The Golden Law-Speech Tree moved!
It did not passively endure, but actively responded to the destruction raging within him with an almost unhurried poise.
Its branches and leaves, brilliant as if forged from gold, trembled slightly. An invisible ripple spread from the crown, sweeping across the meridians scorched black by lightning and the flesh withered by decay.
Then, those wounds began to heal at an unimaginable speed.
This was not healing in the ordinary sense, but a deeper kind of "adaptation"—after healing, the meridians struck by lightning quietly formed a faint layer of thunder patterns across their surfaces, as though they had digested and absorbed that destructive power, turning it into part of themselves; the flesh eroded by decay became denser and tougher after regenerating, even the faint traces left behind by the passage of years being wiped away.
This was the Golden Divine Fruit's first fixed ability—Adaptation.
Jiang Xuan had used it to resist the erosion of the Eerie Blood Moon and to withstand the accelerated burden of Time Sand. Now, before this Final Tribulation Baleful Qi, it still displayed an astonishing effect.
Every eruption of tribulation was like providing the Golden Divine Tree with a "sample"; every injury and healing made his body and Soul Spirit a little more familiar with this destructive power, and a little more resistant to it.
Just as his body had evolved the foundation of Immovable and Unchanging beneath the crushing pressure of Time Sand, now, under the day-after-day erosion and tempering of the Final Tribulation Baleful Qi, his body was quietly transforming toward a Tribulation-Free Body.
What surprised Jiang Xuan even more was that the Blood Moon Tree had also lent a hand in secret—or rather, the Blood Moon Tree was absorbing the energy of the Final Tribulation to grow.
His body