Is This a Coincidence?

The newly emerged individuals underground, aside from the golden one, had all seen the two emerald leaves atop their heads turn white without any external attack.

Only their eyes remained emerald.

They were changing.

A Xian and Shi Ding had already reached the golden individual. After purifying the air, the Night Soul Grass rapidly spread to this area as well.

A Xian floated in midair, not far from it, her golden eyes meeting its golden pupils.

Suddenly, it grinned, smiling happily as it began clapping.

The sound of clapping rang out.

Then, its voice clearly reached A Xian's ears.

It spoke in Anvile: "Welcome to my kingdom."

Its pronunciation was flawless.

It even made a welcoming gesture.

Clearly, it had heard the conversation between A Xian and Shi Ding—and learned it.

What its words revealed was that it already regarded this place as their habitat.

It had even begun to see it as their own planet.

There was nothing particularly special about this planet. It had neither energy resources nor scarce resources.

Its human resources were pitifully scarce as well.

Other than the intelligent life living here, every other industry was supported by robots.

A Xian knew a fair amount about Exotic Plants. Their growth required a great many scarce elements.

Without those scarce elements, Exotic Plants would become ordinary plants and would not mutate.

Even if both their paternal and maternal lines carried Exotic Plant genes, they would not grow into powerful Exotic Plants.

Unless these things could mutate without needing any of that.

Was that why these things had chosen a planet like this?

A Xian's intuition told her it could not be that simple. For them to want to claim this place as their own, there had to be an extremely important reason.

She sent Shi Ding