Dongxi Village.
The Jade-Cold Pool.
Xu Chuan and Xu Mingxian strolled around the area, delight on their faces as they surveyed the flourishing medicinal plants.
Some of them could even be called spirit medicines.
Suddenly, three eagle cries rang out overhead. Three Azurefire Eagles, each several feet tall, swooped toward them with talons spread.
A tiger's roar followed.
The three Azurefire Eagles turned toward the Red-Gold-Eyed White Tiger beneath the Black Iron Tree, confusion in their eyes.
"Roar!"
After the White Tiger explained, the three Azurefire Eagles relented and landed on the branches of the Black Iron Fruit Tree, studying the visitors curiously.
"Little White, at least you still remember us."
The White Tiger rose and approached Xu Chuan and Xu Mingxian, lowering its head. Xu Chuan reached out and patted it gently.
Then the White Tiger returned beneath the Black Iron Fruit Tree.
Looking at it, Xu Chuan remarked, "Who would have thought the fruit pit your eldest brother happened to bring back would grow into a Demon Fruit Tree?"
"A Demon Fruit Tree?"
"Demon Fruit Trees only grow where demon beasts have fallen. Their fruit can transform fierce beasts. The more demon beasts died there, and the higher their cultivation realms in life, the better the quality of the black demon fruit. Once it reaches the second tier, it can even transform a demon beast's bloodline."
"Doesn't that make it a rare spirit tree?"
"Only those of the second tier or above are rare. From what I can see, this one is only first tier. Still, since it can grow here, demon beasts must have died around the Jade-Cold Pool.
Yet there have been no accounts of that in the past two or three hundred years. It must have happened even earlier, perhaps before these villages existed."
Xu