"...Huh?"
Hearing this, Lin Mo froze for a moment, utterly bewildered. "What do you mean?"
"The Azure Spirit Branch wasn't mine to begin with. You gave it to me, Senior Lin Yang, so how is this returning it to its original owner?"
Lin Yang smiled mysteriously. "Lin Mo, there are some things I won't tell you not because I refuse, but because knowing them now would do you no good."
"When the time comes, you will understand naturally, without any explanation from me."
With that, Lin Yang said no more. He walked ahead with his hands behind his back and a smile on his face, refusing to answer no matter how Lin Mo pressed him.
Lin Mo was left in a fog, his mind brimming with questions.
Why had Senior Lin Yang started keeping me guessing too?
And those words sounded strangely familiar.
Wasn't that... what the Tree God I met in that void said when the World Tree grew from a seedling into its growth stage?
Whether it was the Tree God or Senior Lin Yang, just what secrets were they hiding?
Or rather... what secrets were hidden within me that even I didn't know about?
Unable to make sense of it no matter how he thought, Lin Mo simply put his confusion aside.
The group passed through the Divine Temple and once again arrived at the place behind it where the Heavenly Master Divine Talisman had been installed.
Lin Yang took out a jade slip and handed it to Lin Mo, saying solemnly, "Lin Mo, the Heavenly Master Divine Talisman has stood here for ten thousand years and has already become part of Ten Thousand Fiends Mountain. You cannot take it away intact."
"You can only use this completely blank talisman to absorb the White-Spirit Immortal Crane's