CHAPTER 561: CHAPTER 496 TREE OF NATURE

"Calm down! You must stay calm!"

In the cave, three mystical creatures, five demonesses, one gnome, and two jackal wolfmen huddled together.

Among them, the elderly male demoness was whispering sternly, "We must not act impulsively! If we leave behind the blue mountains, there will be no fear of fire being born!"

"But none of our people who ran out have sent word back! That Duke of Lava deceived us!" The diminutive gnome was so agitated he almost jumped up.

"They are invaders! Invaders! I said, invaders would never truly let adversaries escape! Why doesn’t Zisu believe me..." An elderly jackal wolfman woman shook her head with a resigned smile.

"But now we have no choice. We are the last embers, and we must carry the will of the gods, taking the Tree of Nature out!" The elderly male demoness pointed to his chest, "The gods and the Thunder Demonesses of Wind Howling Cliff have contacted us in advance, and we must go there!"

"But the gods are imprisoned by those wicked ones, will the Thunder Demonesses still care about us?" The elderly jackal wolfman woman sighed, "Perhaps they might even dig out your heart to please that Duke."

"What can we do! This is the flame!" Another young female demoness was slightly agitated too. She stood up, her head hitting the ceiling of the cave, causing soil to fall:

"They are all traitors outside! They are abandoning our ancestors, even our sacrificial altars have been destroyed! I witnessed our ancestral Heroic Spirits being devoured by followers of that wicked Duke!"

"They even built temples in the forest! Making us not honor the ancestors who fought bloodily for our survival environment, but instead believe in that Marshal Azanen!"

"For the forest’s sake! I don’t even know why it’s called the Day of the Gods, when did our god become Marshal Azanen for the salvation of Azanen? Even if it did, that’s our god! The great Forest God!"

The more the young female demoness spoke, the more agitated she became, to the point where white light was about to emerge from her eyes, a sign of Soul Space turbulence.

"Kriya, calm down! You’ll be discovered!" The elderly jackal wolfman woman quickly comforted the young demoness, then said, "We simply can’t resist right now!"

"Yes!" The gnome who had been initially agitated also sighed, "They are asking us to love the Forest Hut rationally, love the forest rationally, and reflect on ourselves, and also..."

As they spoke, a short mystical creature opened its mouth, "Why don’t we..."

"Shut up!"

A middle-aged male mystical creature turned his face dark, his head changing to resemble a tabby cat, shouted these two words, and then the cave quieted down.

Everyone first glared at the short female demoness, then all sighed, lowering their heads to look at their feet, no one wanted to speak.

After a while, the solemn-faced mystical creature transformed entirely into a tabby cat, heading towards the depths of the cave: "What we need to do now is protect the Tree of Nature from being taken by the invaders... In other words, protect yourselves well."

"Meeting adjourned."

With that, he disappeared into the depths of the cave.

The other two mystical creatures transformed into a gecko and a millipede, burrowing up through the ground, while the demonesses, gnome, and jackal wolfmen all departed.

However, just over an hour later, a large canine creature dug up the ground, poking its head in and sniffing furiously.

"It’s here!" The canine head barked twice to the outside, then seven or eight figures immediately broke through the ground to look here.

"Damn, it must be those rebels with stray thoughts!"

"What are they doing! Can’t they just submit properly!"

"Report! I want to report! If I catch them, I can become one of the Great Wilderness People!"

"I want to go too! I heard you can earn gold coins even washing dishes in the Great Wilderness! I need to make money!"

"I don’t want to stay with the backward and ignorant Forest Hut people anymore..."

These people started yelling.

"Shut up!" At this time, their leader stepped out with a grim face, "Stop talking nonsense and hurry up to catch them! Those adults are waiting!"

If you look closely, you’ll notice this leader bears a seventy percent resemblance to the mystical creature who just turned into a tabby cat.

"Boss, but your brother seems to..." The mystical creature that turned into a dog looked carefully at the leader.

The leader snorted coldly, "Just a rebel, execute him."

Without waiting for anyone else to ask, the leader transformed into a cat, chasing into the depths of the cave, halfway turning back to look at his team, "What are you waiting for?"

Thus, the team members awoke suddenly, and quickly followed.

...

"It has been ten days, and still there is rebellion?"

Lin Ke squinted his eyes.

"Yes, sir." John stood in front of the followers, frowning tightly, "Our culture... well, the cultural erosion and abolition of traditions met with fierce resistance from many of the older generation in the Forest Hut."

"No matter, use the method of soft invasion, take your time." Lin Ke waved his hand, "The next generation will forget about it."

The people pondered deeply.

"So, this is what Your Highness meant, that the Great Wilderness People must have a backbone, right?" Lamiel pondered, "That gives me inspiration for creation."

"Alright, let’s not talk about that..." Lin Ke stood up, "The fifth Tree of Nature has been found, hasn’t it? Let’s go see about it, the transplant procedure is the same as before... The rest of you go about your own business."

The fifth Tree of Nature!

This was already the fifth harvested Tree of Nature, though the capabilities of this Tree of Nature were not as strong as Lin Ke imagined, or as depicted in the ancient texts.

This was likely due to multiple factors.

Such as the growing environment.

An environment like a greenhouse, causing these Trees of Nature to be like flowers in a greenhouse, having never experienced any wind, frost, rain, or snow, significantly reducing their purification ability.

Therefore, Lin Ke did not take the first Tree of Nature back immediately.

But five trees, they might be enough for current use on the Great Wilderness Plane.

Thus the followers dispersed, while Lin Ke accompanied John to go see the Tree of Nature.

Stepping out of the aircraft carrier, it was dusk outside, the sky was filled with coming and going Great Wilderness Daughter ships, and Demon Pattern Knights patrolled the ground.

Some distributed supplies to the residents of the Forest Hut, others helped up elderly grandpas and grandmas who had fallen.

Some switched shifts to chat and laugh with the children by the campfire, even putting the children on their shoulders for rides.

If someone didn’t know, they would have thought it was a joyous campfire festival, gathering to celebrate.

Lin Ke and John appeared in the sky, naturally drawing the attention of the crowd.

The Demon Pattern Knights saluted one by one, while others murmured quietly.

"Look, the benevolent and great Duke of Lava!"

"Oh my, that’s the Bloodthirster John!"