Chapter 476

The Holy Maiden must not gaze directly upon a god, even merely the power the god has descended, for this time, the god will surely descend consciousness—that is already tantamount to the god's personal arrival.

Within the cold flame, there is in fact a white flame and an ice flame; the ice flame is used to contain temperature, otherwise, no matter how much Lin Yan restrains it, the temperature could never become too low.

After Lin Yan descended, he remained above the Tree of Life, activating his virtual divine avatar to rapidly analyze the Tree of Life.

The Tree of Life is quite miraculous.

This tree involves a vast number of Life Rules.

Thus, within the virtual divine avatar's analysis, Lin Yan also acquired a great many Life Rules.

The strength of the virtual divine avatar is evident.

Even a regular god with the qualification to study the Tree of Life could never obtain so many Life Rules!

On Lin Yan's system panel, the original Life Rules came from his white flame, amounting to only 25%.

Now, his Life Rules continuously rose, climbing from 25% all the way past 50%, and still rising.

This trip, Lin Yan came for good reason.

"The Goddess of Life is indeed generous—so many Life Rules, and not a single protective measure."

Lin Yan thought.

But Lin Yan immediately understood the reason.

The Tree of Life is not something anyone can study.

After all, Lin Yan is already the god worshipped by these several hundred thousand elves; now, these several hundred thousand elves are singing hymns of praise to Lin Yan, causing the Tree of Life to offer no resistance to Lin Yan since his descent.

This is the power of the hymns!

Causing the Tree of Life to offer no resistance to Lin Yan!

If another god unrelated to the elf race were to come, they might gain nothing at all.

The Goddess of Life is indeed generous, but not to everyone.

Only gods willing to offer protection to the elf race earn such generosity from her.

"Is this also a kind of compensation?"

Lin Yan thought again.

Every god who bestows a blessing upon the Tree of Life may obtain a certain amount of Life Rules in return—this can also be seen as a form of compensation granted by the Goddess of Life.

Over a thousand years ago, when the Loki Forest planted the Tree of Life, twenty goddesses continuously descended blessings, and in truth, all these gods gained some Life Rules from the Tree of Life; otherwise, the goddesses of small tribes might not have been willing to descend their blessings.

That too was compensation given by the Goddess of Life.

Offer protection, gain faith, bestow blessings—and still receive Life Rules.

The Goddess of Life truly cares deeply for the elf race, though she herself likely has neither the time nor the energy to personally oversee them.

Of course, as always: no god unrecognized by the elves can even hope to bestow a blessing upon the Tree of Life!

The more Life Rules Lin Yan obtains from the Tree of Life, the deeper his understanding of it becomes.

The virtual divine avatar's analysis continues.

So far, Lin Yan already knows how to bestow a blessing upon the Tree of Life, but he has not yet acted, for he wishes to wait until the virtual divine avatar has analyzed even more Life Rules before bestowing his blessing—then the blessing's effect will be better, and he will gain even more Life Rules.

A two-fold gain.

Soon, the analysis of Life Rules reached 80%, then steadily advanced toward 100%.

This harvest is immense.

The Goddess of Life is indeed generous—the Life Rules within the Tree of Life are so abundant she gives them away freely; the virtual divine avatar can fully analyze them to 100%.

This is no ordinary generosity.

And generosity is sometimes tied to power—try asking a common god to be this generous?

He himself doesn't even possess this many Life Rules!

Of course, not just anyone can obtain 100% of the Life Rules.

A typical elf-related goddess, when bestowing a blessing, is fortunate to gain twenty to thirty percent.

"He's here!"

In the forest, the Elf Goddess finally saw her chance.

Then, her divine-power avatar, the tiny elf, vanished abruptly, carrying her consciousness as it descended upon the Tree of Life.

Hmm, she too wishes to bestow a blessing upon this Tree of Life, and incidentally acquire some Life Rules.

But that is not her main goal.

Her main goal is to communicate with the Lord of Flame.

Immediately after the Elf Goddess descended her consciousness, Lin Yan sensed her.

Shortly after, another sacred consciousness descended—this must be the consciousness of the goddess worshipped by the Sun Elf tribe; it seems none of them wish to miss this opportunity to obtain Life Rules.

This Tree of Life is no small one; the reason its Life Rules are so abundant is also because the tree itself is large.

Lin Yan did not care; everyone went about their own business, interfering with none, and no communication was necessary.

Hmm, Lin Yan had no idea the Elf Goddess had tried to contact him.

The Elf Goddess contacted Princess Chenxi through her believers, and Princess Chenxi then prayed to Lin Yan—but those days, Lin Yan had focused his attention on Meng Ying and the others, and恰好 missed Princess Chenxi's prayer this time.

Lin Yan does not listen to every prayer from the Holy Maidens; he has set a mechanism within his virtual divine avatar to ensure he does not miss the more important prayers from the Holy Maidens.

The other two consciousnesses also did not communicate with Lin Yan.

Protected by his system and virtual divine avatar, they noticed nothing unusual about Lin Yan, merely assuming he had descended power and consciousness—never suspecting this was Lin Yan's true body.

Lin Yan's attention remained fixed on the virtual divine avatar.

The mastery of Life Rules reached 90%.

At this moment, Lin Yan sensed a consciousness drawing near.

For some reason, in Lin Yan's perception, that consciousness seemed slightly small, trembling faintly.

Are they afraid of him?

No, it doesn't seem like fear.

It seems more like nervousness?

Lin Yan didn't pay it much mind.

As long as the other didn't provoke him, Lin Yan had no interest in bothering with them.

He should focus on deciphering the Life Rule.

If he reached 100%, Lin Yan would have two rules at 100%!

"Oh no, I'm so nervous."

Beside Lin Yan, the Elf Goddess's inner thoughts were rich and turbulent.

Generally, when bestowing blessings upon the Tree of Life, no one speaks at all.

Over a thousand years ago, twenty-odd gods bestowed blessings simultaneously, yet not a word passed between them.

The reason was simple: time was precious!

This was a rare chance to directly obtain the Life Rule—who would waste time chatting?

Talking won't get you candy!

The Elf Goddess had originally planned to muster her courage and speak to the Flame Lord.

But for some reason, at the critical moment, she lost her nerve.

Heaven have mercy, she was a goddess!

The Flame Lord's soul gave her no sense of oppression; in fact… it even attracted her, yet she remained nervous.

She simply couldn't speak.

This left her in turmoil.

"Oh no, am I really that useless?"

The Elf Goddess remained in turmoil.

And she kept psyching herself up.

"Time is running out—the Flame Lord will leave soon. If I miss this chance, there'll never be another…"

The Elf Goddess cheered herself on like this.

Slowly, her consciousness drew closer.

Yet, once close, she still couldn't speak.

"Just speak up!"

The Elf Goddess was about to cry.

She felt helpless.