"Golden · Glorious Heaven's Will" fell silent for a moment, then its trunk swayed again.
"I do indeed possess a drop of 'Boundless Endless Transcendence Exemption of the Heart.'"
"I hid it somewhere no one would ever expect..."
"That is, on your 'Heng God of All Beings.'"
"Go and obtain it..."
"Go and transcend..."
"The road ahead... you can only rely on yourself..."
As its words fell, the trunk of "Golden · Glorious Heaven's Will" began to wither rapidly.
It shrank from several hundred meters to mere dozens in an instant. Its once glorious, radiant crown rapidly shriveled as though consumed by flames, and its golden leaves scattered as specks of starlight.
Then it fell below ten meters, three meters, one meter...
Its trunk went from thick to slender, then from slender to as fragile as a finger.
Its golden luster rapidly faded, replaced by a gray, decaying dullness on the verge of returning to dust.
When "Golden · Glorious Heaven's Will" had withered to just three centimeters tall and was about to perish completely in the depths of Zhou Heng's soul...
Zhou Heng slowly bent down.
His movements were light and slow, carrying an almost reverent care.
He carefully slipped both hands beneath those tiny roots and gently cradled the still-withering "Golden · Glorious Heaven's Will" in his palms.
The three-centimeter golden sapling trembled faintly between his palms, like an oil lamp about to go out, making its final struggle.
Zhou Heng aligned it with the point between his brows, then eased it inside, little by little.
Within the "Beauty Star Nation."
In a daze, "Golden · Glorious Heaven's Will" saw an unfamiliar world.
There were mountains, rivers, land, and sky, but all of it carried an indescribable strangeness and danger.
The sky was neither blue nor golden,