I am the sacred tree, evergreen for eternity.

The Wilderness Realm, with its endless mountains and seas.

The vast mountains stretch across the land like the spine of a giant dragon, with towering ancient trees blocking out the sun. Strange beasts lurk, divine birds sing, and all kinds of races compete freely under the frosty sky.

Deep in a secluded valley, a sapling, barely a foot tall, was struggling to absorb the meager sunlight from its two tender leaves.

"I've actually transmigrated and become a tree?"

A sense of absurdity washed over Yu Su.

I remember that in my previous life I was a programmer at a major internet company. After working overtime for three days and three nights in a row, I finally died suddenly at my workstation.

When he opened his "eyes" again, he found himself transformed into a newly sprouted elm sapling, taking root in this wild and desolate mountain forest.

Yu Su tried moving her branches and leaves; the tender green leaves swayed gently in the breeze, and a peculiar sensation spread through her—

The feeling was hard to describe; it was like a holographic map unfolding in his mind, with everything within a radius of dozens of feet clearly reflected in his consciousness.

"This is probably my cheat code? A detection radar with a not-so-wide range," Yu Su thought to himself with a self-deprecating smile.

The novelty of gaining this ability did not last long.

As her senses expanded, Yu Su gradually saw her surroundings more clearly, and then fell silent.

Countless towering trees stood around him.

Those trees were often over ten feet tall, with trunks so thick that it took several people to encircle them, and gnarled roots coiled like pythons beneath the ground, greedily absorbing every drop of nutrients from the soil.

Their canopies, like dark clouds pressing down on a city, almost completely monopolize the sunlight and rain, leaving only a few scraps to leak to the ground and be given to the lowly grasses and trees.

Unfortunately, he was one of those short ones: about a foot tall, with two tender leaves, and a slender stem that swayed precariously in the wind.

As Yu Su felt the meager nutrients within her body, an indescribable sense of sorrow welled up in her heart.

"In my past life, I was an overworked dog who was exploited by capital until I died of overwork."

"I became a tree in this life, but even the sunlight is taken away by my peers."

"In this world, even trees are curling up?"

No, Yu Su refused to accept her fate.

He extended his senses underground, carefully examining the structure deep within the soil.

The soil in the layer was loose and fertile, but the nutrients had been completely plundered by the root systems of those giant trees.

Below that lies a layer of hard gravel and compacted clay. Although the roots of those giant trees also extend to that depth, they are noticeably sparser.

Deeper still, he vaguely sensed a warm and powerful force flowing slowly.

Earth veins.

That is the vein of the earth, the source of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and the most fundamental source of power for this wild and desolate mountain and sea region.

"If I can get my roots into the earth's veins, I'll never have to fight with those 'old geezers' again!"

Downwards, it must be downwards.

From then on, Yu Su began his long and arduous journey underground.

He used all the limited nutrients for the growth of the root system. The main root desperately drilled downwards, and the lateral roots extended in all directions to absorb more water and minerals to support the main root's progress.

Over ten years, he drilled through the topsoil, over the gravel layer, and his roots reached the hard rock shell.

For twenty years, he bypassed the cracks in the rock crust, found a narrow passage, and his roots continued to extend downwards.

Thirty years later, when he finally planted his main root into that warm current, the whole tree couldn't help but tremble violently.

Counting the rings of the tree, one after another, was Yu Su's only guiding light in the dark underground.

Finally, one day, when his main root pierced through the last layer of cold rock, a warm and powerful force surged up from the depths, enveloping his entire root system.

Earth veins!

He finally made his way into the earth's veins!

The warm energy flowed upwards along the roots, nourishing every inch of its veins. Unlike the barren nutrients on the surface, the power within the earth's veins was profound and enduring, like the very breath of the earth itself.

Yu Su greedily absorbed this inexhaustible power, and an indescribable sense of satisfaction welled up in her heart.

Nourished by the earth's veins, its growth rate far exceeds that of ordinary trees.

Its trunk grew taller at a visible rate, its branches and leaves stretched out in all directions, and its bark changed from light green to grayish-brown, gradually showing the longitudinal crack texture unique to mature elm trees.

In just twenty years, it grew from a sapling about a foot tall into a mature elm tree several meters high, with lush branches and leaves and a well-developed root system, standing out among the young saplings!

As his torso grows, his sensory range also increases.

The holographic map in his mind expanded from the initial tens of feet to hundreds of feet, and now it can cover half of the valley.

He could sense the movement of fish in the stream to the east, the migration of deer on the hillside to the west, and even faintly detect the more powerful life force beyond the valley.

Yu Su stretched out her branches and leaves, her heart filled with emotion.

"Fifty years have passed in the blink of an eye..."

It took him fifty years to grow from a seed into a mature elm tree, finally establishing himself in this wild and ruthless land where the strong prey on the weak.

Although it is still far from those magnificent trees that have been honed over the years, and although it is still shrouded in the shadows of those towering, sun-blocking trees.

But Yu Su remains confident that one day he will be able to stand tall between the mountains and the sea.

until that day.

It was an ordinary afternoon, sunny and breezy.

Yu Su awoke from her deep slumber rooted in the earth's veins and skillfully used her senses to scan everything in the valley.

Suddenly, an indescribable aura of terror pressed down from the depths of the sky.

The sea of ​​clouds surged and churned amidst an extremely domineering aura, causing all the birds and beasts in the entire mountain and sea area to tremble and prostrate themselves under that oppressive force.

"That's... how is that possible?!"

Yu Su raised his head, and then he saw—

A second sun!

A blazing, blinding golden-red orb slowly descended from the sky, its fiery tail turning the heavens crimson.

The clouds evaporated before it, the wind and waves burned away before it, and before the heat wave had truly arrived, the streams in the mountains were almost boiling, and the branches and leaves of countless giant trees began to curl and wither.

Three-legged golden crow!

A true mythical being, surrounded by the primordial fire of the sun, a supreme being of mountains and seas with three legs treading on the sun.

It floated lightly into the valley, its enormous wings folding, and the golden flames that filled the sky subsided somewhat. It seemed to be thirsty, its noble head lowered as it drank from the clear spring water in the valley.

I only took a sip of water.

I stretched comfortably.

The next moment, the blazing power of the sun surging around the Golden Crow erupted instantly, and the blazing flames swept in all directions like angry waves.

The eight wastelands were burned to ashes, and all the trees were reduced to ash.

Those once towering giant trees were as fragile as paper in the face of the Golden Sun True Fire, and were burned to charcoal in an instant, collapsing with a crash.

All living things in the mountains and forests were reduced to nothingness in the flames, and even the rocks were burned and cracked.

After drinking the water, the golden crow let out a satisfied cry, flapped its wings and soared into the sky, transforming once again into a second sun in the heavens.

It didn't even glance at the scorched earth, as if it had merely trampled a group of ants.

Yu Su felt like she was about to die...