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Chapter 180
The sudden flash of light made the monk open his eyes.His eyes were terrifying. The white parts were completely filled with the glowing blue light. But in the very center, in the dark pupil, there was a tiny spark of a real person. That tiny spark looked incredibly scared.The monk looked up at Rick. The blue light in his eyes flickered."You..." the monk whispered. His voice sounded like dry leaves scraping on stone. "You carry... the Physician's scent."Rick leaned closer. He spoke in a soft, calm voice. "I am a healer. My name is Rick. I am here to help you. Do not move. Save your strength."The monk let out a weak, rattling laugh. It was a sad sound. "Help... me? No. There is no help. I am already... cured."Rick frowned. "Cured? What do you mean? What are these glowing marks on your body? Who did this to you?"The monk’s breathing was slow and forced. The blue sigils pulsed again, crawling slightly up his cheek like glowing blue worms. The monk squeezed his eyes shut in pain, th
Chapter 179
The wind blew across the dry land, picking up tiny pieces of salt and throwing them against Rick’s face. It stung his skin. It tasted like bitter tears on his lips.Rick walked slowly. His boots made a loud crunching sound with every step. Crunch. Crunch. Crunch. The sound echoed in the empty valley. Beside him, Luna walked quietly. She held the soft, glowing cocoon close to her chest. Her crystalline arm gave off a faint light, shining like a weak star in the bright, blinding day.They were both very tired. Healing the Ash Forest had taken a lot out of them. Rick’s body ached. His Qi, the deep energy that gave him life and the power to heal, was low. It felt like a nearly empty cup of water. But they could not stop. They had to keep moving.Ahead of them stood the mountain.It was a huge mountain made entirely of white salt. The sun beat down on it, making it shine so bright that Rick had to narrow his eyes to look at it. Carved right into the side of this mountain was a very old bui
Chapter 178
The water responded, glowing faintly at his touch. He felt Luna beside him, her presence steadying the flow of energy he had unleashed. Together, they were conduits, bridges between life and memory, between past and present.From the far side of the pond, a soft rustle drew his attention. A figure stepped from the mist. Human, though small, its form, barely solid. A child? Perhaps. Or maybe the echo of one. Rick held up a hand, a quiet signal of peace. The figure froze, then stepped forward, revealing a faint green glow within its chest, residual Qi from a life that had ended here long ago.“You healed this place,” the voice said, faint, distant, but real. “Even the forgotten.”Rick nodded, but did not speak. Instead, he placed both hands on the ground, drawing energy from the soil into himself, and sent a pulse that harmonized with the child-spirit’s heartbeat. The mist parted around them, and for a moment, the forest sang louder, a rising crescendo of life and memory intertwining
Chapter 177
The forest whispered. Not with wind or animals, but with the pulse of life itself, a quiet resonance that made even the stone beneath Rick’s knees hum in recognition. The ash grove had become something else, something alive. Silver leaves quivered in the faintest breeze, glowing moss climbed tree trunks like veins of molten light, and a faint luminescent mist rose from the forest floor, wrapping around Rick and Luna as if the land itself were breathing around them.Rick crouched beside a fallen log, tracing the patterns of newly sprouted roots with his fingers. The earth beneath his hands thrummed in reply, vibrating with the same rhythm as his pulse. Every spore, every shoot, every shard of life that had been buried under centuries of ash responded to his presence, acknowledging the energy he had poured into it. He closed his eyes and let his fingers sink into the soil, listening. The hum was no longer random. It was organized, structured, a song, a symphony composed by the forest
Chapter 176. The Breath of Roots
The ash lay silent under the gray sky, a brittle, ashen carpet stretching across the forest floor. Charred trunks jutted upward like blackened bones, and the wind carried a whisper of static that made every hair on Rick’s neck stand on end. Luna walked beside him, her crystalline arm faintly glowing, casting fragmented light onto the shattered landscape. She kept her eyes on the ground, sensing movements no human could perceive. Rick’s own pulse thrummed in rhythm with the soil, each beat searching for traces of life among the ruin.He knelt at the center of the clearing, a spot where the lightning had struck hardest centuries ago. The ground was hard, fused ash and clay cracked into jagged plates. Rick traced the contours with his fingers, feeling faint Qi currents struggling to stir beneath the surface. He exhaled, closing his eyes. He could feel the forest itself, a hollow heart that had stopped beating. His fingers dug deeper into the earth, carving channels along a spiral pat
Chapter 175. The Ash Forest
Rick stepped off the cracked path, boots sinking slightly into ash so fine it clung to his soles like wet flour. The air was heavy, electric, humming faintly against his skin. Lightning from centuries past had burned the forest to charcoal; even the wind whispered against the blackened trunks as though afraid to disturb the silence. No birds sang. No insects crawled. No small movements stirred the barren ground. The world here had been purified once, and now it was dead, or close enough to death that the difference no longer mattered.Luna followed behind, carrying the faint glow of her cocoon. She bent low, eyes narrowing, reaching toward the soil. Her hands hovered over patches of gray ash that seemed lifeless. "They’re still here," she whispered. "I can feel them, faint heartbeats, buried deep."Rick knelt beside her. Fingers tracing the uneven ground, he closed his eyes, letting his Qi seep into the soil. The System’s interface flickered faintly in the corner of his mind. [Env
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