It was late at night, and moonlight spilled everywhere.
Not a voice stirred in the secluded alley. Cool, tranquil moonlight illuminated the little Calligraphy and Painting Shop and draped the pine outside its door in a hazy veil.
Suddenly-
A hidden streak of moonlight flew in from the horizon, landing outside the shop before transforming into a cool, aloof woman who resembled a moonlight fairy.
It was Xiao Sui.
Under the moonlight, Xiao Sui glanced at the tightly shut doors of the Calligraphy and Painting Shop. Finding that Senior Lin was absent, she turned toward the pine by the entrance.
The pine did not respond.
After studying her for a while, Xiao Sui smiled thoughtfully. "Hmm, it seems... you haven't finished digesting the vital energy Azure Lord left behind?"
Before Azure Lord's Second Primordial Spirit, which had reincarnated in the mortal world, perished, she had preserved her vital energy and fragments of her Primordial Spirit. They also contained a trace of Jianmu's properties.
The vital energy was one thing, and the Jianmu properties had developed from the pine herself, making them easy to absorb. But the Primordial Spirit fragments contained a primordial unity great golden immortal's insights into the Dao, and naturally were not so easily absorbed.
Xiao Sui waved a hand, setting up a Sealing Barrier around the area.
Then she turned her palm over, and a piece of withered vine appeared in her hand, exuding an ancient, timeworn aura.
"Little Pine Tree, you really are blessed with good fortune. Lucky you."
Xiao Sui smiled faintly, and the withered vine flew toward the pine. Under the influence of her magic power, it crumbled into specks of hazy light that flowed steadily into the tree.
This was a withered vine left behind after a Time Tree died. Although its power