Inside the World Tree, Wenxi was lying on the bed, her head buried in the pillow, hair scattered around, her whole presence exuding an air of "stay away."

The entire room was almost filled with visible black aura!

Standing beside her, Yajun’s face was full of helplessness: "Wenxi, don’t be mad anymore. Isn’t Xu Xin off handling important business? He should be back soon."

Li Wenxi turned slightly, revealing one eye as she looked at Yajun: "Yajun, you say this every day..."

"Well... it’s been so long; he should be back soon, right?"

"Ahhh... you said that yesterday too!" Li Wenxi buried her head back into the pillow and shouted sullenly.

"Right... hey, our sheep gave birth to lambs; want to go take a look? They’re so cute, bleating away!"

"Hmm... let’s go!" Li Wenxi sat up abruptly, gritting her teeth, "Forget about him! Whenever he comes back! When he returns, he shouldn’t expect me to pay any attention to him!"

After Xu Xin and Xu Ying left, time within the World Tree had already passed more than a month.

Xu Xin hadn’t greeted Li Wenxi before leaving, because she was directing miners in the underground world, so he left without saying a word.

This left Li Wenxi feeling slightly uncomfortable at first.

Still, she understood it was for important business, so she didn’t care much. But knowing she wouldn’t see him for a long time, even without being able to contact him, did affect her mood a lot.

Actually, she could contact him if she adjusted the time flow to synchronize with the outside through the console.

Or she could step out from the World Tree and contact Xu Xin externally.

But the first option wasn’t feasible; she couldn’t alter the World Tree’s time flow for her personal matters, right?

And she couldn’t leave either because she had her own tasks to handle.

Plus, she didn’t want to; she had always wished to replenish their supplies abundantly before Xu Xin returned, so she could relax and move freely.

Yet, the wait stretched to nearly a month.

"Calculating, it’s been only... five or six hours outside?" Li Wenxi sighed as she petted the little lamb’s head, "Really, it’s not that long... would I have to wait another month?"

The little lamb kept bleating under her touch.

"No, no, surely not, that’s way too long."

"Well, who knows, the underground things are complicated, right? Besides, he has to find and deal with traitors... huh?!"

Li Wenxi suddenly looked up, only to see Xu Xin’s teasing face.

"Ah!" Li Wenxi jumped up from the ground and hugged him, looking up with joy, "You’re finally back!"

"Haha, this time I’ve mostly handled the big issues, so I don’t need to go out again for now," Xu Xin laughed, sniffing lightly afterward, "Ah... you hugged the sheep then me, you smell of mutton..."

"Back already and complaining about me, huh!"

"No, no, just made me a little hungry from the smell."

Xu Xin and Li Wenxi bantered playfully, both laughing.

Li Wenxi clung to his arm, smiling brightly, with none of the previous resentment.

Yajun chuckled with her mouth covered, "Not knowing who it was just now, saying things like ’won’t pay him any attention when he returns!’"

"Yajun!" Wenxi blushed, "When did I say that? Xu Xin was out for five or six hours, not even half a day, I am patient!"

"Right, right..." Yajun resisted teasing her.

Not knowing who had been sulking over the last half month, even her fellow miners dared not speak to her.

"Hehe, um... where’s Yingying? Didn’t she come back with you?"

Li Wenxi swiftly changed the topic, glancing around.

"Why isn’t she here? And where’s Keke? You took Keke with you, right?"

"Yingying went to set up our weapon processing plant," Xu Xin pointed to the distant tree house cluster, "Equipments are placed inside the tree houses. As for Keke, she’s playing with Huihui."

Upon their return, Winged Dragon Huihui sensed them and flew to their side.

When Xu Xin saw Huihui again, he couldn’t believe it was the same one from before he left.

After a month’s growth in the World Tree, Huihui, who only came up to his waist before, was now even taller than him—almost two meters high.

With such a large build, its wingspan reached a terrifying four to five meters!

"Then we can start working right away! Speaking of Huihui, she’s grown so big now! You must have seen her!"

Li Wenxi clapped her hands, showing a somewhat proud expression, smiling as she said, "There’s one thing you definitely don’t know—Huihui can now carry people! I’ve ridden Huihui and flown!"

What...?

This completely surprised Xu Xin.

"Huihui can be ridden already...?"

It’s been just over a month since Huihui was born, right? 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

Such a little creature can carry someone and fly?