But the only flaw was that every living thing had fallen onto the ground, as motionless as molded statues and dolls.
Ordinary souls had no intelligence and could not store memories. Thus, even though these souls had regained their original appearances in the Spirit Realm World, they remained like dead objects, without the slightest trace of life.
Likewise, their arrival in this world and separation from their bodies meant that they had lost all their memories of the past, severing themselves forever from everything that had come before.
It was as if they had lived a second life. This was something the lifeforms of Earth had never possessed. In the past, all life had ended with death, but from this moment onward, reincarnation had truly begun.
Fang Xiu withdrew the Book of Life and Death and strode back into Qinghua Palace.
"Rumble!"
Fang Xiu raised his hand. Standing atop the rear cliff, the dozens-of-meters-tall Necro Tree immediately tore free from the earth and flew toward the sky alongside Fang Xiu.
As the Necro Tree rose into the air, it continuously bloomed with golden radiance. The light grew more and more magnificent until it covered everything, even concealing Fang Xiu's figure.
Wrapped around the Necro Tree, Fang Xiu merged completely into that intense radiance. It was as though he were carrying a sun, steadily approaching the Spirit Realm's barrier.
At last, as the Necro Tree merged into the Spirit Realm's barrier, its roots plunged into the Spirit Realm's sky, becoming a huge ball of light suspended upside down in the heavens.
Viewed from outside, one could see a great tree rooted above the Sea of Light, drawing upon its power. Beneath the tree's roots, an Illusory World billions of times larger than it was entangled with it.
Within the Illusory World,