I have an Apocalypse City

Chapter 1517: Chapter 1519: Escape Chapter 1517: Chapter 1519: Escape Indeed, it was a true case of finding what one seeks without searching for it. The Life and Death Grass that Song Jian had always been looking for was actually being cared for by this barbarian. Following him through a long corridor, Song Jian finally arrived at a grand hall.

The walls around the hall were covered with arrays, each looking perilously dangerous. A single touch could trigger the array’s counterattack. Outside the main hall, two barbarians at the peak of the Legendary Realm seemed listless. Only when they saw the barbarian coming with the herbs did they show a bit of spirit.

The barbarian glanced at the two men and, without speaking, merely let out a faint hum and walked straight towards the hall.

Song Jian followed them underground, and at the moment the door opened, he also dashed through into the hall.

Upon entering the hall, there was a flowerbed in the center, within which a plant over a foot high was growing. This plant was half black and half white, with only eight complete leaves. The last leaf was only about two-thirds formed and not yet fully matured.

At the same time, at the very top of the plant, there was a gray bud, about to bloom, with strands of mysterious aura emanating from the half-closed, half-open bud.

“Life, the Death Rule, it’s actually nurturing both the laws of life and death…” Song Jian stood agape. A single flower was nurturing two principles, and what’s more, they were the completely opposite attributes of life and death–a revelation that left Song Jian both shocked and surprised.

“Perhaps only such a treasure could bring the dead back to life, really…” Song Jian shook his head and exclaimed.

Such a treasure, if one could stay around it for a long time, one could potentially comprehend the laws of life and death. However, no matter how strong the barbarians were, they only comprehended one rule: the Vitality Rule. Upon reaching the Legendary Realm, they comprehended the Vitality Domain, and upon breaking through to the Demi-God Level, what they understood was the Vitality Rule again. As for the other rules, it was unknown whether they could not comprehend them or simply disdained to do so!

“It’s simply wasteful, an extravagant squandering of heaven’s gifts! Such a treasure has been in your possession for over a thousand years. Even a pig, if it spent every day beside it, could have comprehended the laws of life and death by now. Either of these laws is a hundred times more powerful than the Vitality Rule!” Song Jian couldn’t help but curse inwardly.

The Vitality Rule could enhance Vitality Points and improve the recovery speed of vitality, particularly suited for close-combat defense professions. But that was all, compared to grand principles like the laws of life and death; it was like the difference between commoners and nobility.

However, the laws of life and death were also incredibly difficult to comprehend. Without the help of a treasure, an ordinary person could never understand these two principles in their lifetime.

For a moment, Song Jian even thought of risking the mission’s failure to take the Life and Death Grass for himself. Such a treasure was priceless; whether at the Legendary Realm or the Demi-God Realm, anyone would drool over it and be willing to pay their entire fortunes to acquire it.

The barbarian with three heads and six arms, holding three herbs, approached the flowerbed. He glanced at the Life and Death Grass and all three heads simultaneously let out a sigh.

To nurture this single Life and Death Grass, the entire barbarian tribe nearly exhausted its essence. Just to cultivate that small garden in an otherwise barren land cost a thousand times more than it would in any other place; it was comparing the price of digging a well in ordinary land to that in a desert–completely disproportional.

The barbarian crushed the three herbs and slowly dripped their juice onto the root of the Life and Death Grass. Then, he buried the crushed herbs into the soil around the plant and carefully patted the earth around the base of the Life and Death Grass.

The bald-headed barbarian on the left couldn’t help but say, “Can this Life and Death Grass really allow our kind to break through this cycle and ascend to the heavens?”

The right-headed barbarian with a small braid let out a sigh, “This is the hope of our tribe, guarded for over a thousand years; we cannot give up halfway!”

The middle head remained silent, staring at the Life and Death Grass for a long time. Finally, he let out a sigh, bowed respectfully to the Grass, and then turned to walk away, his steps heavy.

The Life and Death Grass, having absorbed the essence of three herbs, saw the previously incomplete ninth leaf slowly grow to completion. The flower bud, radiating the Death Rule, also began to unfurl a bit more.

Song Jian checked the task timer and saw there was a little over one day left, less than thirty hours for the Life and Death Grass to mature.

Surroundings were silent, with only the Life and Death Grass quietly blooming in the flowerbed. Song Jian had already retreated beneath the flowerbed, where he could even touch the roots of the Life and Death Grass.

The Life and Death Grass was within easy reach, but a heavy weight seemed to press down on Song Jian’s heart, as if a great danger would descend upon him the moment he seized the Life and Death Grass.

“What more danger could there be? Even if a Demi-God Realm savage found me, they couldn’t chase me underground. Moreover, there are no array formations for protection around here. I just need to reach out my hand to put the Life and Death Grass into my bag slot. What danger could there possibly be?” Song Jian, hiding underground, furrowed his brows, carefully extending his senses in all directions, like a spider web probing in the void.

After a long while, he still couldn’t detect the source of the danger, but the heavy weight on his heart grew even heavier, almost to the point of choking him.

“I’m going for it!” Watching the Life and Death Grass continue to unfurl its leaves and branches, Song Jian suddenly reached for the roots of the plant, and the instant his fingers touched the Life and Death Grass, he immediately moved it into his bag slot.

The moment he acquired the Life and Death Grass, Song Jian unleashed his fleeing technique with all his might, darting towards the outside of the great hall.

Seconds after the Life and Death Grass vanished, from deep within the great hall came an Angry Roar. The sky that was once clear suddenly filled with dark clouds and mist, and lightning, like a azure dragon, darted through the dense clouds.

BOOM–
The deafening sound of thunder, like war drums being struck, cast a pall over a thousand miles, the whole area shrouded by the abnormalities appearing in the sky.

“What, what is this situation!” Several godly children of other tribes looked at the sky, their hearts pounding with terror. They could clearly feel waves of oppressive might coming from the sky.

“Run for your lives!” One of the godly children screamed in horror, his body flashing with bloodlight, as he unexpectedly executed a blood-fleeing technique and took off into the distance.

In an instant, over thousands of miles, the thunder, like long swords, rained from the sky, stabbing at these outsiders.

BOOM, BOOM, BOOM!

The godly children and heroines below the Demi-God Level, and the heroes from the Human Race, had no way to dodge such attacks. Unless they had a life-saving secret technique, they faced only one path in the face of such lightning: death!

The anomaly in the sky lasted for a good half-hour, apocalyptic in its essence, killing countless Legendary Realm godly children, saintesses, and heroes of the Human Race with the sudden thunder and lightning. Even the Demi-God Level powerhouses, facing this end-of-the-world disaster, felt helpless. Such damage could severely wound, if not kill, a Demi-God Level being.

Apart from those within the Bloody Arena, who could avoid such damage, tens of thousands of outsiders who had entered the area were nearly annihilated by this sudden disaster.

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