Destiny is ashes

Chapter 900: Son of Metamorphosis (23)

More than half a year has passed since the battle that determined the future fate of Chen Li.

The damage done to the terrain by the warriors, the remains of their magical powers, will last for thousands and tens of thousands of years until the next great war, but apart from these almost semi-permanent changes, the world of Chenli is now better than it was a few years ago.

On a plain on the side of a mountain in the southwest of Chenli, around the Tagu River, which was named after the settled tribe, green grass spreads endlessly on both sides of the river beach. At the source of the river, the mountains are lush and green, and the green light is still eye-catching and dazzling even under the brilliance of the midday sun.

At the junction of mountains, hills and riverside plains, there stands a town in the Tieli style. On one side of the town, a tall waterwheel turns along the flowing river.

The water of Tagu River is so clear that you can see the pebbles on the riverbed. This water comes from the melted ice of the snow-capped mountains in the northwest. It will flow all the way to Dachen and eventually merge into other magnificent rivers and reach the estuary of the West Sea of ​​Beixuanjizhou.

The waterwheel creaked as it turned, and a road ran through the town like a river, leading directly to the neatly planted forests not far away.

As the spring breeze blows, children play in the woods. Children walk along the path along the river bank, patrolling in a safe place and listening to the sounds of the wind and the forest.

This is a very common scene. For the past thousands of years, most people who settled here have lived like this, with children running and jumping around playing hide-and-seek and ghost games, full of vitality.

However, if you observe carefully, you can find that the speed at which these children run and jump, and their agility in climbing in the woods and mountains, are far beyond the scope of "normal children".

The trees in the planted forest have evergreen leaves and straight trunks. They are obviously the evergreen spiritual trees that have spread throughout the dusty world in recent times. The roots of this kind of spiritual tree are extremely thick and strong. Even the flat ground will be raised by their roots and become uneven.

Some of its branches also hang down thin branches and aerial roots, blocking the view and hindering movement.

If an ordinary person walks quickly in such a forest, he or she may easily trip or be blocked from view and have to slow down.

But these children playing in the woods were different.

They move as swiftly as the wind, faster than an average adult can run. The rugged roots are as smooth as flat ground for them, and they don't even need to look at them, but playfully avoid the leaves and branches that block their vision.

Even their bodies were much larger than those of ordinary people: one child's hands and feet seemed a little uncoordinated. He suddenly fell while running and hit his forehead heavily on a stone.

If someone saw it, they would definitely scream in shock - with such a heavy fall, even a warrior would feel dizzy for a while, and if it were an ordinary person, his frontal bone would be shattered, and he would have intracranial hemorrhage, or at the very least a concussion.

However, after just a few moments, the child who had fallen stood up with a smile. Although there was a wound on his forehead, there was no blood flowing, and he did not look dizzy at all.

"Azhi, you fell again!"

The children on the side laughed and said, "When we go back later, the acting chief will scold you again!"

"Hehe, a praying mantis! A-Zhi is a praying mantis!"

"I'm not a praying mantis!" The fallen child blushed and waved his hands to defend himself: "My joint is stuck! The roots have grown out and are stuck at my ankle!"

"It's because you don't move enough! Lazy bastard! Busyhead!"

There is no need to pay attention to the children's fighting and making noise, but you can notice one detail, that is, these children's "joints" are indeed a little special.

It was not normal human flesh, but a strange kind of joints, either spherical or jointed. The material of the joints was very flexible and strong, but just as the child who fell said, these joints would grow fuzzy "roots", some of which had been smoothed by a lot of exercise, but occasionally some hard stubbles would grow that were difficult to smooth out, affecting movement.

It is obvious that these children are not normal 'human beings'.

They are the [Sons of Metamorphosis]. Since the battle of Mingjing Nirvana, the [Path of Metamorphosis] developed by Tianming Natural Master, Mingjing Sect's next generation leader An Jing, began to spread in the land of Chenli.

Because most of the living creatures were killed by the Youli Minghai disaster caused by the Taiming Sect, only souls remained, and the Yuhua Dao became a means to revive these souls.

However, the materials that can be used to make the immortal body are limited. Evergreen wood is still okay because the spiritual creatures in the entire Chenli area grow very fast due to the sweet dew from heaven, and now there is enough.

But the most important thing, the [Metamorphosis Chip] that carries the soul, is only available in the Mingjing Sect. There are not many of them, and there is only a certain quota at a certain time, so only some people can be resurrected.

Among this group of people, except for the core warriors and technical personnel, the vast majority are children.

These children who have come back to life and have begun to adapt to their celestial bodies since childhood are called "Sons of Celestial Beings."

Because of their bodies made of evergreen wood, they are naturally close to nature and have strong bodies; because of their feathered chips, their spirits are sharp and they are intelligent.

Although maintenance problems are difficult to solve due to the lack of various maintenance equipment and elixirs to inhibit proliferation provided by the Tianyuan Realm, the people of the Tianyuan Realm have the technology, and the people of the Huaixu Realm have magical powers!
As long as you get plenty of exercise, hone your body with the will of martial arts, and force your immortal body to grow according to your wishes, then you won't need any inhibitory potions!

The spirit of a warrior with a sense of emptiness is the best inhibitory medicine!
As for why children are given priority... although everyone says politically correct things like 'give priority to children, children are the future' on the surface.

But in fact, everyone knows.

If you want to build a brand new world based on new technology and new paths, there must be no rotten and smelly old things left alive.

Of course, most people are not rotten and smelly old things, but as elders, as people who have been permeated by the old times and still harbor ancient hatred, prejudice and discrimination, it is impossible for them to accept a world that is different from their inherent cognition.

Even if they accept it, they are not as good as children who accept it naturally and as a matter of course.

Therefore, needless to say, the souls of adults can be preserved for a longer period of time, while children have a shorter existence and a shorter preservation time, so children should naturally be given priority.

At this point, most of the towns in Chenli can be called [Academy Cities]. Only a small number of adults control puppets to maintain production and town operations, and social management is carried out through "chips".

A large number of children study and play there, receiving a brand new education from the Mingjing Sect.

Those with good fate will practice martial arts, and those without good fate will learn other skills. In short, no one’s potential and future will be wasted.

This is something that cannot be achieved anywhere else in the Tianyuan Realm and Huaixu Realm. It is a brand new social model, a new world where all the ancient undead spirits disappear and there is a blank slate.

"oops!"

The children who were originally playing, moving around in the woods and adapting to their new bodies suddenly cried out in surprise. It turned out that a naughty child had been ingenious in playing hide-and-seek and had climbed to the top of a huge tree like a clever monkey, trying to hide among the branches.

The child originally had nimble hands and feet, and when he was still in mortal form he could easily climb up giant trees. Now that he had a feathered body, he was even more powerful, and he reached the top in an instant.

But he forgot that a metamorphosis body is much heavier than a body of flesh and blood.

The branches could not bear the weight and broke suddenly, and the child fell from the top of the tree with a scream.

(End of this chapter)