However, this profound feeling quickly came to an abrupt halt. The seven rays of light in Lisa's hand also dissipated.
Coming back to her senses, Lisa carefully felt the flow of elemental energy, which had now returned to its original state.
Through her Vision, she could sense the flow of elemental energy, but it was very abstract. And if she wanted to control it, there was only the Electro element available for her to command.
"Hoo—" Lisa exhaled softly, like an orchid. She picked up the flowerpot again, a smile playing on her lips, and said, "What a magical little fellow, I'll call you Little Tree from now on!"
As she spoke, she even touched the green leaves of the Golden Tree Sapling with her hand.
Yu Jin saw this scene, smiled, and said, "It seems I was narrow-minded. The Golden Tree can consume many things."
"That's right, trees are very adaptable!" Lisa looked up and retorted, then spoke to the Golden Tree Sapling again, "Isn't that right, Little Tree?"
Upon hearing Lisa's praise, the Golden Tree Sapling immediately perked up. Its trunk no longer bent, and its leaves no longer drooped.
"Hahahaha!" Seeing the Golden Tree Sapling's joyful appearance, Lisa couldn't help but cover her mouth and chuckle. Besides being magical, this little fellow was also very cute.
Yu Jin, on the other hand, looked a bit bewildered. Was the Elden Beast also so fawning towards the Greater Will? He imagined the Elden Beast acting spoiled and couldn't help but shiver.
The mystery was solved: the Greater Will ignored The Lands Between in the end precisely because of this.
"Hey, stop being so happy!" Yu Jin lightly tapped the top of the Golden Tree Sapling and took out a drop of crimson teardrop Crystalize.
Dvalin had shed so many tears back then, and he had collected some along the way.
"Can you turn this into nourishment?" Yu Jin asked, holding the teardrop Crystalize in front of the Golden Tree Sapling.
The tree beneath the earth had problems, and he didn't want to dig a pit. So Yu Jin thought of finding it a helper.
The Golden Tree Sapling tilted slightly upon hearing Yu Jin's words. It lightly touched the crimson teardrop with its green leaves, like a hamster sneaking a bite, testing if there was any danger.
"This thing is too dangerous, you can't eat it!" Lisa saw the Golden Tree Sapling test it for a long time but refuse to take a bite, so she pulled the flowerpot back.
She was very familiar with what was inside the tears; it was the same aura as when Sumeru Scholars went mad.
Madness, inscrutable.
"You underestimate it." Yu Jin watched Lisa protect the Golden Tree Sapling as if it were a treasure, feeling a bit annoyed.
"What do you think is inside this?" Yu Jin injected a trace of power, and that chaotic aura immediately rushed towards Lisa's face.
Lisa's expression instantly changed, but fortunately, this sensation only lasted for a moment before ending.
"Incomprehensible, ineffable chaos." Lisa gently stroked her chest, looking at the crimson teardrop in Yu Jin's hand with lingering fear, and said.
Yu Jin nodded, then pointed to the Golden Tree Sapling in her arms, "What do you think it is?"
"Uh..., a cute and magical little fellow?" Lisa calmed her emotions, saying with some uncertainty.
"Let me show you what it is." After Yu Jin finished speaking, Lisa suddenly felt her Vision go dark.
When she came back to her senses, she found herself in a lush green wilderness.
A breeze brushed against her cheek, and the rustling of leaves was incessant. Further away, she saw never-before-seen life forms leaping in the forest.
It should have been a vibrant scene, but Lisa felt no vitality whatsoever. It was as if..., as if everything here had come to a standstill.
Everything seemed predetermined. The air was permeated with a rigid force, telling everything in this world not to overstep its bounds.
Golden specks suddenly drifted down from the Sky, scattering like heavy snow. Lisa seemed to recall something and abruptly looked up.
A tree, a tree so immensely huge it was beyond description, stood at the edge of the Sky.
Its trunk was as wide as a curtain at the side of the Sky, and it stretched endlessly out of sight.
Lisa tilted her head very, very high, but still couldn't see the top of the tree. The brilliant starlit galaxy dyed the entire horizon golden.
Amidst the endless gold, Lisa rubbed her reddened eyes. Looking up again, she then realized that the brilliance in the air wasn't stars, but the leaves of the great tree.
Could it be that this Golden Tree grew all the way into the starry Sky!
Lisa was startled by her own thought and took a few steps back, then she bumped into a warm embrace.
"It's magnificent, isn't it?" Yu Jin helped the disoriented Lisa sit on the ground. The latter nodded upon hearing Yu Jin's words; she wanted to say something, but nothing came out.
"I was the same as you at first." Yu Jin looked nostalgically at the giant Golden Tree, then smiled and said, "But my first thought when I realized was how many people this tree could illuminate if it were burned down."
"Burn it down…" Lisa muttered a few times, "Did you eventually burn it down?"
"Of course, and not only that, I burned a bit more." Yu Jin also sat down. He took out the flowerpot containing the Golden Tree Sapling, pointed to the Golden Tree in the distance, and said to the Golden Tree Sapling:
"When will you grow as big as your old mother?"
Upon hearing this, the Golden Tree Sapling, whose branches had perked up at the sight of the big Golden Tree, drooped again.
Grow as big as the parent tree? That's impossible! Of course, if Yu Jin wanted to cosplay the Greater Will, then there might still be a chance.
"Tsk tsk tsk, you're wilting already, you can't do this. As a person, no, as a tree, you need ambition!" As he spoke, Yu Jin even pretentiously patted the green leaves of the Golden Tree Sapling.
The result was that the sapling's branches bent even more.
"Hahahaha!" Lisa burst out laughing at the comical display of the man and the tree, and the invisible pressure in her heart immediately dissipated significantly.
"Do you understand what it is now?" Yu Jin asked, seeing Lisa's brow relax.
To his surprise, Lisa shook her head. She gazed at the golden glow shimmering beneath the starry dome. After a long while, she smiled and said:
"I don't know. The level is too high. I can't comprehend it, and I'm unable to understand."
"So, would you mind enlightening me, unknown God?"
Lisa found it very strange; she had always kept her distance from gods. However, facing Yu Jin, even after realizing his divine identity, Lisa felt no fear whatsoever.
"You're being too formal." Yu Jin shook his head, then said, "There's no need to keep your distance from 'gods.' I don't know about the others. But I, myself, climbed up step by step."
"From a state where even a stray dog could kill me, I climbed up one step at a time."
At the end, Yu Jin even proudly put his hands on his hips. The memory of being chased by a few wild dogs until he was completely lost was still vivid.
It made him somewhat afraid of dogs even now.
"Pfft—" Lisa looked at Yu Jin and suddenly burst out laughing, "But you still haven't answered my question, you silly boy~"
The same words, but this time Yu Jin could answer.
He lifted the flowerpot, looked at the Golden Tree Sapling, and slowly said, "eternity and Order! If your Abyss represents madness and chaos, then the Golden Tree is the materialized product of eternity and Order."
"The ultimate, unyielding eternity and Order, like gold that never fades! It will predetermine everything in the world, running endlessly."
"A world enveloped by the Golden Order is absolutely unchanging, a world whose end can be seen at a glance. It is also absolutely eternal, abandoning time, without an end, a world that can go on forever!"
"Children, I will predetermine everything. As long as you follow the law, you will prosper!"
By the end of his speech, Yu Jin himself felt how amazing the Greater Will was. He certainly couldn't come up with any laws, and a law like the Golden Order, which makes everything converge towards unchangeableness, made his scalp tingle just by looking at it.
"That truly is..., a magical world." Lisa was somewhat silent. She couldn't quite say whether such a world was good or bad.
In fact, Yu Jin himself didn't dislike order, but the Greater Will was a bit too extreme. As the old saying goes, people have three urgent needs, but It even arranged those three urgent needs for you. Can that be tolerated?
Yu Jin certainly couldn't tolerate it. Not to mention that beneath this stable eternity, all changes, whether physical or mental, would be erased.
"Then you still want this little fellow to grow up?" Lisa looked at the Golden Tree Sapling, which proudly perked up its branches. Why would Yu Jin want its sapling to grow after burning down the great Golden Tree?
"Because I am here." Yu Jin flicked the Golden Tree Sapling's branch. The Golden Tree, too, can experience spring again!
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