Apocalypse: Why did you provoke her? She's a cultivator.

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This mutated tree is quite cute, so I'll keep it to prevent it from harming others in the future.

She'll just kindly accept it.

Ye Qiumian's eyes softened slightly as she smiled and said, "You'll be with me from now on."

Her tone was gentle, yet it carried a hint of undeniable authority.

The tree remained silent, as if her words did not exist.

It's perfectly fine here, so why should it have to follow her just because she says so?
The big tree thought proudly, but unconsciously relaxed its vigilance a little.

It could sense that this human wouldn't harm it.

Besides, if she wanted to hurt me, she wouldn't have asked me to follow her.

A branch stretched out, with a crystal core wrapped in its leaves, and began to silently absorb the energy within the crystal core.

Ye Qiu Mian was speechless when she saw it actually cultivating right in front of her.

Luckily, it met her today; if it had met someone else, it probably wouldn't even have a single leaf left by now.

Ye Qiumian broke off a branch from the grass by the lake and poked the big tree.

"If you don't say anything, I'll take that as your agreement."

Big Tree: "!!!"

When did it agree?

Can't you see that you don't want to talk to her at all?
To express its disagreement, it uses actions to demonstrate its protest.

It threw the crystals on the leaves to the ground, then swung the branch at Ye Qiu Mian.

Ye Qiumian stepped aside and released a burst of spiritual energy to bind it.

"You've already agreed to be with me, and you still want to lay a hand on me? That's not good."

The tree was furious, but it couldn't break free from the tree's grasp.

Moreover, judging from the tone of the person in front of me, that feeling of danger from before resurfaced.

Big Tree felt a chill in his heart. Fine, he'd be with her then...

Freedom is not important at all; life is the most important thing.

The tree gradually stopped struggling, seemingly letting her mold and shape it as she pleased.

Although it was just a tree, Ye Qiumian could sense a sense of despondency that only humans possess.

How unwilling it must be to have it follow you?

Ye Qiumian withdrew her spiritual energy, and the leaves on the big tree drooped, looking listless.

He looked like he was half-dead.

Ye Qiumian glanced at it and said, "If you don't want to live, then hurry up and die. I'll take some branches back to use as firewood."

The leaves on the big tree trembled and instantly stood upright.

This human is terrifying!

She actually wanted to use herself as firewood!

The tree suddenly felt that its life was hopeless.

Just as the tree was sinking into despair, something suddenly appeared before it that could blind it.

The tree shuddered, its heart screaming: Good stuff! Good stuff! Quick, grab it!

It waved its branch, trying to claim the glittering crystal for itself.

However, the hand that was holding the crystal instantly took it away.

Seeing the big tree jumping up and down in a panic, Ye Qiumian smiled slightly, "Sorry, I took the wrong one."

As she spoke, she took out another crystal core. "Here, this is a gift for you."

The tree seemed a little incredulous. It quickly rolled away the crystal core, as if afraid that it would disappear again.

Then it quietly stretched out another branch, tentatively circled around behind Ye Qiu Mian, and checked her over.

It's a pity I didn't see that beautiful crystal.

She must have hidden that crystal core.

snort!
Ye Qiu Mian had just taken out the spirit stones to test whether they would be effective against mutated plants.

Seeing the tree's reaction, she knew that the spirit stone had a fatal attraction for the tree.

Perhaps the tree can be used to cultivate with spirit stones.

But she'll only know after she tries it.

So, Ye Qiumian took out another spirit stone, and saw the leaves on the tree in front of her become excited. The branches eagerly rushed over, but Ye Qiumian was faster than them and instantly retracted them.

Ye Qiumian asked with a smile, "Want it?"

The tree shook its leaves, so anxious it wanted to speak on the spot, but unfortunately it couldn't.

All he could do was shake the leaves vigorously to show how much he wanted them...

"If you want it, you'll have to obey from now on, understand?" Ye Qiumian took the opportunity to brainwash it.

The tree immediately and obediently shook its leaves.

Seeing how obedient it was, Ye Qiumian couldn't bear to keep it hanging any longer, so she stretched out her hand and opened her palm.

She said, "Take it."

A tree branch swept by, and the spirit stone in his hand vanished instantly.

"Let's go."

Ye Qiumian turned and walked towards Lincheng.

The big tree followed behind, bouncing along.

This human has good food, we should follow her!
Two figures moved through the night, one after the other.

Ye Qiumian wanted to test the tree's strength, so she increased her speed.

The big tree watched as the figure in front of it grew further and further away.

It was extremely anxious and could only jump forward with all its might.

Finally, seeing that it couldn't catch up, it became so anxious that it transformed into a vine and "whoosh" darted onto Ye Qiumian's body.

Feeling something sticking to her from behind, Ye Qiumian casually flicked out a wisp of spiritual energy.

"Bam—"

The vine was knocked away and fell to the ground, returning to its original state.

Big Tree: "..."

I feel like I won't live much longer if I stay with her!
Ye Qiumian smiled, "So it was you. I thought something was coming to attack me."

Thus, she also tested the strength of the big tree.

It must have mutated not long ago, and its strength is not yet strong. It can barely deal with level three zombies.

And just now, when it couldn't catch up, it clearly had a chance to shake her off.

But it didn't do that, which shows it was very loyal and also very easy to fool.

Ye Qiu Mian gave it two spirit stones to cheer it up.

The two continued their journey together, but this time, Ye Qiumian slowed down a bit.

"By the way, you don't have a name yet, do you?" Ye Qiumian said to the big tree as they walked. "How about I give you a name?"

After saying that, she didn't care whether Da Shutong agreed or not, and directly gave the name she had thought of.

"Let's call it Big Tree, it's simple and easy to remember."

Ye Qiumian was quite satisfied with the name.

The large tree beside it was hopping around while silently absorbing the spiritual energy of the spirit stone.

He didn't pay any attention to what Ye Qiumian said, and he had no idea that its name had been decided so casually.

Back in Lincheng, Ye Qiumian brought the tree that had transformed into a vine into the city.

While passing through one of the areas, I suddenly heard several screams.

Ye Qiumian rushed over and saw a man huddled in a corner, clutching his head, looking extremely distressed.

The arm that was exposed, which was covering its head, was covered with dark, net-like bruises.

His facial expression shifted between a ferocious look and a look of pain.

"Kill me, kill me now!" the man shouted hoarsely, his eyes red.

The woman in the courtyard, holding a watermelon knife, shook her head tearfully, saying, "I can't do it, I can't do it..."

As soon as the woman finished speaking, the man suddenly raised his head, his eyes turned grayish-white, and dark blue lines crawled from his chest up to his face.

"Ho!"

The man let out a ferocious roar and lunged at the woman.

(End of this chapter)