The Bloodthirsty Treant had parasitized this great tree for many years. Over the years, it had painstakingly managed Greenery Star, deceiving countless living beings and earning worship as the Divine Tree.
To avoid being exposed, it had hidden cautiously within the tree all these years, never daring to reveal its identity or openly devour people. It could only feast on the flesh and blood of fresh corpses. It strongly demanded that the people of Greenery Star practice burial in the earth without coffins, claiming that this would return dust to dust and give the body back to the land.
Whenever a new corpse was buried, the Bloodthirsty Treant would secretly extend its roots, pierce the corpse with their sharp tips, and absorb the Blood Essence within to nourish and strengthen itself.
The reason it had grown to its current state was entirely thanks to the nourishment provided by those corpses!
Those believers were still being kept in the dark, unaware of this truth.
If the Bloodthirsty Treant were given another three to five hundred years, it was confident that it could recover a considerable portion of its strength. Then it would devour everyone on Greenery Star and rise to an even higher level. By then, it could reclaim its identity as a Bloodthirsty Treant and roam freely through the universe. There would be very few people capable of subduing it.
But now, an upheaval had occurred on Greenery Star. Someone actually intended to drive everyone away.
This made it deeply uneasy.
If everyone left, Greenery Star would be left with only it!
"Why does that man called Fan Lang want to do this? Could he be coming for me? No, impossible. I have hidden myself so well. I have never been exposed after all these years. No one in this