Chapter 893

"'Earth's Gift' can make the land within a three-hundred-kilometer range become fertile, water flow become abundant, and the reproduction tendency of life increase, making even the most unfavorable environmental conditions unable to prevent life from conceiving offspring, only reducing the quantity and frequency...

"'Earth's Gift' will randomly cause the land within a three-hundred-kilometer range to become desolate, grain to fail, and plants to wither. Unless the desolation effect ends, this land will not become fertile again. This can be suppressed by angel-level abilities similar to purification, making the desolation limited to a very small range and unable to spread...

"If used actively, 'Earth's Gift' can make all life within a thirty-kilometer range pass away rapidly until death. Abilities outside similar fields will also gradually wither and be weakened because of this. And the dead who do not possess life entering this field will rapidly return to the earth...

"'Earth's Gift' can also make the area within a fifty-kilometer range full of various highly toxic substances and grow various supernatural plants beneficial to itself. Similarly, it can also domesticate all animals within this area that do not possess high intelligence, making the loss-of-control tendency of every Beyonder stronger...

"Through touch, 'Earth's Gift' can create human-like puppets from soil, plants, magma, minerals, and metals, and endow them with a certain amount of life and power. The strongest puppet does not exceed Sequence 3, and the upper limit of the number of demigod-level puppets is nine...

"'Earth's Gift' can transform the environment, making even the abyss suitable for human survival...

"The holder of 'Earth's Gift' will truly become one with the earth, forests, water flow, mountains, minerals, etc., within the range and can shuttle through them, with different speeds...

"Every time one is hit by 'Earth's Gift,' one will accept the test of losing control and also accept the test of death. If one cannot pass, one will either lose control on the spot or die directly...

"'Earth's Gift' can make the holder briefly turn into a mythical creature, but it requires the holder to be able to withstand the arcane knowledge and crazy intent impact brought by the corresponding mythical creature form...

"'Earth's Gift' can make the holder possess all female characteristics...

"Life that contacts 'Earth's Gift' will either be healed of all injuries and all diseases, or die instantly. Which result it is cannot be divined beforehand. According to prophecy, a female who possesses Omebella's bloodline and has suffered betrayal by an immediate family member will not have the outcome of instant death...

"People who do not satisfy the above conditions, even if they are lucky enough to obtain the healing effect, cannot use 'Earth's Gift' for more than one minute afterward, otherwise they will lose control or die...

"People who satisfy the conditions will also bear other negative effects...

"Anyone who understands the above information, if they do not possess divinity, will likely conceive in the next period of time and become pregnant with an unknown creature...

"Note: Except for the prophecy part, all descriptions are based on Bai Yin City's experience, lessons, and cognition."

After reading the materials of "Earth's Gift," Lu Mian finally understood why it was necessary to possess Omebella's bloodline and be a female who had suffered betrayal by an immediate family member to contact, pick up, and briefly use this "0" level sealed artifact. Doing it as anyone else was purely gambling with one's life. Unless there was no other way to heal the injuries and diseases on one's body, or one encountered a crisis that couldn't be overcome normally, no one would try.

"But it is really strong. It is worthy of being a '0' level sealed artifact. And if used briefly, the negative effects are not completely unacceptable. It's just that one has to suppress the desolation effect and at the same time guard against the enemy turning into a more terrifying evil spirit after death..." Lu Mian muttered to himself silently for a few sentences and focused his attention on the most critical content.

That was the part where Omebella, in a very poor state, walked to Bai Yin City and sought sacrifice.

According to Lady "Magician," at this time, Omebella had already had her identity and fate stolen. The people of Bai Yin City couldn't possibly know that the female giant in front of them was the "Goddess of Harvest" Omebella.

But in the records, the residents of Bai Yin City knew for certain that it was Omebella, and they didn't even have a bit of doubt or raise any objections.

They thought this was a fact that didn't need verification, reflected in the records as just those two short sentences, the purpose of which was to describe that Omebella arrived at Bai Yin City by walking.

Lu Mian raised his head and looked at Mr. "Sun," who was sitting against the wall, and asked thoughtfully:

"What image did the 'Goddess of Harvest' Omebella have when She walked to Bai Yin City?"

He remembered that the previous records mentioned that Omebella had descended to Bai Yin City many times, mainly presenting two images: one representing harvest and reproduction, and one symbolizing desolation and death.

This made Lu Mian suspect whether Omebella existed as two identities, whether the one whose fate was stolen was "Harvest and Reproduction," and the one who walked to Bai Yin City to seek sacrifice was "Desolation and Death."

Mr. "Sun" shook his head:

"There was no record at the time."

Lu Mian supported his cheek with his hand and thought silently:

"Judging from the demand for Bai Yin City to sacrifice half of its citizens, it is indeed closer to the 'Desolation and Death' image...

"But if the 'Harvest and Reproduction' image was heavily damaged, it is also possible to demand life to help itself recover...

"And, two images can be understood, but how were two identities concentrated on one person... It couldn't be that the 'Goddess of Harvest' Omebella had stolen the identity and fate of another Omebella before? She isn't of the 'Thief' pathway, and there are no legends indicating She possessed similar items..."

Lu Mian deliberated for a moment, stood up, and said:

"I want to contact 'Earth's Gift'."

See what resonance Omebella's bloodline can bring and what information can be obtained.

Mr. "Sun," Derrick Berg, stood up with him:

"Good."

Wearing a simple white robe, he walked steadily in front, entered the round tower from the connection on the second floor, then went down all the way, passed through the deep and dark dungeon, and arrived at a heavy stone door that opened to both sides.

Behind the stone door were mottled stairs extending downward, and dots of light like morning dawn penetrated from the depths, bringing a certain degree of visibility.

Lu Mian discovered that the walls on both sides of the stairs were wet, seemingly seeping with quite a few water droplets, and clusters of black plants that looked like hair were drilling out of the cracks, hanging there.

The further down the stairs they went, the brighter the morning dawn light became, and between the moist walls and the black plants in the state of hair, mushrooms of various colors, golden wheat ears, unique black-faced grass, and other things grew, and the spirituality in the air also became increasingly lively and vigorous.

Lu Mian's heart palpitated gradually, as if returning to a mother's embrace, or finding back his past self.

He heard the sound of blood flowing. That seemed to come from his own body, or it was like originating from the bottom of the stairs.

"It really is Omebella... The formless divine child is indeed Omebella..." Lu Mian sighed with emotion for two sentences and calmed his own state.

His hair was growing inch by inch in the cloak, and his skin was becoming more delicate and elastic.

After going down for a while, Lu Mian saw sunlight. That came from Mr. "Sun."

Pure, warm, and sacred golden-yellow light rapidly filled this area, making the desolation power and death aura retreat to the edge.

Seeing this scene, Lu Mian instinctively associated it with the "Witch's" "Disease" and "Plague":

"In such a sunlight field, the vast majority of arcane pathogens will die rapidly, but instead, a few common pathogens might survive..."

Finally, "Sun" Derrick Berg and Lu Mian arrived at a large room covered with dots of morning dawn.

Here, the smell of soil, the scent of green grass, and the fragrance of flowers permeated. The ceiling, floor, and surrounding walls were covered with that kind of black thing like hair, and various plants and mushrooms grew.

In the center of this room, brownish-brown soil was piled up, and a withered, giant tree trunk was inserted at the top.

That tree trunk was only a little bit away from touching the ceiling, seven or eight meters high, needing three or four people to embrace it. Most of the bark on the surface had fallen off, and the remaining ones were all grey-brown.

Its tree heart had already become empty. The wood part exposed to the outside, facing Lu Mian and Mr. "Sun," was partly raised and partly concave, outlining a pattern that had no legs and resembled a human.

That figure used the branches on the tree trunk as hands, and the face was extremely distorted. Serving as the eyes of the face were two giant crimson flowers.

Within the wood grain of its "body surface," threads of blood color loomed.

"This is 'Earth's Gift'." The sacred sunlight manufactured by Mr. "Sun" merged with the dots of morning dawn in the room.

Lu Mian already felt his blood throbbing, feeling that he had an unusually close connection with that withered tree trunk, originating from his bloodline.

The two were originally one.

Lu Mian seemed to have been summoned, subconsciously walking forward. His elegant and clean face seemed to be emitting light on its own in the morning dawn mixed with sunlight.

One step, two steps, three steps... He arrived at the top of the brownish-brown soil and stopped in front of the withered giant tree.

"Sun" Derrick Berg did not stop her.

Lu Mian took a breath, adjusted his state, prepared to use "Mirror Substitute," and then reached out his right palm, which had even flesh and slender fingers, to touch the withered tree trunk from which threads of blood were seeping.

Just as his fingers touched the dim-colored wood, a scene suddenly flashed in his mind:

The sky was hazy, seemingly shrouded in dark mist, and a giant light shadow that seemed to be able to support heaven and earth appeared in front, while behind it was a strange figure outlined by blurred lines...

Such a scene flashed by, followed by darkness without a bit of light, and incomparable quiet deathly silence.

I don't know how long it had passed, but in the darkness and deathly silence, a shrill cry came vaguely:

"My child, Omebella...

"My child, Omebella..."

Lu Mian suddenly broke away from the hallucination, as if he had been forcibly pushed away from "Earth's Gift" by an invisible force.

He immediately felt a stinging pain in his right shoulder, with a bit of coldness like moonlight shining.

That was the contract mark originating from the "Abscessed Severed Hand" being triggered, but it didn't produce any effect, bringing "Teleportation" and "Flash."

(End of chapter)