Around him, green light flowed, like a spring breeze brushing past.
Beneath his feet, the earth began to revive. Burned trees sprouted anew, and the frozen ground began to thaw.
Above his head, countless phantoms of stars appeared in the sky, those stars echoing the ancient trees within the Divine Wood Forest from afar.
"Yan Jin, Yan Ji, Ying Ge, Shuang Han, Feng Yu..." His voice echoed between heaven and earth like thunder. "Such towering gall you have!"
The five Elf Kings of the Lotus Platform Realm raised their heads at the same time and looked at the figure walking out from the green pillar of light.
Their pupils contracted violently.
That was not a phantom—no, it was indeed a phantom, but that phantom already possessed a complete human form.
It was no longer the blurry shape from before, as if condensed from mist, but a... human form with clear features and distinct limbs.
"What? You actually transformed your spiritual sense into form?"
Yan Jin cried out, his voice filled with disbelief.
Transform.
For a tree, what did transform mean?
It meant its "spirit" had condensed to the extreme, meant it already possessed a complete human-shaped soul, meant it had already stood at the threshold of the Heaven Ascension Realm.
In Jiquan Star's cultivation system, the key to the Heaven Ascension Realm was "transform."
Not bodily transformation—the Tree God had long been able to take human form and walk—but the transformation of the "spirit."
When the "spirit" condensed into a complete human form, it gained the qualifications to serve as sustenance for the rules of heaven and earth, and gained the possibility of breaking through to the Heaven Ascension Realm.
The Tree God had actually already reached this step?
Ying Ge's expression became incomparably grave. "Impossible... You clearly haven't borne