Yuantian Pidao

Chapter 324 Phoenix Tree in the Flames of Rebirth
Deep within the Hundred Fruit Garden's secret realm, looking at the cultivator lying before her, Chen Jingshu's seemingly delicate face revealed an unusually cold expression.

"It seems my dear brother really doesn't want me to live anymore."

With her internal energy circulating continuously, Chen Jingshu constantly suppressed her injuries.

Not long ago, a cultivator from the Chen family found her using some kind of secret technique and tried to ambush her. Fortunately, she was prepared and seized the opportunity to severely injure him.

"How can you be so strong? It's just a shame your teammates are so unreliable..."

With bloodshot eyes and an unseeing gaze fixed on Chen Jingshu, the Chen family cultivator, who had only a breath left, fell completely silent.

At this moment, his heart was filled with hatred. According to the original plan, he would join forces with another person to fight two against one. With the trump card given by the person behind him, killing Chen Jingshu would not be a problem at all. However, things did not go as planned. At the critical moment, the other person completely disappeared.

Left with no other choice, he had to take matters into his own hands, but Chen Jingshu's strength far exceeded his expectations.

According to the intelligence he gathered, Chen Jingshu's spiritual aptitude was average, and his current cultivation level was largely due to the consumption of various elixirs. However, in reality, Chen Jingshu not only possessed remarkable true qi, but also mastered a variety of powerful spells and cultivated them to a relatively profound level, making his foundation far deeper than ordinary people.

In a direct confrontation, he was no match for the Third Prince. In his final moments, he even began to doubt whether he had been tricked by the Third Prince.

Chen Jingshu's expression remained unchanged as she looked at the silent Chen family cultivator.

Before entering the secret realm, she had already anticipated that someone might try to harm her, and as for who was behind it all, it was none other than her two older brothers.

"The person who wanted to kill me is dead, but I still have a feeling that the danger hasn't gone away."

After quickly cleaning up the battlefield, Chen Jingshu looked up at the sky, feeling uneasy. This feeling made her frown. Possessing the Spirit Rhinoceros Body, she took this sense of crisis very seriously, but she could never pinpoint the source of it.

"I wonder how Fellow Daoist Taiping is doing? With his strength, he shouldn't encounter any danger in this secret realm."

On a whim, Chen Jingshu decided to leave.

At that very moment, a beam of azure light shot into the sky, causing the clouds in all directions to tremble.

Sensing this astonishing aura, Chen Jingshu suddenly turned around.

"Such strong spiritual energy fluctuations, could this be the birth of a rare spiritual treasure?"

Realizing something, Chen Jingshu's eyes lit up immediately.

Lingzhen is rare; even someone of her status would find it difficult to obtain.

"Go and see?"

A longing for Lingzhen welled up in Chen Jingshu's heart, and she was tempted, but at the same time, she hesitated.

"With the birth of Lingzhen, Daoist Taiping will likely be there as well. Perhaps we can take this opportunity to meet up with Daoist Taiping."

At one moment, a thought arose, and Chen Jingshu cut off her hesitation.

In the next instant, she rode the spiritual light, soaring into the sky and heading towards the place where Lingzhen was born.

At the same time, besides Chen Jingshu, the other cultivators also noticed the extraordinary phenomenon of the birth of the spiritual treasure. This time, the phenomenon's fluctuations were extremely widespread, basically covering the entire Hundred Fruit Garden Secret Realm. "The birth of a spiritual treasure?"

"This precious treasure is definitely mine. No one can take it from me. Whoever tries to take it will die."

“With the birth of the precious spirit, the foundation for the Dao is promising, and the destiny is in my hands.”

Overjoyed and with their greed surging, all the cultivators in the secret realm rushed to the birthplace of the spiritual treasure the moment they confirmed its existence.

Although some hesitated, they were quickly swallowed up by their rampant greed. The newly born spiritual treasure seemed to possess some strange magic, attracting the hearts of all cultivators and making them unable to resist.

While all the cultivators in the secret realm were going crazy for the spiritual treasures, Jiang Chen, holding a mysterious wooden plaque, broke through a layer of profound restrictions and entered a secret treasure.

"The restrictions on this place should have been more complete before, but due to some unforeseen circumstances, some of the restrictions became disordered, resulting in the current situation."

Passing through the outermost barrier and looking at the colorful radiance before him, Jiang Chen had a sudden realization.

This wooden plaque is indeed the key to unlocking this secret treasure, but due to the disordered restrictions, it has created an obstacle out of thin air. To truly enter the secret treasure, one must pass through this passage shrouded in disordered restrictions.

"This passage is quite dangerous. If an ordinary cultivator enters it, his true energy will probably go berserk. At best, he will be seriously injured, and at worst, he will suffer a qi deviation. No wonder the cultivator from the Qingmu family who accidentally obtained the wooden tablet stopped here and never actually entered the secret treasure."

With a sudden thought, Jiang Chen suppressed his true energy with his powerful divine soul and slowly walked into the passage.

Although these chaotic restrictions are quite powerful, they are nothing to me. My powerful divine soul gives me sufficient control over my own true energy, and coupled with the high grade of my formless true energy, these restrictions are not easy to shake.

The moment Jiang Chen passed through the restricted passage, a spiritual field appeared before him.

Compared to the outside world, this spiritual field is not large in scale, but it is rich in spiritual energy, far surpassing the outside world. Only one spiritual tree is planted in the entire spiritual field. It is shaped like a phoenix tree, about ten feet tall, with a trunk like brass and branches and leaves like jade. It is surrounded by rich spiritual energy. From a distance, the entire spiritual tree seems to be bathed in flames, which is quite magical.

"This is a third-tier spiritual root."

Jiang Chen's divine sense spread out and touched the spiritual wood, feeling a slight burning sensation. His eyes flickered slightly, and he sensed that the spiritual root was extraordinary.

"Perhaps the answer I'm looking for is there."

With a shift in his gaze, Jiang Chen moved his eyes away from the spirit wood and looked at the thatched hut behind the spirit field.

"Someone must have lived here for a long time to take care of this spiritual root, but something suddenly happened, so they had to leave in a hurry..."

Upon entering the thatched hut, Jiang Chen spread his divine sense and found many traces.

"The Nirvana Phoenix Tree is a third-tier spiritual root. Its seeds contain the essence of fire and possess a touch of the mysteries of Nirvana. If consumed, it can improve one's aptitude. In addition, it is also a rare healing elixir, which can be quite effective even for True Immortals of the Purple Mansion."

With a wave of his hand, Jiang Chen took a Taoist book into his hand.

At this moment, he had a clear understanding of the origin of the spiritual root outside. This book was actually a notebook, which recorded various secret methods and taboos for caring for the Nirvana Phoenix Tree. Although it was not a proper immortal inheritance, its value was still considerable.

Besides this thatched hut, there are many Taoist books behind it, most of which are related to spiritual plants, including a Spiritual Plant Treasure Record containing a lot of information about spiritual plants.

(End of this chapter)