The gathering was held beneath the Sky-Covering Divine Banyan, near the Slumber Secret Realm.
When Jiang Ding arrived, he looked from end to end at the divine tree whose roots spread across the entire planet and whose branches and leaves pierced the atmosphere to reach into the starry sky.
When he was young, he had thought it was a giant tree, an ancient and unusual species that the Immortal Sect's forebears had obtained through a chance encounter.
Now he knew better. It was no tree, nor was it alive. It was a terrifyingly vast bionic robot, fashioned into the likeness of a plant from countless precious materials by generations of the Immortal Sect's finest minds. It housed the Central Array-Spirit Computer's mainframe.
Every leaf and twig of that tree among the stars was a treasure-like artifact crafted by the Immortal Sect's forebears. Beneath the semblance of bark, trunk, and foliage lay circuit components powered by spiritual energy, array runes, and inscribed patterns.
Anyone who cut open a leaf would discover those secrets and see its circuit components.
This was no ancient and unusual species!
It was a monumental undertaking, built for future generations through the tireless efforts of countless brilliant people and forebears of the Immortal Sect!
The super bionic robot took the shape of a tree because that form was best suited to drawing in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, transforming the void's chaos, and absorbing starlight.
Jiang Ding stood there in a daze, lost in thought.
An Siyan and Jin Lingfeng were used to this. Each took one of his arms and dragged him toward the crowd.
"Well, look who's here!"
Bone Forest True Lord greeted them with a smile, her gaze teasing as it swept over the three of them.
Nearby, Ou Yanghui, Liu Xiong,