Reborn as a Willow Tree, I Refuse to Be Handed Over to the State from the Start

[Mythical Beast Evolution]+ [Rebirth and Evolution]+ [Never Takes Human Form]+ [Decisive and Ruthless]+ [Cultivation and Expansion]

Spiritual qi revived around the globe, and the Jianmu descended.

After dying in battle, Chu Ge was reborn as a dying willow sapling deep in the mountains of Lingnan: [8 hours and 47 minutes of life remaining].

He awakened two Systems: the [Federation Contribution System] and the [Everlasting System].

Remembering how the powerful had treated him as a disposable pawn in his previous life, he sneered and chose the latter.

He devoured mutated beetles, strangled field mice, sent out countless branches, and took root wherever they touched the ground.

From a dying willow in the wetlands, to an ancient willow whose canopy blotted out the sky, and finally to a Tree of the Era spanning heaven and earth.

In this life, he trusted no humans and relied on no federation. He trusted only himself, until a refugee mother knelt beneath his branches and left her last ration bar on the sanctuary’s soil.

Until an independent scholar brought his daughter’s drawing and set up an observation station beneath the tree.

Until an old elm walked more than a thousand kilometers from the northern wilderness into his territory, never to leave again.

From a tree with eight hours left to live, to an eighth-rank legend.

From one solitary willow, to a forest of ten thousand willows.

This is not a story about a tree becoming a god.

It is a story of a tree recording, ring by ring, proof that “all life can coexist.”