Chapter 189: Facing The Evil Deity, Extre Credit Redemption
Sothing amazing happened.
Bit by bit, Abbe’s face started to plump up and turn rosy. Her weak aura also began to strengthen again...
“It works! The Tree of Vitality’s branch is working!” ng Lei couldn’t help but heave a sigh of relief. “How are you feeling, Abbe?”
“You shouldn’t have saved , ng Lei.”
Abbe, who had recovered a bit of spirit, stared at ng Lei in a daze as a layer of mist ford in her beautiful eyes. “You shouldn’t have!”
“No matter what, we’re housemates and classmates. It’s inexcusable behavior if I leave you to die when saving you is within my ans.”
With a laugh, ng Lei helped Abbe up and said, “Let’s go. We’ll leave this place and talk again when we reach sowhere safe.”
“Okay!”
Abbe didn’t speak any further. She rested her head against ng Lei’s chest, listening to his strong heartbeat...
ng Lei’s embrace suddenly felt so safe, so firm, and so warm to her...
At the sa ti, the Royal Holy Knight Order also rushed over to rescue the other 100-odd contestants, who didn’t receive the sa treatnt as Abbe, of course. Whether or not they would survive would depend on fate itself.
The Golden Colossal Dragon Person urged them loudly, “Hurry! Evacuate the contestants!”
“Since you’re here, then don’t bother leaving!”
The aged voice rang out again at this point, upon which a shocking scene then played out—countless golden rays of light appeared out of nowhere, and then they converged into yet another golden shield which trapped everyone within.
Bam!
ng Lei was thrown right out upon crashing against the golden shield. The others were no better—every single one of them was also flung back to where they’d originally been. Everyone’s expressions took on a dramatic change.
“What’s going on?”
ng Lei, who was flustered and panicked, asked, “Didn’t I already break the seal, Ol’ President? Why has it appeared again?”
“I don’t know, either!”
The situation was driving Ol’ Amos rather mad, too.
“Damn! The barrier has appeared again!”
“Attack!”
“Attack the barrier at once, everyone!”
Boom, boom, boom!
The Royal Holy Knight Order launched into yet another series of frenzied attacks.
“Wait a mont here, Abbe!”
The dark gold hamr appeared in ng Lei’s hand again. With flas of fury burning in his eyes, he imbued all of his strength into the hamr and smashed it heavily against the shield.
Boom!
As the dark gold hamr smashed against the golden shield, the terrifying recoil of the impact threw ng Lei out.
Yet the golden shield didn’t shake even a little, let alone beco destroyed.
“No way!”
ng Lei roared furiously, “One more ti!”
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
One hit! Two! Three!
In spite of that, the golden shield stood as enduring as rock, not wavering in the least.
“Why is this happening?” ng Lei’s eyes were bloodshot. “Why has the golden shield beco so much sturdier?”
Ol’ Amos’ voice was deep, low, and trembling a little as he replied, “ng Lei, we might have been tricked!”
“Tricked?”
A huge jolt went through ng Lei.
“Don’t bother trying anymore, little fellow.”
The aged voice rang out once more. Then, a gigantic human visage appeared on the Tree of Life’s trunk.
The human visage’s mouth opened and closed as it scoffed. “This is my territorial barrier. How can a Saint Domain like you possibly break it?”
“The Tree of Life!” ng Lei exclaid as he swung around.
The others also looked toward the huge human visage on the tree trunk. Under everyone’s gazes, the golden chains all around the Tree of Life disappeared little by little until they were all gone.
The seal... was gone?
At the sa ti, a vast, mighty divine power emanated from the Tree of Life, crashing down on everyone’s hearts.
Boom!
One after another, everyone plumted onto the ground. They felt as if a mountain was crushing down upon their shoulders, as if great boulders were weighing down on their chests, and as if sothing was clenched tight around their hearts. Hardly able to breathe, it felt exceptionally horrible.
“We’ve been tricked! We’ve indeed been tricked!” Ol’ Amos bellowed madly, “It wasn’t sealed! Brat, the so-called seal doesn’t exist at all! It tricked us! It tricked us all!”
“Why would it do sothing like that?” ng Lei couldn’t understand its motives. “Just how strong is a great half-deity? If it wishes to take our lives, all it needs is just a re thought. So why would it go to so much trouble to sche sothing like this?”
Ol’ Amos shook his head—he really had no idea why.
“Why?” ng Lei’s eyes bore into the Tree of Life as he asked, “Why are you doing this? You’re a great half-deity, y’know!”
“A half-deity? But that’s ultimately still not a true deity.” The Tree of Life gave him a noncommittal smile as it said, “You must be very puzzled as to why I did all these, right?”
“Yes, why?!” shouted ng Lei.
“Because of you,” answered the Tree of Life with a slight smile.
“?” ng Lei was montarily stunned. Then, he sneered, “I am but just a Saint Domain. Am I worth going to such lengths for?”
“Of course you aren’t, but there’s sothing on you that is!” The Tree of Life said aloofly, “For the sake of obtaining it, no matter how much I have to do, it’s all worth it. And now, it should return to its original owner.”
“Sothing on ?”
Stupefied, ng Lei pointed at himself.
Ol’ Amos was just as stupefied as him while the others also looked at one another in confusion.
“What exactly are you talking about? I don’t understand what you’re saying,” A frowning ng Lei shouted, “Are you talking about your fruits?”
“You cunning human, stop playing dumb!”
The Tree of Life snorted icily and said, “I’ve sensed that thing’s presence ever since you arrived at the Lost Continent. From that mont onward, I knew at once that that’s the object that I lost a long ti ago.
“It has finally returned! It pleases greatly to know that!
“But I’m also furious because you’re simply too sly. Not only did you not return it to , but you even went into hiding and constantly avoided !
“I was terribly enraged, so I could only resort to such painstaking asures. Fortunately, the outco is still sowhat satisfactory.”
The Tree of Life’s voice grew louder and more sonorous as it commanded, “You cunning human, hand over that thing in your sea of consciousness. It belongs to !
“Or else, you’d better not bla if I co personally to take it from you! By then, you won’t be the only one dead—all of them will be, too!”
“That thing in my sea of consciousness? You’re referring to—”
A huge jolt went through ng Lei, who had imdiately thought of sothing. Aside from the soul fla, there was only one other object in his sea of consciousness—that golden leaf!
That golden leaf which he had obtained from the parchnt manuscript had been occupying a spot in his sea of consciousness all this ti. Apart from giving him the superbly strong wood-elental magic talent, ng Lei knew absolutely next to nothing about it.
What exactly was it?
Even now, ng Lei still hadn’t figured it out yet.
But one could imagine that it must be no ordinary artifact.
It... belonged to the Tree of Life?
Ol’ Amos hurriedly asked, “ng Lei, what is it talking about?”
“It’s talking about the golden leaf!”
ng Lei didn’t keep it a secret from Ol’ Amos.
“The golden leaf?” A startled Ol’ Amos said, “But that’s a divine weapon. How can it be the Tree of Life’s? It shouldn’t be! Its aura differs completely from the Tree of Life’s. What the hell? It can’t be that that thing has taken an interest in the golden leaf, so it’s thinking of snatching it from you?”
“You don’t say, that might really just be the case!”
ng Lei flew into a rage at once.
You keep going on and on about how it belongs to you, but in truth, it’s because you’ve discovered my divine weapon and are plotting murder for gain!
Disregarding the fact that it’s a divine weapon, so I can’t bear to give it to you at all; even if I do have the intentions to, I can’t get it to move, either!
Occupying a spot in ng Lei’s mind, the golden leaf—apart from absorbing the Wood Elents in the universe every mont of the day—paid no heed to ng Lei at all!
Hand it over?
Yeah, right! Am I supposed to burrow into my own sea of consciousness and gouge it out for you?
What a dumbass!
“ng Lei, did you really take sothing that belongs to the Tree of Life?”
Everyone had been watching ng Lei closely the whole ti, so they had fully witnessed the changes in his facial expressions. Many of them beca furious at once.
“What exactly did you take from the Tree of Life?! Hurry and hand it over!”
“That’s right! Bold of you to actually steal sothing from a half-deity!”
“Take it if you must, but you shouldn’t have implicated us! Take a look at Prince Barbarossa and the others; they are close to dying because of you...”
All the contestants trapped within the golden shield denounced ng Lei, venting their anger and frustrations on him.
The Royal Holy Knights’ expressions weren’t very pleasant, either. The Golden Colossal Dragon Person leading them said in a low, deep voice, “Sir, for the sake of everyone’s safety, you’d better hand it over!”
“Hahaha!”
Furious to the extre, ng Lei burst into laughter instead. “Was it that had embroiled all of you in this? If all of you hadn’t fought over the divine tree’s fruits, would you have landed yourselves in such a predicant?
“You can only bla your own greed for this, as well as yourselves for reaping what you’ve sown. What has it got to do with ?”
ng Lei then looked at the Tree of Life and sneered coldly, “Not only have I not taken anything of yours but even if I have, do you think I’ll return it to you when it’s already in my hands?”
“Human, you’re challenging a deity’s authority!”
A vast, majestic wave of divine power weighed down on ng Lei as the Tree of Life spoke in a low and deep voice, “I’ll give you one last chance! Hand over that thing, and I’ll spare your lives! Otherwise, don’t bla for being heartless and ruthless!”
“Hurry and return that thing to the Tree of Life, ng Lei! You’re holding everyone’s lives in your hands!”
“C’mon, return it to the Tree, ng Lei!”
“Take it as I’m begging you. For the last 18 generations, my family has only had one son in every generation, so I can’t die here. Otherwise, it’ll be the end of my family lineage!”
“ng Lei, I have a 200-years-old mother to support and a three-year-old toddler to feed...”
Upon hearing the Tree of Life’s threat, many of the contestants were badly frightened. They either cursed at him, threatened him, or pleaded with him...
But one thing stayed the sa—all of them wanted ng Lei to hand over the golden leaf.
“A bunch of fools!”
Ol’ Amos swore quietly. Then, he said, “Don’t listen to them, ng Lei. Even if you hand over the golden leaf, the Tree of Life won’t let you off. You must understand that the leaf is a divine weapon. Once it gets its hands on it, the Tree of Life will definitely silence everyone and kill all of you.
“Why would that evil deity care about your lives when it doesn’t even care about the deaths of its countless Magical Beast worshipers? Begging for rcy?
“That’s just that bunch of fools’ wishful thinking!”
“Tree of Life!”
A hint of insanity flashed past the depths of ng Lei’s eyes as he shouted hysterically, “Stop goddamn daydreaming! Even if we must fight it out, you can forget about taking even a strand of hair from !”
ng Lei had only just spoken when all the power in him erupted. Then, he smashed the Hamr of Destruction in his hand madly toward the Tree of Life.
“You foolish and ignorant human!”
The Tree of Life was enraged. “Now that you’ve rejected the final bit of a deity’s goodwill be prepared to suffer a deity’s fury!
“God’s Domain!”
A terrifying energy wave instantly ca crushing down on ng Lei. As if his acupoints had been sealed, he instantly froze on the spot, unable to move even a fingertip.
“It’s over! All over!”
Ol’ Amos heaved a sigh.
“It isn’t! It’s not over yet!”
ng Lei, whose eyes were bloodshot and looked as if a crazed man, ordered, “System, raise the Gods-Slaying Rat bloodline assimilation rate!
“Don’t stop! Raise it as much as possible! Until all my Wealth has been redeed for credit!”
“Ding! Dear host, your Wealth amounts to a total of 73.2 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals. It is possible to raise the Gods-Slaying Rat bloodline assimilation rate by 7%. May I know whether you’d like to raise it?”
“Yes!”
Whoosh!
His Wealth instantly shrank by 70 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals!
Boom!
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