Chapter 2122: The Guardian God's Relics

The danger in the ruins of the gods is not great. Qing could move around in it with his strength, let alone Isabella and Xi. The two soon came to the core layer.

This layer is completely different from the last layer of the underground palace that Qing experienced. What appeared in front of Isabella and the others was a magnificent palace with huge stone pillars standing in the palace, surrounded by various murals.

Xi immediately noticed the center of the palace. The pillar with a star pattern was hollow in the center of the pillar. Two metal rings intertwined and surrounded the outer layer of a core.

Isabella focused her attention on the stone pillars in the palace. The stone pillars recorded a lot of information in special characters. It happened that Isabella mastered this kind of text when she was exploring the cemetery group, and could understand the information recorded on the stone pillars.

[As the guardian of the peak of the mountains, I guard the entrance to the peak of the mountains all year round. The messenger of the wind would land on my shoulder, peck at my cold armor, tilt his head to look at me, and tell me interesting things that happened on the Yimi continent with a happy chirping song. 】

【To say that I am not moved by such a wonderful world is obviously insincere. What I am guarding is the temple behind me. This temple, where even the air makes people feel 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, I am accompanied only by those giant pillars that will not decay. The rosy morning light and the glowing starlight alternately pass through these giant pillars and sprinkle on the ground. Thirty-three. The entire temple is spotless, like a silver-white quiet giant beast. I am the boy who protects it, and the wise man sleeps on the other side. 】

【I thought this tranquility would continue until the winter when the demons surged to the top of the mountains. The snowy wind rolled, bringing with it icy snow particles and the smell of blood, wrapping the mountains in an endless night. 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 locust-like demons surged up from the foot of the steps, 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 together with these 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 "click" and "click" sounds...]

[A gentle voice sounded in my ears: "Goodwill is the direction that the temple guides thousands of creatures. However, the world is chaotic and demons are rampant, so people's kindness is sometimes shorter than a meteor and more subtle than a firefly. You will protect them, right... Your courage will support a piece of 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 these messages and sent a copy to the team communication channel. It tells the story of a temple guard who died in the face of a demon attack while guarding the original temple of the goddess Lina, and became a symbol of guardian with the help of the God of Creation.

And 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 form.

This is something that the guardian god deliberately left behind, hoping to help future generations. The gods who left these relics of the gods all hope that the power left behind can provide some help to people facing disasters.

As something left behind by the guardian god, the energy core is also part of the origin of the gods, just like the deer spirit seized by Ilett. If there is a means of stealing the throne of God like Ilett, relying on this origin of the gods, you can also become a god.

But for Xi, the origin of the gods is not used in this way at all. She just wants to devour the source of the gods. After becoming Lin Jiu's reincarnation clone, Xi was restricted to obtaining the source of the gods by hunting good gods. Either hunting evil gods, or obtaining it through other means, such as finding part of the original power of the fallen gods.

It's not that Lin Jiu deliberately restricted Xi's growth, but her growth method of swallowing the divine source was not normal. The ability from the Eye of the Void was to make Xi's growth speed keep up with the contractors cultivated by the Paradise, and there are many flaws.

The most significant impact is that every time after hunting the good gods and swallowing the divine source, one's own fortune will be reduced, that is, reduced luck. If Xi was an independent individual, Lin Jiu would not bother to care about this, but now Xi is his reincarnation clone. If she reduces her luck, it will not be backfired on Lin Jiu, the original body, and then spread to other reincarnation clones. Of course, it is impossible to allow her to continue to do so.

Perhaps it is because of the continuous use of this method to improve strength that her own fortune has been severely weakened. In the Abyss World, Xi will encounter obstacles everywhere and finally fall into Lin Jiu's hands.

Did Xi, who was originally in the Eye of the Void, want to use this ability? Not so. If she had been in the Apocalypse Paradise, she would most likely not master the abilities related to the divine system, but would be dominated by the crystallization ability.

The problem is that the Eye of the Void cannot have the environment like the Paradise camp for her to develop her abilities. Now that she has returned to the Apocalypse Paradise, Xi naturally began to continue to improve her original combat system. But she has fallen behind in development. If she wants to improve quickly, she needs to find another way.

So Xi eliminated many of the divine abilities she obtained from the Eye of the Void, and only retained the ability to devour the divine source and assimilate the power of the divine source. Her main ability is to fight by controlling the inactive crystal energy, and the highest form of this crystal energy is the dragon crystal of the ancient dragon clan.

But Xi is not an ancient dragon clan. No matter how much she uses the dragon crystal, she can't surpass the ancient dragon clan. So naturally, it is impossible to copy the abilities of the ancient dragon clan.

Now when Xi devours the divine source, there is a probability that she will get certain abilities. If it is not compatible with herself, she will continue to convert it into divine source energy, integrate it into the crystal energy, and strengthen the crystal used. And if it is compatible with the ability she uses, she will convert the devoured divine source into this ability.

Of course, she still needs to continue to look for dragon crystals. This is 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 increase the crystal energy intensity, she would be able to maintain the top combat power of the same level.

Her crystallization system is strong in variability. It can change the fighting method according to the enemy's ability characteristics. It can do melee, long-range, and even summoning. And this is not Xi's most difficult ability. The most difficult is naturally self-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 own crystal energy is strong enough, it would never be easily taken down. And among all the reincarnation clones, only the only female clone has the potential to be in the top front row. Who would have thought of this?

After Xi understood this truth, she simply abandoned the ability of the divine system and integrated the swallowed divine source power into the crystal energy. This has a bit of the effect of Su Xiao's Devouring Core ability. It's just that the Devouring Core can devour any energy, while Xi can only devour the Divine Source Energy. But the functions are similar now, one is used to increase the energy of the Blue Steel Shadow, and the other is used to strengthen the crystal energy.

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival

(First chapter, the second chapter will be released near midnight)