Chapter 1446

This description sounded amazing, and of course, more importantly, Yi Yi Yi Lu Na was fine now.

Xia De helped Yi Yi Yi Lu Na stand up; the latter looked as if her senses were a bit sluggish, still staring blankly at her surroundings. And Xia De looked at the stone pillar in the center of the island in the heart of the magma sea, from which black mud was constantly flowing.

The divinity was in it; he had felt it from the beginning. If the Guardian had left a step later, and he had absorbed the divinity and possessed a brief "divine overflow" state beyond the thirteenth ring, even if the Guardian was immortal in this area, Xia De might not have had no way to deal with him.

The desire for power in his heart had reached its peak at this time, but Yi Yi Yi Lu Na tugged at Xia De's sleeve, as if she had finally come back to her senses:

"Someone is whispering in my ear." "What? Who?"

Xia De immediately looked around, worried that some unexpected person had suddenly popped out. "Not an enemy, it's... the soil under our feet."

She seemed to understand something:

"I remember you said that when you first entered the black mud, a figure gave you the 【Fossil to Mud】 spell. And in the legend about the Guardian you repeated just now, there is also the title 'Spirit of the Earth'."

This was not an consciousness formed by the earth, but it was something similar. Xia De understood it as a natural phenomenon, only that the manifestation of this natural phenomenon was as if the earth had been born with a soul.

"The earth told me some things."

Yi Yi Yi Lu Na said very seriously; this was brand new information:

"To solve the Guardian, it is not only possible to rely on large fragments of the Heart of the Earth. If the earth can be purified, the Guardian, who has already merged with this land, can also be affected in reverse and wake up."

"Compared to this method, it is simpler to use the fragments of the Heart of the Earth to let the Guardian temporarily regain consciousness to hold the ritual... The witch of the Fifth Era mentioned methods other than this, but absorbing the filth of the earth is not simple."

Xia De commented, and Yi Yi Yi Lu Na continued:

"Also, the ritual 【Feast of the Earth Mother】 is probably problematic. In the earliest era, this was the ancient god of the earth, the 【Earth Mother】, gathering the power of the earth to feast other ancient gods. Today, this ritual can still purify the earth, but the problem is that it will gather all the filth of the earth together."

"We have to deal with that filth? How about I go home in a while and bring the 【God's Gift Box】 over?" Xia De said, but saw Yi Yi Yi Lu Na shake her head hesitantly:

"The gathered filth is not just material, but a concept. As long as it still exists, even if it is sealed, it still means that the distortion of the earth still exists. Therefore, if they cannot be dealt with, even if the Chosen One ritual is successful, the disaster of the earth will still spread. My suggestion is to let the church seal that filth; sealing them can at least reduce the degree of earth distortion... Or, find someone to devour that filth, for example, let the Chosen One of the Earth devour that filth; only he has this ability. Then destroy the Chosen One and completely eliminate all the filth."

After speaking, she sighed softly:

"But it is best not to use the latter method, otherwise even if the earth is purified, from then on, the instability of the material world will intensify. After all, the earth is the cornerstone."

In this way, Xia De probably understood why, despite having a thirteenth-ring warlock like the Guardian, the long-haired Luweiya still let Xiris make a sacrifice, and why she still failed in the end. It is highly likely that at the end of the story of the Chosen One of the Earth, Luweiya failed to achieve the perfect ending that Xia De thought.

But besides sealing the filth gathered by the feast, perhaps there are other ways, for example, after becoming a god, Xia De might be able to deal with those things, so there is no need to think too much at this time.

And if the gods cannot solve it for various reasons... Xia De probably understood what the 【Guardian】 meant when he briefly woke up just now and said that someone must make a sacrifice.

"Can you still communicate with the Spirit of the Earth now?" Xia De asked, and after Yi Yi Yi Lu Na nodded, he asked:

"Then, if I want to extract the power here now, what will happen?"

He pointed to the stone pillar engraved with the holy emblem of the ancient god and flowing with black silt. Yi Yi Yi Lu Na wiped the sweat from her forehead, closed her eyes, and relaxed her mind to let herself enter a deep meditative state:

"This stone pillar itself actually has no power; everything you can get is a gift given to you by the earth, and it will not cause any impact."

Yi Yi Yi Lu Na said.

"Then do you know how we can leave here?"

Xia De asked again, and Yi Yi Yi Lu Na closed her eyes again, and after a moment, shook her head slightly:

"Originally, as long as we touched this stone pillar, we could appear in any area of the Randall Valley. But when the Guardian left, he sealed the Heart of the Earth, so this method doesn't work now... He is now simply the incarnation of the Heart of the Earth."

"This is a good thing; the more powerful the Guardian is, the more powerful our future companions will be."

Xia De said, signaling Yi Yi Yi Lu Na not to worry about leaving. He continued to hold the fragment of the Heart of the Earth that he had obtained from the mithril cube:

"Wait for me a moment, we will leave immediately. And then, it will be the final decisive battle." Yi Yi Yi Lu Na nodded, but when she saw the stone in Xia De's hand, she frowned slightly: "The fragment in your hand is also contaminated."

"Is it?"

"The degree of contamination is very slight, but it is indeed not pure enough. In fact, including the two small stones held by the two of us, these stones are impure; after all, the distortion of the earth is not a matter of the last two years, so the closer the era of these stones' separation is to the modern era, the more serious the degree of contamination... The stone you gave me just now is the purest."

That is because that stone from the "Eternal Night City" had already been in the night for an unknown amount of time before Xia De and Fiona saw it in the mid-Fifth Era. If the introduction of the exhibits in the 【Midnight Art Museum】 is correct, this stone was most likely separated when the ancient gods of the Second Era left.

"Whether it is pure or not, as long as it can make the Guardian wake up briefly, it is enough." Xia De said, and then looked at the irregular stone pillar:

"Finally, we have reached this moment again."

He and Yi Yi Yi Lu Na walked toward the pillar together. Because she had swallowed part of the power of the Heart of the Earth, Yi Yi Yi Lu Na was now completely able to walk here on her own, while Xia De was still holding the stone.

Looking closer, in fact, on the irregular stone pillar, besides the holy emblem mark representing the ancient god 【Earth Mother】, there were dense, very small letters.

Those letters changed every moment with the slight trembling of the ground, forming ancient stories related to the earth that covered almost the entire world, and the language of the letters was one that Xia De and Yi Yi Yi Lu Na had never seen before.

If the Heart of the Earth, which did not know how long it had been in this magma lake under their feet, was the core of the earth in the material world, then this stone pillar was probably the core of the Heart of the Earth.

Yi Yi Yi Lu Na did not recognize those ancient characters, and after approaching the stone pillar, she could not bear the pressure and could not observe it carefully. And although Xia De had a similar situation, at least he recognized the characters on the stone pillar, and before his head split with pain, he deciphered a part of the constantly changing content:

"The special space left by the Earth Mother is called the 【Earth Core Furnace】." Xia De told Yi Yi Yi Lu Na the part he could know at present:

"It is a white fog space extremely similar to the current environment of the earth core magma lake. The 【Earth Core Furnace】 contains the power of the earth; any material thrown into it can be tempered by the power of the earth, and even the human body and soul are the same. Besides that, relying on the power of the Earth Core Furnace, one can monitor the dynamics of the earth and know the natural disasters and weather conditions in the near future. This is just a basic function; I cannot decipher more content yet."

"Earth Core Furnace? Then where is the entrance?" Yi Yi Yi Lu Na asked, and Xia De pointed to his feet:

"Only a specific environment can form the entrance to the 【Earth Core Furnace】, such as the location we are in now; a very simple ritual can permanently 'solidify' the door under our feet. Different from the doors we encountered before, the door of the Earth Core Furnace can not only be a normal door, but also a trapdoor embedded in the ground. Oh, besides here, it requires extremely special circumstances

to permanently fix an entrance to the 【Earth Core Furnace】, but let's discuss these things later."

Xia De said, looking down at the silt flowing from the bottom of the stone pillar, which had almost submerged his feet: "Seek a gift from the earth, Yi Yi Yi Lu Na; the earth is with us."

Thus, the two reached out their hands and placed their palms on the stone surface, one on the left and one on the right. What they first perceived was the filth that tried to distort them, but the stone in Xia De's hand and the power in Yi Yi Yi Lu Na's heart resisted the earth's pollution for them.

Subsequently, the two saw different powers. 【Outsider, you have touched a "miracle".】

"She" had a very gentle voice, and Xia De's eyes had already seen the black stone pillar glowing in his hand. He did not know what Yi Yi Yi Lu Na beside him saw at this moment; he only knew that the divinity was only separated from him by a thin stone wall in front of him, and the desire in his heart was almost about to turn into substance at this moment, making Xia De crazy.

Fortunately, "She" always appeared at the most appropriate time: 【I am you...

"You are me!"

A subtle golden light seeped out from the cracks in the stone. That light was like a sharp little knife, leaving deep cracks on Xia De's fingertips, and then brilliant light also radiated from the cracks on Xia De's fingertips.

That crack and that light spread over his whole body, following the cracks on Xia De's arm inch by inch. Because this drop of divinity was not snatched by Xia De, and the original owner of the divinity did not mind the loss of his power, that vast, ancient, and indescribable power entered Xia De's soul with Xia De's deep breath just like that.