Reborn as a Tree

The night was deep.

Everything was pitch-black, with nothing visible.

Yet deep in these mountains, it was anything but peaceful. Fierce beasts roared, their low growls surging like a tide, making the woods tremble and sending scattered leaves rustling to the ground.

And just then,

Deep within a mountain range, a soft glow could actually be seen flickering faintly from afar.

A closer look revealed that it was a delicate branch. The branch was tender green, its leaves translucent as jade, and specks of soft light kept spreading from it.

"Is this... my cheat?"

The murmur was like someone whispering into an ear, yet no outsider could hear it.

There were only faint tremors in the air.

Yu Ziyu,

A transmigrator who had slipped into a haze of unconsciousness simply because he had choked on a sip of water.

When he woke again, he discovered, to his astonishment, that he had become a tree.

Yes, a tree.

And a willow tree, at that.

Countless branches hung down like a waterfall.

Looking further, its crown was broad and sparse, its bark grayish-black and irregularly cracked.

If he was not mistaken, it should be a weeping willow, a tree with considerable ornamental value.

Of course, ornamental value aside, weeping willows were everywhere and were commonly used as roadside trees in landscaping.

Yu Ziyu did not really mind transmigrating, or even transmigrating into a tree.

It merely felt a little bizarre, like something far removed from him suddenly happening right before his eyes.

As some people would put it, "This defies science."

But defying science was one thing.

Still, Yu Ziyu's easygoing nature meant he would not dwell on it.

Being alive was already a good thing.

How could he dare ask for more?

Besides, he had a pretty good cheat.

His view shifted, revealing a delicate willow branch gently swaying beneath the cover of night, giving off a luminous green glow.

This was one of the fifty-odd branches he currently had.

And this particular branch glowed only because Yu Ziyu had invested 0.1 Evolution Points into it.

"Status panel."

At his murmur,

The next second, a translucent blue screen that only Yu Ziyu could see appeared before his eyes.

[Species: Mutant Weeping Willow

Lifespan: 0.4/20 years

Evolution Points: 0.2 (Acquisition methods: first, receive sunlight and absorb unknown energy to refine it; second, plunder other animals and even plants, then extract it.)

Ability: One mutated branch.

"Mutated, huh?"

Looking at the contents displayed on the status panel, Yu Ziyu murmured softly.

Then, with a shift of his thoughts, his attention moved to that branch.

By now, the light the branch emitted was too faint to see. Its evolution should have finished.

Yet at that moment, Yu Ziyu felt something strange.

It was as though he could freely control this branch.

Yes, freely control it.

Previously, although he had become a tree, his body had not been under his control.

Only when a breeze blew past would his hanging branches sway gently in the wind.

But that was only normal, wasn't it?

After all, a willow was a plant, not an animal.

Now, however, Yu Ziyu had this strange feeling, as though this branch had completely become his arm.

With a thought, the branch gently swung upward.

Then, following the shifts in Yu Ziyu's thoughts, it swayed again and even curled into a circle, like a nimble green snake.

"Interesting."

This first attempt left Yu Ziyu a little excited.

He really could control it. Moreover, whether it was an illusion or not, a feeling arose within him that he could do more than just this.

For example,

Lashing hard at the air, just like now.

"Crack!"

As though the air itself had been whipped apart, a crisp sound suddenly exploded through the night sky.

Immediately afterward, beneath Yu Ziyu's astonished gaze, a white wave of air streaked through the night.

The white wave was not long, only two meters.

Yet it precisely traced the path his branch had swept through.

In other words, that fierce lash had actually whipped up a wave of air.

"This power..."

Had Yu Ziyu possessed a human body at that moment, he would surely have propped up his chin in thought.

"If that hit a person, they'd probably die."

"Probably."

After pondering again, Yu Ziyu spoke with some certainty.

After all, the power of that lash was certainly more than enough to split skin and flesh.

It had produced a sonic boom, after all.

And the term "sonic boom" was not unfamiliar to Yu Ziyu.

Even a person wielding a whip over ten meters long could produce a sonic boom.

A whip cracked when swung at high speed. In his previous life, this phenomenon had received a scientific explanation about a hundred years earlier-force traveled continuously along the branch until it reached the tip. At that point, the whip's speed would also reach its maximum, until it broke the sound barrier. Then, as it traveled through the air, people would hear a brief but extremely intense explosive sound.

And this explosive sound was commonly known as a "sonic boom."

Did this count as a beast-type story?

Probably not, right? (*^▽^*) A tree, a mutated willow tree.

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(Event period: June 12 to June 14)