“You… just need life essence?”1

“Yes!”0

“You… will not enter the palace?”0

“Of course not!”1

The little tree sank into deep thought. “If you are sincere… can you first supply me with some energy stones?”1

“……”1

Now that was a bad trade! Li Hao cursed to himself. You want me to pay up before I get anything and the key is, you can continue fighting me once you absorb energy. The tree’s trying to trick me!1

“I can, but I only have regular mysterious power stones…” The young man took out a stone common to this day and age.2

The tree froze, stunned beyond belief, and said with difficulty after a while. “This is… a discarded energy stone… In my memories… not even dogs eat them… They can be used for cooking… but you want me… to use that… to collect life essence?”3

“……” Li Hao blinked. “No way, they’re that bad?”2

The little tree remained silent. It seemed to have lost all hope. You might as well let me die! You can just kill me if you want me to coalesce life essence with this trash. Who spits out milk after eating trash? I’m not a...1