Chapter 20: 19. Star Soul

19. Star Soul

"Who wrote this?"

Zoe had also finished reading the words on the paper and was looking at Li Ang.

Looking at her eyes, she should also have had the answer; she was just waiting for Li Ang to help her confirm it.

"It should be your father."

"What do the words above mean?"

"I don't know either."

Li Ang had no understanding of the "Star Soul" mentioned in the text.

It sounded like this was definitely not an ordinary thing, and it was closely linked to the young girl's Star Soul constitution.

This world was truly vast; there were things that even members of the Sky Team didn't know.

Li Ang flipped to the next page and discovered that although a time was written, it wasn't a diary; it just recorded important matters.

"Guild Calendar Year 291, November 17th.

"This island is indeed too remote. The islanders are like another species; it's very difficult to communicate no matter what language is spoken. They also take a long time to understand when spoken to using their way of thinking. Lily felt bored, dragged me to a market on a nearby island, and bought all kinds of strange books. On the way, we discovered people from the organization; they actually managed to track us to the Floss airspace.

"I am summarizing my lifelong sword arts and conceiving a set of sword arts suitable for Zoe, preferably so that after learning them, she will understand how to use her own power. Her constitution dictates that her life cannot be peaceful."

Year 291 was also the time Li Ang transmigrated; he had probably saved enough money for his first profession advancement around October.

Zoe blinked: "My constitution?"

"Keep reading," Li Ang said.

"Guild Calendar Year 292, January 14th.

"Although Lily is sometimes more troublesome than Zoe, she is always concerned about Zoe's future. I often see her gazing at the end of the sea of clouds, and I confirm this point.

"Neither she nor I expected our child to be so special. What is the principle behind it? We have no way of knowing; we can only speculate that it is the effect of the Star Power within me intertwined with the divine power of the Great God she once served.

"Today we talked about this for a long time."

Zoe looked at Li Ang and asked: "What does their 'something-something power' mean?"

I haven't heard of it either. Li Ang pondered in his heart.

Now, he was convinced that this girl's parents weren't ordinary Sky Knights. Sky Knight was just one identity; there was no way to define their entirety.

In the many airspaces, there were individuals and forces that even the Sky Team and the Guild found mysterious. Zoe's parents seemed to be one of those people.

"Guild Calendar Year 292, August 9th.

"Cha Ain sent me news that he found a new ruin. Unlike the old sites abandoned by the God-People like the Ancient City of Dark Night, many mechanisms in that ruin are still operating; perhaps we can obtain a lot of information. What's unfortunate is that the organization has also set its sights on it.

"However, today, there is even more unfortunate news. Because of an earthquake, a crack opened in our basement on the ground. As soon as I saw it, I knew it was an Island Core Channel.

"The location of the house was chosen by Zoe; she took a fancy to this place at a glance, as if it were a curse of fate. I have a bad premonition in my heart that it might become reality."

Li Ang looked up at the water well pressed by the huge boulder. Needless to say, that was the channel. Or rather, it wasn't a water well; building stone bricks was just for the convenience of entering.

The name Cha Ain sounds a bit familiar...

"Was the location of our house chosen by me? I don't even remember," Zoe said from the side.

Perhaps it was some kind of instinct. Li Ang thought, looking at her exquisite side profile.

People of unknown races often possessed special talents; some could even predict the occurrence of natural disasters after sympathizing with nature. Zoe might have been in some kind of sympathy at the time.

"What is an Island Core Channel?" Zoe asked.

Li Ang knew this.

"The various sky islands floating in the clouds all have many minerals inside. These minerals are rich in various energies, which sometimes cause the center of the sky island to become hollow. The energy inside occasionally dissipates to the surface, opening up a channel that can enter the center of the island."

"Does the center of the island have pretty stones?" Zoe's eyes lit up.

"That is inevitable."

It wasn't just that they existed; it could be said that the most precious minerals in the world were produced in the island core.

"Then can we go take a look?"

"Don't be in a hurry; let's see if your dad recorded anything." Li Ang looked at the huge boulder; he also had a bad premonition.

Li Ang flipped to the later pages.

"Year 292, October 4th.

"After excavation and exploration, Lily and I reached the core of Satus Island.

"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! Lily and I only knew this was a remote and barren island, but we never expected that there would be fragments of God-People ruins between the mountain rocks and mineral veins at its center.

"Its power still bred a Star Soul. Even though Satus Island is so barren, in the countless passage of time, it still hatched. No wonder Zoe has often been in a long sleep recently.

"Lily and I destroyed the Star Soul. It might take seven or eight years for it to accumulate enough power to be reborn again."

Li Ang rubbed his temples. Zoe beside him looked confused, but he knew that as the world's female lead, she was definitely the real deal.

He might have really gotten himself into big trouble this time.

He still couldn't be sure what a Star Soul was, but the records left by Zoe's dad were very similar to what Sky Knights recognized as an "Island King."

They were super monsters that ruled sky islands, and they were qualitatively different from ordinary monsters.

Monsters weren't animals evolved naturally; they were monster populations created by magic power interfering with the material world.

Some monsters were created by intelligent life, but generally speaking, they were born from occasional magic power disasters, such as spatial distortion or dimensional fusion, because only at these times would atmospheric magic power interfere with the material world without the guidance of spirits.

As for Island Kings, their origins and ecology were mysterious; they wouldn't breed populations. They were as if they were the incarnations of sky islands, existing on sky islands for eternity.

Hundreds of years ago, someone killed an Island King, causing the island to be barren for a long time. After the Sky Knight Guild was established, it prohibited adventurers from harassing Island Kings.

But Li Ang had heard that there were Island Kings on some islands that could be reborn; this description was very similar to what Zoe's father wrote.

The more fertile the island, the more likely an Island King existed.

Satus Island didn't look like it would have an Island King, and her father's notes said it was born from fragments of some ruins; this was Li Ang's unknown territory.

Zoe beside him also fell into silence, perhaps digesting information she couldn't understand at all.

Li Ang was about to talk to her when he felt the ground begin to shake.

Dust fell from the wooden boards on the ceiling of the basement, and the entire house—no, perhaps the entire Satus Island—began to vibrate.

"What is this? What's going on!" Zoe hugged Li Ang's arm in panic.

"It's an earthquake. Let's go over there."

Taking Zoe to the load-bearing pillar in the corner of the basement, Li Ang protected her while reaching out to sense the Earth Spirit. If the earthquake was too strong, he hoped to summon an Earth Giant to protect them.

However, the Earth Spirit still gave no response.

During an earthquake, it should have been the time when the Earth Spirit was most active.

*ROAR—! *

That giant roar that seemed to come from the abyss sounded again, just like a bone flute blowing long, even more like a horn sounding. Its sound waves lasted for a long time, even faintly spreading the tremor to everything with form.

"What, what should we do... My, my head hurts so much..."

Zoe curled up helplessly in the corner of the wall.

The roaring sound suddenly began to converge and stop. The young girl opened her misty, teary eyes.

"Is it over?"

"Don't move."

Li Ang extremely seriously let Zoe maintain protection.

He stared fixedly at the deep well in the basement. In his spiritual perception, just as the roar ended, the well mouth violently erupted with a massive amount of Earth Spirit.

They couldn't be seen by the naked eye, but they were so thick that the seal pattern on the surface of the huge boulder began to decompose, and even the boulder itself was about to return to the earth.

*BOOM! *

A violent explosion resounded through the basement in an instant. The huge boulder was shattered to pieces, and the dust exploded from the well mouth rushed straight to the ceiling, turning into dust filling the sky.

Something was coming out of the well mouth!

At the moment before the boulder shattered, Li Ang had already mobilized his entire magic power reserve and unleashed it in one breath. ===== CHAPTER 21 =====