After the idle people had left, Di Zhuomala walked over to Li Yueqi with his hands behind his back and curiously asked, "You're not going to catch up?"

"Me?" Li Yueqi didn't understand; she pointed to her nose and looked back at Lao Di. "What am I chasing?"

"Hmm?" Although she realized she might have misunderstood, she still asked the question out of curiosity.

"Aren't you and Zhang Ze in that kind of relationship?"

Li Yueqi shook her head, "Sorry, it's not what you think. I'm not in that kind of relationship with him."

But after clearly denying it, Li Yueqi didn't change the topic; instead, she continued discussing it.

"It's not that he's bad, that guy is quite excellent in various aspects.

"Body, appearance, ability, though he often gets carried away, most of the time he's actually quite reliable.

"If it were a few years earlier or a few years later, maybe something might have happened, but as time can't go backwards, there's no possibility given the current situation."

Perhaps because she's been troubled recently, Li Yueqi said a lot.

Curiosity is human nature, and Lao Di's interest was immediately piqued.

"Why?"

"Because he's not normal," Li Yueqi answered immediately, but after saying it, she fell silent, as if thinking about how to describe Zhang Ze's abnormalities.

But after a long silence, she couldn't think of any suitable and accurate words.

Helplessly, Li Yueqi finally took out that photo of the single-leg egg shape again.

"Honestly, as a normal person, I can't accept that my man is something like this, or frequently turns into something like this.

"If you spend a long time with him, you'll feel even Li is more personable than him. I'm not saying he's any particular way, I'm just..."

Li Yueqi's somewhat obsessive-compulsive personality made her get tangled up again, thinking of a fitting way to describe it to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings.

Suddenly, Di Zhuomala chimed in, "Rather than say he's like a person, he's more like a lively Holy Tree."

Li Yueqi clapped her hands to express agreement, "Yes! That's the feeling, super weird."

Di Zhuomala, "Occasionally, you might even feel scared, right?"

"I don't..." Li Yueqi wanted to refute, but ultimately she sighed and admitted, "Yeah, sometimes there is indeed a sense of fear... so, you feel the same way?"

Di Zhuomala nodded, acknowledging, "Yes. And actually, when he climbed down the Earth Sea along the roots of the Holy Tree, I stopped considering him human.

"You might not believe it when I say it, but I even plan on paying respects to him along with the Holy Tree someday, maybe mold a little stone statue for him."

Di Zhuomala paused and continued.

"And about this ritual, I actually understood his intention for arranging it that way long ago.

"It's nothing more than wanting to owe me a favor, so that when he runs away in the future and passes the responsibility of the Main Priest to me, it won't hurt my self-esteem.

"But I think he's overthinking it completely, because for quite a while now, I haven't considered him as 'human', so I'm actually indifferent..."

However, stopping there, Di Zhuomala suddenly paused, seemingly not wanting to lie, and after a moment of silence, she sighed and said, "Okay, actually, it's not entirely indifferent.

"Even though I think that way, there's still some discomfort, especially when facing that seemingly insurmountable chasm."

She bared her cute little canine teeth, as if ready to bite.

"Moreover, that guy—though he planned to take care of my feelings—he ended up showing off publicly, what's that about? Couldn't he find a secluded place to do it? Annoying! Annoying! Annoying!"

Little Fuji, who was hiding nearby and eavesdropping, also jumped out at this moment, imitating Lao Di's movements, stomping her feet.

"Annoying! Annoying! Annoying!"

After venting her feelings, the frustration slightly dissipated, and Lao Di exhaled heavily, feeling much better afterward, she suddenly took Li Yueqi's hand, "Help me out!"

"What do you need help with?" Li Yueqi asked curiously.

"Ritual, no use wasting a free opportunity, there's plenty of materials left, help me conduct a few more rituals, anyway, when they're held accountable later, I'll just say Zhang Ze made me do it," said Di Zhuomala.

Li Yueqi, hearing this, thought it sounded fun and agreed directly.

"What do you need me to do?"

"First, let's get some Holy Tree fragments for Fuji, then turn the Holy Tree back to its original color, the current color is really ugly.

"Uh, you stand there, touch your head with one hand, extend the other hand backward..."

...

On the lush green grasslands, the unloading work was nearing its end.

The people gathered around had dispersed mostly, leaving only the main members of the Holy Tree Division and some idling Demon Race members, idle just the same anywhere.

Granny Anya closed her eyes, leaning against the chair back as if taking a nap.

"Granny." A clear woman's voice woke Granny Anya.

The tall shamaness bent over to whisper softly in her ear, "Aren't you going to intervene?" 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

"What happened?" Granny Anya opened her eyes.

"Intervene in what?"

"Zhang Ze, or perhaps Di... aren't they a bit too much?"

"What did they do?" Granny Anya sat up straight.

"They..."

However, before the shamaness could finish speaking, a burst of cheers suddenly erupted from the Demon Race side.

"Bravo!"

Even those Dragons of Mountain and Sea were like that, they looked towards the direction behind Granny Anya, emitting bursts of dragon roars.

Granny Anya suddenly had a very ominous feeling.

Looking back towards home, the elder's vision turned dark, feeling somewhat breathless.

In the center of Fucheng, the sky-high Holy Tree was currently changing colors.