ancient Shanyin Scholar Tree.

Beneath the Ancient Shanyin Scholar Tree.

Wang Xian wore a stunned expression as he pulled his hand away from the trunk of the ancient scholar tree.

At that moment, his mind was a complete mess. Only the attributes of the Ancient Shanyin Scholar Tree before him remained crystal clear.

Ancient Shanyin Scholar Tree (Epic Grade)

Status: Undergoing transformation.

Description: Originally an ordinary tree, it endured the passage of countless years and absorbed immense power of faith, gradually transforming into a spirit tree.

Destroyed after enduring a lightning tribulation, it underwent a transformation after being reborn. Once the transformation is complete, it will evolve into Mythical Grade.

Wang Xian simply could not believe that the ancient scholar tree that had weathered the storms of Ji City for over a thousand years was actually about to evolve into Mythical Grade.

He was not unfamiliar with the description in its attributes.

The so-called destruction after enduring a lightning tribulation should have been what happened in 1992.

Back then, this thousand-year-old scholar tree had been destroyed by lightning falling from the sky, and the people of Ji City had mourned deeply over it.

Yet not long afterward, the ancient scholar tree once again radiated vigorous life.