Chapter 352: Chapter 344: The Branch Is Broken_1
"Over a hundred million?" Fang Ren was dumbfounded. Could the Rebirth Fruit use a drop of his blood to create over a hundred million copies of him?
"If really over a hundred million of me appear, wouldn't this space of the true master also need to create over a hundred million spaces? Are you sure that won't cause some kind of collapse?" Fang Ren asked.
"Stupid question! The power of the true master pervades countless worlds! Even if there were a trillion of you, the true master could create a trillion spaces for you!"
The woman's tone showed some restlessness. She had no idea how to deal with the other Fang Rens.
The mission left to her by the last true master before he turned into nothingness was to find the owner of the 9,111th World Tree Seed and support him in entering the Celestial Selection battle, to compete for the heir of the true master.
But what was she to do in this situation?
Was she supposed to support over a hundred million Fang Rens?
"I should never have agreed to you!"
The woman couldn't help but get angry.
Seeing this, Fang Ren smiled and said, "Big sister, there's no need to panic like this, the previous true master wasn't a fool."
"Insulting the true master! Aren't you afraid of being crushed by the laws here?"
The woman gave Fang Ren a disdainful glance.
She suddenly felt that her persistence was wrong. She shouldn't have had any expectations of the mortal before her, because this mortal was the stupidest and weirdest person she had encountered in ten thousand years!
Fang Ren hurriedly corrected himself, "No, no, no, you misunderstood. What I mean is, if the previous true master really is as mysterious as you say, then how could he possibly allow the current situation to occur?"
"Believe it or not!"
The woman thought Fang Ren was questioning the true master from a different angle.
"Why can you never understand what I'm saying?" Fang Ren sighed helplessly. "I mean no disrespect to your true master at all! Let me put it another way, if the true master had thought of this situation when enclosing me into the space, he must have a solution. There's no need for you to worry unnecessarily."
The woman glanced at him, but she wasn't very sure in her heart, for the Rebirth Fruit shouldn't have ended up in the hands of a mortal. Could the true master have really accounted for this possibility as well?
"Besides, look at this space. As soon as it senses my body, it keeps pulling my body into the space, which means that in its eyes, me with just a body is not the real candidate for the battle. So it's still looking for a me where the soul and body coexist. Soon this space will deal with the problem itself.
Either it will move my soul to another space and fuse it with a body, or it will pull my body from another space to make me whole again," Fang Ren explained his understanding.
Although he didn't fully comprehend it, if the previous true master wasn't a fool, he would certainly have left a solution to such a problem.
After all, that woman said something about the true master seeming to control the space of the Ten Thousand Realms; an existence so twisted, could even this small bug be overlooked?
"That does seem possible…"
The woman nodded, finally understanding what Fang Ren had been trying to convey with his previous words.
After that, the two of them stopped speaking.
However, as time passed, this pure white world was filled with countless images of Fang Ren's body being pulled into space.
After an unknowable amount of time, the woman's jade plate finally stopped projecting images.
This signified that the Rebirth Fruit had used up the drop of essence blood that Fang Ren had left behind and could no longer create bodies for him.
But just as the law of the Rebirth Fruit disappeared, the space where Fang Ren's Soul Body was located began to distort.
"Damn it! What's going on?"
Fang Ren lost his balance and fell to the ground.
The woman was shocked and speechless as she looked up at the countless images in the sky.
Because at that moment, every space that was holding a body of Fang Ren started to distort as well.
The swirling vortex, with Fang Ren as the center, rapidly expanded as if opening a gateway to another world.
Buzz—
The heavens and earth resonated.
In the space where Fang Ren's Soul Body was, suddenly and out of nowhere, countless bodies of his appeared lying on the ground.
Crack, crack, crack—
Numerous images in the sky shattered in unison, leaving only the space where Fang Ren's soul resided.
"Holy shit! Just as I thought!"
Fang Ren looked at the countless bodies of himself lying on the ground, his heart filled with words he simply couldn't say.
"Space… has merged?"
The woman, seeing the land filled with Fang Rens, also had a dumbfounded look.
She couldn't have imagined this outcome, that because of a single Rebirth Fruit, and because of Fang Ren's incomplete corpse that was eliminated from the world, it had directly affected the Space Law left by the previous true master!
"Which body should I use?"
Fang Ren suddenly felt quite dejected because looking around, his numerous bodies stretched to the horizon.
From the looks of it, perhaps the woman hadn't lied to him—rebirth fruit might have indeed created over a hundred million bodies for him.
"Each one is as you once possessed. The Rebirth Fruit can't create a stronger body for you, nor can it weaken your body," the woman said.
"Does that mean these bodies are not like the previous incomplete ones but possess the Spiritual Root?" Fang Ren asked.
"Correct. Now you can use any of these bodies here to restore yourself to a complete state."
"But how can I, as a Soul Body, merge with the body without being able to touch it?" Fang Ren suddenly felt a headache brewing again.
"The reason you couldn't merge with that incomplete corpse before is because you forcibly pulled the Star Origin into it, causing rejection, whereas none of these bodies contain the Star Origin. Try again, and you'll know," she said.
After listening to the woman, Fang Ren reached out and touched the closest body to him. Upon touching, his soul and body attracted each other like two magnets and collided together immediately.
When Fang Ren opened his eyes again, he found himself lying on the ground.
He immediately got up and moved about, discovering the familiar sensation he had long missed. He checked for the Spiritual Root within him, and indeed, it was there.
Now he was finally whole.
"Damn it, I don't believe I can't take it out today!"
The first thing on his mind after recovery, of course, was to go pull out the tree branch.
He had been tolerating this branch for a long time!
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"Asura Slaughter Blade!"
The enormous Blood Sickle cleaved through the air towards the small twig.
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Crack—
Fang Ren was dumbfounded.
The sickle in his hands, sharp enough to split the flesh of the Dragon Clan, had shattered!
"I told you, you're just wasting your effort."
The woman sighed as she shook her head.
Though the sickle in Fang Ren's hands could be considered a top-notch blade among mortals, compared to the sword she had broken before, this sickle was practically junk metal.
Her sword was an Immortal weapon!
If even an Immortal weapon had been smashed by the twig, what could this piece of junk metal do?
"This is a complete disaster!"
Fang Ren looked at the scattered sickle fragments all over the ground, his mental state crumbling.
That sickle, kindly given to him by Mu Huanqing's Spirit Form, had become a slaughter blade only after being refined by his Asura malice.
No matter what, the sickle originally belonged to Mu Huanqing. Seeing it broken like this, he felt a pang of distress; after all, it was his favorite weapon.
"Sigh~"
After a long while, Fang Ren sat down beside the twig with a defeated face. Since he couldn't pull out the twig to return to Earth, it seemed he had to go to Hongyu Chasm.
He hoped he could see Hui Qing again before he went there; after all, going there meant seventy years away!
No!
He couldn't go!
If he did, by the time he returned to Earth, who knows what Hui Qing would have become!
Various emotions weighed down on him until Fang Ren's anger finally erupted.
"Fuck your grandfather!"
He stood up and kicked the small twig beside him.
Crack—
The twig broke.
"What!?"
Fang Ren yelped in shock.
The woman standing beside him was about to advise him again not to waste his effort when her pretty face suddenly turned into an expression of utter stupidity.
"So... to break this twig, I had to curse at it first?"
A thought involuntarily came to Fang Ren's mind.
If he had known being aggressive from the start could solve everything, why bother?
"How! How is this possible!?"
The woman stared at the twig Fang Ren had kicked apart, finally snapping out of her daze.
"It just... happened so abruptly," Fang Ren said dumbly.
"Pick up that broken twig quickly! Hurry!" the woman suddenly shouted excitedly.
"Why?"
"That's an opportunity bestowed by the True Lord! You've got it now! Why aren't you picking it up?" Seeing Fang Ren unmoved, she was on the verge of hopping in anxiety.
"Let's talk about that later, I need to uproot this damned thing completely! F*ck your grandfather!"
Fang Ren cursed without reservation, seeming to have grasped the knack. The twig seemed like a masochist who needed to be harshly cursed!
No sooner had he said that than Fang Ren reached out and grabbed the part where the twig connected to the earth, ready to use all his strength to pull it out.
However, strangely enough, before he could exert any force, the twig came up easily, as if it had no roots at all.
"... "
The woman reverted to her idiotic expression.
Suddenly, she felt like she might be hallucinating—uprooting the twig meant obtaining the Divine Weapon used by the previous True Lord!
How could such a thing happen!
It must be because she descended from the heavens in the wrong posture. She had to go back and try again!
Fang Ren fiddled with the twig in his hand and frowned again, looking displeased at the silly-looking woman behind him, "Are you deceiving me?"
"What do you mean?" The woman was confused.
"I've uprooted it completely, so why does this world still exist? Shouldn't it have sent me back? Or are you saying you never intended to let me go back from the start, making up something to fool me!" Fang Ren was thoroughly enraged.
"This place will collapse shortly," the woman said calmly.
She still found it hard to believe what she was seeing.
This mortal simply cursed at the twig and pulled it out?
To think that the last person who dared curse at the twig was torn to shreds by the Space Law, body and soul destroyed.
"I hope what you're saying is true, or I'll have to fight you to the death."
Finishing his words, Fang Ren threw the twig away nonchalantly.
Seeing this, the woman quickly flashed over to catch the twig, her face filled with terror as she shouted at Fang Ren, "Are you mad!? You're giving up a Divine Weapon from the True Lord!?"
"If you want it, take it. Didn't you say this thing is more precious than fifty million years of life? Alright, since you've also obtained something beyond your expectations, there's no need to force me into the battle of the chosen. Just let me return to Earth."
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