Star Absorbing Tree

Chapter 34: Star Absorbing Tree

"Onto the tree!"

Gu Qijue, who was prepared, let out a long roar. The Twin Dragons behind him, spitting lightning, broke through the air and swept out in an instant, shredding all the branches and tentacles blocking their ascent. They then led everyone up the truly colossal tree at the fastest speed possible.

Gu Qijue guessed that once they were on this giant Star Tree, they might not be attacked.

Facing so many Star Fruits, they had to give it a shot.

His intuition told him.

These fruits might be the key to survival.

As expected.

After he led everyone onto the tree, the branches indeed stopped attacking them.

Roar! Grrrrrrr--

In a flash, just as Gu Qijue and the others boarded the Star Tree, the endless horde of monsters gathered outside let out sky-shattering roars. Like a tide of steel, they rumbled and surged towards the Star Tree.

Swoosh--

But over a hundred thousand sharp branches emerged from the tree, dancing like demons, piercing, shredding, and sweeping. Any monster touched by the branches instantly turned into a dried husk.

Yet, even facing the Star Tree's attacks, the mindless, endless mutated creatures, with their eyes blazing red, charged forward relentlessly, only to be shredded.

Whoosh! Whoosh--

Facing the branches' shredding attacks, the strange creatures, Evil Seed-tier creatures, and Calamity-tier creatures could break through relatively easily, board the Star Tree, and quickly take out their sacks to pick the fruits.

Thump thump thump--

As wave after wave of mutated creatures were sucked dry into husks, the heartbeat emanating from within the Star Tree was no longer something only Gu Qijue could hear.

Mutated creatures below the Evil Seed-tier, stimulated by the pervasive fruity aroma, had lost all reason. They charged towards the Star Tree like a tide, only to be shredded and drained dry.

Corpses quickly piled up like mountains.

One meter, two meters, three meters, four meters, ten meters--

Outside the Star Tree, the accumulated dried husks were simply terrifying.

Those who managed to break through were basically Evil Seed-tier, Calamity-tier, and strange creatures.

"Pick them quickly! This tree is very strange. Don't put the fruits in sacks; throw them all to me."

After Gu Qijue got on the tree, he rushed straight towards the branch with the most fruits and frantically collected them using his forehead space.

Hearing him, everyone hesitated not at all. They discarded their sacks and, following Gu Qijue's instructions, threw the fruits they picked with all their might towards him.

And so, this scene unfolded.

Any fruit that came close to Gu Qijue vanished strangely.

The strange creatures, Evil Seeds, and Calamity-tier creatures also picking fruits watched dumbfounded. Their sacks were already full, yet they had only collected less than a hundred fruits.

"Black Dragon Emperor, want to cooperate?"

"Black Dragon Emperor, you must have realized this tree is very strange and might become our greatest threat. How about a partnership?"

"Black Dragon Emperor, I am willing to follow you. This tree gives me a feeling of immense dread."

They too felt the strangeness of the tree beneath their feet. Ever since they climbed up, they felt an incredibly evil eye staring at them like a predator.

Seeing Gu Qijue's ability to collect Star Fruits endlessly made them incredibly eager.

At this moment, the scene in the center of Yun City, like a slaughterhouse, was being broadcast live across the nation and the world.

"My god! Those monsters, like a tide, are they truly not afraid of death?"

"Hiss!!! One wave charges up and gets reaped. Is that tree helping us humans clear the monsters on the Star Blue Continent?"

"What a terrifying tree! My goodness, that Dragon Person on the tree is so fierce. How is he managing to collect the nearby fruits out of thin air?"

"Heavens! Those monsters are just throwing their lives away! What kind of tree is that?"

In the Hidden Dragon Empire's live broadcast room, over seven million people were watching. In the World United Network's live broadcast room, over five million foreigners were watching.

At this moment, everyone was shocked and horrified by the scene on the live broadcast.

They all wondered if this tree was helping humans clear the mutated creatures on the continent.

Little did they know, this kind of tree was the greatest scourge that could lead to human extinction.

The thumping heartbeat grew louder and louder, eventually resounding through the heavens like the beat of war drums.

Gu Qijue's heart also pounded faster. His intuition told him that if he didn't leave soon, his life would be in danger.

But he was unwilling.

He had only collected thirty to forty thousand fruits; it was too few.

"You guys throw the fruits you've picked over here too. This tree gives me a sense of impending doom; we must finish picking as soon as possible!"

With his heart pounding, Gu Qijue responded to the strange creatures and mutated creatures who wanted to cooperate with him.

"Alright! Collect them all for you."

Hundreds and thousands of strange creatures and mutated creatures, upon hearing this, all threw the sacks in their hands towards Gu Qijue, then plucked and threw them at him at the fastest speed possible.

A suffocating sense of urgency permeated everyone's hearts, impossible to shake.

On this tree, there were a total of four to five thousand people, plucking fruits, and the efficiency was extremely high.

The fruits in the space between Gu Qijue's brows kept increasing...

Seventy thousand... eighty thousand, ninety thousand, one hundred thousand, one hundred and ten thousand, one hundred and twenty thousand...

On the ground, the withered corpses of monsters also piled up to thirty to forty meters high.

But, behind them, there were still endless streams of monsters, charging forward one after another.

It was like countless addicts who hadn't used heroin in a long time, encountering it now.

Even worse.

Gu Qijue, who was frantically collecting fruits on the tree, was inwardly shocked by what he saw.

In just a few minutes, hundreds of millions of mutated creatures were drained dry...

What exactly was this tree trying to do?

The roaring sound of his heartbeat in his ears was like the war drums on a battlefield, echoing dong dong throughout the heavens and earth.

Gu Qijue devoured the Star Fruits while storing them in the space between his brows.

The effect of these Star Fruits was incomparable to the mutated fruits from yesterday.

Swallowing one was equivalent to dozens or even hundreds of mutated fruits.

Deep within Yun River.

That Old Turtle stood on the water, constantly using its shell to divine.

After a moment, it spat out a mouthful of blood with a plop.

Its eyes were filled with horror, and it cried out, "Good heavens, the Star Absorbing Tree, it's actually the Star Absorbing Tree... If they cannot be destroyed, this planet's vitality will eventually be drained dry!!!"

It didn't know how it knew it was the Star Absorbing Tree; this was a form of inherited memory it gained after evolving.

"Let me divine again, who on this planet can stop the spread of the Star Absorbing Tree!"

The Old Turtle once again burned its vital blood to divine and deduce.

After a moment, it spat out another mouthful of blood, and then rushed towards Jianglin City, the city next to Yun City.

It had divined that the one on this planet who could prevent the Star Absorbing Tree from destroying the Star Blue Continent was in Jianglin City.

The Star Absorbing Tree, as its name suggested, specialized in absorbing the life force of stars.

If a planet's life force was exhausted, the planet would turn into a dead star.

At this time, in the major cities of the Hidden Dragon Empire, although Star Absorbing Trees had appeared in other cities, they were only six to seven hundred meters tall and had attracted countless monsters to be slaughtered.

But compared to the one in Yun City, they were far inferior.