Somewhere within the Ninelives Cave, Tianming nestled within the roots of the Ninelives Ancestral Tree, wrapped in a cocoon hundreds of layers thick.0

On his left leg, countless black strands had sprouted, wrapping around the roots and connecting with them. It looked like leg hair, but they were actually the black roots of the Radix World Tree….1

These thin black root tendrils had undergone an unimaginable transformation.0

Firstly, they had become middlekin astrons, making the black roots eerily shimmer with faint starlight.0

Secondly, the tendrils now resembled...0