Chapter 211: Chapter 117: Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment (Part 2)

’But I can’t protect this Silver Radiance Tree!’

The Silver Radiance Tree was Heaven-Reaching, seemingly thousands or even tens of thousands of feet tall, piercing straight into the Cloud Peak. It was as if it had no physical form. The drop of crimson Longevity Blood in Su Chen’s palm passed right through the Giant Tree’s trunk, completely unable to merge with it.

"It matters not!"

"This is fate..."

"No one is to blame."

"Even without you, another fated calamity would have arrived to erase me."

"But."

"I still wanted to take a gamble."

"I simply lost."

Beneath the Silver Radiance Tree, a sky full of silver blossoms drifted down, obscuring the heavens and the moon. They nourished the hundred thousand mountains, causing countless plants to flourish with life. Birds and beasts gained Spiritual Wisdom, having been enlightened.

Even from the farmlands, one Soul Seed after another was released. They transformed into ethereal figures that bowed toward the Earth Spirit before scattering in the wind.

"Why are you doing this?"

Su Chen didn’t understand.

With the fortune mixed within the farmland’s Soul Seeds nourishing the great tree’s roots, the Earth Spirit could have lingered on for a long time.

But.

The Earth Spirit had chosen to forsake it all.

It was as if he was seeking death.

"Alas."

"Mr. Su, would you be willing to hear my story?"

The Earth Spirit, his hair stark white, leaned against the withering great tree. He gazed toward the battlefield in the land of Heaven-Slaying, as if reminiscing about something.

Before Su Chen could reply,

he began to tell his story.

"The heavens have intent, the mountains and seas have spirit, and all living beings have fortune."

"The Celestial Will believed it was born first, so it suppressed the Mountain River Fortune and the All Living Beings’ Fortune, preventing them from erupting. It thought it could monopolize all authority in the Human World."

"A pity."

"It did not know."

"I was born even earlier. Before the Heavenly Fall, when the Divinity Transformation Great Cultivators perished, I had already come into being..."

"The Great Immortal Essence Blood rained down upon the Human World, becoming the First Generation Human Race."

"Every one of them practiced cultivation, and their talents were extraordinary. An untold number reached the peak of the Immortal Path. Prodigies from Beyond the Heavens also descended to compete for the opportunities here, and ten Dao Platforms emerged victorious..."

"I was naive back then. I took the form of a human youth and walked the world. I roamed the mountains and rivers, visited the Royal City, went to the Ancestral Mountain, and traveled to the edge of the Endless Sea."

"After the battle of the Heavenly Fall."

"I fell in love with a woman and we even had a child. I watched as my descendants founded the Zhu Country in this land, conquered all in their path, and endured for a hundred years, several hundred years, until they were finally destroyed..."

"My descendants called me the Tree Ancestor."

"I should have protected them."

"But alas."

"The woman I loved stole my Spiritual Object, the Heart of the Sea, and gravely wounded me. She was a Mountain Sea Cultivator, the reincarnation of a Great Power. She came to this Human World merely to take my Heart of the Sea and complete the final step of her Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment."

"All these years, I’ve endured in silence, secretly plotting. I wanted to escape this identity as an Earth Spirit, bound to this realm with a lifespan equal to the heavens and earth. I wanted to go to the true Mountain Sea world, find her, and ask one question: Why? Why did you have to betray my love?"

The Mountain Sea Earth Spirit’s voice was hoarse. His full head of white hair gradually turned withered and dry.

He was about to die.

Before his death,

he wanted to find someone to entrust with his final, lingering obsession.

In this Palm of the Human World, only Su Chen possessed a talent as great as a dragon’s. Even the titans of the Mountain Sea Realm would tremble before him. Only he could travel to the Mountain Sea Realm, fight his way to the Peak, stand before her—the one with the Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment—and ask "why" on his behalf.

So, he waited here. He was willing to die sooner, just to wait for Su Chen’s arrival.

"I... I have never asked anyone for anything in my entire life."

"But."

"I am dying because of you."

"Could I ask you... to ask her for me...?"

The Earth Spirit staggered forward, his withered hand grabbing Su Chen’s arm. His eyes were filled with pleading.

It was like the final wish of a dying old man.

At that moment.

The Heaven-Reaching Giant Tree exploded.

The hundred thousand mountains trembled!

In that instant, from the withered, thousand-foot-tall Silver Radiance Tree, a dazzling silver Tree Heart slowly levitated before Su Chen’s eyes.

"You won’t be helping for free."

"I am a Mountain Sea Earth Spirit. I had the Heart of the Sea, and I also have the Seed of the Mountain!"

"This is my Seed of the Mountain!"

"It can aid you in the Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment for your Extreme Dao Ascension..."

Su Chen did not agree.

He wanted to pull his hand from the Earth Spirit’s grasp.

With the Seed of the Mountain, the Earth Spirit could still live. In his state as an Earth Spirit, there was a chance he could continue to live as long as the Palm of the Human World itself. But without the Heart of the Sea, and now losing the Seed of the Mountain, he would truly perish.

"Must you do this?"

"Earth Spirit, you should let it go."

Su Chen tried to persuade him.

However,

The Earth Spirit Elder’s withered figure and emaciated arm possessed a terrifying power. It held fast to the hand of this Extreme Realm Demon Dragon, refusing to let go.

"Wind Snow Sword Immortal, oh Wind Snow Sword Immortal, you tell me to let go."

"But love in the Human World is like a poison that gnaws at the bones, trapping a person for a lifetime."

"I would rather die than let it go."

"Please, ask her for me..."

The Earth Spirit dissipated into nothing.

In that moment,

the ethereal, silver tree seed slowly fell into Su Chen’s palm.

The heavens have intent, the mountains and seas have spirit, and all living beings have fortune—all are supplementary items for Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment.

Now,

Su Chen had obtained the Celestial Residual Intent.

The Mountain Sea Tree Species.

And the Xuanyuan Fruit, nurtured by the All Living Beings’ Fortune.

It could be said that his future Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment was now a certainty.

But,

Su Chen felt no joy.

He only felt that life was bleak and as desolate as snow.

’What’s the point of Longevity?’

"Uninteresting."

"The Human World is the most uninteresting of all."

"But, this wish of yours... when I am in the Mountain Sea Realm, if I find her, I will convey it for you..."

"The mountains and seas have spirit, but alas, you loved the wrong person..."

Su Chen sighed.

His figure desolate, he left the hundred thousand mountains and continued his search for the tracks of his old friends.

Yu Le.

He didn’t find him.

He didn’t know if Yu Le had left via the Immortal Pavilion upon awakening, or if he had stepped through the Celestial Gate when it opened.

In this Human World,

he did not find Yu Le.

Instead, he found traces of a little turtle.

At the border between the Demon Monster Mountain Range and the hundred thousand mountains, an Ink Jade Little Turtle, covered in mud, was looking at Su Chen from afar with teary, aggrieved eyes.

Behind it,

stood a colossal, sky-supporting turtle, its body like a mountain covered in jagged rocks, its eyes like two Great Suns. It too was watching him.

"Little Turtle."

"Sorry, I forgot about you again."

Su Chen looked at the Little Turtle, dazed for a long moment before finally remembering that he was raising a little turtle.

At this,

the Little Turtle could no longer hold back its tears.

It began to cry with loud sobs.

It charged straight over, brandishing its claws.

Hungry, hungry!

I need to eat ten wisps of Qi to feel better.

"Alright, alright, alright!"

Su Chen rubbed the Little Turtle’s head, but his gaze shifted to the mysterious and unfathomable Demon Mountain Master, which stood at the Peak of the Palm of the Human World. For the first time, he seriously sized it up.

This giant turtle exuded an ancient aura.

The very heavens and earth seemed to be enduring its pressure. Where they bordered its form, ripples of distortion appeared uncontrollably.

This Demon Mountain Master was very powerful!

Unimaginably so.

In fact,

it was far beyond the rumored Upper Rank Great Demon Level.

Even at the Innate Peak of the Ten Sounds Level,

standing before this giant turtle, Su Chen still felt a sense of pressure.

It was far beyond what the five Demon Foundation Establishment Daoists could compare to.

It was as if,

this Demon Fiend before him could fight him to the death and not be at a disadvantage.

"You are not a Demon Fiend creature from the Palm of the Human World?"

Su Chen asked.

"Correct."

The giant turtle nodded.

Its eyes, like Great Suns, seemed to gaze at the Little Turtle with some reluctance before turning to Su Chen, as if trying to see right through him.

After a long while,

it finally spoke.

"I came to this Human World a little earlier than that Giant Whale."

"I arrived during the Heavenly Fall."

"My original intention was to find a Wordless Book that was supposed to be in the mansion of a Divinity Transformation Great Cultivator. Unfortunately, I didn’t find it and instead ended up inexplicably trapped here."

"Since the Little Turtle has acknowledged you, you must treat it well."

"The Extreme Realm feeds on Immortals! For Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment, even with the three auxiliary Spiritual Objects, you have no idea how many cultivating Immortals you will need to devour to succeed..."

"You... should watch your own back."

The giant turtle departed, heading in the direction of the Endless Sea.

It had stayed here long enough.

It was preparing to leave.

Even the Severed Communication between heaven and earth could not trap it.

However,

it had only taken a few steps

when it paused. It seemed to hesitate, but in the end, it couldn’t resist warning Su Chen.

"The Divinity Transformation Great Cultivator died when his lifespan ran out, leaving behind two thoughts, one good and one evil. This could very well be a thousand-year plot to resurrect and cultivate anew..."

"It would be best for you to leave quickly!"

"But it’s best you don’t take the path of the Heaven-Slaying War..."

"That place is full of madmen!"

"Go to the end of the Endless Sea. That whale still owes you a favor. He can guide you to other Human Worlds, and from there, to the Mountain Sea Great Realm..."

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