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The Sacred Tree was not human. It knew nothing of human emotions or desires. At first, it had merely accepted a human's request out of sheer boredom. Later, it discovered that this could help it cultivate faster, so it allowed this group of weak humans to live upon it.

But as time passed, it felt that something was not quite right. So it tried to intervene in the unequal status of men and women in Sacred Tree Village. It began granting women certain privileges, hoping to weaken the conflict between the sexes and restore things to how they had once been.

But the Sacred Tree had clearly taken things too much for granted. The men of Sacred Tree Village only believed that the Sacred Tree had begun favoring women. The women in the village must have seduced it—something they would never allow.

Thus, the weakening the Sacred Tree had hoped to see never appeared. Instead... things grew even more vicious.

"How could they do this?!"

Bian Chunchou could scarcely believe his eyes. They had followed the sounds here just now, thinking that the little girl tied beneath the tree had committed some grave offense.

Yet who could have imagined... that merely because she had stolen and eaten a sacrificial fruit offered to the Sacred Tree, these sanctimonious men intended to hang this little girl upside down and drain her blood dry?!

How could the Sacred Tree possibly fly into a rage over one tiny sacrificial fruit being eaten? These men—they were demons, weren't they?

Xiang He was the only woman among them, and she had already drawn her sword in fury. But this was an illusion, a tragic scene that had long since happened within the giant tree's memories.

Beginning with the little girl's sacrifice, one crime after another from