Qingwu Ji

Archaeological researcher Shen Ji discovered an impossible bronze tree at a Western Zhou sacrificial site - it was cast in one piece, engraved with unknown characters, and its leaves were so thin that they trembled in the wind. The moment his fingertips touched, green flames engulfed his consciousness. When he woke up, he had turned into a bud that had just broken out of the ground and took root in the courtyard of a dilapidated ancestral temple two thousand kilometers away. This is the ancestral home of the Gu family in Qingshigou, Jingguo. Three hundred years ago, Gu Taichu, the ancestor of the Gu family, broke into the forbidden land alone and brought back the seeds of "Qingwu", one of the ten spiritual roots. After planting it, he was burned to death by green fire. In the next three hundred years, the seeds never sprouted, and the family went from prosperity to extinction. Only the seventy-eight-year-old Qi practitioner Gu Xuanzhou was left waiting to die in this barren land. On the night of the blood moon, the buds broke through the ground - the three hundred years of waiting finally got a response. Shen Shen re-understands the world in the form of a tree: using its roots to sense the underground, using its leaves to absorb spiritual energy, and using its growth rings to record secrets. He discovered the remains of the Spirit Gathering Array buried by Gu Taichu, uncovered the full picture of Gu's incomplete skills, and helped the old man break through the foundation barrier that had been trapped for twenty years. But the air wave caused by the foundation construction shocked a fifty-mile radius - the neighboring Zhou family sent spies, the Immortal Alliance walked secretly to score points, and a little golden beast who called himself "Dragon Son" came uninvited, lying on the branch and claiming, "This tree has been rented by the king." A spiritual root, three hundred years of grudges, an archaeologist trapped in a tree, and a group of declining monks struggling to survive in the end of the Dharma era. Qingwu has sprouted - but does it bring hope of revival or the disaster of annihilation?