Chapter 1524 - 456: [Come With Me]

Chapter 1524: Chapter 456: [Come With Me]

Chapter 456 [Come With Me]

The long darkness was hastened, yet even after it passed quickly, when the scene brightened again, Chen Yan still clearly felt the difference in time.

When someone once again lit a torch, the Stone Tree was already within an underground cave.

After someone dug out the cave, they moved the final sand and dirt away, then knelt again before the Stone Tree.

With a face full of reverence, they took out a jar of blood and poured it beneath the Stone Tree.

This person, was no longer from the previous era.

Following this, the era began to change more and more.

People of different ages and different skin colors would successively enter this underground cave.

The Stone Tree was called "True God" by these people, and they knew how to irrigate the Stone Tree with blood to gain the opportunity to communicate with it.

These people were the descendants of a once-glorious tribe—or rather, they had become part of some ancient vanished civilization.

It was said that these people had excavated the tomb of a certain generation’s leader, found remnants of engravings among the burial goods, and discovered clues about the "True God."

Thus, the Stone Tree resurfaced.

Outside, the era was different, and after the descendants found this place, they began worshipping the Stone Tree anew, and then received its divine gift—they enhanced their bodies with Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, a phenomenon they referred to as the True God’s gift.

The Stone Tree detected a familiar aura from these people—the descendants of those who once served it.

Thus, the Stone Tree bestowed its gifts upon them.

This underground cave became a forbidden area of a certain power, where only the leader could enter and converse with the Stone Tree.

Soon, in the same way as before, the Stone Tree created a few physically powerful followers for the leader, and the external force began to swell.

The extent of this swelling, the Stone Tree did not know, because it had stayed in the cave all this time, never venturing out to witness it.

Yet through the King during sacrificial rituals, the Stone Tree heard that outside, they had built a mighty kingdom.

Yes, the King and the Kingdom.

Generations of Kings ordered excavations of the ground, digging out the subterranean palace right above the Stone Tree cave, created an underground hall, and laid pipes to irrigate the Stone Tree, periodically pouring blood into it.

Generations of Kings became long-lived.

But over time, a problem appeared.

The True God was increasingly hard to communicate with.

The Stone Tree found itself growing weary, often needing to slumber for some time after being awake.

Faced with this phenomenon, the King became anxious, thus ordered more human blood to be found and poured as sacrifice to the Stone Tree.

But the more blood that was poured, the more frequent the Stone Tree’s periods of slumber became.

Later, it sometimes slept for months, and sometimes even for decades.

The True God’s "gift" started to become unstable.

A country built on "Divine Power," when the manifestation of divine power became unstable, its national strength too became unstable.

In the later stages, this country often went decades without any response from the Stone Tree.

While the Stone Tree slept, it could not bestow gifts to the King, and thus the King could not prolong his life.

While the Stone Tree slept, it could not use Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi to create powerful warriors.

A few times, when the Stone Tree awoke from a slumber, it found that the kingdom had swapped out three Kings, each of whom lived short lives. The last one had good fortune; two years into his reign, he caught the Stone Tree’s awakening, receiving its gift anew and salvaging the kingdom from a crisis in strength.

During the later stages of the kingdom, often the Stone Tree slept, and several generations of Kings were unable to communicate with the True God.

Finally one day, when the Stone Tree awoke, it found the cave empty, waiting for days, yet still no one came.

Moreover, the cave was in ruins, as if no one had entered for a long time.

The kingdom outside had perished.

No one came regularly to irrigate with human blood anymore, and the Stone Tree’s waking periods grew longer.

It released its Divine Thought, curiously observing the outside world.

It saw above the cave, the city had begun to decay, the original kingdom had fallen, reduced to a territory of foreign invaders.

The palace was occupied by invaders, establishing a new regime.

Then more outsiders arrived, one by one new regimes were established, then annihilated.

Until one day, this city completely declined, even if new regimes were established, they set the capital elsewhere. This place was relegated to a small town, continuing to decline.

Afterward, people with white skin, black skin, brown skin came and went on this land, coming again and departing again.

Finally one day, someone reopened the passageway to the cave.

This person demonstrated strong willpower, able to hear the Stone Tree’s thoughts without needing blood.

He told the Stone Tree he was a descendant of that kingdom.

The Stone Tree asked if he wanted to rebuild the kingdom?

That person told the Stone Tree the outside world had changed, a kingdom could no longer be built relying solely on the divine gifts.

Even if many warriors could be created, they could not withstand bullets and artillery.

Bravery in flesh and blood could no longer sway the new era.