The Only Player in Infinite Terror

Chapter 95, we call it highly efficient.

The members of the Zhongzhou team have been gathered at the Mars near-Earth orbit space observation station for seven days.

In fact, although the planet is still called Mars, its appearance is completely different from what it used to be.

Only a very small portion of this planet still retains its rust-red color, covered by a thick, dark green carpet of countless dragon blood plants.

But the most eye-catching thing is an incredibly huge tree that resembles the mythical Jianmu tree—that is the divine tree.

Seven days ago, Little Apple used the clone that Chu Xuan had prepared in advance as a container, leaving a "wedge" in it as a backup for her resurrection.

Then, she used the secret technique passed down through the bloodline of the Otsutsuki clan to restore the Pinduoduo version of the Ten-Tails synthesized by the Central Continent Team to its original form as a seedling of the Divine Tree, and planted it on Mars.

The subsequent actions need no further explanation. Otsutsuki Sakura obeyed the order and committed suicide!

After devouring the Otsutsuki clan, the Divine Tree sapling, as if injected with super growth hormones, violently plunged its roots into the core of the planet, and the tree shot straight into the sky at an incredibly frenzied speed.

During these seven days, using the super learning machine resembling a game pod created by Chu Xuan, everyone in the Central Continent team mastered the extremely difficult technique, "Hongmeng Parasitic Technique".

Seven days later, even from a space observation station hundreds of kilometers away from the surface of Mars, the reincarnators of the Central Continent Team were able to see with their naked eyes the towering tree growing on the planet's surface!

"It's almost time," Zhao Yingkong said coldly, having been fully resurrected from the clone.

In that instant, it was as if the pulse of the entire planet skipped a beat.

After a tremor resembling fetal movement, countless vines and branches burst forth from the ground, enveloping the entire planet and capturing all life on it.

Even the dragons, the overlords at the top of the food chain, were powerless to resist the divine tree's predation before it, which had been modified by Chu Xuan.

Countless dragons spread their wings and soared into the sky, but they could not escape the divine tree's prey. Under the tree's hypnotic effect, they fell to the ground like raindrops with broken wings.

Without exception, their final fate is to be wrapped in countless vines and branches into "cocoons," becoming nutrients in their slumber, with the branches inserted into their bodies extracting their life essence.

More than ten minutes later, the entire planet lost its original color and was completely enveloped in golden light.

Countless golden specks of light rose from every part of the planet's surface, resembling a golden ocean.

Those golden specks are life energy.

The essence of all life on the entire planet is being extracted from the bodies of every dragon beast and converging towards the same point.

These points of light eventually converged at the top of the divine tree, coalescing into a seemingly ordinary purplish-red fruit.

Judging by its appearance alone, no one would imagine that this "ordinary fruit," which is no bigger than a regular dragon fruit, is actually formed from the essence of countless powerful life forms on a planet!

Zhao Yingkong used her space-time ability to teleport to the side of the divine tree fruit and picked it.

The moment the fruit of the divine tree was plucked, the enormous divine tree withered instantly, transforming back into a tiny sapling that fell before her.

Meanwhile, on the Martian equator, a section of dead tree root with a radius of hundreds of kilometers remains.

Thanks to Zhao Yingkong's deliberate control and Chu Xuan's modifications, the divine tree did not extract too much planetary energy when it bore fruit, and after withering, it left all the energy and matter that it could not absorb in the withered trunk.

It is foreseeable that it is only a matter of time before Mars returns to its former vibrant and thriving state.

The moment Zhao Yingkong obtained the divine tree fruit, she felt every cell in her body screaming wildly, urging her to eat it immediately.

However, Zhao Yingkong suppressed her instincts and teleported back to the space observation station, respectfully offering it to Ling Qi with both hands: "Captain, please distribute this divine tree fruit."

Ling Qi praised, "Amazing, Little Apple! You actually managed to resist the Otsutsuki clan's bloodline's desire to devour the fruit of the Divine Tree."

Zhao Yingkong's lips curled slightly, a hint of joy appearing on her face: "If even mere bloodline instincts can't be resisted, then who is the master of this body, them or me?"

Ling Qi nodded approvingly and casually tossed the divine tree fruit to Chu Xuan, saying, "Don't hide it, Chu Xuan. I know you must have figured out a more efficient way to use the divine tree fruit. You can handle it."

Chu Xuan didn't move, and the Divine Tree Fruit floated to his side automatically: "In fact, swallowing the Divine Tree Fruit directly like Kaguya Otsutsuki is an extremely inefficient operation."

"In the manga, after Kaguya pacified the chaotic world, she combined the immense chakra of the Divine Tree fruit with the reverence and prayers of all living beings to give birth to two life forms, namely her two children, the Six Paths Brothers, using herself as a medium."

"But upon closer analysis, it's not hard to guess that Kaguya Otsutsuki was unable to fully absorb the energy of the Divine Tree's fruit, so she had to separate the unabsorbable energy from her body, ultimately asexually reproducing the Sage of Six Paths brothers."

Li Shuaixi raised his hand and asked, "But in the anime's setting, Kaguya Otsutsuki was born from a union with the emperor of the Land of Ancestors—"

But before he could finish speaking, Li Shuaixi, meeting Chu Xuan's look of utter disbelief, awkwardly stopped talking.

Because Chu Xuan didn't need to explain, he quickly realized the irrationality of this setting.

Regardless of whether the Otsutsuki clan and humans in the Naruto world have reproductive isolation, no matter how much Kaguya Otsutsuki looks like a weak woman, her life essence is extremely high, and she is known as the Goddess of the Rabbit.

Unless she's brain-dead and blind, humans are probably nothing more than monkeys in her eyes; it's impossible for her to even look at humans.

Chu Xuan adjusted his glasses and said calmly, "Although I cooperated with the Alliance and planted seeds of life on more than a hundred planets, and carried out preliminary modifications on them."

"However, we don't have enough time left to wait until the life on those planets has grown to a point where it's ready to be harvested."

"Therefore, before we can obtain enough reward points in the next mission, we should only be able to plant the divine tree and make it bear fruit on these four planets that were the first to mature."

"In order to improve efficiency and also to benefit everyone, I plan to use the fruits of the divine tree to refine pills."

"Alchemy? Is it like the alchemy of the high-ranking members of the Otsutsuki clan in the original work? Or is it like the alchemy in myths, legends, or fantasy worlds?" Ling Qi asked curiously.

Chu Xuan maintained his perpetually poker face: "Both. I've combined the alchemy methods of the Otsutsuki clan's divine tree fruit, alchemy methods from various fantasy and mythological worlds, alchemy, pharmacology, and rune technology."

"Ultimately, they created the most theoretically perfect method for refining divine medicinal fruits under the current conditions."