"But there's a terrifying rumor about it."
"They say anyone who approaches that tree has their life force drained in an instant."
"They die like a withered tree."
Seeing that Uchiha Yin and Kaguya Otsutsuki seemed deeply interested in the tree, Aino kindly explained what she knew.
So the tree was using everything around it as nourishment?
Chapter 212: Dark Cuisine
Uchiha Yin, however, scoffed at the rumor.
After all, a rumor was just a rumor. If approaching the God Tree really drained people dry, as the story claimed, how had Kaguya Otsutsuki climbed it and eaten its fruit in the original story?
At Aino's words, Kaguya Otsutsuki turned and glanced at her.
Aino panicked and dropped to her knees. "I'm sorry. I shouldn't have spoken out of turn."
Kaguya Otsutsuki's cold, unreadable manner seemed forbidding to others. Coupled with the faint aura of power she gave off, it frightened Aino badly.
"Don't worry about it."
"It's true."
"One day..."
Kaguya Otsutsuki stopped there.
As a member of the Ōtsutsuki Clan, she understood the God Tree's power even better than Aino did.
Once planted, a God Tree seed voraciously absorbed the world's energy, then bore a fruit suited to that world's power.
A thousand years ago, the seed would certainly have drained all the energy around it to sprout and grow.
Anyone who approached the God Tree back then might indeed have been drained dry.
But a thousand years later, that was no longer the case.
"Come on. Take me to the kitchen. I'm making lunch for my husband today," Kaguya Otsutsuki said to Aino and Aiya.
Uchiha Yin smiled and followed them.
"Ministers Suzaku and Genbu of the Land of Pi request an audience!"
At the messenger's loud announcement, the ruler of the Land of Ancestors arrived at the