Under one person: I, Zhang Zhiwei, the arrogant Zhang.

Chapter 811: First Contact with the Sacred Tree

Zhang Zhiwei looked at the scene deep in Lanster's soul and did not touch it easily.

Those tree roots are the rhizomes of the sacred tree. Touching them would undoubtedly be touching the sacred tree.

Zhang Zhiwei couldn't predict what choice the sacred tree would make, whether to destroy Lanster's thinking, or use Lanster as a springboard to fight with him.

"It doesn't matter if it's destroyed, but if you want to break it, then... let's give it a try."

Zhang Zhiwei extended a strand of his consciousness, like a scalpel, trying to peel off the roots that surrounded Lanster's soul and thoughts.

But he soon discovered that the connection between the roots and thoughts was much deeper than he had imagined. They were rooted together and could not be separated at all.

In the process of peeling, he inevitably came into direct contact with the tree roots.

When I touched it, the brown roots actually glowed slightly.

Then, it stretched out like a tentacle and began to surround Zhang Zhiwei and probe his past thoughts, as if trying to use this as a connection to take root in Zhang Zhiwei's soul.

Zhang Zhiwei had an idea, but he did not immediately shatter the roots of the sacred tree. Instead, he used his own method to retaliate. You wrap me with your roots, and I will wrap you with the power of my soul.

During this encirclement process, the sacred tree was influencing and controlling him, but at the same time, Zhang Zhiwei was also gradually trying to uncover the secrets of the sacred tree.

This is a very hidden process. If the "view" has not reached a certain level, it cannot be perceived and responded to.

It is like Nasenwei and the islanders on Nasen Island, who cannot realize how the sacred tree gives them abilities, nor can they understand why the sacred tree can allow them to teleport.

They just marveled at the divine tree's great power and omnipotence, but never thought about how the divine tree did it. Now, Zhang Zhiwei discovered that it was through its roots.

The roots of the sacred tree are not only rooted in every inch of land on Nasen Island, but also in the minds of every islander on Nasen Island. Every islander is its nourishment.

At the same time, through its root system, it turned the entire Nason Island into an iron plate, with no traitors and no possibility of being divided.

But if this is the case... Zhang Zhiwei thought of the Nathan chapter in the plot.

The reason for this plot is that there was a traitor, an island traitor, on Nathan Island.

The traitor on the island is the king's personal guard, Elijah Jones, the guard of Nathan. During their long time together, he developed a crush on King Nathan.

By chance, he discovered the secret of Nason Island.

It turns out that all the kings and guards will eventually turn into tree roots, return to the sacred tree, become the nutrients of the sacred tree, and will never be reborn.

In order to save his beloved King Nathan, he came up with the idea of ​​burning the tree, which triggered a series of subsequent plots.

Zhang Zhiwei looked at the tree roots in Lanster's mind, and then connected it with the plot of the Nathan chapter, and suddenly felt a strong sense of disharmony in his heart.

Judging from the current situation, the control of the Nasen sacred tree over Wei is stronger than the control of the Tianshidu over the Tianshi.

The Tianshi Degree is an explicit prohibition. Although the Tianshi cannot violate the prohibitions of the Tianshi Degree, he can express his dissatisfaction strongly.

It's just like in the plot when Zhang Chunan asked the old Taoist priest about the secret of the Jiashen Rebellion, and the old Taoist priest just looked at him speechlessly, as if he wanted to say something but couldn't.

This is the body being imprisoned.

But the sacred tree is different, its roots are entangled with souls and thoughts.

This is mind control.

It is impossible for a person whose mind is controlled to express dissatisfaction. If someone asks King Nathan something that cannot be said, King Nathan will not act as if he knows the answer and wants to say it but cannot. He may just fool people with a few words.

One has its own complete subjectivity, but is controlled by the objective.

Another is that the subjectivity is polluted.

This is the difference.

Compared with the Tianshidu, the difference between the Nasen sacred tree and the king is more like the difference between mother and child.

Since they are the mother and the child, why did Elijah want to burn the sacred tree for the king in the Nathan chapter? !
This is very abnormal. In Zhang Zhiwei's opinion, Elijah's betrayal of the sacred tree is as outrageous as when a game character in an account in an online game decides to rebel against the player for the sake of another game character in the account.

Game characters have no thoughts and cannot resist the player. If they start to resist, it only means that the player made them resist.

In other words, behind Elijah's series of actions, the sacred tree actually condoned and even manipulated them.

Thinking of this, Zhang Zhiwei naturally concluded that the sacred tree wanted to kill him.

But then he shook his head, this conclusion was also contradictory.

According to the information obtained from the mutual entanglement between him and the sacred tree, the purpose of the sacred tree is very clear, which is to reproduce and grow.

If the purpose is to reproduce and grow, why would one kill oneself?
Unless... death is just for better reproduction.

At this time, Zhang Zhiwei thought of an ancient poem: Wildfire cannot burn it all, it will grow again with the spring breeze.

The sacred tree is a plant, and for plants, death often represents rebirth.

Thinking of this, everything becomes clear.

Put yourself in their shoes. Suppose you were a sacred tree that had been imprisoned on an island for thousands of years. Your roots had already covered the entire island, but you were unable to grow outward.

It’s not that the roots cannot be extended to the bottom of the sea, but there will be no believers. The power of faith is the soil for the roots to grow.

If you want to grow and develop, you must have enough believers to provide enough power of faith.

However, the area of ​​Nason Island is very limited and resources are scarce, so it is impossible to reproduce more population.

The so-called Nason Island is just a larger potted plant for the sacred tree!

In this situation, how can we break the deadlock?

Expand directly outward? !

No, he was chased to the sea.

The sacred tree in its heyday was chased to the sea, and now it is half-crippled. How can it possibly fight back?

Since force doesn't work, we have to use civil means, one of the Thirty-Six Stratagems of Stratagems is to escape.

Therefore, the sacred tree staged a fake death to escape.

In other words, the entire Nathan chapter was actually a self-directed and self-acted scheme by the God Tree Wei to escape from trouble.

In this situation, whether it is Behemoth, the Emerald Society, the Nadutong Company, the Yulong Society, the Yaoxing Society and other forces all think they are the winners.

But in fact, the real winner is the sacred tree, which has broken free from the shackles of thousands of years.

As its main body was burned and the Nathan Islanders were relocated to various parts of the world, the sacred tree was like a dandelion that was blown away. Its seeds flew to various parts of the world on the winds of various forces. When everything matures, the sacred tree will make a comeback with a posture far superior to before.

"If that's the case, then I can understand the poor performance of the Nathan guards during the Nathan chapter!" Zhang Zhiwei thought to himself.

In the Nathan chapter, the suppression of aliens by thermal weapons was greatly highlighted.

But if you think about it carefully, this kind of suppression is actually not reasonable.

The nine guards of Nathan can all teleport. Even if there are enhanced humans targeting them, how can they kill the guards of Nathan who can teleport freely by fire suppression alone?
They could obviously rely on their ability to teleport. In an instant, the nine of them could gather together and concentrate their strength to defeat the small teams that were besieging them one by one, and then keep Behemoth's large army under control.

Moreover, there are thousands of aliens on Nasen Island. They have various abilities and their combat effectiveness is also strong.

Not only that, King Nathan's perception ability can cover the entire island, and he can communicate through thoughts, which is equivalent to global satellite coverage plus instant messaging. Moreover, King Nathan can also add various buffs to his subordinates, allowing them to explode and emit power far beyond usual.

With such a configuration and the home advantage, how could it be possible that they could be defeated with just a few dozen cyborgs, hundreds of guns, dozens of RPG rocket launchers, and a few helicopters?
With the military strength demonstrated by Behemoth, even in a conventional war, it would have been difficult to carry out a ground advancement or fight street battles with thousands of ordinary soldiers. How could it crush thousands of aliens?
If it was really so effective, the United States would not have suffered defeat in the Middle East and would not have been unable to defeat the Slippers Army.

Normally, if the people of Nason Island put up a desperate resistance, used the buildings of the royal city as shelters, and dragged Behemoth's people into street fighting, they would not be able to be taken down unless they used nuclear bombs or even bombarded the area with missiles.

But the strange thing is that Nason Island just disappeared without being used overnight.

The entire Nason Island, whether it is the king or the guards, gives people the feeling that they are doing their best to die.

It is precisely this feeling that makes the entire Nathan Island chapter very unpleasant and the characters' behavior seriously degraded.

But what if the sacred tree was behind all of this? It was the sacred tree that wanted its people to die one after another.

Then their lowered intelligence makes sense.

Both Wang and Wei were following the script of the sacred tree, either surrendering or dying heroically.

Only Li Muxuan, this stupid guy, forced himself to get excited.

"It really fits the old saying, 'Heaven and earth are not benevolent, they treat all things as straw dogs. Saints are not benevolent, they treat the people as straw dogs. In order to achieve its own goals, the sacred tree did not treat the islanders as human beings!"

Zhang Zhiwei sighed in his heart, and then he glimpsed a hint of the thoughts of the sacred tree from the roots of the sacred tree.

He was surprised to find that this time the Nasen Island crisis was also full of weirdness.

Although the former Nasen Island was located in this sea area, it was difficult for outside ships to discover it because it was shrouded in the huge Qi field stimulated by the sacred tree.

Any navigation instrument will fail here. If an ordinary ship approaches, it will immediately be hit by storms and huge waves. It will only be open at specific times.

But recently, people outside have found that it has become much easier.

"Will the crisis on Nasen Island this time be the same as the plot decades later, directed and acted by the sacred tree itself?"

Zhang Zhiwei pondered in his heart. He always felt that it was a bit abrupt and deliberate that other countries, after seeing his strength, turned their attention to Sen Island and tried to conquer Nasen Island.

It is true that Nasen Island is a powerful force, but even if someone wants to conquer it, they should do it quietly. There is no need to let the whole world know. Wouldn't that just add a lot of competitors?

Unless, this news was released by a third party with the purpose of luring various forces here.

And who has this ability and motivation?

Most people might only think of warmongers and ambitious politicians, but Zhang Zhiwei felt that perhaps the sacred tree was behind all this.

Perhaps it was due to some influence of his own that the sacred tree brought forward its plan, which was originally scheduled for decades later.

"The plan of the sacred tree began by taking advantage of my destruction of the Japanese fleet!"

"So... am I in its plan? What role do I play in its plan?"

Zhang Zhiwei also began to think about how he should treat the sacred tree.

The purpose of his coming to Nason Island was actually just to see the sacred tree, the highest masterpiece of the alchemy system, to see if it could bring some inspiration to his future path of practice.

In his original plan, he had no intention of doing anything to the sacred tree.

But now it seems that since he set foot on this land, he has become part of the sacred tree's plan.

In other words, even if he didn't care about this matter, he was still within the plan of the Divine Tree. It was just unknown whether the Divine Tree just wanted to take advantage of the influence of his previous incident to make use of this issue, or whether it really had some intentions towards him.

"Things are developing more and more interestingly!" Zhang Zhiwei said to himself.

At the same time, as he and the sacred tree became more and more intertwined, the will of the sacred tree had a greater and greater influence on him, and it even intended to follow his thoughts and take root deep in his soul.

Zhang Zhiwei had to admit that in this regard, he was still a little too immature compared to the sacred tree.

At least he couldn't affect the body of the sacred tree through its roots.

But the sacred tree could affect him. This feeling made Zhang Zhiwei feel a little uncomfortable. With a thought, he shook the roots of the sacred tree that surrounded his thoughts, and destroyed them piece by piece.

The roots extending from the sacred tree collapsed all the way to the depths of Lanster's soul, even causing the roots entrenched in his mind to vibrate.

They coiled and squirmed like snakes, as if trying to suck out Lanster's consciousness, but after a moment, for some reason, they stopped moving.

Zhang Zhiwei looked at those roots and stopped provoking them. The sacred tree also stopped trying to grow according to his thoughts. Both sides had a tacit understanding, as if nothing had happened before.

"It seems that we have to go to the depths of the royal city to see the true form of this sacred tree."

Zhang Zhiwei pulled consciousness out of the depths of Lanster's soul. Lanster was still struggling violently in his hands, shouting and yelling, unaware of the tug of war between Zhang Zhiwei and the sacred tree in his brain.

Zhang Zhiwei slapped Nanster on the back of the neck, knocking him unconscious, and threw him to the ground, then turned his head to look to the side.

Lu Ci was fighting with Kate, Eye of the Storm, and Lu Jin was fighting with Kyle, the Fire Wing, and the fight was fierce.

Behind Kyle, crimson flames surged and gathered into two flaming wings that were about ten meters long. He swung the flaming wings like swords.

Lu Jin gathered all the Qi in his body, forming two several-meter-long divine swords in his hands, and chopped at Kyle.

After each fight between the two sides, an explosion of sparks or dissipating white light would appear in the air.

On the other side, two extremely strong whirlwinds were sweeping in, and the scene was gloomy and gloomy. Lu Ci was fighting with Kate with his ultimate move.

Kate summons a knife-sharp tornado.

Lu Ci used the Hun Xiang Flowing Technique to rotate in the opposite direction.

The two whirlwinds, one positive and one negative, collided madly. The sound of their collapse was like muffled thunder, and sharp explosions continued to ring out.

Zhang Zhiwei took a glance and knew that the battle would probably continue for a while. He did not intervene but turned and walked towards the market leader, Big B. He had not forgotten the purpose of coming to the market.

After confirming Isaac's location, he planned to go to the royal court to meet the instigator of this incident, the sacred tree of Nathan.

(End of this chapter)