The sky was dim, the earth desolate.
Gone were the clear mountains and beautiful waters, the wonders of breathtaking splendor. All that remained was the wreckage left by corruption.
A Black Ape as tall as an ordinary man looked upon the scene. His expression betrayed neither sorrow nor joy, but a sigh escaped his lips.
"Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven won't hold together much longer."
The Black Ape was a puppet controlled by Luo Chen's Divine Thought, its strength no greater than the Nascent Soul Stage.
After the blasts from the Ming Water Spring Eye and the Rotten Ke Go Board, Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven could no longer withstand Luo Chen entering in person.
The vast Mana within him, no matter how he concealed it, would likely burst this Small World apart the moment he stepped inside.
So Luo Chen could only send in a puppet controlled by his Divine Thought.
As soon as the Black Ape Puppet entered, he fixed his bearings and headed for a secluded place.
About half a day later, he reached his destination.
It was the valley the Gu Family had built in Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven specifically to cultivate spirit herbs.
But where fragrant spirit herbs and lush greenery had once filled the valley, desolation had left only one thing behind.
A small tree!
It stood roughly ten feet tall, its trunk no thicker than the mouth of a bowl.
Yet its branches and trunk were knotted, thick, and powerful, giving an impression of something unbreakable.
The veins in its leaves, especially, resembled human blood vessels, crystal-clear and shimmering with uncanny colors.
The Black Ape Puppet studied the little tree carefully, occasionally stamping on the ground beneath him.
The Demon-Devil Symbiotic Tree had been taken from Wood Heaven Plains in Fallen Devil Land more than