The journey passed without incident, and the group arrived directly at the very center of the Artisanship Commission.
The roots of the Ambrosial Arbor had wrapped around the Creation Furnace. Unnamed flames burned across them, yet failed to harm the tree in the slightest.
Before the roots stood an enormous object that resembled a flower bud.
Just as the group arrived, the entire Artisanship Commission suddenly shook.
The Ambrosial Arbor's energy surged into the bud, making it grow larger and hotter until it finally bloomed!
An enormous deerlike creature emerged from within!
This was the power of Abundance, creating life out of nothing!
How many abilities of the Ambrosial Arbor remained undiscovered?
The ancestors of the Xianzhou natives, the medical officers of the Alchemy Commission back then, had obtained longevity for their people from the Ambrosial Arbor.
Yet longevity was probably the most commonplace of the Ambrosial Arbor's abilities.
One prolonged life; the other created it. How could their difficulty even compare?
Longevity was a god's gift!
Creating life was a god's authority!
One could say that if the Xianzhou natives could develop this ability, they would effectively share in a god's power!
Why did the Denizens of Abundance pursue the Ambrosial Arbor so relentlessly? Why had they even launched several Wars of Abundance?
And why had Shuhu, that Emanator of Abundance, been so obsessed with it?
When Yaoshi bestowed the Ambrosial Arbor upon the Xianzhou, the gift had been far more than immortality!
It was simply difficult for mortals to imagine a god being so generous.
But while other gods might not be, Yaoshi certainly would.
Chu Mu could not help reflecting that the selfless Yaoshi was rather foolish. How could a god give everything away like that? No one would remember the kindness, and most of those drawn