Chapter 350

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When she once again saw the magnificent, splendid stillness of all things in the Eternal Oasis, Feili Jisi was still dazed.

"I"

"How?"

Before she could finish speaking, Feili Jisi discovered that her perspective had changed.

The original her.

She could only observe the Eternal Oasis through the downward angle of the relic mechanism.

But now.

She discovered that her viewpoint was actually level with the Eternal Oasis.

"You're waking up pretty quickly."

Luo De's voice came from beside her.

About how to preserve a living being's consciousness in an object.

He was already very familiar with it.

Moreover, Feili Jisi's soul had been specially altered by the Red King for storage in the relic mechanism.

So operating it was also very easy.

Furthermore, the Great Merciful Tree King had already prepared the container beforehand.

At the same time Luo De and his group arrived at the Eternal Oasis, Feili Jisi also successfully regained consciousness from her self-ignition state.

Speaking of this.

Luo De poked the small bottle in front of him and said with some displeasure, "You're in such a hurry, don't you want to go see your mistress?"

Feili Jisi had just been committing suicide.

Luo De could roughly guess the reason.

It's still that same saying.

Feili Jisi knew that the Flower Goddess Na Bu·Ma Li Ka Ta had completely fallen, with no possibility of rebirth.

And Lilu Pa'er actually knew as well.

This could be seen from her superficial attentiveness along the way, which was actually just to cover her rudeness, as well as from her conversation with Feili Jisi.

Lilu Pa'er had long known that the Great Merciful Tree King was only related to the Flower Goddess in body, and its consciousness was not actually the Flower Goddess.

But she still voluntarily served the Great Merciful Tree King as her lord.

In this self-deceiving manner.

In exchange for the opportunity to audience with her mistress in the Eternal Oasis.

Feili Jisi was the same.

Regarding the Flower Goddess's death, she understood it much better than Lilu Pa'er.

At the same time, she was also engaging in self-deception.

Except her self-deception was lying to herself that the Red King would someday return to save the Flower Goddess.

But when she saw Luo De and the Great Merciful Tree King, these two deities openly using spiritual light,

she fell into utter despair.

Thus, when Luo De suggested going to the Eternal Oasis to look at the Flower Goddess's tomb,

Feili Jisi chose to self-immolate as a funerary sacrifice for her mistress.

If it weren't for Luo De knowing her temperament,

he would have guessed beforehand that she would definitely do something extreme.

there would have been no time to react and preserve her soul.

And now everything has been laid out.

Feili Jisi stopped pretending and directly spoke with sorrow: "My mistress, she won't be coming back."

At this moment, Lilu Pa'er also stopped pretending to be unaware; the whole bottle grew dim, a visible stillness.

"She won't be coming back."

"But you have a new mistress you can serve."

Luo De patiently.

And he was communicating with these two spirits who wholeheartedly sought to die for their mistress.

He pointed at the Great Merciful Tree King and said meaningfully, "Great Merciful Tree King, you should know him."

"Hmm."

This time, Lilu Pa'er and Feili Jisi both acknowledged this, no longer pretending to be ignorant as before.

"Then you know about the Three Gods Covenant, right?"

Without waiting for their answer, Luo De directly said, "You surely know that when the three gods jointly established the covenant back then, you two great spirits should already have been serving the Flower Goddess."

"Yes, we know."

"There's nothing to deny about that."

During the period when the three gods cooperated.

The retinues of the three deities were also as close as family, cooperating with each other.

Everyone was very clear about the relationship among the three gods and was also happy to cooperate with other deities.

This is also why, after the Flower Goddess's death,

a single illusory promise from the Red King could win the spirits' allegiance.

Then he continued on this topic.

Luo De continued: "In the covenant of the three gods, the Flower God, the Dendro Archon, and the Scarlet King—these three gods aid each other and share benefits; their interests are the same, they cooperate mutually, and they will never violate their oath to each other."

"Yes, that's right."

What Luo De said is exactly the content of the covenant established by the three gods back then.

This is also something that Li Lu Pa Er and Fei Li Ji Si know.

If it weren't for Luo De possessing the power of divine light and the aura of the Flower God, regarding this unpleasant past, they would certainly be unwilling to mention it.

However, Luo De seemed not to notice their change in expression, and continued to say: "Look, the Flower God kept his promise; as her followers, seeing your mistress painstakingly regain a friend with her own power, why do you resist her so?"

This is a question that cuts straight to the soul.

Luo De's questioning left the two soul pacifiers completely silent.

They wanted to say a few words, but couldn't utter anything.

Seeing them stumped by the question.

Luo De pressed on relentlessly: "What are you resisting? Resisting the Great Merciful Tree King's face? Resisting his body? Or are you resisting your mistress's painstaking layout, the sliver of hope she barely managed to preserve?"

This is the final question.

This made Li Lu Pa Er and Fei Li Ji Si's complexion grow even darker.

They are indeed resisting the Great Merciful Tree King, who is not their mistress.

What Luo De said is correct.

And what Luo De said afterward is indeed a problem that makes them even more torn.

The Great Merciful Tree King is also a god who has died once.

The situation before us is quite clear.

She was reborn with the help of the Flower God's power.

Then, according to what Luo De said,

Under the premise of the three gods' covenant, should they devote their loyalty to this sliver of hope that the Flower God painstakingly arranged and left behind?

Luo De left them the time.

In this completely still world without external forces, it is absolutely impossible for them to replicate the natural behavior that Fei Li Ji Si previously exhibited.

This is the confidence he possesses after drawing on the power of faith, lacking only one step to attain godhood.

"Let them think it over themselves."

Saying these words.

Luo De then walked together with the Great Merciful Tree King in the world of the Eternal Oasis.

It is a world of splendid beauty.

All things are frozen at a single point in time.

The water surface is motionless, the birds are motionless, the trees do not sway.

And in the center of a lake, a towering tree with blossoming flowers at its base stands out particularly.

Especially, it especially draws the attention of the Great Merciful Tree King and Luo De.

That is a feeling of familiarity.

Very familiar, as if seeing oneself again.

"Na Bu."

The Great Merciful Tree King's expression was complex; he walked step by step toward the giant tree.

In contrast to Luo De.

Her feelings toward the Flower God are even more complicated.

Recalling the Sumeru of that time.

The Scarlet King swept across the desert, allied with the Flower God, and in the barren desert established a powerful kingdom.

At that time, the Archon War had not yet ended.

According to the rules set by Heavenly Principle.

The Scarlet King's alliance in the desert region and the Great Merciful Tree King's in the rainforest region will inevitably clash sooner or later.

Just as both sides' peoples began preparing for war, the Flower God came to the rainforest region, personally visited the Academy, went to see the embodiment of the World Tree, the Great Merciful Tree King, famed as the all-knowing god of wisdom.

In the meeting at the Palace of Purifying Kindness.

The Flower God posed the famous Three Questions of the Flower God.

The Great Merciful Tree King also perfectly interpreted each one.

Having received perfect answers, the Flower God gladly formed an alliance with the Great Merciful Tree King, namely the later Three Gods Alliance.

It's a pity that

the history of the Flower God's Three Questions

is unknown when it was erased.

Since then, history has also been tampered with beyond recognition; the once mighty Three Gods Alliance turned into the later Three Gods civil war, a fictional history in which the Flower God died and the Scarlet King was assassinated.

Although in fact the three gods did indeed develop some rifts later on.

Especially regarding the use of forbidden knowledge.

The Flower God and the Great Merciful Tree King almost completely broke ties.

But when the Flower God truly sacrificed herself to summon forbidden knowledge for the Scarlet King, causing the desert to plunge into chaos and death, the Great Merciful Tree King still hesitated not at all; upon receiving the Scarlet King's plea for aid, he immediately rushed to the desert and expended a vast amount of divine power to quell this contamination of forbidden knowledge.

It is precisely this expenditure of divine power

that laid the groundwork for her eventual downfall in the later Obsidian Calamity.

"Alas—"

"Actually, I have never blamed you."

Great Merciful Tree King walked among the giant trees, gently stroking the trunks.

This is the Flower God's remains.

No one knows why the Flower God's remains would be a tree.

But there is no doubt.

This is the Flower God's legacy.

And it has clearly been fallen for a thousand years.

But when the Great Merciful Tree King's forehead touched the trunk, in this world that had been stilled by the Red King's supreme divine power, a faint rustling of leaves actually came through.

Luo De quietly watched the Great Merciful Tree King and the Flower God's remains there, recounting old feelings, his eyes full of an indescribable strange color.

It's not because of anything else.

It's simply because his body is formed from pure spiritual light.

That is to say.

The tree before him and his body are truly of the same root and origin.

And the fact is indeed so.

When the Flower God's remains were responding to the Great Merciful Tree King.

Luo De could clearly sense the emotions emanating from the giant trees.

There was joy, longing, and comfort.

And also a "hmm".

Luo De blinked, and instantly the scene before him changed: the still, unmoving Eternal Oasis turned into a picture of three deities seated on their divine thrones, chatting and laughing with each other.

"This is.?"

"Memory?"

Luo De attempted to move a little.

But he failed.

It seems he can only be forced to watch the Flower God's memories replay bit by bit.

The slide-show-like picture continued.

First the three deities consulted together, then the Red King obtained forbidden knowledge, then the Flower God's consciousness dissipated, her remains were taken in by the Red King, and he established the Eternal Oasis, sending guardians to keep watch again.

The picture came to an abrupt halt here.

Luo De's body was finally able to move.

At the same time.

As the picture faded, a soft, gentle voice quietly drifted out from the broken image.

"You really did come after all."

"Who? The Flower God?" Luo De curiously looked ahead.

"She actually still has a remnant of consciousness?" In Luo De's view.

A woman wearing a dress similar to Nilou's Flower God Dance outfit suddenly appeared.

Her features were exquisitely delicate, so delicate that Luo De didn't know how to describe them; she wore a pair of horn-like ornaments on her head, a sheer veil as thin as a cicada's wing draped over her shoulders, her hands folded over her lower abdomen, and she gazed at Luo De with a gentle expression.

"Is your consciousness still here?"

Luo De asked with his mouth, while his heart had already prepared to preserve this trace of the Flower God's consciousness.

No vessel.

Just stuff it into the consciousness space.

Looking at this remnant of consciousness before him, it wasn't very strong—much weaker than Leidian Zhen's, so there shouldn't be too much trouble.

Luo De startled.

He suddenly realized.

This woman, identical to the Flower God in every way, had no spiritual power at all.

Just then.

The Flower God's voice sounded again.

"Hello, my descendant."

"Hehe."

"It seems the preparations I made back then all succeeded."

"The forbidden knowledge of Sumeru has been made clear to you, right?"

"Hmm, definitely."

"Otherwise you wouldn't have come here to investigate your origins."

"Oh, sorry."

"I shouldn't have said that."

"You shouldn't be here to investigate your origins; you should be here to uncover the secrets on your body."

"Really sorry."

"I summoned you from another world."

"But I really couldn't think of any other way."

"Amon's original intention was good; she wanted me to break free from the shackles of the sky, even sacrificing herself to become the destined one who could point her sword at the sky."

"I know I couldn't dissuade him."

"So I could only try from outside the world to summon a soul that could clean up his aftermath for him, and I left my body to him, hoping this would quell the chaos Amon brought."

By this point.

Luo De then discovered it.

This flower deity is not at all a remnant of consciousness.

but a recorded image.

She was merely mechanically repeating the words she left behind in life, narrating the entire process of Luo De's descent into this world.

The flower deity's tone was very helpless.

And this.

It also let Luo De see just how obstinate the Red King was.

Although what he did was to break the flower deity's shackles, allowing her to regain freedom.

But he, who acted unilaterally.

He had no regard for the flower deity's words that the heavenly principle cannot be defied, single-mindedly believing that as long as he recreated the Nibelung roots of that year, he could defeat the weakened heavenly principle.

But he didn't expect.

The price of obtaining forbidden knowledge is the flower deity's life.

Thus, after the flower deity passed away.

As the instigator, he was grief-stricken to the point of despair and fell completely into obsession.

From then on he abandoned opposing the heavenly principle, single-mindedly wanting to establish an eternal kingdom to rescue the flower deity.

It's a pity.

He simply could not achieve that.

Moreover, due to his mad research into forbidden knowledge, his consciousness began to erode, becoming increasingly insane, until it was completely beyond control.

Until the desert, under the invasion of forbidden knowledge, was nearly destroyed.

This deity, who single-mindedly sought to save his beloved, finally realized how absurd his mistake was.

Thus, after finally coming to his senses, he first found Apep as a container for his forbidden knowledge after his death, then went to the already estranged Great Merciful Tree King for help, finally sacrificing himself, assisting the Great Merciful Tree King in pacifying all forbidden knowledge contamination, ending his life that was magnificent and turbulent yet filled with sorrow and regret.

After finishing narrating everything.

The flower deity's image then said: "Outsider, I'm truly sorry; this is the only thing I can leave you. I hope you can forgive my recklessness."

Having said that.

The image shattered, an emerald-green gem condensed out of thin air, silently floating in midair, waiting for Luo De to come and receive it.

(End of chapter)