Countless roots twisted and coiled, crisscrossing into a vast, densely woven spiderweb that sealed off the entire underground lair. Every strand writhed faintly, brimming with living vitality.
Jiang Lu's mind reeled. The records of the various races she had read that day flashed through her head, and a name surfaced.
-the tree of life!
This was the very foundation upon which the Hundred Blossoms Sacred Ground had been established, its supreme treasure passed down for ten thousand years.
Where in the world had she ended up?
Why was the tree of life inside this secret realm? Wasn't it supposed to be in the forbidden grounds?
Ancient texts recorded: the tree of life nurtured the vitality of heaven and earth and drew upon the spiritual veins of mountains and rivers. Rooted in the earth, it could nourish the spiritual energy of an entire region, nurture countless spiritual plants, and cleanse all things of their impurities.
Its nature was supremely benevolent and pure, yet also domineering to the extreme. It fed upon the vital essence of living beings and nourished its roots with the vitality of all things.
Ordinarily, it released endless vitality to nourish the surrounding spiritual plants. But once a living creature entered its root system, its roots would coil around and imprison them, draining their bodily essence and spiritual power to strengthen its own roots and stabilize the foundation of the earth veins.
The supreme treasure for cleansing the essence and purifying the marrow, coveted by all, was precisely the Life Condensate formed by the writhing of these living roots.
A single drop could cleanse impurities from the meridians. It was a supreme liquid that cultivators could only encounter by chance, impossible to obtain even with a fortune in gold.
Even the Sacred Lord of the Hundred Blossoms Sacred