Chapter 304 - 304 304 The Truth
Chapter 304 - 304 304 The Truth
?Chapter 304: Chapter 304: The Truth Chapter 304: Chapter 304: The Truth At night, the graveyard.
Bright torches illuminated the surroundings.
In the valley, stood towering black trees, their black leaves rustling in the night wind.
Peaceful Spirit Tree.
The faith of the Dryad clan, every Dryad at birth would have an elder from their family personally plant a Peaceful Spirit Tree for them in the cemetery.
Every year on their birthday, they would hold a grand ceremony, where the clan members had to nourish the Peaceful Spirit Tree planted that year with their own blood.
Beyond that, they also needed to connect their life essence with the planted Peaceful Spirit Tree through the corresponding Array rituals.
As they grew older, the planted Peaceful Spirit Trees became lush and added rings yearly, until the end of their lives.
On the day of death, their interconnected Peaceful Spirit Technique would also perish, and the Dryads’ bodies would be placed in the graveyard.
After the corresponding rituals, the clan would carve a notch into the Peaceful Spirit Tree of that year and place the deceased Dryad’s body inside the Peaceful Spirit Wood.
Hence, the two would become one.
This process was known among Dryads as “the Spirit Wood union,” regarded as the most sacred ritual apart from birth.
Lorry’s head had been battered beyond recognition, and to prevent discomfort, the elders in the clan stripped off a piece of bark from his planted Peaceful Spirit Tomb and crafted it into a mask to cover Lorry’s mangled skull.
The sky became even more overcast, and the other villagers gradually left the graveyard, leaving behind a tall figure in the gloomy woods.
Swish swish swish.
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