Spider Princess only gets one chance, and it's not a multiple choice question.
"Leave the big swamp to you, leave the small swamp to me."
The Spider Princess nodded gently, leaned forward trustingly, and turned into a vertical rainbow falling into the deep yellow sea.
Lu Li returned to the Alchemy Tower Island along the fungus carpet. There were not many broken islands left around him, and even the edges of the Alchemy Tower Island collapsed and collapsed.
"I found the location of two swamps."
Lu Li said to his mother's huge skull and the surrounding companions and allies: "Spider Princess, deal with the former and leave the latter to us."
In the prophecy of the Everlasting Dreamer, his arrangement for Lu Li was to "follow one's heart."
So Lu Li will go to the core of the small swamp with his mother.
Margaret and the others didn't want Lu Li to take risks, but Lu Li just asked: "What will happen if the swamp gets out of control?"
"Everyone will die..."
"So I have to do it."
The ability of the Tree Whisperer and the dreamer cannot be released, leaving only the last cursed title: Crown of Knowledge.
But that meant Lu Li had to pay a price.
Lu Li stepped up to the broad hill-like skull, and as "Mother" spread her bone wings, she flew over the alchemy tower.
The four alchemy towers under his feet shone with crumbling dark light. Lu Li saw countless figures standing on the empty islands of the four alchemy towers, looking up at his mother who cast a shadow and him running towards the depths of the swamp.
They couldn't help, so they could only suppress the swamp and wait for Lu Li to bring back good news.
Going deep into this vast and dark swamp world of deathly silence and desolation, the surroundings are filled with indescribable gases that corrode everything.
Lu Li held his breath, but he couldn't stop them from corroding his hair and skin.
The distant heartbeat affected Lu Li as he approached the filthy yellow hell that was filled with hatred. From another perspective, he was very close to the small swamp.
"My child...please take care of it."
A voice suddenly echoed in Lu Li's mind.
After a brief silence, Lu Li replied: "I hope you can take care of it yourself."
"No, this is the duty of the guardian, even if only the skeleton is left..."
Lu Li saw the core of the small swamp—a bright and eerie outline shining in the dusky depths.
His mother waved her bone wings and fell downwards. Lu Li sacrificed some peripheral memories to form the strength to hold himself up, silently watching his self-sacrificial mother plunge into the beating heart of the swamp that was spreading dim.
Looking at it from a distance made him dizzy, and the incomprehensible fight was swaying in the yellow mist. Lu Li couldn't help but wonder whether his choice was correct.
Out of trust in the Eternal Dreamer, he followed his heart. But if he stayed outside and gave "Mother" more humanity, would it save it from sacrificing itself?
Or is this the worst ending of all?
The indescribable struggle between his mother and the swamp continued. At this moment, Lu Li noticed that the dark yellow surrounding him was fading away like the darkness at dawn.
Did the mother succeed?
Lu Li raised his head and saw the "brightness" coming from behind to dispel the gloom.
Spider Princess succeeded.
As the dusk faded, endless ravines stretched across the vast land that could be seen. The four alchemy tower islands and other empty islands lost their support and fell into the deep mist at the bottom of the abyss.
The Swamp Mother and the others are still here and will not let their allies fall to death.
Looking back to the small swamp, the darkness in the depths is also fading, and whirling shadows appear.
And the mother's shadow, which was bigger than the city, was now as small as a castle, trembling gently like a young shadow in an eggshell.
Lu Li saw the silhouette spread out its bone wings, and the dull wasps swarmed into the skeleton. The soul in the eyes of the skeleton, which was dyed deep yellow, dimmed, and together with the skeleton, it turned into ashes dispersed by the wind.
"Please remember your promise..."
His mother's whisper echoed in Lu Li's ears.
As the yellow fog disappears, the core of the dying swamp is almost revealed.
Just dying.
The swamp is still alive, and with every weak beat, the haze becomes a little larger than before.
It won't be long before it grows into a swamp again amid all the despair of existence. And no more mother or spider princess can hold it down -
But Lu Li is here, and he still has the crown of knowledge.
Lu Li fell like a comet into the swampland of Susheng. His mother sacrificed herself, so he could do the same.
"...forgetting the blood-stained ones."
The surging energy of the crown of knowledge surged around him, turning into spears and stabbing into the swamp.
The newly born yellow mist dispersed again, and the remaining consciousness that followed the swamp was entangled and corroded, preventing Lu Li from annihilating it.
The power transformed by the Bloodstained One gradually faded, and the yellow mist gradually rose. Lu Li wanted to delay the swamp or destroy it, so he could only continue to sacrifice knowledge.
"Lighthouse of Oblivion."
The rich plastic energy emerged again, turning into a white mist to suppress it, competing against the newly emerged vitality in the swamp.
The surrounding yellow mist was filled with strong hatred and unwillingness, but it was not enough.
These are not enough to extinguish the last hope of the swamp.
"...the Forgotten Tree Whisperer."
The surging plastic energy washed away the yellow mist, and the decline of the swamp gradually became apparent, but it was not enough...
"Forgetting...the dreamer."
Finally, Lu Li saw the indescribable core exposed. It was like an irregular monolith of dark yellow mud. Then, like boiling water in a hot pot, the steaming mist enveloped it again in an instant.
Lu Li no longer had any cursed titles to sacrifice, and the swamp was being restored every second.
If we stop here, all previous sacrifices will be meaningless.
Lu Li seemed to be a gambler with few chips left. He could either give up and accept his bad luck, or give up everything——
The sacrifice ceremony of the cursed title is the more important the knowledge, the more important the memory, and the stronger the transformation ability.
The peripheral memories and knowledge can only eliminate the yellow fog in the swamp, but they cannot eliminate the main body. Only that memory...
But Lu Li refused to forget Anna's memory.
"I only have memories left...you want to take that away too?"
The crown of knowledge returns with silence.
Apart from sacrificing his memory, Lu Li had the last resort. But when he was about to visualize the eye formed by the starry sky, the tremor emerging from the depths of his soul warned him that doing so would bring terrible misfortune to the world.
The dark yellow mist was filling the air, and Lu Li had no time to think. After a brief pause, he made a choice.
"I forgot the crown of knowledge, and..."
"Myself."
Like a forgotten person in a dream or a tree whisperer, a large amount of plastic energy emerged, controlled by Lu Li's last consciousness, and crashed into the dark yellow mud.
The mist transformed by the plastic energy peeled off the layers of the shell, allowing Lu Li's left hand to touch the core of the swamp.
The swamp that would have swallowed the world is being eroded and turned into dust as it continues to weaken.
In his last consciousness, Lu Li saw a trace of the swamp... but it was not death.
Then, the unconscious body continued to descend, falling into the deep abyss.