"No... how could this be..."
His eyes were filled with astonishment; he couldn't believe what he was seeing.
"Lord! Oh my god, what happened! You stay here, I'll go check it out!"
Lin Wushuang said something to Ye Yiqing, then twisted her body and disappeared from the spot.
When they reappeared, they were already next to the crater created by the explosion.
The flashes of the explosion came and went quickly, lasting less than 5 seconds before dissipating, allowing Lin Wushuang to get closer.
"Strange, this temperature feels pungent on my skin."
He touched his uncomfortable skin and felt incredibly strange, as if the temperature could ignore his defenses and scald every single cell in his body.
He had only taken two steps when strange branches began to emerge from the pit, causing him to pause.
Countless thick, gray branches, like scarlet tentacles, intertwined and slowly rose from the pit.
The gems embedded in the branches no longer emitted a faint glow as usual, but instead shone like an activated sun, radiating dazzling light that illuminated the earth.
The ever-growing branches intertwined tightly, transforming into a sturdy, large tree.
Once they had completely stopped growing and the gems were no longer dazzling, a colossal tree that stretched as far as the eye could see, seemingly reaching into the universe, appeared before Lin Wushuang's eyes.
He finally understood why Nan Tian called this tree the core of the entire world.
It is like a deity, connecting heaven and earth, and governing the balance of the world.
While Lin Wushuang was staring blankly, she suddenly caught a glimpse of a charred figure clinging painfully to a tree root.
Lin Wushuang's pupils suddenly contracted, and he sprinted forward with a burst of blue light, arriving beside the charred figure, looking at it helplessly.
"Lord... Lord! You... you're still alive?!"
He reached out and checked the other person's breath, finding that there was still a faint trace of life remaining.
Overjoyed, he quickly reached out and hugged it, placing it near one of the energy conversion ports of the Tree of Terra.
A ball of blue light gathered and compressed in his hand, and powerful kinetic energy shot out towards the Tree of Terra.
The gem embedded in the tree shimmered with a faint light, converting all the kinetic energy emitted by Lin Wushuang into spiritual power and channeling it into Nan Tian's body.
"You must remain conscious! Quickly try your best to recover!"
After doing all this, Lin Wushuang whispered in Nan Tian's ear, urging him to recover.
"Quickly make a wish to recover! Recover, recover!"
Just then, Ye Yiqing rushed over. Seeing the scene before her, she was slightly stunned before quickly taking off the earrings from her ears.
But when he leaned forward to put it on Nan Tian, he was shocked to find that the other man's ears had already been blown off.
Ye Yiqing gritted her teeth, gripped the two earrings tightly, and placed them on Nan Tian's chest.
The skull earring's eyes emitted a faint red light, which fell upon Nan Tian's body, causing it to slowly recover.
"Wow, you can do that? Keep it up!" Lin Wushuang cheered from the sidelines.
As the body slowly recovered, the lips of the charred corpse trembled slightly.
"Recover..."
The next second, his charred skin began to peel off in pieces, revealing new skin that grew rapidly.
His severed limbs began to regenerate at a visible speed, and Nan Tian was fully recovered in less than 10 seconds.
Having just returned from the brink of death, Nan Tian was completely naked, panting heavily, his entire body soaked with beads of sweat.
"Host!"
"Host!"
Ye Yiqing and Lin Wushuang quickly helped Nan Tian up. After regaining his senses, Nantian gently pushed the two of them away and hurriedly looked to the side.
Upon seeing the towering, sun-obscuring Tree of Terra that didn't seem to originate from Earth, he breathed a slight sigh of relief.
"What on earth happened? Why is there such a powerful attack on us all of a sudden!"
Faced with Lin Wushuang's anxious question, Nan Tian calmed his breathing and spoke calmly.
How many people do we have left...?
"Besides the two of us, there was also Chi Jiu patrolling nearby. I had originally sent out more than ten men, but the explosion occurred before they could leave, just after the order was given."
" The Light God Society only has this many people left," Ye Yiqing reported with a somewhat grim expression.
"No problem." Nan Tian shook his head calmly, and a set of clothes appeared out of thin air and he put them on.
"As long as the Tree of Terra remains, and as long as I am alive, we cannot possibly lose."
"However, the Night Star may launch a full-scale attack on us next; all we need to do is defend."
Lin Wushuang nodded. "With my abilities and the Lord's combat power, even the Night Star Organization at its peak would probably have a hard time killing us."
"Hmm... OK. We've got this in the bag." With that, he plopped down on the ground.
"Lord, remember your promise that you will raise my mother and brother from the dead."
Ye Yiqing looked at Nan Tian and spoke with a slightly cold tone, to which the latter nodded.
"Don't worry, I will definitely keep my promise."
A strong gust of wind swept past the three of them, Chi Jiu flapped his enormous wings as he rushed toward them.
Before she could land, she transformed into human form in mid-air and hurriedly crashed down in front of the three of them.
"I... I saw mushrooms, really, really far away!"
"Huh? Mushrooms? Do you have such good eyesight?" Lin Wushuang asked, puzzled.
Nan Tian's pupils suddenly contracted, "Not good!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a crisp, explosive sound swept over the three of them.
Snap--!!!!!!
Several hours ago.
Military base.
Countless Night Star, weapons ready, boarded planes one by one bound for their mission location.
Watching one large military aircraft after another, filled with people, take off into the sky, Gu Gongmin, sitting at the entrance of the military base's armory, extinguished and threw away the cigarette in his mouth.
He got up and went into the armory to retrieve his supplies.
What's now called an armory has actually become a storage room for all sorts of personal belongings.
These firearms and melee weapons had long been taken away, and even personal belongings were scarce.
Gu Gongming opened his cabinet, took out a bottle of red wine, tilted his head back, and gulped it down.
As his Adam's apple bobbed, drops of red liquid trickled down his neck from the corner of his mouth.
"Ah..." He took a big gulp and then put the wine back.
Just as he closed the iron gate and was about to leave, he heard a very faint sobbing sound coming from a cabinet next to him.
He frowned, walked to the cabinet, reached out, and opened it with a swift motion.
A girl, clutching an ecosphere, was curled up in the cramped space, sobbing uncontrollably, with glistening tears streaming down her cheeks.
The girl flinched as the cabinet was opened.
What are you doing here?