Anything people refuse to take seriously must be real. Lin Bai looked toward Azure Wood a hundred li away, grumbled inwardly, and prepared to face the Tree Spirit.
Azure Wood towered into the clouds, taller than many of the surrounding mountain ranges.
Even a hundred li away, with an expansive view, Lin Bai could not see its crown. Everything above two-thirds of the trunk was hidden by clouds.
Azure Wood had thick, sturdy branches, and many wooden houses had been built amid its broad boughs and leaves. Clouds and mist wreathed the foliage, making it as beautiful as an elven kingdom from a fairy tale, or Jianmu, the legendary bridge between heaven and earth.
There was nothing strange about a divine tree like this giving birth to a Tree Spirit.
The Blood Sect's Blood Sea had also formed naturally, but it owed most of its current scale to subsequent human intervention. Strictly speaking, it was half natural, half artificial.
Azure Wood, however, was clearly a naturally formed Divine Tree. The Sacred Ultimate Sect had built its foundation upon it, giving it a prestige countless leagues above the Blood Sea. It thoroughly deserved its reputation as the foremost of the Five Demon Sects.
"The Sacred Ultimate Sect fled without leaving a single soul behind. They wouldn't even fight! What a disgrace to the Five Demon Sects." A Mahayana Realm cultivator in the Phoenix Seeks the Phoenix troupe loudly voiced his displeasure.
This Mahayana Realm cultivator was named Song Xu. His performance was a headstand, and he had already spent a full day and night with his limbs pointing skyward.
His cultivation was profound, so prolonged inversion did not send blood rushing to his head as it would an ordinary person.
But after spending so long seeing nothing but calves and