But the tree could not leave on its own. All its roots were buried deep in the seabed, every last one fused with the Formation Patterns. The Formation had become part of it. If it left, the Formation would collapse at once.
Ye Chuqi smiled and reassured the tree. It had nothing to worry about: she had come to destroy the Formation. She also explained why.
The tree sighed. Living on the seabed, it could hardly witness the changes of the world or feel the passage of time. But it had watched the younger trees grow around it, so it knew many years must have passed.
It had not expected so much time to have passed that the other Formation Eyes had stopped working and the Formation had begun to backfire.
When Ye Changsheng settled the tree here, he seemed to have foreseen this day. He knew it already had a glimmer of awareness. It might not have understood his words then, but he had told it certain things anyway, knowing they would make sense once its mind awakened.
Ye Changsheng had told it that if someone came to take it away one day, and it did not object, it should go with her. As for who that person was, it would understand the day it saw her.
Now the tree had seen Ye Chuqi, and it understood.
After everything Ye Chuqi had said, the tree naturally did not refuse. It offered no resistance as she uprooted the entire Dragon-Scale Wood Forest. She transplanted most of it into her space, while a small portion went into Big Black Fish's inner space to be given away later. After all, anything that entered her space and was bathed in Spiritual Energy would almost certainly mutate. Dragon-Scale Wood already drew enough attention. Mutated