Though Fang Chen was puzzled, he did not hesitate. He grabbed the Bamboo Shoot and gave it a hard twist.
He had thought he could snap it off easily. After all, his cultivation had reached the Quasi-Emperor level, and he was far stronger than an ordinary Quasi-Emperor. Yet the Bamboo Shoot did not budge.
"What's going on?"
Fang Chen frowned and looked down at the Bamboo Shoot in his hand.
He found that the Bamboo Shoot was growing rapidly. At first, only its tip had poked through the ground, standing about a foot tall. But within a few breaths, it had grown to more than three feet.
Fang Chen tried again, putting more strength into it, but the Bamboo Shoot still did not budge.
"What on earth is going on?"
He was even more baffled. He was a Quasi-Emperor, yet he could not snap off a single Bamboo Shoot. If anyone found out, they would laugh themselves to death.
By then, the Bamboo Shoot he was holding had grown to more than ten feet tall.
Fang Chen knew that even if he snapped it off now, only the very tip would be edible, and it would not taste as good as a Bamboo Shoot fresh from the soil.
He changed targets. The Bamboo Shoots throughout the Bamboo Grove were growing astonishingly fast.
His gaze fell on a Bamboo Shoot that had just broken through the ground. He hurried over and used every ounce of his strength to snap it off.
But just like the first one, this Bamboo Shoot would not break.
"What kind of bamboo shoots are these?"
Fang Chen stared at the Bamboo Shoot and could not help cursing.
"If I can't snap you off, I refuse to believe I can't cut you down!"
His temper flared. He