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Xue Dili nodded, "A trip to Greece, huh..."

"Let me calculate." Mimic Venerable King continued, then responded, "It seems actually effective, but these methods were only useful for the old you. Now, there are more aggressive but significantly more impactful approaches, like the ones I’ve listed for you."

Xue Dili: "..."

Things became simpler the more he thought about them, or rather, it wasn’t even a big deal to begin with. He had worried needlessly, or maybe it was as if a mangy lion had inexplicably gotten into his field of vision, complicating his thoughts.

"Dad, I can help too. Actually, my main body sent back a message earlier..." The little daughter suddenly spoke, saying something that made Xue Dili sweat, "My main body blossomed, and has already completed the basic outcome."

Xue Dili: "..."

Mimic Venerable King: "..."

Seeing Mimic Venerable King’s expression shift from normal to thoughtful, and then to an extremely peculiar way of looking at Xue Dili, he felt he should explain the situation.

Otherwise, Mimic Venerable King might really think he was planting trees in some weird place.

"Don’t overthink it, I’ll bring in the person involved, then you’ll know what’s going on..." Xue Dili immediately said, disappearing in a flash, reappearing beside Susu, scaring her as she was munching on bread and tidying up her room.

"Brother Li, what’s with you? Give me a heads up before you come in... don’t just barge in all of a sudden..." Susu said to Xue Dili in a rather abstract tone.

"I don’t have time to quip with you; look at her. My younger daughter is currently planted on her home planet. You’ll naturally see what’s going on from her." Xue Dili quipped.

Mimic Venerable King took a look and through the information on Susu, could trace back to Margaret, and consequently to what actually happened in that world...

After seeing it, Mimic Venerable King also breathed a sigh of relief, it was all a misunderstanding, and even He got nervous for a moment.

However, why would this strange divine tree bloom and bear fruit under those circumstances?

Divine trees typically only bear the purest fruit after absorbing sufficient spirituality.

Could it be that the divine tree absorbed Margaret’s legacy, thus succeeding in blooming?

Mimic Venerable King temporarily fell into a knowledge black hole; perhaps He felt He also needed to consider the divine tree research theory proposed by a certain researcher earlier. The officer who wanted to cultivate specific divine trees as a means to counter particular cosmic calamities.

At that time, Mimic Venerable King thought it was too radical. Who knows, they might not create the divine trees they wanted, but another kind of cosmic calamity, like a living godfather, thus He dismissed the proposal. But now it seems the understanding of divine trees has made even people like Him arrogant.

Moreover, the divine trees of the past were not purely cosmic calamities. Even in the ancient Interstellar Corps records, the divine tree was considered a teammate, helping to stabilize the atmosphere and water of dead stars.

After all misunderstandings were resolved, Xue Dili and Mimic Venerable King fell into silence.

"Perhaps I should make a trip to Greece." Xue Dili said, he actually should have visited this world’s Olympus and the Nether River earlier.

However, in the Main World, Olympus is just a mountain peak, and the Nether River is just a lake connected to a volcano.

Here, Olympus is no longer the dwelling of the gods, nor is the Nether River a paradise for the dead. The deepest part of Nether River is not a forbidden place connecting to Abyss Tartarus, just a volcano.

But to the people of the Main World, there’s no difference between what’s beneath an active volcano and the so-called Abyss.

"Leave this to me; you all should stay at home and take good care of grandma. I’ll be back shortly." Xue Dili smiled, again ruffling his daughters’ hair. After giving Fafnir a few last words, he opened the Teleportation Gate, through which was Greece’s Nether River, or the volcanic crater lake near Naples, Italy.

...

In the year 2025 AD, the hero Xediles returned to his faithful Greece.

But now, Greece is no longer united; it’s fragmented into Greece, Italy, Turkey, and dozens of other small countries. And all of these people are fighting over who is the rightful Greece.

"By the way, isn’t your love life a bit too complicated?" Despite Mimic Venerable King thinking He shouldn’t gossip about such matters, He couldn’t help but quip.

Xue Dili: "..."

"What did you see?" he retaliated, not with good intentions.

"I originally thought you only had a connection with Fafnir, but then I calculated, and it turned out alarmingly. Why do you have more than a dozen one-way love arrows pointing at you?" Mimic Venerable King quipped. Although He has lived long enough, seen many people marry and have children, and even love across different species.

There was even that young general with nearly a hundred wives, which opened His eyes a bit, yet Xue Dili was even more peculiar.

"So you better not get involved in this matter. I don’t even know. I’ll take it one step at a time. Right now, I have no thoughts on the matter, but after killing all the Apostles, maybe I’ll agree. Whether it’s marriage, dating, or anything, I won’t refuse. Just that, right now, I only have the Apostles in my heart." Xue Dili casually shut down Mimic Venerable King’s gossip.

He wasn’t sure if he said this just to shut Mimic Venerable King’s mouth or if it was truly how he felt.

His heart was now filled with the Apostles, leaving no room for anyone else, and he didn’t want anyone else to displace the Apostles in his heart, unless the Apostles were completely wiped out from the cosmos, and only then could anyone else occupy a place in his heart.

"My heart has been filled by the Apostles; from now on, there is no room for any other feelings." Xue Dili said.

Mimic Venerable King: "..."

One man and a soul fragment bantered, gradually plunging into the deepest part of the volcanic lake.

Here, Xue Dili had once killed Zeus, with the help of the hero and the gods, trapping Zeus here and killing him.

And now, it seems to be just a normal volcanic lake. Surroundings are no longer barren and dead; they’re lush and thriving, with an Italian village nearby. From afar, one can even see a wooden sculpture of an unknown Greek god in the village.

The deepest part of the volcanic lake, something seemed to be coming.

Xue Dili sensed it, and Mimic Venerable King sensed it too. From the bottom of the volcanic lake, a severely distorted entity emerged with the water stream, rushing towards them.

Xue Dili drew his blade, thinking at first if it was some remnant of the Divine Era or some strange product left by the Titans who were suppressed under the Abyss of Divine Era Greece, reacting to his presence.

However, just as the Dimensional Blade was ready to perform a Dimension Slash, the figure slowly appeared in front of Xue Dili and Mimic Venerable King.

It was... a corpse...

Completely wrapped in a diving suit, with an oxygen tank, severely decayed, with only a few pieces of flesh, blasted open from inside due to decompression sickness, attached to the bones... the remains of a diver.

"Perhaps, we all overthought it. It’s just a poor soul who cave-dived and perished inside, now emerged by the undercurrents..." Xue Dili quipped.

Why are there these diver corpses everywhere, as if in all the caves Xue Dili goes into, there are old diver corpses in abundance?

Are they so reckless, or is it that cave diving is just that perilous?

"No, this is just a corpse that was flushed out. This volcano seems to be responding to you..." Mimic Venerable King immediately quipped.