"I saw your brother. Try communicating with him and getting him to run away with us. I think it's worth a shot. Look, he's been plucked practically bald. Tsk, tsk, how pitiful.
You others should help persuade him too."
Xiao Tian began his persuasion campaign. He had originally planned to wait a little longer, but seeing the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree suddenly gave him confidence.
At first glance, the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree was utterly bare, like an apple tree in winter. Not a single leaf remained. They really had picked him clean!
The old tree's only saving grace was that no one had chopped off his main trunk for coffin boards. His trunk was thick, his old bark rough, and the years had left countless mottled marks upon him, making him look like an old dragon covered in bristling scales, lying dormant here.
If not for the misty immortal qi circulating around him and the precious radiance naturally blossoming between his branches, Xiao Tian would have suspected that the old tree had kicked the bucket.
The immortal medicines he carried naturally did not refuse. For Xiao Tian alone to possess so many immortal medicines, he had to be an utterly terrifying existence blessed with tremendous fortune.
Besides, the all-things soil in his Immortal Medicine Garden was measured in acres. Even a Burial King could hardly possess more than that, right?!
Beneath the old tree stood a blood-red earthen altar, refined from soil steeped in an Immortal King's blood. It had been placed here to protect or imprison the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree, and could also serve as a trial.
Rows of flawless white jade jars sat upon the altar, brilliant and gleaming. Hazy light spilled from them, threaded with traces of the immortal Dao, a dazzling sight that set