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Chapter 218 The God of the Forest
Zhang Chulan noticed Li Muxuan's gaze, turned around, and looked at Li Muxuan's conflicted and hesitant expression. She smiled and said, "Old Li, don't back down. We can't guarantee we'll be able to take care of them, but we can definitely protect ourselves. Besides, think about it, you've been on Nathan Island for so long, don't you want to go back to the mainland and see how things have changed?"

Lu Linglong chimed in, "Yes, Senior Li. The world is in chaos right now, and all the forces are being reshuffled. If you just stay here on Nathan Island, you'll never have the chance to witness this great era of change. It's better to go back to the mainland than to be a reclusive old supernatural being here."

Li Muxuan frowned, pondered for a moment, and then said, "I'm just an old man, there's no need for me to get involved in your affairs."

Xu Yiguan snorted disdainfully: "Old Li, I'll just say one thing: are you going back or not? If you come back with us willingly, everyone will be fine. If not, we'll knock you out, stuff you in a sack, and take you back. Then you might lose face as an elder."

Ruan Feng, who was observing from the sidelines, suddenly laughed and said, "Face? How many people in the Quanxing sect care about face? If he had cared about face back then, he wouldn't have suddenly run away and caused Fourth Brother so much trouble."

Li Muxuan's pupils contracted as he recognized the "fourth brother" Ruan Feng was referring to. Enraged, he stood up, activated his magnetic field, and said sternly, "Fatty, wanna have a go?"

Even sitting, Ruan Feng was taller than Li Muxuan standing, and when he stood up, his aura was even more imposing, his eyes flashing with a fierce light: "I don't mind teaching you a lesson on behalf of my fourth brother."

Just as they were arguing, one of them suddenly pointed at the live stream and said nervously, "There seems to be a new development in the battle on the Japanese side!"

Everyone immediately turned their attention to their phone screens, where a strange black smoke suddenly rose from the ruins of Tokyo, which had been razed to the ground. The smoke continued to swirl and condense, gradually forming a huge human-shaped silhouette.

"What is this?" Zhang Chulan narrowed his eyes, staring intently at the screen, a sense of foreboding rising in his heart.

One of the Nassen Guards whispered, "It seems that a more powerful force has emerged from hiding in Japan. What happened before might just have been an appetizer."

Xu Yiguan said indifferently, "Who cares what it is? With those guys around, it's a minor problem."

Qiao Mu and Xu Yiguan didn't think the transmigrators were going all out. Chen Huanling and the other two were clearly overpowered, like a cat and a mouse, yet they hadn't exerted themselves seriously. Besides, with Su Yun over there, they weren't worried about any major repercussions.

Just as everyone was preparing to discuss their next steps after stopping the conflict between Li Muxuan and Ruan Feng, the ground of Nasen Island suddenly began to shake violently, and the light from the divine tree flickered erratically. The Nasen guards' expressions changed drastically, and they all drew their weapons, looking around warily.

"What's going on? Could it be that Behemoth has ignored the commotion in Fusang and started attacking Nathan Island?" Qiao Mu gripped his weapon tightly and asked suspiciously.

King Nathan said gravely, "No, this tremor is different from previous Behemoth attacks. It seems... something is wrong with the Divine Tree!"

Everyone's gaze involuntarily turned to the towering divine tree. They saw fine cracks appearing on the tree's trunk, and strange light leaked out from the cracks, as if the divine tree was enduring great pain.

"Could it be that the battle on the Fusang side affected the Divine Tree?" Zhang Chulan wondered, feeling it was unlikely, but he couldn't find a reasonable explanation.

Nathan looked at the sacred tree, his face turning extremely grim: "The sacred tree is of paramount importance to Nathan Island. If it falls, the entire island will be plunged into utter destruction. We must find a way to stop this!"

"What do we do now? We can't just stand by and watch the sacred tree die like this!" said Alfonso, the golden-haired guard.

Zhang Chulan pondered for a moment, "Our understanding of the Divine Tree is limited, and acting rashly might backfire. King Nasen, has the Divine Tree ever experienced a similar situation before?"

King Nathan shook his head. "Never before. The Divine Tree has always been the foundation of Nathan Island, incredibly stable. This time..."

Before she could finish speaking, the crack in the divine tree suddenly widened, and a powerful force erupted from the tree, shaking everyone to their knees.

Just then, strange runes suddenly appeared in the sky, shimmering with mysterious light, slowly converging towards the divine tree. The eldest of the Nasen Guards, Hua Jinna, who had served the previous Nasen King, exclaimed, "These are... ancient tree-protecting runes! How could they appear at this time?" Qiao Mu stared at the runes, "These runes seem to be trying to repair the divine tree, but the effect appears to be limited."

Suddenly, a deep roar came from the divine tree, as if it were the howl of an ancient beast. Immediately afterward, a huge tree root burst out of the ground.

Joaquin looked at the runes thoughtfully. This old woman was none other than Nasen Guard, who used the Hell Kingdom ability in the Nasen Island arc of Under One Person.

Hell is a realm that releases mist. Those who are not authorized within this realm will have viscous fluid flowing from their mouths and noses, corresponding to their respective thoughts. The more thoughts they have, the heavier the viscous fluid becomes.

Heaven enters its realm by sending others through a black portal. Within this realm, one embarks on a long path leading to the seated Joachim Watkina and a door, inaccessible by ordinary means. Leaving is impossible unless the key is found.

The time difference between reality and the realm within the Heavenly Kingdom is infinite; even Watkina can only make simple calculations of time by the number of breaths. Jumping off a long road will immediately return you to the starting point, and no matter how far you run, you will immediately return to the starting point once you turn back.

The island of Nathan has a long history. Its inhabitants have lived in the mountains and forests near Rome since ancient times, worshipping the forest god. They can be seen as a church-like force, their sacred object being a divine tree, guarded by their high priest, the King of Nathan.

The children under the sacred tree in the holy grove, the children of God, all possessed divine power. After some changes, the children of God disappeared from the sacred grove and later appeared on an island in the world, now known as Nathan Island, which has existed for thousands of years.

The history of Nathan Island is no less ancient than that of the Celestial Master's Mansion on the mainland. When Joaquin saw this rune, he thought of the ancient witchcraft that was the source of power on Nathan Island.

The sacred tree of Nathan Island and the power of the Nathan Guards both originate from the fusion of ancient witchcraft and the power of faith. The ancient witchcraft of Nathan Island has never been inanimate; it is a way of survival etched into the island's very DNA.

As everyone's attention was drawn to the divine tree, a phantom figure appeared on it. The enormous phantom rose from the treetop, and the mist twisted and reformed in the light, outlining the silhouette of a woman.

The phantom was a hundred meters tall, woven from intertwined vines and glowing moss. It was draped in a moon-white mist studded with luminous pearls, each pearl flickering as if breathing, like the Milky Way descending to earth.

The phantom's face was hazy and holy, its features composed of intertwined ferns, and its eyes were two pools of suspended, ghostly blue phosphorescence, flowing with a compassion that transcended millennia.

As she raised her hand, the leaves of the entire island turned over at the same time, their silvery veins on the back perfectly overlapping with the vine patterns on the illusory wrist; she lightly stepped on her toes, and the waves responded by lifting up countless coral branches, which intertwined into a luminous chain at her ankle.

"What is this thing?" It wasn't the outsider who asked this question, but Li Muxuan. He was also shocked when he saw the phantom. He looked at his granddaughter, who was now the Nasen King, and said, "I've lived here for decades and I didn't even know that Nasen Island had such a thing."

It was the old woman who spoke first: "The king is still young and does not know this. This is clearly Diana, the goddess worshipped by my ancestors on Nathan Island."

"What? Diana, Wonder Woman?"

"That's Diana, the ancient Roman goddess of the moon and hunting. Later, she became conflated with Artemis from Greek mythology, thus acquiring Artemis's functions of hunting and childbirth, and becoming the goddess of the forest." Compared to Qiao Mu's shallow understanding of foreign mythology, Xu Yiguan had some knowledge.

Jiang Lan looked at Xu Yiguan with surprise and said, "I didn't expect you to know these things."

Xu Yiguan chuckled: "Isn't this learning from that Extreme Law Demon Lord of my Third True Law Sect, who promoted Western learning to the East? One of the reasons is that I'm quite curious about those foreign supernatural forces, so I've done some research on them."

In my world, I discovered that there were also supernatural forces outside of the Emerald Society in the Roman region of Europe. Now it seems highly likely that these are descendants of a group of supernatural beings from the same lineage as the ancestors of Nathan Island.

(End of this chapter)