"Within the Relics of the Gods, there were only two things I had encountered that I found hard to explain."
"The first was the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant."
Trust those you employ; do not employ those you distrust.
Since he had decided to make the fullest possible use of Dao Qiongchang's ability to divine and calculate, Xu Xiaoshou unceremoniously raised the most sensitive question.
Of course, he also knew that for ordinary questions, Dao Qiongchang could simply seize someone and search their soul to learn nearly everything.
So, unfortunately enough, what puzzled him was precisely what Dao Qiongchang would be most interested in.
"The Ancestor Tree..." Dao Qiongchang lowered his head and murmured.
Everyone's gazes fell upon the white-robed, loose-haired Heavenly Secrets Practitioner. Each had their expectations, each had their own thoughts.
Some had decided to believe three parts of what he said.
Some had decided to believe half.
And there was Elder Sang, who had decided to listen to everything but not use any of it, instead judging from what followed whether Dao Qiongchang had truly "submitted" to Xu Xiaoshou.
Before long, Dao Qiongchang finished thinking. He raised his eyes and spoke with easy confidence.
"You should all know that the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant was the World Tree of the Relics of the Gods."
"But you probably do not know that before it became the World Tree of the Relics of the Gods, before it fell into the hands of the Godslayer Official..."
"The Saint-Infant Bearing Plant once had a connection with the Medicine Ancestor."
The Medicine Ancestor?
Xu Xiaoshou raised a brow, thinking of the bizarre vitality within the Dark Life Forest—was that where its power came from?
It was somewhat unexpected, yet also only natural.
Xu Xiaoshou had initially believed that most of that strangeness came from the