After some thought, Yu Ziyu put aside his focus on studying Evolution Points.
Instead, his gaze shifted back to the battlefield.
The place was a mess, the blood staining the earth red.
Countless severed limbs and remains lay quietly on the ground.
"Huff..."
Exhaling deeply, Yu Ziyu felt a touch of emotion.
Survival of the fittest—this was nature's law.
It wouldn't weaken due to species mutations, only grow more brutal and primal.
Of course, one thing was absolutely certain:
Only those who live can laugh last.
With a slight sigh, Yu Ziyu put away his sentimental mood.
Then, under his control, the roots churned the earth continuously.
Looking closely, Yu Ziyu was burying those severed limbs and remains deep into the soil.
Only the corpses of the golden giant eagle and the mutated wild boar were left on the surface.
"They are your food."
Gently touching the returning red fox and the eight falcons with his branches, Yu Ziyu gestured.
As mutated beasts, the golden eagle and wild boar corpses were clearly valuable.
Even as corpses, they were precious.
So it was fitting to reward the loyal red fox and falcons who protected him.
Of course, if they didn't finish eating and the corpses rotted away, Yu Ziyu would be pleased.
Most of it would probably turn into nutrients for his roots.
Yu Ziyu's plan was exactly this when he turned over the entire battlefield soil, burying countless severed limbs deep in the earth.
After all, from one perspective, these were the best fertilizers.
Very beneficial for himself.
Willows are willows—after all, they're still trees.
But one thing worth mentioning was Yu Ziyu's reluctance to have any human remains mixed among those limbs.
Having lived as a human in a past life, some ingrained notions made him uncomfortable with using humans as nutrients.
That was no different from "cannibalism."
Very disgusting, and something Yu Ziyu strongly resisted.
So if humans really died, they'd better die far away—don't disgust him.
Otherwise, he could only do what he was doing now...
Following Yu Ziyu's gaze, beneath dozens of hanging branches, multiple creatures were tightly bound.
Most conspicuous were two women.
The others were beasts Yu Ziyu favored—either for their looks or their strength.
Yu Ziyu spared them because they caught his eye.
As for the two women, that was a purely impulsive decision.
Just thinking that these two women might have been caught up in the battlefield... and that Yu Ziyu might have absorbed them as fertilizer unknowingly...
Ugh... just the thought made him feel nauseous.
So he decisively saved them.
"What should I do with them?"
At this thought, Yu Ziyu's eyes toward the two women were full of complexity.
Once human, now a tree.
Though he had no intention to offend humans, he was still quite wary.
Humans!
After all, they were an extremely exclusive species.
And they possessed enough power to threaten Yu Ziyu.
Without the strength to protect himself, his exposure would certainly mean death.
Not to mention missiles raining down—the current Yu Ziyu could barely withstand that, let alone humans' countless other tricks.
Would humans coexist peacefully with Yu Ziyu?
Thinking of this, Yu Ziyu couldn't help but self-mock.
If he had no value or appeal, maybe he'd just end up in a human zoo as a spectacle for people.
But the problem was his surging life essence accelerated species' growth!
For that alone, humans wouldn't let him live.
Value overrides everything, and profit blinds the mind.
"Huff..."
Breathing deeply, Yu Ziyu fell into rare contemplation.
Let them go?
Impossible.
He didn't trust the two women, nor the human race.
Kill them?
There were some issues with that.
Yu Ziyu had never killed a human before.
Though ruthless with beasts, that was shaped by his past life.
And these two women were only potential threats, not enough to justify killing them outright.
If he killed them, the "killer demon tree" reputation would be cemented, and "woodcutting warriors" would come at him in waves.
"Emmmm, these two are big trouble."
After hesitating a long time, Yu Ziyu muttered bitterly.
Kill or not, it was just a thought away.
But considering the future headaches, it was far more complicated than a mere thought.
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