kingnovel Chapter 1157 'Fire Ember Wood' Origin Seed
Chapter 1157 'Fire Ember Wood' Origin Seed
Deep within the light spot.
Su Xiaoya and Yu Shuheng clearly saw a memory, a memory belonging to "Jin".
He was a handsome young man in a white lab coat, like a bright star, busy in the laboratory of Blue Star Agricultural University, his face beaming with a youthful and innocent smile.
He held a peculiar plant tightly in his hand, his eyes gleaming with excitement—it was a new drought-resistant and high-yielding rice variety that he had carefully selected, experimented with, and hybridized repeatedly to develop.
At that moment, his eyes shone like the brightest stars in the night sky.
He said he wanted this plant to nourish the earth like spring rain, benefit the blue planet, and turn deserts into oases, as beautiful as a poem or a painting.
But the sudden explosion shattered his dream!
A cataclysmic explosion, like a volcanic eruption, ravaged the laboratory equipment. Energy, like a runaway horse, destroyed everything in sight and continued to spread…
Finally, even the entire blue planet was annihilated in the flames.
The spatial barrier was torn apart like thin paper, and the boy's soul, like a lonely shooting star, was tightly wrapped by the embers and swept into the endless void, as if searching for light in the darkness.
It was a young boy who drifted like a lone boat in the endless void. Countless years passed before he was finally drawn to the Crimson Flame Volcano of Qingyuan Star like a magnet, and devoured like a demon by a burning ancient tree.
From then on, he merged with the Firewood and became the Wood Spirit "Jin". Bound by the ancient tree, he suffered the torment of being burned by the flames every day, as if he had been thrown into the eighteenth level of hell.
That was a long, agonizing 100,000 years, a bitter wait of 100,000 years, a mixture of despair and hope.
He hated, resented, and went mad...
However, he never forgot that he was a human from Earth.
Blue Star, that is his eternal homeland, like a mother's embrace, warm and dear.
He set a trap to lure the transmigrators from Earth, not for sacrifice, but to find an answer—to find a fellow countryman, to find a trace of solace from his homeland!
For example, finding a single drop of water in the desert is incredibly precious.
Earth exploded!
My hometown is gone!
There is no apocalypse, no zombies, no safe haven, but it is even more desperate!
It turns out that the test of "Jin" was never intended for the three realms.
The test of "Jin" is aimed at them.
It is for the only fellow countryman from Earth in these 100,000 years.
"Jin" wonders if anyone in this strange world still remembers Blue Star.
He wanted to know if there was any trace of his hometown left.
He wanted to know if he still had anyone he could call a "fellow villager"!
"When fellow villagers meet, they stab each other in the back."
As Su Xiaoya watched the dancing points of light, like twinkling stars, she murmured softly, tears streaming down her face like a burst dam, finally falling onto the jade rice ears and splashing out ripples.
"So, this stab was your way of freeing yourself."
Tears, silent and still.
Just like the longing of "Jin".
Just then, in the center of the sky full of light spots, like twinkling stars in the night sky, a crystal-clear seed suddenly floated out.
The seed was only the size of a grain of rice, and its entire body was green, as if it were carved from jade. A line of tiny characters was engraved on it.
The character is a Chinese character from the Blue Star.
The handwriting was like a lively sprite, each stroke clearly visible—Blue Star·Hope.
Su Xiaoya reached out her hand and carefully caught the seed as if it were a rare treasure.
Upon receiving the seed, a warm aura, like a spring breeze, instantly spread throughout her body, as if a familiar power was resonating with her bloodline.
She could sense that inside the seed, there was a faint soul, like a sleeping baby, resting quietly.
"Host, quick, quickly wrap this seed with Soul-Nourishing Wood—the soul of 'Jin' is inside the seed!"
In his mind, the system's voice rang urgently, carrying a hint of barely suppressed excitement.
He sensed the sorrow in Su Xiaoya's heart and felt even more heartache for the deep pain she felt as she had to personally send off the only five "fellow countrymen" from Blue Star!
And also, my longing for Earth!
Did Earth really explode?
Su Xiaoya and Yu Shuheng felt a chill run through their bodies at that moment—did they really have no home anymore?
The system, unwilling to see Su Xiaoya's negativity, immediately offered a solution:
"'Jin' did not dissipate; his soul was collected in this seed! This is the original seed of 'Fire Ember Wood,' fused with his soul. With careful nurturing, he has the chance to take root and sprout anew, regaining his vitality!"
Upon hearing this, Su Xiaoya didn't hesitate for a moment and immediately exchanged a piece of ten-thousand-year-old Soul-Nourishing Wood from the system shop.
The 100,000-year-old Soul-Nourishing Wood isn't out of stock; it's just that each host can only purchase it once from the system's marketplace.
Su Xiaoya had already made the purchase.
Currently, the only option is to purchase the Ten-Thousand-Year Soul-Nourishing Wood.
This ancient soul-nourishing wood is entirely black, as deep as ink jade, yet it exudes a faint, warm luster, like the most brilliant star in the night sky. It can be considered a supreme treasure for nourishing the soul.
Su Xiaoya gathered spiritual energy at her fingertips, like a master craftsman, and carefully carved out a small space in the Soul-Nourishing Wood, gently placing the seed engraved with "Blue Star·Hope" into it to nurture it.
After thinking about it, Su Xiaoya was still a little worried.
With a gentle wave of her hand, she seemed to unleash a breathtaking and fantastical magic spell!
In an instant, the Soul-Nourishing Wood, about the size of a severed arm, flew away like lightning and landed precisely in the mysterious space she carried with her.
Within this mysterious space lies a celestial vein that exudes a rich aura of spiritual energy!
This celestial vein looks like a winding, giant dragon coiled here, its body shimmering with dazzling golden light, giving people a sense of majesty and solemnity.
Just then, a miracle occurred—a piece of broken wood that had been lying quietly on the immortal vein suddenly began to tremble violently, and then streams of crystal clear, smooth liquid, like round pearls, continuously gushed out from its interior.
These liquids converged and merged to form a gently flowing spring, which then flowed slowly down the immortal vein and eventually into a huge spring at the bottom of the immortal vein.
At this moment, crystal-clear, sparkling water is gushing out of this spring. From a distance, it looks like a flawless white jade ribbon stretching across the view, or like a rushing river surging forward.
At this moment, the Soul-Nourishing Wood placed in the spring seemed to sense the change in the surrounding environment and began to slowly absorb the spring water containing the essence of heaven and earth.
As time went by, more and more spring water flowed into the Soul-Nourishing Wood, making the entire piece of wood transparent. One could vaguely see a tiny seed that emitted a faint light within it.
At this moment, the seed is immersed in an "ocean" of warm spring water, surrounded by a soft and bright glow. It feels like returning to the warm embrace of a mother, making one feel incredibly safe and comfortable.
At the same time, the light barrier that had trapped Yun Li and Kua Feng, like the surface of a lake gently caressed by a breeze, slowly dissipated, turning into specks of light that merged into the land of the Crimson Flame Volcano, as if telling an untold story.
Yun Li and Kua Feng staggered out, their bodies covered in wounds and their faces as pale as paper. Looking at the scene before them—the extinguished sea of fire, the calm lava lake, the dancing specks of light, and Su Xiaoya and Yu Shuheng standing in the center of the altar—they were completely bewildered, as if they were in a dream from which they could not escape.
Xuanluo Ancestor's three heads were struck as if by lightning, unable to recover for a long time. His three pairs of eyes were fixed on the seed that Su Xiaoya had sent into the Immortal Spring, as if drawn by a magnet. His mouth was slightly open, but he could not utter a single word, as if he had a fishbone stuck in his throat.
He had lived for nine thousand years and witnessed countless strange and wondrous events, but he had never seen such a bizarre ending—a wood spirit imprisoned for 100,000 years turned out to be a "fellow villager" from another world, and in the end, gained a new life in such an unbelievable way.
To be honest, he had never heard of "Blue Star" or "fellow villager".
He remembered "ten thousand years" very well.
However, this does not mean that he would turn a blind eye to such an unbelievable ending.
After all, it had a good ending!
The wind on Mount Buting was finally no longer oppressive.
The smoke and ash from the Crimson Flame Volcano gradually dissipated.
A ray of sunlight pierced through the clouds, falling on the summit of the Crimson Flame Volcano, on the jade rice ear in Su Xiaoya's hand, and on the seed that carried ten thousand years of homesickness.
The sunlight was warm and bright, carrying a faint fragrance.
Su Xiaoya looked up at the sky, at the azure firmament, which was exactly the same as the sky on Earth.
A slow smile crept onto her lips, her eyes filled with tears yet brimming with hope.
She knew that this seed carried the nostalgia of 100,000 years, as well as new hope.
Perhaps, in the near future, this seed will take root and sprout, growing into a new Emberwood tree, and under that tree, a boy in a white coat will smile and say to them, "Fellow villagers, long time no see, let's have a drink."
And she and Yu Shuheng will carry this seed, their longing for Blue Star, and Qingyuan Star on their journey.
He would kill any god he encountered, and slay any Buddha he met.
Guard what I think, protect what I believe.
This is their promise, and this is their way.
She didn't believe it; Earth was really gone!
Of course, even if Blue Star is really gone, she still controls the Great Dao of Time, the Great Dao of Reincarnation, and the Great Dao of Space, so there may still be a chance for things to turn around.
Therefore, it's not the right time for sentimentalism or lamenting the passing of spring and autumn.
What she needs to do is to cultivate diligently and continuously improve her strength!