Demon King's Repayment - chapter 184

“I will be gone in the future, so you have to stay with Gen’er and take care of him for me.”

That night, there was a cry that frightened the teenager from the house. After a long time, Ah Gen slowly walked out of the house, lowered his head to the tree, and put his hand around the tree trunk. The moist feeling spread through the skin of the tree. 

Ah Gen was crying, “Father is gone, my mother is almost dying, there is no food to grow in the ground, there are still demons outside. Xiao Bai, I really have no way out. Xiao Bai, can you help me?”

Xiao Bai was shaking the green leaves. He didn’t know what to do. He wanted to tell his friend that there was something very delicious in the land under their feet. His roots could absorb the endless delicious and nutritious food every day, but why were his beloved friends not getting such delicious food and leaving one by one?

He had no other way but to grow the roots desperately, relying on instinct to try to extract the flowing delicacy, hoping to pass them on to Ah Gen.

But no matter how madly he tried, the noisy and lively village of the past quickly quieted down.

The human beings disappeared one by one, Xiao Bai felt more scared, afraid that his companions and family would disappear like that, afraid that one day Ah Gen would suddenly become a cold corpse just like everyone else.

Ah Gen was lying on the rocking chair under the tree. The once muscular man was now so thin that only a skeleton was left. He stared blankly at the beautiful branches and leaves above his head that looked like gems.

“Xiao Bai, I’m at the end. Fortunately, you are still here. You were with me when I was born. When I leave, please take care of my corpse.”

His eyes began to close slowly, and he heard the familiar sound of leaves rustling in his ears in a daze.

These sounds were too noisy, almost making him unable to sleep well, he tried to open his eyes.

The verdant canopy in front of him seemed to become a vast expanse of white. A strange white branch hung down from his sight and reached his mouth. The sweet juice dripped into his dry mouth and poured into his hungry stomach.

The dying Ah Gen was rescued by the suddenly spiritualized white tree at the last moment!

The tree secreted a delicious juice that made people full. The only surviving humans in the village had survived the severe famine years by relying on this white tree.

People began to gather again and worship under the tree, thanking it for its life-saving grace. They put beautiful banners on this magical tree and respectfully called him the tree God.

The village slowly resumed its former liveliness, and the reassuring days seemed to be back.

The newly healthy Ah Gen married Liu’er from the next village as his wife. Like his father back then, he carried his newborn child in his arms and came under the tree, “Xiao Bai, look, this is my son.”

The scene changed again before her eyes, the walls, thatched huts, and villages were gone.

The banners hanging on the tree were beautiful. The dilapidated courtyard had become a luxurious and magnificent mansion. The bumpy dirt road and the slow scalpers in the village had disappeared, replaced by the Eaves Emerald Building.

Standing on the big tree that had survived for hundreds of years, the boy held Yuan Xiang tightly with his cold hands.

That was his spiritual world. Yuan Xiang looked through his vision, the gorgeous and unusual building market was gray and black in the tree spirit’s eyes, silent, he couldn’t see the humans mixed with the rich blood of demons, and he rarely could hear their voices.

“No, where did everyone go?” He turned his head and looked at Yuan Xiang in confusion.

“You…can’t see them?” Yuan Xiang asked.

“No, everyone is gone,” the boy just shook his head blankly.

His vision was different from that of human beings, he could only see what he wanted to see.

“That’s why you pulled me over?” Yuan Xiang sighed and sat down on the branch.

The boy lowered his head for a moment and said, “A voice told me that my favorite friend is back, so I was very happy.”

Hundreds of years had passed, and the tree spirit, who had lost its original body, had completely changed into a spiritual body, and had forgotten many things.

Only a deep-rooted obsession could not dissipate for a long time.

“I can’t stay here.” Yuan Xiang said gently, “There are no pure humans anymore. You know, there are many humans living in the floating world without aura. If you still want to live with humans, I can take you back with me.”

“A floating world without aura?” The boy shook his head, “I can’t go, without aura I will soon wither.”

“You stay with me.”

He stared blankly at the huge moon in the sky with beautiful eyes, and did not intend to reason with Yuan Xiang.

She woke up from the dream at that moment.

She got up from the bed and opened the window. The moon outside the window was like water, and the huge and beautiful white tree was quietly bathed in moonlight. There was a pleasant sound of clinking branches.

He was a powerful creature that she couldn’t reason to.

It seems that she could only find a way to leave quietly.
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