However, Meng Zhao stood there blankly, staring at the strange tree before him. For now, he would call it the Fire Cloud Tree.
The trees in this Guardian Forest were mostly tall, slender Water Blue Fir Trees, varying in height according to their age.
This species belonged to water. The place where it grew was dark, damp, and thick with moisture—a kind of tree and environment that complemented and fulfilled one another.
Yet under his Qi Gazing Technique, this Fire Cloud Tree was a complete outlier in the Guardian Forest. Its Fire Element Essence surged like a raging sea, rising and falling in mighty swells. It seemed to draw all the Heaven and Earth Fire Element Vital Energy into itself, condensing their essence. That was why, amid this clash of water and fire, the water element flourished, and Water Blue Fir Trees covered the land.
By his estimation, this Guardian Forest should actually have been an exceedingly dry, scorching region. The trees growing here should mostly have been drought-resistant, water-averse varieties. Only that would have accorded with common sense.
But this Fire Cloud Tree was rather bizarre. It swallowed and exhaled all Fire Element Essence into its own trunk, concealing it without the slightest leak. Only then did the Guardian Forest come to be filled with rampant water vapor as it was now.
If that had been all, Meng Zhao would not have been so astonished. What truly caught his attention was that the tree's breathing in and out of Heaven and Earth Fire Element Vital Energy, as well as its gathering and concealing of essence, bore several traces of the Meng Family's Red Flag Order.
Ordinary martial artists naturally could not make sense of it. Even those who cultivated the Red Flag Order might not necessarily see through the