Chapter 227: Nine Realms Tree

Zang Shanhai is an old adventurer who is almost a hundred years old.

He is considered the strongest adventurer in Green Mountain City. He broke through to the Fourth Rank twenty-five years ago, and he is also the founder and team leader of the Shanhai Adventure Group, one of the largest adventure teams in the area.

He is an absolute venerable figure among the adventurers in Green Mountain City. Even if they are both Fourth Rank adventurers, Wan Shan Gu Hong is inferior in terms of prestige, fame, and influence.

This big shot, who is admired by thousands of people, also has many troubles!

First of all, as an old adventurer nearing a hundred years old, even if he hasn’t completely retired yet, he is already feeling powerless in terms of adventure, and it is difficult for his cultivation to make further progress.

This is very normal.

It is the fate of every old adventurer.

However, what truly troubles Zang Shanhai is that the Shanhai Adventure Group, which he worked so hard to establish, is facing a situation where it is facing a decline in talent and has no successors.

Because the adventurers of the same generation.

At the very least, they are not younger than seventy or eighty years old.

They have retired one after another and are no longer participating in adventures.

There are fewer and fewer managers with enough prestige and ability to command the high-level members of the adventure group.

Zang Shanhai has devoted decades of his efforts to this adventure group, and it also involves countless people in Green Mountain City and his own huge interests. Naturally, it must be handed over to a trustworthy and most reliable successor.

In fact, the lifespan of a Fourth Rank adventurer can reach one hundred and eighty years.

This also means that Zang Shanhai still has seventy or eighty years to live. He can completely retire to the second line and let his children take over. He can spend decades in the background to cultivate and ensure that the adventure group can transition smoothly and grow.

However, although Zang Shanhai had a relationship when he was young, he not only had a beloved wife at that time, but also a lovely and intelligent son, but his wife and son both passed away in an accident.

The main world needs to eat, drink, and eliminate waste, and it will also experience birth, aging, illness, and death.

Therefore, there is nothing strange about this in itself.

This matter is the lifelong pain of Zang Shanhai. From then on, he put all his heart into adventure and career, and he did not remarry or have children, so it is not very possible to cultivate his descendants to take over his career.

Since the path of family inheritance is not very realistic.

Zang Shanhai then considered finding a sufficiently outstanding and powerful adventurer for the adventure group.

In this way, he can ensure that the adventure group continues to grow through cooperation and win-win methods, and even if he retires to the second line, he can ensure the competitiveness of the adventure group and his own interests.

The candidate is found.

It is the Fourth Rank adventurer Wan Shan Gu Hong.

This is the youngest Fourth Rank adventure Master in Green Mountain City!

In fact, before this, Wan Shan Gu Hong had a close relationship with the Shanhai Adventure Group. He had always served as an elder in the Shanhai Adventure Group and was one of the successors designated by Zang Shanhai.

Unexpectedly.

Wan Shan Gu Hong had a problem with his mentality in his prime.

He then withdrew from all forces and announced that he was entering a state of secluded cultivation.

Zang Shanhai knew the importance of this moment to Wan Shan Gu Hong, so he did not disturb him during the process, but waited patiently. He waited for two months.

The things that happened later.

It goes without saying.

Wan Shan Gu Hong suddenly left his seclusion and entered an underground city that he had never even heard of before.

The most absurd thing is that Wan Shan Gu Hong stayed in this underground city for a short period of time, and as a result, he announced that he would give up the underground city he was originally bound to and choose to join this unknown Miracle City.

This is simply incomprehensible!

After all, Miracle City is only a Second Rank Underground City.

The underground city that Wan Shan Gu Hong originally contracted was the largest, most historically profound, and undoubtedly the most powerful Fifth Rank underground city in Green Mountain City, Sunset City.

The headquarters of the Shanhai Adventure Group’s Chaos World is also located in this city.

Wan Shan Gu Hong, without any notice, suddenly left Sunset City and joined a small underground city, which directly disrupted all of Zang Shanhai’s planning and plans.

How can he not be depressed?

At the same time, he is extremely confused!

Wan Shan Gu Hong is not a person who acts impulsively and carelessly of the consequences.

There must be a reason for him to join an underground city so decisively. At the same time, the deeds, stories, various rumors, and specialties of Miracle Territory have become popular in Green Mountain City, making it suddenly become sought after.

Nowadays, it is full every day, and it is the place with the highest topic popularity and discussion degree in Green Mountain City recently.

Strong people from all sides and representatives from all sides have noticed the existence of this underground city.

Zang Shanhai couldn’t sit still either.

The rumors about the secret realm of Miracle City are too exaggerated.

He has been adventuring for decades and has never heard of such a secret realm. As the saying goes, seeing is believing. Zang Shanhai decided to personally enter Miracle City to find out, and more importantly, to find Wan Shan Gu Hong to understand the situation!

It is half an hour before the underground city opens.

Zang Shanhai is sitting in the hall of the adventure group headquarters.

From the outside, this is an old man in his seventies. Although his hair is completely white, his eyes are as sharp as an eagle. Even if he just sits still, he can make people feel a strong aura and foundation.

At this time, a backbone member of the adventure group came forward: “Team Leader, we spent a lot of effort and finally bought the entrance ticket to Miracle City from the black market.”

“Very good!”

“Miracle City is really too popular. The price of this entrance ticket has actually been bid up to 70,000 Soul Crystals!”

70,000 Soul Sand?

That is 700 Soul Crystals!

Although it’s nothing to Zang Shanhai.

But it is the income of a grassroots First Rank adventurer for a hundred months!

But it’s just to get an opportunity to enter the city, and someone is willing to pay such a big price. The popularity of this Miracle City is too absurd!

“Hmph, I want to see, what does this underground city rely on!”

Zang Shanhai calculated the time. The opening time of the underground city was approaching. He did not hesitate and decisively used the entrance ticket. In this way, he could enter the underground city 100% without queuing.

Of course, before officially entering the underground city.

Zang Shanhai also made some special preparations.

After all, Zang Shanhai’s influence in Green Mountain City is too great. If he publicly appears in Miracle City and is recognized, it will definitely cause a bigger sensation in Green Mountain City. To avoid unnecessary trouble, he must keep a low profile.

He is wearing a disguise mask.

This mask can change a person’s appearance and aura.

With this disguise, he can secretly enter Miracle City to investigate in person, without worrying about attracting too much attention or causing other bad effects.

Nineteen, eight… three, two, one!

At the moment the underground city world officially opened.

Zang Shanhai entered the Gloomy City of Miracle Territory through the Teleportation Point.

This Gloomy City, which is bound to Green Mountain City’s adventurer town, has a large gap in its adventurer reception capacity compared to Miracle City, but it also has a scale of nearly three thousand people. Such a number of adventurers is not small in any Third Rank Territory.

But even with so many quotas.

This underground city was still full in an instant after opening.

Although Zang Shanhai knew that the popularity of Miracle City was high, otherwise the entrance tickets would not have been bid up to such a high value, but when he saw it with his own eyes, he was still very shocked.

After all, as far as he knows, Gloomy City is not the main city of the territory!

But now is not the time to be shocked.

The main thing is important!

Zang Shanhai immediately asked the adventurers around him about the whereabouts of Wan Shan Gu Hong.

Qingshan Big Warm Man said: “Old Senior, are you looking for the big shot Wan Shan Gu Hong? Then you may have to go to Miracle City. Several big shots have already settled there.”

Miracle City?

Zang Shanhai wants to go to Miracle City.

But the teleportation in Miracle Territory is not free.

It costs 100 Contribution Points to teleport from Gloomy City to Miracle City for the first time, and a basic fee of 5 Contribution Points is required for each subsequent teleportation. This is not a small number for adventurers. Zang Shanhai cannot go to Miracle City in a short time.

“Hahaha!”

“Finally, the city is open!”

“This is the happiest moment of my day, period!”

“Me too!”

“Tidal Wave is looking for a group! Let’s fight zombies together!”

“I have already fought to Fountainhead Palace in Ashina Country. I can clear the game if I work harder these days!”

“Awesome, I’m stuck with the Phantom Corrupted Monk and the Lion Ape here. The difficulty is too high and I can’t beat it at all, so I’m going to directly play the Sui and Tang Chapter!”

“I can’t beat Ashina either, so I can’t get into my favorite Sui and Tang all the time, but I heard that a new secret realm has been added to the Ten Kingdoms Chronicle today. I think we should go to the new secret realm to try our luck!”

“The new secret realm must be played!”

“……”

Zang Shanhai followed the crowd into the city. He saw that although Gloomy City was not the core main city, it was very complete in construction and almost no less than the core main city of most senior Second Rank or even Third Rank territories.

Of course.

This is nothing.

The biggest difference between Miracle Territory and other underground cities, and the biggest impression it left on him, lies in the state of the adventurers. Every adventurer here is full of ecstasy, excitement, happiness, and expectation.

They have been adventuring for decades.

They have never had such an atmosphere in any underground city.

Therefore, I have to admit that Miracle City is a bit special!

Zang Shanhai couldn’t go to the Miracle Main City at this moment, so he simply followed the other adventurers into the hall, then found a Secret Realm Crystal, and he decided to personally see if the secret realm of Miracle City was as magical as the rumors said.

Before activating the crystal.

The hall was filled with surprise shouts from the adventurers.

“New secret realm!”

“There really is a new secret realm!”

“Everyone, look at the Ten Kingdoms Chronicle, the third kingdom has come out!”

“Hahaha! Great! Lord Qi Ji is really as awesome as always!”

“There is no threshold to enter this kingdom. It can be entered at any time like the Ashina Chapter, and as long as the main story progress is more than halfway, you can activate the permission to enter the Sui and Tang Chapter!”

“……”

Zang Shanhai activated the Secret Realm Crystal, and two secret realms appeared before his eyes.

They are: Doomsday Tide, Exotic Ten Kingdoms Chronicle.

Among them, Doomsday Tide is the secret realm of the Miracle Core Main City, so it will appear in the core of all main cities, while the Exotic Ten Kingdoms Chronicle is a secret realm created through the Gloomy City core.

Other main secret realms and sub-secret realms.

They will not appear in the Gloomy City core.

Adventurers can only choose one of the two secret realms.

If you want to experience more Miracle City secret realms, you can only go to the main city.

Zang Shanhai chose the Ten Kingdoms Chronicle secret realm, which has been mentioned all the time. When the epic BGM sounded, he appeared on the shocking login interface.

The vast exotic world.

There are vast continents and oceans.

There are only three places to enter at present.

They are: Sui and Tang Chapter, Ashina Chapter, and Nine Realms Tree Chapter.

Among them, the Nine Realms Tree Chapter is also known as the “Yggdrasil Chapter”. This is the third chapter opened by the Miracle City’s Exotic Ten Kingdoms Chronicle secret realm, and it is also a new secret realm chapter launched based on the 《God of War 4》 blueprint.

The Exotic Ten Kingdoms Chronicle map is adapted from the Earth map.

Of course, although there is an original, it has been greatly modified, so it is very different from the original.

First of all, in terms of area, the Exotic Ten Kingdoms Chronicle is more than ten times the size of the Earth. Secondly, many terrains have been greatly modified based on the actual situation.

The location of the Nine Realms Tree is located in the Northern Europe area. From its appearance, it is a bit similar to the sea Jianmu in the Sui and Tang Chapter. It is a super giant tree that looks like a white ash tree, and it corresponds to the World Tree in Norse mythology.

The other name for the Norse World Tree is “Yggdrasil Chapter”.

In Qi Ji’s setting.

The Nine Realms Tree is a place similar to Immortal Mountain Island.

This is a secret realm independent of the secular world, in which nine worlds have been formed: Asgard, Helheim, Niflheim, Muspelheim, Jotunheim, Alfheim, Svartalfheim, Vanaheim.

It is very difficult for small worlds to go to the outer big world.

However, small worlds can influence each other and interact directly.

These small worlds have formed various kingdoms and races.

Among them, Asgard, the kingdom of the Aesir, is also the strongest of these nine realms, so it has a ruling position over the nine realms.

Of course, the so-called gods in Miracle City.

However, it is just a group of special Transcendent cultivators.

The other eight worlds have also formed different kingdoms and are inhabited by different races. Overall, the worldview is still relatively rich.

The “Nine Realms Tree Chapter” of Miracle City is different from the original game.

In the Nine Realms Tree of Miracle City, the nine small worlds formed, and most of the worlds have detailed towns and kingdoms, with their own cultures, languages, histories, folk customs, etc.

Adventurers can conduct more in-depth explorations of these places when they are performing side quests, making the Nine Realms Tree chapter appear more vivid and real.

Of course.

For these.

The adventurers don’t know it now.

At this moment, although the city has just opened, there are already hundreds of adventurers who have officially logged into the Nine Realms Tree world.

Zang Shanhai, the strongest adventurer in Green Mountain City, is one of them. Although he is very interested in the content of the two main secret realms in Gloomy City, he heard that the Nine Realms Tree just opened today, and everyone is at the same starting line, so he naturally took another look.

Adventurers are born to love the new and dislike the old.

Zang Shanhai, as a big shot among the big shots, is even more unwilling to fall behind others. Therefore, compared to the secret realms that have been cleared and completed by others, he will obviously choose the new secret realm that has not been conquered and understood.

“Now let me see what’s so special about Miracle City!”

Zang Shanhai chose the Nine Realms Tree Chapter of the Ten Kingdoms Chronicle.

When he saw the scene, his eyes went black and he entered the secret realm, the first thing he saw was a shocking scene.

This is the top of Mount Olympus!

The high mountain of several thousand feet has a wide view in all directions, and the land of several thousand miles is in full view, while the sky is covered with dark clouds and lightning and thunder.

There is a Greek-style temple composed of twelve giant pillars on the top of the mountain, and a thrilling great battle is taking place inside the temple at this moment.

The two sides of the battle.

One is a bald strong man with gray-white skin, covered with gray tattoos, and a scar on his right eye. He is like an evil ghost crawling out of the depths of the primal chaos hell. Every move is full of the berserk will of destroying all things and brutal killing intent.

One is a dignified middle-aged man, who is tall with a golden beard and long hair, his eyes are shining with divine light, and he is holding lightning in his hand, giving people a feeling of sacredness and inviolability.

Bang bang bang!

The energy generated by the two strong men colliding with each other leaked from the temple, causing the entire sky and even the earth to be impacted and shaken.

“This is…”

Zang Shanhai and all the adventurers who are paying attention to the new secret realm were stunned. They didn’t expect such an opening critical hit at the beginning!

This is the opening plot of the Nine Realms Tree Chapter.

In fact, the 《God of War 4》 original work does not have an opening animation.

Qi Ji, for the sake of increasing the gimmick, increasing the suspense, improving the topic popularity of the characters, and laying foreshadowing, he specially adapted the scene of Kratos killing Zeus in the final act of 《God of War 3》, thus becoming the opening plot display of the Nine Realms Tree Chapter.

“So strong!”

“These two strong men…”

“They probably have the strength of the Fourth Rank!”

“And… definitely not ordinary Fourth Rank!”

This is the judgment made by Visarous, Artus, Nancy Liya, Zang Shanhai, Ran Tianyun, and other people with higher ranks and stronger strengths after seeing the opening battle performance of the Nine Realms Tree Chapter.

Indeed.

Kratos at this stage definitely has strength above the Fourth Rank, and may even have reached the strength of the Fourth Rank Five Stars. Its comprehensive foundation is even enough to confront most Fifth Rank existences.

Without such strength, how could he possibly slaughter all the Greek gods?

As for Zeus, the God-King, Kratos’s opponent, as the strongest of the Olympian gods, of course, also has top-tier strength. This is definitely a wonderful battle that will open people’s eyes.

The shock is not only this!

When the two sides fought fiercely for dozens of seconds.

A more unexpected scene happened. A super giant with a height of tens of thousands of meters suddenly appeared around the mountain. The huge head directly obscured the sky and covered the temple.

It’s the mother goddess Gaia!

This giant roared and grabbed the giant temple with both hands, and actually pulled the temple from the mountain, and then he was about to use force to kill Kratos and Zeus at the same time.

The two immediately left the temple and jumped down from an altitude of ten thousand meters. They continued to fight fiercely in the air while dodging the giant’s attacks.

After a few rounds.

They both fell into a broken hole in the giant’s clavicle.

They eventually entered the giant’s body and continued to fight all the way to the heart. Finally, Kratos seized the opportunity to draw the Olympian Divine Sword, and stabbed through Zeus with a sword and pierced Gaia’s heart at the same time.

Zeus’s soul escaped and attempted to counterattack.

Kratos’s eyes burst with blue and white divine light, and he blasted it back into his body in one fell swoop, and then he used his fists to directly beat it until the entire mountain collapsed, finally making this powerful god-king completely disappear.

The battle is over!

Kratos has completed the ultimate godslaying!

At this time, Athena appeared in the form of a ghost.

She asked Kratos to hand over the power of hope in his body to reshape the world that was pierced with holes and filled with suffering.

Kratos, however, refused to hand over the divine power to the other party, but made an astonishing move. He raised the Olympian Divine Sword and pierced his own body.

A blue and white energy immediately rushed straight into the sky. The strength of this power not only dispersed the dark clouds for thousands of miles, but also turned into countless stars, which were sprinkled on the world full of holes.

The ghost Athena was obviously very angry, and she pulled out the divine sword from Kratos’s body, and then left here without looking back.

Not long after.

When everything returned to calm.

The camera returned to the place where Kratos committed suicide.

Everyone saw a large puddle of blood on the ground.

But the strong man Kratos, who should have died in this place, was already nowhere to be found at this moment.

Above.

This is the approximate opening plot of the Nine Realms Tree Chapter.

This plot was only performed in a few minutes, and it also deliberately omitted most of the characters’ dialogues, only using the scenes and the expressiveness of the images for narration.

Because adventurers don’t understand Greek mythology and the legends of the Olympian gods, and they have never experienced the story of the God of War trilogy, they will definitely be confused.

This is the effect that Qi Ji wants.

Nancy Liya was shocked: “The combatants in this duel are all so strong. The bald man and the old man who can control lightning are very likely to be the top-tier strong men at the peak of the Fourth Rank!”

Visarous: “That’s right, even I may not be the opponent of these two people. Their strength has far surpassed most Fourth Rank and is enough to contend with some Fifth Rank.”

Ran Tianyun: “The plot that appeared suddenly may be a Fifth Rank unit… Although it looks very fragile and covered with scars, it may be very strong in its peak!”

Biyan Hua: “Good, as expected of Lord Qi, he gave us a big wave right at the beginning!”

Wind in Sleep: “What I’m curious about now is, why did the bald man choose to commit suicide when he clearly won the battle?”

“Yeah!”

“Such a fierce person, even if we look at the entire Ten Kingdoms Chronicle world, he is probably one of the best strong men, even stronger than Yuwen Tuo without the Xuan-Yuan Sword.”

“He actually chose to end himself?”

“……”

The adventurers of Miracle City have long been accustomed to Qi Ji’s ability to mess things up, but even so, they were still blood boiling when they saw this shocking duel and battle performance.

At the same time.

They are more eager to know.

What is the inside story of this story?

The adventurers of Miracle City, who have been through the impact, they are still so sensational. The adventurers who first came into contact with Miracle City at this moment can imagine how strong the shock in their hearts is.

Zang Shanhai, after seeing the three-way duel process of Kratos, the God-King Zeus, and the mother goddess Gaia, was completely in a state of being hit by his worldview.

As a top-tier adventurer.

Of course, he deeply realized that in the secret realm, it is impossible for anything to appear out of thin air. All items, equipment, characters, scenes, etc., are all created by the lord.

In other words.

The peak Kratos, who slays gods, the God-King Zeus, the mother goddess Gaia, and the Olympian Divine Sword, which has infinite power, etc., all of these things must exist!

Just relying on the gimmick of peak Kratos, the God-King Zeus, and the mother goddess Gaia is enough to make adventurers rush to this secret realm.

After all, they are at least Fourth Rank units, and not ordinary Fourth Rank, but the top-tier, the strongest, and the most precious Fourth Rank existences.

No adventurer.

Can resist obtaining their power!

Even Zang Shanhai, the strongest adventurer in Green Mountain City, is no exception, and after experiencing this opening plot, everyone is more curious about the development of this story.

And at this moment.

The story about Kratos officially began.

Zang Shanhai found himself in a strong body, and what surprised and delighted him was that this body was none other than the bald man from the opening plot!

“My name is Kratos… I used to be a Spartan…”

“Because of some unbearable experiences… I left the Greek land under the rule of Mount Olympus… and came to this exotic land composed of many kingdoms of the Nine Realms.”

Various information quickly appeared in Zang Shanhai’s mind.

Although the character he is playing is the bald strong man who appeared in the opening plot, this character seems to be old at this moment, and his strength is very different from his peak period.

Kratos at this moment.

Has the strength of Third Rank Four Stars.

This is also quite strong, but it is obviously inferior compared to the opening plot. After all, Kratos was very young at that time, and he was full of various powerful forces.

About the past?

Although Zang Shanhai tried hard to search his memory.

But he could only recall some fragmented memory fragments. Most of the memories have been sealed off by Kratos himself, and even adventurers cannot directly investigate.

Even so, adventurers can see from these memory fragments how fierce and legendary this guy named Kratos was!

Having the opportunity to play such a fierce person.

It’s so happy for adventurers!

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（PS: The update for the next two days may not be very punctual, because the author has been out for several days since the ninth, and then went on a Qinggan Grand Circle Line self-driving trip. He has been using the save draft accumulated last month to update. It takes longer than expected. The recent save draft has been exhausted, so he can only write it now, but it is expected to go home on the 21st, and start working hard to save drafts from the 22nd, and strive to add more updates in the future. The number of words in this section is not charged. ）