However, whether it was a symbiotic organism or a competing one, either would be extremely valuable to him.
With that thought, Xiao Shou rode his wooden crane toward the Ice Heart Tree.
As he got closer, the surrounding flowers, grass, and rocks gradually disappeared.
Eventually, only a vast layer of partially eaten fallen leaves remained.
And on top of those leaves were countless black, granular objects, each about the size of a football.
What were those?
Stones?
Maybe he could try fusing them.
Perhaps they were Tier 5 materials.
With that in mind, Xiao Shou leaped down from the wooden crane and landed on the thick layer of decayed leaves.
They felt soft under his feet and he could only imagine how many tens of thousands of years those leaves had accumulated.
Pushing that thought aside, he picked out several of the larger black objects.
Just as he was about to begin fusing them, he noticed something among the leaf debris.
