Maybe You Have This Special Power

"Tell me what you feel!"

Rina Chu closed her eyes, frowned, and said, "The bark is really rough, kind of cool. It's an old tree root."

Anything else?

There's more... It feels like an ant just crawled under my hand. It's a little ticklish.

"Not that!" Grace pressed her own hand to the root and said, "Do you feel like it's trying to tell us it's in great danger and wants us to save it?"

Huh? Rina Chu looked at Grace, then at the King's Spirit Tree. "Did you really sense that?"

Grace nodded. "I don't know if something's wrong with me, but every time I touch the King's Spirit Tree... it feels like I can sense its thoughts."

Rina Chu's eyes lit up, but she said nothing.

Do you think it's just my imagination, or is it real? Grace asked, sounding unsure.

"Didn't Grandpa Gene the High Saint say that everything has wisdom?" Rina Chu said. "The King's Spirit Tree is the spirit of all living things, so it should be even wiser."

So maybe you really do have a special ability—you can sense the wisdom of the King's Spirit Tree?

"Really?" Grace wasn't sure.

Rina Chu nodded vigorously.

Grace recalled, "The first time I touched the King's Spirit Tree, Colin Gu trapped me inside its barrier."

That time, Beanie drained a King's Spirit Tree of its spiritual energy, broke the array, and I escaped.

Rina Chu nodded. "And then?"

The second time was because of Fan. Grace said, "She was trapped in an array and asked me to go to the Eastern Luo Empire's Spirit Tree Array, so Beanie could drain the energy from the tree at the array's core! But Beanie just wouldn't do it!"

So what did you do?

Then, for some reason, the array just broke! Empress Wendy said I saved her son's life and gave me Celestial Spirit Jade as a reward! But after that...

Rina Chu's eyes widened. "And then?"

After that, they asked me how I saved Goldie.

At the time, I had no idea, so I just made something up and said I could communicate with the King's Spirit Tree.

I said I asked the tree at the array's core to transfer its spiritual energy away, so the array broke.

But they didn't believe me and locked me inside a Spirit Barrier made by the King's Spirit Tree. They said if I could break out, they'd believe me.

Did you get out?

If I hadn't, would I be standing here in front of you? Grace retorted. "But at the time, I thought... it was all Beanie's doing."

How about this! Rina Chu suddenly said.

What?

Isn't there a Spirit Barrier in the tree hollow down there? That barrier is definitely powered by the King's Spirit Tree," Rina Chu said. "Try to communicate with the tree and see if you can get it to open the barrier! If you can, that means you really do have this ability!"

Can I really do that? Grace bit her lip.

Of course you can! Why not? Let's go try it!

She grabbed Grace and hurried off, full of excitement.

At the entrance to the barrier, she gave Grace an encouraging look, urging her to try.

Grace took a deep breath and gripped the tree root. In her heart, she silently pleaded: King's Spirit Tree, if you really can communicate with me, please show a miracle and open the barrier!

After silently pleading for a while, she looked at the barrier beside her.

It was still there.