Chapter: Chapter 484
“Ledy, what was that commotion just now?” Linglong asked nervously as soon as they returned to the surface, a little startled by the disturbance.
“There was something underground here, and I destroyed it. I just didn’t control the force well, so the commotion was a bit big.” Leticia took the blame that should have belonged to Miss Bai. “Next, Linglong, you go in this direction. I suspect there are more of these magic array nodes in this direction. We’ll find them one by one, and we’ll quickly find the place where that guy had his eternal slumber.”
“Okay, so we don’t need to deal with this place?” Linglong looked at the crumbling temple before her, a desire to completely tear it down welling up in her heart.
Leticia touched her chin, not thinking for too long. “Tear it down. Who knows if that guy Huang left any contingency plans here.”
“Alright!”
With Leticia’s permission, Linglong became energized. She rolled up her sleeves, clenched her fists, and punched one of the temple’s pillars.
The terrifying power of the humanoid dragon was displayed stunningly at this moment. After a few punches, Linglong turned the temple into ruins.
Looking at her masterpiece, the dragon girl clapped her hands, a satisfied expression on her face. It seemed that tearing down the temple made her very happy.
This was probably an instinct hidden within her bloodline.
…
In the Fiery Space, the large egg lying quietly in the belly of the big bird and sleeping stirred uncomfortably, as if it had encountered something that made it unhappy.
Among the energy sent over just now, there was a bit of energy that didn’t taste good.
The golden patterns on the eggshell lit up one by one, and a wisp of dim starlight essence seeped out from the eggshell. Controlling this wisp of starlight essence with her mental power, the big egg wondered why such a thing had been mixed into its food.
Although it always ate, slept, and ate again, that didn’t mean it liked everything.
Where did this wisp of energy come from? The big egg began to recall. It seemed to have come from this place. Its attention was drawn to an output of the magic array around it.
“Sleep well, don’t think too much.” A somewhat illusory cry sounded in the big egg’s ‘ears.’
The big egg shook its body with dissatisfaction. Nourished by a large amount of energy, it had already developed considerable intelligence. It had never liked the voice that constantly nagged in its ears.
Revenge, killing everyone – the big egg didn’t understand any of it. It only knew that the voice carried endless resentment, which was not something it liked.
Hmph, who do you think you are, daring to control me! The big egg retorted softly in its heart.
Injecting a portion of its mental power into the magic array that supplied it with energy, the big egg decided to go and see who had sent this wisp of starlight essence to it.
“What are you doing?! Stop it quickly!”
You want me to stop, so I’ll stop? Who are you!
“I told you to stop!”
You’re not my mom, why should I listen to you?
Hmm? So what is a ‘mom’?
The big egg shook its body again, decisively blocking out the voice that was shouting like a madman, and completely immersed its consciousness into the golden magic array beneath it.
Since these magic arrays could transmit energy, they could also transmit the big egg’s mental power in reverse.
Confirming the direction from which the wisp of starlight essence had come, the big egg’s consciousness rapidly shuttled through one magic array node after another, searching for clues.
…
“After entering the Northern Territory, the number of magic array nodes seems to have increased a bit.” Holding a torch, Leticia observed the temple, which was completely wrapped in green vines, by the light of the fire.
Undoubtedly, this temple should also be Huang’s temple. Under this temple, there were also energy fluctuations similar to the previous temple, which meant that there were such magic array nodes underground as well.
“About a day’s journey?”
It was already nighttime, a day later. Linglong and the two dragons had traveled for a day before finally arriving here in the middle of the night.
“You guys rest here for a while. I’ll go down and deal with this node.” With the experience from last time, Leticia seemed to know what she was doing this time.
She directly used an earth-遁術 to burrow underground and soon found a node that was almost the same as the previous one. However, this time, it wasn’t a feather that was at the center of the magic array, but a bone.
A bone?!
Did these people dissect the corpse of that big bird?
Feathers could be explained as naturally falling off, but this bone was outrageous. Those believers were really brave!
Never mind, let’s not think about this anymore. It’s enough to release Bai Ling to destroy this place.
Leticia couldn’t be bothered to care how her enemies were treated by their believers. She only knew that she had to obliterate that bird.
“This time, remember to control your strength.”
“Don’t worry, I can definitely control it this time.” Bai Ling, whose aura was much more stable than yesterday, promised with her chest puffed out.
She had practiced controlling her strength for a whole day today and would definitely not destroy the entire place in one go like yesterday.
“Oh, then remember not to chop that bone. I think this thing might be very useful.”
This was the bone of a god! Even dragon bones were so useful, so wouldn’t divine bones be a superior substitute for dragon bones?
Leticia, who had originally planned to use dragon horns as reinforcement materials, had now completely forgotten about the dragon horns and was solely focused on obtaining this divine bone.
“Okay.”
Raising her Star Sword, Bai Ling aimed at a corner of the three-dimensional magic array and slashed.
Compared to the momentum of the previous attack, there was indeed much less power, and the destructive force was not as terrifying as last time. This time, the sword qi only destroyed a part that connected the magic array to other places. To be more precise, it destroyed the connecting parts to those magic array nodes that still existed.
In the aftermath of the starlight sword qi, a golden light shot out from another direction of the magic array, seemingly wanting to travel to other places via this magic array node.
But as soon as she reached the vicinity of the divine bone, she was surprised to find that she had lost contact with her main body, and the way back was also cut off.
The entire space was filled with annoying starlight essence. She instinctively hid herself within the divine bone. Her intuition told her that if she jumped out at this moment, she might be directly cut down.
What on earth happened!
This minor accident did not attract the attention of the two people present… probably.
“Interesting…” Looking at the divine bone, a faint curve appeared on Leticia’s lips.
After a few slashes, Bai Ling perfectly destroyed the magic array around the divine bone without damaging it at all.
“Well done.” Leticia tapped her toes, flew to the divine bone, and scooped it up with a wave of her hand.
The golden divine bone trembled slightly, and a wisp of flame seemed to want to surge out from within the bone, but Leticia quickly coated the exterior of the divine bone with a colorful barrier, suppressing its resistance in advance.
Returning to Bai Ling with the divine bone, Leticia cheerfully tossed the bone, which was slightly larger than her palm. “This is quite an unexpected gain.”
“It’s just a bone, right? Even a god’s bone shouldn’t make you this happy.” Bai Ling did not understand why Leticia was so happy.
With Leticia’s current strength, external objects could hardly increase her power anymore. Even if this divine bone was used to strengthen the magic sword, it might not necessarily lead to an improvement in Leticia’s combat power.
Moreover, Leticia couldn’t use weapons when she turned into a dragon. At most, it would only enhance Leticia’s regular combat power, which was useless.
“It’s good to be cool. It’s free anyway, might as well take it. Besides, this thing is not as simple as you think.” Leticia shrugged and threw the divine bone to Bai Ling. “You take this bone back to the ancestor first. I’ll go up and brief Linglong and the others on what’s next.”
…
Briefing did not take Leticia much time. About ten minutes later, Leticia returned to the Divine Artifact Space and saw the divine bone, which was bound by a large number of golden chains.
If someone didn’t know, they might think Infino had some special hobbies.
“Ancestor, your reaction is a bit too extreme! The consciousness within this bone is very weak, even weaker than ordinary small animals.” Leticia was also startled by Infino’s posture, almost thinking that her perception was wrong.
But upon closer inspection, the consciousness attached to this bone was still as weak as ever, so weak that it could dissipate at any moment.
“It’s Huang’s scent. You actually brought Huang’s consciousness directly in. You’re too bold.” Infino crossed her arms, looking helpless. This was her home. If Huang went mad and tore it down, rebuilding it would be troublesome.
“With such a weak consciousness, I can suppress it with a flick of my hand.” As a god of the mental department, Leticia was very confident, otherwise, she wouldn’t dare to bring this wisp of consciousness in so casually.
According to her professional calculations, the consciousness contained within this bone was not even comparable to the fiery birds formed by the divine blood armor. Leticia could deal with those fiery birds with one slap, and the consciousness within this divine bone could be crushed by her finger.
Walking up to the divine bone, Leticia tapped the surface of the bone with her knuckles and asked softly, “Hey, are you there?”
The divine bone trembled, revealing a trace of fear.
Fear?
Shouldn’t it be resentment and rage, followed by threats and curses directed at me?
This Huang of yours is not right. Leticia pondered, stroking her chin. The Huang I know is clearly a lunatic. Where did this cute little thing come from?
“Can you talk? If you can’t talk, I’ll boil you and drink you as bone broth.”
‘I can!’
A delicate, childish female voice sounded in Leticia’s ears. It seemed that the consciousness within the bone was indeed terrified.
This voice didn’t sound like that lunatic Huang either.
“What are you, and why are you attached to Huang’s divine bone?” Leticia asked.
“…I don’t know. This is what happened…”
The wisp of consciousness within the divine bone seemed to have no concept of keeping secrets. As soon as Leticia asked, it recounted its origin and why it was trapped in this bone in detail.
After listening to the wisp of consciousness’s account, Leticia’s expression became even stranger. According to this thing, the current Huang was still a solitary wandering spirit, and what was hatching in the egg was a new Huang, a newborn life.
“Ancestor, what do you think?” Feeling her brain slightly overloaded, Leticia looked at her ancestor, seeking her support.
“She’s not lying… I roughly guess what Huang is planning to do.” Infino, who was knowledgeable, slapped her palm and guessed Huang’s intention. “She wants to snatch her reincarnated body!”
“Body snatching?”
“I don’t know if it can be understood that way, but according to the consciousness in this bone, the big egg hatching now is a completely different existence from the Huang we know. This egg, she is more…”
“Silly?” Leticia tilted her head.
“She hasn’t even hatched yet, how smart can she be?” Infino coughed lightly, not refuting Leticia’s assessment. “In any case, when the thing inside this egg truly hatches, Huang should make her move and snatch the body of the newborn deity.”
“So, are Huang and the current egg the same deity?”
“Theoretically speaking, that egg is Huang, that’s for sure. However, she has completely lost her past memories and is now like a blank slate.” Infino’s face was also full of doubt. It seemed that this situation with Huang was also the first time she had encountered it. “Saying it’s body snatching might not be accurate. Maybe she’ll awaken her past memories after hatching?”
If she accepted so many memories at once, wouldn’t that egg directly become Huang? Leticia didn’t believe that the mental strength displayed by this egg could withstand the washing of Huang’s memories.
“In short, we still have to fight. However, there might be other solutions to try…” Leticia’s gaze drifted to the golden divine bone. Within this bone was a wisp of the big egg’s consciousness that couldn’t go home. “If we nurture this wisp of consciousness, can she snatch the body from Huang in the future?”
Letting this wisp of consciousness snatch the body from Huang?!
Let alone Infino, even Bai Ling thought Leticia was daydreaming. “Are you serious?”
This wisp of consciousness is so weak, it’s no match for Huang at all, let alone a single move.
Not to mention Huang, this wisp of consciousness was originally just a small part of the big egg’s consciousness, its strength could only be described as pathetic.
“Even if she can’t snatch the body, it’s a success if she can make Huang hesitate during the battle.” Leticia’s lips curled into a smile. Since this wisp of consciousness had fallen into her hands, why wouldn’t she make good use of it?
She was a god of the mental department, so nurturing such a wisp of consciousness was not a big problem. Anyway, she had nothing to do now, right?
