Infinite Evolution: My Idle Evolution System

"Guh!"

The Shadow Tree Soldiers instantly retreated, returning to their rightful spots in Necro's enormous—and now moving—shadow.

"It may have taken me a long time, but because of our fight and my own sudden insights, I've finally figured out how to move." Necro's deep, gravelly voice reverberated through this part of the Great Jagga Forest, etching true fear into the hearts of the Ancestors. "If I can't separate from my Main Body, then I just have to take my Main Body with me, don't I?"

Draining all the color from the Ancestors' faces and shaking the earth for miles on end was the appearance of a colossal tree entity wrapped and reinforced with Roots and Branches. The monstrosity looked like a giant myth from the legends, with a scarily angular physique and a large pair of hollowed eyes that glowed with a strikingly powerful hue of purple death.

This terrible behemoth grabbed onto a mountain as it passed around a gorge. Its spine-chilling eyes fell on the tiny humanoid figures standing with immense trepidation in the distance—an action that instantly plunged them into despair.

Only roughly half of the original nine were still alive, and every single one of them had all but abandoned any modicum of hope after seeing the nightmarish entity they faced.

How foolish they were for believing that they could actually defeat and capture something like that…

However, one had not yet given in to despair.

"So what if you've shown your true form!?" Founding Ancestor Greenflame pointed arrogantly at the massive colossus taking booming steps toward him. "You've just gotten bigger! That's it!"

BOOM! BOOOM!

The steps were getting louder, with fear digging itself deeper into the hearts of the Ancestors.

However, Founding Ancestor Greenflame still refused to falter. He radiated outward with the absolute limits that burning his Lifeforce would allow. He ascended straight to the very pinnacle of the 5th Layer of Qi Condensation, only a step away from the 6th Layer.

"This is POWER!!!" he roared while facing the towering behemoth without fear. "Throw whatever you have at me!! I'd like to see you—"

*Fwooop—!*

In an instant, everything changed.

A giant dark green spear over a hundred meters in width broke through the sound barrier, producing a sonic boom that deformed the nearby forests.

Founding Ancestor Greenflame was only able to put up a few protective barriers before being plowed straight through by the giant spear. His whole body instantly turned to mincemeat, with the mountain he was standing on now missing its top.

*Ding!*

[You slew a 3rd Layer Qi Condensation Realm Cultivator forcefully ascended to the 5th Layer Qi Condensation Realm!]

[Lifespan +720.9]

"...That's it…?"

Necro assumed he could finally get serious and truly let loose. But in the end, all he had to do was wrap together a couple dozen |Poisonous Spears| and victory was his.

How… anticlimactic…

Necro was disappointed—very much so—but it was of little consequence. After all, the Hundred-eye and Greenflame Sects had been pulled out by their very founding roots.

All that remained were the stragglers.

In his behemoth form, Necro looked down at the tiny figures shivering in place. He felt it to be beneath him to hunt down such rubbish, so he instead delegated the job to his Shadow Tree Soldiers.

"Go slaughter them," he ordered as he turned around and thundered off to the mountain range where the Devastation Woods were located. "Bring back their valuables."

"Guh, Guh!!"

"!?!?" "!?!?"

The surviving Ancestors knew they were rurally fucked. They also knew that begging would get them nowhere; thus, in their desperation, they disregarded all hesitation and burned through their Lifespan, same as Founding Ancestor Greenflame had done.

"Even if we have to die here today, we'll be taking one of you down with us!!!"

Despite their rebellious bellows against fate, within minutes, they were left as little more than corpses by the Shadow Tree Soldiers. In their state of undying, even the cultivators that forcefully ascended to the 3rd and 4th Layers of Qi Condensation were not their match after dozens of revives.

"Weaklings," said Necro as he settled down in the Devastation Woods, returning to his normal large-tree form. "They were all nearly a thousand years old, yet most of them were begging in their final moments. Such trash."

If not for the companions he'd made thus far, his opinions of humans truly would've reached rock-bottom.

Speaking of those companions…

"Big Brother Necro!"

"B-Big Broth… Lord Necro…"

Lang Qingyue and Bai Ning approached the massive luminescent tree situated between a few mountains. The latter was obviously trying not to lose out to Lang Qingyue in terms of what they referred to Necro as; however, she wound up being too embarrassed to say the full thing just yet.

Necro's hollowed eyes fell on the two beautiful women hovering around his trunk.

"You've disposed of the trash?" he asked.

Lang Qingyue nodded. "It has been taken care of, Big Brother. He didn't die well."

Necro revealed a rare, complicated look. "That's… good…"

No, it was definitely good.

Yi Yu has been avenged.

"Yes… Her suffering was dished out tenfold to the culprits… Yes…"

But then why…

Why didn't he feel any better?

For a while, Necro didn't speak a word. He just sat there and endured the elements of nature that interacted with his massive stature.

It was only after some time that he sighed, saying:

"You both did well.

Bai Ning, without you and the other controlled slaves, confusing both the Greenflame and Hundred-eyed Sects wouldn't have been so simple. Your efforts made it so the higher-ups of both Sects couldn't escape before it was already too late, so for that, I thank you."

"I-It's really nothing much, Lord Necro," Bai Ning said bashfully. "You've already done so much for me that I don't even know how much I have to do to repay you in this lifetime of mine."

Her eyes were fanatically swirling, her obsession for the Godlike tree running deep.

"Even still, you have my appreciation," said Necro. "And so too do you, Lang Qingyue."

"Big Brother…"

Lang Qingyue's eyes softened.