Chen Shouyi grew increasingly cautious.
In fact, even here, any ordinary Legend could easily die if they weren't careful. Terrifying creatures were everywhere; enormous footprints and bones could be seen on the ground from time to time.
Colorful poisonous insects, lurking ferocious beasts—even the trees were sometimes unsafe.
He had seen it with his own eyes: a great tree moving slowly like a giant, using its roots as feet. Every step made the ground tremble.
Of course, for Chen Shouyi, all he had to do was be careful.
That Number Two Little Dot seemed to have long since grown accustomed to this place. She was far bolder than Shell Girl, who only dared to curl up in Chen Shouyi's arms. She followed at a distance, going wherever he went.
Chen Shouyi ignored her.
With her mysterious innate ability, she probably wasn't in any danger.
He stopped at last in front of a great tree.
It was an ancient tree, its enormous trunk more than thirty meters across and covered in layers of cracks. Some of the cracks were wide enough for several people to fit inside. Countless strange little bugs crawled around and made their homes within, turning the entire tree into something like an ecosystem.
Of course, that wasn't what had made Chen Shouyi stop.
A spatial fluctuation stretching from a distant place reached across half the tree's trunk. It was quite smooth, with a diameter of more than ten meters and a variation of only about 0.1 millimeters. At a glance, the great tree seemed perfectly normal.
Chen Shouyi drew the Shadow Sword and probed into the spatial fluctuation.
He keenly noticed that the blade had warped almost imperceptibly, but it returned to its original shape when he pulled it out.
"It seems the spatial fluctuations themselves aren't