The spring sunlight was dazzling. Yu Ziyu admired it for a long time. Even after the two girls had left, he made no move.
He even tidied his own branches, making them blend seamlessly with the surrounding willow trees.
After a long while, silently watching the girls disappear, Yu Ziyu gathered his focus back, discarded distracting thoughts from his mind, and entered a state of ethereal calm once more.
This ethereal state was something he had discovered by chance—it allowed him to refine Evolution Points faster.
"Ding, receiving sunlight exposure, Evolution Points +0.1."
Accompanied by a clear chime, Yu Ziyu slowly opened his eyes.
Moments later, when he accessed his attribute panel, he saw he had accumulated 1 Evolution Point.
He had 0.9 Evolution Points originally, plus the 0.1 just gained, reaching exactly the 1 Evolution Point milestone.
It was worth noting that Yu Ziyu had fully strengthened all fifty of his main branches.
The reason he accumulated points was simply because he was about to upgrade to the next stage of enhancement.
"Ding, please confirm consumption of 1 Evolution Point to strengthen the tree roots."
"Confirm."
Nodding, Yu Ziyu felt somewhat excited.
Unlike each branch costing 0.1 points, upgrading the tree roots required 1 Evolution Point at the start.
But that made sense—being the foundation of a tree, root strengthening was naturally of utmost importance.
The high demand for Evolution Points was understandable.
Yu Ziyu also looked forward to the strengthening, hoping he could detach his roots from the earth and run like a human.
If that really happened, he could already imagine the scene—a willow tree whose roots transformed into legs, carrying its body running across the land.
That image would be incredibly beautiful.
A tree demon? Or a spirit?
Thinking this, Yu Ziyu began contemplating what he would be called in the future.
Just then, Yu Ziyu suddenly felt intense pain.
It was as if some power surged into his roots. The overwhelming energy rushed in too fast to be digested, breaking through the seals on his roots.
Crack—like roots splitting apart, violent pain from deep underground caused countless branches on Yu Ziyu's body to tremble uncontrollably, as if shivering.
More terrifyingly, these strengthened branches wildly waved in the air, stirring up strong gusts.
For a moment, the area around Yu Ziyu's main body became a forbidden zone where no living being dared to enter.
Only a bird's nest at the treetop remained undisturbed.
Even with the agony, Yu Ziyu did not forget about the clutch of baby birds.
"Is root strengthening really this brutal?"
Bitterness filled him as Yu Ziyu endured repeatedly.
Not long after,
Rumble rumble...
As the soil beneath this willow cracked open, a black root over ten meters long was revealed.
"My goodness…"
Looking at the black serpentine root, completely under his control like an extended arm, Yu Ziyu was speechless.
This had to be the power of Evolution Points.
It allowed him to control his roots with ease.
Of course, this was just a secondary root, not the main root.
His main root stretched over twenty or thirty meters, penetrating deep into the underground rock layer.
This was truly Yu Ziyu's lifeline.
Because just moments ago, when Yu Ziyu tried to pull the main root out from deep underground, a pain so indescribable nearly made him lose consciousness.
Pain—
Heart-piercing pain.
Emmmm, with this, forget about running on the earth—Yu Ziyu even gave up on controlling the main root entirely.
If such excruciating pain came several more times, Yu Ziyu felt he might really be finished.
As expected, even with extraordinary power, he couldn't change the fact that he was a tree.
And as a tree, the greatest weakness was the main root.
As for others, like branches and secondary roots, even if broken, Yu Ziyu wouldn't even frown.
But the main root was different; it was Yu Ziyu's throat and could never be lightly touched.
Thinking this, Yu Ziyu instinctively activated the other secondary roots.
Boom, boom, boom…
With the ground trembling, the entire surface felt like a dragon rolling underground.
And deep beneath the surface, where no one could see, Yu Ziyu controlled eight large secondary roots tightly entwining his main root.
This was life!
He couldn't afford not to protect it well.
As for the longest exposed black root, Yu Ziyu controlled it to surge toward the surface.
If any emergency occurred, this black root could transform into a deadly weapon.
Without mentioning the rest, just this secondary root was several times thicker than a branch, and its strength was imaginable.
At that moment, sensing something, Yu Ziyu suddenly stiffened.
"Tsk tsk, curiosity can be deadly, you know."
Following Yu Ziyu's gaze, in a dense thicket not far away, a pair of fiery red eyes stared fixedly in the direction of Yu Ziyu's main body.
Motionless, Yu Ziyu decisively played dead, letting countless willow branches droop.
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