"Had I not entered this scene today to examine it closely, who could have imagined that this seemingly unremarkable great elm tree had such a terrifying side?"
Xu Taiping gazed down at the tree shadows writhing like snakes below, his eyes filled with horror.
Just as he thought this was everything the great deductive power wanted to show him, he suddenly saw tiny twig shadows beginning to sprout along the edges of those serpentine branch shadows, as though they were putting out branches and leaves.
They looked like fruit borne by the great elm tree.
Xu Taiping carefully examined the great elm tree itself and found no change in its branches.
While he was still marveling at this, he suddenly noticed the newly grown twigs within the tree's shadow twisting and turning into characters of an extremely strange form.
They closely resembled the Human Race's ancient seal script, yet looked even more like the tortoiseshell inscriptions of Primordial Antiquity.
After a brief moment of stunned silence, a thought suddenly struck Xu Taiping:
"The Blood Ancestor is using this to send messages to the outside world!"
At this thought, Xu Taiping immediately asked the Lotus Eye:
"Lotus Eye, do you recognize the writing on this tree shadow?"
With Xu Taiping's permission, the Lotus Eye also looked through his mind and saw the strange characters that had formed upon the great elm tree's shadow.
Then the Lotus Eye said in great surprise:
"This looks like Dragon Script."
Xu Taiping's heart jolted.
This was already the third time he had heard someone mention Dragon Script.
The first was the Dao Seal writing left behind by Haitang and her husband when he first descended the mountain, and the second was when he heard about it from the Dragon Emperor Cangzhou, who presided over the