Transmigrating Into a Fantasy World: Signing in During Pregnancy, Reaching the Summit with My Childhood Sweetheart

206: Chapter 206: Thanks for the Spiritual Root and the Secret Path Star MapThe deathly silence was broken, not by a clamor, but by a subtle sound like spring rain nourishing the earth. On the trunk of the ancestral wood that had survived the calamity, the pitch-black marks of corruption had not completely faded, yet they had lost that heart-palpitating vitality, resembling dried-up stains. At the very top, a single new sprout stretched out tenaciously, emitting a soft and pure emerald glow. Though faint, it was like the first ray of morning light after darkness, filled with infinite hope.

The suffocating aura of decay and coldness in the air receded like a tide. Although the desolation and scars from the great battle remained, a deep, ancient, and all-encompassing life force was slowly awakening from the depths of the ancestral wood’s roots, like a sleeping giant opening its eyes. The previously stagnant and heavy pressure of spiritual energy vanished, replaced by an indescribable lightness and flow.

“Is it... over?” Zi Linger murmured in disbelief, clutching her still-stinging forehead as she watched the now-peaceful ancestral wood. The terrifying mental impact and the crisis of self-destruction from moments ago still left her with lingering fears.

Su Muxue’s face was pale, but her beautiful eyes sparkled with excitement. “It’s over. That evil will... has been completely annihilated by the star Core.” She looked at the star Core in Nangong Xuan’s hand, which had once again become silent, her eyes filled with wonder and an indescribable sense of awe. The power contained in that final flash of gray light was at a level completely beyond her understanding.

Nangong Xuan slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air and inspected his internal state. The tremors in his Divine Soul were rapidly stabilizing under the nourishment of the pure, gentle energy fed back by the star Core; he had even gained a blessing in disguise, as his soul had become more condensed. The four star keys rotated slowly, their connection seemingly tightening slightly after jointly resisting the filth. In particular, the newly joined water star key saw its stubborn stain fade even further.

He stepped forward and reached out to gently touch the rough but no longer writhing trunk. What his fingertips felt was no longer cold silence, but a faint warmth and an extremely weak ripple of thought—one filled with gratitude and attachment, like a newborn instinctively drawing close to its parents.

The intelligence of this ancient ancestral wood had clearly been nearly exhausted during the long years of pollution and torment. Now, only the most fundamental seed of spirituality remained, requiring a vast amount of time to grow once more.

“It... is thanking us.” As a Wood Spirit, Zi Linger felt it most clearly, and her eyes reddened slightly.

Just then, hurried footsteps and shouts came from behind.

“Elder! Young friend Nangong!”

Elder Elder Mu Li, under the protection of Shi Meng and the others, rushed across the boundary line regardless of everything. The earth-shaking eruption of evil in the Core area followed by the sudden deathly silence had left them frantic with worry on the outskirts. Now, feeling that familiar yet much purer Primal Spiritual Breath permeating the air again, they could no longer restrain themselves.

When they saw the ancestral wood—battered but free of evil energy, with a new sprout even flourishing at its peak—all the villagers were stunned. A massive cheer then erupted, and many were so moved that they fell to their knees, kowtowing toward the ancestral wood and the trio of Nangong Xuan.

Elder Elder Mu Li’s eyes overflowed with tears, and his body trembled slightly with emotion. He walked quickly to Nangong Xuan and actually prepared to bow deeply. “Young friend Nangong! You have turned the tide and saved my tribe from extinction! This kindness and virtue will never be forgotten by the Wood Spirit Survivors!”

Nangong Xuan hurriedly reached out to support him. “Elder, you must not. This Junior only contributed a meager effort. If not for your tribe’s profound Primal Spiritual Breath Foundation and the fact that the ancestral wood’s spirituality was not yet extinct, we would have been powerless to help.”

Elder Elder Mu Li gripped Nangong Xuan’s hand tightly, too emotional to speak. He knew better than anyone what the revival of the ancestral wood meant. It meant the continuation of their lineage; it meant the valley would flourish with life once more!