Primordial Era: When a Good Guy Awakens a Morally Unethical System

Chapter 4, The Ginseng Fruit Tree of Longevity Mountain

Chen Zhe remained lonely in his later years. His parents divorced and each remarried, having new children.

Although his living expenses were transferred to him every month without fail, his energy was inevitably divided by his new family and children. Often, he wouldn't see them all year round. Chen Zhe grew up in a boarding school, going from fearing loneliness to getting used to it.

After starting work, for various reasons, I didn't like having other people around me, whether men or women. I would buy cat and dog food as soon as I got paid, and then spend my time playing with the cats and dogs in the neighborhood.

But Chen Zhe, who had grown accustomed to solitude, longed most for the friendship between Zhen Yuanzi and Hongyun.

The book says that Zhen Yuanzi risked his life to protect Hongyun. If Hongyun hadn't left Wuzhuang Temple, she wouldn't have died, given Zhen Yuanzi and the Book of Earth. After Hongyun's death, Zhen Yuanzi lived a secluded life, having no friends.

For Chen Zhe, traveling to the prehistoric world was a good thing. As Hongyun, he could have a confidant who would never betray him.

On Longevity Mountain, two fruit trees, imbued with profound spiritual power, grow side by side, swaying in the wind. When the red clouds drifted to Longevity Mountain and saw the ginseng fruit trees, they knew they had found the right path.

However, Zhen Yuanzi was nowhere to be found. Hongyun looked around and finally discovered the discrepancy between the description in the book and the actual situation.

Longevity Hill is just a mountain, without the Wuzhuang Temple, indicating that Zhen Yuanzi has not yet taken human form. Furthermore, while the novel only mentions one ginseng fruit tree, here there are two growing side-by-side.

The novel does not specify what form Zhen Yuanzi took, but now it seems that he should be one of the ginseng fruit trees.

The red cloud slowly drifted down and stopped above the two fruit trees. I wanted to take a closer look to see which one was Zhen Yuanzi.

Meanwhile, Zhen Yuanzi, who had already developed sentience, became curious about the cloud above him. The primordial world was so vast, why didn't this cloud stay elsewhere, but instead landed right above him? Was it taking advantage of his lack of merit and fortune, trying to steal his spiritual energy and sunlight for cultivation?

Zhen Yuanzi stretched out his branches and slowly rose into the sky, trying to push away the red clouds.

Hongyun was overjoyed to find that Zhenyuanzi had developed sentience and was even extending a branch to play with her. She happily used her magic to grab the branch, lowered it a little further, and circled around the ginseng fruit tree.

Zhen Yuanzi was even more puzzled. What was going on? Was Yun also eating fruit?

However, seeing that the cloud was just hovering around him without making any move, Zhen Yuanzi stopped wondering, since he couldn't move it or drive it away.

And so, Hongyun cultivated in the sky above Longevity Mountain every day, sheltering herself from the scorching sun and the rain, and in her spare time, she would float down to play with Zhen Yuanzi.

Until noon one day, the spiritual power of the ginseng fruit tree suddenly surged out. Hongyun thought that Zhen Yuanzi was about to transform into human form, but it turned out that it was just that one of the fruit trees had blossomed.

The other fruit tree that hadn't yet blossomed cursed the cloud a thousand times in its heart. If it weren't for the cloud stealing its spiritual energy for cultivation and not allowing it to absorb sunlight and rain, how could it have fallen behind its brother next to it?

Once he transforms into human form, I will definitely take my revenge!

Hongyun was unaware of Zhen Yuanzi's thoughts; she was simply wondering when the ginseng fruit tree would bear fruit. If it did, could she eat a few and perhaps transform into human form?

I don't know why Zhenyuanzi didn't bloom. Could it be because it developed sentience and used all its spiritual power for cultivation? Or is it that once it developed sentience, it became a living being, not a fruit tree, and therefore could no longer grow or wither?

Will Zhen Yuanzi be unhappy? Go down and comfort him!

(End of this chapter)