C58 Uninvited Guest

A diminutive tree, merely half a foot tall with a trunk roughly two inches in diameter, nestled under the shade of a larger tree, gently swaying in the mountain breeze.

Ye Xuan stood before this modest tree, intently scrutinizing the Spirit Fruit Tree before him. Its trunk emerged from the exceedingly hard black rock, growing straight upwards—a testament to the tree's tenacious vitality