Chapter 295: Low-Rank Magic Tool Ere's IF and... Local Specialties from Another World

"Oh, this is just a technical adjustment..."

Xia Zhi's expression remained unchanged as he said without blinking an eye.

Although the banner in his hand was pitch-black throughout, floating in mid-air, with wisps of more obvious black smoke rising around it.

This looked like it had an evil tendency...

Anyway, it didn't matter, at least this style couldn't be called grand and majestic, and it was counterintuitively unrelated to that name.

It wasn't strange that Miss Ishtar would have doubts; anyone would feel something was off.

"What technical adjustment?"

The black-haired pigtails Goddess asked curiously.

She leapt lightly from that symbolic Throne, barefoot on a pair of clean bare feet, stepping directly onto the spotless Ground.

The Goddess walked to the youth's Side, her hands naturally clasped behind her back, circling around in front of him several times, her eyes fixed on the floating black banner.

She seemed very curious, her ruby-like beautiful eyes full of exploration.

"Cough, just treat it as specially set special effects, actually it has no meaning..."

Xia Zhi blinked, and as his voice fell, the black banner in his hand, suspended in mid-air and wrapped in a special Force Field, underwent a change.

From pitch-black throughout, it turned pure white throughout, then red, purple, cyan...

In a matter of seconds, it switched through more than ten different colors consecutively, even mixed colorful...

And the black qi emitted around it also began to change, transforming its spectrum without any delay...

"See, just like this."

Simply making a summary, the youth casually ended this process, then let the banner return to its previous style.

Still pitch-black throughout, emitting black smoke...

"You this... you this..."

Miss Ishtar didn't know how to retort for a moment: "Since it's just special effects, why not set it to look better?"

This is too ugly!

At a glance it's the kind of low-class magic tool that a third-rate villain would use.

"You don't understand, the Renhuang Banner must have this style to be authentic..." Xia Zhi explained nonchalantly, indicating he had his intentions.

——What is good-looking?

——To you, the glittering gold kind must be good-looking.

At the same time, he also retorted in his heart about Miss Ishtar's aesthetics, but after glancing at this black-haired pigtails Goddess, he didn't say anything.

Ishtar's aesthetics couldn't be called a disaster, but it was indeed very hard to describe...

Simply put, it had quite the air of a nouveau riche, the type that would place two tacky lucky cat statues at the entrance of her own Temple.

This was also reflected in her own attire—

Whether it was the golden Kether on her head, or the two large gold rings on her ears, or the arm guards, chest guards, knee socks, or even the boots thrown aside, and so on...

Either adorned with gold thread, or gold foil, or simply made of pure gold...

——A nouveau riche at most hangs a two-kilogram gold chain around their Neck.

——But the Goddess's whole set, two kilograms absolutely wouldn't be enough.

However.

Some things are just this unreasonable.

A nouveau riche putting a two-kilogram gold chain around their Neck is incredibly tacky...

But the Goddess putting such a set on herself is naturally beautiful and hard to give up...

The supposedly tacky large amount of gold ornaments just adorned her from head to toe, bringing an incomparably harmonious noble temperament.

Like radiance from Venus, elegant, glamorous, and bold!

Miss Ishtar didn't know someone was badmouthing her aesthetics, and just asked curiously: "Alright, then—"

"Such an authentic Renhuang Banner, what use does it have?"

"......"

"......"

A suspicious Silence.

"This one..." The youth coughed lightly: "This one has many uses, Spiritual Impact, Mind Control, consciousness..."

"Wait! You haven't thought it through yet, right!" Miss Ishtar decisively called a stop at this moment.

She stared at this Fellow before her with a very suspicious and very strange gaze.

Suddenly felt he seemed to have unreliable times too.

"How could it be! Mainly because its function is very powerful, very comprehensive, I can't explain it completely to you for a moment..."

Xia Zhi naturally wouldn't Admit, he emphasized saying: "There are billions of Human souls inside!"

"Billions of Human souls?!"

The Goddess Geng for a moment, then immediately seemed to realize what she heard, instantly widening her Beautiful Eyes: "Wait! Did you get the unit wrong?!"

——What the hell is billions!

——Where did he harvest so many souls from?

"Won't get it wrong, I only counted Human souls."

The youth said with a humble expression, indicating this was a very conservative estimate.

If adding the Consciousness Wavelengths of other flowers, birds, fish, insects, etc., the frequency of the entire biosphere, then it would be even more.

A huge dream of a Virtual Earth was simulating and running inside the black banner in his hand.

Xia Zhi had no intention of restoring each and every one of this massive quantity of biological waves, nor of recreating corresponding bodies for them or it in the outside world.

At least not for now.

But he also wasn't prepared to leave behind data that hadn't been prepared for preservation inside his still rather "pure" Golden Core.

Probably just some sort of psychological compulsion, or a feeling like cleanliness, like when you first get a new phone and are always diligent about clearing out junk data.

A photo taken casually that wasn't to one's liking wasn't allowed to remain for more than half a minute.

Even though storage space hadn't been used much yet, and there was plenty of capacity, one photo didn't take up much space...

But that was very likely the beginning of massive junk files in the machine.

And unfortunately, because Mooncell had observed Earth since its birth, recording every creature, ecosystem, history, and even souls on Earth.

Even as part of the observation, many "IFs" were also recorded.

So compared to this part of the data, the civilization on that real Earth indeed had little value left.

As long as a Golden Core Cultivator was willing, they could easily recreate it, after all, up until the second before civilization was brought to an end in the real world, it was still being scanned...

That is to say, he had already recorded that Earth, and the latest version of complete data on Human Civilization.

So compared like this, naturally there was even less need to keep any reserve.

Since it couldn't stay in his Golden Core taking up memory, and the outside world wasn't suitable for placement—

Land appeared on the Sea of Nothingness, dead silent planets regained vitality, and the New World finally entered the right track... but it was ultimately still a starting stage.

The population of the four continents combined still hadn't exceeded two hundred million...

At this time, releasing eight billion "Transmigrators" in one breath would undoubtedly be a destructive disaster...

So after simple pondering, the Golden Core Cultivator merely made an "External Hard Drive" and transferred this part of the data out.

And in the making of the "External Hard Drive," Xia Zhi suddenly had a whim, feeling that perhaps this data could still exert some residual heat.

Billions of souls...

Just need to slightly adjust the frequency of their consciousness wavelengths...

Then even if just releasing a simple "Spiritual Impact," its power would probably be comparable to a city-covering "Mental Storm."

Slightly counted as having a little bit of value, to his eyes as a cultivator, it could barely be considered a Low-grade Artifact.

Considering that he had been on the path of cultivation for so long, he didn't have several proper cultivation-side Magic Tools in his hand.

This was undoubtedly a very inappropriate thing.

So—

The "Renhuang Banner" thus came into being out of nowhere.

………………

"What Renhuang Banner, this is basically a Myriad Soul Banner..."

Miss Ishtar had a look of disdain on her face, while righteously and sternly accusing someone.

"No, wrong, this is no longer Myriad Soul..."

She, who had roughly figured out the situation, still couldn't help but be shocked by that massive quantity of souls.

"No, this is clearly the Renhuang Banner..."

The youth actually thought so too, but of course in front of the girl he had to insist on his view: "If you look at it from the level of spirit particles, inside is another world, with hundreds of millions of common people surviving within..."

Holding this banner, one governs the myriad people.

Right, how could it not be the Renhuang Banner!

"You're just twisting logic." The black-haired girl snorted lightly, clearly not approving of it.

"This is also a makeshift measure, after all, other places temporarily have no suitable place to settle them." Xia Zhi said righteously, waving the banner in his hand.

Artifact Refining was already complete.

Forged in the void by the Nanite Forge, with light inscriptions that changed physical laws, the processing of a mere "Low-grade Artifact" was still very simple.

Actually, manufacturing was just a matter of an instant, the remaining few minutes were spent making some fine adjustments, and... waiting for the data transfer to finish.

After all, this banner's bandwidth was limited, and the total amount of data that could be transmitted within a unit was also limited.

For copying and pasting large-capacity files, it was impossible to complete in one second, there had to be a loading bar time.

"You can just stuff them into the Underworld, they're practically dead once anyway..." Ishtar pondered, giving an unreliable suggestion.

"If so, why not just go through the process, reincarnate and start a new life journey, and this process doesn't require you to worry about it."

No need to worry about biological bodies yourself, no need to re-upload them one by one corresponding to them.

Just leave it to the Underworld's own operating mechanism, and it can slowly digest this massive number of souls.

Although considering that the population on this planet is still very small now, reincarnation slots probably need to take a number and queue, and it might take several hundred years to finish processing...

But it's ultimately a method, right?

"Don't joke, how many manpower does the Underworld have now, stuffing several billion souls in at once, Miss Ale will kill me."

Xia Zhi shook his head.

He actually imagined it, and by the way peeked at the direction of this "IF" line if this were done.

Then he saw Miss Ale clutching his collar with a face full of collapse, shouting frantically—

"You surnamed Xia, do you want me to die!"

—Such a tragic scene.

So, let's forget it.

"Forget it, do as you like, by the way... since this given to me isn't this..."

Miss Ishtar pouted her lips, then immediately seemed to remember something, slightly narrowing her eyes looking at him—

"Then, what is it?"

"..."

"……"

"A local specialty brought to you from another world——"

Xia Zhi smiled, then spoke: "To be Exact, it is Divinity…… Divinity Different From the Divinity you possess."

(Chapter End)