After the Earth Union Conference, news from the Zhuxia region was no longer kept tightly under wraps, spreading through various channels and steadily making its way into the eyes of people around the world.
Therefore—
Some foreigners gradually recognized these purple crystals. As for the people of Zhuxia who had personally witnessed the Tibetan Azure Mountain Incident through the live broadcasts carried by major television networks, they recognized them at a glance.
These were the strange purple crystals that had nearly swallowed up more than half of Tibetan Azure Mountain.
[Again!? I can't take this anymore. I'm getting PTSD!]
[Everyone, don't panic. It looks like this is a phenomenon that inevitably occurs whenever the Unown go to work. This time, the Unown are helping us, so there's nothing to worry about.]
[Professor Mo is still up in the sky watching over everything. With him here, everyone can relax.]
Chen Mo naturally knew that this was a natural phenomenon.
Whenever the Unown excessively used their power, causing the powers of time and space to intersect in reality, these strange purple crystals could easily appear.
"Why does this feel a little creepy..."
Hu Chengliang quietly muttered as he watched the purple crystals swallow the isolated island and continue spreading toward the sea.
Chen Mo's voice drifted over from nearby.
"It's the Tree of the World's Beginning affecting you. That secret realm, which has been shrouded in death for so long, is deepening its fusion with the real world under the Unown's influence."
"I see..."
Hu Chengliang nodded.
However—
Chen Mo, seated on Pidgeot's back, wore a thoughtful expression.
Before he had completely mastered his Aura, Chen Mo's Aura had always existed in a semi-open state. This was also why, before obtaining the Aura Staff Zoroark had given him, he would constantly trigger the Time Flowers without meaning to.
And that semi-open state had another important function.
Back in the secret realm, it had helped Chen Mo shield himself from the deathly aura emanating from the Tree of the World's Beginning, ensuring that his mind would not be overly affected.
Likewise, it had prevented Chen Mo from gaining a particularly deep understanding of the Tree of the World's Beginning's condition at the time.
"What do you mean by that?"
Hu Chengliang's expression was filled with confusion after hearing Chen Mo's rather strange words.
Chen Mo glanced at the blue figure in a distant helicopter and slowly said,
"Let's put it this way. If we were to regard the Tree of the World's Beginning as a human, Brother Hu, what do you think would happen if a critically injured patient, barely kept alive through all kinds of measures and still liable to die at any moment, was simply given more nutrition? Would that be enough to restore them to health?"
"..."
Hu Chengliang froze.
After a moment, he hesitantly replied,
"The Tree of the World's Beginning may resemble humans in some ways, but it's ultimately not human. It's a special kind of lifeform. Don't Pokémon also have moves like Photosynthesis? Maybe—"
His voice suddenly stopped there.
Everyone knew that some Pokémon possessed special moves capable of healing injuries.
According to the Strategy Bureau's current research, these moves could temporarily be divided into two major categories.
The first involved consuming a certain amount of the user's own energy to heal injuries. Moves such as the healing pulse used by the Chansey line and the Life Dew Jirachi had used previously fell into this category.
The other category—
Included moves like Photosynthesis, which required making use of a special environment.
However, regardless of the category, all recovery moves had a prerequisite: once a Pokémon's injuries crossed a certain threshold, ordinary healing moves could no longer produce any meaningful effect.
Let alone a move like Photosynthesis—even something as powerful as Healing Wish would still be incapable of saving a Pokémon that had already entered the brink of death.
In game terms—
It was essentially a near-fainted state.
In fact, if one carefully recalled the plot of Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, there were already hints of this.
In the movie, the Tree of the World's Beginning had once begun collapsing even in a place filled with light. Therefore, sunlight alone most likely could not save it.
Suddenly remembering something, Hu Chengliang glanced out of the corner of his eye toward Lucario before turning back to the young man atop Pidgeot.
His face was filled with seriousness.
"Chen Mo, listen to me. This world still needs you, and we need you too. So you absolutely must not do anything foolish. Don't even think about it, understand?"
Chen Mo smiled.
"Of course I know. I'm well aware of where I should stand."
"..."
Hu Chengliang opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something else, but ultimately remained silent.
He merely looked toward Lucario and silently sighed.
The purple crystals spread extremely quickly. During the brief time Chen Mo and Hu Chengliang had spent talking, most of the visible sea below had already been swallowed.
"It's coming."
With Chen Mo's quiet reminder, Hu Chengliang noticed that the crystals covering the isolated island suddenly began growing wildly upward.
The pilots of several helicopters nearby immediately maneuvered their aircraft farther away.
"This outline..."
Although he had never seen it in person, Hu Chengliang had watched Chen Mo's entire journey through the secret realm via the livestream. He immediately recognized the shape formed by the purple crystals.
It was almost identical to the outline of the Tree of the World's Beginning from the broadcast.
Purple crystal mountain ranges continuously erupted from the ground.
The sight caused countless viewers watching the livestream to hold their breath.
Finally—
As if some critical threshold had been reached, the wildly growing and spreading crystals suddenly came to a complete stop.
Creak... creak...
A series of crisp cracking sounds entered the ears of every viewer watching through their screens.
Immediately afterward—
They all saw it.
The colossal tree formed from purple crystals began developing enormous cracks across its trunk.
The cracks continued spreading.
In the blink of an eye, they covered the entire tree.
"Close your eyes!"
Sensing something, Chen Mo used his Aura to instantly transmit the warning outward while simultaneously blocking the cameras' view.
Crack—BOOM!!!
With an explosive shattering sound, the instant the purple crystal broke apart, endless deep-purple and dark-blue radiance flooded the entire world.
Bathed in the intense light, Hu Chengliang—who had instinctively closed his eyes upon hearing Chen Mo's warning—raised an arm to shield himself from the blinding brilliance.
After a while—
A fierce gust of wind swept through the area.
Feeling that the intense light had finally faded, everyone slowly opened their eyes.
What greeted them was—
The Tree of the World's Beginning, radiating a crimson glow, had descended before them!
"What a magnificent sight..."
Hu Chengliang couldn't help but sigh as he gazed at the Tree of the World's Beginning, which pierced the clouds as though it intended to compete with the sun itself.
At that moment, the entire livestream chat was exploding with discussion.
["The Jianmu stands in Duguang, the path by which all gods ascend and descend. At noon it casts no shadow, and when called to, it gives no echo, for it stands at the center of Heaven and Earth." I feel like even the Jianmu Tree from our myths might not compare to this.]
[To me, this scene feels more like the Fusang Tree. Look at the description in the Classic of Mountains and Seas: "Upon Tang Valley stands Fusang, where the ten suns bathe. It rises from the water. Nine suns dwell upon its lower branches, while one rests upon its upper branches."]
[Environment-wise, Fusang fits, but geographically speaking, neither Jianmu nor Fusang really works.]
[It's so huge! I have a question—will we be able to visit the Tree of the World's Beginning in the future? I really want to see it in person.]
[Obviously, the area around the Tree of the World's Beginning will remain sealed off for a long time. We can only wait and see whether the authorities will open a limited number of visits once it recovers. Personally, I'm very interested in the murals inside the World Tree.]
Whether domestically or internationally, the Tree of the World's Beginning, which had descended into reality, sparked intense discussion.
Several topics related to the Tree of the World's Beginning immediately climbed the trending lists on Blue Bird.
However—
Compared with the Zhuxia public, who possessed a much deeper understanding of the Tree of the World's Beginning, many people overseas saw the crimson glow and the scorched, lifeless earth surrounding it and concluded that it was something ominous.
Naturally—
Chen Mo had no time to concern himself with such trivial matters.
"Unown..."
Countless Unown emerged from the spacetime rift that had just opened, flying into the sky around Chen Mo and reporting their situation to him.
Even without the Eye of Detection or his Aura senses, Chen Mo could tell simply by looking at them that the Unown were in poor condition.
Clearly—
Transporting such an enormous secret realm into reality had completely exhausted them.
"Thank you for your hard work."
Chen Mo used his Aura to convey his gratitude to every single Unown.
At that moment—
Hu Chengliang suddenly pointed ahead and asked,
"Chen Mo, that's the barrier the Aura Guardians created, right?"
Chen Mo followed his gaze.
Centered around the Tree of the World's Beginning was an enormous barrier that glimmered faint blue beneath the sunlight.
"Yes."
Chen Mo gently nodded.
Through the Aura he had spread outward, he could sense that the barrier created by the Aura Guardians—and later reinforced by Ho-Oh—was gradually dissipating.
At this rate, the seal surrounding the Tree of the World's Beginning would completely vanish in less than a day.
Of course—
That did not mean the Tree of the World's Beginning's crisis had been resolved.
Chen Mo could clearly sense it.
The Tree of the World's Beginning's defensive mechanisms were still operating automatically.
"Should we go down and inspect the situation...?"
Chen Mo glanced at Lucario, whose fists were tightly clenched and whose expression was filled with excitement, wondering whether they should descend first.
At that moment—
His Aura suddenly detected an unusual fluctuation.
The next instant, he abruptly turned his head and stared sharply in a particular direction.
A dazzling white radiance suddenly shot upward from the ground inside the barrier.
The brilliant light carried an infinitely sharp power as it descended directly upon the barrier.
Crack... crack...
Almost instantly, enormous cracks appeared throughout the pale-blue barrier.
At the same time—
Seven-colored light spilled from the cracks.
"What is going on...?"
Hu Chengliang was completely dumbfounded.
Chen Mo's expression instantly turned solemn.
Clearly—
Something was attacking the seal.
Chen Mo couldn't understand it.
Although the barrier's sealing power was rapidly weakening after arriving in reality, it was still not something just anything could damage to such an extent.
By Chen Mo's rough estimation—
The power currently attacking the seal had firmly reached the Legendary level.
Was there something like that inside the Tree of the World's Beginning?
Chen Mo looked toward Lucario in the distance.
Sensing Chen Mo's question through their connected Aura, Lucario gently shook its head, its expression equally grave.
Lucario knew perfectly well—
Aside from the severely injured and still unrecovered Mew, as well as itself, which had been sealed away, there should not have been any Legendary lifeforms inside the Tree of the World's Beginning.
Just what was this...?
Just as Lucario's confusion reached its peak, the situation changed again.
The barrier only needed to be left alone for a while longer before it would dissipate on its own.
Yet whatever was attacking it seemed to regard stopping now as equivalent to admitting defeat.
Instead, it intensified its assault.
The white, ferocious slash seemed capable of splitting apart everything in existence.
Even the seven-colored streams of light were beginning to buckle beneath it.
"Impossible... This is impossible..."
Hidden within Chen Mo's shadow world, Marshadow stared at the scene with utter disbelief in its eyes.
Even if it was only one portion of Ho-Oh's power used to reinforce the barrier, it still belonged to Ho-Oh!
Even if the barrier was weakening, it still should not have been possible for just anyone to accomplish something like this.
Crack... crack...
Under the ferocious assault of the abnormal energy, the seven-colored radiance rapidly dimmed until it finally disappeared altogether.
And at that very moment—
With a resounding hum—
BOOM!
The barrier covering the entire Tree of the World's Beginning completely shattered, dispersing into countless points of light that vanished into the air.
At the same time—
The mass of energy responsible for all of this shot forward at incredible speed for some distance, as if it had suddenly overdrawn itself.
Then it abruptly plummeted toward the ground below.
"Hoo..."
Chen Mo let out a long breath.
He looked toward Hu Chengliang, who was still staring in stunned disbelief, and quietly said,
"Brother Hu, have the surrounding personnel move farther away. An unexpected guest has suddenly arrived in our world."
"An unexpected guest... has arrived?"
Hu Chengliang pondered the words briefly before nodding.
Even he could sense that whatever was wrapped within that white radiance possessed power far beyond that of ordinary Pokémon.
Perhaps—
It was even stronger than most ordinary Legendary Pokémon.
Seeing Hu Chengliang spring into action, Chen Mo no longer hesitated.
He patted Pidgeot's back, caught Lucario as it leaped over from nearby, and rapidly flew toward the place where the white light had fallen.
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