After passing through a beautiful city, he entered a grove of Divine Blue Trees. Their branches flourished, their sky-blue leaves shaped like maple leaves. They stayed that way all year round. Even their flowers were a dreamy pale blue, with white stamens, while their trunks and branches looked carved from blue crystal, gleaming a brilliant azure.
The Sacrificial Spirit, Silver Mountain, stood only eight hundred meters tall, yet its towering presence felt more majestic than the three-thousand-meter mountains beside it. A waterfall more than three thousand meters long plunged down behind the mountain. Seen from afar, it resembled a silver True Dragon diving earthward, accompanied by a thunderous roar that shook the heavens. It fell into a pool and became a river that flowed past Silver Mountain.
"Ancestor, I've come to see you! Look what treasure I brought you."
Xiao Tian took out a Heavenly Bone belonging to a Baxia, which he had obtained in the Heavenly Bone Forbidden Zone. It was undoubtedly the most essential portion of bone left behind after a Divine Fire Realm creature's death, containing Divine Spirit dao patterns and part of the Baxia's Treasure Art.
The Classic of Mountains and Seas · Food Records recorded that Baxia, also called Bixi or the dragon tortoise, was the sixth of the dragon's nine sons in ancient mythology, an auspicious beast. It resembled a tortoise, with a dragon's head and a flood dragon's tail, and excelled at carrying heavy loads. Often used to bear the bases of stone monuments, it was suitable for making soup, bolstering virility, nourishing the kidneys, strengthening essence, and fortifying the body.
To erect monuments and record the lives of deceased emperors and sages, singing their praises and extolling their virtues, the ancients often placed enormous stone tablets on a Bixi's back. They intended