Chapter 620: Elf Race Secrets

Su Sheng followed Tie Chui Airen's gaze and looked at the sapling.

Eh?

It grew?

That sapling was, unmistakably, the seed Su Sheng had planted before.

He hadn't noticed it before, and now it had grown so large.

Su Sheng examined it.

A sapling (white).

Description: Grown, perhaps it can yield some timber.

???

Su Sheng looked bewildered; isn't this just the property of ordinary building material?

Logically, this thing shouldn't be so ordinary.

But then he recalled that the seed was white, and Su Sheng hesitated.

"Under the Iron Hammer crown, what do you see?" Su Sheng asked curiously, looking at the Iron Hammer Dwarf King.

Although Su Sheng was only checking the ordinary building material's properties.

But this sapling attracted Tie Chui Airen's gaze, and given the seed's origin, Su Sheng still thought it must be something valuable.

"Elf..."

Tie Chui Airen sighed, turned his head toward Su Sheng, and said, "Explorer, I don't know where you got this sapling."

"However, this sapling carries an elf aura, though very faint, wavering, and could dissipate at any moment."

"But it truly is an elf tree species."

"Historically, such trees in JingLingZhiSen were commonplace, almost everywhere."

"But now, JingLingWangGuo and our Dwarf Kingdom have both been annihilated by the Demon Race."

"As for JingLingZhiSen, it has long been polluted by Demon Energy, just like our dwarf cities."

"I thought this elf tree species was extinct," Tie Chui Airen said with a sigh.

Su Sheng listened in a daze, but indeed this thing appears in elf nobles' tombs.

"Then what's its use?" Su Sheng asked curiously.

"Useless," the Iron Hammer Dwarf King shook his head.

"Huh?!" Su Sheng's face froze; after hearing the Iron Hammer Dwarf King ramble on, he had thought the sapling was something valuable.

And you tell me it's of no use?

Su Sheng stared blankly at the Iron Hammer Dwarf King.

"Ahem..." the Iron Hammer Dwarf King coughed twice, embarrassed.

Such a named NPC possesses intelligence almost indistinguishable from a real person; they also have their own emotions, memories, and ways of thinking.

"It's because I once saw the elf race as a child that it moves me so,"

the Iron Hammer Dwarf King continued.

"Before the Demon Tribe Invasion, our Dwarves and the elves were constantly at odds. Along bordering territories, wars raged year after year."

"Over time, true fire was unleashed, both sides suffered heavy losses, and it was then that the Demon Race launched a massive invasion."

"We only united to resist the Demon Race after realizing the situation was dire; however, because both sides had already been heavily depleted, otherwise the Demon Race might not have been able to wipe out our two races."

"Know that at our peak, whether elves or our dwarves, our strength compared to your Human Clan was only stronger, not weaker."

Su Sheng raised an eyebrow at the tale; it was the game's background story. Although the backdrop explained that the dwarves, elves, and other intelligent races had largely been exterminated by the Demon Race, now only the Human Clan remains, an undying phoenix.

"Enough, it's all in the past," the Iron Hammer Dwarf King said, looking at the elf sapling before him.

"Though I hate to admit it, the birth of the elf race was itself a natural miracle."

"You should know that while elves can reproduce viviparously, elf nobles cannot reproduce normally."

The Iron Hammer Dwarf King looked at Su Sheng.

Su Sheng nodded; an old scholar had told him this before.

"Pure elf nobles are born within the Life Tree, so the elf race can be called nature's beloved."

"However, even the offspring of two elf nobles are merely ordinary elves."

"Thus, the Life Tree is the core within the core of the entire elf race."

"And the elf tree species of JingLingZhiSen are all descendants of the Life Tree."

"This sapling currently has no use, but the elf aura it bears is genuinely present, so it must be a sapling from the former JingLingZhiSen."

"Therefore, in theory, it could become a new Life Tree for the elf race."

"Of course... the probability and cultivation difficulty are no less than what it would take for our dwarves to rebuild the Dwarf Kingdom's capital."

"Even more difficult."

"The ancient Dwarf capital could forge Seven-Color Artifacts."

"I vaguely recall that when JingLingZhiSen first fell, many elves who fled to Human Clan lands also tried to cultivate new Life Trees."

"Unfortunately, they all failed," the Iron Hammer Dwarf King said, full of emotion.

Although they were once enemies, later, when facing the Demon Race, they fought side by side.

And whether elves or the Dwarf Kingdom, both have now been wiped out by the Demon Race, so seeing this sapling bearing elf aura suddenly moved the Iron Hammer Dwarf King deeply.

The dwarves and elves are indeed hard‑pressed brothers.

Su Sheng's eyes lit up.

Life Tree?!

"That… Your Majesty Iron Hammer, do you know the relevant cultivation methods?" Su Sheng stared at the Iron Hammer Dwarf King with blazing eyes.

Relying on the Dwarf King's ring, I have already gathered Iron Hammer and others, settling in my own base.

If…

If I could truly cultivate this sapling into a Divine Tree of Life, would I then be able to possess the elf clan?

"I don't know."

The Iron Hammer Dwarf King looked at Su Sheng: "Although I acknowledge that you, Explorer, are a person skilled at creating miracles, cultivating a Divine Tree of Life is something best just thought about."

"After all, after the Elf Kingdom fell, so many fleeing elf clans, among them not lacking many elf nobles and Great Elves, failed to cultivate successfully."

Su Sheng clicked his tongue: "Where there's a will, there's a way; regardless of success or failure, one must give it a try, cannot lack the courage to try just because it's too difficult."

"Although the possibility of failure is great, if one lacks even the courage to try, then there is certainly no possibility of success." Su Sheng said with a smile.

Upon hearing that, the Iron Hammer Dwarf King fell silent.

The predecessors of that era, building something from nothing, forged today's prosperous Huaxia—wasn't that difficult?

Those predecessors in the desert, hiding their names, used an abacus to forge our backbone—wasn't that difficult?

No matter which, even if placed in the present, they sound like impossible tasks.

But the martyrs of that era were just like that, step by step turning the impossible into possible!

Where there's a will, there's a way!

If one lacks even the courage to try, then that is a destined failure.