Craving

Upon the emerald earth stood a towering verdant tree, millions of kilometers tall, its main trunk piercing the clouds. Its branches and leaves were lush, rooted atop the core floating continent of this secret realm, as though it alone held up the entire sky.

Previously, obscured by the dense clouds and with most of his attention fixed on the battle high above, Song Chi had merely noticed the possible presence of a floating-continent spirit root and paid it no further mind.

Yet the energy storm stirred up by the fifth- and sixth-tier battlefield below had happened to briefly disperse the layers of mist above the ancient tree, allowing him to finally see its true form clearly.

"Gold Apple Mother Tree..."

Although the dispersed clouds soon covered the ancient tree again, that accidental glimpse was enough for Song Chi to recognize it at once as a Gold Apple Mother Tree.

Millions of kilometers tall—it should be an eighth-tier Gold Apple Mother Tree...

Without question, an eighth-tier Gold Apple Mother Tree was merely the lowest grade among mother trees of its level. Once a Gold Apple Mother Tree fully matured, it could reach this tier. Above it were ninth-tier Gold Apple Mother Trees, and even Mythical-grade ones.

However, that did not diminish the immense value of this starry-sky plant. It could continuously produce eighth-tier Gold Apples, each one representing a golden Sacred Domain wondrous item. They were golden wondrous items that Kindling captains could use to choose their own advancement path. That alone made them comparable, in some respects, to ordinary black wondrous items.

Every Silver Apple Mother Tree was a genuine money tree, let alone a higher-grade Gold Apple Mother Tree.

The instant Song Chi saw this eighth-tier Gold Apple Mother Tree, his first thought was to find a way to