"Everlasting Vine? Are you sure?"
Yue Yingxian's words startled Chen Lin.
He immediately pressed her. "As far as I know, the Everlasting Vine isn't aggressive, is it? And isn't it covered in Everlasting Bells? This doesn't match."
"I'm not entirely sure either."
Yue Yingxian shook her head.
Then she continued, "But the Everlasting Vine isn't incapable of attacking. It simply doesn't attack unprovoked. As for the Everlasting Bells, they are indeed its distinguishing feature, but this is only a section of vine. We can't say whether there are wind chimes on the main body."
At this point,
she peered at it intently again.
After withdrawing her gaze, she said to Chen Lin, "Fellow Daoist Chen, look closely. Don't the markings on this vine resemble two people drinking with their arms entwined? Apart from the Everlasting Vine, I've never heard of a spirit plant with anything like that."
Chen Lin focused his gaze on it.
Sure enough, just as she had said, the protruding section of vine bore two intertwined patterns, resembling two people drinking with their arms linked.
The markings gleamed, making them reasonably clear under the light.
"Why would there be an Everlasting Vine here?"
He frowned and muttered.
"It's not impossible."
Zhou Anshi spoke up beside them.
"Since the Everlasting Vine grows naturally, there can't be only one. Although we've never heard of one anywhere else in the Star Ruins, it wouldn't be strange for one to exist here."
"However."
He pondered for a moment.
Then he said gravely, "The Everlasting Vine is an extremely high-grade spirit plant. If it can grow inside this tower, supernatural energy must exist here. Who knows whether there might be powerful yaoguai?"
Chen Lin said nothing.
The vine itself was a yaoguai. If Tiezhu hadn't happened to be fully fed, he would