CHAPTER 1662: CHAPTER 526: AS THE SAYING GOES, A WISE MAN KNOWS WHEN TO YIELD (PART 2)

"Do you know the coordinates of the Divine Naturalism Kingdom?" Shi Luke asked.

"I don’t know, but I know someone who does, and that person is in my hands." Wayne smirked.

The scene shifted, and five figures arrived at the twelfth level of Hades, the Eternal Hall.

Wayne tried his hardest to conceal the truth of Hades’s corruption, lest Shi Luke and Galle notice something amiss. Although with Shi Luke’s intellect, he must have guessed the truth, it mattered not, as long as Wayne didn’t admit it, the truth remained hidden in the mist.

Soon, the captive who entered the Divine Naturalism Kingdom was brought forward.

The Destroyer ’Gravity Butterfly’ Zhubian.

Zhubian:¯\(°_o)/¯

Ever since Wayne fixed him up, Zhubian had been imprisoned in Hades, suffering minor beatings every three days and major beatings every five days, living a rather unpleasant life.

Wayne detained Zhubian in an attempt to probe, and the result was favorable; the Divine Naturalism Kingdom hadn’t reacted to the disappearance of this Subsidiary God, indicating Yalien was still asleep and hadn’t achieved the Life Goddess’s dominance.

Five against one, and she’s a sleeping beauty, this was solid.

Zhubian stared aghast at the scene before him: Death, Darkness, Sun, Moonlight—five goddesses were present, except the Nature Goddess he worships, and one rivaling a Divine in strength, Wayne...

These people gathered together, who were they targeting?

Easy question, whoever’s absent is who they’re targeting.

Zhubian was quite defiant, covered with seals preventing resistance, and unable even to die, but he trusted in his will and loyalty; no torture would cause him to speak.

All for the Goddess!

"There’s an old saying where I come from, ’A wise man knows to adapt to circumstances,’ I hope you cooperate with us and hand over the coordinates of the Divine Naturalism Kingdom; we will reward you handsomely."

As Wayne finished, he felt something was wrong, got the script mixed up—this wasn’t a protagonist’s line.

Zhubian sneered, facing the five Divine-level strong beings, not closing his eyes to await death, but directly cursing, attempting to anger them into killing him swiftly.

"Good, tough enough; I like your kind of firm-boned tough guy."

Wayne gave a thumbs-up, with the process complete, he resorted to means.

A pale Little Octopus was casually tossed by him, landing steadily on Zhubian’s face, with eight tentacles drilling into his nostrils, mouth, ears, and eyes.

Zhubian tilted his head, voicelessly, as his eyes gradually turned pale; beneath his raised skin, the track of foam and tendrils extended to his neck, spreading across his body at an exceedingly rapid pace.

This is just too sinister!

Shi Luke showed an expression of extreme disdain, raising a hand to jab Galle:"See, this is our future outcome."

Galle was somewhat weary, killed by exhaustion:"So what, can you resist him?"

"..."

"If you can’t, why do you keep provoking him, intentionally attracting his attention?"

"..."

Shi Luke turned to look elsewhere, yet still unwilling to forsake Galle to leave alone.

Corruption complete, Zhubian kneeled on one knee, hand over chest, saluting Wayne.

His expression was incredibly complex, containing loyalty to Wayne yet remaining worship of Yalien, pursing his lips, dryly saying:"My master, Nature is a goddess who respects order; she is not your enemy."

"I know, I haven’t considered her an enemy either."

Wayne stepped forward, helping Zhubian up, patting his shoulder and saying:"How does the new life feel?"

"I’m gradually understanding everything!" Zhubian exclaimed excitedly.

"The Nature Goddess will also attain new life, any more questions?"

"No more."

Zhubian nodded heavily; the Goddess needs rebirth, Wayne grants rebirth, and everything is progressing in a favorable direction.

"If there’s no issue, don’t waste time, hurry and open the path ahead, don’t keep the Nature Goddess waiting impatiently."

"This way, I know a shortcut."

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The concept of nature is extremely broad, encompassing all things in nature, all things in the Cosmos, from the broadest sense, it’s the natural, physical, material world or Cosmos.

This includes things in nature, phenomena, and laws; translated into the Mage’s language, the entire Cosmos is nature, void and knowledge are no exceptions.

The concept is so vast, even Life is included; if Yalien could truly encompass everything, she wouldn’t persist as the Life Goddess, she would settle as the Nature Goddess.

In the Naturalism Church’s scriptures, the Nature Goddess is depicted as the embodiment of the soul of earth, forests, mountains, and seas, her beauty a reflection of the essence and harmony of nature.

Placed into the Divine Naturalism Kingdom, these concepts subdivided into each layer: Cliffs of the Mountains, Lava Domain, Deep Sea Realm, Storm Fortress, Light Wasteland, Dark Abyss, Soul Marsh, Memory Ice Cavern, Desert of Wisdom, Cliff of Will, Island of Thought, Spatial Dimensions, Temporal Turbulence, Forest Kingdom, Sea of Order, Origin of Life.

A total of sixteen layers, surpassing any one god.

Some layers pointedly adverse, highly unfriendly to certain gods, like Light Wasteland, Dark Abyss, Soul Marsh.

As for who specifically, some gods knew well; not mentioning Galle, Shi Luke, Idinis, Aztemo here.

It’s no wonder the four goddesses dislike Yalien; she indeed is very proud, clearly claiming in the doctrine to be the ’Nature’ Goddess, yet magnified nature’s concept by countless times when constructing the Divine Nation.

Not only indirectly suggesting being above all, but using derogatory terms like wasteland, abyss, marsh to describe other goddesses.

Oppressive, arrogant, domineering, pompous; Wayne’s assessment of Yalien as a Queen was even restrained.