After knocking down five beastly men, the vicious female escaped

Chapter 182 The Truth 2
"The entrance is right here."

In the swaying vision, a giant tree with lush branches and leaves, towering straight into the clouds, rose from the ground in the center of the sacred site.

Countless snow-white crystals were strung together with thin white ropes and hung among the dense green branches, and even the entire tree trunk was covered with shimmering gravel powder.

From a distance, it does indeed resemble a sacred and immaculate tree.

Before Wen Shu could recover, her body was lifted into the air by the branches and leaves of the divine tree and floated towards the center of the giant tree.

She also saw clearly the face of the merman beastman, with silver hair and purple eyes, which bore a striking resemblance to Sein.

“Let’s go, Serge.”

A passage opened up in the ground, and Arlene and the mermaid Serki slowly walked in, awakening the divine tree that was buried deep in the earth's core and curled up into a bud.

Immediately afterwards, after the divine tree stretched and grew, it was sucked into the inner space of the divine tree.

"Right here. Just awaken the Beast God, and he will grant your wish."

Serge pointed to the high platform at the end.

Arlene couldn't wait and placed the branches and leaves into the stone platform.

A beam of golden light shot out from the high platform.

And everything that happened next was so sudden and unexpected!

Before the Beast God could be fully awakened, Sergei suddenly collapsed to the ground.

A crimson mist burst forth from his body, enveloping the high platform and greedily absorbing the power of the Beast God.

Ye Lin realized she had been scammed.

He chose to self-destruct, perishing together with the red mist.

Arlene, her body covered in cracks, lay dying below the platform.

Wen Shu held her breath. Was the divine tree's branches pulling her into an illusion so that she could see how her best friend would die again?
Seemingly sensing her emotions, the scene before her eyes changed rapidly, as if it had been sped up.

Ye Lin absorbed some of the Beast God's power and was squeezed out of the divine tree, where she survived alongside it.

But the passage was sealed, and she could no longer leave the Earth's core.

For the next few centuries, she was bored out of her mind, growing from a young age to a face full of wrinkles, using her weak healing abilities to purify the withered divine tree every day.

Finally, the divine tree awoke once more.

On her deathbed, Ye Lin wished to see her old friend one last time.

The sacred tree granted her wish.

As she reminisced about the past, the divine tree, which had developed sentience, saw Wen Shu, who single-handedly purified an entire city in the apocalypse, and made a decision.

"The Beast God has had some of its power drained, so even if it is awakened, it will not be able to completely purify the continent?"

Having survived nourished by the divine tree, Ye Lin has long been a part of it.

"You want to ask Ah Shu for help?"

She understood the divine tree's thoughts. "That's good. At least it's safe here, and with Ashu's abilities, she can heal you quickly."

But before long, her face turned grim. "Even if the Holy Female is chosen by the Beast God and fate cannot be altered, you can't wrong my Ah Shu, can you?"

"If you dare to harm her, I can save you, or I can kill you!"

Ye Lin pretended to chop down the divine tree, causing it to flicker with light in alarm. Only then did she relent, saying, "That's more like it. I'll leave it to you. Tell her to urge the Holy Mother to improve her abilities. Once she accepts the inheritance, you can leave..."

"Sigh, it's been almost two hundred years, and I feel like I'm about to disappear too."

She sighed deeply, and when she looked up, she saw Wen Shu taking off her clothes.

The golden image still floats above the sacred tree, showing no sign of dissipating.

Ye Lin scratched her graying hair and slapped the tree root. "Old tree, don't tell me you're going to grow a soul too?"

The divine tree shook its branches and leaves.

"?"

Ye Lin, now an old woman, was still full of energy. She kicked a tree root and yelled, "You thousand-year-old tree spirit! Don't you dare lay a finger on A-Shu!"

Scenes from the apocalypse flashed in the sky day after day.

Ye Lin lay in eternal slumber at the tree's roots, her body decaying and decomposing, becoming nutrients that merged into the divine tree. Not long after her death, the divine tree showed signs of withering again.

The broadcast of the apocalypse came to an abrupt end with Wen Shu's death, and the divine tree once again curled up into a sapling.

On that dark twig, a wisp of pale blue mist timidly peeked out.

Wen Shu immediately recognized who he was.

It's Yining.

Upon learning the truth about her arrival in the beast world, she frowned.

As the illusion dissipated, Yining's expectant eyes magnified before her. "A-Shu, you're awake..."

Before he could finish speaking, Wen Shu pressed her shoulder against his. "So, you are the...soul of that divine tree?"

As the questioning voices rang out, the males gradually emerged from the illusion, their faces still showing shock.

Wu Xuan had just woken up when he discovered that Wen Shu was gone.

Turning her head, she realized she was confronting Yining.

"Ah Shu!"

Unable to control his impulse, he stepped forward and pulled Wen Shu back into his arms, saying, "Let me see you."

He stroked her small face with his large hand, and Wu Xuan's brows furrowed more and more, as if she had suddenly lost a lot of weight.

That world was so dangerous that you could lose your life just by looking for food.

He couldn't imagine how many hardships Ah Shu had gone through to survive and become such a remarkable person.

The males nearby shared the same thought.

They all surrounded Wen Shu, completely blocking the light from above her head.

"Ashu, the deputy commander of Dawn Base, you're amazing!"

Luo Fei gripped her hand tightly, sighed, then frowned, gritting his teeth as he said, "If only we could go back. We'd help you kill that damned commander, and while we're at it, we'd take care of all those who betrayed you..."

He was speaking enthusiastically when Musil glanced out the window and interrupted them with a serious expression.

"It's snowing again."

Mu Xier tightened his grip on Wen Shu's hand slightly, "Let go of A Shu first, dealing with important matters is more important."

Upon hearing his words, Wen Shu's brow twitched slightly, and she sat up from Wu Xuan's arms, following his strength.

Looking at Wu Xuan and Luo Fei's hands, he gently comforted them, "Don't worry, we'll talk about the rest when we get home."

After speaking, she looked across at Yining, her eyes deep and silent.

"Yining, what do you need me to do?"

After a few seconds of silence in the car, Yining, with four pairs of eyes fixed on him, gave an explanation without changing his expression.

"The Beast God planted the Divine Tree and chose the Holy Maiden in order to awaken him again and purify the pollution of the continent."

He paused, then continued, "But the false god devoured part of the beast god's power... Ashu, only you can make up for this missing power."

Wen Shu pursed her lips, utterly bewildered, "But in the stories I've read, after the Holy Mother sacrifices herself..."

She suddenly realized something: "Was it Arlene's arrival that disrupted the original story?"

“That’s how it is,” Yining said, lowering her eyes. “I’m sorry, Ashu, when the Divine Tree summoned you, it was worried that you would disrupt the destiny of the Holy Mother, so it set a rule that you must fulfill the mission of this body…”

"But I don't want you to die. I just need to unleash the potential of the Holy Mother and guide her onto the path of the savior, and then you can leave."

"Back then, the tree's branches were still intact. I never imagined it would cause you so much suffering..."

Seeing his pale face and guilty expression, Wen Shu opened her mouth, but couldn't help but blame him.

But she also knew that even after Yining found the body, she would not know that the branches of the sacred tree would be cut off by thieves.

Forcing her to fake her death to escape was not his original intention.

Wen Shu pursed her lips and mumbled, "It's all in the past now. Tell me what to do next."

She raised her hand and parted the gauze curtain a crack, and a biting wind, carrying snowflakes, rushed towards her, making her shiver.

"The snow has been falling heavier and heavier lately."