"Yes!"
Beelzebub nodded. "Back in the War of the Gods, the Martial God alone routed the so-called gods... Twelve main gods even died directly... or rather, entered reincarnation... waiting to awaken..."
"And Athena is a rather strange existence... she doesn't seem to have been killed, but rather dispersed her consciousness and entered reincarnation... perhaps this is her wisdom..."
"Dionysus among the Twelve Main Gods is the god of wine, said to brew unparalleled wine... a pity I never tasted it..."
"Demeter is the god of fire. His divine artifact is a peculiar hammer, said to be the origin of all divine artifacts!"
"As for Aphrodite, her existence is quite special... rumored to have been killed directly for disobeying Zeus..."
Beelzebub sighed deeply and looked at Lingxi and Lengyue. "You two were led here by Asmodeus, hoping someone could take down Yulmes and Hera's so-called gods, but you're too pathetic!"
Lingxi and Lengyue frowned slightly, lowering their heads in a bit of dejection, but they didn't retort, as Beelzebub was stating facts...
"The fact that the Seven Deadly Sins are part of the gods... I told Lucifer, and he should have noticed, but he was too arrogant to cooperate with us... that's how Hades seized the opportunity and devoured him..."
After a pause, Beelzebub spoke again. "As for Asmodeus, he's a horny idiot, preoccupied with his goblins all day... he's also half-hearted about the affairs of the gods and doesn't pay much attention..."
"This... why are you telling me this?"
Ye Feng looked at Beelzebub with some confusion. He found what Beelzebub said to be quite credible, as the identities of Kollege and the Prophet he mentioned earlier were indeed true...
"I think highly of you. I hope you can kill those so-called gods one day!"
Beelzebub looked at Ye Feng earnestly.
"This..."
Ye Feng frowned, not pursuing the topic, and instead asked about something else that concerned him. "Then... do you know why my Karma Fire was absorbed or extinguished by that strange stone coffin?"
Beelzebub also frowned upon hearing this. He pondered for a while before saying, "It should be the Heart of Yggdrasil!"
"Heart of Yggdrasil? What is that?"
Ye Feng's voice was filled with clear confusion.
"Have you heard of the World Tree Yggdrasil?" Beelzebub asked back.
"World Tree Yggdrasil? It's said that the Twelve Main Gods are extraordinarily powerful because they ate the fruit of Yggdrasil?" Ye Feng said uncertainly.
"Yes!"
Beelzebub nodded. "The World Tree of the Gods completely destroys any place it reaches... eradicating the indigenous population... draining the resources of that place... and then moves on to the next. It cycles like this..."
"And the Heart of Yggdrasil is the seed of the World Tree... the gods plant the Heart of Yggdrasil wherever they go..."
"I've secretly searched for the whereabouts of the Heart of Yggdrasil for many years, wanting to destroy it completely, but without any success..."
Beelzebub looked at Ye Feng. "Judging by your use of Karma Fire earlier... the Heart of Yggdrasil should be in that stone coffin... only the Heart of Yggdrasil can resist Karma Fire..."
"How do you know so clearly? As if you saw it yourself!?"
Ye Feng was very surprised.
"Hoo!"
Beelzebub took a deep breath and looked at the almost setting sun. "Ye Feng, do you remember I just said I'm the leader of the Zerg?"
"I am indeed Beelzebub, but I am also the leader of the Zerg... Poseidon's remnant shadow of gluttony was Beelzebub, who ate me, but I suppressed his consciousness..."
"However, as the gods awaken, I can no longer suppress it!"
As he spoke, Beelzebub rubbed his temples, appearing to have a headache. "Our Zerg was once a highly developed civilization... we also had powerful experts... until the so-called gods arrived..."
"They planted the World Tree... killed all my people... and completely destroyed the planet where our Zerg resided..."
"For some special reason, I survived in a very low-level and strange form... I wandered the universe with the gods... witnessing civilization after civilization being destroyed by them..."
"Because of the gods' 'immortal' nature... almost no civilization was their match... until they arrived at this planet called Earth..."
Beelzebub's expression became agitated. "At first, I thought this planet would be like other planets with intelligent civilizations, ruled and destroyed by the gods... until I saw a person... a farmer, who looked very ordinary, yet seemed extraordinary..."
"It was such a farmer, tilling the land in a mountain village, who ascended the divine palace alone and routed the unimaginably powerful Twelve Main Gods..."
"This farmer is the 'Martial God' in your human legends..."
"I even have a very strange feeling that the Martial God could have truly killed the Twelve Main Gods!"
"But he didn't seem to do so, only cut down the sprouted World Tree... and those dead gods began to revive again..."
Beelzebub quickly explained to Ye Feng.
"Later, after much research, I discovered that this planet called Earth was far more magical than I imagined... it had beings capable of traversing the void and exploring the universe very early on..."
"And the Martial God came from a tribe called the Shenlong Clan..."
After a pause, Beelzebub spoke again.
"Shenlong Clan?"
Hearing this, Ye Feng couldn't help but be surprised, as he had heard Shenbotian mention it before. He would have forgotten about it if Beelzebub hadn't brought it up.
"Yes!"
Beelzebub sighed softly, his eyes full of envy. "The elders of our clan used to say that with too much intelligence, civilized beings only lead to destruction. It's enough to just have the wisdom to know when you're hungry and need to eat... perhaps that's not enough..."
Afterward, Beelzebub told Ye Feng and the others many things, including some history of the Zerg and Beelzebub's experiences wandering with the gods. Xiao Xiao was very interested and listened intently...
...
Soon, the sun had completely set.
"Ye Feng, can I talk to you about something privately?"
Just as Ye Feng was about to set up camp with Xiao Xiao and the others, Beelzebub suddenly called him.
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