Chapter 1050: Regeneration
Ultimately, the girl's desire to survive with her kind prevailed. She knelt on the ground and bowed three times to Yunxi, who was sitting on a tree branch, before turning away from the mountain where Yunxi was.

Yunxi watched the departing girl, sighed softly, and then waved her sleeve to disperse the mist that surrounded her all year round, finally revealing the tall, sturdy tree to the arriving crowd.

An elderly man with white hair was carried by his grandchildren to Yunxi. Looking at the huge and thick sacred tree in front of him, his cloudy eyes finally regained their luster. He led all the young and strong men to pay respects to the sacred tree in a proper manner before they began to cut it down.

The girl watched as the fairy's figure slowly faded until the divine tree collapsed and the fairy's figure completely disappeared. Tears finally fell from her eyes. In the end, she took a section of root and put it into her animal skin bundle, determined to fulfill her promise.

As the floodwaters reached their last refuge, a massive ship was finally completed. Everyone boarded the ship before the floodwaters rose, and many clever little animals also secretly boarded, hoping that the ship would take them to a place where they could survive.

The large ship carried the lucky creatures on the water, enduring torrential rain, gales, giant waves, and attacks from aquatic creatures. Just when they ran out of food, they finally saw land.

Where there is land, there is hope. They did their best to finally sail the ship to a place where they could survive. The large ship that gave them a glimmer of hope was also towed to the shallows by the people and became their temporary home. After that, everyone devoted themselves to building their new home.

Only the girl climbed to the highest peak of this land, buried the tree root she carried with her in the soil, carefully watered it, and prayed to the heavens that the sacred tree could take root and sprout again and grow strong.

After the girl planted the tree roots, she would come to check on the growth of the sacred tree from time to time, but the planted tree roots never sprouted again until the girl got married.

At that time, Yunxi was in a deep sleep due to her physical injury, and was accumulating power. However, the girl still came to the mountain peak regularly, hoping to see the divine tree sprout from the ground in her lifetime.

When the girl closed her eyes, she still couldn't see the sacred tree sprout and grow again, but she left a will, telling her descendants to protect the roots of the sacred tree, and that no one or animal should be allowed to damage the roots, regardless of whether the sacred tree sprouted or not.

The girl's descendants have always silently watched over Yunxi, hoping to one day see the splendor of the divine tree again. The ship of life has been perfectly preserved by the survivors, showing no signs of decay, and enjoys the incense offerings of later generations.

Yunxi felt that she had slept for a long time this time, but she slept very comfortably. Just as she turned over and was about to continue sleeping, she heard a childish voice that seemed to be speaking to her.

"Why haven't you sprouted yet? It's been so long, are you really dead? But my great-grandfather, grandmother and mother still insist on coming to see you every year. They said that after they pass away, I will take over this task. But I have never seen what you really look like. Can you really grow back?"

Because of our ancestors' wishes, our whole family has been staying here, but I want to go out and see the world. I don't want to continue guarding a tree root that will never sprout.

But after I said that, my mother beat me, and it hurt so much on my bottom. I was very indignant, so I wanted to dig you out and see what you were like.

After saying that, he started digging in the soil with both hands, really trying to dig out the tree roots.

Yunxi smiled faintly, opened her eyes, and began to grow rapidly. Immediately afterward, she heard a gasp of surprise:

"Wow! The sacred tree is still alive! Great-Grandpa didn't lie to me! Wow! It's so tall!" The next moment, Yunxi's slender figure appeared on a thick branch. She wanted to see who the little thing that had urged her to sprout and grow was.

Then she saw a little boy, not even ten years old, looking up at the divine tree that was rapidly growing into a towering giant. His bright eyes held undisguised surprise and a hint of joy.

He then turned and ran, shouting as he ran:
"Great-grandfather, grandfather, grandmother, come and see! The sacred tree has grown back! It's alive! It's really alive."

Yunxi found it amusing to watch the little boy skipping down the mountain. She then concealed herself, and her once towering form shrank again. But this time, she left behind a branch that had sprouted from the ground, allowing the girl's descendants to see that she had finally sprouted and grown again.

Only the little boy stared blankly at the sapling, which was less than a meter tall, with a face full of confusion. He had clearly seen a towering tree before, so how did it become so short the moment he went to call for help?
After Yunxi fell into a deep sleep again, the little boy became the most active guardian. Whenever he had nothing to do, he would sit next to the sapling and chatter on about the trivial things around him. Of course, what he cared about most was when the divine tree would grow into a towering tree.

But by the time he got married and had children, he was already old and frail. The sacred tree was still only that tall, but it was very strong. Later, his son took over the responsibility of guarding the sacred tree.

Because the little boy had witnessed Yunxi's true form and had drawn it from his memory, he always regretted not being able to see the Divine Tree in its prime in his lifetime. This was the thing he regretted most before he passed away.

Yunxi didn't know how long she had been asleep. So long that all the sounds around her had disappeared and no one had come to see her for a long time. Only then did she open her eyes and see that she was still in the same place, but now she was surrounded by green vegetation and there was no one around. The humans who had been guarding her in the distance seemed to have left a long time ago.

Yunxi stretched her body, trying to grow taller, as she wanted to see further, but her current height was limiting her.

Once she reached a height she was satisfied with, she discovered that she was in a primeval jungle, with traces of human activity only very, very far away.

"How long have I been asleep?!"

Not long after Yunxi finished her reflections, the earth shook. However, this time it was not a natural disaster but a man-made one. Humans launched a war, and artillery fire ravaged the entire land. The flames of war slowly spread to where she was.

To escape the ravages of war, humanity once again ventured into this jungle, beginning a new round of survival struggles. Yunxi simply watched quietly, powerless this time, as the firearms had also inflicted significant damage on her.

Because of the war, Yunxi dared not fall into a deep sleep this time. She kept a close eye on everything around her until the little boy's descendant came to her again.

"Mom, look, there really is a tree here. It looks exactly like the one in our ancestral picture book, even more magnificent. Is it really a sacred tree? Can it really protect us and keep us alive?"

The little girl's mother looked at the towering tree in front of her, her eyes filled with undisguised astonishment. The bedtime story she had heard before was actually true; the divine tree really existed.


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