From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

As if sensing Jiang Liu's formidable nature, the tree roots bypassed him after he shattered some of them with his Qi energy, and went to prey on other recipient soldiers.

"Fire!"

"Ignore the orders!"

"attack!"

"..."

The remaining recipient soldiers fired their guns and launched rockets, but the torrent of tree roots swept through, easily deflecting the bullets.

Faced with the rocket, the tree roots and tentacles rippled like ocean waves, causing the rocket to change its trajectory and fall back into the group of recipient soldiers.

Boom!

In an instant, the recipient soldiers, who had no time to react, were blown to pieces.

The divine tree did not spare the corpses either, dragging the severed limbs and arms into the ground to absorb their nutrients and grow stronger as much as possible.

But there is still one person who has not been attacked by the roots of the divine tree.

Elijah.

He stood up shakily, pointed the revolver at Jiang Liu, his eyes red, and demanded, "Was all of this your scheme?"

"I haven't reached the point where I can calculate the trajectory of every single particle in the world."

Jiang Liu glanced at Elijah and said leisurely, "It's just that I added my personal variable to the existing situation, which slightly propelled the plot forward."

The moment I stepped onto the island, I realized the essence of the sacred tree and understood that its history was definitely more than a thousand years. It existed at least in the early Stone Age when humans had not yet mastered slash-and-burn agriculture and were still in the stage of gathering and hunting.

Personally, I actually wanted to record its atmosphere.

Therefore, I challenged the sacred tree.

"It's you!"

Elijah remembered that King Nathan had received the message about the "War of the Gods" from the Tree of God, and his eyes widened in fury. He instantly pulled the trigger.

Gunshots rang out.

But the energy bullet remained three inches from Jiang Liu's temple, unable to advance any further, and Elijah couldn't even control the energy explosion within the bullet.

Jiang Liu caught the bullet, flicked it with his finger, and a streak of light instantly pierced Elijah's right shoulder where he was holding the gun.

Pfft!

With his right shoulder pierced, the immense impact of the energy bullet knocked Elijah to the ground.

"If it weren't for you, my plans..."

"It won't succeed either."

Jiang Liu replied indifferently, "You broke the golden branch for King Nasen, didn't you? You didn't want her to merge into the core of the divine tree?"

"you······"

Elijah's eyes trembled, his mouth agape, but he didn't know what to say.

"Did he treat her like a younger sister? Or was she someone he secretly loved?"

Jiang Liu continued, "Ultimately, you have feelings for King Nathan."

However, in Nathan, you are the Guard, and she is the Queen; the hierarchy between you is insurmountable. You cannot directly influence her thoughts and actions through words or deeds, and thus you plotted to break her golden branch.

Elijah gritted his teeth.

“Because you know that once the Golden Branch is broken, King Nathan will definitely think that Behemoth is behind it, because this force has always coveted Nathan… You know very well that Behemoth, who is researching the SP series, needs a lot of Inhumans to do the research, and Nathan, a force with almost all of the island’s unregistered residents, is the perfect fit, not to mention the Divine Tree.”

At this moment, Elijah struggled to his feet.

"And your goal is to use Behemoth to destroy Nathan and free King Nathan from the fate of being merged with the divine tree."

At that moment, Elijah, holding the gun in his left hand, pointed it at Jiang Liu and shouted, "Shut up!"

# Chapter 679 You've Never Respected Your King

"You did not betray the divine tree."

This sentence.

Tears welled up in Elijah's eyes, and his once handsome face was now filled with a sense of vicissitude and resentment.

“But you betrayed King Nathan.”

Jiang Liu gazed at Elijah and slowly stated a fact: "You who grew up in Nathan have always believed that the King is loyal to the Tree, the Guard is loyal to the King, and the people are loyal to the Guard and the King and the Tree. But as for that Tree, as long as it is not betrayed and its existence is maintained, it will not care whether the King, the Guard, and the people live in harmony or fight each other openly or secretly."

but.

The king was chosen by the divine tree and has been influenced by it since childhood, influenced by the will that has lasted for hundreds of thousands of years, to continue the divine kingdom under the tree.

The tree, or the divine kingdom beneath it; the former takes precedence.

Even so! I can still change the king's fate!

Elijah roared, tears falling to the ground, and said viciously, "As long as Behemoth breaches the capital, I will betray the king and the rest of the royal guards, let Ron and the others dig up the tree, and then I will destroy it myself. Everything... everything will be over!"

Elijah, Elijah.

Jiang Liu shook his head. "Your scheme was also within the tree's calculations. Its purpose from beginning to end has always been its own survival."

“What do you mean?” Elijah gritted his teeth.

“You clearly have a part of the Divine Tree within you, so logically your connection with Him should be even closer. Yet, you are the only one among the royal guards who remained rational and did not immediately enter the cultivation furnace via spatial teleportation.”

Jiang Liu's lips curled into a smile that almost reached his ears, revealing a devilish grin. "Because, for the sake of survival and continuation, He will always have a backup plan!"

Elijah realized something and raised his left hand, trying to force out the golden branch. But no matter how he tried, the golden threads that had merged into his body and covered his entire body could not reassemble into a branch and could not be forced out of his body.

How could that be?

Even more so, as he exerted his strength, the flesh and blood at the wound on his right shoulder began to writhe spontaneously. Bone and flesh fragments and pieces of flesh were broken down, broken bones were reconnected, and shattered muscles were healed. However, his face became paler.

Energy is conserved, so the energy consumed in healing came from Elijah's own Qi.

"You think you are acting in the best interests of King Nathan, but all of this is part of the Divine Tree's plan, just so that it can continue to exist in this world where modern technology is becoming increasingly advanced."

Jiang Liu revealed the true nature of the divine tree: "You can't even commit suicide. Golden Branch will heal all your injuries until you are too weak to move."

thump!

Elijah fell to his knees, staring at his hands, and cried out in anguish, "Why? Why did this happen? It shouldn't be like this!"

"Even if your plan succeeds, and you ultimately destroy the Divine Tree, will King Nathan be grateful to you?"

Jiang Liu continued his attack, "You unilaterally refuse to let King Nathan integrate into the core of the Divine Tree, but have you ever considered King Nathan's wishes?"

She has been bound by the will of the divine tree since childhood, and it can even be said that she has been brainwashed. You helped her escape her fate in such a simple and crude way. Have you considered whether she will commit suicide afterward?

Or perhaps they went to great lengths to recreate the sacred tree?

Do you want her to live the rest of her life in misery? Or do you think that as long as her final resting place isn't the sacred tree, it doesn't matter how tragic her life is?

Upon hearing this, Elijah trembled all over—

He didn't consider that!

However, considering Nathan’s millennia-long history and will, Elijah is certain that what Jiang Liu said is very likely true!

A broken golden branch...

It was indeed his wishful thinking.

“You have not only betrayed your king, but you have never even respected her.”

Jiang Liu spoke coldly, staring at Elijah, who was curled up in a corner, "When you look at King Nathan as a 'parent' and think that everything is for her own good, you have already overstepped your bounds."

Since he is Wang Wei, his choice should be respected.

I'm just her friend, and I know this principle. Don't you?

Elijah was at a loss and could only curl his body up tighter and sob softly.

Upon seeing this.

Jiang Liu didn't try to persuade him any further. He simply looked at the shrinking cultivation furnace and said calmly, "However, please rest assured, I will rescue your queen. At that time, her thoughts may change... who knows?"

Once a person's character is formed, it usually only changes slowly with the increase of experience, without changing their familiar living environment or experiencing major ups and downs.

The saying "a fall into a pit, a gain in your wit" illustrates this principle.

To change King Nathan's mind, it's actually quite simple: just let her actively integrate into the core of the Divine Tree and experience the pain of merging with many wills!

As for how to separate them?

From the beginning, Jiang Liu planned to rely on "The Forbidden Fruit of God: Modified" and the method of being of the same origin as the Divine Tree to resonate with its core, determine the location of King Nathan's consciousness, soul and body, and then slowly peel it away.

And now-

By chance, he traveled to Hua Jinna's heaven and comprehended the method of eternal thought, condensing 3,600 pure yang thoughts, radiating the light of the mind - Huiyuan, which can observe the transformation and cycle of all energy and matter in the world, and can designate the complete destruction and rebirth of a thing.

Let alone rescuing King Nathan, even rescuing the other eight Nathan Guards would only require a little more effort.

Not to mention that his "Forbidden Fruit of God Modified" has already been based on the Nine Luminaries and has been initially transformed into the Zhou Tian Star Array based on the acupoints and nerve nodes of the human body, making it even easier to separate King Nathan from it.

But there is one prerequisite—

Defeat the Divine Tree!

hum!

After the cultivation furnace shrank to a diameter of only six feet, a burst of white energy spewed out from its nine orifices and eight holes. Then it began to spin at high speed, soaring into the sky and exploding in the air, blooming into a dazzling golden firework.

A dazzling light burst forth in the night sky, so brilliant and eye-catching that it illuminated the entire island of Nathan!

This also drew the attention of Qi practitioners, alchemists, and magicians on aircraft carriers, warships, cruise ships, and other vessels from various forces outside Nathan Island, who were puzzled as to what had happened on the island.

What was that ray of light?

The abilities of the superhumans?

"Brother Jiang, why did you make such a big commotion?" Zhang Chulan, who had already kidnapped Gade, couldn't help but complain to Feng Shayan when he saw the commotion on Nathan Island.

"Last time he punched a canyon to pieces, is he going to shatter the entire Nathan Island this time?"