Along the way, Yue Wen had gained a much deeper understanding of this little world.
These wondrous plants had grown here naturally, existing since the Secret Realm was first created. Whoever had built this Secret Realm seemed to have left them here to keep outsiders from entering.
Over the long years that followed, some of the plants developed consciousness and became Wood Demons.
These Wood Demons no longer followed the rules naturally implanted in them and would no longer attack intruders regardless of their own lives. The plants without consciousness, however, still followed those rules.
Most astonishing of all, these plants really had been born this way.
In the outside world, some plants and Spirit Plants developed extraordinary abilities after becoming demons, yet the plants here possessed such powers from birth. Yue Wen guessed that these plants had been specially modified using the Yang Wood Great Dao. Only the Yang Wood Dao Lord could have managed something like this, surely?
Moreover, Yue Wen suspected that the immortal dew released by those sunflowers was the same Spirit Yang Immortal Dew found in Immortal Dew Valley. If such sunflowers could grow on this land, that meant there was Yang Wood Dao Marrow here as well.
Then was this the real Azure Dragon Burial Ground?
But it did not seem nearly as dangerous as he had imagined. Hadn't even Dao Realm experts like Daoist Ye and the Fox Demon Lady faced danger at every turn? How had he managed to come straight through so easily?
Had something else changed over the past few centuries?
As he pondered this, the Three-Headed Flower Stalk turned around. "Great hero, we're here!"
Yue Wen took a few more steps forward and saw a mountain of vines with squared-off edges ahead. On closer inspection, it was actually a