Chapter 1 The Resurgence of Yggdrasil

The revival of Yggdrasil brought earth-shattering changes to the continent of Midgard, and as the location of Yggdrasil's most important thinking organ, Niflheim, the recovery of the eldest son's tentacles located on this continent was naturally no worse than that of Midgard.

If it weren't for seeing it with their own eyes, probably no one would be able to associate the current Niflheim with the rotten darkness and poisonous corruption of the past—the changes here were even more significant than in Midgard.

The turbid poisonous clouds between heaven and earth had been completely purified, and the poisonous springs all over the earth had been transformed into clear and beautiful lakes and rivers under the purification of the eldest son's tentacles. The crisscrossing ravines and deep valleys had also been filled in. The roots of the World Tree grew out of those largest abyssal caves, forming towering ancient trees in the wilderness, and the source of corruption and depravity in the past—the Nidhogg lair—had now been transformed into a temple of life.

Huge green vines covered the circular mountain range of Nidhogg, and the roots of the World Tree spread from the bottom of the mountain range, entwining and merging on the mountain walls to form an astonishing green curtain. The green curtain stretched upward to the sky, and suddenly spread out at a height of a thousand meters, becoming a sun-shading canopy. Spots of green light wandered between the canopy and the green curtain, like ancient elves, preventing the area under the giant tree from falling into darkness.

If the Nordic people really wanted to have a World Tree in their minds, then without a doubt, this should be the image of the World Tree.

And at the foot of this "World Tree", Hao Ren saw white pillars entangled with vines, carved stone walls covered with roses, and magnificent palaces that were almost integrated with the surrounding plants. These suddenly emerging buildings were arranged in rows, surrounded by an atmosphere of mystery and elegance. Hao Ren knew without even thinking that these things were definitely not natural products:

They were all things that Yggdrasil created with its own tentacles and source blood.

Every palace, every pillar, every stone wall had life.

This was the transformation Yggdrasil had made to its core territory after fully awakening. To be honest, Hao Ren was quite satisfied with the environment in front of him. After all, it felt weird to always discuss things in the underground tentacle monster lair…

"It looks a bit familiar..." Hao Ren muttered as he walked towards the palace at the foot of the "World Tree". Vivian next to him was immediately reminded. She looked up and observed for a long time, and suddenly realized, "Oh, it's the same style as the Temple of Cthulhu!"

Hao Ren also suddenly realized: These palaces were indeed not created out of thin air, they were replicas of the Creation Goddess's temple!

Yggdrasil had copied the Creation Goddess's temple with its own flesh and blood, but these temples were intertwined with the branches and roots of the World Tree, and more or less deformed themselves, so Hao Ren hadn't been able to recognize them for a while. This time, walking among the surrounding palace walls and corridors felt different. Looking at those empty halls, even Lily couldn't help but sigh: "Xiao Hei misses her mom."

Hao Ren nodded in agreement: "Yeah, Bai also misses her mom."

"Wasn't Bai created by Xiao Hei?"

"Xiao Hei and Bai belong to mitosis. The Creation Goddess and them are two generations."

"Oh—the landlord is amazing, you can figure this out."

The Nangong siblings listened to Hao Ren's conversation with Lily in the back and couldn't help but whisper, "The landlord and a husky can really chat." "Yeah, yeah."

A verdant vine stretched out from the palace, guiding the way forward. Under the guidance of the vine, Hao Ren and his party arrived at the main hall of the "World Tree Temple". The magnificent building was empty and unmanned. Two circles of white stone pillars were neatly arranged around the circular hall. Huge vines spread out from all around the hall, entwining the stone pillars and winding upwards, and intertwined at the top to form a verdant dome.

In the center of the circular hall floated an incredible thing: it was a crystal clear sphere, more than two meters in diameter. Complex magic runes floated around the sphere, and various mysterious patterns also appeared on the sphere as the runes circulated. Below this sphere was a huge pool, filled with some kind of energy.

"What is this thing?" Hao Ren saw the sphere device in the center of the hall at first glance, and immediately walked over to observe it curiously.

"This is the Guidance Star Disk," a soft female voice came from the opposite side of the hall.

Hao Ren was stunned, because he felt that the voice was quite unfamiliar. He looked up and saw a stranger walking down the semicircular steps opposite the hall. The stranger was wearing a white dress of indistinguishable texture. The dress was unadorned, simple and elegant. She had fair skin, no makeup, and long silver-white hair draped behind her. Even her eyebrows were white—she could almost be described as snow-white. Anyway, Hao Ren felt that the contrast of this girl was really low. If someone with poor eyesight glanced at her, they would hardly be able to see her three-dimensional effect… He knew that he was having this association at this time was a bit strange. Basically, he had this problem after talking to Lily for a long time.

The "white girl" with super low contrast came down from the steps and floated around Hao Ren in circles—because her steps were so light that she didn't seem to touch the ground, or she really didn't have any weight. Anyway, when she walked around, Hao Ren felt that the girl was floating. She floated around and said to herself, "It took a lot of effort to build this place… The memories of the mother's palace have become blurred, but only this place can still be remembered."

"Wait a minute," Hao Ren was immediately confused by the girl. A thought vaguely floated in his mind but he didn't dare to believe it easily, "Who are you?"

"It's Bai," the white girl with low contrast continued to float around, "Didn't you give me the name?"

"It's really you?!" Hao Ren almost jumped up, "How did you become like this?! Hey wait… you're a girl?"

Not to mention Hao Ren, even Vivian and others next to him looked confused at this time. Obviously, everyone was seeing Bai's current skin pack for the first time. Everyone was dumbfounded: When did the eldest son also have this image? Aren't they genderless?

"A girl? We don't have genders," Sure enough, Bai said so herself, "You should know that."

Hao Ren pointed at Bai's current figure with a strange expression: "Then what is this appearance of yours..."

"Oh, all the eldest sons have this function. Because we are the guardians of all living beings, we always have to communicate with various 'second sons' when the ecosystem develops to a specific stage. Mother set up a program so that we can transform into thousands of forms, so that there are no obstacles to communicating with anyone," Bai said as she turned around in place, "Many myths also came from this. You see, I can now transform into a human appearance. In fact, I can transform into anything. If you are reptiles, I can also transform into a centipede..."

Before Bai could finish speaking, Hao Ren subconsciously glanced at Nangong Wuyue: "How does this sound like you?"

"My level isn't that high," the Siren girl quickly waved her hand, "I can only transform into things in the water."

"You can also transform into the Titanic. She definitely can't transform," Lily interjected, "Oh right, now we have to use 'she', not 'he'..."

The facts were in front of him, and Hao Ren could only be surprised and couldn't say anything else. He could only sigh at the magic of creatures like the eldest son, but he didn't think it was too unexpected: After all, he hadn't even seen a completely normal eldest son until now. He finally found a Jormungandr who had a physical collapse before he was even an adult. Yggdrasil could be said to be the only "truly complete" eldest son he had seen so far, so he had to accept whatever special abilities the other party came up with and treat them as normal phenomena...

"Okay, let's not talk about this problem," Hao Ren turned to look at the hall, "Since this place is near your core thinking area, Xiao Hei should be able to come out too, right? What is he… she… ta doing?"

"Oh, I'll bring her out."

Bai casually said something, then turned around and disappeared.

A moment later, another slightly higher-pitched voice came from not far away: "Bastard! Don't pull me! Give me one more song! Let me take another sip! Another sip! I'll die if I don't have the sun to suck!"

Hao Ren watched dumbfounded as Bai dragged a "black girl" who looked exactly like her but with completely opposite clothes and hair color out of a vine. The black girl was dragged along the ground, while frantically cursing loudly, "You ungrateful bastard! Why did I bother to create you in the first place! You xx's xx thing is actually xx-ing me! Let go! You xx! Quickly let go and let me go back and take another sip!"

"You've already eaten enough," Bai threw Xiao Hei on the ground, "I feel like I'm one with you, I know you're full."

Hao Ren was stunned by the white plus black duo: "What are you talking about?"

At this time, it was Izhaks who hadn't spoken all along who reacted first: "Isn't Yggdrasil absorbing energy next to the Tanngrisnir star?"

Xiao Hei crawled into a ball on the ground, with a happy face: "Eating is so refreshing... I was hungry for two thousand years in space... Let me take another sip..."

Everyone: "..."

"How can Yggdrasil's style be like this?" Hao Ren looked unacceptable, "How can the eldest son's style be like this?"

Lily patted Hao Ren on the shoulder, the husky girl looked insightful at this time: "You're still the Pope, what's the point of arguing?"

Hao Ren thought for a while and felt speechless.