The Abyssal Garden: No Room for the Idle

Even a vast number of God's Sons and strong figures from countless top forces could not resist, falling into this endless pull and distortion.

Only divinity could allow them to see the changes around them.

At this moment, the same was true within the palace of The Hustlers Sect.

Bei Shenxing and Yang Jian both clutched the pillars of the palace walls tightly, extremely twisted, like being hit by a sine wave, causing continuous ripples.

Bei Shenxing shouted: "Hold--- on--!"

His voice stretched and twisted, elongating each word to a screech, infinitely extending time.

Yang Jian was in the same condition, with his third eye flashing golden light, also twisted outward, and residual images within causing ripples.

Every thing and person were all caught up in this strange circumstance.

Including the Bell-Ringer, seemed trapped in an abstract vortex, distorted.

Even various living entities and items hidden within carrying spaces were affected similarly.

This was something that spanned across everyone, leaving no trace untouched by such coverage.

However.

Only one person could move freely in it, even slightly gnawing on a piece of candy.

Su Qi turned his head, looking at everything around, murmured to himself:

"What on earth... the Time Stop Series?"

"But to make it so abstractly twisted is hard to accept."

Su Qi gently called: "Xiao Ou, Mr. Luo?"

There was no response, as both were caught in the same state, endlessly elongating and twisting.

Not just them, Su Qi also looked at everything within the Holy Light Corridor, old entities, including conveyor line equipment, were affected.

Su Qi looked down again at the Evil God Totem on his arm, then tried to summon the Shadow Army, which he could, but once summoned, it too fell into the same distortion.

"Except for my global action ability being decreased by ten thousand times?"

And most importantly, the Divine Mechanical Core was the same, twisted and distorted.

This made Su Qi narrow his eyes, for the core fundamental to 12 dimensions was being suppressed.

He slightly lifted his head to look at the boundless World Tree Root, like a wall in the Sky Dome.

Undoubtedly, the power twisting everyone now came from this New World Tree.

Su Qi could tell what the current situation represented.

In two words, it was [Update].

The collapse of the Old World Tree was transitioning towards the update iteration of the New World Tree, with all traces being refreshed anew.

The New Continent served as this barrier, and crossing it would simultaneously subject them to the update of power from the New World Tree.

Everyone's spiritual energy, items they held, including their sequence path, even all traces on their bodies.

Under the power of this still-time distortion, they're undergoing an unprecedented major version update.

"Why am I the one excluded from it?" Su Qi muttered to himself.

He could move freely here now, no restrictions affecting him.

Everyone was transitioning from the Old World Tree's rules to the New World Tree's, as if he was left behind.

"So what to do in this scene now?"

Su Qi slightly raised his eyebrows.

He also considered if he should take advantage of this still-time state to go elsewhere and do things that only static time allows.

But in reality, Su Qi quickly found out he couldn't move too far, or act too drastically, otherwise the surrounding distortion would surge towards him like a tide.

Just like in the Old Days.

"As expected..." Su Qi suddenly realized something, extending his hand, revealing a dried, dull, inconspicuous seed: "It's because of this."

The other cores of the 12 dimensions were all suppressed. As the core of the Present World, the World Tree was undoubtedly the most powerful existence, capable of achieving this.

Only something like itself, a core, the withered World Tree Seed, could resist it.

"So, I accidentally avoided the update?"

Su Qi rubbed his chin, typically speaking, with each version update comes new traits.

But people always say games get worse with updates, claiming this version is worse than the last.

Su Qi pondered looking at the World Tree Seed, then hesitated.

"No, wait...."

At this moment, the World Tree Seed had strange patterns forming within, little lines interwoven, enormous and overwhelming.

Upon closer inspection, within it lied something like a universe, vast star rivers, but dormant within, lacking any semblance of life.

And these patterns densely covered everything inside!

Then!

"Whoosh!"

Su Qi couldn't react in time, being engulfed by countless patterns, gleaming instantly, taken inside!

Meanwhile, the seed fell towards the palace floor, disappearing the moment it hit the ground.

.....

"Aaaah—"

Uncertain how long it passed, Jiang Zhi suddenly jerked awake with a dry throat, clutching his neck, leaning against wall, knees weak, utterly bewildered.

"Ah... damn..."

He abruptly realized: "I came back?"

Moments ago felt like his soul left his body, totally spun into high-speed distortion, yet time seemed to merely blink, with no idea what happened.

"Feels odd... my body feels odd."

Jiang Zhi paused slightly:

"Feels like a kind of transformation, yet relaxed, is it an illusion?"

An Nan's voice gently echoed: "It's not an illusion."

"We all felt it."

He raised his head: "Because we are now... already in this New Continent, in other words, this is the territory of the New World Tree."

"The previous constraints, truncated rules, have undergone massive changes, things have surfaced beneath endless ocean waves, revealing shadows below."

Ah Qi rubbed his still-emptied head: "Mr. An Nan, how do you know so detailedly?"

"Because it's the God who told me..."

An Nan lifted his head:

"Divinity has connected to this Ancient Battlefield... ancient forces have all awakened!"

He trembled slightly, his voice not very calm, as having endured countless ages in the Gate World buried in Old Days, finally reaching this point.

The previous seniors of the Gods Palace he encountered were awakening!

It is the very moment of ancient times once more!!

The majesty of returning multitude Gods to the origin! So astonishing!

Though Jiang Zhi didn't feel quite the same, for he had no pressure above him, rather he fearfully raised his head:

"Are you saying there are now many strong presences, Gods, watching over us here?"

Feeling this, Jiang Zhi felt his scalp tingle instantly, with Gods being legendary beings, yet now in this New Continent, countless strong figures and Gods are in the Ancient Battlefield's projection above, watching here!

Jiang Zhi's hands were clueless where to place.

"Not watching exactly." An Nan shook his head, extending a hand: "It's just that they should be among us... separated by a thick barrier, sensing mutually."

The thick barrier is the Old Days, though currently ancient existences seem to have reached the surface from the depths, there's still an insurmountable wall.

This limitation only allows those with divinity to sense the origin.

"I don't know if it's me, others probably feel the same."

An Nan said seriously: "Let's first see what exactly is happening here."

He and the group could already use spiritual energy, most of those on the streets almost entirely lifted themselves, standing up high observing the surroundings.

An Nan's eyebrows slightly raised.

He and Jiang Zhi, Ah Qi, also ascended, standing amidst the crowd in mid-air.

At this moment.

Jiang Zhi looked at everything here without much reaction, just sensing some ancient aura enveloping them.

Suddenly, he paused.

For An Nan's gaze suddenly trembled, with an expression of astonishment in his eyes.

"This is..."