"Thank you, Lord Xia."
Upon hearing this, Ruth, the Treant Race girl, was beside herself with joy, thrilled beyond measure.
"But where exactly is the territory of your Treant Race?"
Xia Ping asked curiously. The Treant Race was extremely mysterious in the universe. Though they were immensely powerful and their reputation was known everywhere, no one knew where they actually resided.
"The place where our Treant Race lives is called the Tree World. It is a beautiful, peaceful world, lush and verdant everywhere, with green trees casting shade and life flourishing."
Ruth said solemnly, "But our world can move. Its true body is actually the sacred tree of our Treant Race, drifting without fixed course, so no one can find where our world is."
"I see."
Xia Ping nodded in understanding. No wonder the Treant Race's sacred tree was incomparably important to them. This sacred tree was the very foundation of their race; if it were destroyed, the entire Tree World would cease to exist.
The homeland of these Treants would vanish, leaving them nowhere to hide.
Then, these homeless Treants would likely be captured by other races and made into slaves.
Without the power of the sacred tree, their strength would gradually weaken as well.
"Then how can we find the Tree World?"
Xia Ping asked.
"I have no way, but we can find Elder Rich of the Treant Race. He has a way to contact the Tree World and knows where it is," Ruth said.
She explained that for all Treants scattered throughout the Southern Universe, Elder Rich was their sole means of contact. Only through Elder Rich could they return to the Tree World.
Moreover, this elder was extraordinarily powerful, having reached the peak of the Lightning Tribulation Realm. He had lived for a million years and