Chapter 843: The Eternal Divine Light is Doomed

Great Xiao Gu climbed up from the cold, dry sand. The sun slowly rising on the distant horizon cast its light, shining on its body, giving it a warm feeling.

Great Xiao Gu habitually thought for a moment, because in the past, it didn't like sunlight. When it was in the ruins of the temple, it would hide under the rubble whenever the sun came out to avoid the scorching rays.

There were bugs under the rubble that would crawl onto its body and gnaw on its bones, but compared to the torment of the sunlight, the bugs seemed bearable, especially after its bones became increasingly hard and the bugs could no longer gnaw through them.

However, it didn't know when it started, but it discovered that it actually liked sunlight. In the sunlight, there was the aura of the King.

While thinking, Great Xiao Gu cast its gaze toward the sky, where a massive stream of energy poured down, landing at the end of the horizon. It seemed that it was around the time this energy stream appeared that it started to like sunlight. Why would this happen?

This was a complex question for Great Xiao Gu, which it quickly threw to the back of its skull, walking lightly toward the forest ahead.

In the boundless desert, a large forest appeared abruptly. The trees at the edge were neat and tidy, clearly planted by someone. The further in one went, the thicker they became, with the thickest trees surrounding a World Tree.

Great Xiao Gu nimbly passed through various thick branches, roots, stumps, vines, dead branches, etc., and arrived under the World Tree. In an open space, it knelt down in a very standard posture.

First, both knees hit the ground, but its upper body remained straight, its head tilted upward at forty-five degrees, looking at the World Tree above.

Then, with palms facing upward, it raised its hands, sat its hip bones on its heels, and leaned forward without moving its upper body.

Only when its raised hands fell to the ground did its head accelerate to knock against the ground, emitting a dull thud.

At the same time, Great Xiao Gu's soul issued a pious prayer: Awoo—

The entire set of movements was very standard, clearly taught by someone, and even the prayer had specialized terminology.

The World Tree rustled, as if responding to Great Xiao Gu's prayer. Bud points emerged at the edge of the tree roots, soon growing into saplings as thick as a finger and half a meter tall.

Great Xiao Gu climbed up, pulled these saplings up one by one, bundled them into a group, walked out, and carefully planted them at the edge of the forest.

Thus, days rose and set, spring went and autumn came, day after day, year after year. The forest expanded day by day, becoming more and more lush, turning into a forest.

It was another identical day. Great Xiao Gu climbed out of the sand, nimbly passed through the increasingly dense forest, and arrived at the foot of the World Tree.

As the forest continued to expand and the trees became denser, the difficulty of Great Xiao Gu walking over became higher and higher.

However, Great Xiao Gu discovered that it was more convenient to travel from the treetops, so it learned to jump around on the branches and even use its hands to grab vines to swing over. Its speed didn't slow down much.

On the contrary, going out was more troublesome because it needed to carry a large bundle of saplings. However, Great Xiao Gu had already thought of a way. If it could fly like a little bird, couldn't it fly out from the canopy?

How could it fly? Great Xiao Gu thought and thought and thought... wasn't this meditation?

Great Xiao Gu also learned many things, for example, as the distance from the World Tree increased, the survival rate of the saplings became lower, but saplings with fewer leaves had a higher survival rate.

So when it planted trees, it would pluck all the leaves off the saplings.

Also, for example, it discovered that shorter saplings had a higher survival rate, so it dug the holes deeper and buried the saplings as much as possible into the soil, exposing only a very short section.

Then it discovered that if they were planted too low, whenever the wind blew at night, the saplings would be buried the next day.

So Great Xiao Gu collected many dead branches in the forest and inserted them around the saplings to protect them, preventing them from being buried. As long as they could survive and grow taller, the sand couldn't bury them.

However, as more and more saplings were planted, the dead branches were quickly used up, so Great Xiao Gu had to break off some fresh branches and leaves, discovering they could also be used.

Since fresh leaves could be used, could dead leaves also be used? Dead leaves couldn't be inserted, so could they be buried in the sand?

Thus, slowly, Great Xiao Gu learned to bury dead leaves in the sand to circle a protective ring for the saplings.

While circling, Great Xiao Gu discovered that as long as the protective rings of two saplings touched, half the ring could be saved, so Great Xiao Gu changed the rings to half-rings, one half-ring overlapping another.

Thus, constantly encountering difficulties, constantly learning new methods, every time it prayed, some new thoughts would emerge.

This day, Great Xiao Gu arrived under the World Tree as usual, prayed in a standard posture, and then piously knocked its head on the ground.

Something different from usual happened. The place where Great Xiao Gu knocked its head shattered into a spiderweb and cracked open.

Great Xiao Gu tilted its head, pulled apart the shattered place, and a question arose in its empty head: Why would the soil crack?

The place where Great Xiao Gu knocked its head was originally loose soil, not stone. It wasn't stupid; why would it knock its head against stone? It was just that after long-term knocking, it had been knocked solid, but the essence was still soil. How could it crack?

Pulling apart the shattered soil chunks, Great Xiao Gu discovered a soil block that looked like a book. Picking it up, it was quite heavy. The cover, pages, and spine were all there, just made of mud.

Great Xiao Gu tilted its head, remembering that the King also seemed to have a book, so it learned from the King's appearance and flipped the cover open.

If it were just a mud block resembling a book, the edge of the cover would have fallen off upon flipping. Unexpectedly, Great Xiao Gu really flipped the cover open, and a fluorescent light emerged from the pages, manifesting the phantom of a Huang Tong Dragon.

This Huang Tong Dragon looked left and right, its gaze landing on Great Xiao Gu, and it said in shock, "Great Xiao Gu? How did you become a Golden Skeleton? Is this a dimensional space? How did the forest become so big? Did you plant all of this? How long have you been planting?"

Great Xiao Gu tilted its head.

Seeing it like this, the Huang Tong Dragon knew it had asked in vain and said angrily, "Why are you the same as Ang? Forget it, I'll look for myself."

Finding a broken tree, it counted the rings and shouted in shock, "Twelve years? You've spent twelve years here? You don't understand what a year is? It's cold-hot, cold-hot, one, two, three, four... twelve times, right?"

Great Xiao Gu counted with its fingers and finally nodded.

The Huang Tong Dragon gasped, "Only two days have passed outside, but twelve years have passed here. No wonder my consciousness couldn't return to the main body... Ang, what kind of trick are you playing?"

While talking to itself, the sun rose to an oblique angle, shining through the gaps in the leaves, which also attracted the Huang Tong Dragon's gaze, making it follow the light and look outside the forest.

Seeing the energy stream pouring from the Void to the end of the horizon, the Huang Tong Dragon finally couldn't help but curse, "Kuba Da, you dead skeleton, you used the Time Extension Line to stretch time and steal the power of the Eternal Divine Light to fill your dimensional space?!"

Outside the red giant, Negris, whose consciousness had returned to the Huang Tong Dragon, explained the situation. The Monarch immediately said, "The Eternal Divine Light is doomed." ===== CHAPTER 844 =====