"The entire tribe was wiped out. I became the only person in the world who knew of the existence of the 'ancestral land' and the 'holy relic.' After silently noting down this place's exact location, I dragged all the herders' corpses into the cave, then rode back to the mining area." Lin Lun continued, "Half a year later, after making thorough preparations, I returned to the 'ancestral land'... But what frightened me afterward was that, over those six months, the sapling had absorbed no negative emotions and had withered severely, almost to the point of death."
"I had to admit, I was panicking then. I was afraid the sapling would die during transplantation... If it died, I probably would never find a second anomalous object with similar abilities in my lifetime." Lin Lun said.
"So what did you do?" Sun Hang asked curiously. "You can perfectly control your own emotions, so you should be able to create some negative emotions for the sapling to absorb, right?"
As he spoke, Sun Hang looked toward the "towering tree" planted in the pool... Since he could see this "tree" here, that meant Lin Lun had successfully saved it when it had still been a sapling.
"I drove back to the mining area and found four young women from the local tribes." Lin Lun said, "There were many men from inland cities in the mining area. They were either bachelors, or they had left their families back inland... Life in the mining area was monotonous and lonely, but that monotony did not erase those men's desires. On the contrary, it turned them into suppressed beasts... Where there was demand, there was a market. Many pretty young tribal women began making deals with these men—sometimes for money, sometimes for interesting things that could only be