The celestial orderians' Sun Palace used two stellunar sources that had been compressed into a miniature nova source to power the astralship, allowing it to cruise through the astralscape and providing nova source for its passengers to cultivate. Who would have known that the sprouted saplings would be able to perform the same function.

"How much nova source can they absorb?" At the very least, it would be far more than a normal cultivator's body could. Normally, nova source, when absorbed by cultivators, lifebound beasts, or even totems, would be converted into energy they could use and control. However, such a conversion process wasn't present in the saplings. Instead, they were simply vessels to store all of that energy in its original form, charging up at a gradual rate before...