Today's first update: Chapter 2259! 1/2!
With Withering Glory as its seed, it devoured everything. Even the Karma Cleansing Golden Fire, unable to destroy it, became its nourishment.
After Withering Glory absorbed an incomparably vast amount of Karma Cleansing Golden Fire, the seed successfully grew. Yet it did not grow alone. Instead, it took Xu Kun as its foundation and ensured that everyone benefited equally.
A single tree could not make a forest; a lone blossom did not make spring. Only when a hundred flowers bloomed did spring fill the garden!
Withering Glory possessed its own thoughts, so it faithfully upheld this principle.
After absorbing the Karma Cleansing Golden Fire, Withering Glory stopped growing once it reached a certain stage. The remaining energy was transmitted through the branches it had formed and poured into Xu Kun's various abilities, which had been expended during the battle to destroy Jiumozhi.
This included the various Attribute Seeds that had dimmed, allowing them to regain their vitality.
This vitality differed from the Fountain of Youth within the Kongtong Seal. The Fountain of Youth was life in essence. If it had to be assigned an attribute according to the rules of the Haotian Era, it would be stamina, one of the five foundational attributes.
But the life Dao of Withering Glory lay in the foundation of all things.
The Kongtong Seal was a spring that could endlessly create enormous Life Force, allowing Xu Kun's physical body to remain immortal and indestructible so long as even a shred of flesh remained.
Withering Glory was a root, a seed. It lacked the ability to create vitality itself; it could only move and transmit it.
It could draw from all things, transform all essential power, and then pour it into any deficient "living" entity.
That entity did