"Hey, now that you put it that way, it really does seem so! I was wondering why it had been searching around the area for something like it was looking for food these past couple of days! Later, some of its tentacles first covered themselves with scales, and only then did it dive near the lake. So does that mean the more scales it gathers and covers itself with, the farther its tentacles can extend, and the deeper it can dive? Then it can find the reverse-scale fragments in the center of the lake too?" Xu Xuan looked at me in delight.
"What do you think? You people are practically sabotaging yourselves! It has dived so deep now, which is why it has reached the center of the lake. That's because it has already gathered all the scale fragments on the outskirts. As for covering its entire body, I'm afraid it will gradually work from the outside inward, spinning like a top as it slowly covers itself with all the reverse-scale fragments, and finally becomes a Reverse-Scale Tree Dragon!" The more I thought about it, the more likely it seemed.
"In the end, it's still just a tree. Could it really turn into a dragon?" Xu Xuan wore a look of disdain.
"You think it can't? Think about it... No, you didn't go to the Primordial Land back then, so you don't know that the Earth Immortal Tree actually appeared in the shape of a certain Spirit Vein. Thinking about it now, it must have had a special resonance with some kind of living being. It might even have been the Primordial Desolation Divine Dragon! This was deliberately cultivated into its current form! Or perhaps, thousands of years ago, the City Lord of Sky City was already planning to do