Starting with Growing Mushrooms-Chapter 371 - 287: Relocating the Longevity Tree

The initial encounter with destiny, only retains that familiar taste.

Previously hidden within Fortuna, this time directly replacing a newly born Death God’s identity.

However, compared to Scouti, Liu Jun is naturally more inclined to pledge allegiance to his own Fortuna.

Moreover, Fortuna’s careless personality, straightforwardness, emotions worn on her sleeve, and her aversion to hiding secrets, make her easier to understand.

Then here comes the question.

As God, should I help Fortuna?

If I were to help, how should I go about it?

I can’t just say that I’ve discovered Scouti intends to replace the Death God and infiltrate the ranks of the gods, right?

Where would my information come from?

As fellow Goddesses of Destiny, it’s difficult for them to be fully perceived by other destinies.

If it weren’t for my cheat of seeing the introduction of the Divine Object, I’m afraid no one would know of the other’s conspiracy.

Liu Jun thought for a moment and mused internally:

"Forget it, let’s just watch how things unfold."

"Moreover, although Scouti wants to become complete and acquire the other three destinies, does she also fear them a bit? Is she afraid of the other three side effects?"

—Scouti, you don’t want not to flush the toilet too, do you?

Nearby, Fortuna, with her sharp intuition, suddenly looked at God and said, "I always feel like you’re thinking some quite rude things."

God shifted the topic slightly and said indifferently, "I was just thinking, can you withstand the three side effects of destiny now?"

Hearing this, Fortuna also showed a helpless expression,

"The destiny of the future makes me see countless futures; the overwhelming information often makes me forgetful and careless."

"The destiny of the present has me warp countless present moments, leaving me somewhat schizophrenic and disoriented."

"The destiny of the past represents death, which fills me with the same inertia, cowardice, and laziness as death."

Carelessness, disorientation, cowardice, idleness.

At this, Fortuna said softly:

"I feel like I’m a bit abnormal, but my abnormality brings me some happiness, makes me carefree... thinking whatever, doing whatever, joyfully and lively. It reminds me of the cheerful state of mind when I used to hop around playing in the garden as a kid."

Are Goddesses of Destiny ultimately doomed to become careless fools?

Starting to enjoy the rot, turning into layabouts?

God couldn’t help but remark suddenly, "The Amber Swallowtail Butterfly under the Longevity Divine Spirit, carefree like you, I think you could become good friends with it."

Fortuna was utterly speechless.

Do they truly treat me as a being of [Low Wisdom], the representative Divine Spirit of natural instincts, Amber Swallowtail Butterfly?

It’s merely a side effect of destiny...

Although on second thought, the other party seems like a side effect of the Divine Object as well.

But thinking again, she couldn’t help but complain, "Do you mean, this new God of Destiny probably also has significant side effects?"

She paused, "And furthermore, perhaps she fears acquiring the three destinies from me, afraid of bearing four side effects?"

God glanced at Fortuna, "To me, the optimal survival mode for Goddesses of Destiny is, instead of each one controlling a Divine Object, to separate into the Three Goddesses of Destiny or Four Goddesses of Destiny."

"In this way, each bears a side effect, not too troublesome."

"Only in facing true enemies can various Divine Objects be merged, entering a complete destiny form."

Fortuna thought it over and felt it made a lot of sense.

The choices of various Divine Objects coincidentally follow a certain pattern, destined.

Especially destiny, is predestined.

Why does the destiny series always favor choosing females?

Because females are more inclined towards emotion.

Four women can manage six groups, even more so for these women fond of manipulating destiny?

Those chosen by destiny are of the type who enjoy scheming and laying plots behind the scenes.

All the little bitches of destiny create such chaos that the world doesn’t become stagnant!

Thus, the internal strife among Goddesses of Destiny becomes the eternal melody accompanying each epoch of mythical history.

As for the other gods...

They too can joyfully watch, as a few destiny little bitches show off their maneuvers, fervently scheming, like green tea princesses, white lotuses, stirring up all kinds of trouble.

Seeing this, Fortuna also felt the side effects were quite significant and likely struggling to cope with the new Goddess of Destiny appearing.

Theoretically, her optimal solution is:

To split her own [Future] Divine Object and give it to her arch-enemy Ananke, letting her become a Goddess of Destiny once again.

Then use the twisting of [Now] to twist Ananke into her own loyal servant Goddess of Destiny.

This way, she would have a Goddess of Destiny ally to contend with the new-era Goddess of Destiny.

"But, do I really want to do this? To release Ananke?"

"Moreover, after releasing Ananke, if she is awakened, wouldn’t I have released an enemy?"

Fortuna kept pondering.

God seeing her deeply hesitating didn’t say much, just leaving a sentence: "Destiny is in your hands, it depends on you..."

He added a reminder, "Destiny is adept at concealment, be wary of it approaching silently and scheming against you... they might be like Ananke in those days."

Fortuna sat on her chair, lost in contemplation.

...

Liu Jun casually reminded Fortuna, then left Fortuna’s Palace of Destiny, soaring through the clouds.

The clouds roiled beneath his feet.

He gazed down at the entire Mushroom Soup World beneath him.

Countless bustling cities, angels, giant dragons, vampires, tarot divination masters, demons... numerous strong beings were scurrying through mountains and rivers, seemingly seeking new Divine Objects.

After all, obtaining a Divine Position, ascending to greater heights, is what everyone desires.

Sadly, only Liu Jun, who knows the inside story, understands that probably no one will seize the Divine Object this time.

Death lies deep within the Death World.

The Destiny Goddess Scouti plans to disguise herself as the new Death God to assume office.

"Forget it, I’m too lazy to concern myself with them that much."

His expression was somewhat cold,

"The times are always like this, with new gods appearing one after another, alternating the rise and fall of the mythical era."

From a macro perspective, the grudges and passions of the gods throughout the long history are nothing more than small ripples.

Even their divine positions can be replaced, and they themselves can fall.

Even if Fortuna loses now, she won’t die. She’ll enter my God’s soul-calling banner, uh, divine card, to become God’s destiny card.

After all, God now possesses destiny divine power, but indeed lacks a professional divine power controller.

I feel that sooner or later, today’s gods, Cain, and others will also be eliminated by time, entering my card for retirement and re-employment.

Actually, Liu Jun thinks this is not a big deal, as long as his world rules gradually improve.

"Though destiny is powerful, I saw the introduction and guarded against the first sight kill, which is ineffective against me... So, what I’m busy with is still solving the chaos disaster."

Liu Jun’s logic was very clear.

But before that, he planned to start another job.

Space Ocean!

After that introduction, he realized that what seemed like a quite ordinary space series still had much to be said.

The next moment, he switched identities.

Transforming into the Longevity Divine Spirit, he opened his eyes and appeared within the longevity tree of the Butterfly Race.

The sky was adorned with numerous ribbons fluttering on the trees.

The little butterflies of the past were chatting happily, running through the garden.

The Longevity Divine Spirit walked out of the palace and into the weaving garden of the Butterfly Race.

Now here is still in the process of cocooning, with countless little creatures weaving their desired lives as the original creation race.

The angels, titans, giant dragons, elves of those years... all were born or improved in this legendary weaving garden.

"Just weave like this!"

"Ah ah ah, exactly like this, it’s so cool!"

When Liu Jun walked in, he found the Gold Wood God Amber Swallowtail Butterfly leading everyone in weaving manually.

They were weaving metal shells, wooden shells, new creatures, even metal life... hatching from golden eggs, quite special.

"Ah, God, you’ve awakened again?"

The Amber Swallowtail Butterfly flew over without a care, as everyone knew the Longevity Divine Spirit was often asleep.

"Have you been having fun lately?"

The Longevity Divine Spirit patted the head of the Amber Swallowtail Butterfly. Although God had adopted a new little pet, he still preferred his own little pet here.

"Look!"

The Amber Swallowtail Butterfly began to introduce its proud achievements, "Now with destiny, everyone can see after weaving their cocoon, whether they live or die, how the woven life appears, its potential..."

"Now our woven cocoons have a 100% survival rate, unlike in the past when new species required crazy sacrifices."

The Amber Swallowtail Butterfly kept boasting.

Liu Jun nodded slightly, "It looks good."

Indeed, the outside magic world developed rapidly, and the Butterfly Race here wasn’t slow either.

After concealing themselves, the Butterfly Race updated several versions, and with the help of evolutionary divine power for evolution, destiny divine power showed the direction of evolution.

The Creation Butterfly Race now truly deserved to be called a creation race.

With deep heritage.

Yet they remained innocent and carefree.

Liu Jun quite liked the atmosphere of this Butterfly Race, as outside there was too much intrigue, occasionally returning to enjoy it was nice.

Next, the Longevity Divine Spirit stayed with the Amber Swallowtail Butterfly, as well as Diechi Yin and Die Mingren, the two honest Butterfly Race leaders, in the weaving garden for three days.

Liu Jun also created many woven works.

Metal people, transforming mecha warriors... possessing structures of gold and wood.

These creatures emerged from golden cocoons, making Liu Jun slightly dazed, "Why does it feel like I’ve moved the neighboring mechanical mechas here, am I following the mechanical Butterfly Race lineage?"

After making a joke, he didn’t think much of it, as whatever path they wanted to take or creatures they wanted to play with wasn’t a problem.

After relaxing as the Longevity Divine Spirit for a while, he began to conduct serious business, saying to everyone:

"As the era progresses, I plan to move this gathering place of the longevity tree to another alternate space!"

Upon hearing this, the Amber Swallowtail Butterfly said bluntly, "Alternate space, could it be the Death World that has been causing such a stir outside lately? Are we going to move the longevity tree there?"

Die Mingren, standing nearby, was speechless, "How could we move it there? Wouldn’t we need to die to go there?"

The Amber Swallowtail Butterfly was even less concerned, "I heard that God and the Goddess of Destiny can only go there after they die."

It’s undeniable that this little butterfly’s logic is indeed unconventional.

Even Liu Jun briefly thought: It seems, could moving to the Death World for seclusion be an option? Would my longevity tree be corroded by death?

Concealment + longevity, maybe it could resist death?

However, as these thoughts emerged continuously, Liu Jun suddenly realized that he was unwittingly led astray by this silly butterfly.

"Of course not."

The Longevity Divine Spirit said, "It’s to be moved to a space ocean."

"Space?" Several butterflies were puzzled.

The Longevity Divine Spirit didn’t explain much further, and directly started to act, mobilizing vast divine power to begin opening the Mushroom Soup World.

Rumble.

The sky seemed to split open. 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

"What is that?"

"Could it be that the Divine Trial is coming again?"

"Impossible, it absolutely can’t be that fast!"

Amid everyone’s exclamations, the barrier of the Mushroom Soup World was unveiled by the concealing divine power, connecting with the cosmos outside.

The God continent, where the stars gathered, appeared like a massive floating island in a vast ocean, yet even amidst the azure waters, it seemed as if a pump was sucking everything in!

Whoosh.

As if a floodgate was opened, almost all the powerful beings who couldn’t see the space were caught in the turbulent tide of space, vaguely seeing a clear white sea invert and flow in.

"The water of the heavenly river descends! It’s pouring into our realm of gods from the cosmos outside!"

"Wait, could it be that God is acting again, is this the world-ending flood?"