Rich's Pill Shop.
This was an extremely famous pill shop in Red Earth City. Everyone knew that its owner was a mighty figure of the Treant Race, possessed of immense strength and unfathomable skill in pill refinement.
Many people liked coming to this pill shop to buy pills.
At this moment, Xia Ping and Ruth finally arrived at the pill shop. With a single glance, he saw that its exterior resembled a towering tree, lush and verdant everywhere, emerald-green in color and radiating vigorous life force.
At its entrance, there was a hollow in the trunk through which customers could come and go.
"Grandpa Rich."
As though she knew the place like the back of her hand, Ruth was thoroughly familiar with it and immediately ran inside.
At this moment, an old man walked out from within. He looked seventy or eighty years old, with withered skin like aged wood. Even his hair was formed from dead branches, exuding an ancient aura.
Circles upon circles of patterns covered his green skin. It seemed that the Treant Race measured their age through tree rings, with each ring representing one year of life.
Yet the tree rings on this old man were densely packed, covering his entire body. Anyone could tell that this old man was an antique who had lived for an unknown number of years, like a living fossil walking the earth.
"Ruth, why are you here? Where are your parents?"
This old man was none other than Rich, an elder of the Treant Race. He seemed very familiar with Ruth and was delighted to see her, but also puzzled that her parents were nowhere beside her.
"They were attacked by pirates and have already turned into seeds."
Ruth spoke.
"Sigh, it can't be helped. The universe is such a