Your universe is so fragile

Chapter 167 Searching for the World Tree

Zhang Zicheng frowned a little. Being rejected by runes seemed like no big deal at first glance, but when he thought about it carefully, there was almost no solution.

Even though the rune can answer questions, giving yes and no replies, it is not an actual entity itself.How to negotiate then?How to exchange benefits, how to coerce and lure to achieve the goal?

Zhang Zicheng didn't waste time asking how the rune could obtain the qualification, because the rune had already answered, and it didn't want Zhang Zicheng to obtain the power it represented.With such a clear-cut attitude, no matter how many questions you ask, it will be a waste of effort.

He began to focus on exploring the source of consciousness, the rune runes.

After all, with the sudden appearance of this consciousness, Zhang Zicheng couldn't say whether it was the rune itself, or whether an existence obtained its own contact information through the activated rune, just like Hella's death cloak.

This thing can only be activated when it comes to the Nine Realms, and it's hard to say what kind of independent entity it is.

At the beginning, Zhang Zicheng just used his mental power to explore, but in the runes, although Zhang Zicheng didn't encounter any resistance, he could still feel that consciousness ignored and sorted out him intentionally or unintentionally.Even though I came into contact with the other party, the other party did not have any interaction and communication with me. Except for the initial inquiry, the light of the rune became dimmed.

Sure enough, simply engraving runes on his body like this is almost useless.

So, what conditions need to be met?

While Zhang Zicheng was thinking this way, he escorted the pocket space back to the direction of the land.

What on earth is Loki going to do with Yemengarde, how to prevent the coming of Ragnarok, why Odin let Loki do it, these things have nothing to do with Zhang Zicheng.

He is an outsider, and if the situation is not right, he will just take advantage of the pocket space and leave. It has nothing to do with him if the world is turned upside down here.Therefore, after Zhang Zicheng learned the runes, he was not at all curious about Loki's subsequent actions, and left straight away.

In fact, Zhang Zicheng also had a vague feeling that Loki might have known of his existence a long time ago, but he hadn't exposed it.Zhang Zicheng doesn't care if he sees the right master, and of course he is almost an aboveboard stealing.

But this is just a feeling after all, so every time Zhang Zicheng stealthily learns, he still hides himself very face-saving, otherwise he will force Loki to respond.

Now that I have learned the most important thing, if I continue to keep it, I will really be a pervert who is peeping at other people's lives.

Zhang Zicheng was still wondering before, if Loki had really discovered him a long time ago, why did he allow himself to learn the obviously very precious runes used to hold the 'Ouroboros' ceremony?

At this time, based on the reaction of the rune to him and why Loki didn't use such a precious rune on himself, the combination of the two conditions gave Zhang Zicheng a rough guess.

That is, Loki himself did not meet the conditions for the 'Ouroboros' ceremony. He could not use it himself, and at the same time, he was convinced that he, an outsider, could not use it, so he did not mind showing him the whole picture of the runes.

What is the condition that Loki can't meet?

Is it because of the 'snake' of 'Ouroboros'?Only snakes can perform ouroboros rituals with runes?
Zhang Zicheng shook his head, if it was someone else or a god, then forget it.Loki can often have legends about turning into animals, and there are even legends about turning into animals and giving birth more than once... Although those legends come from the earth instead of this world, the Jormungandr and Fenrir of this world are also Loki's child.

What Rocky did when he gave birth is worth pondering.

All in all, he can turn into an animal and give birth to offspring that really belong to this kind of animal. His transformation ability is absolutely perfect. I am afraid that if a real animal comes, it will not become real like Loki.In this case, Loki will at least try instead of giving up directly from the beginning and pinning his hopes on Jormungandr.

Since the condition is not a snake, what is special about Jormungandr?

Zhang Zicheng thought about it, and said to himself: "It's huge...and, was it cut into two by me, and then started to eat itself?"

The condition of being huge is too simple, so let's put it aside.Self-eating or something... Referring to the image of the Ouroboros itself, it seems that this is really possible?
So the condition of the ritual, like Odin hanging himself upside down on the Yggdrasil and sacrificing his own eyes to himself, requires the act of self-mutilation called 'self-eating'?
Considering Odin's most well-known ritual, Zhang Zicheng felt that this possibility seemed to be the greatest.

But... does eating avatar count as self-eating?

Zhang Zicheng is not sure, after all, his body in the Nine Realms is a clone.Can the main body eat itself to gain the power of 'Ouroboros'?Is it that simple?

"It's not troublesome anyway, why don't you just give it a try?"

Self-eating, which sounds a little scary, is really not troublesome to Zhang Zicheng now, if it is just "self-eating" in a broad sense.

Isn't it just to squeeze out another clone, and then transform yourself into an animal?At that time, they will eat animal meat, not human meat.

Zhang Zicheng thought this way, he used the improved Yufengjue, which converted the kinetic energy into a spin-opposing breeze covering tens of miles of three-dimensional space, and the potential energy between the breeze and the breeze would cancel each other out after contact, so He didn't make any noise, but flew to land at an extremely fast speed.

Of course, it was said to be extremely fast, but it took a long time, but it was extremely fast compared to the distance.At this time, the sky was approaching evening, and Zhang Zicheng happened to pass by the sky above a village. After thinking about it, he felt that there should be some simple condiments in the village, so he dropped down directly.

As for the pocket space, if there is an empty ring to watch at the other end, it will close by itself if there is a situation, and it will bounce and move slowly if there is no situation, no problem.

Zhang Zicheng fell in the middle of the village. Because of the death cloak on his body, no mortal could see him.

Zhang Zicheng looked at the people in linen clothes, with laundry baskets on their heads, talking to each other in groups, and suddenly felt that he hadn't dealt with something called 'group' or 'society' for a long time.

But not only did he not have any anxiety in his heart, let alone the slightest nostalgia.With Zhang Zicheng's current personal situation, he no longer needs the behavior of "being in a group" to bring him a sense of security.

This is not to say that Zhang Zicheng has looked down on ordinary people. It is boring to look down on such things. It is just because of his special situation that he faces an extremely complex and changeable environment. In the process of exploration, he has no time to calm down and form a A stable organization.

If Zhang Zicheng suddenly loses all the power to travel through time and space now, there is a high probability that he will contact the crowd again, use it for a long time to repeatedly digest the power he has obtained, and try to realize technology in different directions.

It's just that at this stage, there is no need for that at all, and personal exploration has found that the efficiency of new technologies is still higher.

Zhang Zicheng picked up the formula, and the breeze blew, and they gathered together, making the passers-by around squint their eyes to guard against the wind and sand.

But after they opened their eyes again, they didn't notice that there was an extra figure that didn't fit in the crowd.

Well, after all, the avatar technique can't make two magic weapons, and the death cloak is still worn on Zhang Zicheng's golden elixir avatar.

But Zhang Zicheng's two avatars looked at each other and suddenly discovered something.

That is this newly appeared avatar, and there is no golden core.

"So, I'm really still in the Qi training period? This golden core was just squeezed out by me, and I didn't break through the realm at all?"

Zhang Zicheng was a little confused by this scene, but he still shook his head, letting go of his doubts for now.Now is not the time to study zhenqi, I have already developed enough research directions, and I have already focused on several tasks, so it is better to concentrate while being distracted.

The new doppelgänger made a new trick, and immediately turned himself into...a chicken.

Zhang Zicheng took off the brim of his death hood, held the chicken that had been transformed into a new avatar, looked around, and then walked towards the only tavern in the village.

Hela, who has been observing Zhang Zicheng through the death cloak, but remained silent the whole time: "..."

She had seen what Zhang Zicheng did before, and as she knew more about runes, she had already guessed what Zhang Zicheng was going to do.

It's just that Hela didn't expect Zhang Zicheng to be so simple and straightforward, and he really turned into a clone, and then ate him?

If it is so simple to meet the conditions, rune runes will not be a power that only a few Asgardian protoss can master.

In the tavern, Zhang Zicheng hiccupped, looked at the chicken bones on the stone table, and fell into deep thought.

As expected, the rune did not produce any reaction.

Sure enough, it wasn't that simple, and Zhang Zicheng couldn't say he was very disappointed, but after all, the cost of trying this method is very low, so he can use it when he thinks about it, and it doesn't count as a waste of time.

But what went wrong?
Zhang Zicheng still thinks that the conditional possibility of self-eating is the greatest.But eating the avatar does not satisfy the requirements of runes.

Could it be that he really wanted to cut off half of his body and eat it slowly like Ye Mengjiad did?

But after experiencing the failure of the first attempt, Zhang Zicheng also felt that he took the problem too simply.

To be a little more complicated...

Even, considering that after Loki finished drawing the runes for Yemengard, he would directly chat with Thor at ease, and he was not in a hurry to activate the runes.Maybe, in fact, Yermungandr has not yet met the conditions of Ouroboros?

So the question is not what Yermungandr is doing now, but what Yermungarde is going to do...

Uh, Ragnarok?Died with Thor?Devour the world?
Zhang Zicheng shook his head. Loki wanted Yemengarde to stop Ragnarok, that is, to prevent the above things from happening, so those high probabilities did not meet the conditions of runes.

So Zhang Zicheng simply put aside Yemengard, who had not activated the runes, and turned to analyze 'Odin', who had apparently successfully performed the ceremony.

That is to say, after giving up thinking about what conditions Ye Mengjia must meet, Zhang Zicheng suddenly realized a detail in Odin's ceremony...

Odin hangs himself upside down, and the place where the ceremony is held... is on the World Tree, which is completely inaccessible to mortals.

So for thousands of years, only those who call themselves 'gods' can use runes?After all, it is too 'easy' for mortals to hang themselves upside down and dig out their eyes. There are only two real restrictions on them, one is to go to the 'World Tree' and the other is to master the 'Rune Runes'.

Maybe it's really because the ceremony also has requirements for the location?

Zhang Zicheng simply asked the Rune Rune directly: "I want to use your power. One of the conditions that needs to be met is that it must be under the World Tree...or in other words, the ceremony can only be held when it is extremely close to the World Tree?"

The rune returned a sense of composure.

really.

Then I have obtained a conditional message...

So Zhang Zicheng simply struck while the iron was hot, and asked all the conditions he came up with.

"One of the conditions is that you need to eat yourself?"

The rune rune gave a sense of calm again, but it was very weak. It seemed that Zhang Zicheng had lost his curiosity, and he didn't have the active feeling he had at first.

One of Zhang Zi's preconceived conditions turned out to be self-sufficiency, so he quickly asked for more detailed conditions.

"It must be the main body, not the avatar?"

"You must be able to feel the pain of being eaten?"

"Do you have to start eating from your feet?"

"Can you turn into an animal and eat it?"

After several questions in a row, except for the first one, after the rune rune gave a sense of composure again, there was almost no response.

Zhang Zicheng could feel that the rune did not weaken. On the contrary, its sense of presence engraved on the body became stronger and stronger. Fortunately, the cloak of death suppressed its light, otherwise the current Zhang Zicheng It's a blue light bulb.

But contrary to the sense of presence of the runes, it became more and more lazy to answer Zhang Zicheng's questions.

In the next few questions, Zhang Zicheng neither gained a sense of composure nor a sense of weightlessness. Apparently, Rune Rune was too lazy to talk to him.

Zhang Zicheng stood up, walked outside again, and threw a small dough filled with true energy.

He used someone else's spatula and a few spices to cook himself, which was considered troublesome to the owner, so he still had to pay some fees.

But Zhang Zicheng didn't bring any money with him, so he had to use this 'elixir' to make up for it.

This kind of 'elixir' that is not refined, but purely infused with energy, naturally does not have any special functions.It will simply and rudely give the eater a little zhenqi that will not increase by itself, and will gradually dissipate if it is not maintained.

But at least, in the process of gradually dissipating, there are many benefits to the body, and it cannot be said that it is completely useless.

Next, head to the World Tree...

But Zhang Zicheng stood on the ground, looking at the evening sky, lost in thought.

So the world tree... where the hell is it?

When he ran out of the thunder clouds in Helheim, he didn't see any cosmic giant tree with branches spreading to nine planets.

(End of this chapter)