Golden Wonder: Seed of Creation

Lin Qingchen reached out and gently touched a leaf of the Blue Silver Emperor. The leaf shrank back as though shocked, and the whole plant wilted at once.

"I didn't expect you to have some instincts left. As expected of the Blue Silver Emperor. But unfortunately, today is the second anniversary of your death."

With that, Lin Qingchen grabbed the Blue Silver Grass's frail stem and circulated the power of earth. In a few motions, he pulled her out of the soil, roots and all.

The Blue Silver Emperor wilted completely. All her leaves contracted and wrapped around one another, forming a ball.

Though, if one insisted, it could also be called a seed.

[Power of Fortune: 310]

His efforts over the years hadn't been in vain. He had made things happen in all sorts of ways and fleeced more than fifty points of Fortune. After spending a hundred points of Power of Fortune to make the Environment-Changing Leaf, he had this much left.

To tell the truth, given the number of Wonder Seeds he currently had, he didn't even know how he could use up all this Power of Fortune.

But now...

Holding Ah Yin's Seed of Life, Lin Qingchen poured Power of Fortune into it with all his might, filling it in the space of a few breaths.

Amid the dazzling golden light, the Seed of Life began to wither completely, even turning grayish white.

By the time the last wisp of golden light faded, the Seed of Life had become a completely grayish-white ball.

Lin Qingchen blew gently. The breeze passed over the Seed of Life, carrying away wisps of gray mist.

Finally, beneath his breath, the ashes enveloping the Seed of Life dispersed completely, revealing a seed that had turned golden.

But the seed had yet to germinate. It hadn't grown even half a shoot.

Lin Qingchen looked at the Wonder's description.

[Seed of Creation (Golden Wonder)]

Description: A manifestation of the two supreme authorities from the beginning of cosmic chaos. One was called Destruction, and the other Creation. This seed contains the complete authority of Creation, and a wondrous life is being nurtured within it.

Effect: When the authority of Creation is activated, the life within will formally begin to grow.

Lin Qingchen: ...

That was it? Just those words?

Wasn't that as good as saying nothing?

Lin Qingchen stared at the seed in his palm, utterly dumbfounded.

By rights, the name and appearance alone told him this thing was extraordinary, to say nothing of the fact that he knew what the authority of Creation was.

Wasn't that the Dragon God's authority back then?

Unfortunately, the laws of the universe had later played a dirty trick on the Dragon God. Not only had he failed to make the Divine Dragon Realm a God Star, but the dragon race had also suffered devastating losses, and he himself had been split into the Golden Dragon King and the Silver Dragon King.

The Golden Dragon King had been captured by the Divine Realm and locked away in its forbidden grounds. He was probably absorbing Immortal Spirit Qi like mad right now, just waiting for a good chance to come out and stir up trouble.

As for the Silver Dragon King, she had holed up underground in the Star Dou Great Forest to heal. After an unknown number of tens of thousands of years, she had only recovered a little, and then she threw her life away at lightning speed.

It sounded pretty lame, but she was, after all, the only one on the entire Douluo Continent whom Lin Qingchen could think of as having anything to do with Creation. Perhaps he could only find out what the seed was for later.

Lin Qingchen wasn't in a hurry. He pinched the seed coat and found that it was not only extremely hard but also perfectly seamless. His Great Five Elements Divine Light, which could obliterate all energy, fell upon it but revealed not a single imperfection.

"How strange."

Lin Qingchen shook his head and turned to leave. Halfway there, however, he turned back and took the large, unfinished plate of cold dressed Blue Silver Grass he had bought that morning out of his storage bracelet.

To be fair, although Blue Silver Grass was common, it really did make a refreshing dish when properly prepared.

Lin Qingchen picked a longer strand of Blue Silver Grass out of the basket, then stuck it back in the original spot and thoughtfully packed the soil around it. Everything looked just as it had before; the only difference was that the Blue Silver Grass had been replaced with another strand.

Having done all that, Lin Qingchen retraced his steps.

He had only just left the pool when the Wonder Maker sounded.

[Ding, caused Tang San to lose his mother, who can never be resurrected. Power of Fortune +2,000]

[Ding, caused Tang Hao to lose his wife, who cannot be resurrected. Power of Fortune +500]

[Power of Fortune: 2,710]

"Nice, struck it rich in one go!"

Although he still didn't know what the Power of Fortune could be used for besides making Wonders, watching it rise was a lovely thing too.

Soul Hunting Forest.

Lei Nuo stood to one side, watching Tang San absorb the Soul Ring, and breathed a sigh of relief.

So much time had passed without anything going wrong. It seemed the absorption of this Second Soul Ring was indeed a nail firmly driven into the board.

Yu Xiaogang also watched Tang San, who sat cross-legged, with satisfaction, his heart full of pride.

Although he had failed to verify his theory that Plant-type Martial Souls could absorb animal-type Soul Rings, his disciple had broken through to Soul Grandmaster. Wasn't there glory in that for him as his teacher too?

He glanced at Lei Nuo, who stood nearby, and thought to himself, Good thing I called Lei Nuo along this time. He's a layman when it comes to choosing Soul Rings, but without him, I really might not have been able to beat that Ghost Vine.

What a joke. Could he really have expected Luo Sanpao to stink a vine to death with his farts?

That would have been giving him far too much credit.

Atop an ancient tree neither of the two had noticed, Tang Hao held a large gourd of wine in one hand, drinking as he watched Tang San.

"He broke through to rank 20 at only nine years old. That's my son for you."

He put his hands on his hips and chuckled proudly to himself, but as he laughed, a few tears suddenly slipped from the corners of his eyes.

"Hm? Tears... no, that's not right. I shed my last tears for you long ago..." Tang Hao shook his head sharply, then wailed in his heart, Ah Yin! Is that you? You must be watching, watching our son, right? Look how gifted he is!

But there was no answer in the end. Tang Hao leaned back against the branch, tears still falling one drop at a time.

"Ah, Ah Yin, I understand. You must be thinking of me. Don't worry. Once I've escorted Little San back to Nuoding Academy, I'll come back to see you, all right?"

As though his murmurs had been heard, no more tears appeared at the corners of Tang Hao's eyes. He rubbed them.

"Just as I thought, Ah Yin was thinking of me just now. I knew it."

"Hmph! Spirit Hall, if it weren't for you, how could Ah Yin and I have been separated between heaven and earth? A thousand wrongs, ten thousand wrongs—it's all your fault!"

"Just wait. Once Little San grows up, we'll raze Spirit Hall to the ground and let you know the pain of being separated from your flesh and blood."

Of course, Lin Qingchen didn't know about this. Otherwise, he really would have had something to say to Tang Hao: "Your wife kept calling your name right up until I filled her..."

Unfortunately, though, Lin Qingchen didn't know.

All he wanted now was to hurry back to Nuoding Academy.

(Attached picture: my wife)

(Also, the picture and text most likely have nothing to do with each other. I just thought it looked good, so I posted it.)