The springtime... scenery was dazzling. Yu Ziyu admired it for a long while, but even when the two girls left, he made no move.
He even straightened his branches, making them look no different from those of the surrounding willows.
A long while later, after silently watching the girls leave, Yu Ziyu withdrew his attention, cast aside the stray thoughts in his mind, and entered an empty, tranquil state once again.
He had discovered this state by chance. It allowed him to refine evolution points faster.
Ding! Receiving sunlight. Evolution points +0.1.
With that crisp sound, Yu Ziyu slowly opened his eyes.
A moment later, he turned his attention to his status panel and saw the 1 evolution point he had now accumulated.
He had already possessed 0.9 points, and the latest 0.1 evolution points brought him to precisely the 1-point milestone.
Something worth mentioning was that all fifty of Yu Ziyu's main branches had now been enhanced.
The only reason he was saving points was that he wanted to proceed to the next stage of enhancement.
Ding! Please confirm again: spend 1 evolution point to enhance your roots?
"Confirm."
Nodding, Yu Ziyu felt somewhat excited.
Unlike a branch, which cost 0.1 points, enhancing his roots required 1 evolution point just to start.
Still, that made sense. As the foundation of a tree, enhancing the roots was certainly the highest priority.
Their greater demand for evolution points was understandable.
Yu Ziyu also looked forward to being able to pull his roots out of the ground after enhancing them, then run around like a human.
If that really happened, he could already imagine the scene: a willow tree running across the land, its roots acting like legs to support its body.
That would be quite the sight.
A tree demon, or a spirit?
At that thought, Yu Ziyu began considering what he would be called in the future.
Just then, Yu Ziyu suddenly felt a burst of excruciating pain.
It was as though some force had poured into his roots. Before he could even absorb the surging energy, it had already broken through the confines of Yu Ziyu's roots.
With a crack, as though his roots had burst apart, searing pain traveled up from deep underground, making Yu Ziyu's countless branches quiver uncontrollably.
Even more terrifyingly, these enhanced branches stirred up gusts of wind with even their most casual movements through the air.
For a time, the area surrounding Yu Ziyu's body became a forbidden zone where no one could approach.
Only a bird's nest in his treetop remained safe and undisturbed.
Even in excruciating... pain, Yu Ziyu had not forgotten these nestlings.
"Is enhancing my roots really this brutal?"
Amid his bitterness, Yu Ziyu endured it again and again.
And not long afterward,
Rumble...
As the soil beneath Yu Ziyu's willow body split open, a black root more than ten meters long was laid... bare.
"Good grief..."
Looking at the winding root, which moved as readily as his own arm under his control and had become the very image of a giant black python, Yu Ziyu could not help falling speechless.
This must be the power of evolution points.
They let me control my roots freely.
Of course, this was only a secondary root, not his main root.
His main root was over twenty or thirty meters long and reached deep into the underground rock layer.
And this was Yu Ziyu's lifeline in the truest sense.
Just now, when Yu Ziyu had tried to pull his Main Tree Root out from deep within the earth, an indescribable agony had nearly killed him.
Pain.
Heart-piercing pain.
Ummm... forget running across the land. Now I've even completely abandoned the idea of controlling my main root.
A few more bouts of pain like that, and Yu Ziyu felt he would be done for.
Sure enough, even though he possessed power far beyond an ordinary person's, it could not change the fact that he was a tree.
And as a tree, his greatest weakness was his Main Tree Root.
As for the rest, such as his branches and secondary roots, Yu Ziyu would not so much as frown even if they broke.
But his Main Tree Root was different. It was Yu Ziyu's throat, something that absolutely could not be touched lightly.
At that thought, Yu Ziyu instinctively set his other secondary roots in motion.
Boom, boom, boom...
As the earth shook, the entire ground seemed to have an earth dragon turning beneath it.
Deep underground, where no one could see, Yu Ziyu had already manipulated his eight great secondary roots to coil tightly around his Main Tree Root.
This is my life!
I have to protect it properly.
As for the longest black root exposed outside, Yu Ziyu guided it into the surface soil.
Should anything unexpected happen, this black root could become a deadly weapon.
Quite apart from anything else, this secondary root was several times thicker than his branches, so its strength was easy to imagine.
Just then, as though sensing something, Yu Ziyu suddenly paused.
"Tsk, tsk. Curiosity can get you killed, you know."
Following Yu Ziyu's gaze, a pair of fiery red eyes could actually be seen in a dense patch of forest nearby, staring fixedly toward his body.
Without moving a muscle, Yu Ziyu decisively played dead, letting all his countless willow branches droop as well.
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