Chapter 180

The two of them sat down in the pavilion beside the Primordial Spiritual Spring. Naturally, child attendants stepped forward to serve celestial fruits and spiritual tea. Zhenyuanzi glanced for a moment at the pool of World-Cleansing White Lotuses within the Primordial Spiritual Spring, then looked at the crooked staff on the bank of the spiritual spring, and finally upward at the three-zhang-long Scepter of the Law of Life hovering above his head. He even discovered an inconspicuous bamboo tree on a mountain peak, yet no matter how he looked at it, this bamboo looked precisely like the legendary Bitter Bamboo. Zhenyuanzi extended his Divine Sense deeper still, and when he probed into a valley, he sprang suddenly to his feet, crying, "The Fusang Tree? Fellow Daoist, how could you..." Before he could finish, Zhenyuanzi suddenly recalled what Zhang Qing had told him about encountering Zhunnti in the Tang Valley, and in an instant, he understood the origins of both the Bitter Bamboo and the Fusang Tree.