owlsbooks Chapter 2116: Guardian God Relics
Chapter 2116: Guardian God Relics
Chapter 2116: Guardian God Relics
The danger in the gods' ruins was not great. Qing, with his strength at that time, could move around in it, let alone Isabella and Xi. The two of them soon arrived at the core level.
This floor was completely different from the last floor of the underground palace that Qing had experienced. What appeared in front of Isabella and the others was a magnificent palace with huge stone pillars standing inside and various murals around it.
The first thing Xi noticed was the pillar with a star pattern in the center of the hall. In the center of the pillar, there was a hollow space with two metal rings interlaced, surrounding a core.
Isabella focused her attention on the stone pillars in the hall. The stone pillars recorded a lot of information in special characters. It just so happened that Isabella had mastered this kind of characters when she was exploring the cemetery, so she could understand the information recorded on the stone pillars.
[As the guardian of the mountain peaks, I stand guard at the entrance to the mountain peaks all year round. The wind messenger will land on my shoulders, peck at my cold armor, tilt his head to look at me, and tell me the interesting things that happened on the Yimi continent with a happy chirping song.]
[It would be disingenuous to say that I am not moved by such a wonderful world. What I am protecting is the temple behind me. This temple, where even the air inspires awe, once belonged to the fallen goddess. Now it is empty and has fallen into a deathly silence.]
[Except for the "little messenger" who visits me once a year, the only things that keep me company are the giant pillars that never decay. The rosy morning light and the glowing starlight alternately pass through these giant pillars and sprinkle on the ground. Thirty-three pillars. The entire temple is spotless, like a silver-white, quiet giant beast. I am the boy who protects it, and the wise man is sleeping on the other side.]
[I thought this kind of tranquility would continue until the winter when demons surged to the top of the mountains. The snow wind rolled, bringing icy snow particles and the smell of blood, wrapping the mountains in endless darkness. I stood up from the steps, and the heavy metal armor rubbed against each other, making a clanging sound.]
[I held my spear across my body. When the demons swarmed up from the foot of the stairs like locusts, I had foreseen my end... In that battle, my shield was shattered and my spear was broken, but I had fulfilled my mission and fought to my last breath in front of the temple.
The silver-white temple finally collapsed, and my skull was buried in the ruins, crushed along with the giant pillars, and turned into dust. The end of darkness is still darkness, and I don’t know how long I have slept in this dreamland of ignorance. Until in the silent darkness, the sluggish metal mechanism slowly swung, making a "click", "click" sound...】
[A gentle voice sounded beside my ears: "Kindness is the direction that the temple guides all living beings. However, the world is in chaos and demons are rampant, so people's kindness is sometimes shorter than a shooting star and fainter than a firefly. You will protect them, right? Your courage will support the sky for them. Just like you once protected this temple."]
[“I want to walk on that land, because everyone has a temple in their heart.” In the darkness, I heard my own answer. My life has not stopped...]
Isabella copied the messages and posted a copy in the team communication channel. It was about a temple guardian who died in the battle against the demons while guarding the original temple of the goddess Lina. With the help of the God of Creation, he became a symbol of guardianship.
The pillar in the center is the first body created by the God of Creation to save him. The information recorded on the surrounding stone pillars contains the driving method. As long as the energy core wrapped in the metal ring is activated, the pillar will transform into a guardian.
This is something that the guardian god left behind on purpose, hoping it would help future generations. The gods who left behind these relics all hoped that the power they left behind could provide some help to people facing disasters.
The energy core, as something left behind by the guardian god, is also a part of the origin of the gods, just like the deer spirit that Ilaito seized. If one has the means to steal the throne of god similar to Ilaito, relying on this origin of the gods, one can also become a god.
But for Xi, the divine source was not used in this way at all. She only wanted to devour the divine source. After becoming Lin Jiu's reincarnation clone, Xi was restricted from obtaining the divine source by hunting good gods. She could either hunt evil gods or obtain it through other means, such as finding part of the source power of fallen gods.
It's not that Lin Jiu deliberately restricted Xi's growth, but her growth method of absorbing the divine source was not normal. The ability from the Eye of the Void was meant to make Xi's growth rate keep up with the contractors trained in Paradise, and there are quite a few flaws in it.
The most significant effect is that every time you hunt a good god and devour the divine source, your own fortune will be reduced, that is, your luck will be reduced. If Xi was an independent individual, Lin Jiu would not bother to care about this, but now Xi is his reincarnation clone, and her reduced luck will backfire on Lin Jiu, the original body, and then be evenly distributed to other reincarnation clones. Of course, he can't allow her to continue doing this.
Perhaps it was because he constantly used this method to improve his strength, which led to the serious weakening of his own fortune. In the abyss world, Xi encountered obstacles everywhere and finally fell into Lin Jiu's hands.
Did Xi, who was originally at the Eye of the Void, think of using this ability? Not really. If he had stayed in Apocalypse Paradise, he would most likely not have mastered the abilities related to the divine system, but would have been dominated by the crystallization ability.
The problem is that the Eye of the Void cannot have the environment like the Paradise Camp to develop her abilities. Now that she has returned to Apocalypse Paradise, Xi naturally began to continue to improve her original combat system. However, she has fallen behind in development, and if she wants to improve quickly, she needs to find another way.
Therefore, Xi eliminated many of the divine abilities obtained from the Eye of the Void, and only retained the ability to devour and assimilate divine power. Her main ability is to fight by manipulating inactive crystal energy, and the highest form of this crystal energy is the dragon crystal of the ancient dragon clan.
But Xi is not from the ancient dragon clan, no matter how much she uses dragon crystals, she can't surpass the ancient dragon clan. So naturally, she can't copy the abilities of the ancient dragon clan.
Now when Xi swallowed the divine source, there was a chance that he would gain certain abilities. If it was not compatible with himself, he would continue to convert it into divine source energy and integrate it into the crystal energy to strengthen the crystal he was using. If it was compatible with the abilities he was using, he would convert the swallowed divine source into this ability.
Of course, she still had to keep looking for dragon crystals, which was still influenced by Lin Jiu's original body, taking the path of "embracing all rivers". Xi also figured it out, as long as she continued to improve the crystal energy intensity, she would be able to maintain the top combat power of the same level.
Her crystallization system is strong in its variability. It can change the fighting method according to the enemy's ability characteristics, and can do melee, long-range, and even summoning. And this is not Xi's most difficult ability. The most difficult is naturally her own crystallization.
Crystallizing a part of the body or the whole body is different from the elementalization of the devil fruit. After Xi's body is crystallized, it will also be injured, but it will not be fatal, and it has an extremely strong self-healing speed. After Xi's crystallized body is injured, before it returns to normal, that part of the crystallized body will heal at a high speed, thus helping Xi to be immune to injuries.
If Xi's crystal energy was strong enough, she would not have been easily defeated. And among all the reincarnation clones, only the female clone has the potential to be in the top front row. Who could have thought of this?
After Xi understood this, he simply gave up the ability of the God System and integrated the swallowed God Source power into the crystal energy. This had some of the effects of Su Xiao's Devouring Core ability. However, the Devouring Core could swallow any energy, while Xi could only swallow God Source energy. But the functions were similar now, one was used to increase the energy of the Blue Steel Shadow, and the other was used to strengthen the crystal energy.
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