Chapter 880: Another Branch

Outside, the smell of blood still lingered on the lawn of the Yalige Family manor.

Zhou Huai opened his eyes and looked down at the map of sacred traces on the ground.

A faint green light shimmered across the surface of the scroll, and the immense Law of life within was locked away by an invisible barrier.

Not far away, Eliza knelt on the ground, clutching the corner of her clothes and watching Zhou Huai nervously.

She did not know what this gentleman had been doing with his eyes closed just now, only feeling that the surrounding air was growing increasingly oppressive.

"Break the Seal, right."

Zhou Huai whispered.

When it came to the foundation of High-Dimensional Law, he was inferior to Mr. Duan, who had devoured the Sea God.

But when it came to destroying Formations and Seals, he had the most professional tools in his hands.

"Hum—!"

Zhou Huai reached his right hand into the Void Realm, causing space to tremble and tear apart.

A heavy chain emanating a dark golden dim light and covered in Formation patterns drilled out from the crack.

The ultimate Divine Artifact of The Seventh World that restrained all high-dimensional Formations and energy Seals—the abyssal nether chain.

As the nether chain appeared, its pressure descended.

The gravity of the manor increased abruptly, and the weeds that had just been nourished by the Law of life were all flattened against the ground.

Eliza's face turned pale, and she was pressed so hard she could barely breathe.

Staring at that dark golden chain, her scalp went numb.

"That… what level of weapon is that?!"

She hailed from the Yalige Family and had seen plenty of top-grade equipment, but the aura of this chain made her tremble instinctively.

Zhou Huai ignored Eliza and flicked his wrist, sending the abyssal nether chain straight toward the map of sacred traces on the ground.

"Shatter!"

The nether chain instantly wrapped around the scroll.

The moment it touched, the Seal on the surface of the scroll erupted with a cluster of silver-gray light, attempting to bounce the chain away.

Two high-dimensional forces collided.

"Zizizi—!"

Amidst the friction, tiny black cracks were torn into space.

The Seal left behind by Da Vinci could not hold up in front of the ultimate Divine Artifact specialized in countering Seals.

The dark golden Formation patterns on the nether chain shone brilliantly, and the power of annihilation poured down.

"Crack! Crack!"

The silver-gray sealing barrier on the surface of the scroll became covered in network-like cracks.

Following closely with a "bang", the Seal shattered and dissipated into silver points of light.

The Seal was broken.

Eliza stood by in a daze.

The sacred artifact shell, which generations of strong figures in the Family could not damage, had actually been crushed directly by a chain.

Just at the moment when the Seal shattered.

"Boom!"

An extremely majestic and ultimate-pure Law of life gushed out from the scroll like a breached flood!

Two dazzling lights soared into the sky from the painting, hovered and intertwined in mid-air, and then steadily landed on the lawn in front of Zhou Huai.

The light gradually dissipated, transforming into two figures.

One of them was naturally Zhou Huai's Clone, Rahil, who had just sneaked into the painting.

As for the other figure, it made Zhou Huai's pupils abruptly contract.

That was a woman.

She wore a light green flowing immortal dress, the hem of the skirt swaying gently with the breeze, as if woven from the purest life energy.

The woman's skin was fairer than snow, crystal clear and translucent, as if it would break at a puff.

Her facial features were even more exquisitely peerless, without a single flaw, and between her brows and eyes exuded an ethereal, inviolable Immortal Qi.

A beauty that could topple cities, with peerless grace.

But none of this was the reason why Zhou Huai was shocked.

What truly caused Zhou Huai's heart to vibrate violently was this woman's contour, expression, and even the gentle temperament revealed between her frowns and smiles.

They were actually astonishingly similar to his mother in his memory, who had died a miserable death under a curse to protect him!

They bore a striking resemblance of seventy to eighty percent!

If not for the subtle differences in age and temperament, Zhou Huai would have almost thought that his mother had come back to life and was standing before him.

After coming out, the woman did not immediately pay attention to the surrounding environment.

With her eyes closed, she took a deep breath of the blood-tainted air in the manor, and then uninhibitedly stretched a big stretch, outlining a breathtakingly graceful curve.

She opened those eyes like pools of autumn water, and a long-lost, brilliant smile appeared on her peerlessly beautiful face.

"Hoo—"

"The air outside is still fresher after all."

The woman's voice was ethereal and pleasant, carrying a trace of laziness at finally regaining her freedom.

Eliza at the side had long been dumbfounded.

Gazing blankly at this peerlessly beautiful woman who seemed to have walked out of mythology, and feeling the life aura on the other party that made her want to prostrate and worship, she even forgot to breathe.

Zhou Huai suppressed the throbbing in his heart caused by the similar appearance, recalled the abyssal nether chain back into the Void Realm, fixed his gaze tightly on the woman, and went straight to the point.

"Have you sensed it?"

"Where is your main body, the origin sacred tree, right now?"

Zhou Huai's tone carried a trace of unnoticeable urgency.

This was his core purpose for sneaking into the Free Federation; as long as he found the main body, he could follow the clues to find his mother's whereabouts.

Hearing this, the woman rolled her eyes at Zhou Huai and said ungraciously, "Don't rush me. I've slept in that damned painting for hundreds of years and just came out. It takes time to receive signals too."

After saying that, the woman restrained her smile, and her expression turned serious.

She slowly closed her eyes, and a layer of faint green halo rippled around her body.

An invisible fluctuation of the Law of life took her as the center, rapidly spreading in all directions, and even toward higher dimensions.

Zhou Huai waited quietly on the side.

A moment later, the halo on the woman dimmed, she opened her eyes, and shook her head helplessly.

"I'm afraid I'll have to disappoint you."

The woman sighed, "Right now, I can no longer sense the existence of the main body at all."

"Cannot sense it?"

Zhou Huai's brows knitted together.

How could he not sense it?

The Heavenly Dao had gone through so much trouble to lure him to the Free Federation, obtain the map of sacred traces, and release the branch, only for the clues to be cut off?

This did not conform to the underlying computational logic of the Heavenly Dao System.

Looking at Zhou Huai, the woman nodded seriously: "Strictly speaking, it's not that the main body has disappeared, but that all the Law fluctuations emitted by the main body have been completely shielded by a power of extremely high dimension."

"Or rather…"

The woman's eyes turned wary, "My main body is very likely on that Mr. Duan."

"In this world, only someone like him who has mastered the Transcendent Law can so thoroughly sever the Origin-derived connection between me and the main body."

Zhou Huai came to a sudden realization.

The origin sacred tree was an indispensable link in Mr. Duan's god-creation plan.

With Mr. Duan's current ability to absorb the Sea God's Origin and complete his high-dimensional divine persona, compressing and carrying the origin sacred tree with him was effortless.

If that was truly the case, Zhou Huai's expression sank.

He originally thought that through the branch's induction, he could find the secret headquarters of the Dawnbreaker Guild and rescue his mother secretly while avoiding Mr. Duan.

Now it seemed that if the origin sacred tree was on Mr. Duan, if he wanted to save people, he had to confront that Transcendent who was at his peak head-on.

With his current half-step Transcendent strength, his chances of winning against Mr. Duan were extremely low.

Zhou Huai took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down.

That's not right.

The Heavenly Dao System wouldn't act without a purpose; there must be a reason for guiding him to find the branch.

There must be something he had overlooked.

Staring at the woman in front of him, Zhou Huai pressed further: "Besides the main body, can you sense anything else?"

"Any fluctuations related to the origin sacred tree will do!"

Seeing his serious expression, the woman closed her eyes again to sense.

A moment later, she opened her eyes and nodded: "Yes."

"Although I can't sense the main body, when I was searching just now, I also sensed another branch just like me."

The woman raised her hand and pointed to the northeast.

"Right at a place about two thousand kilometers away from here."

Zhou Huai froze.

Another branch?

The Heavenly Dao went through so much trouble to lure him here, just to find branch after branch?

Just at this moment, looking at the woman's appearance which was seventy to eighty percent similar to his mother's, a thought flashed through Zhou Huai's mind.

Similar appearance… auras of the same Origin…

Could it be that his mother was not the main body of the origin sacred tree at all?!

She… she was also a branch???