Chapter 334

The thread of faith opened.

Immediately, flames blazed around Mengying.

White flame!

As the white flame burned, it slowly ignited the spiritual energy left behind by the Holy Spirit, transforming it into streams of spiritual energy that Mengying absorbed.

This method allowed Mengying to better utilize the spiritual energy left by the Holy Spirit.

Rather than wasting much of it, as the Eldest Princess had done.

Of course, the Eldest Princess had not yet absorbed all the spiritual energy left by the Holy Spirit.

Once she absorbed it all, she might even reach the peak of Eighth Rank.

The amount of this spiritual energy was considerable.

Mengying still needed considerable time to fully absorb it.

Lin Yan turned his gaze to the Virtual Divinity.

The Virtual Divinity had drawn a blueprint from the information obtained from the Holy Spirit's soul fragments.

The blueprint contained much information.

But much of it was fragmented.

Lin Yan still gained much useful knowledge from it.

For instance, the newly acquired mechanism of the Holy Spirit's resurrection.

For instance, the god of the Xiling Kingdom had, through an accidentally obtained divine artifact, concealed his divine realm—this was why the god dared to take such a risky move.

Otherwise, if he angered the god of the Houdun Kingdom, that god might launch an assault on the Xiling Kingdom's divine realm, even at great cost.

Fighting within another's divine realm was like fighting on their home ground; ordinary gods were unwilling to do so.

But even a dog, when cornered, will jump over a wall!

Now that the Xiling Kingdom's god had concealed his divine realm, even if the Houdun Kingdom's god wanted to attack, he could not find the location.

Thus, the Xiling Kingdom's god felt secure.

These Holy Spirits did not know the location of the concealed divine realm, yet the blueprint still showed one extremely faint line.

Lin Yan had a feeling that if this line became a hundred times clearer, he might locate that divine realm.

Of course, he had no intention of going to the Heavenly Realm now—the Heavenly Realm was not easy to enter, and going there was worse than descending into the Abyss, so Lin Yan quickly ignored the line.

Store it for now—it might be useful later!

The final piece of information on the blueprint was a single character.

It was not a character from the Continent of Gods.

Nor was it a character from the Abyss.

No, it was not a character at all.

More like, a rule.

Yet this rule had been manifested in the form of a character.

And the Virtual Divinity had captured it.

The character was: You!

For some reason, seeing this character, Lin Yan suddenly thought of four words: True Name Rule!

That is, the Divine True Name.

Lin Yan's divine name was Lord of Flame!

His true name, naturally, was: Lin Yan.

However, though Lin Yan was now extremely powerful, due to his unique life form, his evolutionary path differed somewhat from that of the Heavenly Realm gods.

When gods of the Heavenly Realm ascended, they reset their true names.

True names contained special rules, said to have unique effects on gods.

The exact nature of these effects, Lin Yan did not yet know.

But a god's true name must never be known by others.

To have one's true name known was to hand over one's leverage and weakness to another.

And because a god's true name contained special rules, every character within it held immense power, so it must be hidden well!

Keeping it all on one's person was not enough—during divine wars, rules and powers clashed violently, making it easy to be discovered.

Many gods split their true names and hid them separately.

"Could this character 'You' be one of the characters in the Xiling Kingdom's god's true name?"

Lin Yan thought.

Lin Yan felt it was most likely.

The Xiling Kingdom's god had hidden one character of his true name within the Holy Spirit's soul imprint!

And Lin Yan had cracked it by the most violent means possible.

"You!"

Lin Yan repeated the character.

This character was not a character, yet it was a character—its inner essence held the power of rules.

After gazing at it for a while, Lin Yan closed the blueprint within the Virtual Divinity and stored it there—these things might be useful later.

This Holy Spirit was a valuable unexpected gain!

He turned his gaze toward Mengying!

After watching for a while, Lin Yan checked his system panel again.

The Civilization Flame was still at Lv2, but it seemed close to Lv3.

"After obtaining the Spirit Kingdom, I should be able to reach Lv3."

Lin Yan muttered to himself, then left through the passage he had come by.

After analyzing for a while longer, he should be able to open the Abyss Passage!

In the temple, after nearly an hour or so, the "white flames" surrounding Meng Ying died down.

Meng Ying still had her eyes closed.

After another hour or so, the aura around Meng Ying had completely transformed.

An unusual magical fluctuation rippled around the temple.

"Sister Meng Ying, you've broken through?"

The delighted voice of the fox-woman Sister Qing Ling rang out.

Meng Ying showed a faint smile: "Yes, Holy Maiden, under my God's blessing, I have Become an Eighth-Rank Forbidden Curse Mage!"