The Gap Wasn't Great

No one had expected Fang Yun's "Song of Divination: Ode to Plum Blossoms" to trigger such an exceedingly rare phenomenon.

"Could it be Winter Gives Birth to Spring?"

Winter Gives Birth to Spring was an exceptionally unique phenomenon, rarely triggered by poetry or verse. Once triggered, it would inevitably appear at this time every year, year after year without end. Generally, only the power of the saints' Sacred Way could bring about such a phenomenon.

From then on, every deep winter, the plum blossoms in Plum Garden would bloom in great abundance ahead of time, enough to draw all the capital's people to visit by reputation and turn it into one of the capital's famous sights.

For scholars who hoped to leave their names in the annals of history, this phenomenon was of the greatest value. They would rather trade ten years of their lives for it.

"Look, flowers are blooming on a dead tree." A young man pointed at a withered plum tree that had long since died.

"What!"

"Where?"

"Then this isn't Winter Gives Birth to Spring, but the even greater phenomenon, Spring Returns to Withered Wood!"

Many people stood and hurried over to inspect it closely. Sure enough, the plum tree truly was dead; even its roots had been dug out. Yet, like the living plum trees around it, it had blossomed.

"I... feel my body growing hot!" said an old Metropolitan Graduate.

"This is the power of Spring Returns to Withered Wood. Gentlemen, you are fortunate! Any stubborn ailment you carry may either vanish or lessen." Chen Hanlin laughed and spoke loudly.

"I heard Spring Returns to Withered Wood possesses such power!"

"No wonder even Lord Left Prime Minister was so astonished."

"Haha, Fang Nation-Queller, well done! Lessened chronic ailments may let old fellows like us