Who—was awakened me?
Six words, yet they sound like the voice of the heavens!
A translucent blue serpent appeared in the sky, its huge tail coiled above the snake cave, and its head and body alone were at least ten zhang tall!
A pair of large, dark green vertical pupils remained expressionless, silently gazing at them as if awaiting an answer.
Chu Hongluan blinked, and a ridiculous conjecture suddenly arose in her mind: Could it be the snake god that the Wu tribe has always worshipped?
But it... is the spirit of the earth's veins!
Ancient texts record that when the earth's veins receive the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, they become spiritual veins. At the confluence of these spiritual veins, over millions of years, the earth's veins may develop sentience and intelligence, and thus become known as earth spirits.
The Earth Spirit is a deity of a region. It can transform at will into any living being in its domain, whether it be a wolf, a bear, a flower, or a blade of grass.
Perhaps this earth spirit initially appeared in snake form on a whim. But later, the witch clan revered him as a snake god, turning this land into a wasteland, and even building a snake lair above its head...
Therefore, whenever the Wu tribe saw him, he was always in the form of a giant snake. This further solidified the Wu tribe's belief that he was the snake god.
Thus began a vicious cycle.
The shamanic tribe's large-scale breeding of venomous snakes and insects has completely disrupted the ecological balance of this area, resulting in severe environmental pollution and weakening the local spirit, which spends more time sleeping and less time awake.
But that's all in the past, it's not important.
Importantly, ancient texts also say that if you summon the earth spirit, you can make a wish.
You've hit the jackpot!
"It was I who woke you up." Chu Hongluan stepped forward with her head held high and accepted the wishing slot without any hesitation.
“You… seem somewhat different from anyone I’ve met before.”
The spirit was somewhat confused. He vaguely remembered that each time he was awakened, it was a wizard in a black robe who was completely different from the person in front of him.
Hmm—but these bits of blood and flesh on the ground do smell somewhat familiar.
Before Chu Hongluan could figure out how to reply, the earth spirit spoke again: "What is your wish?"
A sly glint flashed in Chu Hongluan's eyes. Whether she wanted it or not didn't matter; the spiritual vein was of good quality, and she could do without it; the main thing was that she had to find a way to trick the "guardian" behind the witch clan away! She was fine with going anywhere, as long as she didn't follow the witch clan, everything was negotiable!
If they steal a saintess first and then a guardian deity, wouldn't the Wu clan's tens of thousands of years of foundation collapse?
Chunxiao was completely free.
But Chu Hongluan was a little greedy, wanting to see if she could postpone this wish for a while and ask him for a spiritual vein or something, so she said:
“I have no other wish. I have summoned you here because this place is severely polluted within a hundred miles and may no longer be suitable for your survival. I would like to ask you if you would be willing to join me in finding a new, pure land.”
"It's not that I don't want to leave, but that I can't leave."
Chu Hongluan quickly changed her mind, "What if I make a wish? Senior, I wish that you would come with me to leave this place, to see the sunset over the desert, and to see the snow flying over Kunlun!"
The giant snake fell silent.
After a long while, just when Chu Hongluan thought this wouldn't work and wanted to try a different wish, the giant snake's voice rang out again.
"Your wish has been granted."
As soon as the words were spoken, the Covenant of Heaven and Earth descended with a thunderous roar.
The earth spirit streaked through the air like a beam of light and disappeared into the high priest's scepter that had fallen to the ground.
The next instant, the scepter exploded into sparks with a loud bang.
The firefly drifted over, circled Chu Hongluan twice, then coiled around her wrist, condensing into a small green snake.
Before Chu Hongluan could react, the little snake swiftly extended its sharp fangs and bit her. Two tiny drops of blood seeped out and were swept away by the snake's forked tongue.
Liu Jinghong was startled and was about to reach out to grab it when Chu Hongluan stopped her, their fingers intertwined.
Because she clearly felt that there was another consciousness in her sea of consciousness that she could communicate with.
"Hello."
"Is it Senior Earth Spirit?" Chu Hongluan's heart stirred.
"It is I. But from now on I am no longer the Earth Spirit."
As Chu Hongluan was trying to understand the meaning of the sentence, she felt a burning sensation on her wrist. When she looked over, she realized that the green snake wrapped around her wrist had somehow turned into a jade bracelet shaped like a green snake.
“It is the spirit of this spatial bracelet,” he added. “You may give me a name, my lord.”
Chu Hongluan was completely stunned.
The earth spirit's voice echoed in her mind once more: "The High Priest's scepter is formed from my heart. Tens of thousands of years ago, when I first gained sentience, it was the first wish made to me by the first priest of the Witch Clan."
“She took my heart,” the Earth Spirit said.
"Later, she used a forbidden spell to shackle my heart and melt it into the scepter."
"After that, I became a slave at the mercy of the witch clan, a butcher's knife in their hands, and committed countless atrocities over tens of thousands of years."
"Later, the descendants of the Wu tribe were unwilling to accept the sin of gouging out the heart and imprisoning the god, so they embellished history generation after generation, imagining me as their guardian snake god."
"Thanks to you. Your wish has freed me. But alas, my heart cannot be restored. It has long since become one with that scepter, a part of it."
"Now I have disassembled and reforged the scepter, forming this spatial bracelet to house my body. As payment for taking me away, I have taken two drops of your blood to make the bracelet recognize me as its master. Trust me, you will like this gift."
Chu Hongluan, still dazed, probed her spiritual sense into the spatial bracelet, only to discover that it wasn't a storage space at all, but rather an independent little world! There was a sky and an earth, clouds and wind, and most importantly, the eleven spiritual veins that she had reluctantly given up halfway through were now neatly lying inside the spatial bracelet!
The Earth Spirit moved an entire ley line into the land! In other words, the land they are standing on is now an empty shell, which could collapse at any moment!
"I also have to thank you for not directly extracting the spiritual vein earlier, otherwise it would have been equivalent to extracting my marrow. Then I would have become the first earth vein spirit in the world to die."
"......"
I'm so sorry.
"Now can you give me a name?" His voice sounded somewhat excited.
"Then I'll call you Xiaoyu."
The elation vanished.
"Ahem...how about just the name Yu? Is that alright, Senior Yu?"
"Very good."
With a flurry of actions, Chu Hongluan gained a portable mini-world, a spirit earth, and eleven top-grade spiritual veins for free.
Chu Hongluan looked up at the sky and finally ignited the flaming talisman.
A deafening roar ripped through the sky, and dazzling fireworks burst forth, then slowly fell like shooting stars.
Qiao Yue, who was almost asleep inside the cloud boat: Holy crap! It's finally my turn to appear!
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