"Fellow Daoist Guan?" Shen Mo stepped forward, his face full of concern.
On one hand, he was worried about Guan Ling's injuries; on the other, he was desperate to learn the origins of that towering ancient tree!
In the blink of an eye, the wound on Guan Ling's finger had healed. As the artifact spirit of an immortal treasure, her true body was in fact the immortal artifact Ghost Gate Pass. The woman standing before Shen Mo and Zhao Lingyin was merely an incarnation condensed from her magic power. Yet her injury was entirely real—the "leaf" had wounded her true body, and the damage had manifested upon this form.
"It is nothing."
Guan Ling waved a hand, indicating that she was unharmed. After a long silence, she finally said, "The source of Fellow Daoist Zhao's death tribulation is the towering ancient tree you saw!"
Shen Mo and Zhao Lingyin exchanged a glance, then nodded together. "Please enlighten us, Fellow Daoist."
At the end of every dead-end road stood an incomparably massive towering ancient tree. After Zhao Lingyin successfully advanced to the Divine Bridge realm, it not only blocked her Dao Path, but also cut off her future, leaving her unable even to reincarnate.
There was no need to say more. That towering ancient tree was the source of Zhao Lingyin's death tribulation.
Yet Shen Mo and Zhao Lingyin did not know the ancient tree's origins, nor did they know how Zhao Lingyin had provoked such a terrifying existence!
"The tree that reaches the heavens is merely her Dharma manifestation. Her true body should also be a human cultivator. However, she does not belong to this era, but is a survivor of the previous era. Beyond this universe and heaven-and-earth we inhabit, there are quite a few existences like her. They