506: Chapter 437 Tree Spirit Symbiosis with Treants_1 506: Chapter 437 Tree Spirit Symbiosis with Treants_1 For those ordinary corrupted creatures, Gaven was on guard, letting the Half-Moon Colt undergo screening to pick out any suspected Moando Servants and not to mention those direct troops that had followed the Divine Root.

He had originally planned to settle them first and, when he found the time, to eliminate them one by one.

The appearance of Selin simplified matters significantly.

In less than two hours, this remnant monster army of the Divine Root had been completely devoured by Gaven, leaving only one Tree Spirit People with the most special circumstances.

Gaven, brimming with enthusiasm, said to the Tree Spirit People, “If I originally had a certain chance to heal you, I can now say, with a great deal of confidence, that I can separate the two of you again, allowing you to become a unique symbiotic Tree Spirit People.

However, the process may be somewhat painful, and it will also require your soul consciousness to be scattered and reawakened.

By then, you will still be you, but not completely the same as you are now.

Do you accept this method?”

“The ‘me’ of tomorrow is not the ‘me’ of today, and the ‘me’ of today is not the ‘me’ of yesterday.

Yet, the ‘me’ of yesterday shaped the ‘me’ of today, and the ‘me’ of today will forge the ‘me’ of tomorrow,” the reply of the Tree Spirit People was unusually philosophical.

Many present fell into deep thought, but Gaven was the most deeply moved.

His own background was even more complex than that of the Tree Spirit People.

With repeated reincarnations, he seemed unchanged, still the Zhang You who had replaced Gaven, yet he was also not entirely of his past life, as the people and events he experienced were all different.

Even if the people remained the same and the events did not change, he himself was no longer the same.

The Tree Spirit People seemed to not answer Gaven’s question directly, yet they had given their answer – before tomorrow comes, nobody knows what the ‘me’ of tomorrow will be like; it is determined by the decisions made by the ‘me’ of today.

“Since you are so clear-minded, let us begin.

In a moment, when I use the Purifying Light of Corruption to purify the corrupt power within your body, I will take the opportunity to scatter your soul consciousness, restore it to its original state, and then reawaken you with the Enlightenment spell, completing your soul consciousness.

Please try your best to cooperate,” Gaven forewarned the Tree Spirit People.

Then, he activated the Tower of Dominion’s teleportation light and returned to the control room of the Tower of Dominion.

Of course, Gaven took the opportunity to test whether the Tower of Dominion had any enhancement effects on the Enlightenment spell.

If this ability could also be multiplied by ten, that would be an incredible boon.

To be able to awaken ten trees at once, even if they were all Enlightened Trees, and to form an army with thousands of them would be an indescribably terrifying thing.

Dreams are beautiful, but reality is cruel.

The Tower of Dominion did indeed enhance the Enlightenment spell, but this enhancement was not in the number of simultaneous awakenings; it broke the distance limitation of the spell instead.

As long as the trees were within ten kilometers of the Tower of Dominion, he could use the Enlightenment spell on them directly from within the tower.

This enhancement was essentially useless.

The only difference between performing the Enlightenment in the tower and by the side of the tree was that it was safer and more comfortable inside the tower, sparing him the need to endure wind and rain, and to travel the ten or eight kilometers back and forth.

However, when Gaven actually deployed the Enlightenment spell, he discovered the truly powerful part of this enhancement – he could directly perceive the strength of the initial consciousness of those trees as points of light.

The brighter and larger the points of light, the stronger they were, and vice versa.

This was an important indicator of the innate strength or weakness of trees before awakening.

Previously, Gaven had used the personal stories of those trees to judge the strength of their initial consciousness, purely out of necessity.

With this new method, he could now start by awakening those trees with the strongest initial consciousness and experience their legendary stories first-hand during the awakening process.

A rough estimate suggested that as many as ten trees had the potential to become Enlightened Treants.

This might sound like a lot, but one must not forget this was a primary forest within a ten-kilometer radius—over 314 square kilometers of land dotted with countless old-growth trees.

That only ten had potential was such a scarcity that it was practically one in a hundred thousand.

Awakening these saplings into Treants was a task for the future.

For now, Gaven was focused on one thing—the reawakening of the Tree Spirit People.

For him, it was a sizeable challenge.

After all, there were quite a few theoretical inferences involved, and Gaven was not entirely confident of success.

Especially when delving into the Tree Spirit People’s body, he found its soul to be more complex than anticipated.

A Tree Spirit symbiotic with an oak tree is often regarded as one entity in nature.

To a certain extent, the Tree Spirit could be considered the soul consciousness of that oak tree.

Therefore, an oak tree with a Tree Spirit’s symbiosis is impossible to awaken, not even by a legendary Druid.

The Divine Root did not care about such nuances.

The result of the forced corruption and transformation was that the oak tree developed its consciousness that merged with a piece of the Tree Spirit’s consciousness, except this merger was imperfect.

The Tree Spirit still retained a portion of its self outside.

That is to say, the Tree Spirit and the oak tree together had one and a half souls.

As a whole, more than half.

As two separate entities, less than half.

This situation reminded Gaven of Five-Willow, who were five in one, divisible and united.