"The protectors of the Mother God Cult, if they could so easily reveal the cult's core secrets, the Mother God Cult wouldn't have grown so large!"
Zhang Chen reached out and patted the Elf Matriarch's shoulder, signaling her not to blame herself.
"Thank you, True God, for your understanding..."
The Elf Matriarch nodded gratefully, then stepped aside.
"Let him down. Torture has been tried and didn't work on him. I have another method!"
As Zhang Chen spoke, he leaned back, and a set of rosewood chairs instantly appeared behind him.
After absorbing the pink crystal, Zhang Chen's power had clearly increased again, allowing him to freely use his creation ability to manifest inanimate objects.
*Poof!*
Zhang Chen flicked his left hand gently, and a cloud of dust drifted out.
This dust didn't dissipate like other dust. Instead, it seemed to gain life, as if it were alive, and floated towards the sleazy man.
"What is that? What are you doing!"
The sleazy man panicked. He wanted to dodge, but the cell was small, leaving him nowhere to escape.
Moreover, this cloud of dust couldn't be dispersed or extinguished. Even if it was fanned away, it would quickly re-gather and continue to charge at the sleazy man.
In a short while, the sleazy man, panting, inhaled the spores into his body.
Shortly after, he slowly straightened up, his eyes changing.
"Master, his consciousness is now part of me! You can question me at any time."
The Underworld Mushroom had taken over the sleazy man's body, and it could also exchange consciousness at any time with a body that had its spore clones.
"What does the Mother God Cult use these pink crystals for?"
Zhang Chen asked, taking a grape from a nearby elf and eating it.
"The Mother God Cult discovered that these crystals can alter the properties of objects and life, but the specific activation method is unknown, and the changes are random."
"They used these crystals to create a large number of giant puppets, preparing to attack the Elven Kingdom."
"There are mainly three distributions of elves in this world: one is water elves, who prefer to live by lakes and the sea; another is wood elves, who live in forests, but wood elves are difficult to find because there are many magical beasts in the forests, and humans dare not venture in easily."
"The third type is charm elves, also known as evil elves, who enhance their strength by devouring the essence and blood of humans."
"However, these three types of elves reached an agreement over a hundred years ago and founded the Elven Kingdom. The combined power of the three types of elves resisted attacks from humans and magical beasts."
The sleazy man explained volubly.
"The Elven Kingdom? I've only heard rumors, so it really exists."
The Elf Matriarch said thoughtfully.
"It does exist, and the elves possess powerful innate abilities. To completely enslave the elves, the Mother God Cult prepared this war."
"As long as they capture the Tree of Life in the Elven Kingdom, the elves will have to obey the Mother God Cult's arrangements."
"By utilizing the elves' innate abilities, the Mother God Cult can realize further ambitions, annex other countries, and eventually unify the entire world."
"Like the True God Cult, which was once the ruler of the world, this is what the Mother God Cult has always wanted to do."
The sleazy man spoke truthfully.
"Ha, this heretical cult, the Mother God Cult, dares to compare itself to the True God Holy Cult. How laughable!"
The Elf Matriarch said disdainfully.
"Our race only recognizes one deity, and that is the True God. If we trace it back meticulously, it is the Spirit Tamer beside the True God who is the deity our elven race has always worshipped."
"Records indicate that our elven race, as well as the cat-eared tribe and many other races, are more or less related to the Spirit Tamer, and may even have been created by her."
As the Elf Matriarch spoke, Miaoke also nodded frequently from the side.
She had heard such legends, but the lifespan of the cat-eared tribe was not as long as that of the elves.
These five hundred years were merely three or four generations for the elves, but for the cat-eared tribe, it had been dozens of generations, resulting in significant information gaps and many altered contents.
"Spirit Tamer..."
Zhang Chen paused, and Xu Ruina's face immediately appeared in his mind.
These non-human races were indeed products of the indigenous experiment, created by combining the consciousness abilities of the Underworld Mushroom with the genes of various mutated creatures and humans.
The original intention was to rely on them to end the apocalypse.
However, in their initial stages, they lacked sentience. It was only later that they gradually developed intelligence and evolved the characteristic of absorbing energy.
But the indigenous people at that time didn't have enough patience to wait for these races to achieve self-evolution, so they abandoned the task.
Going by this logic, it wasn't an exaggeration to say that Xu Ruina was their creator.
He just wondered what Xu Ruina was doing now, whether she was still alive.
Logically, although she had regained human functions, she still had the zombie virus within her, so she should be immortal.
"True God, we, the forest elves, request to join your command. We hope you can help us and rescue the Elven Kingdom!"
The Matriarch, with all the elves, knelt before Zhang Chen again.
"Get up. Don't kneel so often, I don't have that hobby!"
"As for the Elven Kingdom... I will save all my believers, and I would do it even without your prayers."
"Moreover, those puppets have pink crystals on them, and I will inevitably have a battle with the Mother God Cult!" Zhang Chen said calmly.
Since the Mother God Cult planned to attack the Elven Kingdom with giant puppets, they would need a large number of pink crystals to alter the puppets' properties and activate them.
In that case, Zhang Chen didn't need to do anything. He just needed to arrive at the Elven Kingdom in advance and then, when the Mother God Cult launched its main attack, destroy the puppet army directly.
This would protect the Elven Kingdom and, by fighting a prepared enemy, acquire a large quantity of pink crystals, a win-win situation.
"Let's go, to the Elven Kingdom. Matriarch, I need you to mark the location of the Elven Kingdom on the map. We depart immediately!"
Zhang Chen said in a calm tone.
"Yes, True God!"
The Elf Matriarch was overjoyed and quickly took out a map, circling the elves' location and then the Elven Kingdom's location.
"We only need to travel along the edge of the Beast Forest, bypass the Hecklan Great Rift Valley, and then follow the stream. This is the territory of the stream elves, and they will assist me."
"However, the location of the Elven Kingdom is only based on legends, so it might not be entirely accurate. The journey ahead is fraught with danger. I suggest forming a small, elite team, and then collectively migrating once we find the Elven Kingdom."
The Elf Matriarch analyzed with a frown.
"Let's go, stop analyzing!"
Miaoke reminded from the side.
"What?"
Only then did the Elf Matriarch realize that most people had already left, and elves were still stepping through teleportation portals.
Teleportation portals?!