Looking toward the center of the High Tower, Xu Le saw exactly what he had imagined at the start: a tree!
An enormous tree.
Although it was not as unreachable as the Gundo Mother Tree, nor so indescribably vast.
The Golden Radiance Tree before him was already too enormous for Xu Le to describe directly.
Xu Le estimated that the Golden Radiance Tree was over sixty meters in diameter. Though he was not very good at mathematics, he still knew the basic formula for the area of a circle.
The cross section of this tree was simply hard to imagine.
"What a miracle!"
"Hahaha, even Councilor Xu Le feels that way? Still, that's perfectly normal. My reaction was much stronger than yours the first time I climbed the High Tower."
As Zhou Bi laughed and chatted, he led Xu Le and the others upward.
The long, spiraling staircase naturally posed no problem for a self-proclaimed burly man like Xu Le, but for a little Warlock like Gu Beichen, who could not even truss a chicken, it was a tremendous strain.
The High Tower's floors were very far apart. By the time Xu Le and the others followed the Lighthouse group to the second floor, Gu Beichen was already panting like a dog.
"Find fewer women from now on. I'm afraid you won't live long," Wang Shu helpfully reminded him.
"None of your business. Get lost!"
Their quiet exchange caused no great stir. Meanwhile, Councilor Zhou Bi had already led Xu Le to the observation platform on the High Tower's second floor.
"Have a look around, Councilor Xu Le."
"All right."
Xu Le nodded. The High Tower's second floor was clearly an enormous observation platform.
Many patterns had been carved into the Golden Radiance Tree's bark. They looked like artwork, but