The Spirit Tree

It had to be said, the process of life ascending was still wonderfully beautiful.

Bulma was as tender as water.

After that, Li Feng spent his time honeymooning outside with Bulma, traveling through all kinds of mountains and rivers to take in nature's beauty; they also visited city attractions, experiencing the prosperity of the big cities.

One day, Bulma suggested inviting their friends out for a picnic.

The ones who came were Krillin and Gohan. When the two of them saw Li Feng, they were both extremely excited and happy.

"Huh? Li Feng? You and Bulma got together?"

Krillin expressed his surprise.

"Yes. I'll take good care of her from now on."

"I'm worried about you. Can you really put up with her temper?"

Krillin whispered to Li Feng.

"Kril... lin!"

"Huh?"

Bulma was nowhere near as gentle with Krillin as she was with Li Feng, instantly turning into a shrew.

"Are you saying I'm usually bad-tempered and fierce?"

"N-no..."

Krillin did not dare raise his head.

"Hahahahaha!"

Li Feng and Gohan burst out laughing.

Just then.

"Whoosh!—"

A meteor fell from the sky and smashed into the woods not far from them.

"Boom!"

A huge crater was instantly blasted into the ground, and astonishing heat erupted, starting a fire.

The trees caught fire, and the flames spread with the momentum. In an instant, the entire mountain forest became a sea of fire.

"What's going on?"

Krillin turned back and discovered that the forest was burning.

"Forget all that. Use ki to put out the fire first!"

Li Feng suggested.

After that, Li Feng, Krillin, and Gohan flew into the air and released ki from their palms, stirring up a gale that extinguished the blaze.

Li Feng felt puzzled. In his memory, nothing much should have happened during this period. After defeating Vegeta, they should have gone to Namek.

"Crack!"

After the fire was extinguished, the charred, blackened dead branches fell to the ground. The once-lush forest had been burned into a wasteland, leaving devastation everywhere.

"Ah? The animals have all lost their homes."

Gohan said sadly.

"Ding! Mission issued: Defeat Turles!"

"Mission reward: Tree of Might Fruit cultivation method."

"Accept?"

At that moment, the system prompt rang out in his mind.

"Accept!"

Li Feng said without hesitation.

But then he felt puzzled again.

"Tree of Might Fruit cultivation method? Isn't it just planting the Tree of Might Fruit directly on a planet and letting it absorb the planet's nutrients?"

Li Feng asked.

"That is the wrong cultivation method. Planting the Tree of Might Fruit cannot always come at the cost of sacrificing a planet."

"The new cultivation method can allow the Tree of Might Fruit to absorb energy reasonably, while still achieving the same effect."

So that was how it was.

After that, Li Feng immediately recalled the plot of the Turles arc, and only then did he suddenly understand the source of this great fire.

In the original story, it was because Turles's probe machine crashed into Earth, starting a huge fire, then sent data back to Turles's spaceship. His subordinates came to Earth to plant the Tree of Might Fruit, Wukong and the others stopped them, and in the end, Turles was destroyed with a Spirit Bomb.

According to the plot, Krillin should suggest using the Dragon Ball to restore the destroyed forest at this point, but not long afterward, half of Earth's ecosystem would be destroyed, wasting one use of the Dragon Ball for nothing.

Sure enough, Krillin proposed using the Dragon Ball to repair the environment.

"We'd better not use the Dragon Ball recklessly. We've already put out the original fire, so let nature recover on its own."

Li Feng stopped them, then used knowledge from his previous life about sustainable development and the like to convince Krillin and Gohan.

Gohan's eyes were opened. So this was the law of nature.

Ahem. How should he put it? After all, using modern knowledge to bluff people was something he was rather good at.

After that, everyone lost their interest in playing around and all left. Gohan and the Velociraptor became friends, just like in the original story.

A day later, Yamcha's plane was blown up and crashed near Chi-Chi's house, so he had no choice but to go to Chi-Chi's place as a guest for the time being. Afterward, Master Roshi, Tien Shinhan, Chiaotzu, and the others came as well. Krillin, Bulma, Li Feng, and the rest were also invited, and everyone gathered together for a lively party. Li Feng remained calm and quiet, waiting for the plot to develop.

Meanwhile, in the burned-out mountain forest, a soldier wearing Saiyan battle armor tossed a seed into a crack in the ground.

Not long after.

Boom!

Several thick vines immediately crawled out from underground, absorbing a massive amount of nutrients from the earth. They grew taller and taller, until finally, a towering tree rose from the ground and kept on growing.

"Wukong, Earth is in danger!"

King Kai's voice reached Wukong.

"Someone planted a Spirit Tree on Earth. Once that tree takes root on a planet, it will suck away all the nutrients on that planet and turn it into a wasteland."

"What? There's actually something like that?!"

Wukong was shocked and hurriedly told everyone the news.

"Let's go destroy the Spirit Tree together!"

Krillin suggested.

"I agree!"

"Count me in!"

"I'm going too!"

Tien Shinhan, Chiaotzu, Yamcha, and the other Z Fighters all agreed to go.

Hadn't Yamcha died before? Why was he here again?

In truth, Yamcha in this world was very lucky. He had seemed dead, but he was actually only playing dead. Later, after Li Feng finished fighting, he revived him with a Senzu Bean.

Of course, Li Feng followed them as well.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh—"

The group flew toward that aura. Because Chi-Chi would not let Gohan take part, he was unable to set out for the time being.

"This is the place. Everyone, attack that tree together!"

"Hah!—"

"Yah!—"

In an instant, six beams of energy slammed toward the tree roots at extreme speed.

Unfortunately, after the dust and smoke cleared, the Spirit Tree was still completely unharmed.

"How could this be?!"

Krillin was shocked.

"There are several very strong ki signatures in the tree!"

Wukong and the other five flew toward the crown of the tree.

The massive Spirit Tree was so huge that even its crown had an area as large as a soccer field. It stood tens of thousands of meters tall, and its footprint was already as large as a small village, yet it was still growing.

"Was it you who planted the Spirit Tree and damaged Earth?"

Wukong asked angrily.

"Heh heh. Humans, feel honored to become nourishment for the Spirit Tree."

A young man in battle armor with a wild, punkish hairstyle laughed.

"You're the ones who destroyed the plane I took out a fifteen-year loan for yesterday?"

Yamcha was even angrier!

"Unforgivable!"

"Swish!"

"Swish!"

"Swish!"

"Swish!"

"Swish!"

There were five people on the other side, while Li Feng's side had six, so when they clashed, Li Feng happened to be left without an opponent.

Bang, bang, bang, bang!

Everyone was fighting fiercely in the trees.

"Ugh, another day of playing babysitter."

Li Feng lay on a broad tree trunk, bored as he kept an eye on the battlefields all around.

According to the readings from his system's Scouter, everyone's current power levels were as follows:

Sun Wukong: 30000

Krillin: 9000

Tien Shinhan: 8000

Yamcha: 7500

Chiaotzu: 6000

The Saiyan soldiers on the other side all had power levels of around ten thousand.

Aside from Wukong, none of the others were a match for them.

Li Feng carefully searched for Turles's ki.

"Bang!"

Sure enough, just like in the original, everyone had split up across the battlefield, and aside from Wukong, the others were clearly losing.

"May as well finish this early."

Li Feng waited until everyone was truly in danger before making his move. Offering help in a crisis was always better than stealing their opponents right from the start. He still had to consider everyone's pride, after all...