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Although under the erosion of forbidden knowledge, the World Tree instinctively began to fight back.
The calm pure white began to fluctuate, and all the information of the entire continent of Teyvat from ancient times to the present turned into sharp blades at this moment. They may not be sharp, but they can crush anyone's heart.
The reaction of the World Tree was even greater than that of five hundred years ago. Last time, it was its incarnation and its consciousness that was eroded.
And this time, I'm afraid that this is all there is to it.
This was the first time that the World Tree was invaded by an alien. Five hundred years ago, it was more that his incarnation "brought" the forbidden knowledge in, rather than the forbidden knowledge actively rushing into the World Tree.
The World Tree felt the increasingly powerful aura beneath its roots, and tried its best to eliminate it.
The World Tree's instinct was telling it—the thing below could replace itself!
Countless turbulent currents of information shuttled through the roots of the golden tree, and the place where the earth veins converged was completely transformed into a sea of information.
The golden tree is like a reef in the sea. The waves of information soak its surface but cannot penetrate into its interior.
However, the World Tree is the one that controls all the information in Teyvat. Just the surface layer is enough to overwhelm the newly grown Golden Tree.
"It hurts..." The never-fading golden light of the golden tree began to dim.
A huge amount of information madly poured into the golden tree through its epidermis. Human laughter and pain; the changes of the earth and the flow of rivers...
Many scenes that the Golden Tree had seen or not seen filled its consciousness. It was trying its best to process this information according to the instinct in its blood.
But it was too small, and it had grown to its full size in less than a month. In the final analysis, it was ripened by embers, not a real towering tree that had gone through countless years and rose from the ground.
Therefore, it is natural for Ember to take responsibility.
"Fuck, you didn't listen to the doctor's advice! Xiao Huang, give me all these miscellaneous things! Just focus on breaking this broken tree into pieces!"
"If your father from the border area knew what you are like, I don't know how he would laugh at me! Don't let it really defeat you!"
A familiar voice was heard, and a warmth instantly enveloped the entire body of the golden tree.
It seemed as if a black hole appeared in the Golden Tree's consciousness. All the flickering images that gave it a headache were sucked away by the black hole and disappeared.
What is left for it is clarity.
The golden light flickered even more, and this time it not only broke through the flowing ocean of information, but its light also passed through the dense roots of the World Tree and reached the red and white crown of the World Tree!
The breath of the same kind below was becoming stronger and stronger, and the World Tree could already feel its roots being tightly entangled by the roots of the Golden Tree.
If you zoom out, you'll see a very strange scene.
Two huge symmetrical root systems are constantly intertwining, and the golden root network stretches out from the pure white ocean below and climbs towards the roots of the World Tree.
The World Tree can only continuously stimulate the information of the earth veins, washing the roots of the golden tree that are constantly growing upwards.
Unfortunately, those memories that were enough to drive gods crazy impacted the golden tree and could no longer make its golden color fade even a little bit.
The roots of the golden tree seemed to have turned into a black box at this moment. Any information hitting it failed to cause any ripples.
The golden roots began to entwine with the pure white roots, and a feeling of suffocation began to appear on the World Tree.
That is the feeling you get when you are climbed by thick vines. The World Tree is not a tree in the ordinary sense, but at this moment it has the same feeling as an ordinary tree.
That's the feeling of being strangled to death and suffocated.
……
Jingshan Palace is like a cradle woven with green vines, with a white-haired girl lying on it and sleeping soundly.
Suddenly, the girl's brows began to frown and her breathing became rapid.
Her small white hands unconsciously placed on her chest, as if something was holding her neck.
Narcida opened her eyes.
Pure white trees, bright red sky. This is a place that is familiar yet strange to her - the World Tree, something she looks after.
Although her duty is to look after the World Tree, Nashida has not been here for a long time.
Ever since her Heart of God was taken away by the sages to operate the Void Terminal, her power has become so weak that it is unbearable to look at.
Nashida is now standing on the branch of the World Tree, and below the branch is an endless white ocean.
That is one of the foundations of Teyvat, an ocean of information formed by the interweaving veins of the entire continent.
The World Tree is a pure white tree nurtured by this vast ocean.
Nashida looked down, and then her pupils shrank to the size of a pinhole.
She once thought that the ocean of the earth veins was bottomless and there was no life except the world tree.
But now, Nashida saw a huge golden jungle growing in the ocean of earth veins.
Chapter 211: The Young God
2023-10-04
Countless huge golden trees stretched out from the white mist under the World Tree. They were the roots of the golden trees.
To the Golden Tree and the World Tree, they were just tiny hairs on their bodies, but to Nashida, these roots were clearly towering giant trees.
"What...what happened?" The golden reflection appeared in Nashida's eyes, and the young god's face soon showed panic.
As a new grass god, Nashida has been growing up in the glory of the Great Kindness Tree King. The sages would sigh what they would do if the Great Kindness Tree King was still alive, and the people of Xumi would also praise the Great Kindness Tree King's achievements from the bottom of their hearts.
This made Nashida, who was still very immature as a god, fall into inferiority complex and admiration for the Great Kindness Tree King.
She felt that she could not reach the heights of the Great Compassionate Tree King, and thus hoped that the sages who once followed the Great Compassionate Tree King could recreate their former glory.
So Nashida would hand over her Heart of God and stay quietly in the Jingshan Palace without going out.
The sages can manage Xumi well, but she can just be obedient.
Nashida kept comforting herself in her heart, saying that when she had learned enough knowledge, perhaps she would be able to truly take on the responsibilities of a god.
Even though she thought so in her heart, every night Nashida would fall into endless anxiety and self-reproach.
The hidden danger she faced within the Uneasy World Tree was a problem that even the Great Compassionate Tree King had not been able to solve, and now it fell on her.
She was complaining about her own incompetence. She was the successor of the Great Compassionate Tree King, but she did not have any power at all.
Fortunately, there are two lights in Nashida's life.
One is the innocent and happy dream of children, which can make Nashida forget her own identity and turn into a child.
The other is the call of the tree, which allows Nashida to listen to the duties of the gods in the embrace of the branches.
Now, one of those lights seemed to be fading.
"World Tree..., what's wrong with you..., tell me..." Nashida hurriedly ran from the branch to the trunk of the World Tree.
She patted the trunk of the World Tree, hoping that its motherly whisper would give her guidance again.
Soon, the familiar voice appeared in Nashida's ears again, making the panicked girl feel slightly relieved.
"Nashida..., the Heart of God... is destroyed..., the World Tree..., is to be replaced..."
The ethereal female voice echoed in Nashida's heart. That voice was so familiar to her.
In the embrace of countless branches, it was this voice that made her understand the duties of God and know the obligations of God.
But now, she allowed herself to destroy the Heart of God, the symbol of God.
To be honest, Nashida didn't care about the Heart of God. After all, she had handed this thing over to the sages in the distant past.
Now Nashida only cares about the World Tree.
"What happened? Don't leave..." Unconsciously, tears slid down the girl's face.
When she thought that the World Tree might be replaced and this voice would disappear from the world, Nashida couldn't stop crying.
"No way? It's just treating an illness, why does it matter whether you live or die?" A third voice suddenly sounded in the seemingly infinite pure white space.
"Who?!" Nashida woke up immediately after hearing the voice. She began to look around, hoping to find the source of the voice.
Nashida tried hard to mobilize the elemental power in her body, and a faint green fluorescence began to emanate from her body.
Is this the main culprit?Since he wants to replace World Tree, he must step over her body first no matter what.
Nashida had completely forgotten what the World Tree had entrusted to her. In this respect, Nashida was still a little impulsive and unable to fulfill the duties of the God of Wisdom.
"Don't look around, look down." The voice echoed around Nashida again, but this time it carried some helplessness.
Shouldn't the first thing you do when encountering something like this be to look down at the World Tree? Why is this little guy still looking around?
What Yu Jin didn't know was that Nashida had never dealt with any problems since she was born. The Palace of Purity not only isolated her from the outside world, but also isolated her from danger.
"Down below!" Nashida thought of the only variable in this space. So she hurried to the edge of the branch of the World Tree and looked down at the vast pure white ocean below.
Then she saw the swaying roots of the golden tree.
"hello."
"Buds...tree buds! So...so small!"
In addition to the previous male voice, this time there was also a childish voice.
"Hiss, Xiao Huang, I find you're a bit too talkative."
"Then...then I won't say anything."
After a conversation that Nashida couldn't understand, the golden jungle below swayed more wildly.
It's hard to imagine that those seemingly solid golden trees can sway in such a flexible manner.
"You...what are you doing?" The golden light flickered on Nashida's face, and the golden woods below looked like the stage lights used for dancing in the Sumeru Tavern.
It flickers and jumps endlessly.
"Say hello! How is it? Do you feel our enthusiasm?"
"Relax...relax the roots. The roots... have been tense for too long. Need to...need to relax."
The Golden Tree simply forgot what Yu Jin had just said and told the truth again.
"..."
Nacida fell into silence. She wiped her dried tears and wondered if she was dreaming?
Just now she thought that the World Tree was going to be replaced and the entire continent would fall into a huge crisis of disrupted earth veins.
But now it seems that she and the World Tree were overthinking it?