Chapter 768 - 698: Comparing Height

Chapter 768: Chapter 698: Comparing Height

Tu Xiao’an’s tone was forceful. If the other party wouldn’t give him the fruits, he’d just take them himself.

"Five, Snake Demon. That’s enough."

The giant tree compromised again, perhaps because the Flame Tu Xiao’an had shown earlier had frightened it.

It didn’t want a fight where both sides would be grievously wounded.

Tu Xiao’an looked at the giant tree, but then changed the subject. "I have a question for you. Has anyone passed by here before?"

The giant tree: "Yes!"

"How many?"

The giant tree: "Five."

"Was there a woman among them?"

The giant tree answered cooperatively, "Yes!"

"Was the woman beautiful?"

The giant tree: "..."

’Is there any point in asking a tree if a woman is beautiful?’

’Is he trying to pick a fight?’

Tu Xiao’an also felt his question was a bit unreasonable, but it was actually crucial.

If the woman wasn’t beautiful, then it definitely wasn’t Luo Ziyun.

But he just shrugged. "I’m in a hurry, so I’m done wasting time with you. Hurry up and send down ten fruits."

"Five. Or we fight."

"Are you sure?" Tu Xiao’an chuckled.

"You greedy Snake, are you looking to die? Now you won’t get a single one."

Suddenly, a crisp and sinister voice emanated from the giant tree, coming from a completely different mouth.

The moment he heard it, Tu Xiao’an was stunned, his face a mask of bewilderment.

’Could this tree be a hermaphrodite? One male and one female?’

’Can plants even do that? How badass is that?’

However, Tu Xiao’an was overthinking it. An enormous Ghost Wanderer, as thick as an arm and nearly ten meters long, slowly emerged from the giant tree’s trunk. It coiled itself around the trunk, its snake-like head rising to fix a pair of cold, glowing, and malevolent eyes on Tu Xiao’an.

’A ten-meter-long Ghost Wanderer serpent?’

’Holy crap.’ Tu Xiao’an threw a Conscious Insight at it.

The Ghost Wanderer was actually Level 38.

Evil Qi billowed from its body, spreading in all directions. A forked tongue flicked out from its mouth, tasting the air a few times. The entire motion was fraught with boundless danger and death, its eyes filled with killing intent.

Moreover, this giant Ghost Wanderer was too cold. It wasn’t a superficial coldness, but one that emanated from its very bones and blood—a coldness that regarded all living things as nonexistent.

Clearly, this was a Ghostly Wanderer King.

’And to think it could hide inside the giant tree.’

"Snake, you killed so many of my children. We offered you five fruits, and still you weren’t satisfied. In that case, you can just die."

The Ghostly Wanderer King said, its face full of malice.

It had given birth to all those Little Ghost Wanderers.

"If you don’t give them to me, even more of your children will die. And you’ll die, too," Tu Xiao’an replied coldly, completely unintimidated.

A Ghostly Wanderer King was an absolutely terrifying existence. If a Level 34 Ghost Wanderer could kill a War God, one could only imagine how fearsome this Level 38 Ghostly Wanderer King was.

But Tu Xiao’an refused to be intimidated and decided to meet it head-on.

Then, with a flicker of his thoughts, a large tree appeared beside Tu Xiao’an.

But this tree wasn’t particularly large; it was just big enough to shield Tu Xiao’an.

"Charlie, my boy, we’ve got work to do."

The reason Tu Xiao’an had summoned Charlie was that he’d had a new idea.

The moment Charlie appeared and saw the giant tree before it, it was slightly taken aback. Then, its trunk began to tremble, and its leaves rustled to the ground—not from fear, but from excitement.

"Charlie, see the fruits on that thing? I heard that eating them allows humans and Demons to reach Rank Three of Enlightenment directly, without even needing to face a Celestial Tribulation."

Charlie said excitedly, "Master, if you let me absorb its tree Energy, I might be able to do that too!"

The giant tree held an incredibly powerful allure for Charlie.

It was like a man seeing a peerless beauty, unable to contain his excitement.

"Haha, I was waiting for you to say that."

Charlie was now a Demon King Level Tree Demon, and the fruits it bore were even greater Heavenly and Earthly Treasures, with significant effects even on Rank Three Creatures.

But no matter how outrageous its fruits were, they couldn’t compare to the outrageousness of the Dao Fruit.

So, Tu Xiao’an figured, if he let Charlie absorb this tree’s Energy, perhaps it could bear Dao Fruits in the future, too.

The fact that Charlie had just said it proved that Tu Xiao’an’s idea might actually work.

"Tree Monster, what do you think of my tree? It’s thinking of eating you, you know."

The giant tree’s ancient voice replied, "I never thought another tree in this world could reach such a level of Cultivation. Not bad, not bad at all."

Its tone was that of a condescending elder.

But the Ghostly Wanderer King scoffed with sinister disdain, "Such a tiny tree. Did you bring it out here to embarrass yourself?"

"Haha... Charlie, they’re looking down on you for being small," Tu Xiao’an said, thoroughly amused.

Charlie couldn’t stand hearing that and shrieked, "I, Charlie, am the biggest tree in the world!"

As soon as it spoke, a terrifying, plant-like aura erupted madly. Charlie, the sturdy but not-so-large tree, began to expand like the Golden Cudgel, growing taller and thicker. Its trunk became like a Dragon, its canopy like the clouds. It was as if a great mountain had risen from the flat ground, blotting out the sun and sky with its immense and majestic presence.

It instantly towered over the giant tree.

The Ghostly Wanderer King jumped in fright, finding it hard to believe.

"The biggest tree in the world? I don’t think so," the giant tree disagreed. Its trunk began to shake and, like a skyscraper rising overnight, it suddenly shot upwards.

Slowly, it grew taller than Charlie.

"Hmph, I, Charlie, can get even bigger!"

Seeing that its opponent had once again surpassed it in height, the giant tree’s body shot up again, its branches and leaves flourishing.

Charlie: "Bigger!"

The giant tree: "Grow!"

"Bigger!"

"Grow!"

And just like that, the scene turned into a competition between two colossal trees to see which was taller.

Watching them, it was as if they were competing with the very heavens, their towering and massive forms inspiring awe and terror.

The entire sky was completely blotted out by these two heaven-defying trees, leaving no gaps for light to pass through.

"Charlie, I’m leaving this Tree Monster to you," Tu Xiao’an said calmly.

"Master, don’t worry. I’ll definitely devour it."

"Junior, do you have any idea how many years I have lived? It’s not yet certain who will be devouring whom," said the giant tree.

It wasn’t just snakes that ate other snakes; plants, it seemed, were cut from the same cloth.

After all, these weren’t ordinary trees.

At this moment, the Ghostly Wanderer King slithered down from the giant tree. Not involving itself in the two trees’ affair, it moved to a clear patch of ground.

"You are a Snake, and I look like a snake. Now let’s see who is stronger—you, the real Snake, or me, the invincible fake snake."

The Ghostly Wanderer King’s voice was androgynous, but if one listened closely, it leaned more toward female.

It was a full ten meters long, at the Giant Snake Level.

It stood with its head held high, staring down at Tu Xiao’an.

"Don’t look at me from that height. Are you trying to have a height competition with me, too?"

Tu Xiao’an tilted his chin up slightly and said with disdain.

BOOM!

A wave of Qi burst from the Ghostly Wanderer King’s body as it suddenly expanded to thirty meters. "So what if I’m taller? I may look like a snake, but my bloodline is immeasurably nobler. Snakes are far too lowly."

"Only thirty meters? Can’t you get any bigger?"

BOOM!

The Ghostly Wanderer King grew to fifty meters, then seventy, and finally one hundred meters.

In the end, it took the form of a towering Giant Snake.

Yet, even a snake of that size was still nothing compared to the two giant trees.

Now, when the Ghostly Wanderer King looked at Tu Xiao’an, it was like a giant looking at an ant on the ground—so tiny, so insignificant.

It seemed as if a simple twist of its body would be enough to crush him.

*Sigh*...

Tu Xiao’an let out a sigh.

It probably didn’t realize that the one standing before it was no mere Snake Demon, but a Snake Emperor.

’A battle of size?’

’A tree competing with a tree over size, and a fake snake competing with a real snake over height?’