"What a pity. If it weren't trapped in this secret realm, it would probably have developed sentience long ago, perhaps even become a spirit cultivator."
Yun Zhen's words were laden with regret.
"It is a Purple Mansion immortal root, after all. Even its branches and leaves are treasures."
Ying Huang picked up the thread, pointing at the white blossoms swaying overhead.
"You've arrived at just the right time. This locust is a wondrous tree by nature: green for ten years, yellow and white after a hundred, bearing fruit after a thousand. Once it matures, the first shake raises the Xun wind, sending its leaves fluttering down. The second shake drops twelve blossoms, each one a spirit resource. The third shake brings forth pods, three in all, each a spirit treasure. It is a supreme treasure capable of passing on a Dao lineage!"
Not only Jiang Yang, but even Chu Qingjian beside him felt her heart stir at these words. When had they ever encountered an immortal tree like this?
"A Purple Mansion immortal root that produces spirit resources every hundred years and nurtures spirit treasures every thousand, all at the Purple Mansion level. So long as the Dao lineage's succession remains unbroken, it will never lack spirit treasures again. It truly deserves its reputation as a treasure for passing on the Dao."
Chu Qingjian gazed upward, murmuring to herself.
Truth be told, even Rain Xiang Mountain had no immortal tree like this. At most, the ancestral [moon-white spirit-clear elm] on White Elm Peak was worthy of praise, but neither its yield nor its effects could remotely compare with the tree before them.
Yun Zhen continued:
"The Pagoda Flowers expand divine powers and magic power, while the Pagoda Fruit grants insight and advances one's cultivation! Both progress together. These are treasures