Chapter 98 — The Giant Tree
The Sword Questions the Heavens · Page 6 of 6
Suddenly Ming Li's ceaselessly speeding body stopped dead in midair, so abruptly that it gave off a faint sharp hiss.
The trunk before him was all at once completely shrouded in countless vines, blossoms vying in a riot of color, cascading from above like a sea of flowers and congealing into a wall. And in the midst of that sea of flowers, a stone gate stood towering, five zhang high and three zhang wide, wedged hard into the trunk itself, its surroundings drowned in countless vines and blossoms, leaving only the solid mass of stone at its center, upon which four large characters were carved in ancient seal script.
"The Heavenly Emperor's Treasure Vault!"
Faintly, something like the sound of a great yellow-bellied bronze bell rang out across the vault of heaven, shaking the heart and soul.
Ming Li's gaze was drawn back at once, coming to rest upon the white figure in the sea of flowers before the stone gate.
As though she too had caught the sound behind her, the woman in white turned slowly around. Countless lovely blossoms beneath the blue sky seemed suddenly to laugh all together, blooming proudly to set off her peerless face!
Amid that sea of flowers, she was the brightest, purest, most radiant touch of color.
Ming Li, poised there in midair, was overcome by a flood of feelings, and stood frozen where he was.