Please be my partner.

Because of the materials used, the physical strength of these mechanical giant wolves is infinitely close to that of saints. Coupled with the rule protection imposed by Mellen, it takes some effort for ordinary saints to destroy them.

These giant mechanical wolves spread out and entered the Sacred Tree Forest from different directions.

Unfortunately, without exception, these giant mechanical wolves were enveloped by a sudden burst of light and disappeared when they reached the outermost edge of the Sacred Tree Forest.

Seeing this scene, Melen remained unmoved and silently sensed the current position of these mechanical giant wolves.

During the first exploration, Melen was too weak and he couldn't sense anything when the distance was a little far.

And now, with Garuru's innate power and the connection with the concept rule "wolf", it can be said that as long as they are in the starry universe and not in some special sealed areas, no matter where these mechanical giant wolves are teleported, Melen can sense it.

After closing his eyes and thinking for a while, Melen opened his eyes. In his perception, the thousands of mechanical giant wolves were all teleported to different worlds, and it seemed completely random.

After pausing for a moment, Melen slowly walked forward to the edge of the sacred tree forest and reached in.

A ray of light appeared, accompanied by a huge spatial traction force, which seemed to forcibly drag Mellen to an unknown area, just like the thousands of mechanical giant wolves before.

But at the same time, a spatial rule filled Melen's body, offsetting the spatial traction of the sacred tree forest.

Immediately afterwards, Melen resisted the force of space traction and forced his way into the sacred tree forest.

Mellen's actions seemed to have violated some kind of taboo. Before he could observe for a while, the silent forest of sacred trees seemed to suddenly come back to life, and the sacred trees close to Mellen suddenly became aggressive.

Feeling the mythical aura revealed by those sacred trees, Melen's expression became solemn.

This forest of sacred trees is endless. Even though each sacred tree is very tall, there are probably hundreds of thousands or even millions of them added up. If each sacred tree is comparable to a myth, it is simply unimaginable!

What is myth?

It is eternal! It is great!

But it is not some cabbage that can be found everywhere. Once it is proven to be a myth, it means longevity, immortality, and the real life span of heaven and earth.

Throughout the history of the starry universe, the total number of those who have achieved mythology is probably far less than the number "one million". It is hard to imagine that there are millions of myths in a small area of the high-dimensional world.

But soon, Melen breathed a sigh of relief and realized that he was wrong.

Although the aura emitted by these sacred trees has reached the mythical level, this aura is scattered and chaotic, giving a sense of trying to piece together the vast disorder into a messy order.

Combining the sapling of the sacred tree he obtained, Melen soon realized that these "mythical" powers did not come from the sacred tree itself, but from the worlds connected by its roots.

By absorbing the rules of those worlds and integrating them, the sacred tree possessed an aura comparable to that of a myth. However, due to the chaos of the rules, even after simple organization and sorting by the sacred tree, it was still full of a sense of disorder.

After some simple tests, Melen discovered that these sacred trees had no intelligence, only some instincts.

After getting the desired result, Melen stopped provoking the Sacred Tree Forest and retreated.

Melen summoned the forest wolf, but at such a close distance, the forest wolf almost got lost as soon as it came out. The seedling of the sacred tree in its body was resonating with the entire sacred tree forest.

He used his own power to seal off the space around Senlang, cutting off the connection between the inside and the outside. Only then did Senlang come back to his senses with lingering fear.

This is a very dangerous experience for the forest wolf. Once it is completely controlled by the sacred tree sapling and returns to the sacred tree forest, with its current consciousness, it will probably be assimilated by the sacred tree forest in an instant, and then completely lose its self and become a puppet.

After Senlang calmed down, Melen asked, "How is it? Do you feel anything special?"

Senlang sensed it carefully for a while, nodded solemnly, and told the information he had obtained from the sapling of the sacred tree.

It turns out that this entire sacred tree forest is actually a whole, or in other words, it is itself a complete sacred tree.

The way the sacred tree survives is to continuously split out tentacles, which are the seedlings of the sacred tree, and insert them into each world to parasitize.

During the parasitic process, the sacred tree will continuously absorb the rules and power of this world to nourish its own continuous growth. When these tentacles grow to a certain size, they will return to the mother body and become part of the mother body again.

After countless years of parasitism, absorption, and growth, the size of the sacred tree has far exceeded the scope of mythology, and even the overlord would be frightened when seeing it.

Of course, this does not mean that the sacred tree is that powerful.

Perhaps due to its unimaginable transcendent size, the mythical strongmen could do nothing to the sacred tree, but the master was an existence that completely controlled the source of the rules. With his absolute advantage in the rules, if he wanted to, he could completely grind the sacred tree to death, but it might take a little longer.

After all, the sacred tree is different from the ancient imperial beast, although both seem to be constantly increasing in size.

However, the Ancient Emperor Beast is a completely different kind of extraordinary system, which relies on its size to enhance its strength, while the Divine Tree may have undergone some kind of mutation to gain the talent of parasitic world. In essence, it still follows the path of rules, but because it absorbs the power of rules from different worlds without limit, it produces mutual restraint. Most of the accumulated power is invalid, and even cancels each other out, so it has to split into the appearance of a forest.

If this scattered power of rules could be integrated, the power that the sacred tree could unleash would be extremely astonishing.

After realizing this, Melen looked at Senlang with a slight smile on his face.

Senlang shuddered, as if he understood Mellen's plan, and shook his head and backed away.

Melen smiled and said, "Senlang, you must have confidence in yourself, and I will give you enough support!"

There was still hesitation and entanglement on the face of the forest wolf. It was already difficult enough for it to bind just one tentacle of the sacred tree, let alone the entire sacred tree. If it dared to spread its own talent to the entire sacred tree forest, its self-consciousness would probably be assimilated in an instant.

At this moment, Melen stretched out his hand to Senlang and said seriously: "Senlang, please be my partner!"

Senlang was stunned. It was impossible for him to say that he had never imagined that he was invited by Mellen, but he never expected that this day would come so soon and so suddenly.

If it were in the past, Senlang would have agreed without hesitation, but now Senlang understood that Melen invited it because he hoped it could control this sacred tree forest.

Senlang couldn't help but ask himself: Can I really do this?

Seeing Senlang's changing expression, Melen did not urge him, but maintained an inviting posture and waited quietly.

After a long time, the expression on Senlang's face gradually relaxed, his eyes became firm, and a faint emerald green light flickered in them.

Senlang looked at Melen and solemnly placed his paw on Melen's outstretched hand.

At this moment, the contract is established!

After Xiaoli became Mellen’s eighth contracted dog, Senlang became Mellen’s ninth contracted dog.

In an instant, Melen felt a sense of fulfillment.

This perfection is not the body, soul, rules, energy, spirit... but the perfection of the mind.

Melen suddenly understood that the moment the ninth contracted dog appeared, [Wolf Tamer] also entered a new stage, just like the foundation of a skyscraper. With this perfect foundation, the subsequent improvement will be a natural result.

On the spiritual level, the [Wolf Tamer] profession formed a perfect nine-sided geometry. On each side, there was a phantom of a dog, and Mellen's phantom sat in the center of the geometry.

When the ninth dog also returned to its position, rays of light flowed out from the shadows of Mellen and the dogs, quickly filling the entire nine-sided geometry.

The contractual connection became closer, and the interactions between Mellen and the dogs, and between the dogs became more frequent. This interaction included the power of rules, the essence of life, soul fluctuations, and everything else.

Melen could vaguely feel that there was originally a vague barrier between himself and the dogs, but at this moment, the barrier was gradually weakening.

However, Melen also realized that it was impossible to eliminate the barriers by relying solely on this kind of interaction. It also required active communication and real interaction between the dogs in order to completely break it down.

And this may be the real key to the power of fusion.

Suppressing these fleeting thoughts for the moment, Melen looked at Senlang and became more confident in the latter's assimilation action.

The anchoring ability of the Wolf Tamer itself can give the dogs extremely high mental resistance. Now that it has been perfected, this ability has been enhanced exponentially.

The reason is actually very simple. If the full score is 100 points, what is the difference between 100 points and 99 points?

The difference is that the former is perfect and the latter is incomplete!

After completing the contract, Melen opened up to supply spiritual energy, and Senlang was like a dry sponge, accepting everything.

During this process, Senlang's shortcomings and damage were quickly repaired.

It was not until then that Melen noticed that Senlang's talent for binding to plants was not entirely beneficial, because the essence of the sacred tree seedling was far beyond Senlang's. Although forced binding gave Senlang a huge blessing, and his talent and strength had improved by leaps and bounds, it also laid some hidden dangers.

The essential difference between the forest wolf and the sacred tree seedling caused an extreme imbalance between the two, just like a scale with one gram and one kilogram on both ends, but because of the power of the forest wolf's innate ability, the two were forced to maintain a state of balance.

If this continues, it may lead to a situation similar to when Mellen was out of balance.

Moreover, this hidden danger is at the talent level and is very obscure. Before, neither Mellen nor Senlang himself had noticed it at all.

Fortunately, there is now spiritual energy as a supplement. Although it does not cure the problem fundamentally, it at least maintains the balance on the surface. Moreover, this balance is far more stable than Mellen’s original unbalanced state. As long as the spiritual energy is continuous, there will be no danger.

Therefore, Melen was not in a hurry to solve this problem, but was prepared to wait until the forest wolf assimilated the sacred tree forest and sorted it out all at once through evolution.

Chapter 574: Return Plan Phase

Watching the forest wolf enter the sacred tree forest, Melen's eyes were a little complicated.

To be honest, he didn't spend a long time with Senlang, and the latter was practicing on his own most of the time. He didn't have the kind of familiarity that Xiaoli had that could penetrate the river of time.

However, the moment Melen and Senlang signed the contract, they became the closest partners and family members. This was a close relationship that would last until the end of time, so Melen was still a little worried about what Senlang would do next.

However, if Senlang wants to go further and solve the hidden dangers in his body, he must overcome this hurdle no matter what. Melen can give him all his help, but the most important step still requires Senlang to take it himself.

At some point, Xiao Li appeared beside Mellen and whispered, "Don't worry, Xiao Sensen may encounter some difficulties and setbacks on this journey, but as long as she keeps her original intention, she will definitely succeed. As long as she can obtain the power of the sacred tree, then the future..."

Melen has almost become immune to Xiao Li's way of speaking, which is to leave blank spaces. He knows that Xiao Li is neither a mystic nor a fan of mystery. He basically says what he can say directly, and what he cannot say must involve some other things.

Melen retracted his gaze and said, "Let's go, it's time to update Xiao Liuli's version. Xiao Li, do you think my idea can be realized in the next operation?"

Xiao Li smiled and said, "Although you are greedy, there is still a chance. There may be some extra surprises waiting for you."

Mellen nodded slightly and smiled, "That's good. That's really reassuring."

"By the way, Xiao Li, why don't you just tell me what will happen in the future all at once?"

"Oh my, wouldn't it be too boring to know too much about the future?!"

"Are you kidding me? Knowing the future is so interesting!"

"No, no! What if you know too much and accidentally cause some changes that affect some key nodes? That would be bad!"

"Tsk! You're so stingy!!"

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Council of Beasts.

This time the Council of Beasts was just like any other, the only difference was that everyone was in high spirits, because the member with the most progress among them... the snake, had also completed his advancement and became a demigod.

This marks that the Council of Beasts has completely entered the Demigod Era from this moment on.

The cat said with a grin, "Little snake, you've been lazy. It took you so long to become a demigod."

The snake curled its lips and muttered, "You're not even a few months ahead of me. Aren't we all at about the same pace?"

Seeing that the cat and the snake were about to start arguing, the eagle interrupted and said, "Okay, stop talking about this useless stuff."

She looked at Long and asked respectfully, "Lord Long, now that the conditions are ripe, should we allow those scattered subordinate tribes to return?"

Mellen watched the scene quietly without interrupting.

The subordinate tribes mentioned by Eagle refer to those who followed Tianlong to invade the starry universe and are not members of the Twelve Divine Beasts tribe.

It is worth mentioning that in the war when the Ten Thousand Beasts Universe invaded the Starry Universe, although the Ten Thousand Beasts Universe only dispatched about one-third of its forces, it was still a very powerful force.

Among them, the Tianlong clan alone dispatched four powerful masters and more than two hundred mythical masters, and the leader of the Tianlong clan was a ninth-level supreme being.

The wolf tribe, who are the loyal lackeys of the Tianlong tribe, naturally came out in full force. In addition to the wolf tribe leader, a strong man who is infinitely close to being the master, there are also hundreds of myths.

Cats, eagles, bears, cows, snakes, there are quite a few mythical strongmen in these tribes, and there are countless demigod strongmen in other affiliated tribes.

However, the final outcome of this battle was not ideal.

Although the gods of the Starry Universe were severely damaged, almost ending the Age of Gods, the invasion of the Beast Universe ultimately failed.

Myths were extinguished, masters fell, and even the supreme and powerful leader of the Tianlong chose to self-destruct under the siege of the supreme beings and masters of the starry universe. The remaining tribes could only flee in embarrassment, hiding their identities to avoid being hunted down.

Today, countless years later, Melen and his companions have inherited the legacy of the leader of the mythical beast tribe, and as they grow step by step, the current Council of Beasts has come into being.

And in today's starry universe, there are certainly more beings that have inherited the myths or dominant powers of the past, as well as the remaining ethnic groups.

As long as they can be summoned back, the seemingly powerless Council of Beasts will immediately become a powerful force.

However, although the Council of Beasts has gained some strength at the current stage, it is still far behind the Starry Universe. Once the name of the Council of Beasts is really made known, those sleeping gods will probably jump out of their coffins.

So, they need another code name for the time being.

Long looked around and said, "Everyone, our strength has entered a new stage. This means that the Council of Beasts should also open a new chapter."

"Then, I hereby declare that the Return Plan has entered its second phase, initiating the recall process. We will recall our former subordinates, vassals, and tribes one by one, in order to rapidly strengthen the power of the Council of Beasts."

"However, in order to prevent the gods from suppressing us, we cannot reveal our names at this stage, so this recall must be carried out in secret."

"I will use the Council of Beasts as a guide to target those powerful individuals who have inherited the legacy, as well as the remaining tribes. You will go there with the Council of Beasts' oath. If they are willing to accept the oath, they will become our companions."

"Otherwise, they are objects that need to be cleaned up and recycled. After all, we cannot afford the risk of exposure right now."

Everyone's expression was solemn. This recall operation also concerned the vital interests of everyone present.

They will naturally welcome those who are willing to "return", but there will definitely be those who do not want to have anything to do with the Council of Beasts. At that time, some extraordinary measures will be needed. This is why they have to wait until everyone in the Council of Beasts becomes a demigod before starting this plan.

Otherwise, if you invite others and they don’t agree, and you expose yourself because you can’t beat them, that would be funny.

It’s called an invitation, but in fact, it’s also a coercion!

Seeing that no one raised any objections, Long nodded slightly and waved his hand. An abstract projection appeared above the round table, with densely packed light spots on it. These light spots were of different sizes and emitted different colors.