The moment they left the dead wood forest, a stout giant spirit tree that was at least three hundred meters tall appeared in front of them.

This giant spirit tree also seems to have died.

The bark is mottled and intertwined, covered with cracked lines.

Originally, this was supposed to be an incomparably lush giant spirit tree with a canopy that could shade thousands of people with a single tree.

But at this time, there was not even a single dead leaf on the branches of his canopy, only countless branches like demonic claws, intertwined and twisted, and some thick branches broke and hung on the ground.

The desolate, cold, and lonely atmosphere suddenly enveloped everyone.

Compared to it, the dead trees scattered around it were much larger than the ones seen along the way, but they still seemed unusually small.

"Wow......"

"Are you all going to be this big in the future?"

Quill looked up at the giant dead tree that reached into the sky, and it was a little hard to imagine that Groot would become like this in the future.

How big would it take for a warship to fit it? I'm afraid it would take an interstellar fortress.

"I am, Groot. ”

Groot shook his head, after their race reaches a certain age, they can control their body size, of course, not the kind of superpower that gets bigger and smaller, but uses energy or water irrigation with sufficient energy to speed up photosynthesis and quickly increase the size of the body.

It can also be used in battle, but at this point, the practical significance is small.

"It's really too big. ”

Gamora looked at the ground and found that the trunk of the tree alone took up tens of meters in a radius, and the underground rhizomes probably spread for more than a kilometer.

Even if they were a few hundred meters away from the tree, they could still see the python-thick rhizomes at their feet.

"I said, didn't you notice something wrong. ”

The rocket grinned sideways, then tapped the ground with the gun in his hand.

Bang bang ~ two impacts, making Gamora and Quill react.

Trees should live in the soil, at least in the soil, even if it is sand.

But under their feet, and as far as the eye could see, were all rocks, large expanses of craggy rocks!

Quill raised his elemental gun and fired it at the ground, and the ground was still tightly rocked, and the soil was not visible at all.

This......

"How can trees survive in this environment? Is there soil deeper underground?"

After the words fell, they found that the road behind them, the dead wood forest, disappeared, and was replaced by an endless rocky plain?

Quill frowned, and turned to walk out.

Suddenly, his figure disappeared from the sight of Gamora and the others, and the dead wood forest that had just passed by appeared again in Quill's own vision.

After returning, the three of them all looked at Groot, who had the most say as the natives here.

"I'm Groot. ”

When Groot saw his friend looking at him, his eyes couldn't help but darken.

Originally, it was called 'Punishment Island'.

Punishment Island is very different from other places covered by calm forests.

It's not really an island, it's located in the harshest region of X-star's climate, a dead place surrounded by an energy boundary, all made of rocks, and there is no sunlight all year round.

For the sake of aesthetics, this energy limit also obscures where they are, making it appear that the outside world is still a dense forest.

Members of the Djinn Tree who commit crimes, including the most serious crimes of 'treason against the tree', will be detained here.

For a tree, letting him survive here is undoubtedly the harshest punishment.

Without soil, it means death, and it is a slow death.

Most Djinn trees don't want to die, so they need to expand their rhizomes to make themselves taller and receive more sunlight.

The giant spirit tree in front of him, which was more than 300 meters tall and whose rhizomes spread almost the entire Punishment Island, had become so tall in order to survive.

When Groot was a child, it was rare to see a Djinn Tree imprisoned here.

Until later...... The war of extermination.

As mentioned earlier, the Colossus of Flowers has a common heart, which is a great advantage, but it also hides a huge hidden danger.

A simple truth.

If there is no evil in a world, then there is no good.

Although people call the peace in the growth of the Colossus of the god of flowers good, and call it peace, in fact, for themselves, it is just a simple daily life, and there is no very clear action for good.

The Colossus of the Flower God is not a zerg, it is not a hive mind, although the heart is the same, but each giant spirit tree has its own thoughts.

As they come into contact with outer space, they learn more and more.

War, plunder, invasion, several words that have been known for thousands of years, but never cared about, began to gradually penetrate into their hearts and minds, affecting their thinking.

Until one day, the first giant spirit tree to propose to start a war of aggression appeared.

An elder-level djinn tree second only to the Arbor Master and the Great Elder, wants to form an army and personally lead the occupation of the weak planet.

Then, as if it were a domino effect, hundreds or even more Djinn trees agreed, as did among the elders.

Because of their strong strength, the Flower God Colossus Clan, which is only a hundred years old, can be one against a hundred, and those who have lived for more than a thousand years can be one against a thousand, and the elder level has even gotten rid of the restraint of the flames to a certain extent, and they can be called invincible in the sea of people.

And at that time, they did not have a very clear idea of whether the war was just, whether they were still on the side of the 'good', and they only considered whether it would bring benefits to the race.

So, in just a few days, the Colossus of Flowers, which had been peaceful for tens of thousands of years, divided into their hawks and doves.

For tens of thousands of years, there has never been fierce friction within the Colossus of Flowers.

This sudden eruption, like a nuclear explosion, was out of control.

The special abilities they are proud of, the same heart, even exacerbates the degree of polarization!

The concept of good and evil has also been refined in the process.

The invasion had not yet begun, and civil war was inevitable......

The most tragic thing is that the power abused by their own large-scale war, manipulating flowers and trees, makes the originally beautiful X-star quickly 'age'......

"So, this tree is the one that wants to start a war, and the self-proclaimed king of war?" said Rocket Haruka, pointing to the giant tree in the center in the distance.

"I am, Groot. ”

"Lord of War?" Gamora shook his head, "This is the end result of the war, he got what he wanted, death. ”

"The most likely place for the Source of Life to exist should be related to the location of an ancient giant tree like the Arbor Master.

Groot, where are the other giant trees except for Punishment Island?"

Groot glanced at Quill, then looked down and remembered.

But just then, they found that the ground beneath their feet began to shake, and the gravel on them danced.

A loud sound of the earth's veins cracking came from under the giant tree!

"Be careful!"

Quill noticed that less than ten meters away from them, two twisted roots suddenly bounced up, stabbing at Groot like a giant spear!

Burst~

Groot, who didn't react at all, was suddenly pierced through his chest by this whisker!

"I'm ...... Gru ...... Roar, roar, roar, roar, roar, !!!"