Another Seventh Order Elf Elder spoke in a trembling voice:
"I don't believe it. Please stop joking, Mr. Lin Mo. Energy crystals are already the most energy-rich things there are. How could anything contain even more?"
The Half-Orcs also stared with eyes as wide as brass bells.
Although they did not understand the world tree as deeply as the Elves did, as one of the major races of the Terra Continent, they knew something about it.
Thorin scratched his bushy beard, opening and closing his mouth.
When he had visited Great Xia, he had not thought this far ahead either.
It seemed he had been careless after all!
He turned to the fellow Dwarf beside him and muttered something in Dwarvish under his breath.
"Just how many miraculous things are these Great Xia people still hiding?"
When Lin Mo heard someone say "impossible," he did not explain further.
He merely raised a hand and pointed at the world tree lying fallen on the icefield behind him.
"The result is right in front of you."
"How long has it been since you sold us the World Tree Seed?"
"How big is it now?"
Everyone was speechless.
That was right.
Even counting generously, it had been less than half a year since the World Tree Seed had been sold to Great Xia.
Yet even though this tree had now snapped and collapsed, its two-thousand-meter-long trunk stretched across the icefield, still as massive as a mountain range.
This was irrefutable proof. No further explanation was needed.
Elder Ede's breathing grew rapid.
He had lived for over two thousand years.
The effort and resources the Elves had spent cultivating world trees spanned almost their race's entire history.
And now, there was something that could reduce that cost... to practically nothing.
"Well..."
He stepped forward,