Chapter 514: Tracing Back (Please Subscribe)

Inside the secret chamber.

Aifa is taking time to instruct Enide in the techniques of Ritualism.

"A true ritual is actually very simple: clarify the subject, the prayer, the correct process..."

Aifa said: "To pray to the 'Green Banyan Tree Grandmother', one needs to observe the moon phase and divine the appropriate time... At the same time, the Ritual Array drawn must also be considered; she prefers lines that lean towards the feminine. There are also requirements for the Offering..."

Ritualism is actually a very complex field of study.

Aifa explained a few sentences, then suddenly sighed: "If it were that Excellency, perhaps just by relying on their own Spirituality, they could communicate with the Ages... The essence of a ritual is 'communication'! As long as this goal is achieved, the process is not important!"

On the tree bark, there were countless patterns resembling the wrinkles of a human face.

The main trunk of the banyan tree writhed for a moment, splitting open to reveal a pitch-black tree hollow.

Caw! Caw!

"The carrier for a Talisman is best as a spiritual item, followed by pure metal; for bearing the power of the feminine, white silver is best... But the 'Green Banyan Tree Grandmother' is very special; Green Banyan Tree Leaves can also carry her power."

The boy's head revealed a look of confusion and struggle.

"You are the source of the banyan tree, the protector of vitality... I pray that you grant me the power to resist the Weird!"

"An ancient aura..."

At this moment, Aaron's inspiration spread, and with the help of the temporary passage formed by the ritual, he descended directly to the place where the true body of the 'Green Banyan Tree Grandmother' resided!

With his current abilities, wanting to meddle with those two ladies was simply too easy.

He stared at Olivia's head: "Tell me... where is Lin?"

"I am... I am... the 'Mother of Nature'!"

An invisible door was pushed open, and a layer of ink-green light flowed down along the candlelight, merging into those seven banyan leaves.

"This time, I want to pray to the 'Green Banyan Tree Grandmother' for power to create a Purification Talisman..."

The fragrance of incense and essential oils overflowed; amidst the surging Spirituality, Aifa chanted in a low voice using the Spirit World Language:

"The Old Ruler who governs this land..."

A certain unknown place.

This scene made Aaron's inspiration tremble slightly.

A boy's head stretched out from the tree hollow, and the surrounding banyan bark immediately closed up, making it seem as if the boy's head had grown directly out of the tree.

"Foreign God—'Green Banyan Tree Grandmother'..."

The boy opened his eyes; his eyes were filled with white, with no other color at all.

"Thank you, my Lord..."

A head that Aaron was very familiar with emerged—it was Olivia!

A giant bone bird with three heads, rats crawling on the ground eating carrion, glowing jellyfish floating in the air...

"Therefore, is the 'Green Banyan Tree Grandmother' an existence that can be divined?"

But when she rubbed her eyes and looked at the shadows on the wall again, she found they were the same as before, and she couldn't help but let out a long breath, thinking she had experienced a visual hallucination.

A flash of realization crossed Aaron's heart.

But... there was no Lin!

Chaos and terror gathered here, causing the surrounding Spirit World Creatures to kneel on the ground one after another, their bodies trembling.

The boy spoke in the Spirit World Language, his tone ancient.

Finally, those ink-green rays of light merged with the remaining three banyan leaves, and powerful Spirituality flowed through the veins, forming special runes.

The four leaves shattered instantly.

Aifa placed the seven emerald Green Banyan Tree Leaves at the core of the ritual and lit the candles.

Crack!

"Lin?"

Countless Spirit World Creatures took shelter within this Green Banyan Tree forest, forming a weird ecosystem.

Especially Enide; she already had something 'parasitized' on her by him.

A large number of aerial roots hung down from the branches, forming a dense forest!

The banyan tree naturally has the ability to form a forest from a single tree.

When Aaron's inspiration descended, the entire forest suddenly went quiet.

"Guardian of the North..."

Under the flickering candlelight, the two people's shadows swayed on the wall, resembling the vicious claws of a monster...

'It seems that the "Mother of Nature" in this layer of history met with misfortune, and perhaps even that half of Lin has completely perished?'

Enide seemed to see their shadows suddenly tremble, as if they had turned into other creatures.

"I... who am I?"

'This is not a severely injured high-level existence... but a chaotic existence created by the residual thoughts of Mythical Creatures and Hidden Existences who died, accidentally combining with the faith of the "Green Banyan Tree Grandmother"!'

A few pure white crows flew down and landed on the banyan tree canopy, cawing.

Inexplicably, Aaron associated this with the children who had disappeared from the Shelter.

'This...'

Countless roots of the Green Banyan Tree were entwined around piles of white bones, emerging along the eye sockets of the Skulls, together forming a towering, giant Green Banyan Tree.

But Aifa's expression did not change; there was a certain probability of failure in making Talismans, which was something she was already used to.

"My intuition did not warn me... With my current status, even the Ages cannot obscure my premonition of danger."

There are even more abstract Spirit World Creatures!

Inside the bedroom, Aaron closed his eyes.

Almost without needing to search, Aaron locked onto the true body of this existence, which was also that massive main tree trunk that ten people could not wrap their arms around.

Suddenly, another 'tree burl' emerged from the tree body, and a girl's head screamed: "I am—'Lady Rose'!"

"You are the 'Green Banyan Tree Grandmother'?" Aaron sneered: "I am very curious... which existence were you originally, that after being heavily wounded and fleeing here, you had to merge with the faith of the 'Green Banyan Tree'?"

Since Aaron proposed a trade, it was a very reasonable development for the teacher to want to replenish a batch of 'Purification Talismans'.

Olivia's head was bewildered at first, then became agitated: "Lin is dead... I am dead..."

'Lower than the level I expected; this 'Green Banyan Tree Grandmother' might only be at the Ninth Sephira... or... a heavily wounded Tenth Primordial Quality?'

Enide stood to one side, listening intently.

Just as Aifa was offering routine thanks and about to end the Ritual, a breeze suddenly blew inside the wall of Spirituality.

"No, I am—'Old Man Bone'!" Another old man's head emerged from within the banyan tree.

Enide suddenly felt the surrounding environment become inexplicably much darker.

And this eerie Green Banyan Tree seemed to have evolved from a single tree into an ecological cycle system.

Countless heads emerged from the thick trunk of the Green Banyan Tree, shouting their respective names.

During Aifa's Prayer, the candlelight flared upward violently.

The fertile soil appeared black-red, as if one could squeeze blood out of a handful.

Aaron sensed that the Ritual was about to end and his own time was running out, so he continued to press: "Why did Lin die?"

"It was the 'Mother of Night'! She... She went mad!"

(End of this chapter)