After ascending to the Transcendent Realm, I spent the next two days in meditation, absorbing the Primordial Yin Essence of Ume.
After the absorption, the roots of my Tree of Divinity grew thicker, and its golden bark began to shimmer with a bright, ethereal glow. I could sense that most of its impurities had been removed and that some of its vitality had returned to its former glory.
Although the Tree of Divinity had been reborn within my inner world, its vitality remained extremely weak due to the critical injuries it had once suffered. Its sluggish growth, even after consuming such a vast amount of my Soulforce, was enough proof of how much vitality it had lost. But now, Ume's Primordial Yin Essence had increased its vitality by leaps and bounds.
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"They must have prepared by now," I murmured, rising to my feet inside my room within the castle.
