"If it wasn't originally part of this room, then could it possibly be..." Kael paused, silently mouthing a name: Wood Spirit.
Could this vine sculpture be Wood Spirit?
After a moment of silence, everyone turned their gaze toward Wise Sovereign. At present, only Wise Sovereign could make a judgment.
Yet Wise Sovereign looked as though his mind had wandered far away. Only after quite a while did he say faintly, "I don't know."
"Whether it is Wood Spirit or not, I would need to enter personally before I could give a definite answer." Wise Sovereign said, "But if I am the one to verify it, then I would be the one who found it, not you."
Dox furrowed his brow. "So, what we need to do isn't merely find Wood Spirit, but also prove that it is Wood Spirit?"
"Though your phrasing isn't quite accurate, that is more or less what it means."
Upon finding something suspected to be Wood Spirit, they first had to prove that it was Wood Spirit before they could claim to have found Wood Spirit. But that raised another problem. If this vine sculpture truly was Wood Spirit, yet no matter how they tried to coax it, it stubbornly gave no response, how could they prove it was Wood Spirit? Attack it? Yet attacking it in front of Wise Sovereign was clearly inappropriate.
Wise Sovereign's answer to such a possibility carried the same tone as before. "That is also something for you to consider, not me. Besides, piling on too many assumptions will only trouble you further. Rather than make such baseless assumptions, think about how to prove whether this vine is Wood Spirit."
Having said that, Wise Sovereign resumed his unruffled, all-knowing expression.
The group exchanged looks for several seconds before Wai suggested, "How