The Prodigies War
chapter-1684

Lin Xun raised his eyebrows, “Why?”

The gray-haired youth said, “Because of the Primal Chaos Origin Tree.”

Hearing this, the spirit refinement ancestral tree was instantly displeased, “That’s just an absurd rumor.”

The gray-haired youth glanced at this tree that once followed the Sky Splitting Great Emperor. “If it wasn’t for the Primal Chaos Origin Tree, why else would you want to refine the Sacred Fusang Tree’s origin root?”

The spirit refinement ancestral tree retorted, “It’s for my cultivation!”

The gray-haired youth’s eyes instantly flared with a glint so chillingly ferocious that the spirit refinement ancestral tree clattered. It shrieked, “What do you want?!”

The gray-haired youth withdrew his gaze and said to Lin Xun, “Young Master, the Four Sacred Trees of Fusang, Cangwu, Jianmu, and Kunwu were all born from the primal chaos origin and naturally contain primal chaos origin dao runes.

“Rumor has it that once you collect all four of these ‘origin root spirits’ and then cultivate them with the four innate godly materials of primal chaos soil, mythical five-colored dirt, clear and turbid soul star sand, and absolute breath water, you can create a special nursery for the seedling of the Primal Chaos Origin Tree!

“After achieving that, the cultivator can nurture this seedling within their body, and it will be incredibly beneficial for cultivating their Emperor Dao.

“Master Tianque once said that in the race of the Emperor Stage, whoever possesses a Primal Chaos Origin Tree will have the ability to comprehend the ‘Laws of Chaos’ and control the respective dao power, which will place them above all other competitors.”

When Lin Xun heard this, a strange light flashed through his eyes, and he looked at the spirit refinement ancestral tree.

He still remembered clearly the myriad of demands this fellow had made when he had offered to bring it out of the Nine Domains Battlefield.

For example, it had asked him to find primal chaos soil, mythical five-colored dirt, clear and turbid soul star sand, and so on.

At that time, he had thought that this fellow was intentionally making impossible demands because it didn’t want to follow him.

But now, it seemed that the tree had planned something in advance!

Faced with Lin Xun’s stare, the spirit refinement ancestral tree felt jittery and dryly coughed, “The Primal Chaos Origin Tree, right? Of course I’ve heard of it. After all, when I traveled the universe with the Sky Splitting Great Emperor, our purpose was to find the Four Sacred Trees of Fusang, Kunwu, Jianmu, and Cangwu…”

“I get it. Now you zip it and stay put!” Lin Xun cut the tree off, then looked at the gray-haired youth and said, “Since the spirit of this Sacred Fusang Tree has already been grabbed by the Demon Crow Great Emperor, isn’t its origin root useless now?”

The gray-haired youth shook his head. “As long as one keeps its origin root, they can breed another spirit, which then can grow into an origin root spirit.”

Lin Xun finally understood everything, and it completely changed the way he looked at the sky-piercing Sacred Fusang Tree.

This sacred tree was actually related to the cultivation of the Emperor Dao, making it a heavenly treasure that all Emperors would painstakingly search for!

Perhaps this was the most precious treasure of the Golden Crow Clan. Every other item paled under its brilliance.

“Wait a moment, Young Master, as I collect this tree for you,” said the gray-haired youth, who then flew up, extended his hand, and made a grabbing gesture.

Boom!

The fiery-red Sacred Fusang Tree that seemed to hold up the whole sky shook violently as if resisting.

But in the gray-haired youth’s suppression, its trunk continued to shrink until the whole tree became palm-sized and crystalline like red jade. Shrouded in circulating chaos qi and steaming divine haze, it looked stunning.

“Young Master, I’ve confined the power of this Sacred Fusang Tree. When you find the mythical five-colored dirt in the future, you can plant this tree in it,” said the gray-haired youth as he handed the miniature Sacred Fusang Tree to Lin Xun with both hands.

The spirit refinement ancestral tree was salivating next to him, its face full of a longing desire.

But Lin Xun ignored it. Carefully putting away the Sacred Fusang Tree, he said, “Thanks a lot.”

The gray-haired youth instantly beamed, revealing two neat rows of pearly-white teeth. “It’s only my duty as your servant, Young Master.”

Generally speaking, the more powerful a being was, the more resistant they were to lowering their head to those that were weaker because it would make them feel humiliated.

The gray-haired youth, however, couldn’t look more natural and forthright when he did it. Not a hint of ferocity could be seen in his mannerism, and he instead radiated a warm and pure aura, which was quite atypical.

Lin Xun thought about it and asked, “About Wu Fengzi and those old guys, are they…all dead?”

The gray haired youth nodded, and the depths of his eyes imperceptibly flashed with a cruel light. “Although they are dead, the Golden Crow Clan hasn’t gone extinct. There are still quite many of those bastards on the Ancient Nebula Road.”

“Like the Demon Crow Great Emperor?”

“Precisely.”

“By the way, a senior by the name of Fei Lan once mentioned you to me, saying that you two were close friends.”

“Fei Lan…” The gray-haired youth was dumbfounded before revealing a rare hint of excitement. “He’s actually still alive? Does this mean he has found the opportunity to become an Emperor?”

Lin Xun immediately told him about the golden cicada who had set out to lead Fei Lan, Zhao Yuanji, and the others to the Ancient Nebula Road.

The gray-haired youth smiled brightly. “That’s for the best! You probably don’t know that Fei Lan and I are quite similar. His original form is the Dao Primal Chaos Bell[1]. A very long time ago, the two of us got acquainted through a fight, and later on, after going through a few things together, we became the closest of friends and comrades. Since Fei Lan told you about me, he must have quite a lot of trust in you as well.”

His gaze toward Lin Xun took on a hint of affinity. In his manner, there was no longer the distant feeling from before in spite of his respectful act.

And it made sense. After all, even though the gray-haired youth looked like a young man of demonic character, he had survived through many ages and could be called a living fossil.

To make him recognize Lin Xun as his master from the bottom of his heart was obviously not as simple as that.

Lin Xun also noticed that his attitude toward him had changed.

The gray-haired youth said, “Young Master, I may have to go into seclusion for a while to recover. Before that, may I have a presumptuous request?”

Lin Xun said, “Go ahead and tell me.”

The gray-haired youth said, “I need Saint treasures, the more the better. Only by drawing their essence can I completely restore the energy and power that have been worn away over the past thousands of years of imprisonment.”

Lin Xun agreed without even thinking about it.

The last thing he lacked was all sorts of holy treasures, all of which were the spoils of war he had acquired from all these years of killing.

The gray-haired youth looked deeply at Lin Xun. No hesitation, no second thought as he agreed to my request. I really didn’t make the wrong decision to recognize him as my master!

He softly said, “Young Master, there are some things I have to tell you. My former master was called Tianque. He was plotted against and framed by the Demon Crow Great Emperor, so that’s a blood feud between us. Someday in the future, I will travel to the Ancient Nebula Road to avenge Master Tianque’s death.

“This is a great karma that would likely lead to a disaster for you if you were to get involved, Young Master…”

Without waiting for him to finish, Lin Xun laughed, “I know, but do you think that the Demon Crow Great Emperor won’t loath me after what happened today?”

The gray-haired youth was startled, then instantly understood.

Today, they had trampled through Sunset Current Valley and wiped out almost all of the Golden Crow clansmen that inhabited it. They had even taken the Sacred Fusang Tree.

When the Demon Crow Great Emperor learned about this enmity later, how could he take it lying down?

Lin Xun calmly continued, “Since I chose to come to your rescue, I already considered the pros and cons. Even if this will lead to a great disaster in the future, we can fight against it together.”

The gray-haired youth was stunned.

Lin Xun, a supreme True Saint, might be considered powerful in this world, but he was not that powerful in the eyes of an experienced monster like him.

However, the courage and style he was displaying at this moment touched the gray-haired youth’s emotions and made him realize that his ‘Young Master’ was far from being as simple as he had imagined.

He took a deep breath and said, “Young Master, from now on, I, Wuque, will do my best to aid you in your cultivation conquest!”

Lin Xun nodded with a smile, thinking that since his previous master’s name was Tianque, naming him Wuque clearly carried some sort of expectation.[2]

He was actually quite curious if an artifact spirit could really realize their dao and become an Emperor.

Was something so unimaginable really possible in this world?

At least, from what the gray-haired youth had said, the spirit of the Dao Primal Chaos Bell, Fei Lan, was clearly seeking the opportunity to become an Emperor.

Moreover, this was something that Lin Xun had witnessed with his own eyes in the Mulberry Woodland!

Next, Wuque turned into a wisp of white mist and returned to the No-Nonsense Bow, while Lin Xun found some Saint treasures that he had no use for and gave it to him.

Lin Xun looked forward to how powerful Wuque would be when he fully regained his initial strength!

……

“Big Brother.”

It wasn’t long before Toady, A’lu, and the others flew over with excited expressions.

The big black bird was the only one with a bitter look on its face as its two wings were clutched by Toady and A’lu respectively, showing that they were worried about it escaping.

Lin Xun was dumbfounded. “What’s the situation?”

A’lu chuckled. “This thieving bird has scavenged a lot of good treasures. The two of us are worried that it will embezzle them all, so we’re restraining it for now.”

“F*ck you! How can Master Bird be that kind of person?” indignantly shouted the big black bird.

Toady smiled sweetly. “You’re not a person, you’re a bird, and it’s hard to gauge a bird’s heart.”

Lin Xun was speechless.

A’lu slapped the big black bird’s forehead with a loud bang and said, “Quick, take out those two treasures.”

The big black bird wailed angrily, but in the end, it folded under the suppression of Toady and A’lu and opened its mouth to spit out something.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Two divine arrows emerged.

One was snow-white and emitted a blinding silver glow. The arrowhead glinted coldly, the shaft was about the thickness of a thumb, on which engraved two sharp and intimidating characters: Jiguang!

The other emitted a ghostly blue light while looking mostly the same as the Jiguang arrow, but its shaft was instead engraved with two faintly visible characters: Pianyu.

The two radiant arrows hovered in the air, and their auras so intimidating that the void around rippled fiercely.

Lin Xun’s gaze became focused and bloomed with a strange color.

Jiguang, Pianyu!

Like Biluo and Moli, they were two of the nine divine arrows of the Great Yi Tribe, incomparably marvelous with terrifying killing power!

1. Back in 1461, the author stated that Fei Lan is the name of the blood-colored moth. Not sure why his original form is the Dao Primal Chao Bell now, perhaps it will be explained later. ☜

2. Tianque means ‘a heavenly shortage,’ Wuque means ‘no shortage.’ ☜