Chapter 408 Grant My Wish (7000 words, second update, seeking monthly tickets~)

[Chi You emerged from amniotic fluid, with eight arms and eight toes, a sparse head, ascended the Nine Marshes to attack Kongsang, and the Yellow Emperor killed him in Qingqiu]

"So, it was him..."

Listening to the words of the Ice Fox Phantom, Su Zhou immediately understood. He recalled the greatest evil god in the history of the Zheng Nation's immortals and gods—indeed, the Lord of War was beheaded by the Initial Emperor in Qingqiu, and then dismembered and used as a sacrifice to heaven. His hair became banners, his stomach became a football, and even his flesh and blood were made into bitter paste, which was distributed to the people of the world.

But even so, the Initial Emperor did not deny the Lord of War's status as one of the primordial eight gods. In the future, countless emperors and generals in the lands of Shenzhou would worship this god of war before going on expeditions.

Now it seems that even if legends do not represent the truth, the Lord of War was indeed sealed in Qingqiu.

"Just like Typhon, even the corpse of such a madman who challenged the Main God and Heavenly Lord cannot be suppressed in the main world."

Because the speed of eliminating the Advent Society was too fast, Su Zhou did not stay in the Typhon realm of Europa for too long, but he still remembered the situation where the entire world was polluted: "And this time, the Lord of War's seal was broken, which led to the disaster of the human race in the Qingqiu realm."

As for why the disaster only began recently, even though the king was killed and the seal broken more than a thousand years ago, Su Zhou thought it might still be related to the severance of spiritual energy—this group of Qingqiu people, carrying the remnant soul of the Lord of War, prepared to go to the Central Divine Court for help, but were forced to crash-land on Qingqiu Four due to insufficient spiritual energy. Those who were still on Qingqiu Star, whether righteous or evil, probably lost their extraordinary powers, so how could they open the seal?

"Okay, I understand the general situation."

After processing all the information in his mind, Su Zhou solemnly stood up, holding the elder. He extended his hand towards the Ice Fox Phantom in front of him and said, "Although we are not the Central Divine Court, the current Earth civilization is also inclusive. This time we came to help precisely because we sensed the difficulties of the human race in the Qingqiu realm."

"We absolutely recognize the spirit of the Qingqiu people who have struggled to this day to avoid the devastation of life—the shuttle is outside, taking away the Ice Foxes is not a problem at all."

"Ah, ah... that's great... those children should spend the rest of their lives as humans..."

Hearing Su Zhou's words and seeing his actions, the Ice Fox Phantom couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. It wasn't surprised that Su Zhou was willing to help the Ice Foxes, because the kindness he showed was so upright and just that there was no need to lie.

However, it didn't quite understand why the other party was reaching out to it.

"Wait, are you saying, you want to take me away?"

Having figured this out, the Ice Fox Phantom couldn't help but smile wryly, "Impossible, I am the collective of the souls of the past elders and the first few Qingqiu people. My main body is the totem pole made of the skulls of those Ice Foxes, and this land. Wanting to take me away..."

As it spoke, the Ice Fox Phantom's tone slowed down, and its flame-like eyes stared blankly at the twenty-sided server that Su Zhou had taken out at some point.

"This is an emergency rescue from the New World Exploration Department of the Zheng Nation, and it has nothing to do with your thoughts."

Holding the Soul Abyss server given by Yan Sheng, Su Zhou pressed it against the Ice Fox Phantom's forehead. When the other party's fur stood on end, he said calmly, "Do you think you can't be saved? That you can't leave this land? Have you asked me, have you asked the 21st-century cyber-immortal technology of Earth's humans?"

In the next moment, Su Zhou immediately shouted, "Ice Fox Phantom, I ask you, do you dare to agree?"

"Gu?!" Forced by Su Zhou's aura, the phantom cried out softly in fright.

And so, the Ice Fox Phantom was taken into the Soul Abyss server.

Of course, although it sounds very hasty, when Su Zhou pressed the server against the Ice Fox Phantom's forehead, the other party had already received the information transmitted by Su Zhou and understood the power of this magical artifact.

Since that was the case, then why not give it a try?

Turning around and leaving the now empty elder's cave, Su Zhou returned to the underground cavity.

Here, having heard Su Zhou's loud shout, Liu Wuxin and Tang Yuan, who were on guard with serious expressions, passed through the encirclement formed by the Ice Foxes and came to the young man.

"What's wrong, Minister?"

Tang Yuan first glanced at the elder, whose complexion had improved and no longer looked like he was about to die at any moment, then looked up at Su Zhou and asked curiously, "What happened?"

"I roughly know what exactly happened in the Qingqiu realm."

Su Zhou didn't waste any words, and he concisely told his two companions about his conversation and guesses with the Ice Fox Phantom, shocking them.

"The Lord of War?! It's not strange that He, He was sealed on Qingqiu Star, but if it's really a Heavenly Lord..."

Liu Wuxin's expression was very interesting at this time, feeling like he was chatting up a beautiful woman with long flowing hair on the street, only to turn around and see a muscular man with long hair. His tone became cautious: "If it's really related to Him breaking out of the seal, I think we should now prepare to return to Earth immediately and lock down the space-time gate."

"I want to hear the Minister's opinion."

But Tang Yuan was much calmer. Although he, like Liu Wuxin, unconditionally believed Su Zhou's guess, he vaguely sensed some subtle points behind it.

"I don't think we need to worry too much."

Placing the sleeping elder on his shoulder, with six tails like a scarf, Su Zhou's expression was calm at this time, and he was not worried because of the awakening of a Heavenly Lord-level evil god: "First of all, if the Ice Fox Phantom didn't lie, then the core fragment of the Lord of War's true soul is sealed by them in the Holy Lake. Without this thing, even if the Lord of War revives now, then for at least a few decades, He will be a madman without much wisdom."

"Secondly, if the records in the ancient books of the Zheng Nation are all correct, then Lord Lord of War was dismembered and dissected by the Initial Emperor, and even His flesh and blood were made into meat paste—what is sealed in Qingqiu is probably just a part of His body. Even if He awakens, He won't be too terrifying... Otherwise, with just a part of the seal being broken, we wouldn't be able to save the current Qingqiu Star, and the people would probably have all died."

"Finally, there's no use worrying, anyway, we'll take it one step at a time, so let's be optimistic. Being optimistic doesn't cost money anyway."

Combining the above three points, Su Zhou indeed didn't have much fluctuation in his heart, and under the influence of the calm Su Zhou, Liu Wuxin and Tang Yuan gradually calmed down.

——Indeed, there's nothing to be afraid of, anyway, being afraid is useless.

Then, they all looked around the underground cavity, and met the eyes of the dozens of Ice Foxes.

"They were all humans back then..."

Liu Wuxin couldn't help but murmur, "I really can't imagine it. Fortunately, it's mimetic Dao, otherwise, it would be basically impossible for humans to survive in this environment."

"They are all humans now." Su Zhou corrected Liu Wuxin's mistake, then handed the sleeping elder on his shoulder to Tang Yuan on the side, asking him to hold it: "Anyway, we can't stand by and watch them die, because the ghost ship crews and the empty space on the Yuanwang is large, so temporarily raising this group of foxes is not a problem."

"En~"

Holding the fluffy fox, a smile unconsciously appeared on Tang Yuan's face—he had been thinking, how happy would Leng Xiaxia be if he sent a similar fox to her.

But seeing Su Zhou's pace constantly approaching the Holy Lake, his fantasy was put back into his mind, and he subconsciously asked, "Minister, what are you planning to do?"

"The Lord of War's remnant soul is sealed below, I'm going to recover it."

Saying this, Su Zhou slowly stepped into the water.

Water Assistance naturally activated, and the young man himself did not make any movements, and the flowing water spontaneously took him in the direction he wanted to go.

——The bottom of the Holy Lake.

Numerous silver Ice Fox bones are scattered on the root systems of many algae, releasing a bright, metal-like light.

Due to the Ice Fox clan's perennial sacrifices, and the consistent heating of the spirit power furnace of the void-breaking shuttle, the water of the Holy Lake is warm all year round, exceeding twenty degrees, and the degree of spirit energy radiation is extremely high. Ordinary people who drink this water will die in a few days.

However, both the white small fish with strange shapes like deep-sea fish in the water, and the deep purple algae organisms, are extremely adapted to this special environment and grow very well. No wonder they can supply the diet of dozens of Ice Foxes.

The Holy Lake itself is a bowl-shaped depression in the stratum, and its bottom layer is the place where the spirit power furnace and the seal of the Lord of War's true soul are located. Su Zhou can see at a glance the area that is releasing a light golden glow, so he directly uses Water Assistance to control and drive himself to the other side.

Soon, he arrived at a huge cylindrical light furnace with a radius of about five meters, and a black jade bead locked on it by a huge magic array.

"This furnace core is too old, with too much harmful radiation."

When approaching, Su Zhou, frowning tightly, already sensed the extremely large spirit power overflowing. It was harmful radiation that would gradually kill ordinary people within a few days if they continued to be exposed to it for five seconds.

Of course, this level of radiation is meaningless to Su Zhou, but what he is really concerned about is not this ancient spirit power furnace, but the black jade bead about the size of a human fist.

Without a doubt, that is the magic weapon that suppresses the fragments of the Lord of War's true soul—and the spirit power cycle in the entire Holy Lake is suppressing this small jade ball.

As for why Su Zhou is so concerned, it is naturally because his divine power has reacted.

[Fragments of the True Soul of the Lord of War of the Nine Li]

[Regarding conquest and destruction, chaos and war as common sense, perhaps the eternal battle brings eternal silence. However, whether fighting against silence is also a kind of strife is unknown?]

[The fragmented core of the true soul may still have the possibility of returning to its original state]

In the depths of the black jade pillar, some kind of complex structure that seems to still possess life is constantly reorganizing and transforming, but it has been unable to break through the seal of the jade bead.

Vaguely, it can still be seen that there is a rather scribbled message written on this huge spirit power furnace.

[Unknown people or immortals and gods, although it is likely that you will know this too late, I still want to repeat that the seal has a problem, and the evil god is about to revive. We took away part of His true soul, trying to escape this realm, but in the end, we fell on this world due to the severance of spiritual energy, struggling to survive.]

[In any case, take away this fragment of the true soul, the farther away the better, or completely destroy it. Never let Him revive. This is our last and only wish.]

[If you have ever met a group of foxes, then I hope you will not harm them. If you have already harmed them and are unwilling to stop, then please do not humiliate them, and kill them as directly and quickly as possible, giving these children the last bit of dignity of dying as human beings... I am already unable to ask for too much. At least when leaving this text, we thought so.]

"Hmph, who would attack such cute foxes? Too much worry."

After reading these, although he seemed dismissive on the surface, Su Zhou still sighed in his heart.

But then, he found that the entire furnace core seal and the jade ball that sealed the Lord of War's true soul were connected together—in a short time, it would be basically impossible to separate them, and the spirit power circulation system of the entire lake would become a resistance to this matter.

In other words, it is almost impossible to completely disconnect the jade bead from the seal.

And the way to solve this problem is also very simple—Su Zhou directly threw the entire furnace core and the sealed jade ball into his personal space.

——Yes, I can't open the lock, but can't I tear down the wall?

Inside the personal space.

"Lala, lalala, lalala~"

With a loud bang, the Wisdom Tree, glowing all over, was humming a song while manipulating spiritual power to clean up the space that had been messed up by the Extinction Blade when it was running wild—making the originally chaotic and complex things orderly was one of its joys.

Then, it saw that an entire huge light golden energy furnace with a diameter of about ten meters fell heavily on a clearing it had just tidied up with an unstoppable momentum.

Boom! Immediately, the energy furnace was embedded in the ground.

"Eh——"

The light tree made a dissatisfied sound and was about to continue to condemn it, but soon, the Wisdom Tree heard Su Zhou's instructions again: "Help suppress it, Wisdom Tree, you are the best divine tree, you will definitely not disappoint my expectations, right?"

"The best! Of course, I won't!"

Immediately, inspired by Su Zhou's words, the Wisdom Tree immediately cheered up.

With layers of silver-white spirit power light patterns spreading out, the divine tree immediately stretched out its branches and linked to the hot spirit power furnace and the seal array patterns above—and on the side, the divine sword that had also received Su Zhou's instructions automatically came out of its sheath, and the black blade released a dangerous cold light.

After finishing these things, Su Zhou floated up and returned to the cavity.

And what he saw after emerging from the water was a neat row of Ice Foxes standing in lines, being inspected by Liu Wuxin and Tang Yuan.

"Minister, how is it?"

Tang Yuan, who was playing the 'lining up game' with the foxes, stood up and asked when Su Zhou appeared. The young man originally thought that Su Zhou would come out of the lake with something obviously very dangerous, but he didn't see anything, so he was quite puzzled: "What happened below? I heard a loud bang."

"I have recovered the fragments of the Lord of War's true soul—it's okay, the foxes' seals are very complete, otherwise things would be at least a hundred times more troublesome."

Saying this, although there was not a drop of water on his body, Su Zhou still shook his head, as if he wanted to shake off the water droplets.

Then, he turned his head and looked at the foxes.

Those Ice Foxes, one by one, had curious and guarded, blank and confused gazes, but they were also very kind and very gentle.

——For thousands of years, they have been here, using their lives and wisdom as the price, transforming into seals to suppress the remnants of the Lord of War, generation after generation of foxes.

"But now, you should become humans and go home."

Saying this, Su Zhou slowly walked towards all the Ice Foxes. He opened his arms and calmly said to all the foxes: "Make a wish."

"Tell me your wishes."

And at this moment.

All the foxes heard it.

Whether they were big or small, male or female, old or young, wise or foolish, as long as they were still alive and had consciousness, they all heard Su Zhou's voice.

Then, like a large stone being thrown into a lake of hearts, endless thoughts arose.

——Want food.

Some foxes thought so, longing for days of fullness.

——Want warmth.

Some foxes thought so, longing for a comfortable sleep.

——Want a bigger residence.

Some foxes thought so, longing for personal space.

——Want the family to be safe together.

Some foxes thought so, longing for a harmonious life.

Naturally, there were these ordinary and frequent wishes, and there were also many strange wishes. Some foxes wanted to eat a few more white fish, some foxes wanted to become as strong as the elder, some foxes wanted the light of the Holy Lake to be brighter, some foxes liked a girl...

——Want to look at the stars without being so cold.

And among all the wishes, one wish from a small fox was so pure.

When she raised her head, she always longed for.

Longing to be able to look up at the stars in the distance on a calm and warm land.

Want, want...

For a time, dozens of wishes came in droves.

The petitioners trapped on the distant star had been bound for too long, so long that even their wishes were so small and insignificant.

However, such seemingly ordinary or even humble wishes were accepted equally and sincerely by one will.

"No problem."

Bending down and picking up a few Ice Foxes, Su Zhou let them sweep his cheeks happily with their tails, he smiled and said calmly, "I will fulfill these wishes."

"Wait a moment, compatriots."

Then, he gently put down these few foxes, then raised his hand, signaling Liu Wuxin and Tang Yuan to leave with him.

The three of them left the underground cavity in silence.

And most of the foxes were now immersed in the thoughts of making a wish.

This was the first time they had begun to use their wisdom to imagine and envision a 'future' that they had never had before.

——This is... making a wish.

A luxury unique to intelligent life.

"Gu, ga?"

But, gradually, the excitement gradually dissipated.

After the three of them had left for a while, some foxes broke away from their reverie. They recovered their minds, looked around the still cold, still dark, and still damp underground cavity in confusion, and then gave a long and sad cry.

That former happiness gradually turned into worry.

Although they had already made a wish, would it be fulfilled? This anxious thought was entangled in their hearts...

——After all, making a wish.

It is also the most poisonous drug, unique to intelligent life.

The elder had left with the three of them, and Xiao Wu, who was younger, shook her two tails. After breaking away from the joy of making a wish, she was a little unwilling to go back to her cave.

Those strange creatures that gave people a sense of security had taken the elder away...

So who would be the next elder? Would it be Sixth Grandpa or Little Grandpa?

She was thinking so, and then, just like that, the little fox suddenly bumped into another fluffy ball.

Pulling her head out of the other party's tail, Xiao Wu shook her head, and then saw that it was Second Grandpa who was thinking.

——What's wrong?

The little fox asked curiously, patting the other party with her tail.

...Xiao Wu, do you want to go out with me to see the stars?

And after being silent for a while, the big fox said so, and this invitation immediately aroused the little fox's interest.

——Okay.

She responded happily.

So, the two foxes passed through the cavity, passed through the tunnel, and they passed through the murals and reliefs that no fox had cared about.

Naturally, they didn't notice that the strange 'human figure' holding a carving knife at the end of the tunnel was gone. Someone had taken him away.

And above the murals, the abstract fonts seemed even more obvious.

[Birds fly back to their hometowns, rabbits return to their burrows, foxes die with their heads facing the hills, and the cold will fly over the water. Each mourns for where they were born]

If you go out from that winding and complex cave and look up at the starry sky, you can actually see a bright star in the distance.

What does that star mean?

The foxes don't actually know.

But that star has always existed.

The little fox and the big fox crawled out of the cave together. They walked slowly on the ice and then looked at the stars in the sky together.

——Cold, boring, uninteresting.

Although she didn't like looking at the stars alone when she regarded it as a task and work, Xiao Wu felt that time passed surprisingly quickly when she could look at the stars freely.

But, where are those strange adults?

Will they come back?

And holding such thoughts, the little fox, who was just enjoying the feeling of looking at the starry sky, suddenly heard the big fox beside her scream.

"Gu ao?!"

Then, she turned her head again and looked at the starry sky on the other side that was flashing with light.

There, a silver star was streaking across the sky above——this shooting star was falling rapidly, falling, and then becoming bigger and bigger.

Until the end, it turned into a mountain peak and descended in front of the astonished foxes.

——Click.

Then, the hatch opened.

The white light shone on the dark planet.

...

Inside the Yuanwang.

"The quarantine personnel pay attention! After cleaning the Ice Foxes' fur, don't touch them there and grope them up and down. Continue working, we don't have time to waste!"

"Be careful, don't be careless. Although transcendents won't be infected with ordinary viruses, who knows if these foxes have transcendent diseases? For the health of both parties, pay attention!"

"Captain Su? I finally found you. Where did you find so many foxes?! Eh, are they humans? Or children?!"

"...The people in the Third Division listen to me, don't touch those foxes! Be careful of being convicted of child molestation after returning to Earth!"

"Don't rub against me... Hey, you little guys, tsk, I told you not to rub! I'm not doing it voluntarily, is this considered a crime..."

Lin Chengde's voice, who stayed on the ship, was initially full of surprise, very strange about where Su Zhou and others had found such a group of fluffy creatures, but soon, his tone became happy: "Hey, so cute, touch touch~ Wait, don't bite my hair, those are air roots, you can't eat them!"

Inside the captain's cabin.

Liu Wuxin, who had worked with Su Zhou to transfer the Ice Foxes, had also stopped his busy work at this time. He stood behind the young man, his emotions a little complicated.

"What to do?"

He asked Su Zhou with some distress: "Although we haven't gone to Qingqiu Three to observe the situation yet, it should be no problem to go back now. After all, it concerns the seal of the Lord of War, so we need to be more cautious."

"No, you're wrong, we have to see the situation."

In response, Su Zhou, who was standing on the bridge, said so: "After warning for so long, the Qingqiu human race still exists, proving that even if there is a disaster on Qingqiu Star, it is not irreversible——but if we go back and forth, it will be several months. By then, the people may all be dead. What is the point of our running around to rescue them?"

At this time, the young man was closing his eyes.

In his personal space, working with the power of the Wisdom Tree and the Extinction Blade, he was reshaping the cycle of the seal in his small world to suppress the remnants of the Lord of War.

The huge silver divine tree flickered with light, the black divine sword served as a carving knife, and a huge spiritual power was burning, engraving layers of overlapping runes in the air.

And after doing all this, Su Zhou slowly opened his eyes, his blue-purple dragon eyes, gazing at the Zhou Tian light curtain of the spaceship in front of him.

And in front of him, there was a star, highlighted by Ai.

It was a gloomy planet where the continent was green, but the sea had turned black and the sky and earth were shrouded in haze.

——Qingqiu Three Planet.

The ancient Qingqiu Kingdom.

Gazing at that land, Su Zhou, who had always been very calm, suddenly laughed in the public channel.

"Haha."

In the surprised gazes of Lin Chengde, who was taking care of the foxes, Liu Wuxin behind him, and Tang Yuan, who was writing an exploration report, Su Zhou grinned.

He crossed his arms and looked at the star in front of him with burning eyes. The young man laughed heartily: "I thought it was some earthquake or tsunami, or some spiritual energy disaster... I didn't expect it to be a man-made disaster."

"Interesting——I have to take care of this kind of nosy business."

"Set off, target, Qingqiu Three!" He ordered in a deep voice.

"Yes." At the same time, on the other side, Captain Tallen of the Tarin began to adjust the direction of the Yuanwang. The Yuanwang, with its back to the cold and dead Qingqiu Four, began to spray hot and dazzling silver-blue light streams.

"Target, Qingqiu Three!"

September 21, 2017.

Carrying a nest of foxes and an exploration team from the 'Central Divine Court', the human spaceship began to advance.

Su Zhou was going to the third planet of the Qingqiu star system.

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