hotmtlnovel Chapter 552 It really works!
Chapter 552 It really works!
Xu Si's consciousness slowly receded from the deep purple sky, like a fish emerging from deep water.
He reopened his eyes, and the branches of the World Tree swayed slightly around him. The fluorescent green light was even stronger than before, as if sensing that he was about to embark on a long journey.
"I've found a way to heal injuries caused by the laws of nature!"
Xu Si immediately shared this good news with Yi Yi.
"Really?" Yi Yi's mind was a mixture of confusion, surprise, and reluctance.
"However, I may have to leave for a while, so I'll have to look after the team in your care!" Xu Si said.
Although Jian Shiyi was there to oversee things, Xu Si felt it was still better to give Yi Yi a heads-up, at least to keep her from overthinking.
"I will! But..." Her tone was still filled with self-reproach.
"I'll probably be back soon. I hope that by then you'll have become the true World Tree, and Earth..." Xu Si didn't finish his sentence.
No matter what, Earth will never return to its original state, and he didn't want to put too much pressure on Yi Yi.
"I'm ready to go," he said.
"Are we going now? Your laws haven't recovered yet, what if you encounter danger..." Yi Yi's voice carried a hint of hesitation.
"That's precisely why we need to go, since she hasn't recovered yet." Xu Si smiled wryly; this girl was still a bit dazed!
The World Tree's branches trembled slightly, as if silently expressing something.
"Then... come back soon, I'll make sure Earth recovers as quickly as possible."
"Don't worry, I'm at least a Sequence Nine now. Although I can't use the laws, I still have the ability to run away." He paused and then added.
"I'm entrusting Earth to you."
"Um."
……
Xu Si looked up into the distance, and the light of the blood-red sun fell into his starry eyes, reflecting a faint golden-red halo.
His fingers gently traced the rough trunk of the World Tree, as if in a silent farewell.
His body then began to dissipate, transforming into countless starlight that scattered and surged wildly toward the outside of Earth.
And the target, naturally, is the resource planet he has already marked.
The path was long, but not particularly bumpy.
Because of the stars as a springboard, even though that planet was only a few interstellar jumps in Xu Si's field of vision, it was still just a matter of time.
He had previously thought the journey would take several days or even months, but he arrived on this resource planet in less than a quarter of an hour.
Is this the correct way to be the Astral Ruler?
It's all in vain!
It seems he only came out for afternoon tea.
Xu Si stood on that dark red land, the residual heat of the rocks baked by the high temperature emanating from beneath his feet, and a slight rustling sound as the soles of his boots touched the sandstone.
The deep purple sky hung low, like a curtain stained with fireworks, pressing heavily overhead.
The air was as dry as hard breadcrumbs that had been repeatedly baked, and with each breath you could feel a scorching heat carrying the smell of sulfur.
Xu Si looked down at his hands. Star power flowed slightly on the surface of his skin, forming a thin protective layer that kept out the corrosive air.
"With this air quality, no wonder there aren't many living things around."
His senses spread outwards, and the crystalline creatures slowly crawled through the strata hundreds of meters beneath his feet, completely unaware of his presence.
"Yi-yi, I've arrived." Xu Si mentally reported his safety to Yi-yi.
The two are still in a symbiotic relationship. They couldn't communicate before, but now they are not limited by distance.
After a moment of silence, a crisp, clear voice rang in his mind: "So fast?"
"Yeah, I didn't expect that either," Xu Si said.
The new sequence works better than I expected.
"This world has no high-level intelligent life forms, so there's not much danger. I'm going to start trying to heal my injuries to my laws."
"Then be careful," she said, giving him a gentle reminder.
"Um"
……
Xu Si squatted down, his fingertips touching the ground.
The dark red sandstone surface was rough and warm, and the fine particles rubbed against his fingertips like crushed ore.
His star power seeped into the ground from his fingertips, extending downwards along the cracks in the sandstone, passing through layers of earth, and heading towards the "core" he had sensed.
The moment the core was touched, his little world trembled slightly, as if it had resonated with something.
The patterns of law resembled a vast, dormant crystal vein, its surface shimmering with a dark orange light, each pattern vibrating at an extremely slow frequency.
Xu Si's star power gently touched one of the patterns.
That pattern represents "matter," one of the most fundamental laws of this world.
"...It was definitely the right decision to come," he said softly.
Xu Si's star power pressed against the dark orange law pattern, then wrapped around it like silk threads, carefully enveloping it.
He could feel the pattern trembling slightly, like a plucked string emitting a low, almost inaudible hum.
The laws of matter.
These are the cornerstones of all physical existence—mass, hardness, density, and form.
It doesn't need complex intelligence to maintain itself; simply existing is enough to give this world weight and shape.
Xu Si closed his eyes, allowing the star power to slowly merge with the law pattern.
At first, everything went smoothly. The dark orange light climbed upwards along his star power, like vines entwining a tree trunk, slowly but steadily.
He could sense that the light contained some ancient and solid structure, like a foundation built over millions of years, every inch of which was so solid that it gave him peace of mind.
Then, a subtle resistance came from the depths of the law.
It's like a door being gently blocked from the inside; not completely locked, but no longer completely unobstructed.
Xu Si frowned slightly.
"Hmm?" He increased the output of his star power, trying to forcefully break through that layer of resistance.
The resistance didn't disappear; instead, it became more pronounced, like a stone pressed against the back of a door that's been pushed open. As the pushing force increases, the reaction force of that stone also increases simultaneously.
"interesting."
The consciousness of this world is only equivalent to when it first became the World Tree, yet it instinctively tries to stop Xu Si, the plunderer.
However, for Xu Si, this was merely a minor obstacle.
Xu Si's small world seemed to be in a hurry, and it started to spin on its own, frantically sweeping those laws toward it.
Self-repair seems to be an instinct in Xu Si's small world.
With Xu Si's help, those solid 'matter laws' began to break free from their own limitations and obediently flow out from the door.
"It really works!"
"Then I'll begin!"
Xu Si had no intention of being polite at all.
Survival itself is a massive act of plunder.