CH 259

Just when Xi Ning was thinking about how to go down, the branches next to him slowly bent and stretched, forming stairs downward under his feet, and handrails were grown on both sides.

Xi Ning tried to step on it with his toes; it felt pretty solid. He then went down the tree walking along the stairs.

When Xi Ning landed on the ground safely, the stairs slowly retracted, and a small branch with sprouts got closer to rub against Xi Ning’s hair. Xi Ning reached out and touched its leaves. As he touched it, he could vaguely feel its emotions. It seemed to be greeting him.

This feeling was quite intriguing. He seemed to be able to communicate with this tree. The twig shook its leaves happily and retracted back to the top of the tree.

Xi Ning took a few steps back and looked up at the tree. When he was on top of the tree, he didn’t feel it much. Now, when he was standing at the bottom, he saw that the tree was very, very large, and was much taller than ordinary trees. The trunk would take about four or five grown men stretched out their arms to fully surround it, and his little house was located between the lush foliage.

He was looking up when he heard footsteps behind him.

“Your Highness, you are awake.”

Xi Ning had heard this familiar form of address too many times. He thought that he was having hallucinations and was still in the previous world. He turned around and looked at the person who came. He was also a silver-haired elf with green eyes, but the robes he wore were obviously much simpler.

Xi Ning still didn’t understand the situation in this world, so he stood there and answered lightly, “Yes.”

“That human is here again. It’s already been half a month. Would you like to…… go and meet him? It’s better to give a definite answer so that he gives up.”

That human? Xi Ning didn’t know what happened, so he asked the system, “What kind of plot is this?”

“Ah…… yes,” the system quickly scanned the data in the original book and said, “Master, you can agree first and follow this elf. I will explain the mission in this world on the way.”

Xi Ning nodded to the elf in front of him. “Okay, take me there.”

The elf responded, turned around and led the way in front while the system flipped through the original book and introduced the situation to Xi Ning.

After so many worlds, Xi Ning’s identity this time was no longer a supporting role, but a protagonist.

In this world, the original story was unfinished. His mission was to complete the subsequent plot, so that the book had a reasonable ending that the central system acknowledged.

In the past, his mission was to fix bugs, but this time he has to complete the story. Xi Ning felt that something was wrong, and frowned slightly. “What is the timeline now?”

The system first started to explain the original book’s setting to him. The forest elves didn’t have the ability to produce offspring and all of them were born from the Tree of Life, so there was no lineage, and the original body that Xi Ning was currently in possessed the purest wood aura in the clan and the fire of life since birth.

Because of these two points, the original host was enshrined as His Highness, and the tree where Xi Ning lived was the tree of life.

Xi Ning interrupted the system, “What is the fire of life?”

The system replied, “A rare kind of spiritual vein that only appears in forest elves. It takes nearly a thousand years for the Tree of Life to give birth to an elf with the fire of life. It can make all flowers, plants, and trees grow better. Master can also communicate with them and sense their emotions and needs.”

More than just nourishing and communicating with the plants, if Xi Ning could skillfully use the fire of life, he could even completely bring dead plants and trees back to life.

The fire of life was very helpful to the forest elves. They lived in the woods and relied on wood-type aura to cultivate. The better the plants in an area grew, the stronger the wood-type aura.

The original host had just reached adulthood. He had been living in this forest ever since birth and never went out. He stayed in the depths of the forest and followed the elders to learn wood spells and practice to increase his proficiency in using the fire of life.

One day, the beloved wife of the king of a nearby country became seriously ill. He

Searched among all the famous doctors and cultivators, and even asked for help from other races and factions. Finally, he heard from a dwarf that had been to the border of this continent. The dwarf said that in the depths of a certain forest, there was a spiritual plant called the Red Frost Flower.

His Majesty had already asked all kinds of people that he could ask before, and he had also heard others mention the Red Frost Flower. It was said that using the petals of this flower as medicine could cure most diseases, but the Red Frost Flower was too rare to be found.

Now that the dwarf said he had seen it, His Majesty was overjoyed, but the dwarf said again—When he saw the Red Frost Flower, the flower was already dead, and only the withered stem and root remained in the soil.

His Majesty’s mood was like on a rollercoaster, but he still decided to take a look for himself. Even if the flower really died, there might be a new one growing nearby.

But the dwarf said, “Impossible/ How can it be so easy to grow a new Red Frost Flower? But the root of the flower seems to have not rotted. Unfortunately I can’t dig the soil, otherwise I would dig it out to show it to the forest elves to see if it can be saved.”

This kind of rare spiritual plant usually had a somewhat complicated and weird temperament. The Red Frost Flower will not produce a second plant within a radius of thousands of miles. If you dug up the soil that the plant was growing and its roots were exposed to sunlight, it would immediately turn into black water, then it really couldn’t be saved.

It was too dangerous in that forest, the dwarf and their companions left not long after seeing the Red Frost Flower, so there was no chance to go there after that.