The Bodhi Ancient Tree had existed for an unknown number of years, but one thing was certain: it had already been there since ancient times.
Yet after the accumulation of countless years, the Bodhi Ancient Tree had still not evolved complete intelligence.
For the more innately powerful a living being was, the more difficult it became for it to gain sentience and evolve intelligence.
Like that Nine Profound Golden Thunder in the Void Thunder Pool from the original work, which rivaled a Seven-Star Dou Sheng—its attempt to overcome the sentience tribulation had nearly cost it its life.
In the end, if it had not voluntarily given up more than ninety percent of its energy, it would never have had any chance of successfully gaining sentience.
The Bodhi Ancient Tree, meanwhile, had existed for countless years but still possessed no true wisdom. It merely retained some basic functions of spiritual beings, such as protecting itself or retaliating on its own.
The scene within the light sphere showed that, in an era long ago, a severely wounded Dou Emperor had attempted to forcibly extract the Bodhi Ancient Tree's tree spirit to heal his injuries. In the end, however, he had been slain by the combined efforts of his opponent and the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
Of course, killing that black-clothed Dou Emperor had clearly inflicted an incredibly terrifying wound upon the Bodhi Ancient Tree. This could be seen from how its form, originally ten thousand zhang tall in the scene, had become its current size of merely around one thousand zhang.
However, although the Bodhi Ancient Tree had paid a great price, it had not completely killed that black-clothed Dou Emperor as imagined. At the moment of his death, some of his negative emotions had gathered together and invaded the Bodhi Ancient Tree.