Third Personality

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Forbidden Zone No. 002.

"Get down here!" Qing Chen stood before the World Tree and shouted upward. "The little animals are all complaining that you're too scary!"

Looking up, he saw Zard flattening himself into an extremely thin sheet, plastered against the World Tree like a medicinal patch. "I just wanted to see if I could take it away! But it's too big—I can't wrap it up!"

The moment he said that, the old-timers in the Forbidden Zone were all dumbfounded. Where the hell had this lunatic come from? He actually wanted to take away their World Tree...

Qing Chen shouted, "Use your brain! Of course you can't take it away—it's enormous!"

"How would I know without trying? Practice is the sole criterion of truth," Zard replied.

"Get down here and get to work!"

"Coming!"

Earlier, Ding Dong had built quite a few shelters for the little animals, giving them warmth in winter and protection from rain throughout the year.

Though the leaves were huge, they dried out and decayed easily after falling. That was a law of nature, something even the World Tree could not avoid.

So, for roughly half of every year, Ding Dong had to keep climbing up and down, picking leaves and building shelters over and over again.

If the World Tree had not been as lush as a sea of stars, Ding Dong might have plucked it bare.

After Qing Chen arrived, he looked at those crude shelters and brought Zard along to use his abilities to build new ones.

"You can turn rocks into sand, but can you turn sand back into rocks?" Qing Chen asked curiously.

"Of course I can. It's just more tiring," Zard said. "Back when I fought some people, they could still crawl out after