Chapter 341 Bearing Essence (III)

Compared with hot and energetic fire, wood is cold and weak. Leaping flames bring people a mixed feeling of safety and danger, but what about wood? Even towering trees may also be cut down by human beings and then made into tables, beds, soft white paper, and disposable wooden chopsticks. Humans cannot have total control of fire, so they use it and fear it simultaneously. How about trees? They won't fight back, so people just use trees and don't hold them in awe. Lin Luoran let her thoughts run wild, thinking of the spirit herbs with miraculous efficacy and Chinese herbal medicine of all kinds. Some of them are poisonous while some can save lives: nature is really a wonderful creator. Compared with flexible and gentle water, wood is dull and stiff. Floods can also claim most animals’ lives, including humans’. Moreover, without water, crops can’t grow and energy cannot be obtained. Gentle water, equally useful to mankind, always reminds people that it is not a spineless cowar