Chapter 540: Chapter 18: Energy Conversion Array

In the World Tree Territory, Lin Yu’s main body approached the pool where the high-grade natural energy was stored.

The high-grade natural energy, like water, rippled in the pool without any wind, and a dense concentration of it continuously drifted up from the surface.

According to the information his clone had gathered, this high-grade natural energy could be considered the lifeblood of Planet UY-884.

After many days of observation and testing, Lin Yu had confirmed that it was uncontaminated, non-toxic, and completely safe to absorb.

"Let’s see what happens when I absorb you."

Lin Yu took the long-prepared World Tree Seedling from his personal inventory and placed it into the pool.

The World Tree Seedling instinctively began to absorb the energy. Nourished by this special energy, the piece of Lin Yu’s consciousness within it rapidly grew stronger.

Lin Yu focused his attention on this growing consciousness. In an instant, he felt his main consciousness being pulled into the seedling.

In a daze, he felt as if he had returned to his mother’s womb, surrounded by a comfortable, warm sensation that made him involuntarily accelerate his absorption of the surrounding energy.

As more of the high-grade natural energy was absorbed, images began to flash through Lin Yu’s mind. They were memory fragments from Planet UY-884’s past.

They had lain dormant within the energy, and after being absorbed by the World Tree Seedling, they were read by Lin Yu.

After briefly sorting through them, he understood the whole story behind Planet UY-884’s current predicament.

Planet UY-884 had never awakened a complete, independent consciousness. However, long ago, a special Energy Space had formed in the planet’s very core. This space stored a massive amount of high-grade natural energy, and it was surrounded by a thick layer of high-temperature molten rock and the hard planetary mantle.

The Planetary Will of UY-884 was also slowly gestating within this energy. Given enough time, it would have eventually developed into a sufficiently powerful and independent Planetary Will.

Then one day, an unknown time ago, a humanoid creature crossed through the thick layers of molten rock and mantle, arriving at the core of Planet UY-884.

The being then left a small square box and a single seed in the core’s Energy Space before departing.

In the days that followed, the seed took root in the dense energy, sprouted, and grew into a sapling.

The sapling could directly absorb the high-grade natural energy from the core and used it to grow continuously.

At first, the sapling didn’t absorb much energy. But once it grew to a certain size, its consumption increased dramatically, soon provoking the instinctive displeasure of the unawakened Planetary Will.

So, the tree, which had grown quite large, was ejected from the core region by the Planetary Will. The small square box left by the mysterious person was thrown out along with it.

The ejected tree passed through the mantle and ended up in a region full of molten rock. It quickly adapted to the environment there and began to absorb the energy from the magma.

At this point, it was still a good tree for the planet. Although absorbing the heat from the magma lowered its temperature somewhat, the tree would convert this heat into natural energy and release it into the air.

The natural energy that dissipated into the air would be absorbed by the planet’s core, accelerating the awakening of the Planetary Will.

For a long time, the tree lived in the magma. After absorbing a certain amount of energy, it even produced some seeds, which it scattered into the molten rock.

These seeds were thrown to the planet’s surface during volcanic eruptions, but they never took root or sprouted due to the lack of energy required for growth.

One day, whether by coincidence or deliberate design, the great tree came into contact with the small square box in the magma, and everything changed.

The moment the box and the tree met, a massive amount of Undead Energy surged out from within the box.

The great tree had only been absorbing energy from the magma for a very long time and hadn’t encountered such pure energy in ages.

Upon sensing the Undead Energy, it immediately absorbed it.

And then, it changed!

It went from being a cheerful, happy-go-lucky wanderer to a world-weary, antisocial entity.

After absorbing energy from the magma, the energy it converted was no longer the natural energy the planet loved, but the Undead Energy that caused all things to decay.

Furthermore, when it had sufficient energy, it no longer produced new seeds. Instead, it generated a strange black smoke, which was the Undead Virus that could combine with Undead Energy.

And so, the entire planet’s ecosystem was drastically altered.

By the time the planet’s chaotic consciousness reacted and tried to deal with it, the tree had already grown to a point where the planet’s defenses could not easily handle it.

On the contrary, the high-grade natural energy from the core, which the planet used for its defenses, piqued the tree’s interest. It began to chase the magma flows, constantly provoking the planet with Undead Energy in order to absorb this high-grade natural energy.

Fortunately, the Undead Energy it emitted catalyzed the seeds it had previously scattered when it reached the planet’s surface.

After these seeds grew, they still followed their original programming, converting absorbed energy into natural energy. They did not convert it into Undead Energy like the Ku Shu deep underground.

This was what allowed Planet UY-884 to hold on until Lin Yu’s arrival.

After watching these memory fragments, Lin Yu couldn’t help but feel contempt for the mysterious person.

’To plant a parasite in the planet’s cradle before its consciousness had even been born... How despicable!’

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