"Can you get any bigger?" Lu Yin asked.
Little Sapling hopped down, swayed unsteadily, then suddenly grew bigger before shrinking again. It bounced around Lu Yin as if dancing, making him dizzy.
"All right, all right. Stop circling me." Lu Yin grabbed Little Sapling and looked at it seriously. "I mean, can you enter the Star Source Universe and absorb star source?"
The two branches of Little Sapling's forked trunk swayed. It hadn't understood, but it was still eager to bounce around, feeling that it had grown bigger.
Lu Yin was speechless. After thinking it over, he stepped into the Star Source Universe and looked at Little Sapling.
Little Sapling froze. Lu Yin was gone? It panicked, its branches trembling as it searched for him. It turned around on the spot, then suddenly faced the direction Lu Yin had gone. With a delighted leap, it disappeared.
Of everyone present, only Yu Er wasn't a Star Envoy. Watching Little Sapling vanish, she gaped. That thing had entered the Star Source Universe?
Little Sapling leaped into the Star Source Universe, then jumped right back into Lu Yin's arms.
Lu Yin laughed. "So you really can enter the Star Source Universe. Good thing you absorbed so much of King Ye's matter; otherwise, I'd have raised you for nothing. Hahahaha!"
Little Sapling happily stroked Lu Yin's cheek with its green leaves.
"Watch me," Lu Yin said, then began slowly absorbing star source.
Little Sapling swayed. It didn't seem to understand, though it also seemed to think it was fun. Gradually, star source gathered—not around Lu Yin, but inside Little Sapling.
Lu Yin was overjoyed. Little Sapling was absorbing star source. Just as he'd expected, it really could do so. That meant it could form Star Source Liquid inside itself, just like the Mother Tree.