Chapter 283 - 3: Transforming Grass into Soldiers—Spirit Wood Technique
When Yue Jinghua smiled, her eyes slightly curved like the fluttering wings of a white butterfly, as snowflakes clung to her eyelashes.
Seeing her smile, Yue Chen also knew that she did not blame him, and the uneasy heart he harbored suddenly felt relieved.
Snowflakes started to drift down from the sky, gently and steadily.
Soon, a layer of downy snow settled on Yue Jinghua’s hair, and seeing this, Yue Chen used his little hand to carefully pat it clean for her, then took off his fox fur coat and cautiously draped it over her head.
Yue Jinghua, seeing this, smiled and patted the spot next to her, signaling Yue Chen to sit down.
The two sat shoulder to shoulder in the snow, the whispering wind blowing faintly in their ears, and Yue Chen’s youthful, tender voice broke the silence intermittently.
"My Spiritual Wood Core is incomplete. When I was brought back by Yue Nian, I only vaguely remembered some fragments of memories from the Senming Realm, a place with boundless forests and flower seas. I can recall the face of my birth mother, and her cries telling me to run before she died, but I can’t remember much else. Since I was little, I’ve known that I have a unique ability to control spirit wood. Ye Zi is the only companion I have found over the years. I discovered her in the You Tan Palace; I still remember she was my childhood playmate. She told me that I come from a place called Senming Realm, where my kinspeople, members of the Tree Demon Flower Charm Clan, resided."
Yue Chen seemed to remember not much of his past, his memories fragmented into pieces. He only knew that he had escaped from a temple. As for what had harmed him, he could no longer remember.
Ye Zi also told Yue Chen that his true form was a kind of Holy Wood called Nine-curved Phoenix Wood, and that the Senming Realm had been attacked by the Rock Demon Realm. The previous Clan Leader’s Lady, while leading him away from the Senming Realm, vanished without a trace.
It took Ye Zi more than a decade to finally reach the Canglong Continent and trace the whereabouts of their own clanspeople.