All Gods: Starting with Two Families

Chapter 18 Sandworm Uprising”Enemy attack—!!”

”It’s the sandworm! The guardian has gone mad!!”

The oasis instantly plunged into a chaos of panic and grief!

”Screee—!!!”

At this critical moment, a sharp hiss filled with anger and the will to protect rang through the heavens!

The Feathered Serpent Totem Spirit sensed the crisis of the Divine Realm and the wailing of its followers!

Its spiritual body, composed of pure cyan-gold energy, instantly manifested from the depths of the mist, its size swelling rapidly!

Energy wings with a wingspan of over twenty meters flapped suddenly, whipping up a violent gale as it slammed into the rampaging sandworm’s giant maw!

Boom!!!

The collision between energy and carapace erupted in a dull, massive boom!

The sandworm’s massive body was knocked askew, its devouring interrupted.

But the sandworm’s ferocity was also completely ignited! It let out an even more violent hiss, its huge body twisting frantically as its tooth-filled mouthparts snapped, biting hard at the energy-formed Feathered Serpent!

The two behemoths instantly rolled, bit, and collided in the dust at the edge of the oasis!

Every clash shook the earth; the dissipating energy and the sandstorm kicked up by the sandworm constantly battered the fragile Mist Barrier, and more areas began to grow thin and unstable!

”Stop!”

Zhou Zheng’s Divine Thought core erupted in a roar of shock and anger!

Both were precious to him! The sandworm was his vital trump card and source of spice, while the Feathered Serpent Totem Spirit was the hope for the Divine Realm’s future!

If the two fought, no matter who was harmed, it would be a loss he couldn’t afford!

There was no time to hesitate! Majestic Divine Power, like a flood breaking a dam, poured frantically from Zhou Zheng’s Divine Thought core!

”Freeze!”

With an oracle containing supreme majesty, the entire Divine Realm—the rolling sandstorm, the fighting behemoths, the terrified fleeing followers, the swaying willow branches, even the flowing spring water...

Everything instantly fell into absolute stillness! The river of time was forcibly paused!

Only Zhou Zheng’s Divine Thought moved rapidly in this frozen space-time.

He ”looked” at the bloodstains of the followers remaining on the edge of the sandworm’s maw, his heart aching with pain.

Divine Power turned into an invisible giant hand, carefully ”peeling” the frenzied sandworm, frozen in its attacking posture, from the battlefield at the oasis’s edge. He forcibly moved it hundreds of kilometers away to the depths of the scorching sand sea at the very edge of the Divine Realm.

Then, even more massive Divine Power surged out like the finest gauze net, covering the Spring of Life at the oasis’s core and all water source nodes in layers!

This was a continuous, high-consumption Divine Power ”shielding,” used to completely isolate the sandworm from the temptation of the water’s scent.

Every second, Zhou Zheng’s stored faith points dropped at an alarming rate, causing him immense heartache.

”This can’t go on... the Divine Power consumption is too high; it only treats the symptoms, not the root cause.”

Zhou Zheng’s Divine Thought swept across the edge of the Mist Barrier, which had become ragged and unstable from the sandworm’s rampage, and a decision instantly took shape.

Dismantle it!

He turned his gaze toward the massive mother tree and the surviving offshoots around it.

Since the mist-locked pond willow can survive through cuttings, why not split one large oasis into several independent, smaller oases where the willow’s own power can more easily and perfectly conceal the water source?

Guided by Divine Thought, the majestic Divine Power once again transformed into countless fine ”carving knives.”

Several of the best-growing offshoots around the mother tree were gently wrapped by Divine Power, their roots and branches guided as they were slowly ”peeled” from the mother plant’s oasis.

At the same time, the corresponding branch springs of the Spring of Life and some follower settlements also migrated along with the offshoots.