After Xu Qingtong hacked open the stump, blood actually flowed from the wound, giving him quite a fright.
He backed away a few steps, then focused his gaze on it. Thick blood was still flowing from the wound in the stump, but no monster appeared.
After he waited another long while, the blood flowing from the stump began to form a crust.
Staring at the crust of blood on the stump, Xu Qingtong suddenly thought of something.
"Could this be longjie?"
He carefully recalled the jade slips he had read. He seemed to have seen records of longjie in the Library Pavilions of both Juxian Academy and the Wuji Sect.
"Longjie is the resin of purple-blood wood. Its leaves resemble cherry leaves but are triangular. When cut, resin flows forth; over time, it hardens and congeals into longjie, red as blood."
Recalling the description in the ancient texts, Xu Qingtong looked again at the trunks and leaves growing beside the stump and finally recognized the tree as purple-blood wood!
According to historical records, newly formed longjie was not particularly valuable and could only serve as a medicinal ingredient in the mortal world, yet even so, it could "raise the dead and put flesh upon bare bones"!
Once longjie reached a medicinal age of a hundred years, it could be used to refine elixirs. Yet among the pill recipes Xu Qingtong knew, none called for longjie.
However, the ancient texts had also mentioned that longjie buried underground could absorb the essence of heaven and earth over the long years, eventually becoming "red as fire, hard as metal, colder than ice"-a rare treasure of nature!
Looking at the longjie before him, Xu Qingtong shook his head helplessly. Surely he could not bury it here and wait a thousand or ten thousand years