Ashlock wakes in the courtyard of a demonic sect, as a tree. A tree that eats people. Every day, he grows stronger as he cultivates and uses a suspicious daily sign-in system that grants him powerful skills, mutations, summons, and items, all in exchange for credits earned from eating flesh and watching the seasons pass by. But his peaceful life and man-eating ways can only go unnoticed for so long. His Qi-rich bark makes him a target for many young...