The Lost People of Teyvat

Chapter 349 The Truth
Nashida looked pitiful, as if she wanted to cry but was holding it back. She pursed her lips tightly and stared with her big eyes at the giant snake and the Great Kindness Tree King, who had somehow become friends from enemies. She felt confused and aggrieved.

She tried to take a deep breath, her lips trembled, and her tone was mixed with a hint of tears: "So, these are all fake?"

Was the endless reincarnation dream she experienced really just a dream, or a "tutoring" planned by these two guys and hidden from her alone?
“The truth and falsehood must be viewed dialectically and cannot be generalized.”

Chen Tianfeng shook his head, coiled his body, and looked lazy: "What's more, this is my dream - a dream of God. From the moment it was born, it had incredible power. Who can tell whether it is true or false?"

The giant snake paused, lowered its eyes to look at the young god, and smiled "kindly": "For example, I did devour you more than a thousand times in the cycle of retracing. I think you will not easily forget this strange experience, right?"

Nashida's small body trembled. The experience of being swallowed alive by a giant snake was the most terrifying and profound experience she had ever experienced since she was born. How could she forget it so easily?

"But I'm still alive now. I haven't been buried by the snake... Is that what you want to say?"

Nashida raised her head and looked at the giant snake. After a long pause, she blurted out, "What a quibble."

"Haha, you, the God of Wisdom, do seem to have some wisdom. If you work harder, maybe you can catch up with me in a thousand years."

Chen Tianfeng spoke without changing his expression. He swung his tail and noticed the border in the distance gradually crumbling. "This dream is about to end. If you have anything else to ask, ask it now. It will be too late."

"I want to know the truth."

Nashida stared at the giant snake without hesitation, and clenched her hands: "When did you start working with the Great Compassion Tree King, and why did this dream appear?"

“This… was actually an accident at first.”

Chen Tianfeng thought for a moment and looked at the Great Compassion Tree King. The latter nodded, took a step forward, and said softly: "Let me tell you. At first, I woke up from the World Tree and realized..."

The Great Compassionate Tree King sensed that there was an extremely terrifying existence that for some reason had set its sights on the World Tree, and even used some means to leave pollution in the roots of the World Tree.

The pollution was extremely hidden. If the Great Compassion Tree King and the World Tree were not almost "one and the same", they would probably not be able to detect it. But even so, they could only detect it, without any effective means of removal.

Although this pollution is very quiet, lurking quietly in the roots of the World Tree without any other movement, the Great Compassionate Tree King knows that as long as this pollution exists, the horrible monster will come sooner or later.

"I want to clean up the pollution, but to the World Tree, I am also a kind of pollution because I carry forbidden knowledge. And compared to Mr. Chen's pollution, the pollution of forbidden knowledge is more violent and obvious, and the World Tree rejects me more severely."

The Great Compassionate Tree King sighed when he said this. If one looks at it from the perspective of the World Tree, the situation at the time was this: the forbidden pollution that was strictly blocked and cleared by the Great Compassionate Tree King was blatantly running around in the World Tree and attacking a "safe and harmless" piece of data.

But it just so happens that within this forbidden pollution there is the aura of the Great Compassionate Tree King.

As a result, a conflict arose in the operating mechanism of the World Tree, which had the impact of increasing the number of dead zones in the Sumeru Rainforest, surging the number of patients with Demon Scale Disease, and accelerating the deterioration of Demon Scale Disease.

"But the most serious thing is that Apep, who was sleeping in the desert, was awakened by the restlessness of the forbidden knowledge in the world tree. He sneaked into Xumi City and tried to check the situation." The Great Compassionate Tree King sighed again.

"Apep has been trying to digest or assimilate forbidden knowledge for thousands of years. I would say that his own brain has also been polluted by forbidden knowledge."

Chen Tianfeng took over the conversation, his face gloomy, and his tone was very unhappy: "I originally thought that after coming to Xumi, I would quickly approach the World Tree and use the World Tree to complete my resurrection before everyone could react. I never thought about completely occupying the World Tree, let alone going to war with the Xumi God."

After all, the World Tree is the foundation of the world of Teyvat and the root of the God of Grass. He is not a vicious robber, so there is no reason for him to do such things as stealing food, smashing pots and killing people.

"But when Mr. Chen rushed over, Apep also happened to arrive."

The Great Compassionate Tree King had a complicated expression, wanting to cry and laugh at the same time. He opened his mouth, but in the end he just sighed.

Apep had just arrived at Xumi City and found the World Tree. Before he could figure out what was going on, he saw a monster that was so terrifying that it could easily drag the entire world to death running towards him. Behind him was a wind god with shining eyes and a look of excitement.

Then he turned around and saw the fully armed Great Compassion Tree King, with a nervous look on his face as if facing a great enemy, emerging from the World Tree.

Apep's first thought was: Damn, these guys are coming for him.

And looking at the monster's expression, it seemed as if it had already thought out how to capture Him and then eat Him slowly, bite by bite.

Naturally, the Grass Dragon King refused to surrender and waited for his neck to be killed, so he fought back immediately. Chen Tianfeng thought that the Grass God and the Grass Dragon had teamed up to ambush him at the World Tree, and he was hit head-on by the Grass Dragon, so he was furious and prepared to defeat the Grass Dragon and the Grass God before talking to reason.

A confusing war between gods broke out, and the two sides - mainly a dragon and a snake - became more and more angry as they fought, and finally stopped holding back. Even the World Tree was affected: it was bitten off by the angry giant snake, and it held the World Tree in its mouth and smashed it at the grass dragon, achieving a remarkable victory.

The Great Tree King and the Wind God on the side were completely unable to intervene, nor did they dare to take action in the face of the death pollution, but this also resolved the misunderstanding.

The battle ended with the Grass Dragon King being devoured, the World Tree broken and only part of its trunk remaining, and Xumi City reduced to ruins.

Then came the events of Chen Tianfeng building a coffin, splitting himself into three, and using huge, infinite and countless dreams to cover and reshape Mount Sumeru.

"The situation was too tragic at the time. Taking advantage of the opportunity of soul resurrection, we created a dream to cover Mount Sumeru and thus modify history. This was the best solution we could think of at the time."

Chen Tianfeng scratched his chin and said, "But because the World Tree was shattered and for some other reasons, I have a feeling that this dream will be different from the past - it may not be under my subjective control. But fortunately, it is my dream after all, and there is always a way to resist and resolve it."

"So, after discussion, we decided that I would enter the surface dream, which is Mr. Chen's [God's Dream], and be responsible for holding back the giant snake god who only had instincts left. The traveler would enter the deep dream, which is Mr. Chen's [Human Body Dream], and be responsible for finding and trying to wake Mr. Chen up."

The Great Compassion Tree King said: "The Wind God is roaming freely in the [Dream of the Human Body], trying to find and enter Mr. Chen's [Dream of the Soul]. After all, only when the soul awakens, the triple dream will truly end."

(End of this chapter)