The crimson light slowly receded within Icefire Basin. The golden divine vine forest that had covered the entire domain shrank back like the ebbing tide, condensing once more into Lan Tian's true form.
When he stepped out of the light, his expression was calm. A faint crimson afterglow still clung to him, slowly dissipating in the air.
He stood where he was and spent a moment sensing the feeling of being in his true form.
At the moment he had transformed into the Divine Vine Forest, his consciousness had existed within tens of thousands of divine vines simultaneously. The touch of every vine, the temperature of every inch of soil, and the sound of every underground river had all flowed clearly into his perception.
That feeling was completely different from the Blue Silver God Domain. It was as if his soul had been copied countless times and scattered among every divine vine. Each copy was an independent individual, yet they were also one unified whole.
But he had also clearly sensed a limitation.
The expansion of the Divine Vine Forest had stopped the moment it reached the boundary of the basin.
The spatial barrier of the Void Concealment Formation was like an invisible wall, restricting his expansion to this domain.
He could sense that even broader lands and more plants outside were waiting for his resonance, but all of them lay beyond the domain.
Just as he withdrew his perception and prepared to return to his true form, he suddenly sensed a strange connection forming between the divine vines and the earth beneath his feet during their contraction.
When the roots of those divine vines, buried deep in the soil, retracted, they did not sever their connection with the land outright. Instead, they left behind an extremely thin network of