After all, it was only a corpse.
"Was she sacrificed to the Golden Ancient Tree?"
Yang Hao pondered. Shrek Academy did indeed have a tradition of sacrifice. In the original story, Mu En had sacrificed himself to the Golden Ancient Tree, temporarily merging his power and soul with it so he could cling to life with its strength.
This woman had probably done something similar, though she had left behind a complete corpse.
After investigating further, Yang Hao began devouring the corpse and extracting the power of her bloodline, to see whether he could tinker his way into producing a Golden Tree Martial Soul.
The Golden Tree and the Tree of Life were different species, each with its own traits.
The Tree of Life possessed only the ultimate life attribute, while the Golden Ancient Tree was a plant with both light and life attributes.
He had obtained the Tree of Life Martial Soul from Elder Zhuang, then transformed it into a seed and fused it with Ju Zi's Martial Soul, evolving it into the Life Orange Tree Martial Soul.
If he could now obtain the Golden Ancient Tree Martial Soul as well, he would have gathered the two mightiest divine trees on Douluo Continent. That would surely be of enormous help in evolving and supporting the Plane Life Core.
The corpse still held quite a few benefits. First was the bloodline power preserved in her genes, and second was her remaining Soul Power. That Soul Power had caused the coffin to mutate and had also kept the corpse perfectly preserved all this time.
Before long, the woman had been completely devoured, and her corpse had shriveled. Even her long, snow-white hair had turned dull and lifeless.
The leaves and roots that had grown from the coffin withered and fell away,