Chapter 486

Tigu Li leaned in close to Ang and asked cautiously, "Are you really the God of Knowledge?"

Ang did not move, but Negris, who was projected onto him, replied, "Yes, yes, the authentic God of Knowledge."

Tigu Li's eyes lit up, and she asked worshipfully, "If you are the God of Knowledge, then you must be omniscient, right?"

Negris had already fallen for this little girl's trick once and said very vigilantly, "You tell me what you want to ask first, and then I'll tell you if I'm omniscient."

Tigu Li's little scheme was seen through, but she wasn't annoyed and quickly asked, "It's just this, the problem of nested magic arrays. I clearly did everything according to the descriptions in the books, but I can never verify them successfully. Do you know what's going on?"

"Oh, it's this problem. Magic array mana tunneling effect; just add a block to it." As soon as Negris saw it was a problem it was good at, it immediately became omniscient.

"Wow, so that's how it is. Then what about this? What is the reason for this problem?" Tigu Li excitedly took out a large notebook, flipped open the pages, and asked again.

Negris answered them one by one, becoming overjoyed as it answered. *Ku Ba Da*, finally someone was asking it about this kind of profound 'knowledge' instead of using it as a common-sense dragon all day long.

Tigu Li was also very excited. These questions were all accumulated during her usual studies, and even her teachers found them hard to answer, or answered them unclearly.

Teachers might know how to use them, but they didn't know why they were used that way. When encountering someone like Tigu Li who got to the bottom of things, they were often asked until they fled in panic.

After asking seven or eight questions, Tigu Li knelt down excitedly: "You are indeed the most knowledgeable sage, the omniscient deity. Please let me serve by your side and continue to learn the great truths."

Following her words, a thick soul flame drifted up.

"Ku Ba Da, believer, believer, I have a believer again! Quick, quick, Ang, let me out, let me out." Negris was so excited.

Ever since Alchemist Sawa was abducted and abandoned her faith, it had become a lonely old dragon again. A god without followers has no divine power, and it was bullied by angels and zombies every day, and now a cat had been added to the mix.

Negris's small yellow dragon body was thrown into the Life God Pool, and that wasn't its true body either, so Ang took out a book and moved it toward the soul flame.

Tigu Li looked at the Huang Tong Book suspiciously, and then the soul flame dodged to the side, not letting the Huang Tong Book touch it.

"Uh, did you mistake him for me? This is me, this book is me." Seeing the soul flame rejecting itself, Negris immediately understood what was going on.

This obviously wasn't controlled by Tigu Li, because she couldn't see the soul flame either, but she regarded Ang as the God of Knowledge, so the soul flame she offered would instinctively reject other things.

"Ah? This is you? You are a book?" With the Huang Tong Book held in hand, Tigu Li could finally distinguish where the voice was coming from; it was indeed coming from the book.

"Looking down on books? Books are the carriers of knowledge. As the God of Knowledge, what's so strange about me being a book?" Negris flew up, flipped open the pages, stood on the ground with a *clatter*, and transformed into a huge book three meters tall.

Inside the opened pages, the big head of a brass dragon leaned over, as if it were trying to stick its head out, scaring Tigu Li so much she fell backward onto her bottom.

A little person poked their head out from the left page, and another little person poked their head out from the right page. The two little people seemed to discover each other at the same time, were shocked, and simultaneously launched attacks:

"Red Star—Flash!"

"Star Burst—"

They started bombarding each other.

Negris was so angry. It was at a critical moment of fooling a believer, and these two heroic spirits actually came out to mess things up. It was so angry it kicked them back into the pages one by one.

Tigu Li finally had to believe that this Huang Tong Book was the real God of Knowledge. She looked at Ang with some disappointment and regret. Being handsome had a faith bonus; it was such a pity that such a handsome man wasn't the God of Knowledge.

Tigu Li rubbed her face, adjusted her mood, and became devout again: "Omniscient deity, please let me serve by your side and continue to learn the great truths."

The soul flame drifted into the Huang Tong Book.

Ang tilted his head in surprise. This was the first time since he had known Negris that he had used the Huang Tong Book to receive faith. The Alchemist Sawa incident didn't count; Alchemist Sawa's was 'believe a little, it doesn't hurt anyway,' and the faith was very shallow.

But Tigu Li was truly devout; it could be seen from her soul flame. This was a person who firmly believed in knowledge, and her conviction was incomparably devout.

Thus, Ang felt a symbol condense within the subordinate God of Knowledge divinity, just like the symbols in his main divinity representing Oke, Lisa, Anthony, Silver Coin, and others.

Is this a fanatic of a subordinate god?

"Wow, your conviction in knowledge is very devout, isn't it?" Negris obviously also discovered the symbol and said in surprise.

At the same time, it also felt wave after wave of information surging from Tigu Li, all of which was knowledge Tigu Li had learned. Negris couldn't help but want to cry; it could finally update its knowledge base, and it was the knowledge of a top student like Tigu Li at that.

Tigu Li said proudly: "That goes without saying. There is no problem that knowledge cannot solve; if it can't be solved, it's because the knowledge is not rich enough."

Ang looked at Tigu Li with surprise again. He felt that the symbol belonging to Tigu Li had some strange things added to it.

Negris was silenced by Tigu Li's words. The Huang Tong Book closed and flew back into Ang's hand.

Tigu Li didn't notice the change in Negris's mood and was still trying hard to cheer herself on: "My knowledge is not rich enough yet; I must work hard."

Ang's will projected onto Negris, sending a confused message.

Negris replied depressedly: "My conviction in knowledge is not as devout as hers. I am a failed God of Knowledge."

Ang tilted his head blankly. How could he understand such profound things? However, he felt that Negris's state was very similar to Luo Ge's, so he turned around and handed the Huang Tong Book to Anthony.

Anthony asked suspiciously, and only after clarifying the situation did he couldn't help but laugh: "Lord Negris, what is knowledge?"

"Knowledge is the summary of the world's laws and the crystallization of the experiences of predecessors," Negris replied casually.

"No, no, no. Only by teaching these things to others is it knowledge. If no one spreads it, then it is just the laws of the world and the experiences of predecessors; it cannot become knowledge. Only by passing it on can it become knowledge. Your enthusiastic passing on is what makes you a god of knowledge, not because you believe in it."

"Ah? Is that so?" Negris's spirit lifted, feeling that it seemed to make a lot of sense.

"Yes, that's exactly it. You are the god of knowledge; you have to master it, how can you believe in it?" Anthony said with certainty.

Negris was full of spirit, no longer depressed or gloomy: "So that's how it is. My rambling spreading of knowledge back then was the true essence of knowledge. I understand now."

Handing the Huang Tong Book back to Ang, Anthony then quietly wiped away cold sweat. It was fortunate he had fooled it; if he hadn't, he wouldn't have had a way to wipe the memory of the God of Knowledge.

Du Er's side had also finally finished cleaning up the things blocking the passage. In order to crack the ruins' checkpoints, these guys had almost moved the library over, doing problems, calculating, and experimenting on the spot, forcibly cracking the star deflection algorithms, magic circuit functions, and multiple stacking equations.

Although they had done these problems, doing a new problem again was enough to make people's backs ache. As for the last checkpoint—the name of the God of Knowledge—it made them dig out all the ancient books, piled up full, and just cleaning up took more than ten minutes.

Now that it was finally cleaned up, everyone followed the cleared passage, passed through the slowly opening big door, and not long after walking in, Ang suddenly stopped his steps.

The little angel, little zombie, and Anthony all became vigilant immediately. Except for planting things, Ang usually wouldn't take the initiative to do anything, but when he did, everyone had to be careful; he must have discovered something.

From far away, bursts of shrill wailing came, like a tsunami, wave after wave, endless.

Negris said: "Wraiths, so many."

Du Er and the others' expressions changed immediately upon hearing this: "Not good, Wraith Tide, the Wraith Tide is coming. Quick, quick, take out our Holy Light Lamps."

Tigu Li hurriedly took out the magic lamp from just now.

Anthony had long been curious about this lamp because it could actually emit holy light: "Why can it emit holy light? You are clearly not believers of the light."

"Use Holy Crystals, where are the Holy Crystals? Are there any more Holy Crystals?" Du Er took the magic lamp, flipped open the bottom to look, and asked hurriedly.

Tigu Li said urgently: "There are no more Holy Crystals. Holy Crystals are too expensive; we only bought two, and they are all used up. One Holy Crystal can only be used for thirteen seconds, and the last one was just used."

"It's over. Wraith Tide, our minds will be eroded by the wraiths and we'll become lunatics." As soon as Du Er finished speaking, at the end of the passage, strands of black energy surged, as if countless small things were scrambling, screaming and surging over.

"Quick, quick, quick, you guys run, Teacher will hold them off. If you can't run, tear the teleportation scroll." Du Er shouted repeatedly, but only after shouting did he realize that Ang and the others were looking at him inexplicably.

Only Ge Lei's face showed a gratified expression: "Not running away after abandoning the students, you count as a qualified teacher."

Du Er looked at the calm everyone blankly: "Don't... don't we need to run? This is a Wraith Tide, there are many, many of them."

Ge Lei smiled slightly, and the magic robe on her body billowed: "Let you see the true O..."

Before Ge Lei finished speaking, she discovered that the blurry faces of the wraiths about to surge in front of them showed expressions of extreme terror, and then they desperately braked their momentum.

As if they had seen something terrifying, the wraiths frantically braked and turned around, screaming in terror as they surged back in the direction they came from. The black tide that had surged in retreated at an even faster speed.

Du Er was shocked, and Tigu Li and the others looked at Ge Lei worshipfully: "School Board Member (Teacher), you are too amazing, what did you do?"

Ge Lei was stunned: "I... I didn't do anything."

Subconsciously turning her head to look at Ang and the others, she hadn't done anything, so it could only be that Ang and the others had done something, but she hadn't discovered what they had done.

This was even more terrifying. She, a dignified Master of Arcana, hadn't discovered anything? What exactly did they do?

Ang and the others continued walking forward with normal expressions. Only Anthony nodded and smiled inscrutably, which counted as confirming Ge Lei's guess.

The God of Undead is here; these wraiths would be truly crazy if they dared to rush up... Uh, why does this sound weird? The wraiths are crazy to begin with; it should be changed to 'even if they were crazy, they wouldn't dare to rush up.'

The wraiths retreated, the passage was unobstructed, and soon everyone walked out of the passage. This passage was inclined, extending all the way down. After they left the passage, what they saw was a scene like a miracle.

This was a huge underground space. An abyss lay in front, and several thick iron chains extended from the pitch-black opposite side and the top to above the abyss, hanging a huge petrified dragon. An invisible fluctuation slowly spread on the petrified dragon's body.

Negris flew up excitedly: "I... I... this..."

Ang said: "Enlightenment Halo."

"Yes, yes, yes, Enlightenment Halo. Heavens, His Majesty hung my Enlightenment Halo here, stuffed it on the stone dragon, and hung it here." Negris was so excited it was at a loss.

Anthony asked puzzledly: "Why is it a petrified dragon?"

"Ordinary creatures cannot bear my power, but dragons can. The answer to the verification question in the passage is my name, so this petrified dragon is very likely the body His Majesty left for me. As long as I control this body, then I am equivalent to regaining the halo." Negris steadied its mood and analyzed.

"It makes sense. Not just your name, all those problems in the checkpoints, for them, they have to set up a table and calculate for half a day, but for you, they might just be simple questions at a glance. His Majesty doesn't like these complicated things; it must have been set up for you. This is still the Knowledge Temple; it's clearly a legacy His Majesty left for you. He believed that one day, with your wisdom, you would definitely be able to find your way here." Anthony said.

Negris's old face flushed. Was it it that found its way here? Not at all; His Majesty thought too highly of it. It just followed Ang, mixing around, and mixed its way here.

Never mind that for now; let's get its body down first. The group searched for a long time but didn't find anything to unlock the chains. Did they have to cut them? These chains were thicker than a person's body; to saw through the twisted chains would take a day or two.

A bit troublesome. Ang took out the Petrified Crossbow and gestured at the petrified dragon.

Negris understood: "You want to use the Petrified Crossbow to undo its petrification? And then let me control it to breathe dragon breath, roast the chains soft, and then break free?"

Ang nodded.

"Don't, what if I can't control it for a while? If it undoes its petrification and hangs there, will it have poor blood circulation, limb ischemia, and necrosis, or will it just rot away? To be safe, let's call Du Luo Ken over and study how to get it down." Negris said.

Ang nodded and was just about to put the Petrified Crossbow away.

"Hmph! Petrified Crossbow? Hand it over!" A muffled grunt came from the pile of wraiths in the corner, and a huge black shadow spread its wings and flew rapidly toward Ang.

Negris was shocked: "Wraiths are covering its aura, it's a Dragon Undead!"