Breath Soil and the World Tree? That was quite a nice combination. Were they both obtained from the Origin?
"No. Why would you ask that?" Chen Luo shook his head, somewhat surprised.
Because you reek of that old bastard, the Origin, from head to toe.
"...I obtained the World Tree Seed by learning Puppetry Arts, then exchanged in advance for the Breath Soil using a puppet that could bear the descent of World Consciousness once it was made from grown World Tree branches," Chen Luo explained.
...What did you say? Puppetry Arts? Who did you learn it from? Wait, let me guess. Someone capable of making World Tree Puppets and giving a disciple a World Tree Seed... Are you from the puppeteer's lineage?
"Mm."
This is hilarious. Someone among the descendants of those Transcendents actually managed to obtain something like the Moral Law? Looks like those Transcendents weren't all terrible at teaching their descendants.
"...It sounds like you have quite a few grievances against the Transcendents and their descendants?"
Grievances would be overstating it. There are simply too many people who throw their weight around by relying on the Transcendents, so it's inevitable that people develop a bad impression of them. It's like how people instinctively find rich second-generation kids annoying, even though plenty of them are perfectly honest. Knowing that doesn't mean the resentment goes away.
If you ask me, wouldn't it be better if every one of those Transcendents just stayed in their own nests until they died of boredom?
"Isn't that a bit of an overgeneralization? I think the puppeteer is quite a nice person."
*That may be true, but every move those Transcendents make can easily have an enormous impact on worlds and countless living beings, whether they intend it or not. Since you managed to