Chapter 777: The Collapse of Consciousness

Lord Nai Ge flew over and extended a claw, wanting to poke the unicorn's horn.

"What do you want? Take your dirty paw away!" the unicorn shouted sternly.

Nai Ge Li Si was startled: "You can see me?" Can't these light beings only see the small sapling and the Tree of Life?

"Why wouldn't I see you? You're just a shit-yellow four-legged lizard. Do you think you can turn invisible?" the unicorn said disdainfully.

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Nai Ge Li Si had now become immune to the term "lizard" and put his hands on his hips to scold: "Then what are you? A five-colored horse?"

"You're the horse! You shit-yellow lizard! You're the horse! You are a horse!" the unicorn roared.

This arguing skill didn't even reach one percent of lightning's power; Nai Ge Li Si felt nothing. He exaggeratedly tilted his neck to one side so his short little arms could reach his ear canal, dug his ear like that, and asked: "Being called both a lizard and a horse, am I a lizard or a horse?"

"You... you... you..." the unicorn was so angry he couldn't say a word for a long time; finally, his entire form exploded and scattered, blown up by rage.

This scared Nai Ge Li Si. Was his arguing skill that powerful? He could actually blow up his opponent with anger? Is he okay?

Anthony quickly stepped forward and spoke loudly: "Beautiful and pure unicorn spirit, I apologize for intruding into this peaceful world. My companion is just a young dragon who hasn't seen much of the world and is a bit frightened; please forgive his childishness and ignorance."

Nai Ge Li Si was used to cooperating; upon hearing this, he immediately widened his eyes, putting on a face of 'innocent and shoe-less' expression, though his acting wasn't very good, making him look a bit foolish.

But perhaps he was truly pure; not far away, the light re-condensed into the shape of a unicorn, as if inspecting them with half-belief and half-doubt.

"Nice to meet you, pure spirit. You just said this is the consciousness space of the Tree God. The Tree God you mentioned—is he a creature like my companion?" Anthony asked.

True to form, speaking human language to humans and using soul waves to communicate with the undead, the old shaman Anthony, with just a few words, drew closer to the unicorn while emphasizing his 'two companions'.

Everyone could enter here entirely because of the small sapling. The God of Life also said there is the scent of the Parent Tree here, so these light beings must be related to the Ten Thousand Worlds Divine Tree.

Among his companions, there was not only a 'young and ignorant young dragon' but also two trees related to the Ten Thousand Worlds Divine Tree.

The unicorn also recalled this point; his gaze fell upon the God of Life, and he asked curiously: "You have the scent of the Tree God on you. Are you the Tree God's child?"

"Probably. Who are you?" the God of Life said leisurely.

"It must be. Your tone of voice is just like the Tree God's." The God of Life's tone reminded the unicorn of some bad memories, and he said gloomily: "I am the guardian spirit of the consciousness space. My name is Awuli."

Nai Ge Li Si said in the soul network: "Awuli means 'rainbow' in Ancient Elven."

Anthony's heart jumped: "You understand Ancient Elven too?"

Nai Ge Li Si, with his tail raised, said: "Of course. Please loudly call my divine name—the God of Knowledge."

Too lazy to pay attention to him, Anthony continued asking: "Is this the consciousness space of the Tree God? Why are you here?"

Awuli tilted her head and asked in confusion: "If we aren't here, where would we be?"

Anthony blinked thoughtfully.

This question was quite skillful. Normally, hearing this question, one would say they are here because of some reason, but Awuli was very confused about why Anthony would ask this question. In her cognition, staying here was only natural.

Is it only natural? The Ten Thousand Worlds Divine Tree is dead, yet a bunch of light beings live in its consciousness space. Is this reasonable?

This is unreasonable. For a normal person, whose consciousness space can exist independently?

But Awuli didn't have this cognition. She thought the existence of her light beings and the arrival of Seeing Ange and others were all reasonable, so she was confused why Anthony would ask such a question: If not here, then where?

Realizing this, Anthony immediately changed his strategy and explained: "What I mean is, besides you, who else is here? Where is the Tree God?"

Awuli said in confusion: "You're so strange. This is the consciousness space of the Tree God, a part of the Tree God's consciousness. Yet you ask where the Tree God is? The Tree God is right here."

Anthony hesitated for a moment and asked tentatively: "Then do you know that the Tree God has already died?"

Awuli widened her round, bulging eyes and stood frozen in place.

Because she was a being whose outline was drawn by light, when she opened her eyes wide, colorful light circled around her eyes, making it feel like she was about to faint at any moment.

After a long while, Awuli, who had been standing frozen with the light in her eyeballs circling, suddenly had her entire outline collapse, turning into countless light points that scattered onto the ground like sand.

At the same time, in the entire colorful world, all the light collapsed, turning into countless light points. It was as if a world built of sand instantly crumbled and scattered everywhere, leaving only that huge tree standing upright in the center of the space.

"What happened? What did you do? Why did everything fall apart?" Nai Ge Li Si could no longer pretend to be stupid and asked urgently.

Anthony, with a tear-stained face, said regretfully: "I pierced her self-cognition, causing her to detach from the consciousness space, and then she collapsed. Do you remember my lord telling us about the Light God's consciousness space?"

When Seeing Ange first encountered the Light God's divine title, he had an experience of a battle in a consciousness space. There, those floating and sinking light and shadows were completely unaware that they were not normal creatures.

Just like the crops simulated in the simulation array, if they had consciousness, they would feel they were real plants and wouldn't feel they were simulated. If they knew this fact, their cognition would become disordered.

This Awuli was actually the same. She knew this was a consciousness space, and she knew she was the guardian spirit of the consciousness space, but she didn't know what a consciousness space represented. Because she stayed here naturally, to her, this was a naturally existing world.

However, she obviously knew one thing: this was the consciousness space of the Tree God. But Anthony's words told her a fact: the Tree God is already dead.

This was Anthony's most cautious probe. He didn't directly say you are 'consciousness manifestations', but said the Tree God is already dead. Unexpectedly, Awuli still couldn't bear it, and the entire consciousness space collapsed along with her.

"Ah?!" Nai Ge Li Si didn't know what to say. It collapsed just like that? That's too...

Seeing Ange had been watching silently, but at this moment, he suddenly turned his head and looked behind him.

Everyone quickly turned to look. At the not-yet-closed entrance to the Divine Domain, a huge snake head squeezed in, staring with vertical pupils, looking in shock at the giant light tree in the center of the space, and said urgently:

"It's the Spirit of the Tree God! It's the Spirit of the Tree God! Oh my god, look what we found! It's the Spirit of the Tree God! The legend says finding it allows control over the Ten Thousand Worlds Divine Tree. Oh my god, after hundreds of thousands of years, we found it! Quick, quick, quick! Notify the Will of the Void immediately!"

As soon as the giant snake finished speaking, a streak of colorful lightning tore through the space and struck it fiercely.

The giant snake's vertical pupils lost their vitality, slowly shrinking into a circle, and its consciousness disappeared from its body.

At the other end of the lightning, an angry unicorn puffed colorful breaths, and light slowly outlined a muscular form.

Compared to the slender figure before, the outline of this unicorn now was simply a heavily armored muscle tank.