ebonymovies Chapter 548 Spiritual Totem
Chapter 548 Spiritual Totem
They couldn't possibly know what was going on.
But everyone knows that this event, no matter what, could change the course of the entire apocalypse.
Meanwhile, further away, a team much larger than Li Ye's team was also caught in the same shock.
"Report to the leader! There are signs of extensive vegetation growth on the road ahead! And... it's continuing to spread!" came an urgent shout from the communicator of the outpost vehicle.
The team leader was a man in his fifties with a sharp face. He strode to the outpost, stepped on something, looked down, and his pupils suddenly contracted.
It is a dandelion that has almost grown to maturity.
He crouched down, pinched the stem of the dandelion, and gently pulled it out of the soil. The roots, still covered in soil, emerged from the ground, carrying a scent of plants that he had almost forgotten.
"What happened?"
"If the vegetation is really recovering..." the team leader said in a deep voice.
He didn't finish the second half of his sentence.
But everyone understands what that means.
This means they may no longer have to wander, and each team may be able to establish its own survival base based on existing resources.
It wasn't just the convoy; those high up and acting strangely were the ones who reacted the fastest.
Those colossal beings that had roamed Earth for an unknown period of time felt a profound and undeniable sense of unease and exclusion the moment the World Tree transformed.
Deep in the East China Sea, a giant deep-sea whale, as large as a mountain, suddenly rose from the seabed. Pale blue seawater poured down its massive back, revealing its deep spine covered with parasites.
Its consciousness surged and churned in the deep sea, carrying a kind of instinctive rage.
Deep within a canyon on the edge of the land, a giant made entirely of obsidian awoke from its slumber. Its movements were slow and heavy, each step causing the earth to tremble.
It raised its enormous, dark red head, gazing at the warming blood sun in the sky, and let out a deep, guttural roar, like the shattering of mountains.
"Opponent..." The voice was indistinct and ancient, carrying a kind of rustiness that had been forgotten for a long time.
At its feet was a patch of shrubs that had dried up to just bare branches, now tinged with a very faint, almost imperceptible green.
The giant glanced down at the bushes, then suddenly raised its enormous hand and slammed it down.
Dust billowed up, and shrubs were crushed into the soil.
But a moment later, the crushed parts regained a hint of green, like blood beads seeping from deep within the wound.
The giant's movements stopped.
In some unknown place, the two high-ranking figures who were dueling exchanged a strange glance, both seeing fear and apprehension in each other's eyes.
"Has the world's will been restored?"
"Impossible... The world's consciousness has already been confirmed dead, so how could it revive?"
"If it's not the revival of world consciousness, what else could it be?"
"Has a human once again seized a divine position?"
"Impossible! If the divine position had been usurped, this selection process should have ended long ago!"
"Who is it?"
"...I don't know...find it."
"..."
City of Passing Down the Flame.
Fu Xiaojian stood at the easternmost end of the city wall, gazing at the greenery outside the city that was already covered with lichen, a complex expression between ecstasy and worry appearing on his face.
"Old Xu... what exactly did you do?" he whispered.
Shao Bing squatted down and touched a wild grass that had just sprouted from the crack in the city bricks with his fingertips. The leaves were tender green, covered with fine water droplets, and shimmered with a golden-green halo under the blood-red sun.
"How do we report this to the outside world?" Shao Bing was momentarily at a loss for words.
Fu Xiaojian was unsure how to report this matter, although he knew it was definitely a good thing.
"Let's check the situation inside the city first! Have Tashan lead his men to occupy the high ground to prevent any unrest, and stabilize the city first!" Fu Xiaojian said.
Because the City of Fire was raised as a whole, the original framework of the city was damaged to varying degrees in different places.
Even if no one deliberately causes a riot, panic can involuntarily cause the city's residents to become disorderly.
Therefore, at this time, it is necessary to provide initial assistance and deterrence.
"Brother Fu, I've already had Brother Shan and the others arrive in various parts of the city according to the prepared plan!" Xiao Luo's voice rang in Fu Xiaojian's mind at just the right moment.
Before Fu Xiaojian finished speaking, a series of hurried footsteps came from all over the city walls.
"Old Fu, the city is generally stable, but a section of the city wall on the west side has been cracked by roots, with a gap about several tens of feet wide. I'll go and plug it now. As for other places, there's mostly damage to houses, which can be repaired easily."
On the way here, Xiao Luo had already told him about the intelligence in the city, so there weren't many situations where he really needed to take action.
"No rush! Let's wait until this period is over, let's wait for now!" Fu Xiaojian said.
The mutation of the World Tree is still ongoing, and the upgrade of the City of Fire is also continuing.
The old city walls seem somewhat unsuitable for the current situation.
Shao Bing understood Fu Xiaojian's meaning; they had essentially built their city on the World Tree.
This is not an ideal situation, especially now that the World Tree is growing stronger and squeezing out a lot of space within the city.
Before the World Tree became this tall and strong, its influence was not so great.
But things are different now.
The best solution is to build an outer city, establishing a new residential area outside the World Tree.
As for the City of Fire, it would be best to preserve it as a spiritual sanctuary.
After all, Xu Si's statue is still inside the city!
However, its living area function can be further weakened.
The strange changes in the World Tree continued for several days without stopping, and all those in the city who were supposed to advance had completed their advancements.
Fu Xiaojian's proposal was quickly agreed upon at the temporary meeting of the City Lord's Mansion.
"Then it's settled. The city will be temporarily sealed off as a supporting area for the World Tree, and the people will be gradually relocated outwards." Shao Bing drew a large circle on the map with charcoal.
"A new city will be built on a different site outside the old one. The soil has been revitalized, and everyone in the new city will be allocated twenty acres of land to cultivate and harvest themselves. The first batch of seeds can be exchanged at the Firewood Pavilion!"
"Should Xincheng change its name?" Wang Hu asked.
Fu Xiaojian thought for a moment, then glanced at the giant tree overhead that seemed to stretch across the sky.
"Let's call it... City of Hope."
That would be a true human city, a city suitable for human habitation.
Zheng Fangzhou thought that the City of Fire might become the spiritual totem of the new humankind.
"What about here?" Xiao Luo asked, somewhat reluctantly.
"The City of Fire will be preserved. I will have Zhou Wan redesign it based on the changes in the World Tree. However, it is clearly no longer suitable for living here. It can serve as a sanctuary for the City of Hope or a super holy site!"
The location of the City of Fire continues to rise, and at such a high position, the stones of Tower Mountain have become the most unstable element.
Stones are excellent on the ground, but on the World Tree, they become precarious.
Zhou Wan had just broken through to Sequence 3 – Spirit Plant Master – amidst the mutation of the World Tree.
It can not only cultivate crops, but also deploy plants in battle.
It's somewhat similar to the feeling of a Jinchūriki like Hashirama.
It wouldn't be difficult for him to rebuild the City of Fire using wood, based on the levels of the World Tree.