"Y-Your Highness, y-you..."
The branches had turned into hands, but they froze before the Weird Bride. Willow Immortal Elder's face on the trunk was filled with shock as he stared at her in disbelief.
More precisely, he stared in disbelief at the Weird Bride, whose body was almost half bathed in the morning sunlight. "Your Highness, you're actually unharmed by sunlight!?"
"Willow Immortal Elder, aren't you unharmed by sunlight yourself?"
The Weird Bride raised her hand. An invisible force drew the Red Veil from the ground into her hand as she spoke calmly.
"Your Highness, you know that this old man is merely a tree."
"Sunlight is a necessity for me."
"Although I can bask in sunlight, I cannot move. I must remain rooted here for the rest of my life." Willow Immortal Elder shook his head.
Yes, although he could endure sunlight, the price he paid was his freedom. That was also why he had chosen to root himself in the forest in the deepest reaches of Shennongjia.
If humans learned of his existence, his inability to move would make him a sitting target. He would not even qualify as a moving target.
Surely no Weird would willingly pay such a price just to stand in sunlight?
"Is it finished?"
Without saying anything more about her ability to withstand sunlight, the Weird Bride looked at the Red Veil in her hand and asked.
"Yes, Your Highness. This Red Veil can summon you ten times," Willow Immortal Elder said with a nod.
"Ten times?" The Weird Bride frowned slightly at his words and looked at him.
After she had paid such a high price, the Red Veil they had made could only summon her ten times?
"Each use of the Contract Rule consumes the power of Your Highness's Weird Crystal."