freenovelworld Chapter 405 Essence of Life
Chapter 405 Essence of Life
Xu Si hovered above the church, silently watching everything.
He should go.
Since we can't make a move for the time being, there's no point in staying here.
Fan Wanwan's symbiotic relationship will certainly not end anytime soon, and that strange, high-ranking plant does not seem to have any intention of retaliating.
The moment he turned around, Yi Yi flew out from between Xu Si's eyebrows.
"Wait." Xu Si knew that the voice did not come from Fan Wanwan, but from the giant flower.
Xu Si and Yi Yi turned around at the same time. Fan Wanwan was already floating above the flowers, her eyes fixed on Xu Si, or rather, on Yi Yi next to him.
"My royal family, with whom you share a symbiotic relationship?" Fan Wanwan was astonished, as if she had witnessed something shocking.
"Royalty? Her?" Xu Si pointed to Yi Yi beside him.
"Royalty? Me?" Yi Yi pointed to herself.
Fan Wanwan's lips twitched, or rather, her mind went blank.
Wasn't the Royal Family of Life destroyed in the War to Become Gods?
Why are there still relics here?
She doesn't understand.
"Why would royalty coexist with you?" Her voice was so deep it seemed to come from the depths of the earth.
"What is royalty?" Xu Sixing's pupils narrowed slightly.
He was afraid that this guy might act unpredictably or have some hidden reason that might change her mind.
"you do not know?"
Fan Wanwan's expression turned strange, as if she were looking at a beggar holding a golden bowl.
"If I'm not mistaken, the person next to you should be a Life Spirit, right?" she seemed to be confirming.
Xu Si remained silent, waiting for Fan Wanwan to continue.
"The Life Spirit is the royalty of the elves, the noblest being among them! How could she coexist with you?"
Xu Si looked down at Yi Yi.
The little guy was tilting his head, trying hard to recall his identity, his face full of confusion.
"I don't know." She looked at Xu Si with a wronged expression. If she really was some kind of royalty, Xu Si wouldn't be going through all this trouble.
Fan Wanwan's lips twitched.
She remained silent for a long time before finally speaking slowly, her voice carrying a sense of relief.
"So be it. Humans are indeed a race full of variables. I hope my choice was right."
Fan Wanwan raised her hand, and the flowers in the entire city slowly closed their petals.
Those colorful, eerie seas of flowers, which had been so arrogant under the blood-red sun in broad daylight, seemed to have heard some silent call and began to gather inwards layer by layer from the edge of the city.
The petals closed, the vines curled up, and the flower stems that had peeked out from the cracks in the buildings, the fissures in the roads, and the holes in the car windows all slowly retreated back into the darkness.
Then, large swaths of flowers began to lose their luster.
It's not withering, but more like some kind of "transfer".
The life energy that had been accumulating for who knows how long was being drawn from the flowers throughout the city and was all flowing towards one center.
Inside the church, the enormous flower began to glow.
It wasn't the flamboyant glow of daytime, but a gentle, soft, shimmering light, like moonlight or starlight.
Light seeped out from the edges of the petals, spread along the vines, and gathered in the heart of the flower, and in the palm of 'Fan Wanwan''s' hand.
"you--"
Xu Si's starry eyes narrowed slightly. He could feel that the energy was gathering, compressing, and purifying at an incredible speed.
"Elves should not be forgotten."
"The royal family should not do it either."
Yi Yi was stunned.
Her small mouth was agape, and her eyes, which shimmered with light, were wide open, completely unaware of what had happened.
She was still in a daze when she reached out and took the ball of light that "Fan Wanwan" handed to her.
[Strange Drop Detected - Essence of Life]
【Characteristics: Infinite vitality, growing towards the sun, thriving】
The night was as dark as ink, and the flower market receded into the distance behind us.
Xu Si's figure swept across the sky above the wasteland.
Yi Yi nestled on his shoulder, her little hands tightly clutching the glowing "Life Essence," her expression quite remarkable.
"Xu Si," she finally spoke.
"Um."
Why did she say I was royalty?
Xu Si remained silent for a moment.
The star veins spread silently beneath him, and the outline of the valley camp was already faintly visible at the edge of his perception.
"I don't know. Don't you have inherited memories? You don't know?" he said.
"I have some, but I don't have others." Yi Yi tilted her head, her eyes blinking, sparkling with light.
The essence of life glows with a warm luster in the night, not like fireflies or starlight, but a color closer to the origin of life.
It's like the first new leaf of spring being pierced by sunlight, or like the bioluminescence emitted by some ancient creature in the deep sea.
"Can I eat this?"
Yi Yi was referring to the "essence of life" he was holding in his hands.
"Eat if you want!"
Even though Xu Si knew it had countless uses, it was meant for Yi Yi, and Xu Si had no intention of keeping it for himself.
"Thank you!" Yi Yi was overjoyed.
However, just as she was about to feast, the ball of light silently melted away, like a drop of morning dew falling into parched earth, spreading along her fingers, wrists, and arms, and then throughout her entire body.
They all froze.
Xu Si stopped immediately and hovered in mid-air.
Star's pupils contracted as she stared intently at the small figure on her shoulder.
"all?"
no respond.
Her eyes were closed, her eyelashes trembled slightly, and the expression on her small face changed from bewilderment to an indescribable serenity.
A vibrant green light seeped from her body, not spreading outwards, but converging inwards, like a collapsing star compressing all its energy within its body.
"I hope I didn't get sick from eating that!"
Xu Si could sense that those lights contained a pure life force far beyond his comprehension.
He had never seen such pure, clean, and flawless energy before.
[Host symbiote detected advancing]
Promotion progress: 1%...2%...3%...
The system panel appeared in my mind.
Xu Si hovered in mid-air, motionless.
He didn't know how long this process would take, nor did he know Yi Yi's current situation.
And it seems that all he can do is wait.
But this should be a good thing!
The valley camp was in sight, but he did not land.
He turned and flew towards the distant wasteland, away from the camp and everyone else, landing atop a lonely hill.
He gently lifted each one off his shoulder and placed them on the small bed in the Ice Abyss.
The little one's tiny body was slightly warm, and a luminous green light enveloped her entire body like a thin mist.
She seemed to have returned to the seed state that Xu Si was familiar with.
The lights flickered in the night, like a beating heart.
Xu Si sat down cross-legged, the star veins contracted to their limit, and the star curtain enveloped the small hill.
He neither slept nor closed his eyes.
Just sit here and wait.
Time flows by in the wind of the wilderness.
Until the blood-red sun sets and rises again, until the stars shine and fade away.
[Awakening Progress: 34%...51%...72%...]
Xu Si had no idea how long he had been waiting.
Perhaps the convoy has already left.
Perhaps Fan Wanwan's symbiosis has already been completed.