Swish!
With a wave of Yinmu's big sleeves, Su Yu felt as if the stars had shifted, and he was instantly transported to another place.
This is the power of All Creations, Su Yu thought to himself.
He appeared in front of a well-preserved wooden house. The courtyard was lush and well-kept.
A lone grave was lying quietly in the courtyard, with two words carved on it: Yaomu.
Su Yu looked at it, his heart filled with melancholy. A peerless expert had passed away here, without even a single person from his clan praying to him.
Su Yu stepped forward and bowed to pay his respects.
"Senior Yinmu, did Yaomu Daoren feel any pain before his death?" Su Yu asked.
Yinmu shook his head. "He died of old age naturally. You don't have to be sad."
Su Yu nodded and entered the house.
The house was simple and clean, without any other items. It was unknown whether he had been buried with Yaomu Daoren, or if he had been poor.
Only two scrolls, which were well-protected by the ancient bronze tree men, were left in the house. The one on the left was slightly thinner, while the one on the right was thicker.
Su Yu found that the golden sand he had lost in the Desolate Evil Jungle had fallen quietly beside the scroll on the right.
"These two scrolls record all the ancient Mu words on the seal. The one on the left has the ancient words that Yaomu Daoren has already deciphered, so you don't need to decipher them. The one on the right has the words that haven't been deciphered yet," Yinmu said.
Su Yu nodded and stepped forward to open the scroll on the right. Densely packed ancient words came into view.
Beside every ancient word, there was a red marker, which was Yaomu Daoren's detailed research.
His marker stopped abruptly when he had written one-tenth of the words. That was also the time when he passed away.
Su Yu was slightly sad. He carefully observed his marker and compared it with the ancient Mu words, nodding and shaking his head from time to time.
Yinmu asked with concern, "What do you think of his marker?"
From the marker, Yaomu Daoren's attainments in the ancient Mu words could be seen.
"It's amazing, but it has its limits," Su Yu commented. "As a human, it's amazing that he could rely on his limited knowledge to study to such an extent. It's a pity that the environment is like this, so he can't improve."
Yinmu was delighted. "Does this mean that your attainments in the ancient Mu words are higher than his?"
Su Yu said, "You can say that. However, please give me half a day to study this scroll. Also, do not disturb me."
"Okay, as long as you can rescue the Tree Goddess, I can agree to anything!" Yinmu said joyfully. He immediately ordered two Tree Men to guard the entrance of the courtyard and forbid any disturbance.
Before Yinmu left, he glanced at the golden sand on the scroll to his right. "What's this?"
Su Yu grabbed the golden sand calmly. "Maybe it's a relic of Yaomu Daoren. I'll study it as well."
Yinmu hesitated for a moment before nodding. He then turned around and left, leaving Su Yu alone in the courtyard.
Su Yu closed the door and sat down with his legs crossed. His eyes flickered slightly as he reopened the heavy scroll and flipped to the last place marked with Yaomu Daoren's red pen.
At the same time, he gathered the golden sand in his palm with the rest of the golden sand in the bottle and spread them on his palm.
When the golden sand landed on the red words, it immediately became active. It looked like ants wriggling on the scroll.
Finally, everyone quietened down.
Su Yu squinted his eyes, and after staring at it for a while, he finally discovered its secret.
Su Yu had already deciphered the meaning of every word in the 200 golden sand grains, but he couldn't assemble them into a complete sentence.
Now, these golden sand grains were grouped in groups of ten, and each of them was surrounded by an ancient character. Ten golden sand grains and one ancient character could translate a sentence.
The same was true for the other nineteen groups.
In the end, there were a total of nineteen sentences, which formed an extremely mysterious code.
Yaomu Daoren was trying to tell Su Yu something in this way.
Su Yu's heart thumped as he translated the twenty sentences of ancient characters into the human language and arranged them into a complete sentence. Then, he obtained the mysterious message passed down by Yaomu Daoren.
After a while, Su Yu's face became gloomy.
Yaomu Daoren had told Su Yu something terrifying, so terrifying that Yaomu Daoren had no choice but to hide the golden sand grains in his diary and let him spread it.
Su Yu sat in the house quietly for a long time. His face gradually regained its composure, and he entered the state of time acceleration to study the treasury of words left behind by Yun Yazi in his mind.
Half a day later, Yinmu came and asked expectantly, "How is it?"
Su Yu smiled. "I've finished deciphering them. These ancient characters are exactly the same as the golden characters on the sacrificial altar. I've completely comprehended them in half a day."
"Comprehending eighty percent of the characters in half a day … You're much better than Yaomu Daoren! If the Tree God wakes up, you'll surely be rewarded handsomely! " Yinmu was pleasantly surprised. "Please translate these ancient characters into modern Mu words, and I'll inform the Tree God immediately."
Su Yu said, "I'm afraid it's not possible yet. There are more than a dozen ancient characters among them, but they're illegible. They're very different from the ancient characters in my memory, so I'm not sure if the translation is accurate. I'd like to see the characters on the seal in person before I can make a decision."
Yinmu furrowed his brows. "The Tree God is our clan's God, and it's in a weak state. I'm afraid it's inappropriate for it to meet outsiders."
Su Yu said, "Fine, I'll translate according to this scroll. If there's any mistake, please don't blame me."
"This …" Yinmu hesitated. He stared at Su Yu and asked, "Are you sure it won't pose a threat to the Tree God?"
Su Yu pointed at himself. "I'm just a trifling fifth-grade fairy. I can't even harm you, Yinmu, let alone the Tree God, can I?"
"That's true. Fine, I'll make an exception this time and take you to meet the Tree God. Remember, don't touch the seal. Touching the seal and killing you is a small matter, but implicating the Tree God is a grave matter." Yinmu's heart was filled with concern for the Tree God.
"I understand." Su Yu nodded.
After half a cup of tea's time …
At an unknown depth underground, Su Yu felt as if he was about to penetrate the Jiuzhou Continent.
Boundless thick wooden walls spread out in all directions from the depths of the underground. They formed an intricate and complicated network, like a maze.
"The Tree God sank to the depths of the continent to conceal its aura and avoid being hunted by enemies. The wooden walls you see are actually the ends of the Tree God's roots, which are the thinnest parts," Yinmu said.
Su Yu was startled. "How many roots does the Tree God have?"
"They're endless, and they've already covered the entire underground of the Jiuzhou Continent. They're everywhere," Yinmu said.
The Tree God's body was enormous, and the vast Jiuzhou Continent was just a piece of soil the size of a palm in its eyes.
Half a cup of tea's time had passed.
Layers of earth's heat surged, and the temperature was extremely high. Su Yu's body possessed the Fire Marrow, which helped him resist the high temperature.
Yinmu furrowed his brows slightly, and a silver halo appeared on the surface of his body. It was a mighty power that could only be condensed by an All Creation Realm expert, and it possessed great defensive power.
"Hateful flames," Yinmu said calmly.
Fire was the bane of wood, and the tree people hated flames by nature.
After another two hours, Su Yu and the others descended into the depths of the underground, which was a world of flames.
As far as the eye could see, it was a boundless sea of flames.
The flames contained within were extremely terrifying, and their might wasn't any weaker than the Heavenly Tribulation.
Even an All Creation Old Monster wouldn't be able to survive if he fell into it.
"This is the deepest part of the continent, the Glaze Sea of Flames, which is also the continent's energy source," Yinmu said.
It was the enormous earth fire that maintained the climate of the Jiuzhou Continent, which allowed all kinds of living creatures to multiply.
If the Glaze Sea of Flames was extinguished, the Jiuzhou Continent would surely cool down quickly, and it would become an absolutely frozen region in the universe.
"The Tree God is over there." Yinmu pointed at the depths of the sea of flames, where a thirty-meter-tall golden tree, as thick as an arm, was quietly inserted into the Glaze Sea of Flames.
Amidst the terrifying Glaze Sea of Flames, the golden tree stood motionless, unaffected by the high temperature.
"Is that the Tree God?" It was completely different from the towering giant tree that Su Yu had imagined.
Yinmu replied in a stupefied manner, "The Tree God has already attained the divine position, and its body has formed its own divine realm. Its real body resides in the divine realm. In terms of size, even the Jiuzhou Continent might not be able to accommodate the Tree God's main body."
Su Yu was secretly surprised. Divine position … What kind of realm is that?
"Alright, don't approach it from here. Try to decipher those uncertain ancient Mu words." Yinmu waved his big sleeves, and a cool breeze blew past. Several golden chains appeared on the surface of the golden tree's body, and they twined around it.
The chains were formed by many golden Mu words, and there were more than 10,000 of them.
Every single one of them was an extremely rare ancient Mu word, and only a few of the current Mu people could master it.
The chains were probably the seal that Yinmu mentioned.
"Can I get closer? I can't see it clearly. "Su Yu tried his best to revolve his pupils.
Yinmu stared at the Glaze Sea of Flames beneath him in disgust. He let out a breath of cool air, which surrounded Su Yu and made his whole body feel cool. "The closer you get to the Glaze Sea of Flames, the higher the temperature will be. This breath of air can only last for ten breaths. You must come up before that."
Su Yu nodded.
"Remember, don't ever touch the seal. Otherwise, even I won't be able to save you!" Yinmu warned him once again.
"I understand." Su Yu flew to the side of the golden tree. The Glaze Sea of Flames beneath his feet gave Su Yu an extremely dangerous feeling. If he hadn't been protected by Yinmu's mighty power, he would have been incinerated long ago.
Ten breaths … Only ten breaths!
Su Yu's gaze swept over the Mu words contained in the chains quickly.
After five breaths had passed, Su Yu nodded. "I've seen it clearly."
Yinmu's face lit up. "Come up quickly and translate the last few words for me."
"I'm sorry, but I don't plan to come up," Su Yu said.
Yinmu's gaze became sharp. "Do you want to harm the Tree God?"
Su Yu looked at Yinmu, shook his head, and said, "No, the one who wants to harm the Tree God isn't me. It's you, Lord Yinmu."
As he spoke, Su Yu pressed his palm on the seal's chain.
"No! Stop it quickly, or you'll be killed by the seal and turned into ashes! "Yinmu shouted anxiously as he teleported over.
However, he crossed half the distance and appeared in the space. Because he was too close to the Glaze Sea of Flames, the space was in a mess, and he couldn't teleport.
Su Yu's hand had already slapped on the chain.
He wasn't killed by the seal. Instead, a soft golden light engulfed Su Yu and pulled him to the side of the golden tree, where he was trapped in the chain.
Yinmu stopped in mid-air. His amiable gaze was gloomy and cold, and wisps of hostility emanated from him. "It seems like you know something."
Su Yu, who was inside the seal, nodded slightly. "Yes, I know two things. First, the golden seal isn't a seal left behind by the enemy when they plotted against it, but a seal released by the Tree God itself to protect itself. Once it's broken, its divine realm will be opened, and its original body will be discovered. Since it's in a deep slumber, its body will surely be destroyed, and it will perish from the world! This seal should be guarding against you, Lord Yinmu. "
Yinmu's expression was gloomy and cold. "When did you start suspecting me? And how did you know all this? "
Su Yu said, "When I was paying my respects to Yaomu Daoren, I asked you if he was in pain when he died, and you told me that he passed away naturally! But, what I saw in his grave was Yaomu Daoren's broken skeleton. He was brutally killed by someone! You lied, so I started to suspect you. "
"As for how I knew, Yaomu Daoren left behind a message before his death, telling me about your conspiracy using a secret code. He was killed back then because he discovered your treachery, right?"
Yinmu said in a deep voice, "That's impossible! I've already destroyed all of his belongings, so it's impossible for him to pass on a message!"
"You're wrong! He had a book, and when he left the Desolate Evil Jungle in his early years, he deliberately left it in the human world, and the secret code is in it!"
Yinmu couldn't help but laugh. His laughter was wanton and angry. "Hahaha, Yaomu, you're still causing me trouble even after you're dead!"
"That's right! The golden chain isn't a seal to harm the Tree God, but a seal to guard against me! After so many years, the Tree God's injuries have continued to worsen, and one day, it will perish, and we, the Ancient Bronze Tree Men, will perish together with it! I can't accept this! So, instead of letting all of my people die with the Tree God, I'd rather enter its divine realm and obtain its divine energy, so that I can become the new Tree God! In this way, I'll be saved, and everyone else will be saved. Isn't this a win-win situation? Why should one of us perish? "
His expression was filled with ferocity and madness.
"Human, who becomes the Tree God has nothing to do with you! Help me remove the Tree God's defense, and you'll get endless benefits. Why do you have to go against me for a dying god?" Yinmu said coldly.
Su Yu replied calmly, "This is the second thing I know! I know that you won't keep your promise to spare my life. "
"Hehe, do I have a need to kill you?" Yinmu asked disdainfully.
Su Yu said, "You don't have a need to kill me, but you do have a need to kill all living beings! The birth of the new Tree God requires endless energy, and the place that can provide this energy is right before your eyes. It's the Jiuzhou Continent! If you become a god, the first thing you'll do is to absorb all of Jiuzhou's energy, and turn Jiuzhou into a dead region of eternal silence. All living beings will perish there. "
"If all living beings perish, how can I be spared?" Su Yu asked.
Yinmu asked coldly, "Did Yaomo tell you this?"
"Yes!" That was why he would rather die than obey you, and was brutally killed by you.
Yinmu's eyes were filled with hatred. "He deserved to die! Back then, he accidentally learned of my intentions. I wanted to give him a chance to soar, but he didn't know what was good for him, and he told the Tree God! "
"Human, I'll give you one last chance. Help me become a god, or perish together with the Tree God! Even I can't survive in this Glaze Sea of Fire for long, let alone you! "Yinmu said.
Su Yu replied calmly, "It's just like you said. Since you can't stay here for long, why should I fear you?"
With a thought, the Fire Essence Jade in Su Yu's body emitted an enormous power of Fire Essence, and resisted the high temperature of the Glaze Sea of Fire, which was gradually invading it.
Who became the Tree God had nothing to do with Su Yu, but if Yinmu became the new Tree God, he would die, and so would all living beings of Jiuzhou.
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