Inside the mage tower.
Huo Ling was still studying without regard for food or sleep, analyzing the fruit in his hand.
Other than eating it or cutting it open, Huo Ling had already conducted every possible experiment and analysis on this fruit.
This also gave Huo Ling a deeper understanding of the fruit.
The fruit's birth was somewhat connected to the Hunting God's divine spark, but the connection was not significant.
The main reason was that the power Huo Ling wielded had reached a certain level. The Death World Tree itself was a collection of the rules Huo Ling had mastered.
The reason it had not borne fruit before was, first, that the World Tree had not yet reached a sufficient stage of growth, and second, that it lacked something essential.
That essential thing was faith.
Ordinary World Trees were generally found among the elves, and the earliest elves had also emerged from the World Tree.
Just as Dodd had once said, when the Life Tree advanced into a World Tree, it could directly reincarnate many grievously wounded, dying elves, allowing them to walk out from the World Tree's trunk.
This was actually an imitation of how the earliest elves had been born.
After the elves were born, they would live around the World Tree. To the elves, it was their protector, and faith in the World Tree was therefore the easiest to arise.
Huo Ling's Death World Tree grew within his meditation space. Who could possibly worship it? Even he himself could not be bothered with it.
The undead under his command had no need for faith either, so it had always lacked it.
The Hunting God's divine spark that Huo Ling had stuffed into it had happened to make up for this deficiency.
Once all conditions had been