Chapter 1574: Chapter 1574
Chapter 1574: Chapter 791: Blossoming and Bearing Fruit
Not all the Dark Animated Plants underwent such evolutionary mutations. More often, they couldn’t withstand the infusion of such powerful and insane energy. They kept swelling until they suddenly exploded, with blood-red energy mixed with black energy flying everywhere.
However, the monstrous tree did not give it such a chance, as the initial injection turned into absorption.
Whether it was the blood energy he had just infused or the original black energy of the exploded Dark Animated Plant, without exception, it was all absorbed by him, becoming the foundation of its continued growth and expansion.
The frenzied growth was not limited to the roots of the monstrous tree; its main trunk grew at an equally astounding speed.
The monstrous tree was originally only bloated, several times thicker than ordinary trees, like a potbellied fat man. Its height wasn’t particularly remarkable either, with the crown reaching only about forty meters, which in an ancient forest, was definitely not considered startling.
Now, in just a dozen minutes, it had swelled nearly threefold, breaking through a hundred meters.
It wasn’t merely an extension; its thickness proportionally increased. Many more flesh-like vessels emerged, becoming thicker and larger, making it look more hideous and bizarre.
It now possessed all the features of the evolved Dark Animated Plants.
Its entire body was covered with Blood Thorn Thorns, dripping with a sweet and bloody sap. But these were all gigantic versions; what was merely a spike on the smaller Animated Plants was now a Crossbow Arrow in comparison.
The vines hanging down from it turned blood-red, with massive jaws at the ends, similar to the Blood Thorn Thorns. Due to its colossal size, each vine was like a giant serpent in motion, capable of swallowing a Troll in one bite.
The most unique feature of the monstrous tree was the giant gourd-shaped fruits. Their number and size were three times their original, and they were no longer purple but blood-red.
A blood-red gourd-shaped fruit fell off the monstrous tree.
It was like a giant shell, creating a shallow pit upon impact, and the blood-red gourd-shaped fruit shattered open on the spot.
If a normal person were present and saw what was inside, they’d definitely feel extremely uneasy.
Because inside the blood-red gourd-shaped fruit was enveloped not a seed but a colossal humanoid monster. It hovered between flesh and plant, its exterior wrapped and connected by layers of woody structures and vines, seemingly containing flesh-like tissues within.
When it shakily stood up, it resembled a massive Orc, at least four meters tall, with a robustly rough appearance. Even though it was made of plant matter, its exterior seemed to have muscle-like lumps. Its forearms and upper arms, thighs and calves were almost the same thickness, rough and irregular, with vine-formed hands as flexible as human ones, secreting a venom-like substance at the ends.
Its head was more like an ape than a human, with complete facial features, but whether they were functional was debatable, because both its mouth and nose, as well as ears, were all made of wood.
The first blood-red gourd-shaped fruit hit the ground, as if signaling a release.
With a single sway of the monstrous tree, the remaining blood-red gourd-shaped fruits all fell to the ground. Accompanied by a series of loud bangs, one after another Blood Demon Tree Man emerged, identical to the first, numbering sixty in total.
These Blood Demon Tree Men seemed to have received some command, and after a brief period of adaptation, started moving in all directions.
Initially, they wobbled slowly, then progressed to a steady fast walk, and finally broke into a brisk run. Even in the dense forest, they charged headlong, soon reaching the edge of the Corruption Forest. After a brief pause, they dove into the nearest dense woods, madly clawing at the ground, and in just a few minutes, they excavated a shallow pit, burying their feet within.
Countless roots began to sprout from their feet. Their upraised hands transformed into new branches, with numerous thorny branches extending out, while blood-red vines began to separate from their bodies.
These Blood Demon Tree Men suddenly transformed into Demon Trees, initially resembling the monstrous tree, with about fifty percent similarity. ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵~𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖~𝙣𝙚𝙩
This was merely the beginning.
As these Blood Demon Tree Men set out, the Demon Mother Tree extended a blood-red root to follow them. When they entered the rooting state and transformed into new Demon Trees, these blood-red roots immediately wrapped around them, injecting excess Power of Slaughter, just like with the earlier Dark Animated Plants.
Khan Yamun was like an ocean, from which the Power of Slaughter flowed endlessly. Even with the Demon Mother Tree’s utmost effort to divert it, there were no signs of complete digestion. It could only relieve the pressure by spawning new offspring.
With the abundant infusion of Power of Slaughter, the newborn Demon Trees began to grow crazily—Colossal, Giant, Super Giant… They quickly took on the form of the Demon Mother Tree, before the infusion of Power of Slaughter.
They did not continue to grow. Instead, they spawned new Demon Tree Man fruits on themselves. Compared to the giant fruits on the Demon Mother Tree, the fruits on these new trees were significantly smaller. When they landed, the purple-red Demon Tree Men that crawled out were just over one and a half meters tall, resembling sturdy tall Dwarves.