Luo Chuan clearly remembered the scene when he encountered the World Tree.
The sky had been a gray, chaotic color, with all manner of bizarre spacetime fragments flickering within it. A single colossal tree stood upon the plains, its immense trunk stretching beyond sight, like the World Tree holding up heaven and earth.
Every branch resembled an undulating mountain range, extending in every direction to form an impenetrable net. Mysterious, sinister black patterns covered every inch of the tree, like the source of all evil.
Those were precisely the traces left behind by Abyss Erosion.
There was naturally no need to say more about what happened afterward. None of the visitors to the Ancient Ruins had personally witnessed what exactly had occurred. Only later did they gradually learn that the World Tree had long since been brought to Origin Mall by the boss.
Even the source of destruction and chaos had become a decoration in the shop.
But no matter what, this was a remnant of the destruction of the previous epoch.
According to what Luo Chuan currently knew—what Su Nan had told him—an abyssal eruption had occurred a million years ago, and that had been the primary cause behind the end of the previous epoch.
That was all Luo Chuan knew.
Why had the World Tree been eroded by the abyss? Why had it drifted along with the Ancient Ruins beyond the main plane of Tianlan Continent? What role had it played amid the Epochal Changes? And what identity had it possessed before that...
All of those questions remained completely unknown.
Moreover, the World Tree had undergone Abyss Erosion. Though it had recovered with Luo Chuan's help, irreversible effects had still been left behind.
Put simply, something was wrong with its head.
...Well, the World Tree did not have