Raising Seedlings

704 Raising Seedlings

Before the words had even left his mouth, the entire cavern abode suddenly flipped upside down. The Coiled Dragon Pattern on the Bronze Cauldron swam out from its surface, and wherever its whiskers swept, the rock walls peeled away to reveal gleaming Jade Marrow Veins.

The Peach Pit in Zhang Yantang's arms floated into the air on its own. Its roots pierced the void and burrowed into the Jade Marrow, and in the blink of an eye, branches sprang forth, growing into a three-zhang-tall Jade Peach Tree.

"So that's how it is..." Qingshi Fulin's fingertips brushed across the tree's cracked bark. "The Immortal Flat Peach Plant transplanted from the Jade Pool hundreds of thousands of years ago was actually refined into a Lock Core."

Between the peach tree's branches, the Ink Jade Heart had already transformed into Amber Peach Resin.

Zhang Yantang suddenly clutched his left eye. He saw a human figure curled up inside every newly formed young peach—the Plant Spirits he had once forced to grow were now reshaping their spiritual bodies within the fruit.

Dong E'qing's blade hooked aside the Black Vine lunging at them. The splashed sap etched a trigram onto the Jade Marrow ground: "Kan Above, Gen Below—Water Mountain Jian. Qingshi, to turn the Jian Trigram into Tai, I'm afraid we'll have to rely on that 'stupid method' of Young Zhang's."

Zhang Yantang understood and pressed his bloodstained palm against the peach tree's trunk.

In an instant, the Immortal Foundation [Yuanmu Xuan'kao] began operating on its own. Countless phantoms of Golden Chains spread outward from the roots.

The Tomb Guardian Spirit formed from black mist let out a shrill scream. Each time a chain pierced through its body, it solidified further, until at last it transformed into a sky full of stars