As Long Chen’s Spiritual Strength slowly entered the withered tree, its interior appeared in his mind.0

There were countless veins throughout the tree, like a complex web of dried-up riverbeds. There was no vitality left within this sacred tree.0

Only after probing extremely deep did Long Chen sense that the interior of the immense tree formed its own world. At the center of this inner world, Long Chen saw a small, date-shaped red crystal.0

This was its tree-heart—the equivalent of a human heart. 0

For tree-shaped cultivators, their core was located in the trunk and the roots, but the precise location of the tree-heart depended on the path of cultivation. If it relied on absorbing the energy of the heavens, the tree-heart was in the trunk. If it relied on absorbing the energy of the earth, it was located...0