Flowers Bloom in an Instant!
A single glance made withered wood return to spring; a snap of the fingers made a hundred flowers bloom at once. It compressed a spring that should have taken an entire season to arrive into a single instant.
There was no need to wait.
There was no need to accumulate.
There was no need for a long cycle.
So long as Xu Changqing wished it, spring could fill the world in an instant.
This move was both a divine ability and a gift from the Myriad Dao Tree. Within the system of divine abilities, it belonged to the "Creation" branch.
Its essence was not the manipulation of vegetation, but the alteration of time itself.
It freed spring from the shackles of time, allowing it to descend in any given instant.
The Myriad Dao Tree's radiance began to fade, and the pillar of green light gradually contracted. The myriad petals all vanished.
It was as though everything that had just happened had merely been an illusion.
Xu Changqing looked at his right palm. There was a pattern there, resembling an unopened flower bud.
It vanished in the blink of an eye, sinking beneath his skin.
The world became clear.
The clamor of voices.
The footsteps of his fellow disciples.
The breathing of the people nearby.
He could even sense everyone's thoughts.
Xu Changqing swept out with his Divine Sense and discovered that the situation around him was somewhat strange.
The Dao Sect disciples had formed a huge circle.
Yet everyone had tacitly kept a considerable distance away. No one approached the Myriad Dao Tree, and no one even stepped within the area covered by its canopy.
All their gazes were focused on him.
Those gazes contained a tangled mix of astonishment, curiosity, envy, scrutiny,