Creed of the heavens

"Boom!"

Landing firmly, when Lu Xiao stepped on the ground, he made a thick sound that was different from falling into the ground.

This regularly undulating ground is made of wood and covers a very large area.

Lu Xiao saw the distant scenery in the air. These logs should be the roots of the world tree, and the terrain descends from east to west.

"It turns out that the world tree really exists. I thought the so-called world tree was just a special system connecting nine parallel worlds."

Lu Xiao's golden pupils turned into the sky far away, and a huge tree trunk whose end could not be seen stood on the far end of the horizon.

According to legend, Nidhogg stayed at the root of the World Tree to eat the roots in order to corrupt the World Tree.

The spectacular scene in front of him made Lu Xiao doubt the veracity of the legend: "How big does Ned Hogg have to be to bite off the tree roots in his lifetime?"

"hehe"

A playful laugh came from the distance behind Lu Xiao: "I don't want to eat such dry and nutritious food, I'm just absorbing the magic power of the World Tree."

"call!"

A violent sound of breaking wind came from a distance, and a black dragon that was more than three times the size of Fafnir glided from a distance.

"boom!"

The huge black dragon landed heavily on the ground, walked slowly in front of Lu Xiao, lowered his head and looked at him with vertical eyes.

"Sure enough, although you are not the blood of our western giant dragon, you do have the dragon factor in your body."

Lu Xiao was almost blown away by the air naturally ejected from the black dragon's nostrils.

"Ned Hogg?"

"it's me."

"Well, can you keep a safe distance? I'm worried that you will be sprayed into the sky in one breath."

"Hum hum"

Perhaps it was because he hadn't communicated with anyone for a long time, but Ned Hogg was in a good mood, and Lu Xiao's half-joking words made him let out a deep and joyful laugh.

"Snapped"

Lie on the ground and folded his front paws, Nid Hogg put his head on it, turned his head slightly so that his nostrils were not facing Lu Xiao.

"is this OK?"

Lu Xiao sat cross-legged in front of Ned Hogg, looked up at his left eye and asked, "Ned Hogg, I don't like to beat around the bush, so I just asked."

"Why did you invite me to the root of the world tree?"

"Before answering your question."

Nid Hogg asked with deep meaning: "What do you think of the infinite reincarnation of the Nine Realms?"

A look of astonishment appeared on Lu Xiao's face: "You know?"

"Oh, of course I know."

"Reincarnation is the Nine Realms within the scope of the World Tree, and the roots are not so strongly affected."

"Although I will also be restricted by the rules of reincarnation, my memory has not been deliberately blocked, and I have retained the memory of every reincarnation."

Lu Xiao asked purely out of curiosity, "How many times did the Nine Realms reincarnate in Ragnarok?"

"Let me think."

Nid Hogg's eyes showed the color of memory: "It seems to be 215 times?"

"what?"

Ragnarok is a reincarnation with a unit of a thousand years. Lu Xiao expected the answer in his heart to be a dozen times, at most thirty times, and Ned Hogg's answer far exceeded his expectations.

"So many?! Then how did you survive in the world of infinite reincarnation with all your memories?"

Nid Hogg said indifferently: "The reincarnation of the world has nothing to do with me. Anyway, I live here to absorb energy regardless of reincarnation."

"However, recently I have begun to get tired of this stereotyped life and hope to find new excitement."

"That's why I invited you here. I hope you can break the cycle of Ragnarok and welcome the arrival of an unknown new world."

Lu Xiao speculated that the so-called new world does not have a world tree.

This mother tree nourished the creatures of the Nine Realms, but it also brought a lot of troubles and problems to the Nine Realms, both advantages and disadvantages.

Lu Xiao still doesn't know why the reincarnation of the Nine Realms was started, and his question was answered here in Ned Hogg's post.

"The twilight of the gods means the end of the world tree and the decline of the gods. The new world will be dominated by mortals."

"Just as Odin is reluctant to part with his right to rule the Nine Realms, the consciousness of the World Tree that has initially sprouted wisdom does not want to disappear so soon."

"Driven by petty selfishness, the World Tree focused on Ragnarok, which led to its own destruction, and the infinite cycle between the period when it first sprouted wisdom."

Consciousness in the world is nothing new, and Gaia in the lunar world is a similar existence.

It is the instinct of all living beings to maintain their own existence, and the immature world tree was born with this idea, which led to the infinite reincarnation in the world tree system.

Lu Xiao rubbed her eyebrows thoughtfully: "Do you have a way to end the cycle of the world?"

"Yes." Ned Hogg said jokingly, "But I guess you all have your own plans, so I won't talk too much here."

Just like Ymir's divine body and soul will turn into nutrients that nourish all things, even if the World Tree is reluctant, the creatures living in the Nine Realms still need to move on and leave the cradle of the Mother Tree.

Being trapped in a closed-loop time structure will only turn the Nine Realms into a stagnant pool that cannot flow, and sooner or later more serious problems will arise.

"Ned Hogg, are you willing to help us?"

Lu Xiao sincerely assured the huge black dragon: "As long as I can defeat Odin, who is too controlling, I promise to break the time loop of World Tree."

"In order to achieve this goal, we need more assistance."

"Um"

Nid Hogg hesitated: "I"

"Buzz"

The sound of cicada-like wings flapping came from Lu Xiao and Ned Hogg's heads.