Around it, aside from some Firewood Trees with dark-brown bark and blue-black leaves,
there were also some trees that had not often been refined with the Sha Refining Technique, whose mutations were less pronounced.
But they had still become somewhat different from the ordinary Firewood Trees around them, and each had taken on a different form.
Those miscellaneous trees could be set aside for now.
The first Firewood Tree to mutate had grown increasingly pure Turbid Sha Qi within it.
Its appearance had also changed drastically, to the point that it could no longer be called a Firewood Tree.
So Ling Qing had named it the Earth Sha Tree.
Recently, this Earth Sha Tree had even grown a tree full of yellow flower buds.
As though adorned with golden essence and yellow jade, they gave off a floral fragrance that invigorated the spirit, becoming a lovely sight on Firewood Mountain.
Come to think of it, the mountain had always been somewhat bleak and cold, and Ling Qing had forgotten the passing of spring and summer.
If he counted carefully, everyone had entered the dungeon in September, and the time inside the dungeon had passed at about the same pace.
Now, more than half a year had gone by, and it was the height of summer.
In other words, Ling Qing had spent not only a winter and a spring on the mountain, but nearly all of summer as well.
The buds had appeared in midsummer. He did not know when they would bloom, or how long they would last.
The bright yellow, jade-like flower buds also contained Turbid Sha Essence.
But Ling Qing wanted to see what kind of fruit they would bear, so he had left them alone.
Ever since the tree had changed, people had tried to claim