"A whole new form?"
"It went from absorbing life force to absorbing Transcendent Power?"
Lin Yuan rubbed his chin thoughtfully.
Clearly, its current form was not the Death Seed's final stage. It could still evolve.
But what would it evolve into?
Would it really turn from a seed into a tree?
Lin Yuan had always thought the "seed" in Death Seed was figurative. He hadn't expected it might be literal.
But while he had heard of the Life Tree and the World Tree, he had never heard of a Death Tree.
Lin Yuan shook his head, reining in his wandering thoughts.
After some thought, he infused it with 5 points of A-rank Transcendent Energy.
His Transcendent Energy was the purest form of Transcendent Power. A single point of A-rank Transcendent Energy was equivalent to an enormous amount of Transcendent Power.
Yet after receiving 5 points of A-rank energy, the Death Seed remained motionless, showing no reaction.
No, it wasn't entirely unresponsive. A faint thought came from the Death Seed, roughly meaning, "That little energy? What do you take me for, a beggar?"
Lin Yuan promptly stopped feeding it energy.
The Death Seed really was a bottomless pit. With the little energy he currently had, he couldn't afford to feed it.
He would have to wait until he had enough energy.
With that thought, Lin Yuan lay down for a while longer and had Little Black repair the Lin Yuan, replenishing the durability consumed by the earlier Death Seed upgrade. Then he returned to the Island Lord's Residence.
"Are you ready?"
"No problem. Let's begin."
Inside the Island Lord's Residence, Steward Liu and Lin Yuan stood in a secret chamber, their expressions solemn.
They were making preparations before descending into the Abyssal Sea.
The East Pole Island Lord had previously