The fatal crisis was like a cold poisonous snake, instantly wrapping around Pei Du's neck!
Deep in the heart of the earth. A graveyard of roots.
Absolute darkness and deathly silence enveloped me like a thick shroud, layer upon layer. The cold penetrated my bones, freezing my blood and the remnants of my consciousness. The excruciating pain had long since numbed me, leaving only boundless exhaustion, like sinking into the deepest trench, falling ever lower.
Xu Shuangyao collapsed beside the cold, hard remains of the massive root, her body limp as a puddle of mud without support. Her breath was as weak as a candle in the wind, each breath carrying a tearing pain and the heavy smell of dust. Her consciousness sank into a chaotic darkness, with only a faint warmth, like the light of a firefly, emanating from her chest, pressed against the ground.
It's the Gaia seed.
It quietly took root in the cold, shattered remains of its roots, emitting a steady, vibrant emerald light. Several hair-thin roots, yet crystal clear like jade, stubbornly penetrated the deep cracks within the root remains, greedily absorbing the faint fragments of planetary memories awakened within. The emerald light flowed like warm water, centered on the seed, slowly flowing and seeping along the surface of the massive roots. Wherever it passed, tiny pinpricks of emerald green light, as faint as fireflies, continuously illuminated within the cold, lifeless roots, like stars slowly awakening after eons of slumber.
Because of this rooted seed and the faint network of light it connected, this deadly graveyard seemed to have a very slow, yet real... pulsation. No longer a wailing and longing, but a deep breathing... of a sleeping giant about to awaken.
However, Xu Shuangyao could no longer feel any of this.
Her consciousness drifted in the boundless darkness, like a withered leaf. Past images flashed chaotically through the fragments of her mind like faded film: her parents' warm yet hazy smiles, the cold lights of the laboratory, Gaia's vibrant forests and grasslands, Pei Du's eyes burning with thorny fire, the planet's dying wail transmitted through the plant network, and... that final moment, when she pressed the seed against the cold roots, the silent cry of burning life...
"Gaia... live..."
This last thought was like a stone thrown into a deep pool, creating a faint ripple in the sinking consciousness.
Just then—
Buzz!!!
An indescribable terrifying throbbing with the breath of catastrophic disaster was like billions of red-hot steel needles, ignoring the thick rock layers and the barriers of space, fiercely piercing the dead silence and darkness at the center of the earth, and also piercing into the depths of Xu Shuangyao's sinking consciousness!
This throbbing was cold, violent, and filled with an absolute will to destroy everything! The source... came from beyond the planet!
The Gravekeeper's main gun! The "Purifying Light," powerful enough to pierce a planet and obliterate the Earth's core, had reached its peak energy accumulation! The will of destruction, like a cold declaration, was clearly imprinted on the faint perception of the planet's core will, which had just revived. It was also like the final death knell, ringing in Xu Shuangyao's consciousness on the verge of annihilation!
The Gaia Seed seemed to sense this overwhelming threat! Its roots trembled violently! The emerald green light instantly became blinding! The torrent of vitality flowing within it, like a frightened river, suddenly accelerated! The faint points of light awakened by it, scattered throughout the massive roots, seemed to sense the despair of their home planet and began to flicker and resonate frantically!
The dying planet's will, stimulated by the threat of annihilation, uttered a final, silent wail and... a cry of resistance! This cry was a mixture of the weight of billions of years, a longing for life, and endless anger towards the destroyer!
This majestic and tragic torrent of will, like a bursting dam in the sky, instantly broke through the last barrier deep in Xu Shuangyao's consciousness!
"No--!!!"
A scream that didn't come from her throat, but from the soul's instinct, exploded in the core of Xu Shuangyao's silent consciousness! This scream was a mixture of her own determination to protect, the anger of the Gaia Seed, and the wail of the planet's will!
boom--!!!
With her fallen body as the center and the rooted Gaia Seed as the source, an unprecedented, pure and extreme emerald green torrent of life erupted like lava from the earth's core that had been suppressed for billions of years!
But this outbreak is not disorderly destruction!
The emerald green light stream was no longer the gentle and penetrating one that had awakened the roots before, but instead transformed into billions of dazzling golden light veins! These light veins were like living lightning, instantly piercing and penetrating all the surrounding huge root debris connected by the seed light network!
Snap! Snap! Snap!
The cold, lifeless, cracked remains of the roots seemed to be infused with divine life the moment the golden light penetrated them! The dry cracks were filled and healed by the golden light! The dark brown surface lost its lifeless stillness and quickly transformed into a texture as smooth as jade, with flowing golden veins! It was as if a billion years of slumber were instantly awakened, transformed into jade pillars supporting heaven and earth!
This transformation spread like wildfire, spreading at terrifying speed along the boundless root network deep within the Earth's core! Patches of deadly darkness were illuminated! Icy debris was reshaped and activated! At this moment, the entire Earth's root cemetery was transformed from a tomb of death into a golden network flowing with the lifeblood of the planet!
And Xu Shuangyao's fallen body became the core node of this golden network!
Countless golden veins of light swirled back from the activated roots around her, like rivers flowing into the sea, madly pouring into her body! Her shattered organs, broken bones, withered meridians, and the dying flame of life... Under the impact of this vast and majestic pure life energy derived from the origin of the planet, it was like the cracked earth after a long drought encountered the torrent of creation!
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