Global Catastrophe: I Became the World Tree-Chapter 431 - 273 Shock from All Sides, Entering the Ruins_2

Chapter 431: Chapter 273 Shock from All Sides, Entering the Ruins_2

"Yes! With the Dragon King gone, who will protect us?" the people in the square were all talking at once.

But soon, someone stood out and said loudly, "We shouldn’t scare ourselves. The direction the Dragon King is heading towards is Tianhe City. It’s very likely he’s just temporarily visiting the Ancient Ruins."

"Exactly," someone immediately agreed. "The Dragon King Palace Army has already entered the Ancient Ruins. Maybe they encountered some trouble, and now the Dragon King himself has gone to settle it!"

On the other side, Ye Feng, after leaving a message with his spiritual power, had no time to pay attention to the reactions of the people of Sunset Town and Yang City.

He controlled the tree roots to take the shape of two legs and began to walk step by step.

This feeling was quite marvelous; after all, it had been three months since he was reborn as a tree.

This was the first time he had walked using this body.

Honestly, Ye Feng even felt like he was learning to walk all over again.

However, thanks to his strong spiritual power and his ability to control his body, he was not going to fall, and with each step, he quickly adapted.

After just a few steps, Ye Feng could already walk steadily.

As for walking quickly, that wasn’t necessary.

After all, the length of his tree roots was there for all to see, so the "legs" he condensed were very long, and Ye Feng only needed to take small steps. With each step, his "legs" could cover a distance of twenty to thirty kilometers.

Thus, even though his pace wasn’t fast, he could easily approach the speed of sound, or even surpass it.

Of course, Ye Feng did not try to accelerate. If he were to exceed the speed of sound, the sonic boom created by his size alone could cause significant damage to the surrounding environment.

The commotion Ye Feng caused naturally attracted attention from all sides, and this news spread across the country, and even the entire world, almost explosively.

There was no helping it – with Ye Feng’s size, it was simply impossible to move incognito.

Even when the weather was clear, astronauts in space stations might be able to see him with the naked eye.

...

At this moment, within the temporary command center in Tianhe City, Liu Zaoxin received the report almost instantly.

When he heard that the Dragon King, along with the Companion Spirit Plant, was making its way over, he too was startled and even felt a hint of panic.

But it only lasted a brief moment before he composed himself.

The leaders of other cities also hurried over.

"Old Liu, the Dragon King is coming this way. Is it planning to enter the Ancient Ruins too?" someone asked.

"Yes! Mayor Liu, if it’s going to enter the ruins, why didn’t it announce its intentions beforehand? The trouble this has caused is immense, and the impact isn’t good," another person immediately echoed.

With a polite smile on his face, Liu Zaoxin turned to the one who had just spoken, "Chief Guo, you’re right. Then later, I’ll tell the Dragon King, ’Chief Guo asks that you notify us in advance the next time you travel.’ How does that sound?"

Hearing this, Chief Guo forced a laugh, "No need, no need."

Liu Zaoxin then looked around, addressing the others, "Does anyone else here need me to convey a message to the Dragon King?"

Everyone just smiled sheepishly and stayed silent.

The reason they had reacted so strongly earlier was because this major incident, being out of their control, had caused them some dissatisfaction.

But now, with just a few words from Liu Zaoxin, they were made starkly aware of the reality—that whatever the Dragon King intended to do, they were in no position to interfere.

"Alright, judging by the Dragon King’s speed, it won’t take long to reach the Ancient Ruins. We can almost start heading over to greet him," Liu Zaoxin said as he stood up from his chair.

The people around him exchanged glances and ultimately followed him out.

Before stepping out the door, Liu Zaoxin suddenly paused and said meaningfully, "I know many of you hope that the superhumans you sent will inherit something from within the ruins."

"But what I want to say is, please recognize the reality. Whether or not the Dragon King enters the ruins, the superhumans you’ve sent will not be able to snatch the inheritance from the Forbidden Area Creatures."

At those words, many showed expressions of holding back their comments, but Liu Zaoxin did not wait for anyone to speak and continued.

"In fact, there are some things you are still not aware of. The Forbidden Area is not our greatest threat. When the true threat arrives, we may not have any power to resist at all."

"If such a crisis really comes, our only hope lies with the Dragon King."

After he finished speaking, he strode out, and everyone in the room exchanged glances.

Given their status and position, they weren’t even privy to the secrets—how high must the level of confidentiality be?

And with such high levels of confidentiality, what magnitude of danger might that imply?

After all, even the matters of the Forbidden Area had been made public by now.

At this thought, everyone felt a chill running down their spines, and all the little schemes in their hearts were put away.

When Ye Feng arrived, he saw from afar that a group of people was waiting by the Ancient Ruins, led by none other than Liu Zaoxin.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Ye Feng slowed his pace, and with each step he took, a huge, hundred-meter-deep pit was left on the ground. In two or three steps, he was near the ruins.

But he didn’t linger to exchange pleasantries with the crowd and instead transmitted using spiritual power, "Go back to your own business; there’s no need to mind me."

As Ye Feng took a step, he had already passed these people, and a leg formed of tree roots extended directly into the area of the Ancient Ruins.

His lower body was completely obscured by the mist, so no one could see his "legs."

When the people heard the Dragon King’s transmission, they hadn’t yet returned to their senses when in a flash, both the giant tree and the Dragon King had disappeared from sight.

...

When his true body was teleported in, Ye Feng felt it was completely different from when he possessed the Mutated Parrot.

During the possession, he hardly noticed anything—a spell of dizziness hit him, and he had already entered the Land of Inheritance.

But this time, when his own body entered, he endured the dizzy feeling with his strong spiritual power.

He could feel that the instant he was teleported, a strange force enveloped him, or more accurately, the space around him.

Then the space around him began to warp, and he seemed to have entered another dimension, where everything was distorted. Only his body was enveloped in a strange energy, avoiding any interaction with the matter of that dimension.

Moreover, the teleportation took less than a second, and he was already out.

"That power is truly miraculous; if I could master it one day, does it mean I could also teleport?"

One moment Ye Feng was marveling at the power, but in the next, he was stunned.

He glanced at his body. "Why have I shrunk so much? No, it’s not just my height, I seem to have shrunk proportionally."

Ye Feng found that his entire body had indeed shrunk by a factor of ten.

Now his Tree Body was only just over 800 meters tall, and even the length of his roots had shortened to 5.1 kilometers.

Initially, Ye Feng was very shocked, but he soon calmed down, because he realized that his strength had not weakened at all—his tree roots were as fast and powerful in their attacks as before.

"It’s good that my strength hasn’t been weakened!" Ye Feng let out a long sigh of relief.

But new questions quickly emerged, "But why has my body been shrunk? Is it because the space here is limited?"

Clearly, these were questions destined to remain unanswered.

However, this revelation also informed Ye Feng of something: there was a method by which one could increase or decrease in size.

Could it be that the Cyclops he had seen through the space telescope, who appeared enormous within the cosmos, also used some special method to enlarge his body for easier navigation through the universe?

If that were true, doesn’t it mean that the creature’s strength might not be as formidable as he had speculated?

Question after question arose in his mind, but Ye Feng soon suppressed them again.

"Now is not the time to think about this."

What he needed to do now was to determine if he had arrived at the Land of Inheritance, could he avoid the special restrictions of Earth and force a breakthrough to the Seventh Order?