Chapter 723: Self-Upgrading (Part 4)

The woman listened to Zhou Huai's words and lowered her head.

This would be a global upheaval, a catastrophe that would settle accounts with all living beings of the old era and the present world.

Zhou Huai had nowhere to hide.

Even if he didn't proactively seek out Mr. Duan, that Mr. Duan would proactively seek him out.

Rather than await death passively, it was better to give it a desperate fight.

The woman closed her eyes, and two lines of clear tears slid down.

"Indeed…" She let out a long sigh filled with deep emotion: "I have hidden with you for countless ages, yet as fate dictated, we ultimately could not escape this cursed vortex."

"Since that is the case, then we shall choose to fight with all our might!"

Seeing his mother snap out of it, Zhou Huai breathed a sigh of relief.

He looked at his mother, unable to suppress that crazy guess.

"Mom, you can help me, right?"

Zhou Huai probed cautiously.

Long ago, he had already started doubting his mother's true identity.

The mother was not an ordinary woman of Great Xia Country.

Just like Mr. Duan, she also came from that primitive world that possessed the origin sacred tree!

Now, all these mysteries were finally about to be verified.

Hearing Zhou Huai's question and looking at his expectant gaze, the mother suddenly smiled gently.

She looked at Zhou Huai and smiled.

"Huaier, of course I can help you."

She said in a soft voice:

"In this world, only I can help you."

Zhou Huai held his breath: "Why?"

The mother looked at him and uttered a single sentence:

"Because… you were once the only fruit borne upon my body."

As soon as those words came out, Zhou Huai froze in place.

Fruit?!

Before Zhou Huai could react to the terrifying implication behind those words,

right as the mother's voice fell, dazzling white light suddenly lit up all around her body!

This light was sacred, containing a rich aura of the Origin of life!

At the same time.

"Hum——!!!"

Far away in the spiritual world, that towering tree that had always served as a backdrop—the origin sacred tree—was strongly summoned!

Tens of millions of branches of the sacred tree swayed crazily, and countless leaves burst forth with dazzling seven-colored brilliance!

That light crossed the distance of space, echoing and connecting with the white light emanating from the mother's body, forming a pillar of energy that pierced through heaven and earth!

Enveloped by the white light, the mother's body began to become transparent, and intricate, ancient tree textures even faintly emerged on it.

Zhou Huai was completely dumbfounded.

He stood there blankly, dumbstruck.

An absurd to the extreme, even hair-raising thought uncontrollably and wildly popped up from the bottom of his heart.

Could it be…

Thousands of words stuck in his throat, and ultimately, under this cognitive-shattering impact, only two words were squeezed out of his mouth:

"Holy shit?…"

At the same time.

Far away in the Free Federation tens of thousands of miles away.

Falling Star Valley.

"Rumble——!"

Deafening thunder rumbled across the horizon.

This ancient canyon, once regarded as a forbidden zone of life, had been completely submerged by thunder.

Countless deep purple lightning bolts intertwined into a net in the vault of heaven, striking across the entire region.

The coercion of Heavenly Dao descended from the sky, and birds dozens of miles away fell to the ground one after another.

Directly above Falling Star Valley, a mass of dark red blood clouds rolled.

Thick, dark red tentacles stretched out from the blood clouds, greeting the purple thunder descending all over the sky.

When the red clouds surged to the border, they were beaten back by the striking purple thunder.

The intense light generated by the collision illuminated the night sky, and the air waves spread in all directions.

On a towering solitary peak dozens of miles away from Falling Star Valley,

Archbishop Andrew faced the violent gale, standing at the very edge of the cliff.

His cardinal robe, representing the supreme power of the Free Federation, hunted and fluttered in the wind.

This top SS-Rank Professional clenched the scepter in his hand, his face devoid of color.

The distant energy clash whipped up a violent wind, blowing him back two steps.

"Lord… Lord Archbishop…"

A knight standing beside Andrew swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

His voice trembled slightly in the wind: "Judging from the news sent back by the scouts ahead…"

"These purple thunder… have appeared for a full two days and more!"

"Moreover, the power of the thunder is still increasing!"

"More than half of the people in the three alert legions we deployed on the periphery could not withstand the coercion and exploded and died on the spot!"

Hearing the report, the muscles on Andrew's face twitched.

He looked at Falling Star Valley in the distance and shook his head.

"Don't ask me what on earth that is…"

Andrew lowered his eyelids, "I don't know either."

The fingers holding the scepter trembled slightly.

A few days ago, Thor was sent back to the Holy City by the heavily injured Golden Dragon, and Domoko fell in the abyss of Falling Star Valley.

He had assembled the Holy See's men and rushed over, attempting to find out the truth and preparing to battle the abyss monsters.

After he arrived here, what he saw instead was thunder filling the sky.

How could this be any abyss monsters making trouble?

This was clearly divine punishment!

It was a certain Law that was annihilating the existence within Falling Star Valley!

"What about the Holy City side?"

Andrew turned around, grabbed the knight's shoulders, his eyes bloodshot: "Have you notified the Holy Lord about the situation here?!"

"A million civilians are missing! The fully manned Holy Judgment Knights were completely annihilated! Even a national pillar like Domoko died here!"

"And now such a heaven and earth anomaly that even I cannot understand has appeared!"

"Could His Holiness the Holy Lord still continue to be in seclusion inside the Cathedral of Light?!"

The knight lowered his head to report.

"Lord Archbishop… One day ago, we already used the highest-level emergency communication to notify the Holy City side!"

"However…"

The knight lowered his head, "On the Holy City side, no news has been transmitted back!"

"The bell of the Cathedral of Light did not ring, and the cardinals of the inner court all kept silent."

"The Holy Lord… still hasn't issued any imperial decree down."

Hearing these words, Andrew staggered back half a step.

His hand released the knight's shoulder, and the scepter leaned on the rock.

"No news…"

"The Federation is about to be destroyed, and millions of subjects are sacrificed… Yet he still ignores it…"

Andrew closed his eyes.

He recalled those treasonous guesses of Domoko before his departure.

Could it be… that the mastermind behind all this, the true culprit who used the nation-protecting Divine Artifact sky mirror to transfer a million population here for sacrifice, was really that Holy Lord?!

"Lord Archbishop, what should we do next?"

The knight wiped the sweat on his face and requested: "The conflict between the purple thunder and the blood clouds is becoming more and more intense. If this goes on, the aftermath will sooner or later affect the peak where we are!"

"Are we going to keep watching here the whole time? Or order the whole army to retreat?"

Andrew clenched his fists.

He turned his head and looked in the direction of Falling Star Valley.

"Retreat? Where to retreat? If the thing inside runs out, the entire Federation will have to be buried with it!"

Andrew sighed.

"Except for watching the show here, we can't… do anything right now."

"Don't you understand yet? What is clashing ahead is simply not a power that Professionals of our level can contend against."

"In front of Laws of that level, we… are just ants that can be trampled to death."

Just in the gap while the two were talking!

"Rumble—!!!"

Inside Falling Star Valley, a sudden change occurred!

The blood clouds that were originally suppressed within a narrow area by the purple thunder began to roll violently!

"Roar——!"

A roar came from the depths of the blood clouds!

A large amount of dark red blood clouds gushed out from the bottom of the abyss!

These blood clouds turned into countless giant mouths, expanding outward!

The blood clouds spread, wanting to cover the entire Falling Star Valley along with dozens of surrounding mountain ranges!

"Not good!"

Andrew widened his eyes!

As the blood clouds spread, the Law of Plunder descended!

Where the blood clouds passed, the plants below were drained of vitality, withered and turned yellow, turning into black water!

High-order alien beasts lurking in the surrounding mountain forests had their bodies shriveled up, turning into mummies!

Deprivation of vitality!

This indiscriminate life devouring!

"Retreat! Everyone, retreat thirty miles back!"

Andrew shouted, opening up a sacred shield, and retreated with his men.

Right at this moment,

an old voice pierced through the thunder and came from the depths of the blood clouds!

"How long do you plan to watch the show?!"

This voice shook the surrounding gravels to float up one after another.

"Duan!"

"I know you are here!"

"Don't hide in the dark and act like a turtle with its head retracted! Get the hell out for me!"