Reborn as a lotus, she initially refuses to hand it over to the state.

The moment the golden finger squeezed through the crack in the door, the entire Kunlun Mountains simultaneously sank several meters.

The spatial isolation array that originally covered the glacier lasted less than a breath before its innermost layer exploded from the center. Dozens of unmanned probes simultaneously lost signal, and the last image transmitted back showed that the finger was slowly bending.

It did not immediately attack the Kunlun garrison.

A civilization contract spontaneously combusted at the fingertip, transforming into a golden halo that rapidly spread across the globe along the ancestral realm's veins.

As soon as Chu Zhou's Myriad Realms Purifying Flame landed, the halo shattered into billions of tiny coordinates, which then disappeared into the depths of the sky, the ocean, and the earth.

[Twelfth-order civilization law detected.]

The Fifth High Priest is activating the remaining coordinates for the ancestral realm's return to the court.

[Number of Return Court Coordinates: Four.]

[Multiple extraterrestrial life forms detected.]

The target is not the Fifth Hunting Court's official fleet.

The Fifth Hunting Court has issued ancestral realm bounties to surrounding star systems through the Return to Court Contract.

[Bounty Targets: Pure Lotus of the World, Ancestral Realm Origin, Seven Human Star Cities.]

At the same time the system notification appeared, the highest alarm sounded at the lunar base.

In the projection of the ancestral realm in front of Shen Xinglan, four dark red dots lit up simultaneously.

The first one is located deep in the North Sea.

The second one was located in the western desert of Egypt.

The third one is located in the southern rainforest.

The last one was found in a broken space on the far side of the moon.

"This arm isn't simply trying to break through the first gate."

Shen Xinglan quickly retrieved global data: "It is using the ancestral realm's ley lines to activate the four guiding altars left over from 100,000 years ago. Extraterrestrial powerhouses in nearby star regions who have accepted bounties have already entered the passage."

Zhou Zhenshan looked at the ever-expanding coordinates in all directions: "Arrival time."

"We've arrived at the nearest one."

Deep in the North Sea, a huge stone ring that had just emerged from the seabed suddenly froze from the inside.

The pitch-black seawater quickly froze.

The ice layer did not spread towards the sea surface, but rather expanded outwards along the seabed. Tens of thousands of sea creatures were trapped inside the transparent ice crystals before they could escape.

A colossal figure, over three thousand meters tall, slowly emerged from inside the stone ring.

It has a torso similar to that of a human, but its head is adorned with six curved ice horns. Its chest has no heart, only a blue-white star core pierced by chains.

With each breath, the surrounding seawater loses its temperature.

[Target: The Frozen Abyss Titan Umo.]

[Realm Level: Mid-stage of the eleventh rank.]

[Identity: Exile from a civilization affiliated with the Fifth Hunting Court.]

[Master the Laws: Eternal Freeze of the Starry Sea, Star-Swallowing Abyss.]

[The target had voluntarily offered up their Mother Realm to the Fifth Hunting Court in exchange for an eleventh-order Law Core.]

The target does not bear any marks of forced enslavement.

Umo stepped out of the Hokkaido Stone Circle, and all six eyes simultaneously looked toward Tokyo Bay.

"The ocean node belongs to me."

"The roots of the Pure Land Lotus can be given to the Fifth Hunting Court."

A chilling feeling spread throughout the entire North Sea.

Numerous icebergs rose from the seabed, forming a frozen road that leads directly to Tokyo Bay.

The North Sea Fleet immediately withdrew.

Instead of using their main guns to attack the frozen sea area, they prioritized the evacuation of the trapped marine animals and coastal residents, following the newly formulated emergency response plan.

The ancient female warrior inside the stone ring, who had just awakened, also drew her longsword at that moment.

She did not stop the modern fleet from evacuating.

Instead, it took the initiative to stand in front of the last ship, using its own laws to block the ever-expanding cold current.

Cassian's voice came through the long-range communication: "North Sea garrison, do not engage it head-on. Lure the enemy into Sea Area Three, where the Everlasting Ice Melting Array has been deployed."

He himself is still in Xuanjia City.

The Law Battle Axe, which could be sent back to the Ancestral Realm ahead of schedule, has already been lifted by the three thousand gatekeepers who remained in Europe.

The two light wells in the Holy City during the daytime were adjusted in direction.

The constant daylight shines through modern energy networks and falls over the North Sea.

The ancient female warrior looked up and saw the path of light stretching across the sky, her grip on her sword tightening slightly.

Ten thousand years ago, her kingdom and the Holy City of Daylight were enemies.

The forces left behind by both sides are now converging in the same sea area through energy towers built by modern humans.

"Hand Umo over to the Northern Navy Legion."

Cassian's voice came through the global command channel: "The Lord of the Azure Lotus need not descend here."

The second alarm then came from Egypt.

The ancient city of the Sun, which had just established a connection with the Temple of the Sun, saw its twelve stone pillars simultaneously ablaze. The golden sacrificial path deep in the desert split open from its center, and an extraterrestrial warship covered in dark red feathers smashed through the stone gate and rushed into the ancestral realm.

Above the warship, a giant firebird with three heads was perched.

Its left head was engulfed in black flames, its middle head held a broken sun in its mouth, and its right head had its eyes sealed by golden chains.

[Target: Agatu, the King of the Ember Raven.]

[Realm Level: Early Stage of the Eleventh Rank]

[Identity: A plunderer of a wandering civilization.]

[Mastering the Laws: Great Sun Devouring Fire, Burning Realm Black Feathers.]

[The target has accepted the bounty offered by the Fifth Hunting Court and voluntarily agreed to attack the Ancestral Realm.]

The objective is to seize the ley lines of the ancient city of the sun.

The first black feather that Agata fell turned dozens of miles of sandy sea into lava.

The protective array of the Temple of the Sun then rose up.

Hundreds of awakened beings channeled their power into the stone pillars, while the ancient guardians of the Sun City led their remaining army out of the stone gates.

But just as the light powers of both sides converged, they were swallowed whole by the middle head of Agathu.

"The sun of the ancestral realm is still as weak as it was 100,000 years ago."

The three bird heads laughed simultaneously: "After I finish eating this ancient city, I will go and devour the six light wells of the Holy City of Daylight."

The Egyptian representative immediately requested the assistance of the true form of Jie Lian.

Before the communication could even be sent, the Holy City of Daylight had already opened the third light well.

Iseran stood in the center of the light well.

He still retains the three Lotus Seals of Suppressing Law within his body, and after losing the Holy Judgment Seal, his cultivation level only recovered to the early stage of the tenth rank.

Owen looked at him: "You haven't received orders to go into battle."

"It wants to devour the Holy City of Daylight."

Iseran slowly unfurled his six dim wings: "I once forcibly extracted the Holy City's essence as a Holy Judge, and now, as an ordinary member of the Holy City, I will return that power to it."

He did not request the removal of the Lotus Seal of Suppression.

He sent his Daytime Law into the Ancient City of the Sun solely through the established Covenant of All Spirits.

The Six Towers of Eternal Light and the Temple of the Sun were fully connected for the first time.

Agathut opened his mouth again and swallowed the light.

But this time, what entered its body was not ordinary solar flame.

A wisp of cyan-silver eternal lotus fire was also hidden deep within the light of the six towers.

As soon as Agatu's head swallowed most of the sea of ​​light, a tiny blue lotus lit up inside his throat.

"Pure Lotus of Dharma!"

It suddenly opened its mouth, as if trying to spit out flames.

At the same time, the guardians of the ancient city of the sun raised their ancient golden spears, and the twelve stone pillars transformed into a sun cage, locking Agatu's enormous body above the sacrificial path.

Isheran did not overstep the covenant and take over the Temple of the Sun.

His only responsibility was to maintain that wisp of lotus fire that shone day and night.

"You haven't even seen the true form of the Azure Lotus Lord."

"You're not qualified yet for it to come and kill you personally."

All six wings burned simultaneously.

The Law of Daylight erupted from within, following the light swallowed by Agata. Of the three bird heads, the central one was instantly burned through by the Everlasting Lotus Flame.

The guardians of the ancient city of the sun seized the opportunity.

A golden spear pierced the second head, while the stellar energy accumulated by the modern Sun Temple fell simultaneously along the twelve stone pillars.

boom!

The entire dark red warship exploded in the desert sky.

Agatu's last head tried to escape the ancestral realm, but was captured by the modern phase lock device of the Temple of the Sun.

Thirty-six beams of focused energy converged from different directions, accurately striking the same core of the law.

The eleventh-order core was completely shattered.

Before the black feathers could even touch the ground, they were all burned by the Everlasting Lotus Fire.

【The Raven King Agattu has fallen.】

[Kill contribution: 31% in Sun City.]

[Kill contribution: 29% for Temple of the Sun.]

[Kill contribution: 26% in Daylight Holy City.]

[Kill contribution: 14% of the Ancestral Realm Joint Defense Force.]

[The relevant battle achievements have been recorded separately.]

Iselan folded his wings.

He did not request the lifting of his punishment for participating in the killing of an eleventh-tier powerhouse. The three Suppressing Lotus Seals remained within his body, and the Six Towers Council only added one entry for his boundary-guarding merit to the trial record.

Merit can shorten the time he loses his freedom.

However, it cannot erase the harm suffered by the three wounded in the Soul Protection Academy.

The third anomaly was found in the southern rainforest.

Only a single purple spore, smaller than a speck of dust, slipped through the crack in the altar and landed on a vine leaf.

In less than ten breaths, all the plants within a hundred miles opened their eyes at the same time.

Those eyes had no pupils.

Inside, clusters of purple mycelium capable of parasitizing the soul grow.

The ancient priests of Gutai were the first to be affected.

They didn't attack the modern investigation team; they just kept repeating the same sentence.

"Let everyone enter the rainforest."

"The mother nest will grant you an incorruptible body."

Shen Xinglan was unable to locate the enemy's true form from the satellite images.

The plants, soil, and water of the entire rainforest all emit the same spore scent.

[Target: Spore Mother Nest.]

[Realm Level: Late Stage of the Eleventh Rank]

The target entity has not yet entered the ancestral realm.

[Current Descendant Form: Civilization Spore.]

[Spores can gradually condense into the true form of the mother nest by devouring ancestral creatures.]

Current number of infections: 7,861.

[The number of infections is expected to exceed one million in thirty minutes.]

The southern rainforest was immediately sealed off.

The local goalkeepers wanted to burn the plants with fire, but the Ninth Bureau headquarters urgently stopped them.

The spores have entered the bodies of many common animals and humans.

Burning rainforests directly is tantamount to killing infected people along with them.

Zhou Zhenshan did not ask whether Chu Zhou could arrive at the same time.

He immediately activated the existing purification power of the ancestral realm: "How far is the Changbai Mountain bee colony from the rainforest?"

"By transiting through the Tokyo Bay node, the fastest journey takes 21 minutes."

"Too slow."

Old Master Ye looked at the North Mountain node: "Have Qingfeng block the water veins first, and have Jinrui deliver the honey from the hundred flowers through the Jianmu root network. The bee swarm will then enter."

On Zhenhai Island, Qingfeng's true form quickly awakened.

Tens of thousands of green vines branched out from the Ten Thousand Vine Nest, not attacking or infecting plants, but instead burrowing into the ground along the outer edge of the rainforest, separating all possible outward-spreading roots and water veins one by one.

Queen Bee Jinrui then opens the Hundred Flowers Spirit Nest.

Purified nectar stored for months is sent to the Jianmu Root Network, where it condenses into a pale golden drizzle in the rainforest.

The first drop of nectar landed on the infected person's forehead.

The purple mycelium immediately emerged from the pores, trying to escape back into the soil, but was firmly entangled by the vine net that Qingfeng had set up in advance.

More and more infected people are regaining consciousness.

Jinrui did not allow the bees to enter the core area where the spores were most concentrated, but only let them stay on the outside of the vine net, continuously providing the purifying power of the flowers.

"We found it."

A rainforest researcher suddenly pointed to the underground model: "All the spores are transmitting energy back down to the pyramid. That's not the mother nest itself, but it must contain the guiding core."

Modern bunker buster bombs are not launched immediately.

Qingfeng first used vines to penetrate deep underground, completely separating the survivors in the ancient platform from the core of the guide.

Only after confirming that the attack would not transfer damage did the twelve psionic armor-piercing projectiles, each carrying a purification potion, fall simultaneously.

Purple spores coalesced underground to form a giant human face.

"Inferior civilization".

"Do you think destroying a single seed will stop the mother nest from descending?"

The human face opened its mouth, preparing to self-destruct along the spore chain.

A patch of blue-silver lotus pattern lit up on its forehead ahead of time.

Chu Zhou did not descend to reveal his true form as the Boundary Lotus.

He only needed to borrow the purification network established by Qingfeng and Jinrui to send a wisp of purifying fire from all realms.

"I cannot descend upon every place at the same time."

"But to kill a seed, you don't need the real body."

The purifying fire of all realms descended.

The purple face began to disintegrate from the center of its brow, and all the spores that had not yet spread were simultaneously eliminated by the nectar of a hundred flowers and the flames of purification.

In the distant sea of ​​stars, a colossal mother nest floating on a decaying world emits a sharp shriek.

It originally intended to enter the ancestral realm through civilization spores.

However, the Myriad Realms Purifying Flame did not stop within the core of the guide.

The azure-silver flames actually traveled along the spiritual connection between the spores, burning back towards the mother nest.

Hundreds of purple nests caught fire simultaneously.

The spore mother nest had no choice but to sever the connection and abandon all the spore species that had entered the ancestral realm.

[The descent of the Spore Queen Nest failed.]

The target entity suffered burns from the purifying flames of the myriad realms.

The target has left the ancestral realm coordinate range.

[Successfully purified 8,312 infected individuals.]

[Successfully preserved the complete geological structure of the southern rainforest.]

Jin Rui has earned merit in the Civilization Purification Campaign.

[Qingfeng has earned merit in the Node Guardian Campaign.]

Golden stamens fell onto the green vines.

Not a single bee was lost from the 100,000-swarm colony, and most of the ordinary creatures in the rainforest also survived.

It did not pursue the spore mother nest.

The bee colony was led to continue inspecting each infected plant to confirm that no spores were hidden deep in the root system.

Qingfeng then carried a piece of the mother nest, burned to a purplish-black color, back to Heilong Lake along the Jianmu root network.

Little Jinbao caught the fragment and smelled it twice.

Once it was confirmed that it was neither edible nor contained any high-grade metals, it was immediately placed in the evidence box, with no intention of keeping it for myself.

The three crises were brought under control one after another.

But the most dangerous enemy is still on the far side of the moon.

A jet-black ancient ship, longer than the diameter of the moon, is slowly emerging from the shattered space.

The ancient ship had no sails and no conventional energy core.

It uses dead stars as oars, and with each forward movement, large areas of space near the moon collapse.