Chapter 2610: Trade and Advancement (7)

"Daddy~"

The tree spirit's voice was very soft.

Today, once again, she mistook Zhao Chi for someone else.

The Silk Race female soldiers beside them all widened their eyes, curiously looking at the little creature before them.

Qi Yue laughed softly; she really liked this tree spirit.

It really did look adorable.

Its appearance was truly exquisite — judged purely on looks, it could be called perfect.

This is not praise.

This is an adjective.

Qi Yue walked over lightly, six arms extending, gently picking her up.

At the same time, she lowered her voice and smiled gently: "I'll carry you over to find your daddy."

The tree spirit obediently climbed onto Qi Yue's palm.

This time, the tree spirit wasn't as eager to find blood to suck as last time, but was much more well-behaved — perhaps because she wasn't hungry.

She was honestly picked up by Qi Yue and delivered in front of Zhao Chi.

"Daddy~"

The tree spirit opened both hands.

"Hehe, my lord, she wants you to hold her."

Qi Yue's eyes narrowed into slits, her voice very light and cheerful.

Zhao Chi was a little worried.

Unlike Qi Yue, who possessed the soft-body gene, his palms were somewhat rough; he truly feared accidentally rubbing a patch of skin off the tree spirit.

But he still cupped his hands together and reached out to receive her.

"Daddy~"

The tree spirit scrambled up with hands and feet alike, quickly climbing onto Zhao Chi's hands.

Zhao Chi felt his arms go a bit stiff, afraid that one careless slip would let her fall and die.

"Qi Yue, help me block her in too, don't let her fall."

"Mm, okay~"

With Qi Yue's arms surrounding the area, the tree spirit sat perfectly safe in Zhao Chi's hands.

The female soldiers beside them all craned their necks to look, eyes shining.

"Dad~dy~"

The tree spirit called out again, but this time her voice was even more affectionate, with even a hint of a coquettish tone.

Zhao Chi said: "I'm not your daddy, have you got the wrong person? You can call me Zhao Chi."

The tree spirit blinked both eyes.

Her head tilted to one side too.

"Ba~ba?"

She still couldn't really talk, seeming to only know this one pronunciation.

Then forget it.

"Qi Yue, help me make a wound on my finger, see if she'll eat the blood?"

"Okay~"

Qi Yue leaned her head over, stuck out her little tongue and gave Zhao Chi's fingertip a light lick, and a tiny wound appeared.

Very quickly, a bead of blood seeped out on the fingertip.

The tree spirit seemed to smell it, her little head immediately looking this way and that.

Upon spotting the blood bead, she immediately crawled over and took Zhao Chi's finger into her mouth.

Her teeth bit down just like yesterday.

It still hurt a bit.

Her little teeth really were sharp.

But she could bear it.

After all, she was the tree spirit of the Eternal Tree, wasn't she?

Although his finger hurt a bit from the bite, he could clearly feel her tongue sliding back and forth over his fingertip, constantly licking up the newly appearing blood.

The tree spirit's status in the system didn't show the word "hungry," but she still ate with great relish.

It seemed the status in the system didn't represent whether she wanted to eat.

Given the chance, she was still willing to eat.

And from the looks of it, every time he watered the Eternal Tree, she would come out.

Even if not hungry, she would still eat blood.

Before long, her belly once again became round and bulging.

Really round.

At this point, she seemed to already want to go back, her tiny finger pointing at the split in the great tree.

"Ba~ba~"

Qi Yue said: "My lord, does she want to go back? Shall I carry her over?"

"Alright, be careful."

"Don't worry~"

Qi Yue's six arms carefully came together, gently lifting her over and setting her down.

The moment she touched the ground, the tree spirit scrambled on all fours to the crack.

She can only crawl right now, but she crawls quite fast.

Right after, the tree's fissure closed up.

The entire tree trunk began to sway.

The leaves above made a rustling sound, as if a gust of wind had swept through and stirred them.

Visible to the naked eye, the tree grew another meter, reaching a height of five meters.

Only five meters…

Zhao Chi also knew that the Eternal Tree definitely wouldn't grow too fast.

But so far a total of 16,000 Rapid Growth Talismans had been used on it, and by time it was already 1,333 years old.

Yet it was still this tiny — it was honestly too slow.

But Li Ruanyu had said that it first grows its roots, and once the root system finishes growing… or rather, once the roots grow to a certain extent, the trunk and branches above will shoot up rapidly.

It's somewhat like the growth process of bamboo.

Once the root system is fully anchored, its vitality will be absolutely terrifying.

Recalling the earlier giant beast battlefield.

That ancient giant tree wasn't even the Eternal Tree, yet all its leaves had been withered by the Bone Dragon's Decaying Purple Mist, and most of its trunk had been burned by the Hell Three-Headed Hound.