Foreign Land Reclamation By a Vegetable-growing Skeleton
Chapter 1770 - 1331: Just Like the Undead in the Tree People

Chapter 1770: Chapter 1331: Just Like the Undead in the Tree People

In the Goblin City, at the location of the house where the attic is situated, amidst the scattered dust, a little sapling quietly sprouts a new bud, its grey appearance revealing a faint touch of green, sensing that the entire world has changed.

Ange, whenever he arrives at a new place, habitually throws down a World Tree seed and a heap of spores, effectively marking the new location.

The World Tree is the most sensitive to life; it senses that a massive amount of life force in the world is vanishing. This forces it to risk sprouting early, though it should have remained dormant for a while, waiting to germinate after King Fei Lie no longer pays attention here.

But now, with life rapidly disappearing in large quantities, it has no choice but to sprout early and subtly observe what is happening, thus witnessing King Fei Lie fly into the air and repeatedly descend.

Boom! At the point of impact, the area spanning several kilometers is flattened. Within this range, all goblins, whether on the streets or inside houses, are crushed into a meat paste.

Just like that, repeatedly, the entire Goblin City is hammered as if hit by a giant hammer, with all the buildings obliterated, leaving only a ground of powder and meat paste.

Of course, with such repetitive pounding, there might be a few that escape; finally, King Fei Lie hunches his body and lets out a sharp howl, a Soul Impact directly rupturing the heads of the remaining goblins.

After finishing this, King Fei Lie flies up, heading towards the city overturned at the top of the cave. Over there, a fleet of airships rises, some fleeing in panic, while others launch a fearless assault on King Fei Lie.

King Fei Lie doesn’t even bother to block; he accelerates, his body like a cannonball, smashing, smashing, smashing, maneuvering sharply in the air, and shattering all the airships.

The city center glows, revealing a shield. This city-defense-level shield is quite conspicuous, blue and shimmering, with ripples spreading outward from the very top.

King Fei Lie simply accelerates again, colliding into it, shattering it.

Effortlessly breaking the shield, King Fei Lie resumes his hammering, flying up, landing, flying up, landing, patiently smashing the entire city, along with everything inside it, to smithereens.

But at the end, he doesn’t use a soul-piercing scream to finish, because from the other side of the city, the breath of death is already dispersing, and another scream might disperse them further.

He turns around and flies to the position of the lighting window, taking a deep breath.

Under the strong light, wisps of black smoke rise gracefully over the razed city ruin, gathering into smoky pillars, converging on King Fei Lie in the sky.

These smoky columns of the breath of death are invisible to ordinary people, but under the sunlight’s illumination, waves of white smoke rise, clearly outlining their shape, revealing that the sunlight here also has a purifying effect on the breath of death.

King Fei Lie glances at the lighting window behind him, suddenly bends his body, and the area within a diameter of tens of kilometers around him fades into darkness.

"Annihilation Boundary!" When Anthony and Negris witnessed this scene within Ange’s Consciousness Space, they involuntarily exclaimed.

It’s somewhat unrealistic to rely on Ange and the Little Sapling to explain the happenings in Goblin City clearly, so they decide to ’watch’ themselves. Within Ange’s consciousness space, the Little Sapling projects the scene at that time, replaying the entire process like a reenactment.

"Annihilation Boundary, why is he using Locke’s Annihilation Boundary?" Negris asked in shock.

Anthony couldn’t answer, instead saying, "Flash, he also uses Feiti’s Flash, only without compressing the space in front of him, so we didn’t recognize it. But now it seems, that is indeed Feiti’s Flash."

Ursman questioned what Feiti’s Flash is, and after hearing the answer, said, "Then perhaps it’s for the impact force; compressing space, although it looks faster, doesn’t maximize kinetic energy, so the destructive power is much less."

Negris, exasperated, asked, "Then why is he using Feiti’s Flash and Locke’s Annihilation Boundary? Could it be like the Death Scythe and King’s Arrival, basic skills of every Lord of Mourning?"

"Impossible, not even adults would." Anthony denied this possibility.

After discussing for a while and still without a clue, Negris had to conclude, "So he massacred Goblin City just for Soul Energy?"

"Maybe he kept these goblins alive for Soul Energy too, and surely many have died over these years from birth, illness, and death, like the crops he planted. Now that he has destroyed the crop, it seems he doesn’t intend to return." Anthony said.

When ’destroy the crop’ was mentioned, the entire consciousness space twisted, clearly indicating Ange’s reaction to the term.

"It’s just a metaphor." Negris quickly assured, then changed the topic, "If he’s not going back, where is he going?"

The two of them exchanged a glance and simultaneously said, "Ancestor’s Tomb..."

Upon leaving the consciousness space, Anthony found Yennefer and said, "King Fei Lie is likely heading to the Ancestor’s Tomb, but it’s not certain he won’t clear out all Space Rifts if he doesn’t find us. You should hurry back and bring all Dragon-Men here, and temporarily stay in the Space-Time Domain so that the Lord can protect you all."

"But what about Black Scale Disease? If everyone stays together, those without Black Scale Disease will get infected as well." Yennefer said with difficulty, mostly troubled by the need to be with his family.

Anthony said, "This is not an infectious disease; staying together won’t spread it."

"Then how do we cure it?" Yennefer raised his foot, showing his dark-scaled skin, essentially saying: It’s not an infectious disease, but then, cure it for me?

Anthony said nothing, for when it comes to family, some indeed become exceptionally stubborn, a persistence even faith cannot sway, because these things are too important, more than faith itself.

"Come on, let’s go up to the graveyard, quickly clear out those deceit trees, then study how to treat Black Scale Disease. First, use Bloodline Resonance to gather everyone at the Ancestor Cemetery. If we find a treatment method, we’ll cure you all. If not, I’ll take your wife and children, leaving you here to await death." Anthony said ’viciously.’

Yennefer didn’t feel ’vicious’ at all, instead looking gratefully at Anthony before taking the lead to fly skywards.

"Come back, where are you going? The graveyard and the tombstone aren’t in the same space." Anthony said, pointing to a Teleportation Gate Ange just opened, quickly calling Yennefer back.

A grand procession passed through the Teleportation Gate, emerging directly from a pit in front of the tombstone.

At this moment, the Ancestor Cemetery is already covered with a layer of ferns, and the same applies around the tombstone. Countless Tree People stand or kneel in various eerie postures, dotting the spaces between the ferns, all invariably facing the ’Sun’ in the Ancestor Cemetery, like sunflowers.

As soon as Yennefer and Baburu’s feet touch the ferns on the ground, those deceitful Tree People, whether standing or kneeling, simultaneously turn their heads, gazing at Ange’s group with hollow, cavernous eyes.

"No wonder they are called Deceit Trees; they are too eerie, almost lifeless, like the Undead in the ranks of Tree People."