World Tree

The World Tree (世界树) was the most ancient tree species in the Spirit World. It was the first kind of tree to exist after the Spirit World was formed.
First came the World Tree, then came the Forest of Life. According to the Spirit Queen, even the Life God Tree only came later. The World Tree was an extremely miraculous existence.
It was said that its longevity was equivalent to this world’s. As long as this world didn’t die, the World Tree would exist forever. It was the existence with the greatest life energy.
Originally, the Spirit World had possessed a huge forest of World Trees. Unfortunately, they were devoured by the Dark Forest, and there were no longer any World Trees in this world. But if he was lucky, he would be able to find the seeds of the World Trees.
The forest where the World Trees had once thrived was his target. He wanted to plant a huge forest of World Trees.
== Primal chaos space ==
The primal chaos space would not allow things with their own minds to be planted within it. The branches of the tree demons or the spirit trees would simply turn into life energy when he planted them. He also tried a budding branch from the Life God Tree, but it could not be planted in the primal chaos space.
Long Chen had dreamed of planting a forest of Life God Trees in the primal chaos space. Then he would possess an undying body. But that dream had been destroyed.
So he had switched targets to these so-called World Trees. It was said that they were also huge and possessed immense life energy. It was due to their immense life energy that they were devoured by the Dark Forest as nourishment. Because of it, the Dark Forest had strengthened to the point that they began to overpower the Forest of Life.
When Long Chen heard that, Long Chen couldn’t help being speechless. The Forest of Life’s creatures were innately kind, but their heads…
== Appearance ==
He reached a mountain valley.
A smile appeared on his face. He had reached his target. The place where the two mountains met to form the valley was precisely where the forest of World Trees had once been.
But this mountain valley was so huge that it took him four hours to arrive at the end of it.
He was greeted by a huge mountain. When he jumped to the crown of a tall tree and looked into the distance, he gasped.
This was a cemetery for trees. Countless giant trees were lying on the ground.
The trees were so huge that there was no way to see their end. The roots of tree demons were piercing them, like they were fallen trees with mushrooms growing out of them.
These tree demons were many miles tall, but when compared to the fallen trees, they looked wholly insignificant.
This cemetery of fallen trees gave Long Chen a chill. Although he had been prepared, he hadn’t expected them to be so giant. There was no doubt that these fallen trees had to be World Trees.
He went over to one of the World Trees. Touching the trunk, he shook his head. This World Tree’s life energy had already been sucked dry. The inside was completely rotten.
Long Chen continued to go deeper. The World Trees were hundreds of miles long, but unfortunately, even their buds were corroded and dead. There was no fruit or seed for him. He even checked the surrounding ground, but he didn’t find anything.
After a couple of hours, Long Chen’s heart was cold. So much time had passed since these World Trees had died. They didn’t have the slightest trace of life within them. Even the primal chaos space couldn’t revive them.
Even a withered branch, as long as it possessed the slightest bit of life energy, could be revived by the primal chaos space. Unfortunately, there wasn’t even the slightest bit of life here.
He had found a fruit of the World Tree. It was a thirty-meter sphere with a hard shell.
Yet, roots had still pierced its body and extracted all its life essence. In other words, this fruit was also garbage.
In his fury, Long Chen summoned a batch of flames that incinerated these tree demons. Clearly, these tree demons had already sucked away everything from these World Trees.
== Willow ==
He saw that there were eighteen World Trees in a ring.
His heart was pounding harder and harder. He saw two of the World Trees had lots of fruit growing on them. That meant there was a very high chance they still had some life.
However, just as he was rushing over, a sense of alarm washed over him. He immediately stopped. He saw a willow tree in the middle of the World Trees.
The willow tree was just three thousand meters tall. In front of the World Trees, it was absolutely miniscule.
The main trunk of the willow was covered in scales that emitted an ancient air. Its leaves looked like the hair of a young woman. When the breeze blew by, the leaves lit up with divine light. But that light also hid a fierce kiling intent that made Long Chen’s hair raise.
“It has actually monopolized these eighteen World Trees.” Long Chen couldn’t help being shocked as he noticed the strange roots coming out of the willow.
== Growth ==
This was his first time since advancing to the Jade Core realm to go all-out absorbing Magical Beast corpses. The black soil was like a sea, and the Magical Beast corpses slowly sank within it. Life energy began to fill the primal chaos space.
The World Trees were growing extremely slowly. Even now, they were only thirty meters tall. They were still in the form of soft shoots. They couldn’t even count as saplings.
However, as piles of Magical Beast corpses landed on the black soil, life energy spread throughout the primal chaos space, and the World Trees finally began to grow at a visible rate.
They quickly reached a height of three hundred meters. For normal large trees, this was already a fully grown state.
Yet, the World Trees were still in the form of soft shoots. Their bodies were still not fully opaque. However, now a third leaf finally sprouted.
Long Chen couldn’t help being shocked. These World Trees were truly shocking. They required a huge amount of life energy to grow. Finally, when they reached a height of one thousand meters, the first branches began to grow out of them, and they took on the form of saplings.
That delighted Long Chen. He was waiting just for this moment. He began carefully snapping off those branches and planting them as well.
The primal chaos space didn’t disappoint him. Those branches also began to take root and grow as the life energy nourished them.
Long Chen gathered corpses as he planted more branches. This time, he left many miles between each World Tree.
By the time the World Trees were fully grown, they would be hundreds of miles tall, and being too concentrated would affect their growth.
Long Chen was hard at work. The first batch of the World Trees was already at fifteen hundred meters, and more and more branches were growing. He was crazily transplanting them.
Fortunately, everything in the primal chaos space was controlled by his Spiritual Strength. His Spiritual Strength was spread throughout it, and he was constantly snapping off branches to plant them.
In just a short couple hours, the primal chaos space was filled with the World Trees.
However, these World Trees were all in different stages of growth. There were clear differences between the first ones and the later ones.
Furthermore, as he planted more, their growth slowed down as well. The first batch of world trees that had reached eighteen hundred meters were no longer growing at a visible rate.
However, the shocking thing was that just that batch of World Trees had as much life energy as thousands of fully matured Iron Spruce Oaks.
It had to be known that these World Trees were still in a very young state. They were only slightly larger saplings, but they possessed this much life energy. This was a nice surprise for Long Chen.
==References==
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