Chapter 316: Affairs at Limitless Mountain, the order of succession (5,000 words, asking for monthly votes~)
Cheng Xinzhan concealed his aura and quietly approached.
On drawing closer, he discovered a rocky crevice in a mountain gully, with a murmuring stream and several rotten trees sprawled haphazardly in its waters. Two people now stood atop the pile of rotten wood, both in black robes embroidered with the five poisonous creatures-the attire of the Five Poisons Sect.
Cheng Xinzhan was somewhat surprised. Hearing the argument earlier, he had assumed Rogue Cultivators on the outskirts of Limitless Mountain were fighting over baleful intent. It turned out to be two fellow disciples of the Five Poisons Sect.
Between them, Cheng Xinzhan saw a dead tree with a hollow, rotten center, covered by two layers of Mercury Net. Beneath the nets lay baleful intent in shades of green and yellow.
It was precisely the "baleful intent of blossoms on a sick tree."
Cheng Xinzhan's eyes lit up. This baleful intent really was rather important to him. Bright Governance Mountain possessed a secret Wood Element technique called the "Withering and Flourishing Life-Urging Spell," a manifestation of the great Dao of Yin-Yang, life and death through the Wood Element. Only someone who understood the transformations of withering and flourishing could cast it. Although he had comprehended its underlying principles through the tiny wisp of baleful intent of blossoms on a sick tree that his Daoist brother Ji Hu had given him, and could now cast it, its power would undoubtedly increase if he directly substituted that baleful intent for Wood Element magical power when casting it.
Moreover, while refining the baleful intent of blossoms on a sick tree, Cheng Xinzhan had discovered that using it together with plain wind cool-heavenly gang and white calamity impermanence baleful intent