Looking at the sapling, Liu Yunqing raised her hand and gently touched her forehead. The refreshing feeling from the dew that had just moistened the area seemed to still linger.

Perhaps sensing Liu Yunqing's gaze, the tip of the sapling suddenly swayed very slightly, and then the tender yellow leaf tips slowly turned into a pinkish-red.

Liu Yunqing's eyes widened. Was the little sapling just... shy?

Scanning the space again with his divine sense, Liu Yunqing discovered that although the space was small, the rocks on the four walls of the space were actually used to isolate divine sense and aura.

The single small hole was designed to allow the sapling to absorb the essence of heaven and earth, especially the first rays of sunlight in the morning.

Clearly, all of this was arranged so that the sapling would not be discovered.

So how did I get here?

Liu Yunqing could only ask Xiao Jin about this.

Unfortunately, Xiao Jin soon disappointed her.

"Um... well... the situation that day was complicated..."

Xiao Jin hesitated, but Liu Yunqing didn't budge.

"Then let's get to the point."

After hesitating for a long time, Xiao Jin finally managed to squeeze out a sentence:

"That thing entered your sea of ​​consciousness, and with a 'bang,' it burned away. Then you fainted, and I was trapped in the Golden Crow Ring, unable to see anything. When I regained my senses, that's when we arrived here."

"Really?"

Liu Yunqing frowned, smacked his head hard, and asked again:

"If you can block your senses, doesn't that mean you've been discovered?"

"Now that we've been discovered, how can we possibly stay here unharmed?"

Xiao Jin stared blankly with its bewildered eyes, unsure how to answer. Liu Yunqing relaxed her brow and muttered to herself:

"Yes, this place is entirely beneficial to me. I even feel a sense of closeness to this little sapling. It's clearly not an ordinary thing."

"No matter who it is, they have no hostility towards me."

But who is that person?

Chunyu Changfeng's stunningly handsome face immediately came to mind for Liu Yunqing.

Coming to the Fusang Secret Realm for training was arranged by Chunyu Changfeng himself. Could it be him?

If Chunyu Changfeng is really that powerful, would he still need me to find the Crimson Fire Dragon Eye for him?

Just as Liu Yunqing was lost in thought, Xiao Jin's exclamation pulled her back to reality.

"Master, look! The sapling looks like it's withering!"

Upon closer inspection, Liu Yunqing noticed that the outermost leaves of the sapling did indeed appear slightly wilted.

"What happened? It was fine just now! I didn't touch it!"

Seeing that Liu Yunqing's attention had shifted to the sapling, Xiao Jin became more talkative.

"I know! It must be because the master absorbed the spiritual energy that the sapling needed, that's why the sapling is wilting."

Liu Yunqing recalled that after waking up, she had indeed been absorbing spiritual energy with all her might.

But she absorbed fire elemental energy, and this little sapling...?

Liu Yunqing was still wondering when Xiao Jin revealed the answer to her.

"The fire elemental energy that Master absorbed was originally surrounding the sapling, but now it's all gone!"

To her surprise, it really was a tree that absorbed fire elemental energy. Liu Yunqing was also a little embarrassed, so she quickly transferred some of her own spiritual energy to the sapling.

As a result, the sapling, which had been a little wilted just moments before, became energetic and vibrant after absorbing Liu Yunqing's spiritual power, and the tender buds on its tips waved to Liu Yunqing once again.

Seeing this, Liu Yunqing's heart stirred, and he asked Xiao Jin:

"This sapling can actually absorb my fire elemental power. Do you think it's okay if I plant it in my Golden Crow Ring?"

Xiao Jin's eyes lit up, and he nodded quickly:

"sure!"

"There's nothing that can grow in the master's space yet! I think this tree would be perfect!"

Xiao Jin's excessive enthusiasm surprised Liu Yunqing, but she also felt close to the sapling, so she didn't investigate further and put the sapling into her space.

Liu Yunqing was still thinking about where to plant the saplings.

As soon as she entered the space, the sapling "whooshed" free from her hand and flew straight to the top of the volcano in a blur.

The next instant, the entire space trembled. Before Liu Yunqing could understand what was happening, she heard Xiao Jin scream and fly up, saying:

"Chirp!!! Stop! Stop right now!!!"

At this point, after undergoing several transformations and becoming a respectable space, cracks began to appear on the ground, and the majestic volcanic lava began to dry up.

And then there's the fire elemental energy, which heals on one hand and attacks on the other, and it's starting to mix together again because it can't hold on.

Even the mist that spreads out at the edge of space tends to gather back towards the center.

The sapling she had just brought into the space had grown from the thickness of a finger to the thickness of an adult's arm in just a few breaths.

Liu Yunqing reacted quickly; all of this happened in the blink of an eye. Fortunately, Xiao Jin seemed to have anticipated this and quickly stopped the sapling.

With a thought, Liu Yunqing moved the sapling down the volcano.

Little Gold breathed a sigh of relief, then looked at the sapling still struggling and wriggling, trying to run towards the volcano, and angrily put its wings on its hips and cursed:

"You ravenous wretch! Do you want to drain your master dry?!"

"You've really disgraced your Divine Tree Clan! You've collapsed the Master Space, let's see how you face living now!"

"Oh, then you won't survive either, and neither will we! Stupid tree!"

"..."

Xiao Jin got more and more into cursing, cursing so much that the sapling stopped struggling and twisting, and even drooped its branches in a very human-like way.

Seeing that the naughty little tree had finally behaved a bit, Little King Kong was about to say something more when he heard his master's voice coming from the side:

"Xiao Jin, you seem to know this tree quite well."

"Gah—"

Little Gold's cursing of the tree stopped abruptly. It no longer put its wings on its hips, scratched its head somewhat guiltily, and then, with a quick glance, changed its expression, saying:

“Hehe, I forgot to tell the master that a piece of inherited memory suddenly appeared in my mind just now, and that's when I realized that this tree is actually the ancient divine tree, Fusang Tree.”

"I was mainly angry for a moment. It absorbed so much spiritual energy from the space that it was afraid of collapsing the master's Golden Crow Ring, so I didn't have time to tell the master in time."

"Yes, that's it, that's right!"

Liu Yunqing gave Xiao Jin a meaningful look, taking in its anxiety, then walked past it and went straight to the Fusang tree, saying:

"Can you understand me?"

The hibiscus tree, scolded by Xiao Jin, became obedient. When Liu Yunqing asked it a question, its branches nodded frantically.

"But I can't hear you."

The hibiscus tree was still a sapling with extremely limited intelligence, so it naturally couldn't understand Liu Yunqing's subtext and could only stand there dumbfounded.

Liu Yunqing glanced at the Fusang tree, then meaningfully surveyed the surrounding space before speaking:

"You've messed up my space like this, and it looks like you'll be absorbing my spiritual energy in the future... I'll give you two choices."

Upon hearing that there were two choices, all the leaves on the hibiscus tree stood up, like eavesdropping ears.

"First, you acknowledge me as your master and form a master-servant contract."

"Second, I will move you out of the space now, and then make a bow from your trunk."