Reborn as a Demonic Tree

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Day: 3165

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"It's been a week since Stella and Diana left," Ashlock said to nobody in particular as he ignored the system message.

Even Maple had gone with the girls and left him all alone.

Aslock looked around the courtyard, which was deathly silent except for the buzzing of flies around the opened silk sack of human corpses lying next to his trunk. Once again, Ashlock felt blessed for his lack of smell because having rotting corpses so close by would be a nightmare.

However, although he couldn't smell the bodies, resisting the hunger and desire to consume was hard. He was in a constant battle with himself. On the one hand, the corpses were decomposing, so they would make for crappy Root Puppets anyway, and with every passing second, the little flesh left on them was losing their Qi which he could consume for sacrifice credits.

A few hours passed with nothing happening—Ashlock distracted his mind by focusing on cultivation, but with the ambient Qi from the Grand Elder's supernova gone, and the runic formation surrounding him damaged, it felt like a lukewarm jacuzzi rather than a lovely hot one. It was simply unsatisfying and slower than usual.

Letting out a long sigh, he stopped cultivating. It almost felt pointless to focus so much of his mental energy on, as eating corpses was far more efficient for Ashlock. "Darn demonic cultivation technique. No wonder those cultivators go insane. If I had to choose between sitting cross-legged in a cold cave for months to cultivate or eating a beast core, how are those two options comparable?" Ashlock was yet to see a truly powerful demonic cultivator lose their sanity, but he could see how it could happen.

Ashlock cast his spiritual sight to the heavy blob of silk suspended from his branches. Over the last few days, the silk had transitioned from white to a dull grey, like ash. He was excited to see how his first summon's evolution would turn out. Had he made the correct choice? Would a Chaos Spider have been better?

His thoughts wandered as he looked around the courtyard some more. The place was honestly a dump. The once pristine white stone walls of the Red Vine pavilion were now coated in a thick layer of dust and grime. Some of the slanted roofs' black wooden tiles had blown away in the wind or been scorched by the Grand Elder's attack.

The central courtyard was in a terrible state. Blood smeared the wrecked runic formation surrounding Ashlock alongside bits of cloth and monster parts left over from his meals. The training courtyard looked like a war had been fought, and the other courtyards weren't much better.

The herb garden was overgrown with weeds overshadowing the more delicate plants causing them to wither and die due to a lack of sunlight, and the smallest courtyard with a large pound had a few dead Koi fish floating around. Out of all the courtyards, only the one with a mini runic formation that Stella used to meditate was in a somewhat okay condition.

Now Ashlock was no clean freak; even if he had been, becoming a tree changed his opinion on some things. But honestly, something needed to change around here. The girls required servants as they were hopeless at cleaning and looking after themselves.

Ashlock's irritated thoughts were interrupted by a loud thump and a sudden relief of pressure on his branch.

[Evolution of Ashen Prince {Larry} Complete]

Larry looked as majestic as ever, and the system hadn't lied. He looked almost the same, but his presence in the surroundings was far more significant. The increased understanding of the Dao seemed to reflect on the spider's Soul Core stage.

The enormous spider that stood a few meters tall stayed motionless—likely awaiting a command from Ashlock. As the spider was now B grade, Ashlock feared what level of destruction he could cause the Winterwrath and Evergreen families.

"But do I poke the hornet's nest?" Ashlock wanted bodies for communication and more sacrifice credits to further his cultivation. And if he let Larry wreak havoc and eat as many bodies as he wants, he could reach [A] grade.

The two families are likely on high alert right now, scouring the forest for the spider. "Larry, go out into the wilderness beyond the sect and hunt monsters for a month. Then, come back here with some monster corpses for me." Larry complied, and the car-sized spider scuttled off in the direction of the wilderness.

Ashlock decided this was the best cours

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