One person: Starting with the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, his grandmaster uncle emerges from seclusion.

"Alright, stop kneeling, it's taking up too much space."

Zhang Tianyi, hands in his pockets, spoke in a nonchalant tone:

"Since you're so eager to demonstrate your loyalty, I'll give you a chance."

The upside-down creature suddenly raised its head, and a look of wild joy instantly erupted from its dust-covered face.

They survived!

"Thank you, Master! I will do anything you ask, even die a thousand deaths, to hang myself!"

"I don't need you to die ten thousand times, just be a living map."

Zhang Tianyi pointed to the ruins beneath his feet:

"The signal on this island is terrible; my radar is blocked. From now on, you'll be our team's temporary guide."

"Is there a problem?"

"No! Absolutely not! It's my honor!"

He was hanging upside down, nodding vigorously, almost as if he were about to swear a solemn oath on the spot.

Are you kidding me?

Being able to be a tour guide for this humanoid nuclear bomb is practically the greatest talisman Nathan Island has ever had since its founding!

"Master, is this foreigner reliable?"

Zhang Chulan leaned closer and poked the drooping waist with the hilt of his sword, looking on with suspicion:

"This guy looks like a mastermind. What if he leads us astray?"

"Does he dare?"

Zhang Tianyi glanced at the upside-down figure with a half-smile:

"If he dares to give me the wrong navigation, I'll roast him!"

The person hanging upside down trembled with fear and quickly patted their chest to demonstrate their professional skills:

"Don't worry, gentlemen! I'm absolutely the most professional!"

"Where are you going? Who are you looking for? As long as he's still breathing on this island, I can pull him out with my eyes closed!"

"Oh? You're quite arrogant."

Zhang Tianyi stroked his chin: "Alright, find me someone first. His name is Ruan Feng."

Upon hearing the name, his droopy eyelids twitched violently.

"Nguyen Phung?!"

The upside-down figure immediately dropped his joking expression and lowered his voice to report:

"Master, you're looking for this old monster? You've come to the right person! Apart from me, I doubt anyone on this island knows where he is right now!"

"Tell me in detail," Zhang Tianyi said, intrigued.

"This fat guy is acting really strange right now!"

He rubbed his hands together, then poured everything out like beans pouring from a bamboo tube:

"He seems to have fallen into some kind of fanatical state, he doesn't recognize his own family, he bites... no, he devours people alive!"

"Some time ago, a group of well-equipped Chinese experts suddenly found this person's hiding place, and a fierce battle broke out between the two sides."

As he recalled the scene of watching from afar, a hint of apprehension flashed in his eyes:

"That group was extremely ruthless and coordinated perfectly. Although Ruan Feng was skilled, he was not in his right mind and was eventually driven back by them."

Now, the fat man is like a frightened wild beast, hiding in a very secluded underground cave on the north side of the island, licking his wounds.

"and……"

After thinking for a moment, Daohang added a crucial detail:

"Just two days ago, a group of Japanese guys were also asking around about Nguyen Phong's whereabouts."

After hearing the information about the upside-down hanging, Zhang Chulan and Wang Ye exchanged a glance.

"A master from China? That must be someone Qu Tong sent." Zhang Chulan analyzed, stroking his chin.

“Japan…I wonder which deity they are,” Wang Ye chimed in.

Zhang Tianyi sneered.

"This old man has become a hot commodity."

He was about to have the upside-down head lead the way to that underground cave to pick up the goods.

Just then!

Boom!!!

A violent tremor came from beneath my feet.

The entire island of Nathan seemed to be shaken violently by a pair of invisible giant hands.

The ground shook violently.

The surrounding ruins, which were not yet completely destroyed, collapsed one after another, stirring up clouds of dust.

"An earthquake?!"

Zhuge Qing quickly steadied himself.

Lu Linglong hugged Chen Duo tightly, and the two squatted on the ground.

But the tremor came and went quickly, subsiding completely in less than five seconds.

Zhang Tianyi stood still, his feet rooted to the spot.

But the nonchalant look on his face vanished instantly.

He turned his head sharply and looked towards the very center of Nathan Island.

A pair of eyes flashed intensely with purple light.

"Master, what's wrong? Is there a geological disaster on this wretched island?" Zhang Chulan patted the dirt off his clothes.

Zhang Tianyi did not answer.

He raised his right hand and glanced at his palm.

There, there was originally an invisible causal line that only he could sense.

But just at the very moment the earthquake struck.

That line is broken.

"interesting……"

Zhang Tianyi squinted, carefully sensing the surroundings.

"The seed of lightning I planted in Qu Tong's soul..."

"It was uninstalled by someone."

"Holy crap?!"

Wang Ye, Zhang Chulan, and the others all gasped in shock.

The restriction personally placed by the Second Master was actually broken by someone?!

What kind of level of skill is this?!

"It wasn't hacked by someone."

Zhang Tianyi shook his head, his gaze fixed on the center of the island.

"It was by using some kind of immense primordial power of heaven and earth that the lightning seed was forcibly washed away."

The source of that power... is right there.

The person hanging upside down followed his gaze and their expression changed.

"That's the direction of the divine tree! The heart of the royal city!"

…………

Let's rewind to an hour earlier.

At the very center of Nathan Island lies the core forbidden area of ​​the Divine Tree.

The scenery here is completely different from the desolate wasteland outside.

It was surrounded by a ring of towering ancient stone pillars, and the ground was filled with shimmering liquid energy.

And at the very center.

There grows a tree that is not particularly large.

It has no leaves, and its bare branches look as if they were carved from some kind of dark gold.

But its root system is surprisingly thick.

Like countless gnarled pythons, they burrowed deep into the ground and spread to all corners of Nathan Island.

This is the Nathan Tree!

The source of all power and rules on this island!

At this moment, below the divine tree.

A woman wearing an ordinary windbreaker and with an unremarkable appearance was closing her eyes tightly.

Her hand was pressed tightly against the trunk of the sacred tree.

It was Qu Tong who had changed her appearance and sneaked into this place silently!

Qu Tong was trembling violently.

Her left hand glowed with a blinding red light, while her right hand shimmered with a deep blue light.

She pushed her dual-wielding technique to its limit!

She was frantically drawing upon the vast, boundless life force within the divine tree.