The tree was enormous—several times the size of anything around it.

Even among great trees, it wouldn’t be lacking in grandeur. It was smaller than the Divine Tree at Mount Hua, but no ordinary tree could possibly look like this.

And yet—

'Why is it so black?'

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Not just its leaves, but all the way down to the trunk—everything was pitch black.

It looked as if it had been scorched by fire.

At a glance, that’s exactly what it seemed like.

'…But it’s not actually burned.'

It wasn’t a dead tree. I was certain of that.

If it had been burned to death, there was no way I’d be sensing this vital energy from it.

Not just vitality—there was more to it than that.

Vwooom.

My heart resonated on its own. From that tree, I could feel something pure and sacred.

It was the same feeling I had when I encountered the Divine Tree at Mount Hua.

The same feeling I had when I saw the Divine Tree in Yahwol.

Which meant—

'That’s the Divine Tree of Mount Marryeong.'

That black, murky tree was a Divine Tree.

It didn’t look anything like what I associated with Divine Trees, but as I learned in Yahwol, appearance had nothing to do with it.

"……."

Splish.

I took a slow step forward, my foot dipping into the lake.

The water wasn’t very deep.

As if drawn by a force, I walked toward the tree.

I climbed up the hill. The closer I got, the more massive the Divine Tree became.

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