The next day, Nebai sent numerous books and Jade Slips to the whale. Alm and Bruno focused on reading everything, and each day, it seemed the amount of information multiplied. There were far more stories about the legendary Nine-Star Tree than they had imagined.
Alm and Bruno read nonstop, but their minds were clearly troubled. Fortunately, they took breaks to calm themselves, watching Ruri silently with her new niece in her arms. They felt her joy, now fully recovered and once again focused on her duties.
It took a month for them to read everything possible, and then they requested information about the Nine-Star Tree Sect itself. After reflecting, some things started to make more sense.
'In many stories, this tree is described as an ancestral entity... even when born from a seed, technically young, it still carried that stigma. Moreover, in almost every story, this tree had a disciple; usually, the disciple was the protagonist, and the tree was just a mentor,' Bruno pondered.
