Summoning Contract

Long Ye was trapped by the Snake Vines and dragged underground.

Inside the "barrel-shaped" space formed by the Snake Vines, he initially fought back with everything he had. However, the Snake Vines trapping him had a hundred times the defensive power of ordinary Snake Vines.

Even with the Lightning Branch in hand, he could not leave so much as a mark on them, let alone cut them apart.

That made him realize that the Snake Vines trapping him had to be one of the main roots of the man-eating tree itself, rather than one of the outer branches. Otherwise, they could not possibly have withstood even his Lightning Branch.

Just as he was secretly lamenting that he had reached a dead end and was certain to die this time, he discovered, to his surprise, that the Snake Vines trapping him had not attacked him. Nor had they absorbed the blood in his body as he had expected.

Since that was the case, he simply stopped resisting and waited to see where the man-eating tree intended to take him.

The sound of the Snake Vines boring through the earth beside his ears stopped. The giant vines binding him slowly began to withdraw, and the space before him gradually opened up.

He found himself in a strange cavern dwelling. Multicolored rocks were scattered all around, reflecting light throughout the entire space and making it breathtakingly beautiful.

His expression suddenly changed.

Directly in front of him stood a blood-red tree.

The towering tree was so massive that, from where he stood, he could see only a tiny portion of its roots. Its main trunk passed through the cavern and continued growing endlessly upward.

Only then did Long Ye understand that he had arrived at the roots of the underground man-eating tree. What he