Otherworldly Desert Dust

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The wind kept blowing, bringing vast amounts of sand and dust into the city. Some areas of the Old City were already buried under the yellow sand, and such severe disaster weather was happening all over the world.

People's living environments were being gradually compressed, and the infiltration of the Desert Dust grew increasingly potent.

Instead of waiting idly for death, some people began venturing into the Desert Dust, hoping to quickly find a way to survive for themselves and their families.

Similarly, after Wu Hen returned to his home, he did not remain idle. He continually tested Little Yi's abilities, such as whether it could conjure up the weapons he imagined by showing it pictures of, say, a nuclear bomb.

Through friendly communication and negotiations, Wu Hen learned that Little Yi indeed had vast divine skills but without a source of energy, everything was moot!

It needed energy, vast amounts of it.

If it could consume energy from a nuclear power plant, it might consider Wu Hen's suggestion.

But in the human settlements, there wasn't much that could catch Little Yi's eye; it was truly barren and desolate.

So, Little Yi urged Wu Hen to quickly head into the Desert Dust and not waste any more time here—it was essentially a Truman Show world, and the beautiful, serene facade would eventually collapse.

"Alright, I'm probably very close to the Nuwa God End anyway. I can come back anytime," Wu Hen nodded.

He lay on his bed, explaining to his family that he was going to the battlefield, and then lightly tapped his temple.

The virtual pupil membrane immediately emitted a kaleidoscope of colors, and Wu Hen seemed to see a door with circling star patterns in front of him.

"Otherworldly Dust, activate!"

Even if heading towards death, it must be done with flair!

In an instant, Wu Hen felt as if an anesthetic was injected into him; he was full of fighting spirit one moment and unconscious, sinking into the abyss the next.

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Actually, Wu Hen always had one confusion.

What was his host doing after his consciousness returned home?

Did it stay put like an AI robot, waiting for him to come online, or did it fall into sleep and coma just like the people in his settlement?

But when he opened his eyes to the scene before him, he couldn't help but curse, "Damn it, where the hell did you get me?"

In front of him was an endless desert!

Under his feet, scorching white sand!

The most ridiculous thing was that the clouds in the sky were not clouds; they were masses of sand. Some giant sand clouds were even pouring "downpours" onto the earth!

The cloud sky was a sea of sand, the ground was a desert; had he been transported to a wild, uncivilized world?

What an idiot, a complete idiot, just like Auntie said!

Thankfully, ahead lay the Desert Dust; looking back, he could see a patch of green.

So, if he had logged on even a bit later, this guy would have stepped into the world of the Sky Sand Desert!

Hurry back!

Wu Hen immediately sensed that the Sky Sand Desert ahead was a death trap!

Alas, the sorrow of the Lost One.

After retracting from the brink, Wu Hen knew it wasn't the host's fault.

The host was a Lost One; once his consciousness left, it would become like the indigenous people of Jueyin Town, just a walking corpse.

"Strange, I've been away for a while, yet the Green Field seems to be getting farther away," Wu Hen reclaimed control and started walking towards the green patch.

But no matter how much he walked, he couldn't escape the desert; clearly, the green land was within sight.

"Could it be that this desert is also growing and expanding?" Wu Hen suddenly thought of the Evil Soil.

The Evil Soil grew and expanded; if you merely walked, you'd never get out because it grew faster than you could walk!

Realizing that the Sky Sand Desert might be the same, Wu Hen started using his superpower.

"Little Yi, transform bacteria into a horse!"

Little Yi couldn't even be bothered to acknowledge the idiot.

"At least give me a speed boost, come on."

Following Wu Hen's more reasonable command, Little Yi finally released the Golden Luminous Crystal Silk, which quickly wrapped around Wu Hen's iron feet like golden holy boots!

Having taken Yuan You Oral Liquid, Wu Hen's strength and speed were already three times that of a normal human.

With Little Yi's Holy Energy Boots, Wu Hen instantly achieved six times the speed of an ordinary person.

Dashing through the desert like the wind, Wu Hen felt as though he was back on his BMW HP4, galloping freely across the open land. However, this sensation was entirely different from riding a motorcycle; it was akin to the difference between flying a plane and wingsuit flying!

Finally, he burst out of the desert.

Little Yi was precise with its calculations; Wu Hen had just cleared the desert when it retracted its powers.

Wu Hen, aware of the need to conserve energy, knew that running out of blue energy in a dangerous situation could be fatal!

"Ding~"

Like the sound of a pleasant wind chime, the gentle breeze softly reminded the returning soul.

Wu Hen could hear this special guidance, feeling it matched the sensation he experienced when using Yuan You.

His Aunt had also said that Yuan You was the most trustworthy thing.

This bell-like spiritual guidance must be the call of the Nuwa God End.

Moving in this direction would surely not be wrong.

Wu Hen firmly stepped forward, eager to know what the real world where humans resided was like!

Walked and walked,

Walked and walked,

The silhouette of a celestial shadow appeared on the horizon.

It was colossal, with a sense of not belonging to this land, as if traversing through outer space!

Wu Hen quickened his steps, but the celestial shadow also seemed to be moving, like the stars and the moon—imperceptible to the naked eye yet distinctly felt, always just out of reach...

"Ding~"

The soft calling sound echoed again.

Wu Hen suddenly sped up; he sensed that this grand celestial shadow noticed him from behind and intentionally slowed down, waiting for him to catch up...

Just like a mother, deliberately slowing her pace, letting the child who just learned to walk follow her, striving toward her scent.

Wu Hen started chasing.

The celestial shadow grew clearer.

It was indeed vast, but one didn't feel helpless or insignificant before it; instead, there was a deep-seated sense of intimacy and longing.

Nuwa Divine Mother.

At that moment, Wu Hen suddenly understood why there were legends of Nuwa creating humans in the human world.

Moving forward endlessly, the distance ceased to be a matter of space or time, but merely the journey of someone who had just learned to walk in the Desert Dust, reaching out to his mother with faltering steps.

But the closer he got, the more Wu Hen was reluctant to believe his eyes...

Because the grandeur of the Nuwa God End matched the myth of supporting the collapsing heavens for the ancient humans, but Wu Hen also saw an old, exhausted, and scarred figure in it!

She faced that terrifying Sky Sand Desert.

The reason Wu Hen saw a green land was that her towering body blocked the onslaught of the sky sand, struggling to preserve a patch of life behind her!

At this moment, Wu Hen thought about the endless wind howls in his home and the yellow sand that buried the city...

It turned out that the Nuwa God End traversing such a vicious sky sand was utterly exhausted, yet still seeking an oasis in the Desert Dust.

"Ding~"

Elegantly like a cradle's gentle hum, Wu Hen stepped forward, sprinting towards this mythical figure...

How vast the otherworldly realm was, there would be a place to belong.

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Arriving beneath the Nuwa God End.

Wu Hen thought the Nuwa God End would be a living god, as depicted in ancient myths.

But that wasn't the case.

Her form was indeed that of a grand giant.

But she was also a glazed glass ancient divine tree blocking out the sun and sky.

Passing through a thin realm, Wu Hen looked up and saw branches entwining the sky.

Looking ahead, a glass tree trunk stood like a divine mountain.

Her roots weren't buried in the earth like a tree's; instead, they spread like fringe near the ground, akin to an ancient woman's dress...

In truth, each of her countless roots was as thick as a millennium-old tree trunk.

Wu Hen couldn't describe the Nuwa God End.

She possessed both a human form and a tree body.

She represented life and nature.

She had unparalleled divinity, yet required no worship, as if she were the mountains, earth, forests underfoot, the stars, moon, and sun overhead...

Wu Hen continued forward.

Like a newborn, he sensed everything real.

As someone with awakened hearing, he heard more layered sounds; the Nuwa God End was immensely tranquil, yet Wu Hen could always hear her gentle comfort.

Such comfort felt like a mother softly holding a crying baby, glad to have brought the child into the world but also a bit guilty and self-reproachful for not providing a better, more comfortable environment...

Wu Hen heard the Nuwa God End, feeling like a "mother" conversing with him.

"Damn!! Damn!!!"

"Do you know what I endured to get here!!"

"Turns out you're just a damn tree, apart from being huge, you're useless!!"

Suddenly, a voice filled with extreme resentment rang near Wu Hen, seemingly from someone who had also endured hardships to reach the Nuwa God End.

He snapped, expecting the Nuwa God End to be the ancient deity that supported the heavens in the myths, only to find it was just a sentient tree wandering the Desert Dust, and his fury erupted uncontrollably!

It was like finding one's long-lost mother after decades, only to discover she was a scavenger, with no emotion in her eyes, only resentment, and he loathed why such a scavenger mother had given birth to him!

"I spit!" The man spat on the Five-Colored Mud.

Wu Hen frowned, having no sympathy for such a person.

"Boom!"

Suddenly, a woman from outside the thin realm flashed over and punched the spitting man in the abdomen!

The man curled up like a maggot on the ground, his face turning red from pain!

"Understand this, our ancestors sought the Nuwa Divine Mother's protection, hence the myths of Nuwa creating humans."

"We are mere insects, barely surviving due to the Nuwa Divine Mother's permission. She owes humanity nothing!"

Clad in a teal fighting outfit, her tall, curvaceous figure, and a cold, disdainful look made Wu Hen glance twice at the woman.

Unfortunately, she mistook him for a companion of the man, giving him the same disdainful look.