The Way of The Dao

CRACK! SWOOSH!

THUD!!!

A body completely covered with blood fell and rolled several meters on the ground until it stopped.

"Haaah... haaah... haaah..."

Groans of pain exhaled from the mouth as the body's chest expanded and retracted, a sign that the person was still alive. Blood was still flowing from various parts of the body.

"That last force of the void was so horrible and powerful that it almost held me back completely." Ling Tian gasped heavily as he tried to sit down and take a medicine pill to cure his body.

His body was completely covered with blood, with no visible healthy place; it was no different from a corpse after a horrible battle. Even in various parts of the body one could notice from the flesh of the muscles to the bone.

Woosh...

However, before he could take any medicine pill, an amazing vitality began to emanate from his chest and spread throughout his body, wonderfully healing every part of him and completely relieving him almost instantly.

In less than 30 seconds his body was healed over 90%, leaving only a few small and light wounds that were quickly healed without a trace. Even those missing muscle parts were completely regenerated, as if it had not lost any flesh and skin.

"Thank you..." Ling Tian whispered gratefully while letting out a sigh of relief, thanking the World Tree that resided within his heart.

His spirit sense entered the inner space of his heart and he observed that the majestic World Tree was exuding a wonderful and amazing vitality that would travel throughout his body, healing him without leaving even a single hidden wound. This was like a wonderful holy medicine pill.

It seems that this time it decided to help him and healed his body completely. This way, he would not have to spend a long time healing his wounds and delaying his return.

"I really don't know what I did to be able to nurture you, wake you up or fill you with energy... since that time I took you along with the storage ring from the skeleton hands on the mountain of crystals and absorbed you, you stayed by the side of my heart, showing no sign of life or movement during my 10,000+ years of life." Ling Tian spoke to himself as he remembered that this spirit seed was dry and dead, but somehow revived when he fell into this lower plane: "But now it seems that you are truly the legendary World Tree..."

This spirit seed had been found in the hands of the skeleton that lay on the mysterious mountain of crystals, where he had obtained those mysterious objects that would be in his consciousness sea all his life even before he faced the Heavenly Dao and fell on this lower plane.

Ling Tian learned that this seed was a spirit seed according to what Ning Xiaoyi and Xi Fei had explained to him when they were traveling around the Cultivation World. He did not have much knowledge at that time, so he absorbed this dead seed hoping to cultivate it and awaken it by using his blood or power, so that in the future it could be an important resource that would help him in battles by healing his wounds.

The records that Ling Tian collected and obtained later in the Immortal World mentioned that there was a World Tree; this would be the most powerful and majestic spirit of vitality that one could obtain. All the foliage of this World Tree would have splendid and magnificent colors on each leaf, precisely nine colors like the marvelous nine-colored lotus.

Meanwhile, the other spirit seeds once awakened in one's body would bring vitality to the person each time they were hurt, quickly healing their wounds. The Spirit Trees could be taken into a small pocket world or through a formation to move it; that way, people would have a Spirit Tree to heal themselves. But they would have a limit and would dry up or 'die' for an indefinite time afterwards; it was only a temporary resource, not permanent. However, this World Tree was mentioned as the only one that could last for all eternity...

The difference between the World Tree and Spirit Seeds and Trees is that, although the latter could heal people, these could not do so to any great extent, and would take a long time to heal both inner and outer wounds. On the other hand, the legendary World Tree could quickly heal in seconds any wound that a person had, whatever the severity of the wound, even to the point of regenerating lost limbs of the body, a pierced heart, injured organs, broken bones, a destroyed body, a nearly destroyed head...

Although now it took a while for his body to heal, this was because there were restrictions in his heart also that the Heavenly Dao itself had placed on him, preventing him from healing and thus he would suffer the full punishment for having removed his Heavenly Seal.

With this Divine Tree of the World, one could heal any wound, no matter how serious and deadly it was, allowing one to recover to the point where one would doubt whether one was really wounded.

Although it was mentioned that this magnificent Tree of the World was only a legend, the Immortals had left a record of having encountered this mysterious tree just once; hence its information and record in the past.

Therefore, it was recorded that this World Tree was the 'Mother' of all spirit seeds and spirit trees that would help in one's healing.

However, what had become strange to Ling Tian was about: What exactly had happened to make this dead seed that lay beside his heart awaken after thousands of years? And also how could this dead seed become this glorious and legendary tree? It is supposed that once it awakened it would still be a spiritual seed...

According to the records that the owner of the skeleton he had in his ring about how he had found this spirit seed and which seemed to have consciousness since then, this spirit seed died in his body shortly after he had taken it away from that strange and spiritual nature. In short, his will mentioned that this same spirit seed was on top of a 9 colored lotus in a mysterious place where nature, vegetation, plants and trees were abundant, with an enormous amazing vitality covering that whole place.

That spirit seed was at the center of everything, as if it was controlling everything. But because he needed to heal his wounds because he was being hunted, he did not accept the small spirit seeds that the 'Mother Seed' was giving him, finally with him breaking through and taking that special seed from the 9 color lotus by force.

If that spirit seed radiated a majestic vitality that was more powerful than all those spiritual plants and dried up soon after it was taken, then it had its own consciousness until it finally woke up amazingly with him after a long time.

Thus there was no other answer left that would have to be the legendary, divine World Tree...

The questions filled Ling Tian's head, not getting much clarification to his doubts.

Ling Tian stood up and stretched, relieving his body a little after facing those storms of the void.

"How unfortunate, I lost track of that strange feeling I was having just as I entered the void and was swallowed up by the storm of the void." His mouth let out a sigh as he remembered what had happened. Still, he felt he had to do this even though he might end up in strange places in the void.

"I should check this place out..." Ling Tian looked around and realized that he was in a somewhat dark place, almost unable to see clearly: "My instincts brought me to this place so that I could save myself from the tearing forces of the void, so I could be safe in this place, but I still have to be careful..."

He began to walk slowly as he raised his guard against any event that might occur.