"Wait a minute…" Madam Leisure suddenly thought of something. "Could it be…?"
Lauya and Hongyue looked at her curiously.
"My master once brought a strange withered tree branch back. She said this branch held the fate of the Divine Realm in it. At that time, I didn't feel anything special in it at all. She planted it in the garden and let me take care of it. However, there was no slight improvement in those thousands of years." Madam Leisure explained.
"Yao Xi really said that?" Hongyue frowned deeply.
Madam Leisure nodded firmly. "I asked her about it, but she didn't explain anything. Knowing my master, she would never speak anything meaningless. I understand it now. That branch must be the World Tree's remnant."
"How could it appear beside Lintian?" Hongyue asked in doubt.
Madam Leisure frowned slightly. "When Ren Yuan attacked our Yaoxi Palace, we decided to escape separately. If I remember correctly, it should be my second sister who took everything inside the garden away."
"Ning'er?" Hongyue said.
While Madam Leisure was the mountain spirit of Yaoxi Palace, her second sister, Ning'er, was a mortal girl who lost her parents to war. Fortunately, Yao Xi happened to pass by and pick her up. Since then, she became Yao Xi's servant and took care of the palace's daily operations.
"How was her strength at that time?" Hongyue asked.
"The tenth level of the Divine Emperor Realm." Madam Leisure replied.
Unless she was hunted down by a God Emperor, there should be nothing happened to her. Hence, it was almost impossible for the belongings she took away to fall into other people's hands. The World Tree was likely to be with her.
Hongyue folded her arms before her chest and said. "Could it be she discovered Lintian's identity and deliberately approached him?"
"Impossible. My second sister doesn't like to interact with men. She would never take the initiative to approach a man. Especially the Beyond Heaven King's successor. You also know how much she hated him for hurting our Master." Madam Leisure shook her head.
"There's nothing certain," Hongyue responded. "If she wants to find her Master, Lintian is the best shot she got."
Madam Leisure frowned slightly and said nothing as it was indeed possible.
Lauya interrupted their train of thought. "What I am talking about is an alive World Tree. Since it can move, it means the World Tree has attached to something or someone. It's even possible that it has come back to life because of My King."
She touched the Tree of Life and said further. "Unfortunately, I couldn't take a look at it."
The Tree of Life could only send a message to her from time to time, depending on Yun Lintian's actions. With the connection being sealed, it was already a miracle that the Tree of Life could tell her this.
Hongyue and Madam Leisure glanced at each other and said nothing in the end. It was hard to guess at this time. Perhaps it wasn't Ning'er, but someone else who coincidentally picked the World Tree's branch up, or it could be Yun Lintian himself.
"Maybe I really should go there," Hongyue muttered. She was annoyed by the fact that she couldn't observe the situation on Yun Lintian's side like she usually did.
"Waiting is the only way for us in this situation." Madam Leisure sighed softly. As much as she wanted to return to the Divine Realm, surviving there was difficult with her current strength.
***
The Divine Realm was greatly shocked by the news of the Beyond Heaven King's successor, and Yue Hua's warning did not ease the situation.
Countless profound practitioners flocked over and camped outside the moonlight barrier she created with a fluke mentality. In their opinion, it was almost impossible for Yun Lintian to escape. Perhaps they could share some soups after those God Emperors ate meat.
At the starry sky outside the moonlight barrier, several profound ships gathered and connected, forming a base camp. Countless people were talking and laughing as if they were on vacation.
"Tell me, who are you going to bet on?" A lean man named Feng Xiang asked.
There was a betting board a hundred meters away from him. Since everyone had nothing to do here, they opened for a bet, guessing who would be the one that got Yun Lintian in the end.
Sitting opposite him, a tall man named Xie Lang touched his chin with a thoughtful expression. "I heard that even the Thousand Faces God Emperor and the Violet Thunder God Emperor were forced to leave. Asides from the Heavenly Desolate God Emperor, I think the Everlasting Soul God Emperor has the best chance."
Feng Xiang rolled his eyes. "You've been thinking for a long time and come up with this answer?"
"Am I wrong?" Xie Lang responded annoyingly.
"There's nothing wrong with your thinking, but everyone can think of it, too." Feng Xiang said. "You go look at the bet and see the odds there. The Everlasting Soul God Emperor's odds are so low that we won't get much in return, even if we win."
"Is it?" Xie Lang glanced at the betting board in the distance and said in surprise. "Shit. Who are we going to bet on then?"
"That's why I'm asking you earlier." Feng Xiang wanted to slap his friend badly.
"Hmm?" Just as Xie Lang was about to say something, he suddenly saw a gigantic black divine ship fly toward them.
Feng Xiang frowned slightly and followed Xie Lang's gaze. His expression changed drastically upon seeing the ship. "That… The Dark Sea Divine Ark!"
"Dark Sea Divine Ark…?" Xie Lang was puzzled.
"Idiot! It's the Dark Sea God Emperor's divine ark!" Feng Xiang cursed.
"Shit! Are we in trouble now?" Xie Lang suddenly panicked.
Feng Xiang glared at him and said nothing further. He already decided to cut ties with this idiot later.
At this moment, the Dark Sea Divine Ark shuttled past a group of "campers" toward the moonlight barrier.
When everyone thought the ark would be repelled by the barrier, a burst of dark energy shot out of the ark, blasting into the barrier.
BOOOOM—
A massive explosion rang out, and all the profound ships nearby hurriedly activated their defensive mechanisms. Even so, they were blown away tens of kilometers directly.
"That old hag still has some strength left, huh?" Inside the ark, a young man in black looked at the unscratched barrier with a faint smile.
He took a sip of tea and said. "Continue. I want to see how long she can last."
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