"It really was this thing."
Using the Three Lives Stone Mirror, Gu Xi discovered that the black mass before him really was the treasure the Prince had buried beneath the Apple Tree.
That treasure was not actually a black lump like it appeared to be, but something like a ring.
However, the ring was rather aberrant. It absorbed the aberrant, evil, twisted thoughts of the entire Winter Mirror Kingdom, eventually forming a black liquid.
If this black liquid could not be dealt with, it would accumulate over time and eventually become this black slime, affecting the Apple Tree's properties and stealing its power.
Black Daughter's dark skin had been produced under the influence of this power.
It could be said that this thing before him was even more troublesome than Black Daughter's disassembled body.
Because of its undying and indestructible nature, even cutting down the Apple Tree's roots would not destroy it.
Even if the Apple Tree itself was destroyed, this thing would remain.
"What a nuisance."
After seeing the black slime's traits through the Three Lives Stone Mirror, Gu Xi muttered to himself.
Troublesome or not, it definitely had to be dealt with.
Moreover, the step in Gu Xi's Red Task requiring him to destroy the Apple Tree probably rested on this black slime.
Every part of the Apple Tree contaminated by the black slime had to be destroyed.
That was equivalent to destroying the Apple Tree.
The task would then count as completed.
The most crucial question now was how to handle this nearly undying, indestructible black slime.
Previously, Gu Xi had run through seven Seal Points and used many methods just to deal with Black Daughter.
Here? Gu Xi looked up at the Apple Tree.
Then a flame burned toward the black slime.
The instant the flame