"Didn't I tell you before? That big thing underground and a creature from our side probably shared the same origin. They tasted exactly the same." Luo Chuan took a sip of hot tea.
"Uh, I remember." Ausia's expression turned subtle.
Drawing conclusions from taste—no matter how she looked at it, it sounded strange, yet that was indeed the truth.
"World Tree. That's what we usually call it," Luo Chuan continued.
"World Tree? It's a tree?" Ausia raised her brows, looking somewhat surprised.
"Mm. Ziyan, you should have a photo, right? Show it to her."
Yao Ziyan answered and took out her Magic Phone.
"It's so small?" Ausia blurted out.
A photo was displayed on the Magic Phone's screen. Yao Ziyan was crouching beside the World Tree, seemingly busy trimming its branches and leaves.
It was easy to tell that the little tree planted in the flowerpot was, at most, as tall as Yao Ziyan's chest.
Then she thought of the Underground Creature's sheer scale...
Ausia felt that this was no longer merely a difference in life states.
"That's only its current state. There are other ones." Yao Ziyan smiled, unsurprised by Ausia's reaction.
She swiped to the next photo, one Luo Chuan had taken in the Ancient Ruins.
At that time, Origin Mall had not yet begun selling Magic Phones.
Yao Ziyan did not find it particularly strange. As the owner of Origin Mall, it was nothing unusual for Luo Chuan to take out the shop's products ahead of time.
As she looked at the image on the screen, Ausia's eyes widened slightly.
The sky was a dim, murky color. Upon a plain consumed by darkness, a lone colossal tree stood tall.
Its branches stretched in every direction, weaving into a dense net. Every branch resembled an undulating mountain range,