The fruits of labor? Strength?

Lewis smiled, the poisonous snake really didn't have a very good brain, and suddenly said everything.

He pointed to the apple tree above his head, and said:

"But the fruits of your labor don't seem to be reaping the rewards, you see, when you hang a brand new apple, one of the apples will rot completely and fall into the dirt."

"Shut up, that great being won't deceive me!"

The serpent swallowed the letter, and its body began to split, one into two, two into four......

In just a few breaths, the surrounding green grass was full of poisonous snakes.

Lewis saw once again that the complete thread of fate was divided into countless parts, each viper was an entity, but it represented a different fate, a different time.

"It was a real eye-opener." Lewis initially guessed that this is an ability of the "fate" pathway, and it is an extremely novel way to use it.

Cut their own destiny into a circular space, so as to create a real clone.

In other words, each doppelganger is an entity, and if you want to kill the snake, you can only kill all the doppelgangers in an instant.

Vipers surrounded him from all sides, one after the other, and pounced on Lewis.

These poisonous snakes are not very strong in their individual abilities, and it is difficult to even cause trouble for Lewis, even if they bite with their fangs, it is difficult to break through Lewis's strengthened spirit.

But this dense amount is really unbearable, not to mention, the venom is not useless to Lewis, it has the effect of eroding spirits.

The Sun Phalanx erupted with a burning sensation, and as Lewis focused, golden flames joined together to burn the vipers around him to ashes.

Lewis wasn't in a hurry, he just needed to end the summon to get back to the Grey Mist, but there were a few more attempts he wanted to do before he could finish the summon.

Standing in the center of the vortex of flames, he guessed:

"If I'm not mistaken, what the Great Being told you is that this tree is full of golden apples, but it is clear that this apple tree can never be full of golden apples.

The birth of one golden apple means the complete death of another, and from the very beginning, that being was just playing a bad joke on you.

Perhaps, you have taken it seriously and practiced it for countless years, or maybe you have collected countless golden apples, but you have never been able to achieve your wish. ”

"Shut up!" The thoughts of the vipers came to Lewis's mind almost simultaneously.

Annoyed, the snakes swarmed up and lunged at Lewis, even completely oblivious to the golden flames surrounding Lewis's spirit.

One by one, the poisonous snakes either tore or tried to bite off the flesh of Lewis's spirit, allowing themselves to be scorched.

Lewis felt that he had guessed correctly, and he let out his bad luck and gave all the poisonous snakes, so that he could leave himself with nothing but good luck.

A venomous snake had just rushed through the flames, and before it could bite Lewis, it realized that its tail had been bitten by another viper.

In an instant, its body disintegrated, turning into a puddle of pitch-black liquid.

Similar oolong events were played out among the snakes, and Lewis stepped on the golden flame until he came to the golden apple tree, and whispered:

"Fate is like this, it is always in a cycle, and the passing of one thing will be the beginning of another.

Just like the golden apple on this tree, it can never stay at the most perfect time.

If my guess is correct, the gift of fate is here......"

The next moment, silvery-white scales grew on the surface of Lewis's spirit body, and those scales were connected end to end, as if forming closed circles.

His hands and feet retracted into his body, but his body swelled at a rapid rate, gradually turning into a silvery-white python.

The python is more than ten meters long, and it wraps itself around the apple tree, shouting "fate" in a low voice, and borrowing the power of the "Key of Light" to restart the apple tree.

The remaining golden apples from the apple trees quickly decay and then fall to the ground.

The branches and leaves of the apple tree also began to fall, and the whole tree seemed to be dying, the trunk became shriveled and the bark cracked.

This rot continued until a point, when suddenly, the entire tree shattered and sputtered into dots of light.

Mercury-like waters poured out from beneath the surface and scattered on Lewis, watering the hapless viper.

This is what the apple tree is meant to be, and it is part of the long river of fate......

At this moment, countless poisonous snakes looked at the location of the apple tree, and they all looked up at the water gushing out of the ground.

Lewis bathed in the river, the silver scales on the surface of his body began to fade, and the snake's body gradually shrank and eventually returned to its original appearance.

The spirit body is trembling, and every drop of the river bears the fate of a living being, and these fates are intertwined and converged into a long river of fate.

"This is how the River of Destiny manifests itself in this world, the Key of Essentia Light should be sleeping somewhere in the River of Destiny, and the Key of Light located in the body of the Star Spirit is trembling and wants to get it." Lewis turned to leave.

He will still come in search of essentia, but the priority now is to get his body back.

Suddenly, he felt something tug at the corner of his clothes.

Lewis looked back in confusion and saw a poisonous snake following him.

"Sir, thank you for helping me solve the mystery that has plagued me all my life, and now, I have finally broken the curse and can leave this place forever." The idea of the viper reached Lewis's mind.

Lewis stopped, he crouched down, and asked at the viper, "Can you tell me now?" Who is the great being who asked you to collect the golden apples here? ”

"He is the ruler of the spiritual realm, the great king of time and space, and the ruler of destiny. A long time ago, I questioned His power, and He punished me by letting me complete the puzzle of the golden apple. Of course, having completed the puzzle, I could not only regain my freedom, but also make a wish to him. ”

Sure enough, it was a prank left by the Lord of Mysteries, but unfortunately, he has been dead for a long time...... Lewis glanced at the poisonous snake beside him in surprise, it was hard to imagine that this snake was actually the same era as the Lord of Mysteries.

The next moment, he ended the summoning and returned to the Source Castle.

Looking up, Lewis could still see a thread of fate rushing into the depths of the gray mist, his destiny connected to the Lord of Mystery.

"I have found the entrance to the river of fate, and I can feel the summoning of essentia, but I don't know what the purpose of the Lord of Mysteries is, and I don't know how I will attract the outer gods.

Whether or not to fuse essentia, I need to think about it. ”

Lewis returned to his original body, which was now being carried by Miss Elanna on her shoulder.

(End of chapter)