Chapter 154: What is

Returning to the oasis and seeing Gailade looking up at that World Tree, Nai Ge Li Si almost had the urge to turn around and run.

In his cognition, the Elves wouldn't even let the seeds of the World Tree leak out. Now they had actually grown the World Tree. With the Elves' temper, wouldn't they pinch them to death and then dig up the World Tree?

Not far from Gailade, a tall, white unicorn was confronting Zi Hai, while Lightning, who dared to be cheeky even in front of Ang, was now shrinking behind Zi Hai like a kitten seeing a mouse, trembling with fear.

What happened? Ang tilted his head.

"Ow?" The Little Angel tilted her head and *swish* spread her wings.

"Ow?" The Little Xiao Jiangshi also called out to Lightning, showing the hoe in his hand.

Although Lightning couldn't understand Ow-Ow language, he could see the posture of the two little ones. He hurriedly shook his head and whispered: "Don't, don't, that's my mom."

"Ow?" The Little Angel tilted her head: Mom? What is that?

"Ow?" The Little Xiao Jiangshi tilted his head: Mom? Should I hit her?

Lightning shook his head desperately. Anyway, no matter what these two little ones said, shaking his head was right, so as not to let the Little Angel blast his mother.

Gailade had long noticed the arrival of Ang and the others. She turned around and bowed with her hand on her chest: "Gailade, meets Lord Ang, Lord God of Knowledge."

Although Nai Ge Li Si had only met the Elf Queen once, he had been in contact with her many times in the teleportation array communication, so he asked straight to the point: "Your Majesty the Queen, what is the matter?"

"I want to ask Lord Ang to sell me ten more World Tree seedlings," Gailade said directly.

"Ah? We don't..." Nai Ge Li Si was just about to give a triple denial, but he saw Gailade look up at the World Tree.

Nai Ge Li Si had a feeling of being caught in bed. He clearly said he didn't steal it, but there were crumbs on the corner of his mouth.

He asked helplessly: "What do you want so many seedlings for?"

"Quantity, to exchange for probability," Gailade said somewhat desolately.

This rare personalized demeanor of the Elf Queen would have made a fortune if there were a magic painter nearby. Just depicting Gailade at this moment would be enough to seduce countless people to buy it.

Unfortunately, those present were not any serious "people" and ignored it directly.

Ang reached his hand into the Anxi Zhigong, his shoulders shrugging, continuing to plant vegetables. The Little Angel carefully leaned toward the large unicorn and poked its thigh with her finger.

The large unicorn glanced at her sideways and did not stop her, which surprised Gailade very much. She knew her mount's temper too well; only the purest creatures could get close to it, otherwise, it would kick them with a large hoof.

Nai Ge Li Si rubbed his hands awkwardly: "Your Majesty the Queen, your request for seedlings makes me too embarrassed. There are no seedlings left; they have all grown into big trees. The price of a tree is different from a seedling. You have to pay more."

After some bargaining, Gailade only offered up to eighty thousand magic crystals and wouldn't add any more: "This is the largest amount I can mobilize in a short time. If you need more, I have to go and dig them up, and it won't be until next year."

"With a mine at home, the tone is different. Eighty thousand is eighty thousand. However, our teleportation array is too small, so we can only saw the remaining stumps for you," Nai Ge Li Si said.

If it were more than half a year ago, Gailade could have beaten Nai Ge Li Si's head off for this proposal—daring to saw the World Tree?

Now she wouldn't. According to the growth trend of that kind of World Tree in the Elf territory, as long as it wasn't excessive, general rough treatment would not cause damage to the World Tree. On the contrary, appropriately removing some branches and leaves could make it grow faster.

Why didn't the World Tree grow big when the Elves treated it too carefully in the past? If a tree died from rough treatment, was it qualified to be called a World Tree?

After the two sides reached an agreement, Nai Ge Li Si asked people to dig the trees. In fact, if Gailade hadn't come today, Nai Ge Li Si would have found an opportunity to sell a few more World Trees to the Elves in a while, because the World Tree grew too fast.

The barren Anxi Abyss now had over a thousand World Trees planted. Normally, one World Tree in a plane was enough to regulate the ecology of the plane. Of course, it had to be the intelligent kind.

Although those in the Anxi Abyss were not intelligent World Trees, they still had the basic functions of a World Tree, such as regulating ecology, improving soil, and sheltering animals and plants.

It would be fine if one tree had this function, but now over a thousand trees all had it, and these trees had no upper limit to their growth. This worried Green Wood, the former Demon Valley slave who took care of the World Trees, to death. He couldn't bear to cut them, but if he didn't, as they grew bigger and bigger, the distance to transplant them would become farther and farther.

Theoretically, if the Anxi Wind stopped and all the wasteland in the Anxi Abyss was reclaimed, it would be no problem to support hundreds of millions of creatures. The idea of transplanting them to reclaimable places and turning them all into fertile fields was good, but the Anxi Abyss didn't have that many people.

Especially as the trees grew larger and larger, their volume became larger, and the manpower and material resources required to transplant them became more.

Finally, the most important problem was that there was not enough life force.

The World Tree didn't need water, didn't need soil, didn't need fertilizer. The only thing it needed was for other plants to be flourishing. According to Ang's statement, it was life force.

The Lich City had a few thousand people, Demon Valley had a few thousand people, and the Ice City had tens of thousands of people. Combined, it was only fifty thousand people. Even if they planted food with all their might, the life force they could provide was not as much as a piece of grassland in the main material plane, and they still had to provide it to over a thousand World Trees.

So, after growing to more than ten meters, those World Trees stopped growing, standing there one by one, malnourished. Clearing some could provide more space and life force for other trees. Since the Elves wanted them, that couldn't be better.

Big trees over ten meters high, dug up and cut into stumps and sent over, needed some time. In this boring wait, the large unicorn suddenly roared at Lightning: "Come back with me."

Lightning's neck shrank subconsciously. After reacting, he stiffened his neck and replied: "No!"

"Are you coming back or not? Come over here."

"No!" He shrank behind Zi Hai. Everyone could see his lack of confidence and guilt.

"Are you coming over or not? I'm going to hit you."

"No!" Anyway, no matter what the large unicorn said, Lightning just stiffened his neck, shrank behind Zi Hai, and said "No," except for that cheap mouth that dared to talk nonsense even in front of Ang, which was now as clean as only knowing how to say "No."

Finally, the large unicorn was tired from anger and roared loudly: "If you don't come back with me today, don't come back in the future."

"Don't come back then!" Lightning roared.

The large unicorn turned and walked away in anger. This result made many people sigh with regret.

"Hit him, beat him. You're a mom, and you don't beat him to death?" Lu Se stomped his feet in regret, muttering hatefully.

"Beat him, slap his mouth, kick his butt. Aiyo, just roaring?" Nai Ge Li Si sighed in regret.

"That's it? That's it? Should we find a whip for the horse mom?" Miss Lisha suggested.

"Don't be like that, that's not a horse, it's a unicorn. Here, a whip." Fei Lin handed over a whip.

Before Miss Lisha could take it, she saw the Great Witch passing by not far from the large unicorn with his hands behind his back, looking up at the sky, and the whip on his waist fell to the ground inadvertently.

"... When did it offend the Great Witch?"

"... Don't know. This dead horse, the Great Witch has such a good temper, often bringing children for people, and was also angered by it?"

"Beat him." Many people cheered silently in their hearts.

However, the large unicorn did not fulfill everyone's wishes. It walked in front of Ang, first bent its front knees, and then touched Ang's forehead with its horn.

With such a large sharp horn poking over, Ang subconsciously wanted to copy his scythe, but Nai Ge Li Si hurriedly stopped him: "The highest etiquette of a unicorn, touching the purest you with the purest horn."

Ang carefully touched it with his forehead and hurriedly shrank back: "Sharp."

Gailade's hands behind her back clenched tightly, her delicate body shook, and she forcibly held back her laughter. It was rare, but her mount actually had a day of being disliked.

The large unicorn didn't care too much, or rather, it didn't care about being disliked by Ang, because: "Thank you for protecting my child. You are all the purest. Son of Lightning, accompany you on the journey."

With the large unicorn's words, a group of electric light condensed on the sharp horn and slowly floated in front of Ang: "I hope you can continue to protect him. Son of Lightning blesses you."

"This is a unicorn's blessing, immune to most negative states. It's a pity you can't use it," Nai Ge Li Si said regretfully.

"Ah? Can't use it? Why?" The large unicorn was somewhat stunned.

Its own unicorn blessing was a very practical permanent buff. Many creatures liked it very much, and some people in the black market even offered incredible prices to capture unicorns just for this blessing. How could someone not be able to use it?

Nai Ge Li Si spread his hands: "Because the one standing in front of you is a god, naturally immune to most negative states. No, two, two gods."

While speaking, Nai Ge Li Si puffed out his chest and patted his little claws.

The large unicorn looked at him with suspicious eyes: It was heard that Gailade called him the God of Knowledge. Are gods so weak these days?

Then, the large unicorn became distressed: "I want to thank you, but you can't use my blessing, and I have nothing else. I have no money."

"No need to thank, no need to thank. Lightning is actually quite obedient and has helped us quite a bit," Nai Ge Li Si hurriedly praised Lightning against his conscience.

"Ah? Really? It's not as good as you say," The large unicorn couldn't escape the commonality, beaming like an old mother whose child was praised.

"Of course, Lightning runs very fast, and there were several times when he timely... carried me to the scene, very powerful." Nai Ge Li Si swallowed the "us" hard, fearing that the large unicorn would know that Lightning was ridden by everyone and would go crazy.

"Hehe, you overpraise him. How fast can he run? He can't even step on the air. It just so happens that his horn has grown out. I'll teach him later," the large unicorn beamed.

"Don't just stand there with the blessing halo. Come, come, come, seal it in a wooden plaque. Although the effect will be weakened, it's fine to make a few more. It just so happens that there is a World Tree here," Nai Ge Li Si whittled a section of the World Tree's inner core, carved three wooden plaques, and let Ang precisely carve several magic arrays on them, forcibly sealing the unicorn's blessing.

Such unicorn blessing wooden ornaments possessed about eighty percent of the blessing effect.

The large unicorn, floating a bit from being praised, released three blessings in a row, almost draining itself. It was Gailade who saw the situation quickly and held it back.

Alright, one blessing couldn't be sent out, but three blessings were finally sent out. Nai Ge Li Si was also satisfied. Ang couldn't use the three blessing wooden plaques, but the Little Xiao Jiangshi, the Little Angel, and he could use them.

Gailade pulled the large unicorn far away, not letting it talk to Nai Ge Li Si again, lest the fur on its body be scraped off.

Until the World Tree stumps were dug up and directly teleported to the Elf Forest, and Gailade confirmed receipt, she couldn't wait to pull the large unicorn and run away.

Before running away, the large unicorn came to Lightning and touched Lightning's broken horn with its horn: "You have grown up. If you don't come back with me, then take care of yourself. Ang and the creatures around him, except for the Brass Dragon, have the purest souls. They will be your best partners."

"???" Several question marks appeared in Nai Ge Li Si's mind. Why except for "me"?

Some experience passed through the horn into Lightning's heart, allowing Lightning to instantly grasp some techniques.

Lightning curled his lips: "Got it, no need for you to say. Just the fact that they haven't beaten me to death yet is already a good temper. You take care too."

The large unicorn carried Gailade and stepped into the air. Until their figures disappeared from the field of vision, Lightning let out a long sigh of relief, and his whole body relaxed.

Nai Ge Li Si flew over: "Quick, quick, quick, don't play dead, demonstrate, what did your mom teach you?"

"What else could it be, the technique of stepping on the air. My horn was broken before, so she didn't teach me," Lightning shook his broken horn.

Now his broken horn had grown three-quarters, and the sharpest part in the front hadn't grown out yet, but it no longer affected his ability to perform some special abilities of a unicorn, such as the power of thunder.

"Come, come, perform one," Nai Ge Li Si said, patting the Little Angel. The Little Angel immediately rode up, the Little Xiao Jiangshi rode up, Ang rode up, and Nai Ge Li Si also sat up.

"Have some conscience, will you? I just learned it, and I'm not proficient yet. If I drop you to death in a while, don't blame me," Lightning cursed, kicked his hooves, first accelerated slowly on the ground, then rapidly, and finally ran into the air stepping on the air.

Sitting on the horse's back was a completely different experience from sitting on the dragon's back. Lightning's body was thin and small, and there were no wings on both sides to block the view. Turning his head at will, he could see the earth and the sky.

As if the sky and the earth were connected, this kind of vision had more presence, exciting the Little Angel and the Little Xiao Jiangshi to *ow, ow* and shout.

*Ow, ow, ow* running all the way, Lightning also ran excitedly. The speed of stepping on the air was far beyond the rapid speed on the ground. Without realizing it, he ran hundreds of kilometers away. On the distant horizon, a red color appeared, completely different from the yellow of the desert.

"Eh? Is that red soil? How did we run to Dark Face City?" Nai Ge Li Si was surprised. In the desert, the only place with red soil and sandstone was the area around Dark Face City.

Not to mention Dark Face City, Ang had forgotten it. Originally, if Gailade hadn't come to the door, he would have been ready to come here to kill He Mo Er Tos.

Ang pointed: "Down."

However, before Lightning could turn, suddenly, Ang looked up abruptly. In the clouds above, several black shadows pounced down at high speed. In the clouds behind the black shadows, there was an even larger shadow preparing to break through the clouds. ===== CHAPTER 155 =====