The ritual had not yet been completed, so Fang Yun headed for the Divine Burial Flower's location as quickly as possible.
After a day's long trek, Fang Yun finally reached a peculiar grove.
The trees here did not have wooden bodies like ordinary trees; they merely had the shape of trees.
Their surfaces were transparent crystal, with thick white smoke inside. The smoke flowed slowly within the crystal, making it emit a faint, brilliantly colored glow of breathtaking beauty.
Most of the white smoke flowed within the crystal, but some escaped and gathered overhead into white mist.
Mist Crystal Trees. This is the place.
With that thought, Fang Yun had Flowing Current stop and quietly studied what lay ahead.
Unlike other giant trees that easily reached several hundred zhang, the Mist Crystal Trees were only about ten zhang tall. Yet the white smoke above them was not only extremely poisonous but also fiercely corrosive. Even a Half-Sage could not remain within it for ten breaths.
There was no white smoke beneath the Mist Crystal Trees, but the trees were extremely fragile. Once an outside force disturbed their balance, an entire tree would explode, triggering a chain of explosions. Once the white mist inside erupted, even Flowing Current would crumble at a single blow.
None of this was worth mentioning to the thoroughly prepared Fang Yun.
Fang Yun kept taking things from the Sea-Swallowing Shell, most of them divine substances he had gathered along the way in the Tree Realm. Following the Tree Venerable's inheritance, he purified them and made a multicolored liquid, then added a drop of Sacred Blood.
Next, Fang Yun expended Sacred Qi to turn the liquid into a peculiar membrane that wrapped his entire body, sealing him tightly from head to toe without leaving a single gap.