As expected, the mutated pine and poison tree were buried in snow again.

Banxia recalled the domineering and powerful poison tree from her previous life, and then looked at the poison tree now weighed down by snow and only able to grumble. For a moment, she felt a little embarrassed and even doubted that it was the same tree.

She silently slipped out of the space, tossed the poison tree that hadn't had time to react into it, and then dug the mutated pine tree out from under the snow: "Stupid... Pine tree, are you alright?"

"Human," the mutated pine tree nudged Banxia's shoulder with a branch, delighted, "you're not dead!"

Banxia resisted the urge to roll her eyes and handed over a handful of wood-type crystal cores: "Thank you for your help."

If it weren't for the mutated pine tree, she wouldn't know when she would find her enemy.

"You're welcome," the mutated pine tree said, not accepting the crystal core. After fidgeting for a moment, it asked shyly, "I have something I'd like to ask you."

Banxia couldn't help but ask curiously, "Tell me."

The mutated pine tree branches couldn't help but sway wildly: "I heard that you humans have a place called 'Botanical Garden' where you regularly prune the trees, fertilize them, and catch insects. But I've gone down the mountain several times and haven't found it. Instead, I've encountered biting monsters. Can you tell me where the Botanical Garden is?"

Banxia was at a loss for words: "Who told you about the botanical garden?"

The mutated pine tree said nonchalantly, "You humans said it yourselves. The year before last, a few people dug up an orchid on the mountain, saying they wanted to send it to the botanical garden to be carefully cared for."

As if remembering something, it added, "Don't worry, if anyone asks me how I found the botanical garden, I'll just tell them it was you who recommended it, and have him hire you to work there! But what kind of job is it?"

As a powerful mutated plant, it's one thing if it doesn't want to dominate, but why does it keep thinking about being taken care of by humans?

Banxia gave a fake smile: "The botanical garden no longer exists. You should just stay on the mountain."

"What?!" The mutated pine tree was completely dumbfounded. "The botanical garden is gone?!"

It tugged at Banxia's arm, crying, "Human, do you grow trees? I'm very easy to care for!"

Banxia coldly refused: "I won't raise it!"

The mutated pine tree held onto her hand tightly, saying, "I'm really easy to care for. I only need to water and fertilize it once every ten days or so!"

Life is so hard for a tree!

Banxia continued to refuse: "I politely decline!"

The mutated pine tree, settling for second best, asked, "Do you know anyone who likes to grow trees?"

Banxia: "...I don't know him."

Such a stupid tree, if you give it to someone, it's like wiping them out completely. She has no intention of harming anyone.

The mutated pine tree fell straight to the ground, sighing mournfully, "Alas, alas—"

Her voice was plaintive, like a sob, and Banxia almost felt her hair stand on end: "Don't you dare sigh!"

The mutated pine tree muttered a complaint: "You don't even take care of me, yet you control me so much. How domineering."

“Tian Tian,” Banxia released the Devouring Tree from her spatial dimension, “teach it the virtues of tree cultivation.”

After saying that, he ignored the Devouring Tree's reaction and flashed into the space.

The scene before my eyes was somewhat unexpected. Why was Xingzi fighting with the poison tree?

When the poison tree saw the suddenly appearing pinellia, it couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, "A human?!"

Adhering to the principle of striking while the iron is hot, Xingzi released a large cloud of dark green poisonous mist the moment the poison tree was momentarily stunned. Seeing its leaves instantly corroded, the poison tree angrily cursed, "Are you even a tree? Fighting amongst yourselves in front of humans? Quick—"

Its branches grew rapidly, and it lunged at Banxia with menacing claws, shouting, "Kill her!"

Banxia's eyes turned cold, and a vine whip appeared in her hand. With a wave of her hand, the vine whip cut off the branches that were attacking her, just like a sharp blade.

Seeing this, Xingzi quickly retreated more than ten meters. A qualified subordinate should give the elder a chance to perform!

The poison tree never expected that in just one encounter, not only would it suffer heavy losses, but its foolish fellows would also abandon it and run away!

Enraged, it unleashed a massive cloud of poisonous mist, while its branches grew rapidly once more, moving silently like serpents towards Banxia, ​​whose vision was obstructed.

Banxia had fought against the poison tree several times in her previous life and knew its methods very well. Her hands hung down naturally, and fine, silky vines gushed out from her palms, the tiny leaves constantly twitching, slowly but quickly absorbing the poisonous mist in the air.

The dark green vines in her palm grew even more vibrant, so full they almost burped. No wonder it was a poison tree that had evolved to level eight in just three years; its energy was several times purer than that of ordinary mutated animals!

"Smack!"

A whooshing sound suddenly rang in her ears. Banxia turned her head to dodge the attack, then turned around and kicked away the branch that was attacking her. The vine in her hand seemed to have a mind of its own, and it went straight into the trunk of the poison tree.

The poison tree sensed something was wrong and instinctively backed away, trying to break the vine. However, no matter what it did, the vine clung to it like a maggot, refusing to leave.

What is this?

The poison tree frantically pulled at the increasingly tightly bound vines.

No one responded to it.

Apricot, who was not far away, secretly glanced at Banxia. As expected of the golden thigh it was clinging to, it beat the mutated tree like it was beating its grandson.

As the energy within its body dwindled, the poison tree hardened its resolve and prepared to self-destruct, taking everyone with it.

Banxia was already fully aware of its every move, so how could it possibly give it this opportunity? Instantly, it swiftly pulled out the green crystal core from the center of the tree root and casually tossed it aside.

Without self-awareness, the poison tree collapsed to the ground with a crash.

Banxia exhaled with an inscrutable expression, then fell silent, lost in thought.

"Chirp chirp chirp!"

A mutated eagle cub that had somehow appeared opened its beak and began pecking at the crystal core on the ground. Xingzi quickly picked it up and moved it aside. "Can't you see the boss is in a bad mood?"

However, after it threw the mutated eagle cub aside, it was horrified to find that the crystal core on the ground was gone!

The entire apricot tree was dumbfounded. Where did this little thief come from?

It was so anxious that it paced back and forth, wishing it could dig three feet into the ground, but it was afraid that making too much noise would anger Banxia, ​​and for a moment it didn't know what to do.

Banxia snapped out of her daze, her palm vines burrowing into the soil, and dug out a dark object: "Where's the crystal core?"

He pretended to be stupid, all in the dark, and dared not move an inch.

Banxia tossed it to Xingzi, who was standing to the side in astonishment: "You interrogate her."

"Boss," Xingzi pinched the "dark" thing and examined it for a while without being able to figure out what it was, "what is this?"

Banxia thought for a moment: "It's some kind of plant root system, but I don't know exactly what it is."

This thing was found in Sakura's laboratory. Originally, it was just casually thrown into the space as evidence, but who knew it would survive.

The dark creature twisted its body and said in a soft voice, "Hmm, benefactor, I am a hundred-year-old ginseng. You can call me 'Ginseng Treasure'."

Banxia took the "dark" ginseng from Xingzi's hand in disbelief. What kind of ginseng looks like this?