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Opening his eyes from the darkness and looking around, the scattered soldier found himself in a scene that seemed like a dream.
The pink and white trees occupied most of the field of vision, and under the trees, it was hazy.
The clouds rolled, and the soldier felt the pain in his mind become more intense after taking a look. The nature of the clouds was similar to that of the abyss - they both contained countless information.
He and the doctor were located on a tiny root rising from the pink-white tree.
"This is... the World Tree?"
"It was like a dream, but it was also because of this that everything became somewhat unbelievable."
The Doctor was as emotional as the Scattered Soldiers, as this was also his first time at the World Tree. If he didn't need the Heart of God, he wouldn't want to offend the Grass God.
Inside the World Tree, the Grass God can easily use countless pieces of information to fill his head to bursting.
"Hurry up and prepare for anything you need to do, otherwise you won't be able to leave once the Grass God finds you."
After marveling at it, the doctor followed the roots to the trunk of the World Tree.
He stretched out his palm and placed it on the pink surface of the World Tree. As soon as the thought of invading arose in his mind, he was pushed away by an extremely strong repulsive force.
"It won't be so easy to let the unknown invade?" The doctor rubbed his fingers, and didn't seem surprised at the reaction of the World Tree.
"What about this?"
As he spoke, a bundle of blue and white branches appeared in his palm, with new buds vaguely visible on them.
The branches of the earth veins melted in the doctor's hands, and then his arms began to turn white, grow leaves, and finally turn into wood...
This arm, which seemed to have become a part of the earth veins, merged with the trunk of the World Tree without any obstruction.
Following his wooden arm, the doctor's consciousness came to an empty place filled with countless auroras.
However, before he could appreciate the scenery inside the World Tree, a strong feeling of dizziness came over him.
"Buzz--"
"hiss……"
Instinctively, the doctor immediately gathered his consciousness. With a fishy smell in his nose, he touched his philtrum with his other intact arm, only to see blood flowing down his fingertips.
"Just now... I must have entered the information database by mistake... Let's look for it again. There must be a passageway inside the World Tree that can be used for travel."
The doctor was mumbling something to himself, but the skirmishers behind him sneered at his miserable appearance.
"Save some energy. Instead of thinking about how to invade the World Tree, why not take a good look at the scenery in front of you..."
"If we don't invade the World Tree, what can we use in exchange for the Heart of God?"
The doctor just snorted coldly. Now the Heart of Thundergod was taken away by Anfortas, and the Heart of Grassgod was in Nashida's hands.
The former was easy to deal with, after all, the God of Righteousness was his creation, and he knew all of its weaknesses, but the Heart of the God of Grass was troublesome.
Facing the Great Compassion Tree King and Nashida at the same time, it would definitely not work to rob them by force. The only thing he could think of was to do something in the World Tree while the two were far away from Sumeru, and then use this as a threat in exchange for the Heart of God.
"So this is why you gave the Heart of Thundergod to others?"
"He is more suitable for the body of the God of Righteousness than you are. I need data on whether the experiment is successful or not. You obviously can't do that."
"However, since we succeeded once, there will be a second time. Perhaps we can still cooperate."
The doctor spoke to the scattered soldiers with great enthusiasm, and he showed no shame at all when faced with the fact that he had broken his promise.
"Hahaha..., cooperation? That's perfect, don't I have another Heart of God here?"
The Skirmisher raised his hand, in which was the fake God's Heart of Ember.
"This? It's just a fake made by someone unknown." The doctor looked at Sanbing coldly and felt that his brain had been corroded and had problems.
"Tell me, what's underneath?" Without paying attention to the doctor's mocking tone, the soldier simply pointed at the white mist below the World Tree and asked.
"The source of the leyline, where all information about Teyvat is gathered." The doctor said slowly, and then he became a little confused:
"Why are you asking this? The information in there has no entity and can only be interfered with through the World Tree."
The white mist under the World Tree is the ever-expanding "past". They are established facts that have already happened and have no entity. They are only known to people because the World Tree, a database, is here.
"What are you doing..."
The soldier walked to the edge of the roots of the World Tree. He raised his head and said with a self-deprecating and disdainful smile:
"The Shogunate, the Fatui, the Empress..."
As the scattered soldier spoke, waves of chaos and madness emanated from his chest, and then his entire body began to ooze out the wriggling starry sky.
His consciousness was getting blurry. He turned around and saw the doctor's figure blurry in his vision. The scattered soldier's consciousness, which was about to be lost, suddenly became clear for a moment.
"And you! All of you, die!!!"
"boom!"
He stabbed his hand holding the fake God's Heart deep into his chest, and the soldier no longer had any breath.
He fell down stiffly like a real puppet with the starry sky flowing on his body, and fell into the white mist under the World Tree.
The ocean current of information continued to surge, and after engulfing the puppet, a hint of red appeared in the white.
"call……"
Flames rose from the bottom of the bottomless pit and illuminated the doctor's face.
Chapter 739: Replica of Burning Tree
2024-06-24
"Oh!"
"Hey, hey, hey..., what's going on? Why is the sky so gloomy?"
"I don't know? Do you smell it? It seems like there is a burning smell?"
……
The sky over the continent suddenly turned gloomy. The thick dark clouds brought not only darkness but also light.
However, the light was bright red, and the dark clouds in the sky were surrounded by a circle of smoldering sparks, which looked like burning charcoal.
In the mountains of Liyue, the man in the long robe stopped walking. He raised his palm, and a tiny spark slowly fell into his hand.
"Wait... this sign..."
Zhongli Wei Han’s eyes widened instantly. He jumped from the mountain path and rushed to the top of the mountain, looking at Xumi in the east of Liyue in the distance.
As expected, the originally vibrant Xumi rainforest has been covered in a layer of dark red.
Flames spread through the rainforest, but they were only smoldering like the dark clouds high in the sky.
"The surface of the earth veins is burning. What happened to the World Tree?" Zhongli held his chin with his eyes wandering, and then a loud explosion sounded on the top of the mountain.
High in the sky above the broken mountain top, you can vaguely see a jade dragon soaring in the dark clouds.
"Wait... Let me ask where Brother Yu Jin is first."
Zhongli suddenly reacted as the dark clouds were swelling. He turned around and in the blink of an eye he arrived at the chaotic streets of Liyue below.
The stream of light arrived in an instant. Even if someone saw it, they would only think it was silent thunder or blurred vision and would never imagine that there was a jade dragon in the stream of light.
"Don't panic! Don't panic! Leave the street in an orderly manner!"
"It's just a large-scale disturbance of the earth veins! Liyue's warlocks have already activated the alchemy formation in the city, everyone, don't panic!"
"Remember, don't leave the city before the dark clouds dissipate! I emphasize again, don't leave the city!"
The shouts of the Qianyan Army echoed in the streets. Zhongli, who was walking among them, nodded and shook his head when he heard it.
Nodding means praising Liyue’s response measures, while shaking the head means worrying about the future.
The World Tree is burning. This is an event that will destroy the world... at least it will destroy the world built by Sky Island.
Although the world built by Sky Island is not beautiful, it is not the time to destroy it. This crisis came too hastily and too suddenly.
As he thought about this, Zhongli's brows never relaxed. Unconsciously, he had already arrived at the Adventurer's Association.
Catherine was packing her things there, getting ready to go home from get off work.
"Toward the stars and the abyss."
"Mr. Zhongli? Are you here to issue a commission?" Seeing someone coming, Catherine calmly stopped what she was doing and smiled at Zhongli.
But at this moment, Zhongli didn't have the time to be polite. He said, "Catherine, can you contact Brother Yu Jin and ask him to go to Xumi and tell him that it was me who called him. It's urgent!"
"Understood! Mr. Zhongli, please wait a moment!" Catherine nodded immediately upon seeing this. After that, she lowered her eyes slightly and began to contact Catherine of Xumi.
After a period of anxious waiting, Zhongli saw Catherine raise her head with a strange look on her face.
"How is it? Any news about him?"
"Yes, there is. And I just saw Mr. Ember from Xumi."
"He was running and he was mumbling something like 'get out of the way, get out of the way, put out the fire, put out the fire'."
When Zhongli heard this, the tension on his face instantly relaxed.
"Shh!"
He took out a fan from somewhere, and with a push of his finger, a landscape painting appeared on the fan.
"It's good to put out the fire, it's good to put out the fire..."
Zhongli kept repeating the words he had just said and walked on the deserted street, fanning himself.
That leisurely look was exactly the same as usual.
……
"Fire, fire, get out of the way, the fire extinguishers are coming!" Countless people on the streets of Xumi heard this sentence, but no one knew who said it - because the speed of the embers was so fast that other people could not see his movements at all.
How anxious was he? Just look at the God of Righteousness squatting at the gate of Xumi City, with smoke coming out of his legs. He was moving so fast that the God of Righteousness could hardly bear it.
A strong wind blew up from the ruined Jiaolingyuan, and then a series of "bang bang bang" sounds of things falling to the ground were heard from the Jingshan Palace deeper inside.
"Uh... I feel dizzy..."
"Where is this..."
"Jing...Jingshan Palace!"