The Hu Family estate.
At that moment.
The entire manor had changed beyond recognition.
The great tree Hu Yongchang had become had burst out of the earth, growing into a towering tree a hundred meters tall, far faster than expected.
At the top of the great tree.
Above its enormous crown, which covered a span of over a thousand meters.
Eighteen enormous crimson hearts hung suspended, constantly contracting and expanding, their thump! Thump! Thump! shaking the very earth.
"We're becoming immortals!"
"We're going to become immortals!"
Joyful voices kept ringing out from within the hearts.
Some male, some female.
Some old, some young.
They belonged to the direct descendants who had gathered around Hu Yongchang earlier.
And down on the ground.
At the Hu Family Manor.
The other Hu Family descendants, servants, maids, and guards who had already become Tree People also let out strange shrieks from time to time: "We're becoming immortals! We're going to become immortals..."
They were different from the Tree Person vicious ghosts in Tanjung Sepat.
Each had a vine extending from their back, connecting them to the great tree Hu Rongchang had become.
As for Hu Yongchang...
"Hahahahaha!"
"My children... I'll lead you to immortality..."
"Our Hu Family..."
"Will soon become a clan of immortals!"
An aged, ecstatic voice rang out from the great tree, but there was no trace of a human figure left. Hu Yongchang had completely merged with the Ghost Tree, losing every last vestige of his human form.
But he clearly did not care.
Above the crown.
A faint wisp of bluish smoke rose straight upward, reaching deep into the great vortex high in the sky.
This was the connection between the two sides.
The Hu Family had spent fifty years working toward this.
Then fled to the South Seas and