Chapter: Chapter 500
“The formation node of the Azure Eagle tribe is having problems. The transmitted energy is a bit mixed, and the quantity has also decreased significantly,” mumbled the aged elder in black robes, looking at the magically illuminated lamp that had become somewhat turbid.
“This is normal. Three-dimensional formations save space to the maximum extent, but the price is a slightly higher chance of malfunction. The complexity of the other formations is relatively low, so the possibility of malfunction is smaller,” said another fox-like beastman who appeared intelligent. He looked at the abnormally displaying magic lamp with a calm expression, as if this situation was entirely within his expectations.
If they wanted to save space, they could only endure the cost of these formations malfunctioning from time to time. As the saying goes, there are gains and losses.
It didn’t matter if some of the formations in other places had problems, as they had more than one energy transmission route. The loss of one or two was not an issue at all.
However, the large node in the Azure Eagle tribe absolutely could not have problems. Once there was a problem there, it would affect the energy supply of the entire holy land, which would greatly impact the revival of their divine lord.
For these black-robed believers, this was completely unacceptable.
This was because the temperature in the holy land had become completely unsuitable for them to survive. They could only temporarily retreat to the alternate dimension opened by Huang and count their days in the barren underground cavities.
The good news was that the anomaly in the alternate dimension indicated that the divine lord’s revival had entered its final stage. The bad news was that no one knew how much time this stage would consume.
Their original plan was quite good: to instigate a war within the beastman territory and use this war to obtain a large amount of energy to accelerate the divine lord’s revival.
But their rival divine lord directly intervened and disrupted their plan. The king’s tent of the beastman tribe did not panic at all when faced with rebellions from various regions. They calmly chose to hold their ground, acting as if they wouldn’t come out to fight them.
If they didn’t come out to fight, the rebels could only attack the cities. However, facing the cities defended by the elite soldiers of the king’s tent, the rebels’ progress was not smooth. Every step forward resulted in heavy casualties.
Their opponents, the soldiers of the king’s tent, were in a favorable position, minimizing their own casualties as much as possible. At the same time, they would evacuate residents from some less important cities before withdrawing.
As for the important cities, the rebels couldn’t take them down and could only pile up human lives day after day.
As time went by, the energy that the black-robed people could collect from the sacrificial formations they had spent years setting up throughout the beastman territory was becoming less and less. The formations in the Eastern Region were destroyed by the rival divine lord in one fell swoop. There was no war in the Northern Region, and the areas directly under the king’s tent were also stable.
Currently, only the Western and Southern Regions were still engaged in fighting. Under the active intervention of the dragon race, the sacrificial formations in the Southern Region were being removed one by one. Although their progress was not as fast as Lethisia’s, they had managed to achieve some results over such a long period.
Now, only the Western Region was still supplying energy for the incubation of the big egg.
And at this time, the formation node of the Azure Eagle tribe had another problem. The already scarce energy became even less. How could this be allowed?
They had to go and fix it!
“Is this problem easy to solve?” the elder asked.
“If I go personally, it will only take a day or two to resolve,” the fox-like beastman replied. He was very confident, and he indeed had the capital for it.
Among the beastmen, whose minds were generally not very sharp, he could be considered a top student. He had exceptional talent in setting up formations. He could set up almost all the formations mentioned in that ancient book of prophecy. The series of sacrificial formations spread throughout the beastman territory was his masterpiece.
The elder breathed a sigh of relief. Just a day or two was acceptable.
“Then hurry up and get ready. Go to the Azure Eagle tribe to repair it. Time is of the essence.”
“Understood. Wait for my good news.”
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Inside the alternate dimension that had turned into a fiery inferno, the corpse of the golden great bird had begun to dissolve. The body, which had remained undamaged for countless years, was now turning into golden liquid, providing the last portion of energy to the great egg in her belly.
The great egg lay in the golden liquid, so comfortable that it didn’t even want to move. If absorbing energy from the formations before was like drinking a beverage, then absorbing the energy from the golden liquid now was like having a luxurious feast.
The energy coming from the formations was getting less and less, but the great egg didn’t care about that energy anymore. It hadfound something tastier.
This energy tasted so good! It was so delicious!
The previous adventure had injured its spirit a bit. Who knew that the portion of consciousness it had sent out would encounter such an accident, causing it to be listless for quite some time. Fortunately, with sufficient energy supply, it had recovered very quickly.
The voice of that crazy woman in its ears was also becoming fainter and fainter, as if she was also tired and didn’t want to bother it anymore?
The great egg couldn’t understand, but as long as that person wasn’t making noise, it was fine.
Where it couldn’t see, the phantom of the golden phoenix bird was circling above the lava ocean. Those blood-red eyes were staring at the great egg, with anticipation flashing in them.
A small, almost unnoticeable crack had silently appeared on its smooth eggshell.
It would only take a little time for the creature within the great egg to fully mature. The moment that creature broke out of its shell, Huang would descend her spirit to contend for this body.
What? That little bird was her reincarnation?
Heh, Huang would never admit that this guy who only slept and ate was herself. Besides, did reincarnation even matter? She just wanted to return to this world, even if it meant killing her reincarnation with her own hands, she wouldn’t mind.
Huang was a very typical divine lord. In her heart, there was no place for anything else.
Once I regain my body and recuperate a bit to recover some of my past strength, I’ll settle the score with those lackeys of the Dragon God!
As for the newly born Dragon God, humph, she was just a junior who had been born not long ago. In front of her, a powerful senior, the other could only beg for mercy!
If she had a better attitude, maybe she would spare her life and let her be her servant.
If her attitude was bad, then she would let her accompany the already dead Dragon God!
Thinking of that delightful scene, Huang couldn’t wait. Unfortunately, the great egg was still developing, and she still had to wait some time.
However, it wouldn’t take too long. Under the nourishment of the pure energy extracted from the divine body, the great egg’s development could be described as progressing at lightning speed.
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“This should be more or less done. If those people react faster, they should see their maintenance workers in a few days.” After sprinkling the transparent potion on the soil like watering, Lethisia stretched, revealing a relaxed expression.
She didn’t directly sprinkle the potion at the divine temple on the ground. The effect of her potion wasn’t that strong yet; it couldn’t penetrate such thick soil in a short time while maintaining strong destructive power.
The place where she poured the potion was the soil layer on the ground, only a few meters away from the underground cavity. It would only take a few minutes for the poured potion to seep into the underground cavity and destroy the formations it came into contact with.
After doing all this, Lethisia flew upwards without any hesitation. She believed in her skills and was confident that the potion’s effect would force those cowards out.
Just a few minutes after she left, the colorless potion seeped out from the soil layer above the underground cavity as she had predicted, dripping down onto the golden formation below.
The falling liquid activated the formation’s self-protection measures. A magic barrier of moderate strength blocked these liquids. Since it didn’t recognize a malicious attack, the formation chose the most basic barrier.
This kind of barrier was generally used to block stones and insects that occasionally fell from above. Facing the carefully prepared potion by Lethisia, its strength was naturally insufficient.
Plop.
The moment it came into contact with the magic barrier, the thin barrier was corroded with a small hole.
Black traces spread rapidly outwards from the hole. In a moment, the entire barrier was covered with black traces. Then, these traces emitted black light simultaneously, and the barrier shattered silently.
Before the formation could react further, the colorless liquid that had seeped from above dripped onto various parts of its body.
High temperatures evaporated some of the liquid, but some of the colorless potion came into contact with the lines on the formation, and blackness quickly spread on the formation, occupying a part of the entire formation in an instant.
However, due to the insufficient quantity, they could not destroy the entire formation, only part of it.
This kind of damage naturally attracted the attention of another entity within the underground cavity. Golden flames gushed out from the golden ores on the ground, forming a golden great bird in mid-air. The great bird scanned its surroundings with sharp eyes but couldn’t find any enemies.
What’s going on? The not-so-intelligent fiery great bird was confused. Its behavior pattern was very fixed: it would wake up upon sensing that the formation had been damaged and then kill the intruder. It was very simple, wasn’t it?
But now the formation was broken, yet the intruder was nowhere to be seen.
What should it do?
The fiery great bird suspended in mid-air flapped its wings and remained motionless, as if it had encountered a bug. With its current intelligence, it really couldn’t figure out how to handle this matter.
Thus, it waited in the underground cavity for half a day, until the energy maintaining its existence was exhausted, and it still couldn’t find the enemy it was supposed to deal with.
The fiercely burning golden flames were extinguished. The backup plan to protect the formation from damage was thus consumed meaninglessly. It was hard to say how to evaluate it. Perhaps they should blame Huang for not giving complete orders.
It would have been good if it were set to return to standby in the ore if the enemy wasn’t seen for a long time. Now, all that energy was wasted for nothing.
On the ground, after a day of diligent digestion, Yu also successfully digested that wisp of Huang’s spirit. Now, she was holding Lethisia’s arm and asking for candy.
The level cap had increased again, and Yu naturally became hungry. What to do when hungry? Of course, ask Lethisia for candy.
Unable to resist Yu, Lethisia had to take out a lollipop from her pocket and give it to Yu. With the increase in the level cap, this little one had obviously become more agile, and her ability to speak had also improved significantly.
“Thank you, sister!” Yu said, her face beaming with a bright smile after receiving the lollipop. It was unclear if she was happy because Lethisia gave her candy or because she could eat candy.
Or perhaps both?
Fortunately, the body this girl was currently using didn’t have the problem of cavities. Otherwise, Lethisia would have to manage Yu’s current unhealthy diet like a mother.
After tasting sweetness, this little one became uncontrollable. Every time she saw Lethisia, she would cling to her and ask for candy, forcing Lethisia to ask Bai Ling to cover for her for a few days.
Compared to Miss Bai, who always maintained a cool demeanor, did she seem gentler and easier to bully in Yu’s heart?
Thinking to herself, Lethisia used magic to summon Linglong, who had been waiting outside the divine temple, asking the dutiful dragon girl to come in.
Less than a minute later, Linglong opened the door and flew in from outside the divine temple. “Lethisia, you called for me?”
“It’s nothing major. Didn’t the Azure Eagle chief want to see Yu today? You can help Yu out on the side.” Lethisia called Linglong in for no other reason than fearing that Yu would reveal her true identity in front of those old foxes.
Unlike the black-robed divine officials, the higher-ups of the Azure Eagle tribe had not taken those pills, so they naturally couldn’t clearly recognize Yu’s divine identity.
And those guys who could control such a large tribe could not be insignificant people. With Yu’s current abilities, deceiving them would still be quite difficult.
“This… this might be a bit difficult. The chief said he wants to talk to Yu alone. I discussed it with those black-robed divine officials before, and these officials have an equal cooperative relationship with the Azure Eagle tribe. The officials find it difficult to refuse the chief’s request.” Linglong said somewhat helplessly.
The relationship between the Azure Eagle tribe and these black-robed divine officials was quite delicate; it was a relationship of mutual exploitation. And now that the chief wanted to talk to Yu alone, the officials found it difficult to refuse.
However, as long as Yu shook her head, the officials would not back down and would directly refuse the Azure Eagle chief’s request.
Wasn’t it the help of the Azure Eagle tribe? They could just do without it!
Before, their divine lord had not yet revived and needed their help. Now that their divine lord had revived, they were not afraid of them anymore, alright!
If they wanted to fight to the death, once their divine lord regained her true power in the holy land, it would be too late for you to regret it!
This was the current thinking of the divine officials. Yu’s appearance had indeed greatly increased their confidence.
