The Nine-Colored Gourd Vine saw that Styx had not picked a gourd even after so long and could not help sending another thought to urge him on.
At this moment, it was like a child, wanting only to share its precious belongings with its good friend.
Styx still did not act, instead voicing his thoughts.
The Chaos Gourd Vine, however, comforted Styx in turn, telling him to take them despite that.
Such a small loss would not have much impact on it and would not affect its protection of Zhou Mountain.
Styx was suddenly somewhat moved. He stroked the Nine-Colored Giant Vine and asked, "Would you like to undergo form transformation and travel around the Great Wilderness?"
Although he had saved the Innate Gourd Vine, preventing it from dying of source depletion after losing its gourds, he had also completely restricted the Chaos Gourd Vine to the Great Wilderness.
Moreover, as the Chaos Gourd Vine's origin became more deeply integrated with the Zhou Mountain Origin, it directly lost its chance to undergo form transformation.
It would not even give birth to complete intelligence. There was no helping it: it had prospered because of Zhou Mountain and was ruined because of Zhou Mountain!
Its connection with Zhou Mountain was simply too close. Once it gave birth to complete intelligence, or even underwent form transformation,
it would become the natural Mountain God of Zhou Mountain. By then, the entire Zhou Mountain would be under its control.
Wouldn't that mean the safety of this world would depend entirely on its mood? If it happened to be in a bad mood, it could drag the entire Great Wilderness down with it.
This was also why the Osmanthus Tree and Fusang Tree had originally ranked among the Ten Great Innate Spiritual Roots.
Afterward, once they