CHAPTER 364: CHAPTER 308: KING OF NATURE

What exactly did the game character see to react with such shock?

Yang Qizhou, filled with curiosity, continued to refresh the text.

...

"When you clearly see the fourth mural, your pupils suddenly contract."

"It’s a mural beyond your imagination... Within a grand, ancient temple, the serene smile on the face of the ancient god is gone, replaced by a faintly sinister expression. Standing in the shadows like a twisted Evil God, they extend a hand, piercing through the body of a youthful figure before them. Though only half of the person’s facial profile is visible, their expression—full of pain, ferocity, and disbelief—remains unmistakable."

"Immediately, you recognize this young man as one who descended alongside the ’King of Nature,’ fought against the Endless Abyss, and ruled ’Asgard,’ a subordinate god of the King of Nature—the Tree Ancient God."

"The Tree Ancient God was killed by the ’King of Nature.’

"Wait, ’King?’ "

"Could it be that the ’King’ spoken of by Archbishop Forside and the other high-ranking figures isn’t the Sin King God of the Endless Abyss nor any ancient monarch from the Old God Kingdom, but rather one of the rulers of the ’Radiant Kingdom,’ one of the pillar gods that the Tree Ancient God once served—the Ancient God King, who governs the domain of ’Nature’?"

"So the current ’Tree Ancient God’ is no longer the ’Tree Ancient God,’ but the previous owner of the ’Sky Blue Spear,’ the King of Nature who once fought fiercely against the Abyss Master."

"As these thoughts surface in your mind, you draw in a sharp breath, feeling utterly incredulous."

"Previously, you’d entertained similar guesses but quickly dismissed them. After all, the ’Tree Ancient God’ was the servant of the King of Nature, one of their subordinate gods. Besides, investigations carried out by the ’Deceiving Apostle’ had once similarly confirmed that the King of Nature was no longer on this land; only with that assurance did they dare to proceed with the ’ritual of becoming god.’ All of these factors combined had made you instinctively divert your thoughts away from this possibility."

"But now,

"if the depiction in the mural involves no deception or misdirection, then the truth is evident: the one who replaced the Tree Ancient God—the ’King’—is precisely the Ancient God King who governs ’Nature.’

"Illuminated by the fire stolen from the Star Realm, you instinctively mutter to yourself while staring at the mural in front of you... Previously, you’d found it puzzling: if the replacement was an ancient monarch from the Old God faction, there’d be no need to fixate on sacrilege against the wizard roles. After all, these beings themselves lack no power and wouldn’t require wizards for nurturing. But now you understand: the ’King’ mentioned by Archbishop Forside isn’t an ancient monarch from the Old Gods—it is the ’King of Nature.’

"Yet soon, a new perplexity arises in your mind.

"Why would the King of Nature kill the Tree Ancient God,

"and where did the mural on the wall originate... It’s foreseeable that it wasn’t created by the King of Nature. After all, no god would record their own crimes."

"And just what kind of place is this?"

"With these questions in mind, you hold the Ancient God Fire Lamp and continue walking deeper."

...

In the Real World.

Seeing the content displayed in the text, Yang Qizhou couldn’t help but feel startled.

The Tree Ancient God turned out to have been replaced by the King of Nature, with the Evil God being their true master—such a twist was thoroughly unexpected.

But then?

Yang Qizhou muttered to himself: "This ruler of the ’Radiant Kingdom,’ the pillar god who governs ’Nature,’ is probably in a very weakened state right now—far more weakened than usual. They can only maintain the dignity of a ’Divine Sovereign,’ unable to use the full power of a pillar god. Otherwise, there’s no way the ’Dream Hidden World Clothes’ effect could deceive them, nor could the ’Residual Ring of the King of Truth’ create obstacles.

"Is it due to irreversible severe injuries sustained during their battle with the Abyss Master?

"Or is there an unfathomable scheme involved?"

"Even a pillar-level god has ended up like this—first the Deception Lord, then the Desolate Mother, and now even the King of Nature has appeared. Asgard’s waters are becoming ever deeper."

"This really is exciting."

Feeling a faint sense of blood-rush excitement, Yang Qizhou once again turned his gaze to the phone.

...

"As the firelight pierced through the darkness, the fifth mural appeared before you."

"In the mural, a gigantic bird bathed in endless green luminescence soared through the sky, only to be ambushed without warning by a ’white-robed’ god. The shock, confusion, and disbelief in its eyes were vividly portrayed."

"This is ’Cang’s Green Bird.’ The scene depicts it being attacked by the ’Tree Ancient God’—oh no, that’s not right. It’s actually the ’King of Nature’ who carried out this assault."

"You are not particularly surprised by this."

"It merely deepens the sense of mystery."

"Gathering your thoughts, you hold the Ancient God Fire Lamp that cuts through the darkness and cautiously proceed."

"The fifth mural, the sixth mural, the seventh mural, the eighth mural..."

"The number of murals exceeds what you’d imagined, depicting scenes such as enabling various ’Evil God believers’ to wreak havoc across Asgard, colluding under the guise of ’Tree Ancient God,’ and even reaching certain understandings with the ’Endless Abyss,’ among other matters."

"Your mind roils: the boss is the ultimate villain—how are we supposed to fight them? You can’t help but lament internally, feeling a deep sympathy for the truly innocent ’Tree Ancient God.’

"Soon, you reach the deepest part of the pitch-black corridor."

"As firelight spreads, illuminating the pure darkness, a temple emerges before you. Brimming with an eerie atmosphere and carrying the essence of sacrificial Evil God rituals, it sprawls into view. On a hundred-meter-long stone platform, an ancient god lies asleep. Dense, green luminous flows cascade like a waterfall, but strangely... even amid such a potent natural aura, not a single blade of grass grows."