"No...how could this be..."

His eyes were filled with astonishment; he couldn't believe what he was seeing.

"Lord! Oh my god, what happened! You stay here, I'll go check it out!"

Lin Wushuang said something to Ye Yiqing, then twisted her body and disappeared from the spot.

When they reappeared, they were already next to the crater created by the explosion.

The explosion's flames came and went quickly, lasting less than 5 seconds before dissipating, allowing Lin Wushuang to get closer.

"Strange, why does this temperature feel so pungent on my skin?"

He touched his uncomfortable skin and felt incredibly strange, as if the temperature could ignore his defenses and scald every single cell in his body.

He had only taken two steps when strange branches began to emerge from the pit, causing him to pause.

Countless thick, gray branches, like scarlet tentacles, intertwined and slowly rose from the pit.

The gems embedded in the branches no longer emitted a faint glow as usual, but instead shone like an activated sun, radiating dazzling light and illuminating the earth.

The ever-growing branches intertwined tightly, transforming into a thick, sturdy tree.

After they completely stopped growing and the gems were no longer dazzling, a giant tree that stretched as far as the eye could see, seemingly reaching into the universe, appeared before Lin Wushuang's eyes.

He finally understood why Nantian called this tree the core of the entire world.

It is like a deity, connecting heaven and earth, and governing the balance of the world.

While Lin Wushuang was staring blankly, she suddenly caught a glimpse of a charred figure clinging painfully to a tree root.

Lin Wushuang's pupils suddenly contracted, and he stepped on a blue light and shot forward, arriving next to the charred figure, looking at it helplessly.

"Lord...Lord! Are you still alive?!"

He reached out and checked the other person's breath, finding that there was still a faint trace of life remaining.

Overjoyed, he quickly reached out and hugged it, placing it near one of the energy conversion ports of the Terra Tree.

A ball of blue light gathered and compressed in his hand, and powerful kinetic energy shot out towards the Terra Tree.

The gem embedded in the tree shimmered with a faint light, converting all the kinetic energy emitted by Lin Wushuang into spiritual power and channeling it into Nantian's body.

"You must remain conscious! Quickly try your best to recover!"

After doing all this, Lin Wushuang whispered in Nantian's ear, urging him to recover.

"Quickly make a wish to recover! Recover, recover!"

Just then, Ye Yiqing rushed over. Seeing the scene before her, she was slightly stunned before quickly taking off the earrings from her ears.

But when he leaned forward to put it on Nantian, he was shocked to find that the other man's ears had already been blown off.

Ye Yiqing gritted her teeth, gripped the two earrings tightly, and placed them on Nantian's chest.

The skull earring's eyes emitted a faint red light, which fell on Nan Tian's body, causing his body to slowly recover.

"Wow, you can do that? Keep it up!" Lin Wushuang cheered from the sidelines.

As the body slowly recovered, the lips of the charred corpse trembled slightly.

"recover……"

The next second, his charred skin began to peel off in pieces, revealing new skin that grew rapidly.

The severed limbs began to regenerate at a visible speed, and Nantian was fully recovered in less than 10 seconds.

Having just returned from the brink of death, Nan Tian was completely naked, panting heavily, his entire body soaked with beads of sweat.

"host!"

"host!"

Ye Yiqing and Lin Wushuang hurriedly helped Nantian up. After regaining his senses, the latter gently pushed the two away and quickly looked to the side.

Upon seeing the towering, sun-obscuring tree of Terra that didn't seem to originate from Earth, he breathed a slight sigh of relief.

"What on earth happened, Lord? Why was we suddenly attacked by such a powerful force!"

Faced with Lin Wushuang's anxious question, Nan Tian calmed his breathing and spoke calmly.

"How many people do we have left...?"

"Besides the two of us, there was also Akaku patrolling nearby. I had sent out more than ten people, but the explosion happened before they could leave after the order was given."

"The Light God Society only has this many people left," Ye Yiqing reported with a somewhat grim expression.

"No problem." Nan Tian shook his head calmly, and a set of clothes appeared out of thin air and he put them on.

"As long as the Tree of Terra remains and I am not dead, we cannot possibly lose."

"However, the Night Stars may launch a full-scale attack on us next, and we just need to defend against it."

Lin Wushuang nodded. "With my abilities and the Lord's combat power, even the Night Star Organization at its peak would probably have a hard time killing us."

"Hmm... OK. We've got this in the bag." With that, he plopped down on the ground.

“Lord, remember your promise that you will raise my mother and brother up.”

Ye Yiqing looked at Nan Tian and spoke with a slightly cold tone, to which the latter nodded.

"Don't worry, I will definitely keep my promise."

A strong gust of wind swept past the three of them, and Akahisa flapped his enormous wings as he rushed toward them.

Before she even landed, she transformed into human form in mid-air and hurriedly crashed down in front of the three of them.

"I...I see mushrooms, really, really far away!"

"Huh? Mushrooms? Do you have such good eyesight?" Lin Wushuang asked, puzzled.

Nantian's pupils suddenly contracted. "Not good!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a crisp, explosive sound swept over the three of them.

*Smack!*

...

Several hours ago.

Military base.

Countless Night Star warriors, weapons ready, boarded planes one by one bound for their mission location.

Watching one large military aircraft after another, filled with people, take off into the sky, Gu Gongmin, sitting at the entrance of the military base's armory, extinguished and threw away the cigarette in his mouth.

He got up and went into the armory to retrieve his supplies.

What is now called an armory has actually become a storage room for various personal belongings.

These firearms and melee weapons had long been taken away, and even personal belongings were few and far between.

Gu Gongming opened his cabinet, took out a bottle of red wine, tilted his head back, and gulped it down.

As his Adam's apple bobbed, drops of red liquid trickled down his neck from the corner of his mouth.

"Ah..." He took a big gulp and then put the red wine back.

Just as he closed the iron gate and was about to leave, he heard a very faint sobbing sound coming from a cabinet next to him.

He frowned, walked to the cabinet, reached out, and opened it with a swift motion.

There was a girl holding an eco-box, curled up in the small space, sobbing continuously, with crystal clear tears hanging on both sides of her cheeks.

The girl flinched as the cabinet was opened.

What are you doing here?