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“Spit it out!”
The gluttonous bull just rolled its eyes at Zhao Pan and kept chewing.
The hornbill swooped down again and landed on its horns, letting out two harsh, grating cries. Only then did the bull reluctantly cough up a mouthful of half-masticated leaves onto the ground.
Over by the tree, the monstrous phoenix tree finally stopped growing.
“As I thought, phoenix trees can withstand the effect a lot longer,” Ling Guang muttered, already hopping around to pluck several leaves of each color, along with some bark, and pack them away.
“Withstand longer?” He Lingchuan felt his brow twitch. “What exactly did you test this on before the tree?”
As he spoke, the gigantic phoenix tree began to shudder violently again.
This time, it was not growing but shrinking.
It was as if a pair of invisible hands had seized the entire tree and were twisting and wringing it like a soaked towel.
Sharp cracking sounds rang out as branches snapped by the dozen, contorting into grotesque, crooked angles.
Onlookers all shivered involuntarily. It was only a tree, but somehow it felt like watching a living creature tortured past all endurance, stretching out its arms toward them in a mute, desperate plea.
No one had the faintest idea how to save it.
Soon, the tree’s self-mutilation came to an end, but then the leaves began to wither.
A rain of foliage drifted down, and in short order the phoenix tree was bare, with nothing...
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