Chen Miao touched the root with his fingers, and an icy chill spread from his fingertips.
He activated Yin Gathering at his fingertips. Streams of cold energy quickly flowed out of the root and gathered in his palm.
Just as I thought-roots!
The roots of the pagoda trees!
All the yin energy gathered by Yin Gathering had come from inside these roots!
If Yin Gathering hadn't been able to draw out yin energy, Chen Miao would never have discovered the roots hidden in the walls!
Chen Miao continued digging into the other walls in the room. Once he peeled back their surfaces, he found roots in the gaps between the stones in most of them.
He traced the roots and noticed something strange about their shape.
One section was thick, the next thin.
After studying them for a while, Chen Miao suddenly realized how roots like these had formed.
Growth!
If only short lengths of root had originally been stuffed into the gaps in the walls, and those roots had later continued growing until they connected, that would explain what he was seeing.
It was a little miraculous, but zombies cooking meals had already become a reality. Growing roots hardly seemed so miraculous in comparison.
"But who put these roots in here?"
"If someone stuffed them in later while setting up the formation, that would have taken an enormous amount of work."
"And judging by how deeply they're embedded in the walls, they don't look like they were added later."
"Then they must have been put in when this room was first built!"
"In that case, the setup for this formation probably began when the village was built. It might have been in the making for over fifty years!"
"Who could it have been?"
"There seems to be only one