At this moment, under the moonlight, Liam Foster did not look like a person at all, but rather like a great wild goose soaring into the sky.

Lightly landing on one side of the rock, Liam Foster gazed at the characters written by John Adams, waved his palm, and directly wiped away all the words.

He had already achieved a minor mastery of the Golden Wild Goose Technique, so he naturally no longer needed these writings.

Although the Golden Wild Goose Technique was not considered a top-tier skill, Liam Foster felt that with it, his combat power and ability to evade attacks had both increased by fifty percent.

Especially in terms of dodging attacks—if he had known this technique before his life-and-death struggle with Roger Grant, he wouldn’t have needed to take such risks. He could have simply used the Golden Wild Goose Technique to put distance between himself and Roger Grant.

Unfortunately, John Adams had only left the Golden Wild Goose Technique here. If only he had left some other core martial arts of the Quanzhen Sect, it would have been even better!

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As the morning sun rose in the east, Liam Foster gathered all the usable medicinal herbs from the Xianglong Temple platform into his basket. By now, the basket was already more than half full.

Since last night, Liam Foster had been facing two choices: to go up the mountain or down. In the end, Liam Foster decided to go up. Although the dangers above were greater, he believed that with the map in his mind, those places that others feared like tigers would not pose much threat to him.

Just as Liam Foster expected, going upward did not bring him any danger. Although he could sense more and more spatial rifts as he ascended, these rifts did not harm Liam Foster in the slightest.

After placing a hawk-serpent fruit into his basket, Liam Foster arrived at the Jade Emperor Hall and the Shrine of Bixia Yuanjun. Unfortunately, apart from platforms and medicinal herbs similar to those at Xianglong Temple, there was nothing else here.

As for the hawk-serpent fruit, Liam Foster saw more than a dozen at the Jade Emperor Hall, but he did not pick any more. Possessing treasures invites trouble—if he took all these hawk-serpent fruits out, he might not even have a place to be buried.

Compared to the herbs, these two places left nothing for Liam Foster to remember.

Everything had faded into nothingness with the passage of time.

Looking up at the mountaintop, there were still more than two hundred meters to go. Liam Foster was about to continue upward when he vaguely saw a large tree, sparkling with multicolored light under the sunlight!

Chapter Five: Such a Huge Tree

What kind of tree is this? How did it grow so tall!

Although he only caught a rough glimpse, Liam Foster estimated that the tree was at least over ten zhang high.

A ten-zhang tree, especially on a mountaintop, was truly rare.

And those strange leaves gave Liam Foster a completely new feeling.

How could leaves give him such a feeling?

He had to go up and take a look!

This tree made Liam Foster even more determined to climb higher.

Relying on the Golden Wild Goose Technique, Liam Foster kept leaping over one protruding rock after another. Now that his basket was already filled with plenty of herbs, he no longer paid attention to the medicinal plants around him, and his pace quickened considerably.

In just a quarter of an hour, Liam Foster reached a platform a hundred zhang from the summit.

The platform was not large, only about ten zhang in area. Standing here, he could clearly see the enormous tree.

It was only now that Liam Foster realized his earlier judgment of the tree had been too subjective.

This tree was not just ten zhang tall. Rooted at the very peak, it was over twenty zhang high. Its thick trunk, from Liam Foster’s vantage point, looked like a wall. The twisting branches resembled coiling dragons.

Palm-sized leaves hung high on the branches, green and lush like a canopy.

Liam Foster’s gaze was ultimately drawn to those leaves, for they were truly peculiar.

Each one looked just like a human palm.

What kind of tree was this?

Neither in Liam Foster’s own memory nor in the original owner’s memory could he recall ever seeing such a tree.

Curiosity drove Liam Foster to cross the platform and continue toward the tree. But just as he was about to step onto the summit platform, his advancing body was suddenly bounced back by a force.

If Liam Foster hadn’t quickly used the Golden Wild Goose Technique to steady himself, that collision would have made him cough up blood!

Calming himself, Liam Foster gently touched the space ahead and felt an invisible wall blocking his hand. The deeper he reached, the stronger the rebound force from the wall became.

This invisible barrier immediately reminded Liam Foster of the passage that Master Harris had broken open when entering the Lushan Secret Realm.

This must also be a kind of barrier, and one even stronger than the seal of the Lushan Secret Realm. Not to mention himself, even Master Harris probably couldn’t break through this seal.

A single tree was actually sealed off by itself—what was so extraordinary about this tree?

Unwilling to give up, Liam Foster circled the tree twice, but there was absolutely no way in.

Disappointed, Liam Foster prepared to leave.

This place was nice, but if he couldn’t get in, it was all for nothing.

But just as he was about to go, Liam Foster suddenly discovered that the spiritual energy here was actually twice as strong as in other places.