Although the Immortal Continent was now barren, many of the island's landforms bore the layout of gardens for spirit medicine.
It was clear that many precious spirit medicines must once have been grown here.
Song Yan and Xiao He searched in the direction Shi Zixing had mentioned in the Recording Pearl. With the additional guidance of the essence of the sun and moon within Song Yan's Golden Core, they soon found the so-called "Divine Tree" in a mountain hollow.
Yet the tree before them was vastly different from what Shi Zixing had described.
The little tree's branches were gnarled and intertwined, and it did possess an extraordinary presence. But the Yin-Yang Two Qi winding around it were extremely faint, as though they might go out at any moment.
Not only that, its Yang flourished while its Yin waned. The entire ancient tree was white, as though carved from mutton-fat white jade.
Only a few slender twigs and scattered young leaves at its very top were black.
Several flower buds the size of rice grains were already sprouting on its white branches.
A vigorous vitality was gestating within the buds.
Song Yan examined them with his senses and discovered that the buds actually contained spiritual power of the metal, fire, and earth elements.
"What a marvelous tree."
Song Yan recalled an ancient book he had once read back in Luohou Abyss, which recorded a rumor about an island.
It said that there was an Immortal Continent in the You Sea, named Flowing Continent.
It spanned three thousand li, with towering mountains and rivers and great masses of accumulated stone.
Legend had it that the stone there was identical in substance to that of Kunwu Mountain.
Law Artifacts and Law Treasures forged from its stone were luminous and translucent, like pure crystal,