The sun is shining.

Today is a rare good weather in the south, the autumn wind is harmonious, the clouds in the sky are sparse and thin, and the warm light shines on the earth.

Everything rejoices at this, and the mobile city-dwellers of the vast land are no exception, blood-colored tentacles spiraling high into the air, and finally turning into an umbrella cover, and a bud-like structure is blooming in the center of the umbrella cover, blooming a blood-colored flower covered in phosphorescence and crystals.

It is absorbing the dazzling sunlight that has been rare to see after the dimming of this holy day.

Thousands of human faces, limbs, and pulsating fascial blood vessels make up this giant umbrella and flower.

And it's much more than one.

Russet, plant-like, flesh-like tissues grew between the rocky and metal cities, eventually turning into sturdy pillars.

They are entrenched in the towering buildings of the mobile city, and most of these giant pillars are connected to each other by blood vessels or umbilical cord-like biological tissues, like a web of vines between giant trees, supporting flowers and umbrellas, serving as the backbone of the tree's canopy.

There was a voice—in the silence, a voice belonging to a soul was ringing, and the towering trees of flesh stretched their strange branches and crowns, and the phosphorescent light of the source energy spread through the atmosphere with an almost nectar-like scent.

- Is it painful?

It's not painful.

There is no pain in being absorbed by the giant tree, pain is an instinctive reaction of human nerves, and it will not have any chance of being stimulated at all under the gentle embrace of the divine tree.

- Sad?

It's not much sad either.

All the people in a city are here, no one is lost, no one is forgotten, everything is together, more intimate, more direct, and unabashed than ever.

- Hopeless?

Strange, and it doesn't seem to be hopeless.

What's so desperate about that? Everyone is like this, neither dead nor gone, everyone still exists, but in a different way.

Yes, there is a wail, there is a roar, there is a cry.

But there are also cheers, admiration, and enlightened praise.

The blood-colored sacred tree stretched its leaves, and the faces of humans showed different expressions on it.

Human beings who cannot understand each other cannot truly empathize with each other, even if their bodies are absorbed and dissolved, and their souls are glued together, so it is natural to have different feelings, and it is normal to feel rejection and fear.

But they will eventually understand that if they want to exist forever, then this moment is the last and greatest opportunity for ordinary people who are as ordinary as weeds and destined to live less than fifty years.

It was the closest they had ever come to achieving eternity.

As part of the eternity.

The Blood God Wood thrives in the light, with the positive sun, the autumn wind, and the glow of the sky, giving it even some divine beauty.

However, there will always be some stubbornness that will fail to appreciate this beauty.

For example, the First Knight Irowitz, the moment he saw the Blood God Wood, he angrily grasped the hilt of the sword at his waist.

"It's ...... How...... Evil!! ”

Condescendingly looking down at the blood-colored canopy and branches of the city swaying in the wind and light, the gray-haired knight froze in mid-air in shock, sensing that this sacred tree contained an unbelievable source energy reaction, which was the breath of the calamity.

Now the Divine Tree is still asleep, but when it wakes up, it will be able to dominate all the source energy within nearly a thousand square kilometers of its center and transform it into their domain.

This is already the size of half a province in the empire, and there are hundreds of such auras in the Southern Noble Alliance, they overlap, as long as they wake up, they can instantly infect most of the southern part of the Ai'an Continent.

What's going on? The knight was at a loss, he could no longer sense the breath of life except for the Divine Tree from the mobile city, and the Divine Tree had not awakened at the moment, and did not show much danger of attacking.

This left Irowitz unsure if he needed to attack or what he should need to do now.

"Good fellow, if these sacred trees are evenly covered, it will be enough to envelop the entire earth."

At this moment, a calm voice can be heard.

A faintly accented male voice appeared behind Irowiz, causing the knight to look back warily.

But at the moment when the knight recovered, the white-haired old man had already passed the gray-haired knight, and Su Sun quietly followed the trajectory of Irowiz, and then came to the top of the Blood God Tree.

He hovered parallel to the blood flower, then reached out and touched the blood-brown creature tissue that seemed to be a mixture of plant and biological flesh.

The stunned Ilovitz watched all this, he looked at Professor Svetley in front of him and nodded slightly, and commented: "Sure enough, the technology is not perfect enough, the souls are separated, the speed of fusion is very slow, and the underlying true spirits are destined not to merge, so there is still salvation." ”

"This world is still a little gentle."

He sighed so much that the knight couldn't understand the words at all, and what made the knight even more incomprehensible was that a small red snake suddenly appeared on the other party's shoulder.

Irowitz hadn't sensed the slightest breath of the little snake before, but it just appeared, and it made a rather emotional voice: "Gentle? You just don't know. ”

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"Behind your gentleness, there is the battle of heaven where countless universes have been destroyed and correctly rewritten."

"The Lord of Silence took the rare initiative to take action for the immortality of the true spirit, and beat the end and creation together...... Of course, I also intervened in that hand, and many people intervened in more than one hand, but the result was that everyone reached a consensus, which is really gratifying. ”

"So, Yara."

And Xiguang's Svetley turned his head sideways, and he gently said to the little snake on his shoulder: "This is love." ”

He withdrew the hand that had touched the Blood Wood and turned his head to meet the knight's eyes.

"Hello, Iloviz, First Knight of the Empire, pacify the Quartet Star."

The man's tone was calm, not as if he was facing an enemy who had almost fought just now, and his breath was faintly clashing: "What's the matter, you didn't attack?" I'm the one who killed your friend. ”

Although the tone is not turbulent, the content of the words is indeed straightforward and provocative.

But Irowitz was surprisingly unprovoked by the words.

In turn, after a moment of silence, he lowered his height to parallel to Su Sun, and Irowitz and Su Sun looked at each other, staring at the pupils and expression of the old man in front of him.

After a long while, he slowly turned his head sideways, looked at the Blood God Wood on the side, and said, "Aren't you angry? Facing such an evil monster? ”

"It's not a monster, it's just a bunch of poor people."

Raising his hand, Su Yan shook his head slightly: "And anger is not something to say." ”

The hand raised by Su Sun silently disintegrated into a strange vine composed of metal and roots, and the blue-purple vine quickly dispersed in mid-air, spinning, turning into lines that shimmered with source energy light, and then just like a meteor, it took a trajectory like a meteor and inserted into the blood-colored divine tree seed.

The flesh and blood god Muden, who was pierced by the vines, began to squirm violently, producing an extremely strong rejection reaction.

Under Irowice's astonished gaze, the behemoth that was entrenched over the entire city began to wriggle, contract, and hover violently, and then just like that, it began to 'wither' at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Like a sponge being burned by flames, and like a slowly leaking bouncy castle, the originally towering blood-colored divine tree wanted to resist after Su Sun's arm was inserted into the roots, but it was meaningless, no matter how much its instinct made it tumble, expand, and stretch out its tentacles to fight back, but the end was in vain.

Under Su Dayai's embrace, everything will end.

The Divine Wood of Blood shrunk and shriveled, eventually turning into a puddle of brown roots and tendrils that covered the ruins of the city, a rather disgusting carpet of flesh and blood, from which a viscous substance like oil flowed, but with a heavy, dizzying fragrance.

The power and soul of the Blood God Wood have been drained, and it is already an empty shell.

With absolute strength and personality, he crushed this divine wood derivative that condensed the flesh and soul of the entire city, as well as the alien source energy, Su Sun withdrew his hand, except for the aura on his body that was faintly heavier, he actually did not change anything.

"Anger with your hands."

Turning his head, his eyes were deep, Su Sun looked at Irowitz and looked the gray-haired knight up and down: "In the final analysis, although it looks terrifying, the Blood Divine Wood is only a half-finished product, and the soul has not been fused, it is simply wrapped together, and it has not yet become the soul of a new Divine Tree." ”

"To be honest, it's a bit old-fashioned, and you want to use the souls of everyone in a moving city as a sacrifice to awaken the Divine Tree? But Shenmu is not an evil god, so it is just a matter of natural death, and the soul of a living person is naturally well preserved when it is in its body...... Those who do this can't imagine that Shenmu 'loves' all living beings, right? ”

Su Day's emotion revealed a lot of information, some of which matched Irowice's own guesses.

"And you ......"

Therefore, the knight took a deep breath, word by word, and said seriously: "You have incorporated all the souls in that divine tree into your body...... You're just putting those souls in another place to imprison. ”

"It's to give them a new lease on life."

Su Sun didn't care about this kind of groundless accusation, he pointed to his heart with his thumb: "I am Hades, and I am also Xiguang." ”

"I'm Svetley. Knights of the Empire, although I cannot resurrect these poor people, they can still live in my body on the basis of maintaining their own will, until a chance arises again. ”

The white-haired man didn't pay much attention to the knight with an awkward expression on one side, he just turned his head and scanned the entire southern plain.

The Ai'an Continent is far larger than the Earth, and even if the Divine Tree Cluster is enough to cover the entire Earth, if it is placed on the Ai'an Continent, it only occupies most of the land in the southern part of the continent, and does not really cover one-fifth of the Heaven and Earth.

Moreover, faintly, he seemed to sense a trace of dusk breath from the depths of the origin of this divine tree.

It was a trace of the primordial burning divine wood in the depths of the core of the many Blood Divine Trees.

The will of the 'Dragon of Twilight'.

- There is no point in existing.

- Even if they claim to be the truth, existence is a stumbling block to other existences.

- Shenmu, your body will be slain by your descendants, and your soul will seek to protect them, and it will be poisoned by their own greed.

- The perfect cycle you have prepared for them, the utopian world that can last forever, will only be wasted by them without regret.

- Then, you will go to a dead end, and everything will be reduced to nothing, and in the end it will be like a meaningless end where nothing happened.

- Shenmu, the sad Shenmu.

- Poor me.

It wasn't a mocking sound.

Instead, it's more like a message from the whole world.

Yourself, what you say to yourself, the first salary-burning self-talk.

Perhaps, this is what the primordial Burning Divine Tree thought when it fell and turned into a family member of the Dusk?

"Sad, indeed...... The gods of this world are just to blame, but this stupidity is also the common nature of life. ”

Shaking his head slightly, Su Sun turned his head and looked at Irowitz.

"Knight, you're coming for me, aren't you?"

He said: "Since you didn't start fighting at the first time, why don't you tell me what you think?" Tell me what you're going to do. ”

“…… I'm here to tell you the truth. ”

Irowitz's gaze swept over Su Sun's face, paying attention to every detail, he seemed to want to find the flaws of the man in front of him, to find out whether the other party's seemingly great declarations and dreams were true or false, and whether it could really make his friend feel ashamed, and finally committed suicide because of shame.

He didn't find a flaw.

From the very beginning, Su Sun's compassion for the souls of ordinary people in the Blood God Tree, as well as his subsequent cautious handling, as well as his disgust for those who performed this secret method, were all not concealed in the slightest - it seemed that there was no one in this world who was worthy of him to disguise his emotions, not even himself.

So, he couldn't help but sigh.

"The Blood God Wood you see is likely to be a change from the 'Burning Spirit Secret Method' secretly passed down in the Imperial Southern Noble Alliance, which was originally a secret technique to burn your soul when the strong are in a desperate situation on the battlefield and temporarily increase your strength to defeat the enemy."

"But in general, the transcendent are nobles, and how 'precious' is the soul of the noble? In order to solve this sequelae, later generations have developed a new soul burning technique, so that the strong can burn the spirit that has been stored for a long time to provide themselves with strength. ”

"Although the consumption is far greater than burning one's own soul, it is not one's own soul after all......"

Irowiz doesn't say where the spirits come from, but there is no need to say that anyone knows where they came from.

Su Sun's eyes narrowed, he remembered the pure spiritual essence that the demonizer had taken in the ruins of the First Dawn...... Because of the Mind Light Body, the research of the soul in the Aion world is indeed quite good.

It's a pity that he stepped into the evil path.

"From the soul to the life, in the end, even the flesh and blood will not be spared."

The white-haired old man clasped his hands in front of his chest, he looked down at the Blood Divine Wood under him, and said lightly: "The blood armor method of the Evander family can even consume the lives of the people around him to make up for it, on the battlefield, such a secret method can be said to be impossible to destroy, because whether it is friend or foe, the battlefield is always overflowing with endless blood and souls." ”

"Life is for oneself, depriving other lives, until now, it has evolved into what it is now—the Blood God Wood has completely deprived the soul and flesh of all life in the entire city."

The context was already very clear, and Su Sun finally understood why the original Earl Arvind arrogantly called all the residents of the entire city 'meat people', Su Sun originally thought that it was an extended meaning of fish and meat people, but he didn't expect it to be such a simple and direct meaning.

But there is still a doubt.

"Theoretically, the person who initiates such a Soul Burning Secret Method will become the core will of this Blood Divine Tree, that is, the soul of the future Divine Tree."

Landing on the city that had been covered in corrupted flesh, Su Sun lowered his body and touched the irritating liquid that had begun to quickly evaporate in the atmosphere: "But in reality, they have disappeared, or rather, they have become part of many souls. ”

The answer is simple.

"Because their secret method is incomplete." Irowiz also landed on the ground, and he stared at the flesh and blood under him that might have been a woman or a boy in the past, or a strong old man, with a complicated gaze, and then said softly: "The method of burning the spirit was improved by Mihal, and so is the secret method of blood. ”

"If you want to dominate the souls of hundreds of millions of sentient beings with your own strength, you need your own soul to be pure and strong enough—but a person whose soul is pure and powerful enough does not need to dominate the souls of hundreds of millions of sentient beings."

"Therefore, the original and real purpose of its improvement was not to absorb the evil law of the souls of all beings, but to use it to protect the souls of all beings in the void in order to condense the 'imperial will' in the future."