Chapter 412
"It really is …" a green pattern in the shape of a new sapling was growing on Noah's palm. Killer J was hanging right next to him, hugging him as he exclaimed that he had survived, that he had managed to preserve his cross-dressing portrait: "That's enough!"
As the bearer of Negri's Reason and Reason, Noah was the strongest of the three. If Negri's path was the path of domination, then he would be the path of bearer.
After Chromie died, the sprout of the Moon Tree inside his body was extracted by Noah. For Noah, the so-called restriction of the elven bloodline wasn't as big of a problem, and the Moon Tree didn't seem to be something that completely belonged to the elves.
Combined with the fact that the elves weren't native creatures of the Moon Tree world, but rather information that the will of the Moon Tree had brought to this world through the Moon Tree's descent, it could be deduced that the Moon Tree was originally something similar to a World Tree, but after being taken over by the elves, it became a Moon Tree.
The sprout of the Moon Tree was derived from the previous Moon Tree, although it also had a large amount of elven traces, there were still some traces of other elves. Its purpose was simple: to invade a world, then take root in the world it invaded, seize that world's Authority, and control everything in that world.
After the sprout of the Moon Tree took control of the world, the will of the Moon Tree used it to create the Mother Tree, then used it to incubate the elven race.
After Noah transferred the sprout of the Moon Tree into his body, he quickly understood its usage and discovered the two world authorities stored inside. One was from the aspect of silence, while the other was from the World Barrier.
While Noah was considering returning to Negri and using these two authorities to help Negri, he noticed that something was amiss. The sprout of the Moon Tree had managed to read the Authority of this world from Life Bearer Mequik's unfolding form.
Mequik had implanted those Authorities into her body.
"Is she crazy? If that's the case, she would also be bound by this world, especially a distorted world like this one. As Negri's Righteous, the bearer of his Truth, Noah had basically all of Negri's knowledge, so he understood how illogical this was.
According to Eternal Heat's plan, even if the will of the Moon Tree managed to escape, it wouldn't stay here. It was too weak, so as soon as it escaped, it would immediately choose to escape, as it didn't have the ability to interfere with its plan.
However, something unexpected still happened. Negary accidentally captured the resurrected Dim Silence Envoy in another world, obtained a large amount of elven knowledge from him, intercepted the will of the Moon Tree, and obtained the crucial sprout of the Moon Tree.
Earlier, Killer J followed the Lord of Evolution into Sheng Nai's soul, while Sheng Nai was absorbed into Life into Life Bearer's body. Noah's expression changed as he recalled something.
Noah took out some branches that were constantly growing. These were the remnants of the Son of Life's divine item after it had exploded once. There was a tenacious principle of life on them, and they could only be dealt with through painstaking efforts.
Negri thought that this thing had research value, so he found a way to preserve it. This thing was indeed useful now.
Sheng Nai had inherited the Grand Library, and the Grand Library contained the original bodies of these tree branches. Even now, these tree roots were still spreading throughout the Grand Library. Sheng Nai's way of dealing with them was not to clear them away, but to treat them as one with the Grand Library.
The Grand Book Vault that was originally located in a hidden corner of the Academic City had been moved into the tree root. This work was still ongoing, but there were already some results.
"Should I say, as expected of the Lord's Split Soul? Everything has a backup plan. " Noah connected to Negri's world database to search for the follow-up data of the Academic City, and sure enough, he found the secret information left behind by Sheng Nai.
In the Mobis Institute, the demon spirit Felder who had taken over Roger's body, in order to deal with the remnant will of Roger within his soul, clashed with Michael who was using his maggot body to control Landier's body, and in order to kill the remaining three Eavesdropper sacrifices, 'accidentally' clashed against one another.
There were also Jimmy and Pilo from the dirt-infused moss company, as well as Comet who had been injected with a Nightmare, causing havoc in the Academic City after the Mana Banquet.
Jimmy and Pilo took advantage of the chaos to obtain a new type of food from an unknown place, which they used to successfully gather a considerable amount of power to fulfill their dreams and leave the Academic City.
Comet, who had been injected with a Nightmare and suffered from nightmares every night, went to the Mobis Institute to look for Negri in order to solve his own problem, and ended up getting caught up in the conflict between Felder and Michael, which led to unforeseeable changes.
As for Felder and Michael, they were both losers. Roger and Landier, who were both being manipulated, 'accidentally' became the final victors, borrowing the power of the tree root to kill Felder and Michael, regaining their 'freedom' and obtaining a job, becoming an employee of the Grand Library.
All of this seemed to have developed in a very reasonable manner, but after combining all the information, one would find that there was a certain power controlling their fates. This method was very familiar, as it was one of Negri's usual methods.
From this, Noah understood what Shengnai wanted to convey, so he planted the branch into the ground and whispered: "Become a beacon"
Under the influence of Noah's words, the scattered mana in the surroundings began to gather towards the branch, providing for its growth. A certain space was opened up, revealing a figure in front of Noah. It was the spirit of the System of the Grand Library, the daughter of the Great Magus, Akasha Allenz.
Noah and Akasha quickly finished their conversation. Both of them were rational enough to not get involved in other matters. The Life Bearer's form was about to fully activate, and if they didn't hurry, something bad might happen if Life Bearer finished.
"Can you still sense Shengnai's location?" Noah shared the information of the Moon Tree sprout with her.
"I can't, but I think we should be able to infiltrate this place!" Akasha also quickly replied: "This place is almost identical to the tree root that had fused with the Grand Library in terms of Dao and Principles"
What Akasha pointed out was a large sucker on Mequik's tentacle, which had numerous green runes on it, most likely Mequik's harvest from devouring the Scion of Life.
At the time, the Scion of Life was one of the three elven Pillar Gods of the Moon Tree world, so he naturally wielded Authority. Most of the Scion of Life's Authority had been devoured by Mequik, so the portion of Authority related to Life had been replenished here along with the Scion of Life's Path.
The fully activated Life Bearer was gigantic, so gigantic that it looked like a complete world. She was completely focused on accomplishing a certain task, which gave Noah and Akasha a chance to infiltrate each other's bodies.
A Path realm cultivator could indeed manifest their Path as their entire existence, but a lifeform's energy was always limited, and Life Bearer had too much information to process.
The fully unfurled Tree of Life design, the constant flow of information from the other opponents, and Eternal Heat's information flow connected with the flow of information from Eternal Heat.
The sprout of the Moon Tree was originally a tool used to invade worlds, so it excelled at concealing the perception of the will of the world. Although Life Bearer wasn't a world, its Tree of Life blueprint contained the layout of an entire world.
It was for this reason that when Akasha used the life force of the Grand Library's tree root as a disguise to conceal Noah and the sprout of the Moon Tree's invasion, Mequik didn't immediately notice.
This allowed Noah and Akasha to infiltrate Mequik's body without her noticing, allowing them to successfully rescue Killer J.
Sheng Nai had given up on the origin of his soul and his own body, only having a portion of his soul data taken away. He was too big of a target, so it wouldn't be easy to leave with him, but it would be much easier to take Mequik's soul through the loophole.
The authority of the Grand Library was transferred back to Akasha, which was her reward for helping them. Naturally, she hated Mequik to begin with. Regardless of Stim's goal in creating Akasha, he had fulfilled his duty as a father before his death, and Mequik had killed her father, so she naturally wanted to take revenge.
"Alright, I've sent the information to Boss, I'm going to continue courting death" Killer J followed the principle of 'as long as I don't die, I'll continue courting death', so after sending the information, he disappeared.
"If that's the case, then I'll ask miss Akasha to do as she pleases" Noah nodded to Akasha, then the pattern of the sprout on his hand glowed. In this situation, the previous path of retreat seemed to be insufficient, so he needed to notify Lanshan and arrange a new path of retreat.
Seeing that Killer J and Noah had already disappeared, as well as Dahl who was running towards the battlefield, Akasha flicked her hair in a very human-like manner, causing the sprout behind her to open up a hole.
Roger and Landier, whose appearances had greatly changed, as well as Comet who was hovering in the darkness, were waiting at the entrance of the hole. A diamond-shaped mark slowly glowed on Akasha's forehead, she turned back to look at the beautiful battlefield in the distance, then chuckled and closed the warp gate. The tree where she stood also quickly withered.
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A crimson glow seemed to be reflected in his eyes. While fighting against The Unreachable Gate, Negri had finally found the threads that Barren Shadow had buried into his body.
The three-winged dragon roared in anger, golden particles drifted around its body, then pulled its limbs to pull the black threads from the perspective of shadow to the perspective of reality, then broke apart.
Negri didn't tell the other Righteous Gods that Eternal Heat and Mequik were one and the same, because it wouldn't be of any use even if he did.
A large part of a battle at the level of a Path was a battle of information. The Dao and Principles of a Path were constantly being spread, not to mention that they were also constantly spreading information to mislead other entities. For example, Negri was able to evade Dark Death's instinctive attack because he had collected information about the changes in space-time around Dark Death.
How he should attack, how he should defend, whether he was currently an empty shell or a Barren Shadow, whether he was hiding danger in the shadows, there was a lot of information that needed to be collected.
Of course, this information wouldn't be displayed for all to see, as all sorts of misleading information would be spread among them. If one wasn't careful and was misled by the other party, they would only be able to fight against the air, their attacks would only hit empty air, and they wouldn't be able to discover the other party's fatal attacks.
For this reason, the other party would most likely treat this information as misleading information, casually evaluate it, then treat it as trash.
The other seven Gods weren't Negri. His computational ability was top-notch, and coupled with his trust in Killer J, he was able to make the correct judgment.
So what if The Unreachable Gate or Barren Shadow believed him?
The current situation was that Eternal Heat's plan was close to succeeding, and now that the other party could shoot him in the head, it would only be a waste of time to say goodbye.
At this time, the correct way of thinking was: What if you and your friend encountered a tiger in the wild? You don't have to run faster than the tiger, you just have to run faster than your friend. Maybe when the tiger is focused on eating meat, you can even take away your friend's property.
The other Righteous Gods also noticed that something wasn't right. Although Mequik appeared to be trying to defend against Eternal Heat's attack, she had actually fully assumed her stance, which wasn't normal.
"There's still a loophole." The consciousnesses of Eternal Heat and Mequik were quickly communicating with one another to prepare for this ritual. Due to various reasons, Mequik wasn't able to notice Noah's final infiltration, so if she still didn't notice him when he was escaping with Killer J, she would truly be unworthy of her title as a Righteous Deity.
It was just that the plan had reached its most critical moment this time, and neither she nor Eternal Heat had the extra power to deal with these little bugs.
Despite that, neither Eternal Heat nor Mequik showed any signs of annoyance, but rather absolute confidence.
After the Mana Banquet, Eternal Heat once told Negri: If we work together, no one will be a match for us.
From what we can see now, this should be referring to him and Mequik. Ever since he had fused with Mequik's [Origin] to become one, Eternal Heat had never met a single worthy opponent.
Even though he and Mequik shared the same [Origin] as two separate souls, which caused their understanding of the Dao and Principles of the soul to be somewhat lacking, Eternal Heat was still confident that if the two of them worked together, they would definitely be the strongest beneath the Source realm.
"Negri, receive this attack, let me see just how far you can go!"
Boundless light erupted from Eternal Heat's body. At that very moment, Eternal Heat's body collapsed, his existence, his path, his everything turned into light.
The boundless light pierced through Mequik's Tree of Life blueprint and illuminated the other entities.
The light had pierced through the world.
This wasn't an exaggeration, the light had truly pierced through the world. The Moon Tree world began to collapse under the influence of this beam of light, all living beings on the ground were instantly wiped out, even the majority of the Evil Gods that drifted through the world were instantly killed.
"White Light!" This thought flashed through Negri's mind, but before he could think about it, his body had already been evaporated and turned into a part of the light.
Facing this attack head-on, Negri felt himself being heavily wounded. The other entities weren't much better off. The one who suffered the most was Barren Shadow. Although his path was that of Existence, it leaned towards the path of Shadow. The relationship between Light and Shadow wasn't completely in conflict, but when the power of Light reached a certain point, Barren Shadow was no longer a match for it.
Even worse off than Barren Shadow was The Unreachable Gate. Through Barren Shadow's [Spear of Heresy], he had been locked onto certain entities by Barren Shadow, which then became a set of coordinates that allowed the Light to reach The Unreachable Gate.
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