326 Worldview collapse
Lu Zhen felt warmth from the bottom of his heart as a sweet taste burst in his mouth. At this moment, he felt a gentle poking, as if his mother was waking him up in the morning.
"Mom, let me sleep a little," Lu Zhen shouted with a warm smile gracing his lips. However, his nose suddenly twitched, and he slightly strained to open his eyes.
All he saw was a lush forest with countless branches extending forward to gently make a bed for him. "Eh?" Lu Zhen propelled himself upward and looked around the place. He was completely out of place and in utter confusion.
"What is this place?"
The plant Qi resonated in his body again as the branch extended outward, and Lu Zhen heard some strange voices in his head.
"Are... you... alright?"
"Are you the trees?" Lu Zhen narrowed his eyes with a thoughtful expression.
"How... rude... I... have... a... name... Runtu..." The voice was extremely slow-paced and hoarse, but Lu Zhen could quickly discern it.
"So, this voice did come from these trees?" he thought in his heart. It wasn't his first time he talked to these trees. However, the voice Lu Zhen heard previously was completely incoherent, and only the feelings could be discerned by him, but these Trees could talk in a proficient manner.
"Hmm?" As Lu Zhen was contemplating, he heard the voice again.
"Are... you... one... of... us?"
Lu Zhen paused as he finally used his mental strength, and immediately his eyes widened to the limits. Because all these trees contained First-stage martial artist pressure. Some of them were a little low, but they were definitely all at the First-stage martial realm.
"What kind of forest is this?" his eyes widened to the limits.
For a moment, he felt his worldviews turn upside down...
Lu Zhen thought about his progress even with basically a cheat. It took him more than a year and bitter life-and-death scenarios to break through to the first-stage martial realm.
Of course, he would be shaken if every single one of these trees were in the first-stage martial realm.
"What happened?" Lu Zhen thought, with confusion in his head, as he carefully felt the changes in his body.
Externally, he seemed completely normal, but when Lu Zhen sensed the changes in his body, his eyes immediately widened.
The plant Qi in his body couldn't flow properly, and even using combat art was extremely difficult for him. This seemed to be from an invisible obstruction he couldn't see.
But what made Lu Zhen's heart filled with horror was the intent inscribed in his body. This invincible force also caused all the intent in his body to separate and unite, which made his power extremely unstable.
Lu Zhen tried to use his intent, and his body slowly lifted from the ground.
"Hmm?" He carefully used his intent and flew up, directly flying until he reached the huge tree level and looked around the place.
"I can still fly, if I am careful-"
Lu Zhen wanted to heave a sigh of relief; however, at this time, an invincible force instantly disturbed his intent imprinted on his skin.
Boom!
An explosion occurred with Lu Zhen as the epicentre, spreading outwardly and covering an area of around ten kilometres.
The surroundings trembled and discombobulated from the sheer intensity, as if the very reality was about to collapse but it never did.
After a long time, the explosion finally stopped, and Lu Zhen fell to the ground again, completely naked and filled with injuries, with a thud, falling to the ground with a trail of smoke.
Lu Zhen slowly opened his eyes after an unknown amount of time as he looked around the forest with a bitter smile on his face.
"What was that invisible force?" his mind flashed with countless thoughts, but he couldn't come to a conclusion.
This invisible force was beyond his comprehension, nothing he has ever seen before even in this world, and Lu Zhen himself could guarantee that. Although he wasn't like a sage of information, he at least knew the basics till the First-stage martial realm.
"Unless it is from a higher realm!" Lu Zhen's eyes flashed with an indescribable light as his mind went back to that terrifying explosion he had suffered that had only grazed him but caused such a devastating effect.