Chapter 170: Next Time We Meet Will Be When I Deliver You from Fear (Please Follow Read)

Lu Zheng naturally would not let his true body venture deep into the Divine Realm directly; he still needed to dispatch a clone to make the trip.

Although the skills obtained by the Triple Clone were only a portion, and its base attributes were only half of the main body's, it was still enough to bulldoze Main God level and clash head-on with God King level.

More than sufficient to scout out information about the Divine Realm.

The passage into the Divine Realm was not hard to find.

You could even say it was visible everywhere.

It was the Class-Changing Temple that existed in every main city! This place was directly administered by the Divine Realm, not built by the humans below.

The temple came first, then the city.

The buildings of the old era had all turned to dust; everything had been built relying on the Class-Changing Temple.

Legend had it that after becoming a god, one could enter the Divine Realm through the Class-Changing Temple, but no one had ever used it.

Lu Zheng's clone walked into the temple and immediately sensed an array releasing some kind of attractive force toward him.

He went to the rear of the temple, where an array had already been activated.

It seemed the temple, upon sensing an individual of divine rank entering, had automatically activated the array with divine power.

Lu Zheng entered it, and in the next moment, a flash of golden light, he appeared atop a massive altar, surrounded by trees over a thousand meters tall.

At this moment, those trees looked as though they had withered — shriveled and lusterless.

With a slight scan, Lu Zheng discovered that these trees had lost the vast majority of their vitality; demonic energy shrouded the surroundings, and they were merely resisting stubbornly.

He raised a hand, and golden light bloomed from Lu Zheng, shooting toward those great trees.

The demonic energy within the trees was instantly expelled by Lu Zheng using Pixiu's 'Exorcise Evil' skill, but this skill only extracted the demonic energy — it could not destroy it.

At the same time, Lu Zheng released Taotie's skill 'Devouring Black Hole' and the Three-Legged Demon Toad's skill 'Hook Demon Spirit Tongue,' instantly devouring and absorbing all the expelled demonic energy, converting it into mana and experience points.

Immediately after, he released the 'Holy Light Shines Everywhere' skill, sending several hundred orbs of light up into the sky.

The entire forest was thoroughly purified and healed by him.

Beside the altar was the thickest tree; after it was healed, a massive tree hollow split open in its middle.

A female elf with golden hair and blue eyes, bearing a pair of pointed ears, flew out.

She bowed respectfully to Lu Zheng and spoke:

"Nina thanks Your Excellency for saving us!"

Following her appearance, more elves flew out from the tree hollows one after another.

They gathered before Lu Zheng and thanked him.

Lu Zheng waved his hand, looked at the elf who had emerged first, and asked:

"Nina, what exactly has happened in the Divine Realm? Tell me!"

The other party behaved very respectfully and immediately began recounting what had happened over these years.

This place was originally the Divine Nation Plane of the Life God King, merged within the Divine Realm, and also the habitat of the elven race.

After that great war, the entire Divine Realm was destroyed; most of the gods fell in battle, and a small portion were still alive but had fallen into slumber due to their injuries.

The evil demons hidden within the Divine Realm awakened on a certain day, ambushed and killed those gods who had not yet revived, stole their divine thrones, and ultimately polluted the entire Divine Realm.

Although the Life God King had also fallen, he had left behind the 'Heart of Life,' buried in the deepest part of the Forest of Elves.

Because of that thing's protection, existences at or above the level of gods were unable to enter this space.

However, existences below the level of gods, along with the surging demonic energy, had nearly forced these elves to hide within the bodies of Treant Warriors for shelter.

But even so, this place had reached the verge of collapse.

Lu Zheng's appearance had given them a new lease on life!

"Your Excellency, as long as you obtain the Heart of Life, you can initiate the Life God King's divine throne trial, and thereby become the Life God King, lead us, and defeat the evil demons!" Nina's eyes were full of anticipation.

But unfortunately, Lu Zheng directly shook his head and refused.

This clone was created by the 'Triple Clone' skill; it required mana to maintain its existence and could not inherit a divine throne.

And a clone created by the External Avatar skill could not exist across isolated planes.

Therefore, unless Lu Zheng's main body came in person, it was impossible to inherit the Life God King's divine throne.

"Now is not yet the time. I need to scout the situation outside. The next time we meet will be when I thoroughly deliver you from fear."

Disappointment showed in Nina's eyes, but upon hearing Lu Zheng's latter words, light could not help but return to her eyes.

They had truly waited too long, and were finally about to see the appearance of a savior! Lu Zheng left the Forest of Elves, not even bothering with the Heart of Life.

To him, things at the God King level no longer held much appeal now; the clone's purpose in coming to the Divine Realm was simply to figure out what exactly the situation here was.

Nothing else mattered.

The Divine Realm was a vast territory, far larger than Water Sphere Star, and the same was true of the Abyss Demon Realm.

This was very strange.

With such vast space and so many resources, why target a tiny Water Sphere Star? If there were many worlds similar to Water Sphere Star beneath the Divine Realm, that would still make sense.

Numerous worlds, all invaded, and Water Sphere Star was merely one of them.

But that was not the case.

Water Sphere Star, based on known information, was the only life-bearing planet in this world.

The number of follower-lives of any single Mid God exceeded the human population of Water Sphere Star, and every Mid God's Divine Nation Plane was roughly the same area as the original Water Sphere Star.

It was only now, with a large number of Divine Nation instances merged onto Water Sphere Star, that Water Sphere Star's area had expanded more than a hundredfold.

The mystery could not yet be solved.

All Lu Zheng could do was first investigate the situation in the Divine Realm.

After flying beyond the range of the Life God King's Divine Nation Plane, the surroundings were once again filled with dense demonic energy.

The clone also possessed the 'Heaven-Devouring Demon Body' passive, so naturally there was no discomfort.

But judging from the current situation, the entire Divine Realm had indeed completely fallen.

Based on the known information, the final result should not be like this.

Gods and demons suffered mutual devastation; the vast majority of demons were eliminated, and a considerable portion of gods survived, leading to a relatively stable situation.

Even if the demons left a backup and gradually recovered, the Divine Realm should not have been outright destroyed.

Unless an external interference factor like myself appeared.

While Lu Zheng was probing the Divine Realm, a metal robot was also investigating above the Water Ball Star.

Inside a fortress thick with demonic aura somewhere in the Divine Realm.

A humanoid figure, entirely silver-white, as if cast from metal, stared at the light curtain before it and emitted a clicking sound.

"A powerful being has indeed appeared below, with his incarnations everywhere; he can actually split into many sub-bodies just like me—this ability surpasses the limits of this world."

I never expected there to be another outsider who arrived here before me.

The situation in the Abyss Demon Realm is probably also his doing.

However, he currently only possesses the strength of the Ten Realms; he can act, accelerate the fusion, break the world's protection limits—this origin star will be mine!"

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