But since Osmanthus Tree had said so, Lin Qi went along with his wishes and played a hypocritical game with the two Divine Venerables. Yet Lin Qi still did not understand why Osmanthus Tree and the others were so interested in the Myriad Forms Divine Pool.
"When Elysian Heaven mentioned the Myriad Forms Divine Pool before, my data was too badly damaged, so I failed to recall this in time." Osmanthus Tree's voice drifted out leisurely. "But recently, I have repaired quite a few storage modules, and Dragon Cliff and Mithril Mountain provided me with some backed-up public records. So we believe that the Myriad Forms Divine Pool may be the 'Immortal Ascension Pool.'"
The Immortal Ascension Pool?
The name carried a rich Eastern flavor. While in the Blood Qin Empire, Lin Qi had read several incomplete volumes of ancient inherited texts, which seemed to contain many incredible interpretations and extensions of the term "immortal." It referred to a lifeform that, through arduous cultivation and self-evolution pushed to its limits, became an existence almost like a god.
"The Immortal Ascension Pool? What is that?" Lin Qi asked Osmanthus Tree curiously.
"The Immortal Ascension Pool is an important component of Penglai. Penglai, Yingzhou, Fanghu, Daiyu, and Yuanjiao—they are the five great immortal islands among the Eight Lesser Grotto-Heavens of the Immortal Realm in the Origin Realm. Or perhaps I should put it this way: their status in the Immortal Realm is equivalent to the Hall of the Doomsday Apocalypse's status in the Divine Realm." Osmanthus Tree's voice was filled with faint nostalgia. "And the template for my original main body was an osmanthus tree on Yingzhou."
Lin Qi was deeply shaken. Only he himself knew just how powerful Osmanthus Tree was, and how much help he had given him. The original