In Teyvat, it all begins with rescuing the grass god.

Rhodes and Tinari haven't seen each other for a long time.

Rhodes was delighted by the arrival of his mentor and friend, ignoring Hazard's fiery glare upon seeing him, and chatted enthusiastically with Tinari.

When things got interesting...

Rhodes asked, "Would you like to go to the desert and visit Hope City?"

"desert."

A bitter look crossed Tinari's face: "I really want to go, but..."

The words are not finished yet.

Tina sighed deeply.

Childhood memories flooded back because of Rod's words.

Barokashuna.

A large dog in the desert.

The name was given to their race by Lanalo, a servant of the Grass God.

When Tinari learned of the name as a child, he eagerly asked his father to take him along on his desert expedition.

But to Tina's surprise,

He had only taken a few steps into the desert when he became dizzy from the heat. If he hadn't received timely treatment, he might have contracted heatstroke.

Large dogs in the desert cannot enter the desert.

This event remained a lifelong regret for Tinari.

"Ugh--"

Thinking of this, Tinari touched his shiny black ears.

The Barogashuna are a race with entirely green fur, while the Tinali have black fur.

And in the large-scale physical examination of the life theory school.

He was also confirmed to have a naturally heat-intolerant constitution.

These internal and external factors meant that Tinari was not as at ease as his father was in the desert, and even with thorough preparations, he could not stay in the desert for long.

Just as Tina was feeling down about not being able to go to the desert, Rod smiled and said, "I have a way."

"Ok?"

Tina's eyes lit up, and she hurriedly asked, "Do you have a way to prevent me from getting sunburned?"

"Idiot, why don't you just come with me?"

With a flick of his finger, a refreshing feeling instantly enveloped Tina.

"Ice elemental power?"

Tina was slightly disappointed.

He had initially thought that Rhodes had some way to help him get rid of his heat intolerance, but it turned out he was using elemental power.

Previously, Nari had tried this method.

For example, he also tried using Frostbite Essential Oil made by the Sulun School, or the flowers of the Ice Mist Flower, and the method of carrying Ice Slime with him.

However, the result was the same.

Even with all the preparations, you can only get as far as Aru Village; you can't go any further.

"Hey."

"Don't make that face."

Rod patted Tinari on the shoulder: "With my abilities, this is the only way I can safely escort you to Hope City. Narcida will be there then, and she can help you solve this physical problem."

Upon hearing the mention of deities, Tina, who had been somewhat disappointed, immediately blinked and perked up, asking, "Will Lord Little Lucky Grass King help me?"

"Others may not be able to do it, but you definitely can."

Rod smiled and said, "Go ask your teacher for leave, otherwise he'll get angry again."

"it is good."

Having finally found a chance to resolve his physical condition, Tinali didn't linger for a moment longer and disappeared in a flash.

This time he leaves.

In the huge room, only Rhodes and Hazard remained, staring at each other in bewilderment.

We met again.

Hazard still maintains the demeanor of someone who is still a great sage.

Although his gaze was enough to kill, he still maintained a nonchalant demeanor, standing with his hands behind his back and staring at Rhodes, showing no fear or other emotion whatsoever.

"Tsk."

Rhodes didn't bother with any sarcastic remarks about Hazard; he directly stated his purpose in summoning him: "Would you like to see the Great Tree King?"

The Great Compassion Tree King! ! ?

This name made it impossible for Hazard to remain calm any longer.

His eyes widened, and he strode forward, grabbing Rhodes by the collar and yelling, "Who did you just call someone?"

"Didn't you hear me? Great Tree King!"

If you still haven't heard me clearly, I'll repeat it again.

"Great! Compassionate! Tree! King!!!"

"Well? Did you hear me clearly?"

Rhodes didn't do anything, but simply emphasized the name of the Great Tree King to Azhar several times.

"Great Compassion. King of Trees"

Confirming he hadn't misheard, Hazard loosened his grip, involuntarily taking two steps back, muttering incredulously, "How could this be? Impossible! She's definitely dead! She's definitely dead!!!"

talking.

He looked up sharply, his last glimmer of hope in his eyes, and asked Rhodes, "You're lying to me, aren't you? You mean Little Lucky Grass Queen, right? She should have died a long time ago!"

"Unfortunately."

"I am not lying to you, the Great Compassion Tree King is about to return to Mount Sumeru."

Rod said in a cold voice, his face expressionless.

Hope broken.

Hazard's ferocious face grew increasingly crazed.

He clutched his head with both hands, scratching his face fiercely, his sharp nails drawing bloody lines, yet he seemed oblivious to the pain, muttering to himself, "She's not dead! She's still alive!!!"

What are we all doing?

"What the hell are we doing?!"

Hazard looked decades older in an instant, his face filled with a distraught expression, tears of resentment mingling with blood as they streamed down his cheeks.

The Great Tree King is still alive.

This means that the Church Council has been doing useless work for the past five hundred years.

All talk of creating gods, replacing the grass god—all of it becomes meaningless in the face of the words 'The Great Tree King is still alive'.

So what if we create gods?

So what if the Order of the Fathers has its own god?

As long as the Great Compassion Tree King still exists, Mount Sumeru will remain the Great Compassion Tree King's kingdom, and everything they do will be as meaningless as children playing house.

Rhodes showed no mercy despite Hazar's mental breakdown, and simply said coldly, "Sinner, prepare to repent before the Great Tree King."

(End of this chapter)

205. Chapter 196 So, it turns out I'm not human.

Chapter 196 So, it turns out I'm not human.

Rod did not lie to Hazard.

The consciousness within the flower bud is indeed the Great Tree King.

This is something Nasita confirmed after that frank dialogue between the gods.

However, Rhodes's suspicions about the identity of the Great Tree King were not entirely wrong.

Because that Padishia was transformed from a wisp of spiritual light that the goddess of flowers gifted to the Great Tree King.

The so-called inspiration.

It is the spirit that the goddess of flowers bestowed upon the Great Tree King before her passing; it is the essence of flowers that purifies everything.

in the Legends.

The goddess of flowers once dreamt of a faceless nightmare at night, and was terrified by it. So she separated her spiritual light from her body, hoping to ask the light to stop the nightmare from coming.

This initial ray of light was called by the goddess of flowers the light in her eyes, her most innocent and pure daughter.

On the eve of building a bridge for the Red King to communicate forbidden knowledge.

The Flower Goddess bestowed this spiritual light upon her close friend, the Great Compassion Tree King, and instructed him to safeguard it carefully until the day calamity befell them.

It was precisely a fragment within that ray of inspiration.

Just as the Great Tree King was about to completely dissipate, she successfully preserved her remaining consciousness and, with the help of the Eye of the God of Rhodes and the Heart of the God of Grass, completed her rebirth.

This is why the consciousness of the Great Tree King is resurrected in the Flower Goddess Patishalan.

This fragment of spiritual light was able to protect the remnants of the Great Tree King's consciousness from the erosion of forbidden knowledge.

The reason is that the light of the Flower Goddess has the ability to reverse the power of the abyss. It is because of this characteristic that no Teyvat creature has that the Great Tree King's consciousness, which had been corrupted by forbidden knowledge, was able to retain a little bit.

Nasida had only mentioned it casually.