nashuaworldcup Chapter 442 Creating a Double Agent
Chapter 442 Creating a Double Agent
During the time that King Nathan was talking with everyone, Elijah Jones, one of the Nathan Guards, suddenly felt everything around him darken. In the blink of an eye, everything around him had fallen into a black and white world where time stood still.
Then Elijah realized that he was the only one who, like him, had not been turned into a black and white photograph.
Li Muyang.
Elijah frowned at this legendary Qi cultivator from the Great Xia Dynasty: "Mr. Li? What do you mean?"
Li Muyang looked at Elijah calmly and said, "I think we can talk."
"Alright, I don't like nonsense. Get to the point. I know that broken golden branch is in your hands. Give it to me."
"In exchange, I will destroy the divine tree in a very special way, and I will not let your king and companions hate you."
Elijah's pupils dilated in shock, but he remained remarkably calm: "Heh, Mr. Li, are you also interested in the position of our King Nathan?"
Li Muyang glanced at Elijah speechlessly and said casually, "Sorry, you're overthinking it. I need to repair a magic weapon, which requires some special materials."
Elijah was taken aback, but reacted quickly: "...The Divine Tree?"
Seeing Li Muyang nod, Elijah asked in shock, "You mean... you want the whole thing or..."
Li Muyang shrugged: "Of course it's the whole tree! I only asked you for the golden branch because I wanted the right to enter."
"Don't worry, I know what you're thinking. I'm not interested in the position of King Nathan. But have you thought about this? If the sacred tree on Nathan Island is really destroyed, can your king turn back into an ordinary person that you hope to be?"
Elijah, whose thoughts had been exposed, looked at Li Muyang with only wariness and suspicion. Yes, he had indeed broken the golden branch, but he never said that he wanted to kill the current King Nathan and become King Nathan himself.
Instead, they wanted to free King Nathan from the control of the divine tree!
Elijah was different from the other Nathan Guards. His job was to communicate with the outside world and exchange supplies. Therefore, he was very clear about how rapidly the world outside Nathan Island was developing!
Elijah wasn't blindly confident that the Nathans were invincible on Nathan Island. Even with the protection of the Tree of Life, they were still mortals at heart! They didn't possess the world-destroying power of Li Muyang! They would die if killed!
Seven steps away, fire fast! Within seven steps, the gun is both fast and accurate!
Nathan Island today, to put it nicely, is an isolated island of strange people, but to put it bluntly, it is an island abandoned by the whole world!
Just look at how the various supernatural organizations around the world treat King Nathan. They may call him King Nathan, but the treatment they receive is nothing like that of a foreign guest. Who would entertain a foreign guest in a secluded hotel banquet hall late at night?
To put it bluntly, Nathan Island wasn't taken seriously at all! The treatment they received was even worse than that of the Fish and Dragon Club.
In the past, when technology was underdeveloped, the existence of Inhumans was comparable to a weapon of mass destruction, which is why Nathan Island was able to remain a secluded place.
Now... even the most powerful superhuman is nothing compared to the firepower of firearms!
Oh, sorry, Li Muyang is not an extraordinary person, but a legendary Qi cultivator, a cultivator.
Even though Li Muyang claims to still be human, he is well aware that his level of life has long surpassed that of humans, at least not in the eyes of ordinary people on Earth! To be honest, Li Muyang is similar to those early innate humans in the primordial world.
In the eyes of humans who were born later, is Li Muyang, who was born human, still human? It's hard to say!
Getting back to the point, Elijah, who was speechless when Li Muyang asked him the question, fell silent for a moment. The answer was in his heart, and he knew it himself. Even if the Divine Tree was destroyed, King Nathan would still be King Nathan, and the Nathan Guards would still be the Nathan Guards. In fact, his teammates would hate him because of it.
Elijah was not only loyal to King Nathan, but he also deeply loved King Nathan—yes, it was romantic love.
Unfortunately, King Nathan was a king, while Elijah was a Nathan guard; within the lineage of the Tree of Gods, they could not be together.
Especially poignant is the image of fallen flowers expressing affection, while the flowing water remains indifferent.
King Nathan may have known Elijah's thoughts, but he never gave him an answer. Or rather, this was already an answer to Elijah, but this attitude made Elijah increasingly dissatisfied with the sacred tree.
King Nathan was loyal to the Tree of God, and Nathan's Guard was loyal to King Nathan. This was the underlying code. Therefore, as long as Elijah was loyal to King Nathan and subconsciously believed that he was acting in Nathan's best interest, then the Tree of God would unconditionally support Elijah.
Therefore, this sacred tree is equivalent to faith in a god; it has no will of its own, or rather, its will is the will of the believers.
There are also important distinctions in the will of believers, with King Nathan and Nathan Guard being the highest levels.
Elijah wanted King Nathan to break free from the control of the Tree of Life because he knew the truth about the Tree's succession system: the Tree of Life did not have its own will, but its underlying code was to constantly grow stronger and absorb nutrients!
No matter how miraculous the divine tree may be, it is still essentially a tree! As a tree, its instinct is to absorb nutrients, grow stronger, and have its roots spread deeper and wider!
Whatever benefits it brings to believers, it all boils down to photosynthesis, and since there is photosynthesis, there is naturally also respiration! Ultimately, it's all an action taken by the sacred tree to strengthen itself.
Therefore, the so-called Nathan King, Nathan Guard, and the challenger who broke the golden branch all had only one fate in the end: being absorbed by the divine tree and turned into nourishment.
However, this growth was too slow, and the isolated island of Nathan could no longer satisfy the divine tree's desire for expansion.
This also affected King Nathan and Nathan's guards. Elijah had his own reasons for breaking the golden branch, but the divine tree also secretly tempted him... This word is not quite right, because the divine tree itself did nothing. Elijah simply believed that he wanted to free King Nathan from the constraints of the divine tree's succession system.
However, it did not take into account whether King Nathan himself was willing.
The problem is that King Nathan's will almost represents the will of the divine tree. They are not in a relationship of sharing life and death, but they influence each other's will.
King Nathan is a staunch supporter of the Tree of God! This cannot be changed by destroying the Tree of God! It's just that Elijah hadn't thought of this before, or rather, he didn't want to think of it that way! Because if he did, all his actions would be meaningless.
Want to free King Nathan from the divine tree? But what binds King Nathan is never the divine tree, but herself!
Nathanwis was loyal to King Nathan, and could even completely disregard who King Nathan was! Elijah was different. The faith in the Tree of God was not eternal, and Elijah clearly had his own will. He was loyal to King Nathan, but only to the current King Nathan.
Unfortunately, the current King Nathan doesn't care at all, and doesn't even want Elijah to be loyal only to him! The current King Nathan believes that Elijah should be loyal to him, regardless of who the King Nathan is!
Li Muyang's words forced Elijah to confront reality. Yes, his actions were ultimately wishful thinking! Even if he followed his plan and destroyed the divine tree in the end, King Nathan would not thank him, but would only hate him.
"How have you decided?" Li Muyang asked leisurely.
Elijah gave a wry smile: "Do I have a choice?"
“Of course!” Li Muyang shrugged and said, “You’re overcomplicating things! The problem with Nathan Island isn’t the inheritance mechanism of the Divine Tree, but that Nathan Island shouldn’t be led by a tree! You need to understand! We are human!”
"Damn it, let a tree lead humanity? Even if a tree had a mind, its way of thinking could never fully conform to human standards!"
“I can tell you definitively that I have an avatar condensed and refined from an innate spiritual root… simply put, it is still a tree. Even though I control its main consciousness, its living habits are still closer to those of a tree! The reason why your King Nathan's will has this martyr-like mentality is because it belongs to the mindset of a tree!”
At this point, Elijah felt increasingly uneasy, and his gaze towards Li Muyang became wary again. What exactly do you want to do?
Li Muyang sneered: "I don't even know how to evaluate letting a demonic tree that has become a spirit through sacrifice and cannibalism lead you. Anyway, since we're going to use this tree to repair my magic weapon, I might as well transfer the faith of the Nathan Islanders to my magic weapon! At least I won't have to let the Nathan Islanders continue to be trees!"
Elijah's eyes widened. He finally understood what Li Muyang wanted to do. His ambitions were too great. He didn't just want the Divine Tree! He actually wanted the entire Nathan Island!
Just then, Elijah suddenly frowned and opened his mouth to refute Li Muyang, but Li Muyang preemptively unleashed a talisman that entered Elijah's body, instantly bringing him a refreshing sensation and clearing his mind!
"Look, this is your family's sacred tree," Li Muyang said sarcastically. "As long as you have any thoughts of rebelling against it, you will be infected by the will of the sacred tree! Think about it carefully! Is your desire to liberate King Nathan your own, or is there some other entity guiding you to do so?"
Elijah sat there blankly, his eyes vacant. Li Muyang's talisman had brought him back to his senses, and he was suddenly in a strange state, beginning to recall his previous experiences in more detail and with greater clarity.
Finally, he realized that the reasons that triggered his dissatisfaction with the sacred tree, the will to liberate King Nathan, and the actions he took were not solely his own will.
There is another force, or person, that has done something to me.
They didn't use any force to interfere with him; they simply guided Elijah psychologically, causing Elijah's previously hidden thoughts to be released and allowing him to truly begin planning his actions!
Elijah wasn't entirely sure what the person behind it all was up to, but he was definitely being controlled—that much was certain.
Li Muyang knew without Elijah's explanation that this force was nothing more than Qu Tong's Yaoxing Society.