I woke up to find myself transmigrated into a disabled child.

Chapter 190 Past and Present Life

A sudden doubt arose, and Lezhi finally realized that something was wrong.

Her body, already enveloped in a green light, twitched, and Lezhi abruptly awoke from her deep sleep. Her eyes snapped open, but upon closer inspection, they were unfocused.

Clearly, although her body was awake, Lezhi's consciousness had not yet returned. However, this did not prevent the green light from entering Lezhi's eyes. Her originally silvery-white eyes seemed to see someone close to her, and slowly overflowed with green, reflecting the green light.

"Phew...wait, where am I..." Lezhi woke up from his dream and found himself still in the tree. However, after experiencing sprouting and growth in the dream, Lezhi felt more at ease using the tree's body.

"Child, you're awake!"

"Ah, who are you?" Lezhi turned around in a human-like manner. The background of the surrounding environment was pitch black, but energy stars were shining everywhere in the air, so Lezhi did not feel dark.

He was very familiar with that energy; he had absorbed, transformed, and stored it himself. Looking around, Lezhi couldn't find the source of the sound.

"I am your conceived one, or rather, your mother. This is the title I saw in your memory; that's probably how it should be!"

Mother?! "You are the mother tree!"

"Yes, that's what the other children call me. Hello, my child." The voice seemed to like Lezhi calling it Mother Tree. The name itself represented a kind of recognition. The voice seemed to come from all directions, but Lezhi couldn't find any trace of it.

Since he couldn't catch it, Lezhi didn't force it. He just needed to make sure that the owner of the voice meant him no harm. "Hello, Mother Tree, uh, is there something you need from me?"

"Hehe, my dear child, it was your destined person who brought you to me."

"Huh?" Hearing something she didn't understand again, Lezhi seemed to have a hard time hiding her emotions and clearly showed her confusion. "The destined person... what is that?"

"These are the names that the little tree spirits called out themselves. Actually, during the gestation process, some seeds intersected at certain special points and formed some special bonds. Most of them will dissipate upon birth, but some will continue the bond. It's really nothing to worry about, so don't worry too much about it."

"Something like a past life and a present life?" Lezhi blinked and asked curiously.

The mother tree's explanation inevitably reminded him of myths from his past life, such as reincarnation and the Meng Po soup (a legendary soup that erases memories of past lives). It was like being reborn with memories of a previous life.

"Past lives and present lives?" Mother Tree searched through the memories she had seen from Lezhi before understanding Lezhi's wild imagination. "There are similarities, but also differences, but that's not the point."

The mother tree chuckled, trying to steer the conversation away from the topic. "Anyway, all you need to know is that the destined ones have just a little more bond than ordinary clansmen. The rest you'll have to find the answers for yourselves."

She sounds like a very enlightened patriarch. When Lezhi first heard about the destined person, she thought that the mother tree was going to do something like the feudal patriarchs of her previous life and arrange marriages for them, which Lezhi would find very objectionable.

You should know that although he usually seems very well-behaved, in reality, 99 out of 100 pounds of his weight is rebellious. The more others want him to do something, the less he will do it. In his past life, more than one person commented that he was stubborn and disobedient.

There's no way around it; subconsciously, he resists being obeyed and instinctively wants to rebel. He'll only do things if he genuinely wants to do them, and only then will he have the motivation to do them well.

This is both an advantage and a disadvantage. Lezhi is well aware of this, but has never thought of changing it.

Now that she knew the Mother Tree didn't intend to make a big deal out of the matter of the destined person, Lezhi's rebellious radar, which had been on the verge of exploding, immediately calmed down. "Okay, Mother Tree, can you tell me what's going on with me right now?"

Judging from what the mother tree said, someone must have brought him here. Something must have happened to him that was beyond their control, which is why this happened.

Lezhi's memory is still stuck when she was swept away by the wind. Could it be from that time...?

Wait a minute, Mother Tree, you said someone brought me here, does that mean I'm not dead yet?

"Haha~, my child, how could you think that? Of course you're not dead! Hmm, let me see... Hmm, you're in excellent health and can live for a very, very long time. As long as nothing unexpected happens, you can live to the ends of the earth. Don't worry!"

"Huh, why am I a tree when I wake up?" Lezhi wondered, puzzled.

He didn't die, so why did his consciousness awaken in a tree? Was it a case of his soul leaving his body?

"Separated soul? What's that? Oh... the place you stayed in before was really interesting, with so many wonderful ideas that I couldn't keep up." The mother tree seemed to understand what Lezhi was thinking without needing to hear him speak, and answered Lezhi's question to itself.

"But no, this isn't a separation of your soul. On the contrary, it's a deep fusion between your soul and body."

"Deep...integration?"

"Yes, you should be able to feel it, growing from a seed to what it is now..."

"Uh, isn't that just a dream?"

"No, it's something you actually experienced. This process should have happened in parallel as you grew up, but perhaps because of the influence of your memories from your previous life, you don't have a strong sense of identification with this body, so your subconscious and conscious mind have become separated."

"Is it like a mental breakdown?"

Having grown accustomed to Lezhi occasionally uttering a phrase she didn't understand, Mother Tree expertly searched for the explanation of "mental schizophrenia" before responding.

"It doesn't seem like that. A split personality involves two different personalities, while your subconscious mind is just not compatible. But both minds are you. Your thoughts and consciousness are connected; they're just not synchronized yet. Right now, you're synchronized."

“…Oh.” Although he didn’t fully understand, Lezhi grasped the general meaning that Mother Tree was trying to convey, so he nodded to indicate that he was listening.

"As you become more accepting of your new body and life, and your talents gradually awaken, your subconscious will unconsciously attract your conscious mind to merge with it. Because if you want to continue to grow, the most important step is to first recognize who you are. This is very important."

“Growth, me?” Lezhi raised an eyebrow; the word seemed a bit abrupt.

"Don't the Treant race's talent ceilings become fixed after hatching? Is there still room for me to grow?"

“The others are already fixed, because they have already completed their development within their shells. But you, my child, you are different…”

The explanation that Mother Tree gave him next sounded like a fantasy story to Lezhi. In his previous life, he loved reading novels, and the protagonists always had extraordinary adventures or were given a cheat code.

After discovering that he had traveled through time, Lezhi had also had such fantasies. However, after being chased by bugs, rescued by a fur ball, and then found by Lechu and learning that he was a disabled child, Lezhi gave up the idea early on.

He once thought that being able to cure the Shadow Disease was his greatest advantage, but after the Mother Tree's explanation, he realized that it was not just that.

"...Controlling the shadows is your innate talent; you were born for it. As for your disability, it's because I failed to protect you. Before you were fully grown, you risked your life to protect me, and even your consciousness was swept away by the temporal current, only returning after a long time..."

The story unfolds, revealing the reasons behind Lezhi's transmigration and rebirth, and gradually unveiling a corner of the truth about Jormungand...