Demon King's Repayment - chapter 183

The baby in the swaddle squatted his mouth and let out a loud cry full of vitality. The young sapling standing in the yard shook the only two small leaves in the wind.

Yuan Xiang was standing in the courtyard at that moment, as if time and space were missing. The people in the courtyard didn’t even notice her existence. The young man transformed into a tree spirit stood beside her at some point, holding her hand, showing a happy expression. He looked at the scene before him with happiness.

In the blink of an eye, the little baby turned into a toddler. He staggered out of the room, touched the branch of the little tree, and gasped for breath.

“Gen’er needs to eat more food and grow taller. You and the tree grow faster than anyone else,” the man touched the child’s head and said.

“The root… the root grows fast,” the babbled child stammered.

“Hmph, he is wrong, he has never been taller than me,” the kid pulled Yuan Xiang and said with a smile.

Yuan Xiang knew that she was in a dream, but that dream seemed to be too detailed and real, as if she was in another person’s memory.

The little doll named Gen’er grew up, and the sapling grew taller, with a strong body.

Every day the boy who came back from the mud all over would climb up the tree branches and rest on the small tree.

“Xiao Bai Xiao Bai, we won the fight today, but we beat some of the little cubs in the next village.”

He named his partner Xiao Bai who grew up with him.

“Xiao Bai, Liu’er in the next village is really good-looking. Today I pulled her braids and made her cry.”

“Xiao Bai, why are you growing up so fast? I hope I can grow up faster too. Dad is old and coughed up a lot a few days ago.”

So the whole family slowly began to call this little tree Xiao Bai.

Xiao Bai, Xiao Bai.

“Xiao Bai grows so fast, it was planted in the yard the year you were born,” the mother of the family hung a rope for drying clothes on his body.

“Xiao Bai is also a member of the family. You can enjoy the coolness in the shade of it. This year’s weather is really hot!” The father put a rocking chair under the tree.

The little boy Ah Gen turned into a strong and powerful man at some point. He carried a hoe and pushed open the courtyard door to come in. He drank a sip of water by the well, then laid down on the rocking chair under the tree, and wiped his sweat with the towel.

“Xiao Bai, dad said he wants me to marry,” he looked at the shade of the tree above his head with some annoyance.

“But the years seem not so good. I don’t know why the land is getting dry, food is hard to find and demons often appear. I’m afraid my family won’t be able to spend money to get me a wife.”

A gust of wind blew, and the emerald-like leaves made a resounding sound in the wind, as if answering his friend.

“Xiao Bai, you don’t seem to be affected, you are getting more beautiful,” the young man lying on the rocking chair smiled.

Yuan Xiang held the hand of the young tree spirit. She could feel everything that the tree spirit felt, so she knew the reason why the land was dry.

A large amount of Qi flew through the ground, like tides flowing through this land. Ordinary plants couldn’t withstand too strong Qi and were gradually dying in the heat, but some gifted creatures had begun to learn to absorb Qi from the land and hrew more vigorously.

The spirit world was slowly breaking away from the human world, and that place was about to become a part of the spirit world.

Droughts, famines, and frequent occurrences of huge and terrifying demons made the fragile human social structure there quickly lose its former leisurely comfort.

Yuan Xiang felt that her palm was tightened, and the boy who was holding her seemed to think of something and became panicked.

The quiet and gentle village got noisy in an instant, and there were constantly startling crying sounds somewhere. Then people began to go in and out, hurriedly carrying dead bodies one after another.

The tree spirit boy looked panicked. He didn’t know how all of that happened or why it happened. The days of peace and tranquility no longer existed, and the creatures he had always liked were rapidly declining.

“Xiao Bai, I won’t live long.” 

The man who had grinned and planted it in the yard appeared beside him. The pillar of that family had started to grow so old. His face was thin, his back was bent, his rough fingers touched the tree trunk, and he raised eyes.