Chapter 1887 The Essence of Crystal
The attics in the Abyssal Snake Residence are arranged in an orderly manner. Most of them are two- or three-story buildings with gable roofs and square stone slabs on the ground below. It is very quiet here. There seems to be no one in the hundreds of pavilions. Among these pavilions, there are eight stone roads, each of which is the same width, all leading to the back mountain of the Abyssal Snake Residence.
And you have to be extremely careful when moving here. Once you are discovered and dragged by these dozens of Tianba people, you will definitely die. You must know that there are thousands of Tianba people living in the Abyssal Snake Residence.
The Tianba people originally did not have the power of the source in their bodies. They mastered the power of the source after drinking the "source water" and derived the ability of immersion and drowning.
While gaining this power, they will also be constantly eroded by the source, resulting in a serious mental state and a significant reduction in perception. The Tianba people who were guarding the village in front obviously had just drunk the "source water" not long ago. They were sober, so they guarded the front.
The Tianba tribe, which was severely eroded by the "source", was sent to the Yuanshe Residence to prevent them from going crazy or mutating and causing damage to Yongyue City in the rear. Yongyue City is the foundation of the Tianba tribe.
If the Tianba tribe in Qianshou Village are warriors, then the Tianba tribe in Yongyue City are civilians. They have not drunk the source water and are the main productive force of the Kingdom of God. As for the Tianba tribe in Yuanshe Residence, they are between guards and monsters. What they guard is naturally the source of the "source water".
Su Xiao has always been a little puzzled as to why the Tianba tribe drank the "source water". You know, in the Kingdom of God, the Tianba tribe has no external enemies at all. It was not until he followed a Tianba tribe and saw him decompose the power in the body of the Tianba tribe, which was about to be completely eroded, into the source of the "source water", a pool of water, that he fully understood.
As night fell, Su Xiao explored in advance, Lin Jiu omitted the exploration process and followed the special mark to the back mountain. This is a stone forest, with a faint light covering the stone forest. It is very quiet in the stone forest. There is no Tianba tribe guarding here, and there is no need for that.
The only valuable thing in the stone forest is the source water. As for outsiders stealing the source water, the Tianba tribe will let the thieves go even if they see it.
Drinking the source water can indeed gain strength, but not everyone can drink it. If the physical fitness is not strong enough and the willpower is not firm enough, the moment you drink the source water, you will become a monster, and then the "source" in your body will instantly detach and return to the source pool.
The Tianba people in Yongyue City practiced techniques hard in their childhood, aiming to strengthen their bodies and temper their willpower. All these efforts are for one day to drink the source water and become a warrior in the Tianba tribe, and there is only one such warrior among a hundred people.
On the day when Tianba becomes an adult, he will go to the Abyss Snake Residence alone to witness everything there with his own eyes. Afterwards, the newly adult Tianba will decide whether to drink the source water.
However, even after drinking the source water, not all Tenba can obtain the power of Qin and Ni. Usually, only about four out of ten Tenba can awaken this power. Of these four, about three are Ni (long-range) and one is Qin (melee).
Ordinary Tenba who drink the source water will become monsters due to the erosion of the source after about 10 to 13 years. Before that, they will go to the Abyss Snake Residence. It takes about 8 to 9 years for the Tenba with the Ni to be eroded into monsters.
The Tenba with the Qin attribute is the strongest individual among the Tenba. On average, they will completely turn into monsters within 3 to 5 years. Some of them can even break through the limit of master-level melee and reach the grandmaster level.
During this period, frequent use of the power of the source will accelerate the speed at which they are eroded by the source. Some Tenba with the Qin attribute may even complete this transformation within 1 to 2 months.
The Tianba were eroded by the source, not because they were craving for power, but because they were using their bodies to strengthen the "source" in their bodies. Assuming that when they just drank the source water, the source energy in their bodies was 10 points, then before they turned into monsters, the source energy reached at least 20,000 points.
The Tianba with the Qin attribute would be even more exaggerated, warming the source energy in their bodies to more than 50,000 points. The one who needed this energy was naturally the Abyss Snake. As for the purpose of this energy, it was not known after the Abyss Snake was killed by Su Xiao.
However, from this, Lin Jiu and Su Xiao both deduced why the Abyss Snake deceived the Tianba tribe about the situation in the East Continent. It was to let these Tianba people stay in the Kingdom of God peacefully, without the outbreak of war, without the loss of population in the war, and have enough Tianba people drinking the "source water" to become the "vessel" for the Abyss Snake to nourish energy.
If the Tianba tribe knew the true situation in the East Continent, they would definitely start a war. And under the threat of external forces, the Sera Empire and the Northern Alliance would definitely unite to deal with the Tianba tribe. Although the overall strength of the Tianba tribe is far stronger than the forces outside the abyss, how can there be no sacrifice in the war?
Every Tianba warrior who died outside is a lost energy source for the Abyss Snake, which makes it feel distressed. So it wove such a lie to keep the Tianba tribe in the Kingdom of God. And there is also the "powerful" Sera Empire as a threat, so naturally there will be a steady stream of Tianba who will choose to drink the "source water".
When Lin Jiu arrived, he saw that the giant Obo had already lived in harmony with Su Xiao, and he knew that Su Xiao had completed the conversation in a friendly manner, and also triggered the next task, which was to use the blood of the ancient dragon to decompose the crystals at the bottom of the pool.
But Su Xiao didn't need to look for the blood of the ancient dragon at all. He could completely decompose the crystals through his alchemy attainments and complete this task.
"There is another ancient dragon blood here, do you want to find it?" Su Xiao didn't need it, but he didn't forget that there was an ancient dragon blood servant beside Lin Jiu, so he reminded him.
"You can look for it." Lin Jiu's next mission has nothing to do with the Abyss Snake. He is here for the ancient dragon blood. He wants both ancient dragon bloods. He can take advantage of Su Xiao's attack on the Tianba tribe to search the Abyss Snake Residence and see if he can find the ancient dragon blood here.
But without normal negotiations with the Tianba tribe, it is almost impossible to find the ancient dragon blood in the Abyss Snake Residence. Even if Lin Jiu does not take action and can hide his body all the time, it is still like looking for a needle in a haystack to find the ancient dragon blood. He will try it. If he can't find it, he can only get the one in Ivel's hand.
Lin Jiu entered here alone. Because of his "night walk" ability, he moved in the Abyss Snake Residence and would not be trapped in a building like Su Xiao's team. If he brought team members with him, there would be such a risk.
When Su Xiao analyzed the blue crystals under the pool, Lin Jiu had already started searching the Abyss Snake Residence with Bubu Wang. If Lin Jiu was present, he would have seen that the blue crystal in Su Xiao's hand was very similar to the dragon crystal condensed by Winnie, but the rank and strength were higher.
"No wonder it needs the blood of the ancient dragon." Su Xiao, who had seen the dragon crystal arrow condensed by Winnie, immediately recognized the origin of this blue crystal after touching it. This is the crystal condensed by the power of the ancient dragon system. It is normal to need the blood of the ancient dragon to decompose.
The effect of this crystallization on the target is also permanent, just like the metalization of Gu Shengyi. If someone is affected by this ability, the way to remove it is to water it with the blood of the ancient dragon. But including Winnie, there are only two pure-blooded ancient dragons known to exist. Even if there is the blood of the ancient dragon left in the past, no one knows where it is hidden.
However, Winnie has not yet awakened this permanent crystallization ability, perhaps it needs blood awakening.