BDSMST -Chapter 138 Passing the Trial and Gaining Recognition

The white jade staircase spiraled downward, its end unknown.

A pure aura of life surrounded everyone like a tangible mist. Just taking a single breath made their limbs and bones feel incomparably comfortable.

“This… is the true core of Medicine King Valley below,” Bai Yutang said, his voice trembling with uncontrollable excitement.

Jiang Suisui walked at the front, while Gu Yan followed closely behind. Step by step, they descended the staircase. The deeper they went, the brighter the light became—and the stronger the life aura grew.

After walking for about the time it takes to burn an incense stick, the sight before them caused everyone to stop in their tracks.

At the end of the staircase was an enormous underground space.

The dome above was not made of rock but of a strange crystal that shimmered with flowing colors. It emitted a warm light like the sun, illuminating the entire area so brilliantly that it felt like a divine realm.

At the center of the cavern lay a rippling emerald lake, its water crystal clear—the true source of the Spring of Life.

But the most breathtaking sight stood on the small island in the middle of the lake:

A towering ancient tree.

The tree was completely translucent, as if carved from the purest jade. Its trunk twisted with age, and its branches were thick with lush leaves. Each leaf emitted a gentle glow of life.

Countless pale-green specks of light floated around it like fireflies, dancing and circling the tree.

Jiang Suisui was not unfamiliar with this tree.

It looked almost identical to the small tree on the island in the lake within her space, except that this one was thousands of times larger—and thousands of years older.

Clearly, this was the “mother body” of that small tree.

“The… Holy Tree…” Bai Yutang murmured, staring at the scene in speechless awe.

In the ancient records of the Bai family, there were only scattered mentions that the foundation of Medicine King Valley was a “Sacred Tree of Life.” But no one had ever seen it with their own eyes.

Just as everyone was still stunned by the miraculous sight before them, an old yet gentle voice suddenly echoed throughout the entire space.

It seemed to resonate directly within the depths of every person’s soul.

“I have waited for so many years… and you have finally arrived.”

Jiang Suisui’s heart stirred.

She had heard this voice before!

It was the same voice she heard the first time she immersed the Spring Heart Bracelet into the Spring of Life—the voice that had claimed to be the remnant soul of the Medicine King.

“Senior Medicine King?” she asked cautiously.

“Hehe… it is me, and yet not quite me,” the voice chuckled. “I am merely a trace of the Medicine King left behind here, meant to witness the transfer of the inheritance. You have done very well—better than I expected.”

As the voice spoke, light began to flow across the trunk of the Sacred Tree, slowly condensing into a vague human figure.

It was the image of an old man wearing a simple ancient robe, with the demeanor of an immortal sage. His face was indistinct, but his eyes were deep and wise, as though they could see through everything in the world.

“A compassionate healer’s heart, keen insight, and the will to protect all living beings,” the Medicine King’s phantom said while looking at Jiang Suisui, nodding in approval.

“You have passed my trial. Now, you shall receive the final—and most important—inheritance.”

He gently raised a hand and pointed toward Jiang Suisui.

A soft beam of light shot from his fingertip and entered her forehead.

In an instant, a vast torrent of information flooded into her mind.

This time, it was no longer merely medical knowledge or blueprints of mechanisms—

but something far more fundamental and primordial.

She “saw” how Medicine King Valley had first been discovered. She saw how the first Medicine King established a home here, and she saw the origin of the Spring of Life and the Sacred Tree.

She even saw the most fundamental secret about the “Spring Heart Bracelet” on her wrist.

It turned out that the bracelet was not made from any so-called warm jade from the spring. In fact, it was a “Seed of the World” that the Sacred Tree of Life had produced thousands of years ago!

The bracelet itself was a small world capable of growing.

The Medicine King had merely become its first guardian by chance. Everything he had done was in preparation for finding a truly worthy master for this “World Seed.”

And she—Jiang Suisui—was the one chosen by it.

Her transmigration, her arrival in this world, had not been an accident. It was a kind of choice and salvation made by this world itself in the unseen workings of fate.

“From today onward, you are the new master of this world,” the Medicine King’s phantom said again, his voice filled with relief and satisfaction.

As the inheritance ended, Jiang Suisui felt an unprecedented and intimate connection with the entire Medicine King Valley—and even with the world inside her own space.

She could clearly sense every breath of the Sacred Tree, and she could control every drop of water from the Lake of Life.

She even had the strange feeling that, if she wished, she could absorb the entire Medicine King Valley into her own spatial world.

“Senior, I still have one question,” Jiang Suisui said after regaining her senses from the flood of information. She remembered the mysterious “Star-Orbit Map.” “What exactly is that blueprint?”

“Hehe… that is a map for going home,” the Medicine King’s phantom replied with a faint smile, but he did not elaborate further. “When the day comes that you feel this world no longer needs you, it will guide you to a broader universe. But that day is still far away.”

His figure began to grow fainter and fainter.

“My mission has already been fulfilled. This world will now be entrusted to you. Remember—the greater the power, the greater the responsibility. Do not disappoint the expectations of this world.”

With those final words, the phantom of the Medicine King completely dispersed, transforming into countless specks of light that merged back into the Sacred Tree.

At the same time, the small tree on the island within Jiang Suisui’s spatial lake began to grow wildly.

It resonated intensely with the Sacred Tree outside.

A brilliant pillar of light shot up from the top of the Sacred Tree, piercing through the layers of earth and soaring straight into the sky. Meanwhile, within Jiang Suisui’s space, another pillar of light rose from the small tree.

The two immense streams of life energy crossed the barrier of space and merged together.

Within that fusion of energy, the seven-colored fruit hanging from the branch of the small tree in Jiang Suisui’s space began to swell and become increasingly crystalline before her eyes.

The light on the fruit grew brighter and brighter, until finally all the radiance condensed inward, forming a perfectly transparent fruit that seemed to contain a flowing galaxy within it.

The Fruit of Life had fully ripened!

With a mere thought from Jiang Suisui, the mature fruit detached itself from the branch and gently floated into her hand.

The fruit felt warm and heavy in her palm, brimming with indescribable vitality.

She knew that with this fruit in hand, the centuries-long fate of the Guardian Clan would be completely rewritten from this day forward.

Holding the fruit, she turned to look at the companions beside her.

Gu Yan, Bai Yutang, and Bai Ling’er had not received the inheritance. Yet simply standing there, bathing in the light of the Sacred Tree, they could feel subtle and wondrous changes occurring within their bodies.

The exhaustion of their journey vanished instantly, and their entire being felt as though it had reached an unprecedented peak of vitality.

“We… succeeded,” Jiang Suisui said, looking at them with a heartfelt smile.

Meanwhile, above ground in Medicine King Valley, all the members of the Guardian Clan saw the green pillar of light erupting from deep beneath the earth and piercing the sky.

Feeling that familiar yet strangely powerful aura of pure life energy, every one of them fell to their knees toward the light.

They knew that the hope they had waited for over hundreds of years had finally arrived.