The Dragon Blood Demon Tree's enormous body was like a collapsed mountain range; the closer one got, the more keenly one felt one's own smallness. Wang Yu acted with caution.
He first helped the Yellow Springs Earth Hatred Puppet replenish its energy.
Only then did he follow the torn-open breach into the demon tree's body. That Demon Dragon Tree Heart was like a massive stone that had weathered wind and rain, its surface grown over with wrinkled bark.
Fiber-like strands connected to it one after another, supplying energy to the Dragon Blood Demon Tree. It was much larger than he was, so the method of swallowing it was certainly unusable.
He drew the Yellow Springs Demon Sword and severed all those connections.
Opening his mouth, he exhaled endless icy breath, completely freezing the demon tree's interior. The Gleaming Ice Heart Pagoda slowly spun out, enveloping Wang Yu and the tree heart within.
Outside.
Having lost the thing at its source, the Dragon Blood Demon Tree's life had also reached its end. For plants, Lifespan was generally impossible to say with certainty; only spirit plants that developed Spiritual Intelligence would possess the concept of a lifespan limit.
But even then, it was merely symbolic of personality, of the passing of memory.
Take the Dragon Blood Demon Tree for example. If it were to develop Spiritual Intelligence, the moment that persona formed, it would become a Shapeshifting Great Demon, while at the same time possessing the lifespan limit of that realm.
Namely, sixteen hundred years.
After it fell, everything old would pass away, and its main body would once again transform into a Dragon Blood Demon Tree, continuing to take root in the earth and grow. Perhaps after a number of years, it would awaken intelligence anew.
But compared to its previous