Free Wilderness 38

The golden protective shield in the center of the tribe did not disappear with Ning Ren's departure.

Tianxiao didn't notice anything unusual, and he didn't even think Ning Ren had left. This golden protective shield was like a cradle for the birth of a god.

In its cognition, no god would leave the cradle before the godhead was fully formed.

A god whose divinity has not been fully formed is not a fatal threat to it, but if it waits until the golden cradle disappears completely and the god's divinity is fully formed, then it will become wishful thinking for it to completely swallow up the world.

The Golden Cradle was formed in just half a year.

In such a short time, it is impossible to complete the initial shaping of the godhead.

The only eye left of Tianchuang has completely detached from the sky, and its long and slender tentacles are still trapped, but it is obvious that it will not take long before it can completely break free from the shackles of the seal.

This giant eye tore through the sky, and the entire continent began to tremble from the edge. Deep cracks spread rapidly from the interior of the land, making rumbling sounds of cracking.

The black air was raging, sucking away the blood of countless lives. The crack in the sky was expanding faster and faster as if it was drawing in a sweet rain.

Its tentacles, like suction cups, dangled from the sky and fiercely penetrated the earth, slowly and brutally pulling itself free from the crumbling seal.

The river water flowed backwards, washing away the rotten flesh on the corpse and exposing the white bones.

A true scene of world destruction.

There are not many people left alive.

A group of cubs that were moved away from the riverbank were huddled together in the cave, regardless of race or gender, quietly listening to the intense and rapid heartbeats of their peers around them.

The adults who were guarding the cubs and children stayed outside.

The elder is the oldest person in the tribe. He was dragged here at all costs. Outside the cave are guarding a few young warriors. They release mental barriers to protect the cubs in the cave tightly and prevent them from being disturbed by any trace of black air.

"The wizard leaders did not return at the agreed time."

"They can't come back."

The elder whispered, "When the Wizard Chief handed that junior named Shi Xiaochun over to me, I understood that they were determined to stay there and protect Mr. Ning, even at the cost of their lives."

The flame of inheritance has been passed down, so these old guys might as well do something more useful - these are the original words of the chief wizard.

Their lineage of wizards believed most in 'sky' and 'stars'. The elders knew that for them, the moment those two paintings about stars and numerology came into their hands, Mr. Ning's existence became even more special, a special thing that he protected with his own life.

Shi Xiaochun came from behind.

He had already lost his youthful appearance. Although his eyes were filled with sadness, they were also filled with clarity. “The world is about to fall. No one can escape this catastrophe.”

"This is a game of life and death," Shi Xiaochun spread out the calculator on his palm, with a ten-point chance of death and no chance of survival. "If possible, I would rather choose to die to protect Mr. Ning."

Elder: “You can’t go back.”

Shi Xiaochun: "I know."

He glanced at the children in the cave and said, "They are also the ones I want to protect," even though the final outcome would be the same.

Boom——

The giant eye fell down again!

The elder clutched his cane for a moment, then said, "Withdraw half of the warriors here to the riverbank."

Shi Xiaochun: "What?"

"go."

Shi Xiaochun followed his instructions and selected half of the young warriors who were willing to go to the river bank. They were willing to go, but if they left, the cubs here would be in danger and would be caught in a dilemma.

The elder simply sat down cross-legged, closed his eyes for a moment, and then a surge of power slowly emanated from his body. It spread out to the surroundings with himself as the center, covering all the caves where the cubs were hiding.

Shi Xiaochun was shocked: "This is..."

The elder smiled and said, "This is a skill inherited from my turtle clan. It has little offensive power and is not very useful. It won't last for a few days. But it is enough."

This inherited skill is called Armor Breaking.

The most useless skill, it only has the function of guarding and can only be used once in a lifetime.

He waved his hand, "Go ahead."

The young warriors who were willing to go along the river bank bowed deeply to the elders and left quickly.

After being stunned, Shi Xiaochun stood silently behind the elder in a protective posture.

The elder said, "Although this is a dead end, I still hope you can survive and watch over the riverbank for me."

Shi Xiaochun suppressed the sob in his throat and hummed.

-

There were less than 300 tribesmen still holding on along the river bank.

They didn't know what had become of the tribes that had moved away at the beginning, nor did they know what was happening to the youngsters and elderly people who had moved away later.

But I don’t think it will be any better.

Wen Guang looked up at the blood-colored aura that filled the sky and earth, and thought that this time the entire river bank might be doomed.

He was still in the mood to joke: "I still remember at the beginning, you said that if this day really came, you would run away."

Fan Ze spat out blood, "Where can we run to? Who knows, the river bank might be the place where we will be destroyed in the end." They were defeated despite such a tight defense, so what good could those separated tribes do?

Yu An pursed his lips and looked around vigilantly.

A hundred meters behind them was the golden barrier.

The magnolias had grown tall, their tops touching the edge of the barrier, and the faint outline of their flowers could be seen. This small, sheltered courtyard was surprisingly the only untouched area along the riverbank.

The Night Heron's original form was enormous, looming over the entire yard, its eyes gloomy.

-

Ning Ren walked all the way north.

It was still daytime, but it was getting darker and darker.

Broken rocks rose from the ground, and the cracks in the sky were as severe as those on the earth.

Ning Ren was now in a dry riverbed with no living creature. He was holding the purple dumpling puppet given to him by Ye Lu, and walked slower and slower until he stopped completely.

He turned around and looked behind him.

That place has been completely engulfed by black air and blood.

He instinctively felt uncomfortable - the further he walked, the slower he walked, and he even had the urge to go back.

The dim and shabby surroundings made him feel extremely uncomfortable and repulsive.

After staring for a long time, Ning Ren frowned and unconsciously pinched the puppet in his hand. The puppet was very cute and looked no different from a living thing to outsiders, except that it would not rot and had no vitality.

The system could recognize that this was the blood-linked puppet left behind by Ning Ren. It contained his behavior patterns as a cub and his memories of getting along with his mother, Night Heron. Later, because it had no blood replenishment, it turned into a silent "corpse".

After kneading it for a while, a corner of the puppet's clothes turned up, revealing a line of words on it.

Ning Ren thought for a moment and said, "I hope Yuan can return home safely..."

This must be the wish of the mother who gave him the puppet.

Ning Ren thought for a moment and decided to make his wish come true. He pulled out a handful of hair from the puppet, pinched his fingers and drew out a stream of light from the golden river in the illusory space.

There was no price tag for this wish, but Ning Ren felt it was a very simple wish. The clothes and food he had were enough to exchange for this wish.

The light sank into his body.

Just as Ning Ren was about to continue walking, the light suddenly moved to the palm of his hand, and a drop of blood inexplicably dripped from his fingertips and dripped onto the puppet.

The purple-white ball that was originally no different from a puppet suddenly stood up from his palm, and Ning Ren's consciousness strangely established a connection with the ball.

One mature and the other immature.

But he controls everything himself, which is very fragmented.

Ning Ren: "...alive?"

Niaotuanzi stared at him with her small eyes and tilted her head. After the link was established, the childhood memories stored in Niaotuanzi's body began to interact with Ning Ren's body.

It flapped its wings and repeated the words that Ning Ren had programmed into it when he bought it: "Stay home, love Mom, love Mom, stay with Mom for me, and protect Mom."

"Accompany Mom, protect Mom..."

"To love mom, you must..."

Ning Ren shook the bird, but the little bird connected to his consciousness seemed to be stuck and could only say this one sentence.

He was completely confused. Could it be that the creature who gave him the clothes made a mistake and gave him its own cub?

In addition to the memories of fulfilling the wishes of living beings, there was also a memory given to him by the bird, but these things did not arouse his emotions.

His attention was focused on the bird's first words.

Home.

This little bird has a home.

He also has a home.

They are all looking for their home and want to go back and take a look.

So, is he going to send this 'doll' back?

But after a while, because the bird ball could not bear the energy contained in its blood, when the mall was unilaterally blocked, it slowly turned into its original appearance -

A real wooden puppet.

“……?”

The ignorant god was a little at a loss, thinking that the puppet needed to drip blood in order to come alive and speak like before, so he dripped another drop of blood.

The blood did not stay on the polished wood, but dripped onto the dry ground.

The cracked ground immediately came to life, wild grass grew tall and spread outward for a hundred meters with the dripping blood as the center. The entire area seemed to have returned to its former lush and flourishing state.

Ning Ren lowered his head and saw a cat carrying food in its mouth, busily going into the cave. Inside, there were its own kind welcoming it. It was not known whether they were relatives or friends.

He thought to himself, this must be the kitten's home.

But in just a moment, the raging black air around began to erode this place like mad. Ning Ren watched the vitality that appeared because of his blood gradually wither away.

Then it returned to its original desolate state.

The kitten has no home either.

When the black gas spread to the door of the kitten's house, the creatures in the cave fought with all their might, and he could hear the anxious voices of these creatures.

Ning Ren frowned. He didn't have time to save the kitten, so he used his own strength to preserve the last blade of grass.

He heard the grass say, "Can you drive the bad guys out of our home in exchange for my tenacious vitality that takes root in the barren earth?"

"…our family?"

This world is their common home.

Before he could remember, Ning Ren discovered that the golden river in the illusory space in his consciousness suddenly collapsed.

Whether it was the wishes of the past or the future, they were all out of order and became a mess. The beautiful gold began to be swallowed up by black.

“…”

The newborn god's brow furrowed even more tightly.

He put the puppet and the grass into his clothes. The cleanliness obsession engraved in his soul broke out at this moment and became more and more severe.

-

The crack in the sky finally completely descended on this continent.

The elder guarding the cubs in the cave stopped breathing and sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, like a dead tree. Shi Xiaochun's chest was pierced and nailed to the cave entrance.

There was a broken calculator under his feet, and it was unknown how many times he had counted before the calculator finally perished under the judgment of a 100% certainty of death.

The cubs inside the cave were also silent.

They maintained the frightened look of cuddling together in life. Now there was no need to conquer monsters for Tianxiao. The black gas circled around them, taking away the fresh blood in the cubs' bodies, sweeping away to nourish the growing Red Star.

The world is like an egg with a snake drilling into it. The order and balance inside the egg are completely broken and are about to shatter completely.

Along the river bank.

There was dead silence.

Fan Ze and Wen Guang's lives stopped moving forward, and the young warriors who rushed here had already died around the river that nurtured them.

The young man with golden patterns and black wings held a lifeless seed tightly in his hand, and the golden cradle behind them was still wrapped with dead wisteria.

The little vine defended its dignity as the gatekeeper vine with its death.

There were only two people left alive, one was Yu An who was tightly wrapped by the black air, and the other was Ye Lu whose Nirvana fire was about to go out.

She was covered in wounds and had shortness of breath. She managed to muster some strength but still couldn't stand up.

"A spirit born from nature will never truly die unless the heavens and earth collapse and the soul perishes."

Tianxiao turned his eyes away in disgust, ignoring the bird's struggle. He stared at the golden cradle at this moment. When the tentacles completely penetrated the barrier, he suddenly froze.

The one-eyed man's eyeball suddenly fixed on a certain place, and the next second, several tentacles stretched out from the broken cradle!

boom!

The ground where Ning Ren was located was completely cracked, and the continent was completely divided into four parts. A torrent of water surged from under the huge crack, and the water rushed up into the sky.

The young man stood quietly on the land that was pulled up by the tentacles. The biting wind blew past his ears, and the land under his feet was pulled madly in one direction.

Until it stops completely.

The tentacles wrapped around the land slowly loosened, and Ning Ren turned around.

Under the shattered sky, countless fragments of continents floated in the air. Blood and black air were like ghosts, leaving only red and black between heaven and earth.

He saw the huge eye behind him.

The newborn god was like a speck of dust before this terrifying eye.

The divine nature hidden on the forehead emerged silently, and the half-winding blood-red line in the golden diamond deeply hurt Tianfeng's eyes.

'you……'

"The Godhead is only half formed, yet you dare to come out."

Ning Ren: "I'm here to fulfill a wish. A little grass paid a great price to let me drive you away from here."

Tian Feng looked at the mark on his forehead warily: "Ridiculous."

This conversation finally reached the ears of Ye Lu and Yu An who were about to fall into a coma. They woke up instantly and looked up suddenly.

When Ye Lu saw the figure floating on the land, he was filled with fear and anger. Yu An was stunned for a second, then shouted hoarsely: "Benefactor! There is the original black energy in my body! Kill me, kill me! This monster will also be seriously injured!"

Tianfeng's tentacles immediately wrapped around him tightly!

The next second, he found that he had caught nothing, and the young man who was in front of him just now disappeared!

Ning Ren held Yu An's shoulders, stepped on the tiptoes of the magnolia tree, and the golden diamond on his forehead moved into the air, and the atmosphere of the entire sky became clear.

Demigodhood!

The young man opened his mouth and said, "Suppress!"

The divine power overflows and spreads——

Boom! ! The sound was like a heavy mountain crashing down!

The crack in the sky shrank in the blink of an eye, and the black air squeezed out rolled like ink.

"receive!"

The tri-color protective shield rises.

Ning Ren also brought Ye Lu, who gave him the puppet and snacks, in.

He didn't know why, but he didn't dare to look into the eyes of this creature. Perhaps he had broken the puppet that the creature had given him...

Ning Ren looked at Yu An: "Original black energy?"

Yu An looked at him for a long time and smiled, "Yeah."

He summoned a stream of water, washed his hands clean, and then held Ning Ren's wrist as he did before, but this time they were not holding hands like they did when they were children.

He pressed Ning Ren's palm against his heart.

Ning Ren's first reaction was to extract the original black energy and destroy it, but he soon discovered that the original black energy had completely merged with Yu An.

To destroy the origin of the black energy, Yu An must be killed.

When Yu An saw his benefactor raised his head again, he knew that he had also noticed the situation. His eyes were as clear as when they first met.

"When I discovered this thing inside me, I thought about committing suicide. But every time I was disturbed by Red Star, I failed."

At the beginning, the original black energy was only temporarily bound to him, but since he found that he could not commit suicide no matter what, he began to actively try to merge with the original black energy.

At that time, Chixing was still sealed, giving him enough time to merge.

The reason why he was still alive after the Red Star broke the seal was because he killed him, and the original black energy was greatly damaged. The eye that it had detonated on its own could never grow back with the help of the original black energy.

Tianfeng started cursing like crazy at this moment.

'Idiot!'

"Idiots rushing to their deaths!"

"The person you thought was your benefactor never even remembered you! Disgusting!"

Yu An acted as if he didn't hear anything and felt a little apologetic.

"I'm sorry, benefactor. I know you don't like to hurt living beings, but this is the only thing I can do now."

Ning Ren: "You will die."

Yu An was firm: "Kill me."

Ning Ren felt the beating heart of the strange creature in front of him with his palm.

Lowering his eyes: "Okay."

A warm force swept over Yu'an, and he felt sleepy. There was no pain, no blood, but he could clearly feel the passage of life and the swift approach of death.

Yu An thought.

My benefactor is truly a very gentle person... perhaps he is God.

In his hands, death became as comfortable as sleep.

Yu'an, read together, is Yuan.

A Yuan, benefactor.

These two words run through the short life of a little fish and almost all of its happy memories.

Yu An closed his eyes lazily.

He said softly, "...What a pity... I still haven't been able to see the vast ocean with my benefactor."

If this was a dream, he hoped that the moment he opened his eyes, he would find himself just an ordinary fish playing carefree in the sea.

Occasionally, he would swim to the diving beach and secretly look at the shore, and put the conch that recorded his singing on the beach - a magical creature that his benefactor had mentioned.

The benefactor lived in a small hut on the shore, and as usual, he took the conch with his singing sound and placed it next to his pillow.

The dream was too good and too unreal, and he ended his life with a smile.

Yu An turned into a little blue fish, lying in Ning Ren's palm. He did not absorb the original black energy that was converted from negative emotions and was still as weak as an earthworm.

Ning Ren pinched the lifeline of the original black energy and completely destroyed it amid the roar of the sky crack.

“Ahhhhhhh—”

Tianxiao's eyes were red and bleeding, and severe pain swept over him in an instant. Every tentacle curled up in pain. This pain was deeply engraved in his soul. He suffered an unprecedented blow.

A stinky fish in a small world where there is not even a god, an ant-like existence, actually...!

From the very beginning, it chose the wrong person, one wrong step, then another! Tianxiao was extremely resentful.

Ye Lu got a chance to catch his breath and stood up with the help of the rubble.

Ning Ren came down from the tree, handed the fish over, and said seriously, "Can you hold it for me?"

He rummaged through his clothes and found this little blade of grass.

Night Heron suddenly felt like she was back in the day, putting away her cub's toys. She nodded instinctively, stretched out her hand, and immediately in her palm appeared a wilted blade of grass and the body of a little blue fish.

Ning Ren wanted to take out the broken bird puppet, but his fingers paused, feeling guilty and not daring to take it. He pretended to be nothing, tugged at the corner of his clothes, and walked over to the sky crack suppressed by the demigod.

He estimated his own strength.

He began to communicate with the Heavenly Dao in his mind: "The Godhead is only half. If I detonate the Godhead and kill it, I won't have the strength to repair this place. If I just drive it out, I still have the strength to restore this place to its original state."

The voice of the Heavenly Dao Consciousness sounded extremely weak.

"You can drive it out. Once your demigodhood is perfected into godhood, it won't come back."

Ning Ren: "Then can you help resurrect all the dead creatures on the continent and turn them back to their previous appearance?"

Heavenly Dao Consciousness: "After millions of years of evolution, new creatures will appear here. If you use your power to restore the life of the continent, then the divine nature will be shattered, and this world will face a godless situation again. Monsters will invade again."

Can you tell me why you want to restore all living things?"

Ning Ren: "The grass said that this world is our common home. Home must be protected, but I can't be the only one to protect it." He regarded all lives as equal, and also equated his life with the grass. "I can do it, and if they become strong, they can do it too."

"and……"

The newborn god touched his heart.

His mood didn't change much, but his heart had actually been feeling uncomfortable, swollen and aching since he was getting further and further away from the riverbank and the Bird Ball puppet started talking.

He didn't know why.

"Rather than seeing this place full of life and chaos and death, I prefer to see it full of life."

He didn't like the feeling of the little blue fish losing its breath in his hands, so he used this as an excuse for the strange discomfort in his heart.

Tiandao's consciousness was silent for a moment.

"Gods exist because of protection and prayers. Give up the present. When your godhood is complete, living beings will appear again. This place will still be full of vitality, and it will be the same as you protecting them."

This was the first time that Heaven told him the reason for God's existence. It never asked him to do anything, but only asked him to work hard to absorb power from the golden river and shape his godhood.

Before this, Ning Ren thought that he was no different from the big turtle in the wishing well.

Ning Ren was silent for a few seconds: "If I give up protecting a blade of grass today, I can also give up protecting more lives in the future."

Tiandao didn't say anything else.

It tacitly agreed to Ning Ren's choice.

Their consciousness communicated very quickly, but it only took a dozen seconds in reality.

Ning Ren raised his hand amid Tianfeng's roar, and stepped into the air step by step. He squeezed with his semi-godhood and snatched out the blood and energy that Tianfeng had swallowed but had not had time to digest.

At the same time, the tremendous power contained in it lifted the sky crack and retreated towards the crack in the sky.

Ning Ren muttered something in a low voice. As more and more blood and energy were plundered, the divine nature began to emit a soft golden light, flying along the blood and energy and merging into countless corpses.

The light of the divine power dispelled the black air that enveloped the continent. Miraculously, the ground began to turn green, and the creatures that had died because of the black air began to resurrect.

Warriors who died in battle, tribesmen who were polluted...

The dead continent gradually became full of life.

They opened their eyes blankly, and the first thing they saw was the decisive battle in the sky.

That back figure is.

"Mr. Ning?"

"Am I not dead?"

Fan Ze took a deep breath and looked around in shock. The miracle began to spread along the river bank, as if the gray world was suddenly dyed with winding colors.

He saw with his own eyes that Wen Guang's lifeless face turned rosy.

Fan Ze turned his gaze towards the sky, the shock in his heart beyond words, "Teacher... has truly become a god..."

More and more people stood up. They were ready to fight the moment they woke up, holding their weapons in silence.

This is no longer a battle for the survival of the tribe, but a battle for the survival of the continent.

They looked up at the sky, their fanatical and reverent eyes all falling on a handsome and slender figure.

The demigodhood trembled slightly and became a little dim.

The moment he was about to touch the rift, Ning Ren subconsciously looked up and faced the crack in the sky that he had not cursed for a long time.

Tianxiao's eyes moved strangely.

Suddenly.

A tentacle pierced Ning Ren's heart——

Tick.

Golden blood fell to the ground.

"No--!"

Suddenly, a shrill scream came from below. Ye Lu's pupils suddenly dilated and turned scarlet in an instant. His ferocious and beastly nature was revealed. He flew up desperately, but was subconsciously stopped by Ning Ren who waved his hand.

Tianfeng glanced at it and didn't care much. It seemed that it had already accepted its failure this time, but it didn't want to make Ning Ren feel good at all. Its tentacles rotated around Ning Ren's heart several times, cruelly and viciously.

"You're just a demigod. If it weren't for that fish, do you really think you could drive me away so easily? And you're really stupid. You could have lived, but you chose to sacrifice yourself to resurrect these ants. You're truly the stupidest god I've ever met."

Its voice is unmuffled and reaches the ears of all resurrected souls.

Ning Ren took a long time to recover his voice in the severe pain. He covered his lips and coughed up a few mouthfuls of blood.

He wanted to say something, but he didn't say it.

He lowered his eyes and looked at it.

The recovered creatures searched for their loved ones and their clan lands that were destroyed by the disaster. They snuggled together, cried, hugged, and then timidly looked at the endless battle in the sky.

In the end, all I wanted to say was reduced to just five words: "Go home peacefully..."

The divine power pushed the crack in the sky away, and the crack in the sky was repaired in an instant, and the eroded continent returned to its original appearance.

That glittering half of the divine nature suddenly shattered in an instant.

The divine blood that flowed out of the broken heart turned into countless tiny golden lights that fell on all living things, while some fell into the cracks and abysses of the continent, and it was unknown where they landed in the turbulent rivers and seas.

Before Ning Ren began to drive away the crack in the sky, he whispered a spell that would transform his body into energy and feed back to the continent.

Before his body disappeared, he suddenly remembered something.

So he walked up to Ye Lu who was stopped in the air and took out a puppet from his arms.

This time it's a real puppet.

Ning Ren apologized: "I'm sorry, I broke it."

Ye Lu seemed to want to touch the wound on his heart, but was afraid of hurting him. His fingertips trembled as he stopped in front of his heart, and his lips trembled as well.

“…Does it hurt?”

Ning Ren wanted to say it hurt, but the words stopped suddenly and he changed his words, "It doesn't hurt."

Tears fell on the back of his hand.

Ning Ren's tone was a little panicked. "I didn't mean to damage it. Your wish was displayed on its clothes. I just wanted to help you fulfill it. Thank you for the food and clothes you gave me."

The clothes of the bird show:

I hope Yuan can return home early and be safe.

"I dripped blood on it and it came back to life, but soon it became like this. I thought maybe it was your cub, just a bit weird. It would be better to send it back, but..." He pursed his lips, "I don't know if this counts as fulfilling your wish."

Ye Lu took the puppet.

“Not really.”

Every time she breathed, she felt as if a sharp thorn was piercing her lungs, causing her excruciating pain.

"You didn't break it, but my child is not safe."

Ning Ren was about to disappear.

She couldn't help but reach out and grab Ning Ren's clothes, but the corner of the clothes that she had sewn stitch by stitch soon turned into nothingness.

Ning Ren was in a low mood: "I'm sorry, I don't think I can fulfill this wish."

no.

My child is you.

"Am I destined not to be able to keep you?" Ever since the last time he forcibly suppressed the crack in the sky, Ye Lu choked with sobs and burst into tears: "Say something... My child, say something..."

Not as a god, not with such a look of oblivious regret, not with such an omnipotent hero's posture, but simply as the cub she raised.

Ning Ren thought she was talking about the puppet bird.

He thought about it, and as he recalled it, he imitated the mechanical voice of the puppet bird, repeating it a little haltingly:

"Love mom, love mom, accompany mom and protect mom for me."

"Accompany Mom, protect Mom..."

"To love mom, you must..."

The last trace of black air on the continent also dissipated, the sunlight dispelled the haze, passed through the dark clouds, and fell on the living beings that were resurrected after the disaster.

They looked up at the sky.

Legend has it that the souls of the dead will be reincarnated, and the immortal Guhuo Bird began her ten-thousand-year search from this moment on.