The Martial Unity

Each species of flora continuously required many chemical compounds.

Each chemical compound had a cycle to sustain its availability.

Each cycle required many other species.

Thus, each species of flora was indirectly dependent on many other species to keep the chemical cycles going, to keep it alive.

"The same must be true for you," Rui sharply deduced. "In fact, I cannot imagine how many chemical cycles you depend on. Millions? Probably billions with just how enormous and magical your existence is."

That next deduction followed smoothly.

"If you require billions of chemical cycles to sustain your existence, and assuming that each chemical cycle requires several species to sustain it, then essentially you require many billions of species to survive in order to sustain your life."

If even a single one of those species was disrupted, then it would mean that a chemical cycle was disrupted, which would mean that the Elder Tree would lose access to an important substance that sustained its existence.

Of course, it would not die immediately.

However, its health would deteriorate slowly and surely. It would be no different from a lack of any given vitamin or mineral important for the functioning of the human body. In the short term, the differences would not be too noticeable.

term,

such chemical compounds were lacking, and death was

as the Elder Tree. Rui could not even imagine all the ways things could go wrong for the tree if it didn't get some highly vital substance

entered a stage where it found it difficult to get a supply of the chemical compounds

however, the Beast Domain would have been able to naturally ensure a stable supply of these substances." Rui furrowed

intricate chemical cycles that intertwined the fate of many species with each other, nature had thrived for a long

Earth, flora had survived five hundred million

to creating stable ecosystems that were just balanced such that they could ensure that a species neither overpopulated nor went extinct. While the ecosystems of the Beast Domain were undoubtedly astronomically more complicated than those

that life had survived for hundreds of millions or billions of years meant that

until humanity arrived in both

has… disrupted the chemical cycles that

…

an overwhelming majority of the Panama Continent had now been slowly pushed into its very core, increasing population density by an order of magnitude while countless species had, bit by bit, perished during the continuous expansion and encroachment

the Beast Domain and died due to environmental

the Elder Tree were undoubtedly disrupted by such massive and radical

were needed to maintain the chemical cycles that you required to sustain your life were probably brought to the very brink of extinction due to humanity's continuous encroachment into the

turn, severely compromised the chemical cycles

words, even before humanity had reached the Elder Tree, it was already

solution to save all these species that were needed to sustain the chemical cycles