A sapling won't grow straight without pruning... Who told you to chop it in half?
Amid violent tremors, a gigantic peach tree rose from the center of the Peach Garden. It was clearly thicker and larger than all the others around it, and an aged human face had appeared upon its massive trunk. Leaning on an equally enormous cane—nothing less than a utility pole in others' eyes—it pulled itself out of the ground.
Whenever he encountered such a specific unit, Cheng Tian's Shadow Serpent Form arrived right on cue.
[Unit Characteristics/Abilities—Earth God, Warden, Great Peach Harvest, Three Thousand Six Hundred Strains, Peach Slave Control]
With the Heavenly Eye's high-definition, blue-ray-level image-capturing ability, combined with the status panel fed back by Shadow Serpent Form, Cheng Tian finally realized that the aged face on the giant peach tree was almost identical to the Earth God from that TV series.
"It feels like an Ancestor Tree or an Ancient Tree of War standing up from the ground... I suspect it can eat trees to recover health."
Cheng Tian compared the colossal Peach Ancestor to the other two plant units in his mind, then concluded that the Peach Ancestor was still the uglier one.
Who knew what kind of change the Earth God of this world's Peach Garden had experienced to ultimately turn into such a gigantic peach tree? But Cheng Tian did not believe this Earth God was innocent.
Looking across the entire orchard, this giant had the most humanoid individuals hanging from its branches. Quite a few had even completed their refinement and successfully become "peaches."
The peach-scented alcoholic odor he had smelled earlier, like the smell of rotten, fermenting fruit, had drifted from those peaches.
This Black Heavenly Court had really found creative ways to eat people. He wondered