Volume 3: Artifacts Chapter 41: Artifact Sprout
Since the end of the ancient war, the world's largest battle of high-level creatures broke out in the sky above the Moonlight King's Court. When the battle began, the fallen angels were besieged by angels, shining gold men, and dragons. In particular, the dragons "turned against" the fallen angels in the sneak attack, causing heavy damage to the fallen angels, so that the battle became one-sided at the beginning.
In the air, there is the world's highest level of battle, with roaring dragons, layers of magic, curved sword blades crisscrossing each other, white wings fighting against black wings, and fallen angels being killed falling from the sky from time to time.
The war on the ground was also in full swing. This farce-like and extremely cruel war was coming to an end.
Victor stood in the sea of flowers, looking at the sky filled with fireworks, and finally understood why Zaimie said: This time we failed to destroy the World Tree...
Failure was just a trivial matter for Zaimie. He had time and energy to prepare for a second attack.
But for Victor, failure was something he could not bear.
Why?
Why didn't the dragons keep their promise!
What good would it do them to break their promise to Hell? The angels and the Shining Gold would not accept them just because of the dragon's help. Only by destroying the World Tree could no one get it and maintain the balance that had lasted for thousands of years.
At this time, several more fallen angels were besieged and killed.
The warriors of the Moonlight Court pressed over from the other side of the sand wall, and under the leadership of the ancient tree people, they launched a counterattack against the sand terracotta cavalry.
The battlefield was filled with dancing flower elves.
"Victor, it's time to reunite with your companions."
The voice sounded behind him, and Victor turned around to see Luke, wearing dragon armor, standing in the flower cluster. He was tossing a few black beads up and down in his hands, and the familiar smell made Victor immediately realize the origin of these beads.
"King Taotie, are you working for Qingkong?"
"To some extent... you could say that."
"Why, with the pride of a dragon, how could it bow down to an elf?"
Luke put away all the beads and looked at the battlefield in the sky: "You hold your head high because the weight on your head is not enough. The afterglow of the old civilization has radiated for thousands of years and it is time to end. Only by lowering your posture and integrating into the new civilization can we continue to move forward.
Arrogance cannot be eaten, this is something that the ancient dragons who have experienced countless inheritances see best.
Victor, this is not a game you can play. There is a price to pay for crossing the line."
"Zai Mie also said so, as if I were just an insignificant grain of sand. But there is one thing I don't understand. The apostles and I have been studying the abyss for a hundred years, but why do you think we don't understand the abyss?"
Luke took out the Greedy Scarlet Dragon Spear, with flames wrapped around the spear. He walked towards Victor step by step, answering his questions at the same time: "In fact, we don't understand the Abyss either. We only know that the Abyss is a kind of original energy that maintains the balance of the world. It cannot be defined, but the Abyss Temple imagines the Abyss as the Abyss you imagine according to your ideas.
Your abyssal appearance is more of a projection of your psychology. Those abyssal creatures are your distorted human nature. What you call embracing the abyss is actually falling into the abyss in your heart, and that is only the shallowest part of the abyss.
Look at you now, Victor!"
Luke waved his hand and summoned a wall of mirrors in front of Victor.
Victor looked at himself in the mirror and couldn't help but let out a cry of surprise. The person in the mirror was actually the same as he was before he fell into the abyss. He couldn't help but touch his face, and the feeling he had long forgotten made his eyes full of tears.
"Why is that?"
"Because in the Moonlight Royal Court, the Abyss must also give in!"
The mirror wall shattered, and the dragon spear pierced out from the scattered mirrors. The blazing flames swept across, but could not hurt the flowers and plants on the ground.
In the sky, the sun and the moon shine together, and the stars twinkle.
The wind swept across the grass, lifting countless petals. The moon rain turned into sun rain, drawing countless shining threads in the air. The red spear tip evaporated the raindrops it touched, and the flame turned into a dragon head, roaring through the sky.
Victor did not dodge the spear, but smiled in relief. He stretched out his arms to meet the spear tip, letting the spear pierce his chest.
The air current carried the flames and lifted up the petals, scattering them upwards.
Victor's body gradually turned into ashes, flying away with the fire and flowers.
Luke put away his gun and stretched out his hand, and a black bead fell into his hand.
Now the only thing left is the single seedling of the Abyss Temple.
At this time, the earth shook violently.
The World Tree in the distance suddenly grew rapidly. Its trunk rose rapidly, and new branches and twigs grew wildly. The crown of the tree expanded rapidly and crashed into the battlefield in the air. Then countless green points of light shot out from the crown of the World Tree in all directions and flew to a distant place.
What happened?
Luke immersed his consciousness into the spiritual universe, wanting to see what was happening on the other side of the World Tree, but was pulled into the spiritual starry sky.
At this time, a huge map was floating under the clear sky, and countless green beams of light were flying along the map, and then landed in different locations.
Luke recognized that the map was the magical world he was in now.
"What is the World Tree doing?" Luke came to the clear sky and asked while looking at the last green light that was still flying.
Qingkong looked back at Luke and said with a smile, "Dusk's experiment happened to encounter the attack of Disaster, which prompted the World Tree to activate its divinity. Those green lights are the seeds of hope scattered by the World Tree. If you pick them up, you will have good luck.
Do you want to pick up a few? I know where the nearest seeds of hope have fallen."
Luke asked, "What is the seed of hope? No! What is the divinity of the World Tree?"
"How stupid!" Qingkong stretched out his hand and tapped Luke's forehead: "Didn't I tell you? The World Tree spreads hope, and its divinity is of course hope.
In ancient times, the World Tree brought hope to this barren land. Even though it was destroyed, it still kept hope here with its remaining roots. This persistence prompted the starry sky to save it from the abyss and wait for its revival a thousand years later. "
"hope?!"
The divinity represented by the World Tree was somewhat unexpected to Luke, but also reasonable.
Qingkong said: "The divinity of the Golden Compass of the Shining Gold Civilization is authority, the divinity of the Bright Sculpture of the Angel Civilization is justice, the divinity of the Red Flame Torch of the Purgatory Civilization is destruction, the divinity of the Rainbow Arch of the Dragon Civilization is magic, and the divinity of the Fluorescent Star Cluster of the Shadow Civilization is darkness.
The divinity of the World Tree is hope.
There is one thing I want to remind you... The Golden Man's abuse of power has caused the authority to disappear; the angels' indiscriminate killing has caused justice to disappear; the demons' fear of war has caused destruction to accumulate; the dragons' recklessness has caused magic to be unwise; the shadows' exposure has caused darkness to be real.
It's not that the abyss took away the artifacts, it's that the artifacts left the civilization they favored.
We must not let the Western Territory, which is favored by the World Tree, lose hope."
Clear Sky's decryption finally let Luke know the reason why the five ancient civilizations lost their artifacts at the same time in the late stage of the ancient war. It turned out that the artifacts were unhappy with the ethnic groups they favored doing things that violated divinity, so they discussed and hid together.
This is too fucked!
Luke asked Qingkong: "You mean... if the five great artifacts want to return, they can return at any time?"
Qingkong replied: "Hiding is also a way to protect the five ancient civilizations. If a new artifact appears in this world, what will happen... you should be able to guess it."
"In order to protect the civilization they shelter, the five artifacts will forgive their unworthy descendants and return at the speed of light."
Qingkong smiled and said, "In fact, after thousands of years of cultivation, the Shining Gold people rebuilt their authority through the World Bank; the angels hid from the world and although they did not enforce justice much, they did not kill indiscriminately; the newly born demons were very fierce in their nests and were very aggressive; the dragons picked up their wisdom again; and the Shadow Clan retreated into the darkness again.
The return of the artifact is actually just waiting for an opportunity.
A clash between old and new civilizations!"
Luke seemed to understand: "You mean... no matter whether the World Tree becomes a divine artifact or not, the five hidden divine artifacts will return because of the rapid rise of human civilization."
The clear sky floated up and circled around Luke: "Yes, your arrival has accelerated the rise of human civilization.
Are you ready to deal with five civilizations that have regained their artifacts at the same time?"
Since he had not experienced the big version of the artifacts returning, Luke only knew that the five artifacts would return, but he didn't know how they would return. He had imagined whether there would be a big plot of bravely venturing into the abyss to rescue the captured artifacts, and then a big event that would shock the world.
I never expected that... people can come when they want and leave when they want.
As long as human civilization develops to a certain level, the five artifacts will come back together to support the five old civilizations.
So shameless!
Luke asked Qingkong: "Since the World Tree has awakened its divinity, does it mean that it has become a divine weapon?"
Qingkong replied: "Awakening divinity is only the first step. Hold my hand..."
Clear Sky held out his hand to Luke.
Luke reached out and held her hand in confusion: "Then what?"
"You don't have to do anything. Just look at the world beneath our feet."
Luke and Qingkong floated hand in hand on the giant world map. The places were flashing green halos. One picture after another emerged. Some seeds of hope drilled into the ground and took root; some seeds of hope were picked up by people, bringing good luck to those who were full of hope in their hearts; some were eaten by wild beasts, and the seeds of hope opened up the extraordinary road for them...
A ball of green light appeared between Luke and the clear sky, and then a tender green bud stretched out from the light.
Luke understood instantly: "The World Tree is collecting information about the world! What is this tree bud?"
Qingkong held out his hands and held up the tree bud and handed it to Luke: "This is the artifact that the World Tree is nurturing. It is still very weak now and needs to receive the sun's shining to grow quickly. When it will become a real artifact depends on how you cultivate it."
Luke stretched out his hands, the green light wrapped around the bud dissipated, and the bud fell into his palms.
Then the roots of the tree bud split into two legs, and the two branches became hands, and then eyes, mouth, nose, and ears grew out on the trunk. The tree bud turned into a little tree man, stretching his waist, with two buds on his head, looking cute.
Luke didn't expect that he just wanted a magical weapon, but in the blink of an eye he became a dad.
It's so small and tender that you can easily crush it if you're not careful.
Luke held the little tree man carefully and said to Qingkong in embarrassment, "You have taken good care of Taotie. Why don't you keep this tree man here? Your place is so big anyway, you can raise one sheep or two."
Seeing Luke's embarrassment, Qingkong laughed and said, "Such a cute little thing, I really want to raise it here, but have you ever seen a tree that grows under the moon? The moon can only help you take care of your children occasionally. Only the sun can raise a towering tree that is not afraid of wind and rain."
This is the truth, but it doesn't solve the problem.
“What should I feed it?”
"Just let it follow you." Qingkong stretched out his fingers to tease the little tree man: "Don't underestimate it just because it's small. It's a very powerful little creature."
The annoyed little tree man opened his mouth and bit Qingkong's finger fiercely, but Qingkong easily tripped him. The little tree man climbed up along Luke's arm and climbed onto his shoulder, then slipped into his collar with only his little head sticking out.
Two leaves on the little tree man's head were shaking, and he was saying something loudly in Luke's ear.
Luke heard that the little tree man was speaking the World Tree Language, but because the World Tree Language had not yet been developed, he could not understand it.
But the spiritual communication allowed Luke to understand what the little tree man meant.
Luke said to Qingkong: "This is the spiritual starry sky. I don't have any mysterious props. Do you have any?"
"There is one." Qingkong stretched out his hand and summoned the Book of Disasters. The pages of the Book of Disasters flipped, and a mask popped out from it. Qingkong grabbed the mask and threw it to Luke: "This should be the spiritual mask you snatched from Mrs. Michelle when you first met her. You have kept it in the Book of Disasters and almost forgot about it."
The spirit mask can strengthen a person's mental power and improve the ability to control energy. It is a very good mysterious prop.
Just because the mental mask was troublesome to wear and remove, and had serious side effects, Mrs. Michelle did not remove the mental mask for three years and suffered for three years.
Luke caught the spirit mask thrown by Clear Sky.
The little tree man chanted the World Tree Language, and a green light shone on the spirit mask. The spirit mask, which required secret techniques and secret words to activate, was activated.
Luke held the spirit mask close to his face, and the spirit mask instantly attached to it. The mask covered the upper half of his face including his eyes, and the purple tear stone on his forehead emitted a bright light.
Now Luke's mental power is very different from Mrs. Michelle's mental power. The amplification of the mental mask has raised his mental power to an unprecedented level. And there are no side effects. He does not need to distract himself to fight the pain brought by the mental mask. He can bring out the full effectiveness of the amplification 100%.
At the same time, the enhancement of energy control ability also exceeded Luke's understanding of the spirit mask.
Lightning flashed across the starry sky.
The little tree man clenched his fists to cheer Luke up and teach the elf who had just bullied him a lesson.
Luke, with his mental strength overflowing, was eager to fight: "A fight?"
Qingkong showed a triumphant smile: "Fight!"
