Chapter 218 Awakening

The fog was thick and heavy.

Beneath that enormous "divine tree" made of flesh and tentacles, the atmosphere was extremely eerie.

Standing atop the high slope, Lin Hui could clearly see the scene below through the full-penetration vision of the [Pale Eye].

The bodies of the kneeling believers began to melt away little by little.

Their skin softened and flowed like candle wax, merging with the soil and tree roots.

Countless tiny red tentacles emerged from the ground, piercing their bodies and greedily sucking their blood, flesh, and spiritual energy.

The believers, however, still wore those eerie smiles, seemingly oblivious to any pain, instead filled with ecstasy.

"The mother root that pierces through the earth,"

"A withered forest shrouded in starlight,"

"Wherever there is soil, that is your territory."

"Wherever there are trees, your name will be known."

"Wake up, Seranosh."

"Let the world return to your silence."

A series of deep prayers came from those hundreds of mouths that had not yet melted.

The sounds converged, forming an indescribable, enchanting melody that echoed throughout the space.

As the prayers intensified, the size of the sacred tree began to grow wildly!

The "sacred fruits" hanging on the branches, which are also the devil's eggs, began to turn transparent, and the embryos inside struggled violently, as if they were about to hatch at any moment.

At the base of the divine tree, cracks appeared in the earth.

An ancient, decaying, yet powerfully suffocating aura is slowly awakening from the depths of the earth.

"Damn it! We can't let them complete the ritual!"

Lin Hui's eyes turned cold, and his killing intent surged.

If the thing beneath this tree were to awaken, then things would really be over.

"Lady Evelyn, take me there!"

Lin Hui roared.

Without hesitation, Evelyn grabbed Lin Hui's shoulder: "Hold on tight! The powerful domain surrounding the Divine Tree can only take you three hundred meters away!"

"That's enough!"

Lin Hui flipped his hands, holding the [Earth Scepter] in his left hand and gripping the [Axe Gun], which had been synthesized once and possessed terrifying power, tightly in his right hand.

"Whoosh—"

Evelyn used the power of the silver ring to steal her distance from the divine tree.

The next second, Lin Hui and Evelyn appeared out of thin air at the edge of the divine tree.

The moment it landed, a cloyingly sweet aroma and an oppressive feeling hit you.

The latter kept the kerosene lamp burning with all its might, resisting the erosion of territorial and spiritual temptations!

"roar!!!"

Almost the instant Lin Hui appeared, the dozens of tree demons on guard outside roared and pounced on him like mad dogs.

"Get out of here!"

Lin Hui showed no intention of slowing down, and with his terrifying physique of 1000 points, he launched a direct charge.

"Bang!"

He swung his axe-gun out suddenly, and the heavy axe blade, propelled by the momentum, cleaved an oncoming tree demon in two!

He then pulled the trigger.

boom!

The close-range blast of shrapnel, the silver shrapnel that had been combined twice, was incredibly powerful, blasting the head of another tree demon that was trying to sneak up into a mangled mess.

"Xiaobai! Clear the area!"

At Lin Hui's summons, the gate to another dimension opened.

"roar--"

The zombie overlord, Xiaobai, crashed into the horde of tree demons like a meteorite.

Although this was the divine tree's home ground, and the tree demon possessed the ability to regenerate infinitely, Xiao Bai's brute force still tore open a gap in an instant.

Enveloped by the aura of the "brass key," Lin Hui remained untouched by the mist, like a sharp dagger piercing straight into the center of the ceremony.

"Stop him! For our God!"

When Inspector Lyon saw this, the smile on his face instantly turned into a ferocious grin.

He suddenly drew his sidearm from his waist—a biological pistol with vein patterns covering its body and a muzzle resembling the mouth of a demon.

boom! boom! boom!

Three dark green bullets shot towards Lin Hui in a triangular formation.

Alarm bells rang in Lin Hui's mind.

He felt the bullet was extremely dangerous and he absolutely couldn't take it head-on!

"The Scepter of the Earth!"

Lin Hui slammed the scepter in his hand into the ground.

Rumble!

The ground in front of them suddenly rose up, forming a thick earthen wall.

puff!puff!puff!

The dark green bullet struck the earthen wall, but instead of exploding, it corroded the earth and stone like strong acid, giving rise to a large patch of wildly writhing thorns.

"What the hell is this thing?!"

Lin Hui cursed under his breath, and in a flash, he rushed out from the side of the earthen wall.

At this moment, he was less than 100 meters away from the core area of the divine tree.

At this distance, he could clearly see the believers being devoured by the divine tree.

Among them, he saw a familiar figure.

At this moment, the beautiful girl named Elinel, who worked as a receptionist at the city hall, was kneeling on the ground with a look of despair on her face. Half of her body had melted, and countless roots had pierced into her blood vessels.

Seeing Lin Hui charging towards her, a glimmer of survival appeared in her originally dull eyes.

"Help...help me..."

She stretched out her hand with difficulty, her voice so faint it was almost inaudible.

But Lin Hui didn't even glance at her.

At times like these, any hesitation is cruel to oneself.

He had only one goal—Lyon!

Killing the high priest who is presiding over the ceremony will interrupt the ceremony!

"Leon! Prepare to die!"

Lin Hui roared, pushed off with his feet, and launched himself into the air like a cannonball. He raised his axe and musket high, and with the force of splitting mountains and shattering rocks, he slammed it down on Lyon on the altar.

Lyon looked at Lin Hui falling from the sky and did not dodge.

Instead, a strange smile appeared on his face.

"It's too late... Lin Hui."

"The ceremony... is complete."

Before he could finish speaking...

Boom! ! !

An unprecedentedly loud heartbeat suddenly erupted from inside the divine tree.

That heartbeat felt like the sky was falling and the earth was splitting apart.

Lin Hui felt as if he had been hit hard in the chest by a heavy hammer, and while he was in mid-air, he was directly blasted away by an invisible shockwave.

"puff!"

Lin Hui flipped over and landed steadily on the ground.

He looked up in horror.

The enormous flesh and blood tree suddenly split open with a huge crack in the middle.

The gap looked like a vertical eye.

Within that crevice, a naked humanoid creature with twelve pairs of black wings on its back, nestled within countless tentacles, slowly opened its eyes.

Those eyes had no pupils, only a chaotic grayness.

The moment it opened.

The whole world seemed to stand still.

All sound disappeared.

Even time seemed to stand still at that moment.

A chilling fear, originating from the depths of his soul, instantly swept over Lin Hui's entire body.

That is absolute suppression at the level of life.

Theranos has awakened!

And at this time.

All the mist in the entire misty town boiled over, surging in like a tidal wave and frantically pouring into the humanoid creature's body.

Lin Hui immediately withdrew from the area covered by the divine tree.

At this moment, Evelyn arrived beside Lin Hui. Looking at the humanoid creature frantically absorbing the mist, she calmly said:

"He... is not fully awake! He is only an incomplete form, an avatar that descended with the help of the divine tree."

"However, he already possesses a 7th-tier rank. If he absorbs all the mist, his strength will reach the 7th or even 8th tier. We must stop him!"

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Four chapters today! The author really wants to speed up the pace, but once the plot is conceived, it needs to be written properly. The author will work hard, and there should be four chapters tomorrow as well!

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