Ironically, many of today's sacred trees only survived to old age because of some unsacred defect, like hollows in the trunk caused by rot.
今天的神木，有不少是由於「不神」而倖存，溪頭的神木，就是因內部遭腐朽菌侵入，造成空洞化，利用價值不高才逃過一劫，存活至今。