Post-Mythical Era: I don't want to die in the third reincarnation
Chapter 689 - 682: Calculating Tree Roots

"Oh, Master Pu, you've already opened Kaiyi Divine King's world? And didn't ask for my help?" Mo Changcan said belatedly.

Pu Zhijian said helplessly, "By the time you come to open Kaiyi Divine King's world, Kaiyi Divine King's world would have long disappeared."

When the World God or Divine King of a world is killed, the world must be opened within a very short period.

Otherwise, the world will either completely collapse or completely disappear.

If the Divine Soul is hidden within their own world, that world will disappear, waiting for the opportunity.

Such individuals are usually Divine Kings.

Meanwhile, for World God Cultivators, when most of them are killed, their world will collapse.

So it's quite difficult to completely kill a cultivator at the Divine King Realm.

Because you must tear open the opponent's world.

Pu Zhijian raised his hand and threw out a Divine Spirit Vein and a green crystal stone, saying, "This is a mid-grade dark attribute Divine Spirit Vein, and this crystal should be a Wood Origin Crystal.

If I'm not mistaken, these two things are what the Divine Clan prepared for the Tree Ancestor. Mr. Ding, what should we do now?"

Ding Huan raised his hand to store the dark attribute Divine Spirit Vein and Wood Attribute Origin Crystal, then took out two Array Flags and handed them to Pu Zhijian and Mo Changcan:

"These Array Flags might not be needed, but you should hold onto them. I'll prepare to go in and meet that Tree Ancestor first.

You two wait at the entrance of that Stone Gate. Once you receive my signal for help, come in immediately and join forces with me."

Pu Zhijian was startled, "Mr. Ding, I know you're very strong, but going in alone to meet the Tree Ancestor is too risky. How about we go in together with you?"

Mo Changcan kept silent; he knew Ding Huan's skills and that only Ding Huan going in would work. They wouldn't be able to handle it.

"No need, if we go in together, it would be tantamount to a direct intrusion, which wouldn't be favorable for us."

Ding Huan waved his hand.

He mastered the Law of All Things and had a thorough understanding of Divine Clan genes, allowing him to transform his appearance and enter as a Divine Clan cultivator.

Pu Zhijian and Mo Changcan couldn't do that.

If they went in, they would be discovered by the Tree Ancestor.

"Alright, we'll wait here for you. If there's any danger, send us a message immediately." Pu Zhijian roughly understood Ding Huan's plan.

As Ding Huan headed towards the stone courtyard, his Divine Will continuously infused the mid-grade dark attribute Divine Spirit Vein with the Poison Dao and Genetic Destruction Law against the Divine Clan.

As for the Wood Attribute Origin Crystal, he also infused it with two types of Poison Dao Laws and the Genetic Destruction Law.

This Tree Root wouldn't suspect a thing, thinking it truly was the Tree Ancestor.

This was the territory of the Human Tribe, and a Divine Clan tree root dared to act arrogantly here.

Upon stepping into the stone courtyard again, Ding Huan was immediately transported away.

The first time he was transported, his cultivation was only at the Heavenly God Realm, and he was caught off guard.

Thankfully, he was a Body Refining Practitioner with a strong physique, so he wasn't injured.

This time, Ding Huan extended his Divine Will throughout.

"Boom!" Ding Huan landed heavily on the ground, avoiding a collision this time.

Ding Huan already had a rough concept.

The Stone Gate was a Teleportation Array; it seemed he had been transported far away.

Actually, he was probably still within this stone courtyard. The creator of the stone courtyard wanted him to believe he was transported far away.

Because he had extracted two top-grade dark attribute Divine Spirit Veins.

Moreover, he stored the dark attribute Dao Principle Crystal.

Returning here, although the space was in a chaotic-like state, it was clearly much better than last time.

Even sound could be transmitted for a certain distance now, and the stickiness of the space was far less than the last time.

Ding Huan estimated that perhaps the Tree Ancestor had awakened and absorbed a large amount of Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, causing a deficiency here.

With insufficiency, the Big Array's effectiveness naturally weakened.

At this moment, he could roughly perceive the level of this Big Array, which should be a ninth-level Divine Array, but it had downgraded to perhaps an eighth-level Divine Array.

If he studied it further, he might be able to break this Big Array.

"Since you're here, quickly come over." An abrupt voice sounded.

The voice was old and dry, like a piece of old tree bark scraping over sand.

Is this the Tree Ancestor?

If the Tree Ancestor's voice could be transmitted in this space, does it mean this Big Array was arranged by the Tree Ancestor?

It's very likely, since this guy could extend roots and tendrils outward to slaughter Human Clan Cultivators.

Even if this Big Array wasn't arranged by this tree root, this tree root now had a certain level of control.

This wouldn't do; to defeat the tree root, he must strip away its control over this Big Array.

Ding Huan spread various Genetic Slaughter Laws and Poison Dao Laws of the Divine Clan along the way, then returned to the location where he extracted the Dark Divine Spirit Vein earlier.

At this moment, the Protecting Array had already disappeared.

As Ding Huan arrived, he saw a thick tree root slanting within the Protecting Array.

Though he didn't use his Divine Will to scan, Ding Huan felt like this tree root was likely the one he had sliced tens of thousands of meters off.

Not far from this tree root was an inconspicuous Green Stone.

Precisely because it was inconspicuous, Ding Huan noticed the Green Stone.

"Didn't you visit last time?" the tree root voiced its inquiry.

Ding Huan respectfully said, "Yes, I was originally a sect master of the Human Tribe in the Upper God Land..."

"You are a Divine Clan cultivator, how could you become a Human Clan sect master? And why didn't any God King come this time?"

Ding Huan thought to himself that this old tree root was still very suspicious.

"To reply to the ancestor, this time it was God King Kaiyi and God King Qian Ye who came along with me. The Human Tribe doesn't know that I am from the Divine Clan, so they let me accompany Kaiyi and Qian Ye here..."

"Which sect are you the master of?" The old tree root interrupted Ding Huan's words.

Ding Huan was furious inwardly, "Does this old withered wood not want to let Mr. Huan speak?"

Yet he could only carefully reply, "Disciple, sect master of the Hongyun Alchemy Dao Sect, Wudan Zi."

"So it's the Hongyun lineage, no wonder..."

The tree root muttered to itself, seemingly having some relief regarding Ding Huan's origin.

Ding Huan continued, "Just as God King Kaiyi, God King Qian Ye, and I were about to enter, we were ambushed by several God Kings from the Human Tribe.

These Human Tribe ants do not keep their word. They had already made peace with us and allowed us to enter the Dao Ruins on the surface, yet they want to ambush us from the shadows.

It was also because of the ambush that I realized they had been suspicious of me for some time. After Kaiyi and Qian Ye were severely injured and fled, I, being more familiar with the Dao Ruins, was able to make it here.

However, I brought relatively few things, alas, God King Kaiyi had a complete top-grade wood attribute Divine Spirit Vein on him."

After Ding Huan finished speaking, he took out a ring and offered it up.

A sweep of Divine Essence, and the ring disappeared deep into the tree root.

"Not bad." The voice of the tree root soon came.

Clearly, the tree root was very satisfied with the dark attribute mid-grade Divine Spirit Vein and the Wood Attribute Origin Crystal brought by Ding Huan.

"You stay here and protect me; I still have some questions for you later." The raspy voice of the tree root came once more.

"Yes." Ding Huan replied dutifully.

Even if this old tree root didn't say this, Ding Huan wouldn't leave so easily.

Soon, the dark attribute Divine Essence around the tree root thickened and gradually enveloped the tree root within.

Ding Huan looked at the root that was frantically recovering, and a strange thought suddenly arose in his heart.

This tree root probably isn't purely the Tree Ancestor. The Tree Ancestor is the ancestor of the Divine Clan and would definitely need more than just dark attribute Divine Spirit Veins.

In fact, Divine Clan cultivators don't even have a dark attribute.

Ding Huan thought about the dark attribute Divine Spirit Veins he had extracted and the trace of residual soul consciousness he had obliterated hidden within the dark attribute Divine Spirit Veins.

Could it be that he had unknowingly helped this tree root?

A vague idea gradually became clear.

The tree root was indeed the Divine Clan Tree Ancestor, but for some unknown reason, a remnant soul cultivating a dark attribute wanted to seize the Tree Ancestor's Wood Origin, resulting in a conflict with the Tree Ancestor.

The end result was naturally mutual harm.

And they all fell into this Dao Ruins.

However, as time passed, the Tree Ancestor gradually gained the upper hand.

That guy concealed the residual soul that had entangled with him and set his sights on the Immortal Realm.

The Tree Ancestor wanted to absorb all the vitality and fate of the Immortal Realm, to secretly strengthen himself.

It was just unexpected that the Tree Ancestor's plan was cut off halfway through by him.

He had cut off the Tree Ancestor's tree roots that stretched over ten thousand feet in the Immortal Realm.

Because of his intervention, the Tree Ancestor weakened significantly, while the residual soul that had been struggling with the Tree Ancestor thus suppressed the Tree Ancestor.

In order to strengthen himself, that residual soul absorbed dark attribute Divine Spirit Qi while constructing that Stone Gate.

The main purpose of constructing the Stone Gate was to lure numerous cultivators into the Dao Ruins to provide him with Essence Blood for cultivation.

In this respect, he actually helped that residual soul.

He just hadn't expected he would also become embroiled in this matter.

As a result, he was able to walk in the dark attribute space and made it all the way to the two dark attribute Divine Spirit Veins, then extracted those two dark attribute Divine Spirit Veins.

His actions deprived the Tree Ancestor of the two dark attribute Divine Spirit Veins, yet indirectly helped the Tree Ancestor again.

The Tree Ancestor was able to recover slowly and summoned Divine Clan cultivators more frequently.

Ha, if all his speculations were true.

Then today's situation was entirely caused by him; he indirectly eliminated the Tree Ancestor's opponent, turning it into a Dao Principle Crystal.

Feeling the Tree Ancestor still desperately struggling to regain strength, Ding Huan laid out various laws while researching how to prevent the Tree Ancestor from controlling the Space Array of this space.

The Poison Dao Law was cast one after another; besides the Poison Dao Law, the Divine Clan Gene Slaughter Principle must not be absent, as well as the Divine Clan Gene Destruction Law...

Ding Huan didn't know whether the residual soul struggling with the Tree Ancestor still existed; maybe he had only eliminated a small portion.

However, now that he was here today, he couldn't let the Tree Ancestor leave this place no matter what.

Once the Tree Ancestor leaves here and returns to the Divine Clan, recovering is just a matter of minutes.

As time ticked by, Ding Huan's gaze fell on the green stone again; he suspected that it was the Array Core of this Space Array.

The Poison Dao Law and Divine Clan Gene Slaughter Principle he laid down were slightly concealed; Ding Huan knew it was time to act.

Sure enough, before Ding Huan made his move, the Tree Ancestor became frenzied.

(Today, I really wanted to update one more chapter, but I didn't have the energy. Now I'm doing two updates per day, which is more strenuous than the previous three updates. I still plan to update a chapter at midnight to ask for votes, hoping for a good start in 2025.

2024 has ended, whether good or bad, I wish all the book friends health and prosperity in 2025! Good night!)