Meng Zhao was one of the few people present who knew whether those two possibilities were real.
Though he had never cultivated the martial arts of the Yin Mountain Lineage, he had created the Emperor's Qi Gazing Technique and gained a glimpse into the way of the Heaven Earth Man Trinity. As he secretly activated the technique to survey the mountain contours and earth veins, the scene before his eyes underwent an earth-shaking transformation.
The beautiful mountains and rivers, the cascading waterfalls that outsiders saw, all vanished. In their place were vibrant, life-filled currents of qi in every color. Countless streams of qi roamed through this stretch of heaven and earth, yet it was faintly apparent that they all revolved around that giant tree whose bark resembled Jade Stone.
The giant tree had transformed into an enormous pillar gathering boundless energy, heaven-piercing and earth-penetrating. Not only were its roots buried deep within the earth, but invisibly, it also received the power of the heavens, like the world tree, Jianmu, from mythological tales, linking heaven, earth, and man.
In that instant, an astonishing gleam burst from Meng Zhao's eyes. This tree, which resembled Jianmu, had faintly formed some kind of connection with his Emperor's Qi Gazing Technique. In the unseen realm, they could influence one another.
Yet that sensation was far too faint and vanished in an instant. Meng Zhao immediately returned to normal, as though nothing had happened.
Still, his momentary abnormality had been noticed by the three Grandmaster experts present: Lei Wanche, the Ox-Head God, and the Horse-Face Ghost.
Lei Wanche did not suspect Meng Zhao's identity. He merely assumed Lei Chongfeng had gained some sort of insight. After all, he was one of the family's little geniuses and had also gained something in the Grotto-Heaven Secret Realm last