He fused the soul fragment into the avatar's body.
The next moment, the avatar opened its eyes. From that moment on, it had been activated.
Huo Ling no longer paid attention to the avatar. Instead, he began consuming various resources to recover from the damage his soul had suffered.
This was also the main reason he had insisted on waiting a year before setting out. He needed to nurse his injuries back to health.
After leaving his Crown of Avernus and Floating City to the avatar,
once his soul had mostly recovered, he left Avernus. If he stayed any longer, the avatar would begin showing signs of merging back with him again.
Huo Ling recuperated within his greatly expanded demiplane.
Several months passed before his injuries were finally fully healed.
He opened his eyes and looked at the Death World Trees planted throughout the demiplane.
These World Trees had grown lush and vigorous, and had already reached the Legendary level.
For World Trees, advancing to the Legendary level held no threshold, because when they became Death World Trees at the Sanctuary stage, they had already trampled that threshold flat.
The less fortunate ones—the Trees of the Dead that had failed to advance into Death World Trees—would encounter a major threshold when advancing to Legendary.
Huo Ling came before the largest Death World Tree.
"Father!" The Death World Tree's voice sounded beside Huo Ling's ear.
Huo Ling smiled faintly, reached out, and pressed a hand against the Death World Tree's trunk. "How have things been lately?"
"Father, I'm in excellent condition! I've already reached Legendary Level 8!" the Death World Tree said joyfully.
Huo Ling tapped on the Death World Tree, sensing its condition.
The Death World Tree stored an immense amount of rule power within itself, but it possessed little