Another Life Owed to You

If the Bizarre Tree were truly so powerful that it couldn't be defeated, why did it keep hiding and dodging? Even when Jiang Yue came right to its doorstep, it had refused to face him head-on.

If the Bizarre Tree really were that powerful, it should have crushed Jiang Yue without hesitation, no matter the cost.

Even if the Surface World's corrosive force was strong, couldn't it withstand it for just a little while?

Old Xia wore a complicated expression. Jiang Yue's series of questions kept echoing in his ears.

At that moment, his conviction that Lord Tree Ancestor was invincible finally began to waver.

Maybe Jiang Yue was right. Maybe Lord Tree Ancestor wasn't as invincible as they had imagined!

Otherwise, when Jiang Yue had stormed into Wumei Community and disrupted its evolution, Lord Tree Ancestor should have simply crushed him, even if it had to pay a price.

But it had still chosen to retreat!

That might not mean Lord Tree Ancestor was truly afraid of Jiang Yue, but it might mean that it wasn't unwilling to fight—it was unable to. It simply couldn't do it.

At the very least, Lord Tree Ancestor couldn't withstand the Surface World's backlash.

Wasn't the balance of victory and defeat just the sum of all the details?

Following that line of thought, was it possible that Lord Tree Ancestor couldn't kill Jiang Yue in his current state before completing its ultimate evolution?

Or perhaps Lord Tree Ancestor couldn't kill Jiang Yue and completely overcome the Surface World's backlash at the same time.

In the end, maybe it came down to just three words: it couldn't do it!

People's thoughts could be strange sometimes.

Sometimes they stubbornly clung to a conviction, unmoved no matter how others challenged it.

But once they began to