"My destiny...?"
The voice of "Death Ancient Tree · Kamor" had inexplicably grown a little older.
It looked at "Lord of Compassion · ...%￥%...￥·(*^▽^*)·(•́へ•́╬)," who had long since abandoned that upright seated posture and now stood between the two great star pillars like a gatekeeper, then looked at "Zhou Heng," whom it held high like a plaything, yet who slept peacefully.
Finally, its gaze settled on the Infinite Infiltration that had already contaminated its roots.
The black liquid was climbing up its roots, slowly, steadily, irreversibly.
With every inch it climbed, "Kamoer" could feel another fraction of its consciousness being shaved away.
By now, it could clearly sense its power growing at an outrageous speed.
But this was actually a mutual convergence.
It needed Infinite Infiltration to counter the power of "Ten Million Heavens of Health," and Infinite Infiltration also needed a powerful vessel like it to sustain its presence in this region.
Each took what it needed.
But the price was that it, "Kamoer," would no longer have a future.
"There's still time to retreat..."
"Devouring the Health Ancient Tree, completing Death Transcendence, drawing closer to the great Lord of Death-all of that can wait..."
"We can't win..."
"That's Zhou Heng, the Zhou Heng who swept through everything, invincible throughout the Novice Village and the Sea of Stars..."
"Can you really hold out for the final nine hundred years?"
"What if all of this is part of Zhou Heng's plan?"
"Kamoer, retreat... retreat..."
A voice whispered deep within "Kamoer." It was the conflict belonging to Kamoer itself.
It wanted both to retain its own sentience-that "Kamoer" who had lived through countless epochs and accumulated countless memories and emotions-and to devour the "Health Ancient Tree," completing a further transcendence toward death.
But...
It couldn't!!!
According to the original plan, the