In human stories, there were many treasures capable of granting wishes.
The Wishing Tree, Aladdin's Lamp, Dragon Balls...
These treasures came from human imagination, but they also reflected humanity's deepest, most fundamental yearning: the desire for such a thing to exist.
At its core, that yearning was also a vague kind of hope.
"A creation born purely of hope, like a deity, capable of granting every wish."
Little Sprite compared itself to those fictional treasures and discovered that, fundamentally, they were all the same kind of thing.
When it saved Oasis City, Little Sprite had never believed that it was "itself" that saved Oasis City. It had merely gathered everyone's wishes together. In truth, humanity had saved itself.
It had merely returned the hope it received from humans back to humans.
And what it was doing now was the same: taking itself apart, allowing hope to flow forth and carry humanity's yearning to the Abyss Bottom...
Although Little Sprite could not sense Mo Ling's wish, it could sense Lu Youqi's. Drawing upon that wish, it ignited all the energy within its body, letting light from humanity blanket this eternal night.
"So the human wishes inside my body haven't been used up yet."
Hope was an incredibly stubborn thing, and that trait was reflected in Little Sprite as well.
After traveling through the Abyss for so long, traces of humanity still remained within its body, continually affecting the structure of its energy.
Within the hearts of the people of Oasis City, there was also a wish to reach the Abyss Bottom.
In some sense, human wishes were interconnected. In certain great pursuits, they always remained aligned.
Once sparks gathered together, they would merge and ignite an even greater blaze...
A sweet river of hope flowed through the night sky. Mo