A light breeze blew past. The two exchanged a smile, then rose and headed farther in.
Su Mo took Wen Ge's invitation as nothing more than her wanting someone to help her make it farther through the Heart Tree's trials.
Grateful for her warning, Su Mo did not refuse.
Still, Su Mo remained somewhat puzzled... where were the trials within this Heart Tree?
One in a long robe and the other in a long skirt, their silhouettes stretched far down the Heart Tree's long street and caught the eyes of several Tree Spirits. The Tree Spirits exchanged glances, then began squabbling again in their strange little murmurs.
Who knew what they were saying...
Strangely, however, Su Mo never noticed that the Brush of All Living Beings tucked into his bound hair had not spoken again.
Long after Su Mo and Wen Ge in her pale green skirt had left, two more graceful figures arrived where the Tree Spirits stood beside the three unfinished couplets.
The Tree Spirits seemed to pay these two no attention either, merely gathering around the couplet Su Mo had left and snoring contentedly.
"Why is everything inside the Heart Tree so strange today?" a rather easygoing woman asked in puzzlement. "Someone actually cleared that Medicine Field Trial just now, and this Literary Couplet Trial doesn't seem to be responding either..."
The other woman, who held a book against her chest, seemed utterly unconcerned. She put away the book in her hands without saying anything.
Seeing that the woman with the book had no intention of responding, the easygoing woman rolled her eyes helplessly, walked behind the Tree Spirits, and looked at the three couplets.
Suddenly, she froze, then turned to the woman with the book. "Come look! The newly written second half of this last couplet