It is said that Odin killed the giant Ymir and grew the tree from the giant's corpse. The World Tree has three main vein roots, one stretching out to the "Atrium" of the human world, one to the "Land of Giants", and one to the "Land of the Dead", where the black dragon Nidhogg gnaws at the roots.

Qin Beiyang and the Nine Colors are in the land of the dead. One day, the black dragon will bite off this root, causing the collapse of the universe, the twilight of the gods.

What about the other two roots?

He quietly left, slowly feeling a thick root from among the millions of tendrils. He walked and walked along this root, and after walking for many miles, he finally came across a well.

The so-called "Well of Destiny" is guarded by three goddesses, whose names are past, present and future. The goddesses watered the roots of the World Tree with spring water, giving life to mankind and appointing the doom of each person's fate.

Qin Beiyang poked his head into the well, drank the sweet well water, filled his body, and the pain in his lungs weakened. He fell to the ground contented, like a traveler in the desert who met an oasis, looking up at the leafy World Tree, as if his heart was also turning green.

Nine Colors helps him find another root. This vein leads to the land of giants. They walked for some length when they suddenly saw a giant. As soon as the small town tomb beast took a fighting posture, Qin Beiyang let it stop, it was a towering stone statue. But when will the stone move? Like the gods in the Viking Valhalla, who knows? A spring of water gushes from the foot of the stone statue.

Fountain of Wisdom.

In order to drink this spring water, Odin walked through the misty forest to find the wise man Mimir, who guarded the World Tree, and did not hesitate to lose his right eye, hung himself from the tree for nine days and nine nights, pondered the mysteries of the universe, and finally invented Runiwen, bringing civilization to the ancient Germanic people.

Do you still need to hesitate? Qin Beiyang took off his clothes and jumped into the Wisdom Spring. The spring water envelops every inch of skin throughout the body, penetrating every pore, like the amniotic fluid in the mother's womb, allowing him to divide from a small fertilized egg cell into a small screw, then into a small fish, then into a small monster, and finally into a human in the fetal stage.

Mankind......

He was like a human baby, born in the underground palace of the Bailuyuan Tomb, the coffin of the little prince of the Tang Dynasty. He was like a child, walking by the Haihe River in Tianjin, entering the underground palace of Emperor Guangxu, and discovering the birthmark and mission behind him.

Returning to the trunk of the World Tree, looking up at the starlight leaking through the gaps in the leaves, he made a decision.

Or the words of the great god Odin - keep walking.

He's going to escape from this world and return to the world, and Anna is still waiting for him, if she's still alive.

First of all, he had to climb to the top of the World Tree to see the whole world, where was the exit?

Climb trees!

Qin Beiyang touched the bark of the tree, pulled out the Tang knife behind his back, and tried to insert it into the trunk with all his might. Although the World Tree was incomparably hard, the Tang Dao carried the power of An Lushan and immediately sank into more than a foot deep. With the support of the Tang knife, he climbed the thick trunk of the tree. The bark criss-crossed, forming natural ravines, was enough for him to stick his palm in. Cancer made him lose weight without putting too much pressure on the bark. He used a Tang knife on one side and the palm of his hand on the other hand, alternately inserting it deep into the trunk to climb. Except that there is no rope or hook and loop, it is quite like a rock climber.

When he climbed up dozens of meters high, he looked back and saw nine colors. The small town tomb beast regained the posture of a big dog, with sharp claws growing on the soles of its feet, firmly hooking the trunk of the tree, like a leopard that is good at climbing trees, its speed is much faster than Qin Beiyang, and it will soon be on par with its master.

Qin Beiyang and Jiu Se climbed to the first branched branch, thick as a huge roof, enough to sleep and dance on it. He touched his chest, drank the water of the Well of Destiny, washed the water of the Spring of Wisdom, and the pain was relieved again.

The trunk of the tree is divided into many branches like cow's hair, spaced no more than a meter or two apart, stretching in all directions. He and Jiuse climbed seven or eight branches in a row, and then looked at the crown on their heads, and they couldn't see the top at all.

When he was about to climb up again, he felt hungry.

Hunger shows that this is not the underworld, nor is it a dream, and that you are truly living. He didn't have the strength to go up anymore, but the nine colors were eager to try. Qin Beiyang flicked the leaves and found that although each leaf was different in color, it was the shape of a pentagram. No wonder the psychics in ancient times used the pentagram as a symbol. Carefully pluck a leaf, put it in your mouth and chew it slowly, the taste on the tip of the tongue is strange, it is a little bitter at first, and soon there is sweetness, just like the best tea leaves. When he tore a lot of young leaves in one go, he was suddenly hit on the head by something.

Who was attacking him?

Qin Beiyang brandished the ring-headed Tang knife and looked at the top of his head in alarm...... Another hidden weapon struck, smashing right on the top of Nine Colors' head.

Apple.

He plucked it from the branch, the size of a green apple, but when you look closely, it is different, it looks angular and hard. He tried to bite with his teeth, and it had a crunchy nutty feel and tasted very good! I ate it all in three or two bites, and there was no pit. So, there is only one World Tree, and there are no other branches.

This is not Newton's apple, but the fruit of the World Tree, perhaps for thousands of years? That's what Adam and Eve ate in the Garden of Eden, right? If you look closely, it is more like the ginseng fruit in "Journey to the West" that blooms once every 3,000 years and bears fruit every 3,000 years!

It can't be just this one fruit. Relying on young leaves and fruits to replenish their physical strength, he and Jiuse continued to climb, passing through more than a dozen large branches, and finally found hundreds of heavy fresh fruits in the middle of a lush leaf. He climbed up and down like a monkey in Huaguo Mountain, swept away the fruits, and feasted on them until he had a few burps.

The canopy of the trees obscures the sky, and there is no day or night under the World Tree, only stars and stars. Despite his fear of not waking up again if he closed his eyes, he decided to sleep in the trees. There is no need to worry about falling, because the branches are wide enough, he picked up many five-pointed star leaves and covered his body, and did not shy away from the power of the nine-colored spirit stone, still like the old days, holding the town tomb beast to sleep......

When he woke up, it was too peaceful, Qin Beiyang took a deep breath, just like the morning air, and the breath between the leaves was fresh, as if he had done a deep wash on the lung lobes full of cancer cells. Looking down at the branches, before I knew it, it was already ten thousand miles high.

He was amazed at the benefits of living in a tree, but didn't the ancestors of mankind also live in a tree?

The branches began to shake violently, and a strong wind was blowing. No, when a shaking branch comes from a single direction, there will be a foreign object running on the branch. He and Nine Colors were ready to fight, but they saw a huge stag with four hooves lightly stepping on the branches, raising its neck to chew on the new buds, and picking the most tender fruit to eat in large gulps.

It turns out that there are other animals hidden in the world of the World Tree.

The stag is tall and proud, with huge antlers, running between the branches of the trees like walking on the ground, maybe it is a tree animal? For example, sloths and the like, but one is as quiet as a virgin, and the other is as moving as a rabbit.

The nine-colored heart grew antlers and turned into a young Qilin Town tomb beast, as if the animal eating leaves and fruits on the other side was his closest kind?

When the buck saw Jiu Se and Qin Beiyang, it was frightened and immediately turned away. The stag jumped on another branch, and in a moment, jumped up a hundred meters. Qin Beiyang decided to chase after him, and instead of climbing straight up from the trunk of the tree, he chose the route of the stag and jumped between the branches to climb. However, the deer has four legs, and the hands and feet of humans cannot be compared.

Suddenly, Qin Beiyang accidentally stepped on a thin branch, which could not bear his weight and broke.

Fall......