113: Chapter 113 A Rich Heiress Falls in Love with a Poor Boy Without Hesitation

With that said, he did not dare to distract himself further, focusing his mind and calming his spirits as he fully spread out his divine sense to carefully investigate the origin shackles and advancement paths of the two Class-A vassal races.

Moments later, the complete evolutionary trajectory clearly surfaced in Lin Ye's mind.

The advancement upper limit of the Dark Elves was extremely high, and their current Class-A peak foundation was sufficient to perfectly break through the shackles and evolve into Class-S Moon-Scar Elves.

After the transformation, the race would awaken top-tier abilities such as the Astral-Lunar Law, Moon-Shadow Stealth, and Soul Protection, achieving a qualitative change in their overall grade and combat power.

However, the corresponding advancement cost was also extremely high. Aside from massive amounts of conventional high-tier resources, the most core and scarce advancement main material was a branch of a Class-SS Tree of Life.

The Tree of Life was inherently a top-tier divine treasure in the world, with a grade as high as Class-SS. Even if it was just a single branch, the boundless source of life and Great Dao vitality it contained were extremely precious. It was priceless and had no market value, with an absurdly high price that ordinary powerhouses simply could not afford.

Coupled with the extremely large population of the Dark Elves, the resource consumption for full-member advancement could be described as terrifying.

In comparison, the advancement conditions for the Treant race were much simpler.

Treants took root in the Divine Kingdom and were born relying on the vitality of heaven and earth. Their origin was pure and singular, requiring no top-tier scarce divine items. They only needed to pile up a sufficient amount of high-tier life essence, paired with some conventional wood-element origin materials and vitality-nourishing treasures, to smoothly break through the Class-A shackles and complete the full-member advancement transformation. The overall difficulty and resource threshold were far lower than those of the Dark Elves.

Having figured out all the evolutionary details and resource shortcomings of the two vassal races, Lin Ye slowly withdrew his divine sense, and his expression turned solemn.

He turned his head to look at Liu Yun beside him, hiding nothing at all, and recounted the advancement conditions of the two vassal races in detail.

"Auntie, the advancement difficulty for your Treant race is very low. You only need to batch-pile high-tier life essence and ordinary wood-element origin resources to break through the Class-A shackles for all members and successfully promote to Class-S."

"However, the threshold for the full-member advancement of the Dark Elves is extremely high. No matter how many conventional resources there are, they are merely a buildup. The most core and indispensable main material is a branch of a Class-SS Tree of Life. Without this supreme treasure, the race can simply never transform into Moon-Scar Elves and will remain stuck at the Class-A peak."

As his voice fell, the expected dilemma and solemnity did not appear. Instead, Liu Yun's expression became somewhat peculiar as she looked at Lin Ye with slight surprise.

"You mean that to advance all of my Dark Elves to Class-S, all it takes is a branch of the Tree of Life?"

Lin Ye nodded heavily, his tone certain: "That's right, this single core supreme treasure is enough, and the rest are just conventional consumables. It's just that the Class-SS Tree of Life branch is too scarce, priceless, and extremely difficult to acquire."

He had originally thought Liu Yun would find this difficult, given that it was a top-tier divine item rarely seen even in the black market, and one that ordinary true gods could not easily get their hands on.

But the next second, Liu Yun smiled relaxedly and spoke with utter nonchalance: "So it's just this. No problem, the Tree of Life branch will be delivered tomorrow."

Lin Ye was momentarily stunned, his eyes filled with bewilderment and astonishment.

The branches of a Class-SS supreme treasure were considered an exorbitantly priced scarce resource in his eyes, but coming to Liu Yun, it seemed like an ordinary object that could be obtained at will, ridiculously effortless.

Although his heart was full of doubts, he did not rashly press for Liu Yun's background. After pondering for a moment, a bold idea arose in his heart, and he immediately raised his head to say earnestly: "Auntie, if you are well-connected through your channels, please try to get another branch with the densest vitality and best appearance."

"I want to try to keep it alive, root it, and let it grow in your Divine Kingdom."

As soon as these words were spoken, Liu Yun raised her eyebrows slightly, revealing a look of curiosity: "Keep it alive? Can the Tree of Life also be propagated via cuttings?"

"We can give it a try." Lin Ye's tone was firm, with a determined gleam in his eyes, "As long as it can take root and survive in your Divine Kingdom and be slowly cultivated into shape, in the future, whether it's the Moon-Scar Elves or symbiotic Treants, I have a way to use the origin of the Tree of Life to help them break through their shackles once again, rising all the way from Class-S to Class-SSS."

Without hiding the drawbacks, he truthfully added: "It's just that this path consumes an immense amount, and the resources that need to be piled up afterward can be described as terrifying; ordinary people simply cannot afford it."

"It doesn't matter." Liu Yun agreed readily without even thinking, her tone extremely calm: "This little matter is not a problem. Go ahead and try. I will have the branch ready for you tomorrow, and I'll make sure it's the one with the best appearance and the strongest vitality."

Watching Liu Yun's nonchalant posture, Lin Ye could not help but flash a trace of a peculiar look in his eyes.

Liu Yun was meticulous and instantly captured the abnormality in Lin Ye's eyes. Seeing this, she did not hide anything and took the initiative to smile and explain the reason behind it.

"Do you find it a bit too easy for me to casually pull out a Class-SS Tree of Life branch, and are very curious about it?"

Before Lin Ye could respond, Liu Yun gently sighed, her tone carrying a bit of helplessness and relief weathered by time: "When I was young, I was stubborn and took a fancy to your Uncle Wang, which is Wang Guo. At that time, he had nothing, just an ordinary divine lord with mediocre aptitude and no background or foundation."

"At that time, regardless of everyone's opposition at home, I insisted on marrying him, forcefully cutting myself off from my family's protection to go out and struggle alone with your Uncle Wang. Because of this, my relationship with my father at home completely soured. For so many years, we've almost broken contact, with very few visits."

"But my mother has always felt sorry for me and never blamed me. All these years, she has always been close to me and visited frequently. That complete Class-SS Tree of Life is planted within my mother's Divine Kingdom and is her natal divine tree, possessing a boundless foundation. A mere few branches with the strongest vitality are priceless treasures to others, but to my mother, they are merely ordinary objects that can be obtained at will, so naturally it's not a difficult task."

After listening to this origin story, Lin Ye came to a complete realization, and all the doubts in his heart were unraveled.

He sighed inwardly and could not help whispering a complaining remark: "Turns out it's another trope of a wealthy young miss falling desperately in love with a poor boy, but when will it ever be my turn!"

A true god's daughter born into a top-tier wealthy family with a monstrous foundation, disregarding the status gap and family opposition, stubbornly marrying an ordinary youth and willingly shedding all her aura to struggle and suffer hardships alone—such a plot was truly legendary.

After the sigh of emotion, Lin Ye collected his thoughts, returned to the main topic, and clearly listed and informed Liu Yun of the massive high-tier life essence, various wood-element origin divine materials, vitality-nourishing treasures required for the full-member advancement of the Treant race, as well as all the matching resources needed for the subsequent adaptive advancement of the Dark Elves.

The quantity of resources was huge and the categories were complex. If they were all purchased, it would definitely be a shockingly astronomical expense.

Liu Yun listened very carefully, silently memorizing all the resource details. Throughout the process, her expression was calm, without a shred of heartache or difficulty.