Chapter 62: Ancient Legends (2)

On the first day of the expeditionary force's departure, the slowest of them climbed more than 800 meters. The believers waiting below could even see them in the trees. At sunrise, the captain unsurprisingly pulled the string to signal that he was still alive. Unexpectedly, his action caused a frenzied cheer from the believers under the tree, and the sound shook the sky.

In response to the enthusiasm of the believers, the captain of the expeditionary force made an exception and pulled the Qi line five times, and with each pull, the crowd under the tree cheered.

Of course, at that time, they knew that the thread was pulled five times just to celebrate, and there was no other meaning.

On the second day of the Giant Tree Campaign, all the warriors had climbed into the sky, and the believers who were still holding out under the tree could no longer see their figures. When the sun rose, the thread was pulled as promised. There was another cheer under the tree, but it was not as enthusiastic as the first time.

In the early morning of the third day, the Qi line was pulled again. At this time, most of the believers under the tree had already left, and the rest were the most core members and diehards of the Giant Tree God Cult. They simply set up a wooden house on the edge of the abyss around the tree, and it seemed that they would not leave until the expeditionary force triumphed.

On the fourth day, the Qi line was pulled......

Day 5......

Day 6......

The height of the Giant Tree was far greater than all the Giant Tree Cult mystics had ever expected. Fifteen days after the expeditionary force's departure, the Qi line was still pulled once a day, and the treetops were far away. And when it set out, the expeditionary force carried only twenty days' worth of dry rations. You know, they need supplies when they get down the tree. Although the speed of descending the tree is much faster than that of ascending the tree, it takes 15 days to climb the tree, and it takes at least 5 days to descend the tree.

If the expeditionary force doesn't find any supplies in the trees, they will embark on a race against time if they continue to move forward now.

At this time, the upper echelons of the Giant Tree God Cult under the tree could also pull the Qi line twice, but this meant that the expeditionary force that was still continuing to climb the tree immediately stopped the climb and returned to the tree immediately.

Should they be brought down the tree or not?

Still is...... Keep moving. Until you reach the top of the tree?

The upper echelons of the Giant Tree God Cult launched an extremely fierce debate over this. All members of the church were divided into two factions, "returning" and "forward", and the arguments with each other could not be settled. In the end, under Yao's strong pressure, he signaled the expeditionary force to continue to move forward and vowed not to give up until it reached the top of the tree.

On the twentieth day, at sunrise, the Qi line was pulled as promised.

On the twenty-first day, as usual.

Day 22......

Day 23......

On the fortieth day, when the Qi line was still being pulled by the people on the tree, the higher-ups of the Giant Tree Cult realized the strangeness of the matter—according to the original calculation, the supplies of the expeditionary force should have been exhausted long ago. No matter how much you save, it can't support it until now?

Could it be that they found new supplies in the trees?

However, this is a huge team of 2,000 people. Even if there is a danger on the road and half of the people die, there are still a thousand people.

What did they encounter in the trees that allowed them to get enough rations for a thousand men?

However, the world above the trees was obscured by endless clouds, and no one knew what was happening in the sky at this moment. The only thing the believers under the tree know is that the advance of the expeditionary force continues.

On the 60th day, the Qi line was pulled again......

Day 80......

Day 100......

The believers under the tree were in a state of terror, they had never imagined that this expedition, which had only been prepared for twenty days, would last for a hundred days and would continue.

There are even many people in the sect who suspect that the one who pulls the Qi thread is no longer human......

What exactly is that.

And something even stranger happened on the 132nd.

On this day, when the dawn came as promised, the Qi line, which symbolized the life and death of the expeditionary force, was not pulled.

The believers who were waiting under the giant tree fell into a riot. There were even many family members of the expeditionary force who fainted on the spot. As long as one of the expeditionary forces is still alive, someone will pull the Qi line, but now that the Qi line is unpulled, doesn't it mean that the expeditionary force has been completely wiped out.

No one could imagine what existed on this giant tree leading to the Heavenly Realm that could make the team of these two thousand martial arts masters disappear completely.

You must know that each of these two thousand people is an elite selected at various levels, and they can easily defeat a hundred. When they are on land, they can even defeat an army of tens of thousands of people head-on.

But there are also believers who believe that the expeditionary force was not completely annihilated. The reason why they didn't pull the Qi line was because they encountered some irresistible accident in the tree.

However, only a small number of believers still have their hearts. Under this giant tree, most of the people dispersed, and only the recorder of the Giant Tree Divine Cult and a few people who believed in miracles were still holding on.

On the one hundred and thirty-third day, the thread that connected the heavens and the earth did not move.

On the 134th, it remained silent.

Day 135......

Day 136......

When the Qi line was silent for one hundred and eighty days, even the believers with the strongest convictions had silently left the foot of the giant tree. And this day is also the last day of the Religious Recorder. If there is no movement on the Qi line tonight, he will also abandon this place and report the news of the total annihilation of the expeditionary force to the upper echelons.

When night fell, the line remained motionless. Utterly disappointed, the recorder drew his special knife, intending to cut the meaningless thread.

But at this time, a miracle happened.

The Qi thread was pulled again.

The recorder couldn't believe his eyes, and after being silent for fifty days, he was once again moved! This means that there are still survivors of the expeditionary force in the trees! He immediately ran back to the nearby town in a frenzy, and reported the discovery as quickly as he could.

The news was uploaded layer by layer in the Giant Tree God Cult, and at the same time, this miracle once again gathered countless believers of the giant tree to watch under the tree. The crowd during that time was as enthusiastic as when the expeditionary force was on the first day of the tree.

Ever since the thread was pulled that night, the expeditionary force in the trees seemed to have been resurrected, and continued to be pulled once a day.

No one knows what happened to the trees during the fifty days when the line was immovable. But now that the Qi line continues to be moved, there is no inertia for these inconsequential subsections.

The crowd under the tree was restored, including the believers of the giant tree, the families of the expeditionary force, and those who came to join in the fun, waiting for the message from the sky every day.

Merely......

Since that time, the thread has been pulled out of control, sometimes in the middle of the night, sometimes in the afternoon, sometimes at noon, and sometimes in the morning.

But never once, at the appointed sunrise.

As if the expeditionary force in the trees had lost the "concept of time".

On the 297th, after a routine shaking of the Qi thread in the afternoon, under the gaze of more than 10,000 believers present, after about a flick of the fingers, the Qi thread was pulled again.

The first time, it was pulled twice in a row.

Could it be that the expeditionary force has finally reached the top of the tree?

Under the giant tree, the crowd erupted in deafening cheers, as if so much effort was worth the nearly a year of watch. At the same time, more and more believers of the giant tree heard the amazing news and rushed from all over the world to gather under the tree, wanting to witness this historic moment together. The cheering crowd gradually gathered into a larger and larger sea of people.