Chapter 351

What is this?

The image left behind by the Flower God dissipated, and Luo De, back in reality, held that green gemstone in his hand, his eyes showing a hint of doubt.

This thing feels somewhat familiar.

But Luo De was certain he had never seen this thing before.

He must have seen something similar.

Soon.

He then thought of it.

Only seeing Luo De pull out from his bosom the false divine spark made from weak multi-Tore slices, a quick comparison told him what he needed to know.

"The Flower God has left behind her divine spark."

Luo De's eyes narrowed slightly.

This is a true Archon's divine spark.

Anyone who uses it can obtain the Flower God's identity.

"Nabu's"

After silently confiding in the Flower God's remains, the Great Merciful Tree King also came over.

Upon seeing the Flower God's divine spark, she stood there stunned, staring blankly at the divine spark, her expression unusually complex.

"I just saw the image she left behind."

Luo De relayed the Flower God's words to the Great Merciful Tree King.

Having said that.

Looking at the Great Merciful Tree King's increasingly complex and uneasy face, he hesitated a moment, then stroked the Flower God's divine spark and asked, "How is this used?"

Actually, just when he had identified this as a divine spark.

Luo De had been thinking of giving the divine spark to the Great Merciful Tree King so she could legitimately take the Flower God's place.

But upon further thought.

the Great Merciful Tree King still has her Dendro Archon's divine spark.

Giving her another Flower God's divine spark would be useless, and might even cause a conflict between the two divine sparks, making her unable to control their power.

After all, given the Great Merciful Tree King's current abilities.

even the Electro Archon's power released from the thunder movie she cannot withstand.

Let alone the conflict between the two divine sparks.

As for Luo De.

He himself is the contingency left behind by the Flower God to completely resolve the Sumeru Abyss pollution, and his body is also constructed from part of the Flower God's remains.

Therefore, solely in terms of suitability for this divine spark.

Luo De is definitely more suitable than the Great Merciful Tree King.

Moreover, the divine spark in his hand, which is a false divine spark made by imitating the Red King's divine spark, is essentially a reservoir of faith power, and will not interfere with the true Flower God's divine spark.

But when Luo De asked how to use the Flower God's divine spark.

The Great Merciful Tree King did not immediately answer, but instead furrowed her brows and said, "When an Archon dies, their divine spark automatically dissipates, becoming part of the seven worldly governing divine sparks; how was this preserved?"

"!"

Luo De was also startled, then quickly looked again at the divine spark in his palm and said, "You're sure this is a divine spark, right?"

"Yes."

"I'm sure."

"This is Nabu's divine spark."

The Great Merciful Tree King spoke with a solemn expression: "According to reason, after the Archon War, the throne and the Gnosis system were established; all Archon divine sparks are reclaimed upon defeat, and even if they didn't die, their divine sparks would be stripped—let alone Nabu, who has been dead for over a thousand years; how has her divine spark been preserved until now!"

"Didn't you notice back then that her divine spark hadn't merged into the Dendro Archon's divine spark?"

Luo De said, referring to the time when.

this refers to when the Flower God sacrificed herself to open the door for the Red King, introducing forbidden knowledge.

If what the Great Merciful Tree King said is correct.

then she should have sensed something about this at that time.

However, the Great Merciful Tree King shook her head, her voice bitter: "At that time the whole desert fell into chaos, heaven and earth changed color; I rushed from the rainforest, having no leisure to examine these matters; after Amon contained the forbidden knowledge within his body, I also couldn't investigate where Nabu's divine spark ended up."

As she spoke.

she suddenly thought of a possibility: "It's Amon!"

"Red King?"

"You mean."

After her reminder, Luo De also thought of it: "The Red King doesn't know what method he used to preserve the Flower God's divine spark, possibly even retaining a trace of consciousness, and then built the Eternal Oasis, preserving both the divine spark and consciousness here, hoping to leave hope for the Flower God's resurrection!"

The Great Merciful Tree King continued: "That's why the Soul Wardens have full confidence that Amon can resurrect Nabu, thus turning to pledge allegiance to him, and voluntarily having their souls drawn off to guard here year after year!"

Everything matches up!

Saying this, that whole history from back then lines up! The root cause still lies with the Red King.

This Archon is the strongest in desert history.

After spending a period of peaceful and joyful time with the three gods.

Upon discovering that the Flower God always carried a gloomy hue, he decided to help his beloved with greater power, aiding her to break free from the bonds of the Sky Island.

And wanting to overcome the invincible Heavenly Principle spoken of by the Flower God.

Only by relying on the power of the Abyss.

Thus he stubbornly began to study the Abyss's power.

The Flower God, who possessed prophetic abilities, also did not stop him.

Because she knew very well.

In Teyvat, the fate of all living beings is pre-recorded; even if something goes awry in the middle, the outcome will still match the original setting.

Thus she voluntarily went to help him open the gate to the Abyss, so that the Red King could draw the Abyss power he desired.

But she never said it.

After opening the gate.

She would die.

The Red King was naturally overjoyed by this news and even made many preparations to accept the power that could defeat the sky.

At the same time.

The Flower God, who still harbored a spirit of resistance in her heart, was also making preparations.

But her preparations differed from those of the Red King.

All her preparations were meant to deal with the overflow of Abyss power.

The first one the Flower God found was the Great Merciful Tree King.

She gave her own spiritual light to the Great Merciful Tree King and told him the prophecy of the Kanrui Ya disaster, saying that upon encountering darkness again, she could release the spiritual light to cleanse the Abyss power, and at the same time bestowed a strand of that spiritual light upon the Great Merciful Tree King to help preserve his consciousness.

After that.

She then went to find the sinner of Fontaine, the previous Hydro Archon, Ege Li Ya.

She informed Ege Li Ya of the situation in Sumeru and also told her the prophecy that someone would one day come to save Fontaine from the pitch-black disaster.

Thus, during the Kanrui Ya war.

Ege Li Ya sacrificed herself willingly, her corpse turning into a sea of sweet dew; under the arrangement of the Great Merciful Tree King, the divine bird Ximo Ge, formed from the Flower God's spiritual light, drank the sweet dew's living water, thereby creating a hundred varieties of spiritual light that could in one fell swoop suppress the Abyss power pouring forth from the Kanrui Ya nation, enough to spread across the entire continent.

After carrying out all of this according to fate's plan.

The Flower God exerted all her strength.

She summoned a soul from beyond the heavens.

As for whether it would succeed.

She did not know.

But she still made preparations for the soul's descent; it was a part of her own body, and also her most important spiritual light.

The Flower God separated this spiritual light and stored it in one of her palaces.

After doing all of this.

She then went to open the gate for the Red King.

It's a pity.

Even at the moment of her own death, she never saw the soul she had summoned descend into Teyvat.

Perhaps she herself had not expected it.

This summoning only, after a thousand years, finally drew Luo De's soul over.

By then, the palace where she had stored that spiritual light had long become a desolate ruin buried under yellow sand due to the erosion of time.

After the Flower God's death.

The Red King was naturally grief-stricken.

Even though he had finally obtained the power he had long dreamed of, gaining the strength to contend with the sky.

But the Flower God had passed away.

What use is such immense power to him! The grief-stricken Red King.

The only thing he could do.

That was to preserve the Flower God's divinity, which had not yet fully dissipated, and her consciousness, which had not yet completely shattered, storing them all in the Eternal Oasis, hoping thereby to retain hope for her resurrection.

After that.

The Red King then began to frantically study forbidden knowledge, seeking a way to revive his beloved from within it.

No matter how his research progressed.

Apart from bringing ever more advanced technology to the desert, he still could not find a way to resurrect the Flower God.

And worse still.

After returning from his long research to reality, the Red King discovered that the Flower God's consciousness in the Eternal Oasis had dissipated.

Even though the Eternal Oasis is a place where time is completely still.

He still could not prevent the dissipation of the Flower God's consciousness.

This plunged him into despair once again and left him unable to control the forbidden knowledge within himself, triggering a massive pollution that spread across the entire desert.

What happened after that need not be elaborated.

The Great Merciful Tree King extended aid from the rainforest region, the Red King willingly gave his life, Apei Pu swallowed the source of pollution, and the desert returned to normal—but civilization was utterly destroyed, a highly advanced technological nation collapsing overnight into a backward slave system.

"What a sin."

Together with the Great Merciful Tree King, having straightened out the timeline completely, Luo De couldn't help but sigh.

Was anyone at fault in this matter? No.

The Red King's intentions were good.

Including the technological development he later brought through researching forbidden knowledge, which gave the desert a civilization not inferior to that of the Academy.

The Flower God has already done as much as possible to make up for the Red King's mistakes.

Even sacrificing her own life.

Not to mention the Great Merciful Tree King.

For this matter unrelated to her, she expended tremendous divine power that caused her form to regress, and to this day she has still been unable to return to her former state.

It's just such twists and turns.

The results brought.

It is that the desert returned to ignorance, becoming the only sacrifice in the gods' turmoil.

"Amon, Nabu"

Great Merciful Tree King made no comment on what the two good friends had done before, merely sighed, then turned the topic back to Luo De: 'Just swallow it.'

"Huh?"

"Swallow it?"

Looking at this gem so hard that even with all his strength he couldn't leave a trace, Luo De swallowed a mouthful of saliva, then without hesitation shoved the Flower God's divinity into his mouth.

However, the imagined pain did not appear.

After the divinity entered his mouth, it immediately became a pure elemental energy with nothing comparable, flowing down Luo De's throat into his abdomen, then spreading to his limbs, until it permeated his whole body.

Luo De's eyes were instantly covered in a grass-green hue.

At this moment.

He had a strange feeling.

That is, through the barrier of the Eternal Oasis, he could still see, starting from Lilu Paer and Feili Jisi, then to the tribespeople in the desert who were praying like the Flower God.

It seemed that the Flower God's divinity, sensed, was activated again.

Those believers who were not praying also all knelt down, devoutly chanting the name 'Nabu Marykatta'.

An endless stream of faith power surged from all directions.

Such intangible undulations, like a tide, repeatedly washed over Lin Ye's body, the spiritual light emanating from the Flower God also at this time displayed a hundred forms of spiritual light, the original flesh and body turned into a clear, gem-like color, flowers suddenly bloomed under Luo De's feet, and as the faith power surged, this flower field continued to spread, after completely covering the whole lake-centre island, these flowers even grew onto the still lake surface, forming a unique beauty of water-borne flowers.

This surge of faith power.

Compared to the Red King's faith that Luo De had drawn back from A Ru Cun, this feeling far surpassed that previous sensation.

Luo De's mind was clear and empty, his entire consciousness seeming to rise up to the heavens, arriving at an empty palace.

He looked around.

His gaze quickly settled on the luxurious throne in the palace.

"God's Throne."

Gazing at the Flower God's throne that he had once seen before, Luo De felt something, and slowly stepped through the air toward it.

It was the first time he had come into such close contact with the throne.

Luo De stood before the throne, his hand rubbing its armrest, feeling the throne's faint resistance to him, a strange color appearing on his face.

Very strange.

He had clearly swallowed the divinity, yet felt no connection between himself and the Flower God's throne.

"Could it be the influence of Apepu, who once helped me sever the connection?"

Thinking this, Luo De chuckled: 'Well, at least this way I won't be restrained by the heavenly principle because of the divinity.'

This is good news.

Originally Luo De had prepared himself to re-establish a connection with the throne.

Now confirmed that he had no connection with the throne, merely having taken a portion of the Flower God's authority from it, his mood was extremely relieved.

The only thing that is somewhat regrettable.

Is that he cannot sit on the throne to experience the Flower God's feeling.

Consciousness returned.

The throne and palace instantly vanished.

Luo De slowly opened his eyes; the jade-green color in his eyes slowly faded, and his whole person returned from the Flower God's aspect to human form.

"Huh?"

As soon as he opened his eyes, Luo De saw Feili Jisi and Lilu Paer leaning over in front of him.

Although he couldn't see their expressions.

But their piety and reverence, Luo De could feel without looking.

"This is your first time accepting Nabu's faith power."

"Because the accumulated years are long, so the divinization of your body is also at its most effective time."

"After this, there will be no such benefit; it will be merely pure power accumulation."

Great Merciful Tree King stood beside him, explaining the recent changes, then laughed: 'How is it? How do you feel? Our Sumeru's, new Flower God~~~'

(End of chapter)