Internal Activities of the Longshan Tribe

Adou rushed out from the corner and dropped to her knees. "Please, Lord City Master, spare everyone. This is a misunderstanding, a complete misunderstanding. Please don't take back the fire seed!

Everyone—everyone was only playing around!"

Her face was streaked with blood, and a dark-red mark had already emerged between her brows.

It was the fire seed.

Under Jiang You's control, the fire seed was struggling to tear itself out of her body.

Those who had been implanted with a fire seed had no way back.

The moment it was extracted, the fire seed would drain all of its host's vitality in the final instant before leaving the body.

Everyone on Longshan Mountain knew that eating the cannibal tree's fruit granted them that miraculous vitality.

But very few knew that this tenacious, almost grotesquely powerful vitality did not belong to them at all. It came from the fire seed inside their bodies.

The host's incredible regenerative ability was due to the fire seed's assistance.

It did not want to die, so it desperately helped the host repair its bodily functions.

But once it was about to leave, this partner that had complemented its host for so long would instantly turn against it and drain the host dry.

The fire seed was a life-form that was both cruel and endearing.

Jiang You bent down and lightly pressed her slender index finger against Adou's forehead. The bloodline that had already emerged was immediately drawn toward her, desperately following Jiang You's retreating finger.

It seemed eager to burrow into her fingertip and return to the family.

Adou felt as though even her soul were being torn away. Her mind felt ready to explode. Usually taciturn and unsmiling, she now crawled at Jiang You's feet like a suffering young beast, letting out faint whimpers.