Opening

She still had quite a few fruits stored in her space. Not a huge amount, but there were still tens of thousands.

After all, every time A-Qing absorbed excess energy, it couldn't help bursting out fruit.

But now that the man-eating tree had absorbed the tree heart, she wasn't sure whether the fruits it produced would change in some way. That was why she gave Wang Qichuan and the others fruits from her old stock.

A-Qing had always been a sensible tree. After all, what other tree would burst out fruit whenever it had plenty of energy?

Speaking of energy, why hadn't A-Qing shown any reaction after absorbing the tree heart this time?

Jiang You found Wu Weizi, puzzled.

Wasn't the man-eating tree supposed to become very powerful after absorbing the tree heart?

Why was there no movement at all?

After investigating for a long while, Wu Weizi discovered that the man-eating tree was simply lazy and didn't want to move.

Jiang You observed it for another two days. Then, in the early hours of one morning,

the man-eating tree finally bloomed its first dark-red flower in the dawn light.

There was only one flower. It bloomed at the highest point of the canopy, facing the rising sun.

Jiang You hurriedly closed her eyes and sensed it. The man-eating tree's veins gradually became clear in her mind. She clearly saw that beneath the soil, its roots had nearly occupied the entire peak of Longshan.

Some of the roots had even burrowed into cracks in the rocks.

One particularly long root had pierced through the rock and slowly extended into the cavern beneath Mountain God Temple.

Jiang You went to the cavern beneath Mountain God Temple. This place had originally been turned into Black Flame Prison for Brother September. After he