Thanks for the invitation, I just entered the chat group after traveling through Under One Person.

Chapter 219 Good News

After Xu Yiguan finished explaining, he looked at Diana's phantom image and seemed to suddenly realize something. He said, "No wonder, the shadow of this forest god can indeed be seen everywhere on Nathan Island."

"Oh? Is that what you mean?" Jiang Lan asked immediately, wanting to see what Xu Yiguan's opinion was.

Xu Yiguan pondered for a moment, then asked, "Do you know what the folk book I read about this myth is called?"

"Without further ado."

“Let’s call it ‘The Golden Branch,’ the same golden branch that we need to break off to challenge King Nathan.” Xu Yiguan said with a smile, “In the folk beliefs and customs of this forest goddess, there is a ceremony for selecting priests. There is a large tree in the Temple of Diana, and its branches are called the Golden Branch.”

Only escaped slaves can cut down the golden branch and gain the opportunity to duel with the priest. The victor will succeed the priest and receive the title of "King of the Forest".

Killing a priest grants one the title of the next priest, regardless of rank. The priesthood is extremely unstable and risky, but those who hold it are revered as kings and possess supreme power. Does this custom sound familiar? Isn't this the process for selecting King Nathan here?

“That does make sense. When Mi Er was conceiving and creating Nathan Island, he probably referenced these beliefs and customs of the ancient Roman forest god,” Jiang Lan nodded in agreement.

“Look at the part of that sacred tree that is exposed on the ground. Doesn’t it look a lot like an oak tree? In Diana’s faith, the branches of the oak tree are called the golden branches.”

Diana is therefore known as the goddess of the moon and the oak tree, so the sacred tree on Nathan Island may represent Diana's power. Thinking about it this way, the appearance of this goddess's phantom isn't hard to accept," Xu Yiguan said, pointing to the sacred tree behind the palace.

"Why are there oak trees and hunting? It's really hard to tell the functions of these foreign gods," Lu Linglong couldn't help but complain.

This led Wakinner to explain: "From what I understand, the ancient Romans liked to use Roman gods to encompass foreign gods with similar divine roles. Around the fifth or sixth century BC, the Diana cult came into contact with the ancient Greeks."

Diana absorbed the Greek goddess Artemis, and thus became the goddess of the hunt, as well as of plants and wild animals. She also absorbed the Greek goddess Hecate, representing her possession of the three realms of heaven, earth, and the underworld. Furthermore, she absorbed Ceresta, the Carthaginian goddess of the sky.

Joachim Watkina showed no emotion when discussing the ancient Romans' penchant for assimilating other faiths into Roman gods. The Nathan Islanders were all stateless; they worshipped only the sacred tree of Nathan Island, which in turn extended to the forest god. The ancient Roman gods had nothing to do with them; they had been separated for over a thousand years, so there was no connection left.

Xu Yiguan frowned and pondered for a moment: "Judging from the current situation, since Diana is closely related to the Divine Tree in the Nathan Island setting, the appearance of this phantom may be related to the state of the Divine Tree, or a major event that Nathan Island is about to face."

"A major event? Could it be that someone is going to challenge King Nathan again?" Lu Linglong guessed.

"Replacing a batch of fertilizers, what's so big about that?" Jiang Lan's words were harsh, but they were absolutely true.

"Judging from the situation in Japan, it's very likely that some kind of seal here is about to be broken, and that forest goddess Diana, like Amaterasu and Susanoo, will descend to the mortal realm," Xu Yiguan said, offering his opinion. Jiang Lan, standing beside him, nodded in agreement with Xu Yiguan's analysis.

"Brother Qiao Mu was just looking at his phone, and his expression kept changing. Could something have happened?" Zhang Chulan, being more observant, noticed the changes in Qiao Mu's expression, even though he hadn't directly engaged in the conversation.

Zhang Chulan's first reaction was, "Could something have happened on the Fusang battlefield?" But after glancing at the live stream, apart from the giant figure emitting black smoke, there seemed to be nothing wrong.

"Brother Xu, I have some good news for you. Boss Su Yun said in the group chat that your innate divine power is about to reach the world of 'Sun and Moon in Harmony'!" Qiao Mu glanced at the announcement sent by Su Yun, the group owner, in a chat group called "Transmigrator Chat Group" on his phone, his expression shifting slightly before he cheerfully spoke to Xu Yiguan. This chat group was one that Su Yun had Gao Yushan create back on Longhu Mountain. Apart from Gao Yushan, all the other members were transmigrators from the world of "Under One Person." And Gao Yushan, who had read the "Under One Person" storyline, could also be considered a half-transmigrator.

"Really!" Xu Yiguan was pleasantly surprised at first, then took out his phone to check, but before he could see the announcement on his phone, he realized something was wrong.

He didn't doubt that Su Yun, who could pull them from various derivative worlds, was capable of doing this. Xu Yiguan just suddenly realized that, without any special events, how could Su Yun possibly care about whether his innate divine power had arrived in the Sun and Moon Misaligned World for no reason?

Xu Yiguan's immediate thought was that, if he remembered correctly, that big shot had a chat group for all the heavens, and his own senior from the Three Truths Dharma Sect was in this chat group. Could it be that the Immortal Lord of the Myriad Laws of the World said something?

"Holy crap!" Xu Yiguan didn't think too much about it; after all, there were announcements in the chat group, so he could just read them. After seeing the information in the announcement, Xu Yiguan couldn't help but curse.

"Hahaha... Shouldn't we thank Brother Xu for giving us a second life?" Jiang Lan, who had gone to check the chat group announcement when Qiao Mu mentioned it, laughed and patted Xu Yiguan on the shoulder after reading it.

"Hehe..." Xu Yiguan chuckled bitterly.

Zhang Chulan, Lu Linglong, and others who were unaware of the specifics were completely bewildered. What did they mean by a "second life" opportunity?

Compared to the younger Zhang Chulan, who was good at concealing his abilities, the older supernatural being Li Muxuan didn't have as much to think about and directly asked, "Young man, what do you mean by this second life?"

"It's like being resurrected from the dead. Because of some kind of power descending upon this world, there's a certain chance that dead superhumans will be resurrected. Isn't that like having a second life?" Qiao Mu explained.

"Such a good thing exists?" Li Muxuan's eyes widened upon hearing this. If it were before, they certainly wouldn't have believed that such a power existed in the world, capable of bringing people back to life.

But now, thinking about the gods like Amaterasu that had appeared before, and the Fusang Kingdom that had been mostly destroyed, as well as the phantom of the forest god constantly merging into the divine tree right before their eyes, the appearance of these powers beyond their comprehension made their thoughts less absolute.

"Brother Qiao, it can't be that simple, right?" Li Muxuan's first reaction was that *Under One Person* was a show for older people with a strong sense of patriotism, and that someone had actually been resurrected. Zhang Chulan, Lu Linglong, and the others, however, suspected there was more to the story. It was Lu Linglong who asked this question.

"There's no such thing as a free lunch; there's always a price to pay," Lu Lin said calmly. Mainly, they were still young and hadn't considered the issue of death yet.

Those who die and are resurrected as magical corpses possess not only intelligence comparable to humans and bodies as strong as refined iron, but also elusive supernatural powers and spells—innate supernatural abilities corresponding to their innate divine powers. However, magical corpses all have the instinct to plunder the life force within humans, making them the nemesis of the living.

"Isn't this just like the zombies in the movies?" Zhang Chulan commented after listening to Qiao Mu's explanation of the zombies.

"That's not wrong, they're just more troublesome than zombies, and they're not afraid of the sun. The principles are pretty much the same." Qiao Mu nodded, agreeing with this statement.

“I did think of a problem. In this world, with Boss Su Yun in charge, there’s no need to worry about the Myriad Corpse Immortals. But what if the Myriad Corpse Immortals come looking for you using your innate divine power when you return to your own world?” Jiang Lan stroked her chin and looked at Xu Yiguan.

He wasn't just worried about Xu Yiguan; given the abilities of the Myriad Realms Corpse Immortal, it was entirely possible for him to spread the Myriad Realms True Blood to their derivative world. Therefore, this wasn't just a crisis for Xu Yiguan, but for them as well.

(End of this chapter)