Chapter 375 - World Tree⥢ ⥤World Soul
AT THE VICINNITY OF THE MOUNTAIN OF ENLIGHTENMENT.
While Alex, Alina, and Professor Frances were about to have a serious conversation with the Great TimeMaster, their remaining ally was busy on her own thing too.
Queen Mother, who had separated paths with Professor Frances earlier, was now standing squarely on a plot of land that was just a few hundred meters away from the floating Mountain of Enlightenment.
There was no emotion that could be seen on her face, as her somewhat cold stare was only concentrated on the mountain itself.
Behind Queen Mother were around 1,000 monstrous looking beings, who were standing in 10 groups.
Each one of these monsters were trying their best to look meek behind Queen Mother, although their ferocious appearances were not helping them out.
Aside from these beings, there was also Asteria, who was floating lazily beside Queen Mother. The dumb fairy's stomach was full to the brim, as if she had pumped it full of honey.
There was only a satisfied expression on Asteria's face as she continued floating around, with her not even taking a glance at the imposing Mountain of Enlightenment.
If there was any indication that Queen Mother was irritated by this behavior, she did not show it as she seemed to be only focused on the mountain alone.
No, her focus was not the mountain itself. Her focus was actually on one of the beings inside the Mountain of Enlightenment.
"A World Soul is inside that mountain…" Queen Mother muttered to herself as a rarely seen anger flickered in her eyes. Her whole body was trembling as she said these words, as if what she just said has triggered something inside her.
"These Immortal bastards… I do not know what they are planning, but if it was related to harming a World Soul, then I will not hesitate to kill all of these bastards!" Queen Mother suddenly snarled as some of her power leaked out of her body.
"Boom!" A silhouette of a massive tree appeared behind Queen Mother, which only lasted for a few seconds before she dispelled it.
"These bastards dare to disrespect a World Soul… they must be taught a lesson!"
During the moments that this silhouette was present, every monster behind Queen Mother were forced to kneel from the pressure of the tree. It was only when this silhouette was dispelled that the monsters were able to regain their mobility.
Each one of these monsters gave Queen Mother a terrified and awed look after regaining their movements, which were all ignored by Queen Mother herself.
Queen Mother took no notice of what she just did as she continued talking to herself.
"Did Alex command us to be here because of the World Soul of this world? Is this World Soul the one that will allow us to finish our Main Mission? That is possible." Queen Mother continued saying as she did her best to calm her rage down. "But right now, I do not care whether saving the World Soul will help our mission. I will save this World Soul at all costs! After all, I am a World Tree, and a World Soul is someone that I will never abandon!"
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Out of all the beings that lived in the universe, there is one type of creature that can be considered to be the closest 'friend' of the World Souls.
This creature is not a human, and this creature is also not a cultivator or even a demonic being.
Heck, this creature cannot even be considered either humanoid or an animal-type being.
A World Tree. This is the creature that has the closest possible relationship with a World Soul. Aside from the beings who had managed to fuse their consciousness with a World Soul, it will be a World Tree that will have the closest bond with a World Soul.
At first, this fact might seem unbelievable, but to anyone who looks closely, there is indeed an undeniable bond between a World Tree and a World Soul.
Countless of years of evolution of the World Trees and World Souls allowed this bond to exist, and every World Tree and World Soul has taken advantage of this bond.
This bond could be seen in full force at the moment that a World Tree Seedling(an offspring of a Mature World Tree) appears and takes root in a world.
Most of the times, a World Soul will do its best to suppress or even expel any foreign beings that will try to reside in its body. But at the case of the World Tree Seedling, the World Soul will not do anything to eject this seedling.
Instead of rejecting the World Tree Seedling, the World Soul will allow the World Tree Seedling to live on its body. It will also allow the seedling to take all the nutrients that it needs for it to grow. No matter how much nutrient the World Tree Seedling takes, the World Soul would not interfere, unless the nutrient taken becomes too much to bear.
Once World Tree Seedling takes enough nutrition, it will become a full-fledged World Tree.
To anyone who will see this process, they might think that the World Soul has been cheated by the World Tree, as it was only the World Tree who has gained benefits. But this is where they were wrong.
At the moment that a World Tree reaches its optimum age, it will start to use its life creation ability to create a race of living beings.
Primarily, the role of these created living beings was to protect and guard the World Tree from any possible danger.
But these living beings have another role too, and that was to assist the growth of a World Soul.
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The power of a World Soul relies on the amount of the living beings residing on its body.
The more living beings there are in a world, the stronger the consciousness of a World Soul will be.
In most cases, this criteria is extremely hard to fulfill.
There are many factors that might affect the existence of living beings, which makes it hard for them to thrive on a world.
Most of the time, the amount of living beings that can reside in a world will be limited, which will also limit the growth of the World Soul.
This is a problem for any World Souls, as their primary goal was to have a massive amount of living beings reside on their body.
The World Tree easily solves this problem with its life creation ability.
By creating a race of living beings with its ability, the World Tree will be able to provide a useful source of power for the World Soul, who on its own, cannot do this thing alone.
This symbiotic relationship is the 'bond' between the two.
The World Soul provides shelter and nutrients that will help the World Tree grow, while the World Tree creates living beings that will strengthen the consciousness of the World Soul.
This symbiotic relationship will allow both the World Tree and World Soul to become stronger together, and it will only end once one of them perishes.
One scholar who has studied this symbiotic relationship called it the 'most optimal and useful symbiotic relationship' on the whole multiverse, and that no kind of symbiotic relationship that can beat this one, except for the ones that involve soul fusion.
This is how close a World Tree and a World Soul can be.
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After countless eras of cooperation with each other, evolution has forced each World Tree and World Soul to feel a certain kind of closeness and fondness with each other.
Any World Tree will treat a World Soul with care and deference, even if that World Soul was not linked to that World Tree.
The World Soul also follows this behavior, as it will always assist a World Tree, especially when the life of that World Tree is in danger.
Queen Mother, who was a World Tree that was at the prime of her life, naturally was adherent of this behavior.
"If it were not for the presence of my daughter and Alex, I would have never left the World Soul in the Monster World." Queen Mother thought to herself as she clenched her fists. "But what's done is done, so I only have to focus on my situation right now. And this situation is the one that dictates me to rescue a distressed World Soul!"
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After countless Eras of evolution, every World Tree has developed the ability to detect the presence of a Reborn World Soul.
After all, it was when a World Soul was reborn that it will be at the highest risk of dying. World Trees naturally cannot allow a reborn World Soul to die that easily, hence the development of this ability.
Everytime a World Soul was reborn, its corresponding World Tree will immediately detect and take care of this Reborn World Soul, until the time comes that this Reborn World Soul will evolve to become a Stage 7 World.
Once a World Soul becomes a Stage 7 World, a World Tree will have more room to grow, allowing it to create more living beings that will make a World Soul stronger again.
This cycle continues to go on and go on until both sides reaches their maximum potential.
Once again, this cycles shows a symbiotic relationship that is working its wonders.
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With the use of this 'detection' ability, Queen Mother was able to detect the presence of a Reborn World Soul inside the Mountain of Enlightenment. And by fine-tuning this detection sense of hers, Queen Mother can certainly say that this Reborn World Soul was the one managing this Immortal World.
This discovery only made Queen Mother angrier, as she realized that it was the Immortals that reside in this world that were trying to harm the Reborn World Soul right now.
If it were not for the sake of their mission, Queen Mother might have already rushed in to save the captured Reborn World Soul!
"Patience Queen Mother. Patience…." Queen Mother muttered to herself as she took a deep, shuddering breath to herself.
She actually did not need to breathe, but she needed to do this now in order to cool down her unusually hot temper.
"Since Alex was related to a man who conquers worlds, he should have some knowledge about World Souls." Queen Mother said as the trembling of her body started to slow down. "If he has this knowledge, then that means that whatever his plan is right now, it must be related to saving the captured World Soul. Yes, he should have a plan…"
Queen Mother then continued muttering words to herself in order to calm herself down.
She could have continued doing this for longer, but before her temper could reach its normal levels, her whole body suddenly stiffened as she detected something unbelievable.
Her previously narrow eyes widened in surprise as she stared at the direction opposite of the Mountain of Enlightenment.
"What?"
Queen Mother ignored the surprised reactions of the monsters around her as she continued staring at this direction with her face showing confusion and bafflement.
"How is this possible? Why am I detecting another Reborn World Soul here? Are my senses working properly?" Queen Mother muttered to herself as she quickly shook her head. "If that really is another Reborn World Soul, then does that mean that this world has produced two Reborn World Souls? No! There is no way that a world can produce two World Souls. That will just lead to its death!"
Queen Mother then bit her lips, as she realized that after a few more seconds of using her detection sense to it limits, the presence of the second Reborn World Soul did not disappear.
Instead, it actually got stronger as time passed by, making even Queen Mother feel apprehensive of it.
"Alex, what the hell is going on here? Is this one of your schemes again?" Queen Mother muttered to herself as a dull pain of a phantom headache began to thrum inside her head. "Please Alex, send me a message or a signal right now. Anything will do, as long as it will clarify all this mess!"
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