Chapter 153: Kindling the Flame, Everlasting Continuity

Seeing the green sprout barely surviving in the stone crevice, you can't help but recall the ancient Human Race.

The Human Race also grew timidly in harsh conditions, didn't it?

With just one glance, you fell for it.

You ask Yun Baobao, "Is that green sprout a Spirit Monster?"

Yun Baobao replies, "Anything that can survive here is a Spirit Monster, and a very powerful one at that."

"Then we'll choose it!"

You value its tenacious, unyielding nature, believing it aligns with the Human Race and will bring them good fortune.

Yun Baobao teases, "Here it's not enough that you fancy someone to take them away; the Spirit Monster must also favor you…"

The words cut off abruptly.

In your line of sight, the green sprout actually bursts from the stone crevice, roots and all, and darts into your arms.

You are stunned.

Yun Baobao is stunned as well.

She says, "My position seems to have been challenged."

"How could that be?"

You smile and say, "This green sprout doesn't possess much spirit intelligence; if it truly had full spirit intelligence, it wouldn't have left with me."

Yun Baobao thinks for a moment, "Seems so."

A Spirit Monster with complete consciousness could never follow you away to become material for forging your Natal Magic Treasure.

Unless that Spirit Monster is a fool.

At most, it counts as a spirit creature.

"Let's go."

Having obtained what you wanted, you dare not linger here and depart together with Yun Baobao.

Back to the other side of Mountain Sea.

Yun Baobao says, "First plant it here, let it grow a bit, then take it with you."

In the Blessed Land, spiritual energy is abundant, and spirit creatures grow far faster than outside.

"Alright!"

You plant that green sprout in the Blessed Land Soil.

This waiting lasts three years.

To your and Yun Baobao's surprise, after the full three years the green sprout remains tiny, as if it will never grow large.

Yun Baobao sighs, "It seems to be a very special Spirit Monster, constrained by Heaven and Earth, unable to Shapeshift."

You ask, "Are there many such Spirit Monsters?"

Yun Baobao shakes her head, "Few. Normal spirit creatures, once they evolve to a certain stage, can Shapeshift and develop spirit intelligence, especially in this Blessed Land."

You wonder, "How special must one be to be unable to Shapeshift?"

Yun Baobao furrows her brow, "Probably like the Spirit Beast God, so special that even the Heavenly Dao Rule imposes restraints on it."

You are stunned, "It's a Spirit Beast God?"

Yun Baobao shrugs, "How could that be? If the Spirit Beast God were taken by you, the entire Blessed Land would be exposed to the world."

"Then this place would become a revelry for cultivators, and the Spirit Monsters would face unprecedented disaster."

"So the Spirit Beast God will not leave."

Yun Baobao's words let out a sigh of relief.

If the Spirit Beast God were taken and this Blessed Land were destroyed, you would feel guilt and could never atone.

"Then what's the deal with it?"

According to Yun Baobao, this green sprout is so special—what is its origin?

"Never mind it."

Yun Baobao can't figure it out either.

You also stop probing further.

Anyway, you only want material to forge your Natal Supreme Treasure; it satisfies you and feels spiritually compatible.

That's enough.

The rest doesn't matter.

Later, you obtain three drops of Life Divine Water from the Crescent Moon Spring in the Blessed Land, which Yun Baobao personally procured for you.

With those three drops, you can dissolve the toxins in Chi's body and heal his old illness.

You can't help but marvel at how many wondrous things still exist in the world.

Although the Human Race has risen to a first‑tier race, its foundation is far lacking; compared with those ancient peoples, it remains too shallow.

You leave the Blessed Land.

Carrying the green sprout, you and Yun Baobao return to the Human Race's territory.

Passing a tribe, you hear a heartbreaking report: the Sui Tribe has offended one of the Nine Ancient God Clans, the Phoenix Clan.

An infant phoenix of the Phoenix Clan spewed a flame that annihilated the entire Sui Tribe.

The news shocks you, filling you with profound sorrow.

You are stunned by the Phoenix Clan's might; a single infant phoenix, with one burst of flame, wiped out the whole Sui Tribe.

For the first time you directly feel the terror of the Nine Ancient God Clans.

You grieve over Sui's downfall.

Sui is one of the First Generation Humans, a merit of the Human Race, and also your life‑and‑death companion, a good brother.

When you rushed to the Sui Tribe, you only saw flames dancing across the sky.

Ten years have passed since the destruction of the Sui Tribe, and the flames left by the Phoenix Clan still burn fiercely.

The once prosperous Sui Tribe has long turned into a ruin.

Because the Phoenix Divine Fire is too fierce, the other tribes of the Human Race dare not rescue, and no one dares to step inside.

What surges more violently than the Phoenix Divine Fire is the fury in your heart!

"Sui!"

You let out a roar and charged into the Phoenix Divine Fire.

Yun Baobao did not stop you, only withdrew the smile of old, their expression solemn and dignified, silently following behind you.

In the ruins where the flames continue to burn, the tribe's traces no longer exist.

You cannot even see the skeletons of your compatriots.

You searched the ruins like a madman, hoping to find Sui's trace; he is already a cultivator of the Divine Transformation Stage, and could not possibly have left nothing behind.

The farther toward the center, the more fiercely the Phoenix Divine Fire burns.

This is a property of the Phoenix Divine Fire: once it touches, it is hard to extinguish, it will absorb the fire elements of heaven and earth, and burn eternally!

Only if you possess the power to counter the Phoenix Divine Fire can you extinguish it.

Your eyes redden, and you press forward under immense pressure.

Your vision gradually blurs.

Uncertain whether it is a hallucination or shadows condensed from smoke and mist, faintly you see a group of silhouettes.

"Sui! It's Sui!!"

You, extremely excited, rushed forward.

The scorching Phoenix Divine Fire makes it impossible to keep your eyes open; you open and close them repeatedly until two streams of blood tears flow, finally seeing the scene there.

There sit a group of people, a few women, and a cluster of boys and girls just over ten years old, tightly embracing each other.

In the center of the crowd, another person stands.

That figure stands majestically, arms raised high above the head, supporting a sky and earth, his body upright and straight, his entire skin scorched, like burning black charcoal.

Within the cracked, desiccated skin flows magma resembling blood.

When the survivors of the Sui Tribe see you, they each stand up, come to Sui's side, and whether women or youths, raise both hands high above their heads.

Their eyes fill with hot tears.

They shout the name of Sui, they say:

"Form and body are finite! Will is immortal! The torch is passed on! Life continues endlessly!!"