Chapter 701

Want to run away from the little Demon King's eyes? Unless he also possesses the strength of an Ancient God, that is. After grabbing Keli Te, the little Demon King gave him a forceful shake, shaking Keli Te until he fell apart like a snake stripped of its bones.

Of course, this kind of injury wasn't fatal for Keli Te. What was more fatal was the little Demon King's power penetrating his body, rapidly contaminating his blood. The big and little Demon Kings were the true ancestors of these demons.

After subduing Keli Te, the little Demon King looked at the face formed by twisted roots and called out to Ang, "King, the remnant consciousness that the big tree mentioned as calling for help seems to be here."

Not long after, Ang and his group surged into this space, looking at that clump of roots in surprise.

"What a huge clump. Could this plane be centered around its roots? Is this the main trunk of the World Tree?" Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si said in surprise.

They had collected information about the World Tree from various channels like De Luo Sa, the little Demon King, and the Wanderer God Alliance, but there had never been any information regarding its roots.

This was normal; after all, the World Tree was too vast. It supported the entire chaotic plane, and its roots could penetrate space to reach anywhere. Plus, with hundreds of thousands of years having passed, the roots might have petrified or withered.

But they hadn't expected to suddenly discover its roots here. Finding the roots meant finding the main trunk. Even if its roots had penetrated through from 'somewhere else', it was still possible to find the location of the main trunk through the penetrated space.

Anthony said, "The remnant consciousness that the old tree mentioned as calling for help should be what's left on this, right? Little Demon King, you said when you caught him, he was preparing to dash inside? What is inside?"

"Asking you, what is inside?" The little Demon King shook Keli Te, who was like a dead snake.

Keli Te kept his mouth shut, preparing to put on a show of being fearless of death, but the next moment he screamed, "Ahhh! I'll talk, I'll talk! Inside is my Godhead, the Purgatory Demon King Godhead, it hurts, it hurts..."

The little Demon King had only pushed his demonic power into Keli Te's body to make his blood boil; he couldn't even endure it for a second.

"Godhead? You don't keep your Godhead on yourself, you put it inside this?" Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si asked, puzzled.

"This... that... isn't it because I'm afraid of being found out? Occasionally I have to meet with other demons or Ancient Gods. Their sensitivity to divine power and Godheads is just like a Mud-Eating Beast seeing rotten mud... Ouch, it hurts, it hurts..." Keli Te screamed before he could finish his sentence.

The little Demon King was annoyed and ignited Keli Te's blood. He was still being held in his hand, yet he dared to mock him as a Mud-Eating Beast?

Huh? That horse from before seemed to have called him a Mud-Eating Beast too. Could he be dwelling on being cursed back? Was he traumatized by the insults?

"There's no need to put it here, right? Look at those roots, they're all rotten, moldy, and fuzzy. Aren't you afraid your Godhead will get moldy too and become a Mold God?" Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si said with disdain.

"Uh, only here can the Godhead be stored," Keli Te said.

Oh right, not everyone is like Ang, possessing a Huang Tong Book that can seal a Godhead.

Just then, something on the stone wall to the left was moving, struggling to squeeze through the rocks, emitting the message: Hey yo—hey yo—squeeze hard—squeeze hard—.

Not long after, a bundle of roots squeezed through the stone wall and drilled into this space. A thought radiated out: Found it... it's here... looking for Ang... Huh, why are you all here too?

The roots grew rapidly, sprouting a Tree Shepherd, who walked over with a twist and a turn.

Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si said, "We found the path. You didn't squeeze down by force, did you? Weren't there any ground fissures or passages?"

The old tree said slowly, "Maybe there were. Too lazy to look. Squeezing by force isn't slow either."

Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si was speechless. These guys, having strength makes them arrogant. Squeezing by force from the surface to the depths of the plane, and they actually dare to say it's not slow?

The old tree walked under the big root face, stretched its legs to prop it up into the air, and stretched its arms to insert them into the roots. A large amount of information began to pass between the old tree and the big root face.

Not long after, the old tree retracted its arms, holding a Godhead in its hand, "There was a piece of junk stuck inside. Don't know whose it is."

Junk?! This is a Godhead, and he actually calls it junk?

What made Keli Te feel stifled was that the old tree really treated it as junk and tossed it to Ang casually.

Ang took a look and said, "So weak." Then he casually tossed it into the Huang Tong Book, and everyone's attention returned to the big root face.

Judging by everyone's attitude, this Godhead could indeed only be considered junk, not even as valuable as a blank Godhead.

"This is a secondary root of the parent plant. Don't know where it extended from. I reached the end to look; it's broken very neatly. It was caused by spatial shearing, and it has lost its vitality. It's being corroded. In another few tens of thousands of years, it will be completely corroded away," the old tree said slowly.

"..." Everyone already had a concept of the Tree of Life's time, but they didn't expect the World Tree's to be even longer, with tens of thousands of years being mentioned casually.

Hurrying to skip this question, Anthony asked, "Is there any other information? Why was the old old tree calling for help?"

Old old tree? What a strange name. But what should the old tree's parent plant be called? Father of the old tree? Uh, even stranger. Forget it, let's just call it that.

The old tree didn't care what it was called and said slowly, "Seems to be saying: The void is about to collapse, help."

"???" A row of big question marks popped up in everyone's hearts, the little Demon King's pink skirt and so on were no exception: "The void is about to collapse? What does that mean?"

The old tree said slowly, "That's what it means. It's about to collapse. Probably the spatial structure will cease to exist, and everything will be torn into fragments. All matter will turn into nothingness."

The little Demon King and the pink skirt, who originally felt nothing about the old tree's slow nature, were now anxious, wishing they could grab the old tree's neck to make it explain clearly.

Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si asked even more anxiously, "And then? And then what happened? Who saved it? Sigh, you just say it, you're killing a dragon with anxiety."

The old tree said slowly, "No one saved it. I was just about to say that. You're too anxious..."

Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si was angry: "No one saved it, then why didn't the void collapse?"

The old tree said slowly, "It saw that no one could save it, so it burned its life, temporarily preventing the collapse of the void, and then it withered..."

Everyone was stunned there, looking at that clump of roots again, filled with awe.

"I just said it, the World Tree, which takes hundreds of thousands of years even to corrode, how could it wither so easily? So it burned its life. But why would the void collapse?" Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si asked.

Anthony couldn't help but interrupt: "No, no, first tell us why it's 'temporarily'. Did the old old tree not solve the problem of the void collapse?"

If they didn't ask the most critical question, by the time the old tree finished speaking slowly, it would be dark.

"It couldn't solve it, so it called for help, only able to temporarily suppress it and wait for a future solution. It believes in the wisdom of future generations... Let me think about how to solve it." The old tree no longer said this was part of nature, and became rarely troubled.

Taking advantage of this leisure, Ang walked into the air and sacrificed the Death Scythe, slashing forcefully at a section of the roots, but he couldn't cut it, and instead got entangled by the roots.

(End of chapter)