51: Chapter 51: Fusion of a Top-Grade Lightning Spirit Root! Emerald Green Divine Tree! Terrifying Creature!

"Zom...bie!!!"

Chu Xiao felt his heart trembling; this scene was truly beyond his understanding.

Inside the ancient bronze coffin!

That female corpse!

It was actually alive, its sharp nails scratching the walls of the coffin as if it could break free at any moment.

The Talismans stuck to the ancient bronze coffin also faintly glowed.

Upon closer inspection, those Talismans were extremely ancient, filled with the marks of time. It was unknown who had drawn them or how many years they had existed.

Clearly.

Everything before him had already exceeded common sense.

If Chu Xiao hadn't been bound to the System and possessed a mental fortitude far beyond ordinary people, he would have been scared witless by now.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

The sound of chains clashing came from underground, accompanied by a terrifying, faint roar.

Chu Xiao steadied his mind and looked beneath his feet again. He saw that deep within the basement, there was another sealed room. The outside of the door was sealed with various Talismans, and the clashing and roaring sounds were coming from that secret room.

The space inside the secret room was hazy, with a layer of black mist blocking his vision, making it impossible to see inside.

"What on earth is going on? Even my X-ray Vision can't see through that secret room!"

"Old man..."

"How many things are you hiding from me!"

Chu Xiao looked around and quickly found the entrance to the basement. Unfortunately, there was a mechanism on the entrance that required a special key to open.

"Forget it! I'll ignore this for now!"

Chu Xiao forced himself to calm down. He found the piece of withered wood that the old man treated like a precious treasure. This piece of withered wood looked like the root of some giant tree, a section of it having been forcefully broken off by something, and it had completely petrified into a jade-like state.

Calling it wood wasn't quite accurate; it should be called a fossil.

When trees from hundreds of millions of years ago were buried by soil during some disaster, after countless ages of change and baptism, their original wooden structure would change. They would be eroded by various mineral elements in the soil, undergoing a jade-like transformation to become a fossil that was neither jade nor stone.

This kind of wood was usually called Silicified Wood. It was very valuable, possessing great archaeological and ornamental value, and was extremely rare.

However, even Silicified Wood wouldn't be considered anything special in the old man's eyes—at most, it would be worth tens of millions.

For this piece of Silicified Wood to be treated as a treasure by Chu Jianghe, it must have something special about it. It likely wasn't an ordinary treasure.

"Let's see if I can bring it back to life first, then I'll ask the old man what this wood actually is later!"

Chu Xiao took out the mysterious small green bottle from his robe. He tilted the bottle and poured out two drops of crystal-clear liquid.

Visibly, ripples of green light spread out, and a fragrance filled the air.

The crystal-clear mysterious liquid was instantly absorbed.

But after waiting for a few minutes.

There was still no movement from the withered wood, nor any sign of it regaining life.

"System! You didn't make a mistake, did you? Didn't you say the liquid in the mysterious small green bottle could bring any plant back to life? Why isn't there any reaction?"

"Could it be that because it's become a fossil, it's no longer considered a plant?"

Chu Xiao inquired.

[Ding!]

[Please wait patiently, Host!]

The System responded flatly.

After waiting for about five minutes.

On the surface of the withered wood, a crack suddenly appeared in a thick layer of already jade-like bark. From it sprouted a thin, tiny sprout about the size of a mung bean sprout. It was crystal clear and actually emitted a faint light, looking quite miraculous.

"It really is a withered tree blossoming in spring!"

Chu Xiao was overjoyed and felt it was incredibly magical. He didn't know how old this piece of withered wood was, but its entire body had already petrified. It could be said to have no life left at all, yet it was actually forced to sprout by the liquid in the mysterious small green bottle.

It was truly unbelievable!

However, the sprout only grew a few centimeters before stopping.

"Is it not enough energy?"

Chu Xiao couldn't contain his curiosity and added another drop. When the emerald-green liquid dripped onto the sprout, it was absorbed instantly.

The sprout grew another two centimeters and unfurled two milky-white leaves. On those leaves, there were actually veins that looked like bolts of lightning.

Even more miraculous was that when these two leaves unfurled, the entire room instantly fell silent, as if suppressed by something that took away all sound.

Even the Female Zombie inside the ancient bronze coffin went quiet, standing there blankly with a hint of fear flashing in her eyes.

"Could this withered wood actually be some kind of spiritual plant that can suppress evil spirits?"

Chu Xiao rubbed his chin and muttered to himself.

According to the System's description, the liquid in the mysterious small green bottle was extremely precious. A single drop could bring a plant back to life and make it grow rapidly.

But even after three drops, the withered wood had only produced two leaves.

After thinking about it.

Chu Xiao put away the mysterious small green bottle, which had about three drops left.

"System! How many pleasure points do I have now?"

He asked.

[Ding!]

[Host's current pleasure points balance: 18,290.12]

Chu Xiao narrowed his eyes: "Help me purchase the [Top-grade Lightning Spiritual Root]!"

[Ding!]

[Congratulations, Host, on consuming 10,000 pleasure points!]

[Obtained [Top-grade Lightning Spiritual Root]. Please be prepared, Host; the physical reconstruction will bring unprecedented pain!]

As the words fell.

A piercing pain erupted from Chu Xiao's Dantian, as if something was being torn apart, or as if something was taking root in his stomach.

Immediately after, pain spread through all the Meridians in his body.

To give an analogy, it was like a soft steel wire being inserted into your blood vessels, churning wildly and spreading throughout your entire body.

Unprecedented pain!

Chu Xiao couldn't help but roar, subconsciously slapping his body all over.

This pain made him almost lose his mind.

It lasted for several minutes.

Chu Xiao finally couldn't bear the pain and collapsed to the ground, falling unconscious.

The sprout on the withered wood swayed, slowly lengthening. Arcs of light like lightning flickered, and faint bolts of electricity landed on Chu Xiao's body.

In an instant, a large number of lightning arcs erupted from the sprout, all sinking into Chu Xiao's body.

If Chu Xiao were awake right now, he would definitely be able to see a ball of light resembling a tree in his Dantian, fusing into his Top-grade Lightning Spiritual Root.

The entire room fell silent.

A long time passed.

A sigh filled with the weight of ages echoed in the room.

The source of the sound was actually that emerald-green sprout. Its branches and leaves swayed, and the sound of thunder vibrated, but it soon went silent.

Inside the ancient bronze coffin, the Female Zombie swallowed hard and spoke in shock: "It's the aura of the Divine Wood!"

And deep within that secret room in the basement.

A withered, skeletal humanoid creature, its joints bound by dark red chains, was soaked in a pool of blood. Its two hollow eye sockets flickered with a crimson light.

"Spiritual Qi! I feel Spiritual Qi! The Dharma-Ending Age has ended... Hahaha...!!"

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