"This is... good! Since you have that idea, Fellow Daoist Shen, please follow me." The Guiding Daoist's eyes lit up. He then gave Shen Luo a long, searching look before turning and flying into the distance.
Shen Luo did not hesitate and followed close behind the Guiding Daoist.
Although the others did not understand what was happening, they dared not disobey the Guiding Daoist. They all leaped into the air and followed, continuing to keep Shen Luo surrounded.
The group flew toward the woods behind the valley and soon reached their depths.
The trees here grew ever taller. Some had trunks several dozen feet thick and stood hundreds of feet high, resembling little green mountains.
Shen Luo looked at the enormous trees before him with a trace of surprise, but then his brows lifted slightly, and his expression returned to normal.
The Guiding Daoist stopped before the towering trees, turned his hand over to produce a green token, and pointed at it while forming a hand seal.
A ray of green light shot out and merged into the empty air ahead.
Ripples immediately spread through the air before them. Then it parted like a curtain being drawn aside, revealing an enormous orchard.
The orchard covered an area forty or fifty li across and was enclosed by a towering earthen-yellow wall. In both size and grandeur, it rivaled the imperial palace of the Great Tang.
Tall walls also divided the orchard itself into countless courtyards of varying sizes, each planted with one or several precious spirit trees.
The spiritual energy of heaven and earth here was unimaginably dense. Even the Purple Bamboo Grove on Mount Putuo and the Nine Brahma Secret Realm fell far short of it.
The soil on the ground was no ordinary earth either. It was pale purple