Today's first update: Chapter 2233! 1/2!
"Quick, set up the grand formation! We absolutely cannot let anything happen to him here!"
The Asura Race elders were completely panicked. How could someone be this fearless?
These were the roots a demigod-level powerhouse had planted on Blue Star. Now that it had been provoked, how could a mere Second Realm cultivator think about fighting back instead of running?
Was he insane?
But they had overlooked something Xu Kun had told them before.
When Xu Kun had pulled out Yuantu and Abi at the same time, he had faced possession by the final Asura God, Old Ancestor Minghe!
Xu Kun had emerged unscathed even against such a world-ending horror. What could a mere demigod do to him?
Well, that needed a qualifier: a carrier of demigod power!
Xu Kun might have been bold, but he was by no means reckless. If he were facing a true demigod's main body, incarnation, clone, or anything similar, he would never dare provoke it.
But based on the Devil Fruit Tree's innate traits, Xu Kun had learned from Xu Erpang about its greatest weakness!
It lacked the ability possessed by other powerful tree races to produce offspring or split into offshoots.
Moreover, the Devil Fruit Tree itself was incapable of cultivating on its own.
Yet under the Heavenly Dao, there was always a way out.
The Devil Fruit Tree's growth requirements were extremely demanding. While other plants could absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth through their roots or leaves to cultivate themselves, the Devil Fruit Tree needed nutrients injected into it like an IV drip.
The most obvious example was the method it used to nurture its own Devil Fruit Tree body, as well as these so-called offshoot Evil Fruits.
The offshoots or fruits