The Era of Gods-Chapter 696: Entering the Tomb of Myriad Gods
The Fortification of Rectitude immediately released an anti-gravity field that enveloped the entire fortress and its surroundings, causing many ascending machines to lose traction and fall back down, creating chaos near the fortress.
Many Harvesters and Eliminators, along with the main cannon of the Fortification of Rectitude, were once again preparing to charge, targeting the black hole in the sky.
This time, Lin Xiao did not tease them into retracting the black hole; instead, he allowed it to rapidly grow by absorbing the energy in the void, using it to draw the attention of the Fortification of Rectitude. With words on his lips but no sound, an inexplicable vibration echoed through heaven and earth, and an enigmatic presence appeared in this world.
The Fortification Protocol immediately responded to this change, inexplicably sensitive to alterations in space and the rules, despite clearly being mechanical.
However, despite responding immediately, most of its power was drawn by the descending black hole at the time, and while it sensed the new change, it did not immediately unveil its killing intent.
Or rather, at that moment, there was a change in space, but no substantial changes had surfaced. Most of the power of the Fortification Protocol was still employed to resist the falling black hole, for it posed an imminent crisis.
Although the black hole was powerful, the Fortification Protocol had a specific way to counter it, using the anti-gravity anchoring field to resist gravitational pull, while constantly bombarding it with high-powered main cannons to forcibly disrupt the gravitational field. Beams of energy, comparable to the full blow of a Rank 8 early to mid-level fighter, shot out, tearing open the gravitational field before the black hole could expand its influence, tipping the scales in favor of the anti-gravity anchoring field and causing the black hole to warp and begin collapsing.
When the black hole finally disintegrated, the devoured energy leaked out, forming a terrifying energy tide that engulfed the Fortification of Rectitude, which was protected by a huge energy shield, past the fortress and far beyond. About fifty kilometers from the fortress, the energy tide abruptly hit an invisible barrier and was repelled, flowing back.
Unnoticed, the heaven and earth within a hundred-kilometer diameter centered around the Fortification of Rectitude had been segmented by an intangible force.
The Golden Titan’s true form stood between heaven and earth, with an invisible power radiating from his core. Three dazzling beams of destruction headed towards him, fading as they traveled, becoming transparent a few kilometers away, and then completely disappearing before reaching him.
"Warning, unable to connect to the main system, error data detected, recalculating required....."
"Warning, unable to connect to the main system, error data detected, recalculating required....."
"Warning, unable to connect to the main system, error data detected..."
Inside the Fortification of Rectitude, more red lights flared up, like a system crash, with a mechanical signal incessantly transmitting error data alerts, echoing over and over in the command room.
Outside the Fortification of Rectitude, many mechanical war bodies had ceased their attacks and stood silent, motionless in their places.
After a while, neither the Fortification of Rectitude nor the surrounding mechanical troops moved an inch; Lin Xiao gave a slight smile as a golden arm reached out and grasped the air, and the area started to become illusory and twisted, quickly contracting towards Lin Xiao before disappearing into his body, leaving behind only a crimson wasteland.
Thus, the Fortification Protocol, which had nearly destroyed this world along with its base, had entirely vanished, collected by him into Jade Dreamland.
As a power wielded by the Dream Ancestor, Jade Dreamland could be both illusory and real, with truth and fiction depending on his will.
Now possessing the Dream Ancestor Mark, of course, he could exercise this power.
He hadn’t used it before because there was no need; he could easily solve problems with his own power. Currently, he could still solve the Fortification Protocol with his power, but it would take much effort, and he might get hurt. However, using the power of the dream, he could deal with it easily without harm.
By bringing this area into the scope of Jade Dreamland and unfolding the dream at the mental level, the Fortification Protocol could sense something but clearly had no means to directly touch upon the spiritual aspect. He then made the illusion real and took the Fortification Protocol base and all mechanical troops into the dream, wiping them out in one fell swoop.
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The Fortification Protocol had not been destroyed, it had merely been placed inside Jade Dreamland, and he could easily annihilate it if he wished.
However, Lin Xiao was very interested in this Fortification Protocol, which clearly followed a technological system but could counteract Superhuman Power with adherence to scientific physical laws. He was very keen on unraveling its secrets, which would be immensely valuable if decoded.
Besides, he was also very interested in the two types of super war bodies, the Eliminator and the Harvester.
The Eliminator had combat power comparable to the Main World’s Heavenly Demon Idol, while the Harvester could reach Rank 8, equivalent to Medium Divine Power. Although such powerful golempuppets might exist in the Main World, they are exceedingly rare and extremely difficult to make; even the Fifth War Zone didn’t have many.
If he could understand the secrets here and manufacture them himself, the value would be extraordinary.
Medium Divine Power was already quite formidable. In any world, Powerful Divine Power represented the small elite at the top of the strength pyramid. Even in the famous Toriel Multiverse across the entire Crystal Wall Universe, all races and planes combined, those of Powerful Divine Power and their peers were numbered but a few dozen.
Medium Divine Power was somewhat more abundant, but not by much.
In any world, a holder of Medium Divine Power unified all their strengths, completely integrating their Godhood’s laws, rules, and Divine Power. This led to a qualitative increase in strength compared to before, making them the second tier below Powerful Divine Power. They represented the apex combat forces in smaller powers.
Although Harvesters didn’t quite match the comprehensive combat power of real Medium Divine Power beings, both their bodies and their attacks embodied that level. Individually, their strength was limited but in sufficient numbers, say forty or fifty united, they could even breach the defenses of a Divine Emperor’s God Country.
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With the resolution of the Rectitude Protocol, the deal with the will of this world was concluded, and Lin Xiao could feel the World Origin Force feedback that was a reward from the world’s will.
It was a force strong enough to allow a Rank 7 peak wizard to break through the limit and ascend to Rank 8, but sadly, he was already in the late stages of Rank 8, so this power was not enough for him to advance.
Beyond that, he also received the favor of the world’s will, wishing to make him the guardian of this world.
He naturally refused, as he had no interest in being the guardian of this world—he still had to enter the God’s Tomb.
It’s worth mentioning that although the entrance to the Tomb of Myriad Gods was in this world, it was just the entrance; the tomb itself was not in this world, as the strength of this world was not capable of bearing the tomb of an ancestor.
Furthermore, the main world where the Emperor of Myriad Forms was born is not this world either. This world was just a randomly chosen one by the Emperor of Myriad Forms to serve as the entrance to the tomb and holds no special significance.
The entrance to the Tomb of Myriad Gods was located in an inconspicuous wasteland about a dozen kilometers away from the fortress before the Rectitude Protocol. Lin Xiao re-concealed his power, his true body slowly reverting to that of a normal person. A ring of white light appeared under his feet, the earth quickly melting away, and a figure identical to him separated and sunk rapidly into the ground.
After a long time, several figures appeared before him, representing the remaining leaders of the world’s resistance force. They appeared one after another, greeting him very respectfully.
Lin Xiao gave a faint smile...
Beneath the earth, Lin Xiao’s true body had sunk more than ten kilometers and was still descending.
The deeper he went underground, the greater the pressure from the earth became, but to him, this pressure was like a gentle breeze on his face, posing no challenge at all.
The closer he got to the entrance of the Tomb of Myriad Gods, the more active a mark left in his mind by the Emperor of Myriad Forms became when he descended, indicating that he was getting closer.
Lin Xiao’s mood was calm, his expression was serene; he had already seen a living ancestor, so this deceased ancestor could no longer stir his heartstrings.
Of course, he had not seen Tishar’s true body. An ancestor’s true form was as large as a world, and with such immense strength, revealing it would immediately alert the true ancestor of the void who was always searching for her, and that would lead to trouble.
He did not know how long he had been descending, possibly around forty to fifty kilometers from the surface, when he finally stopped. He had arrived.
With a ’snap’ of his fingers, the surrounding dirt quickly melted away as space expanded in all directions, soon forming an underground circular space about two hundred meters in diameter. He hovered in the center of the underground space, and about thirty meters away in mid-air, there was something unnatural.
He flew to that abnormal part of the space, reached out with his right hand, and pressed down. Circles of ripples emanated outward, and the space began to change, revealing a trace of flowing light that slowly appeared and rapidly encircled to outline an elliptical aura suspended in mid-air; in the center, the flickering light revealed a strange symbol that was intermittently visible.
"The All-embracing Mark!"
Lin Xiao extended his right hand, and a mark identical to the one in the aura appeared in his palm, creating a resonance between the two as if they were magnets with a faint attraction to each other.
Without resisting, he reached out his right hand towards the center of the aura, bringing his palm mark to align with the central mark of the aura.
"Hum!"
The aura trembled violently, a powerful attraction emanated from it, swallowing Lin Xiao, who was close by, into the aura, and he vanished.
After consuming him, the elliptical aura slowly faded until it regained its original appearance.
When Lin Xiao could see again, he found himself standing at the entrance of an underground passage shrouded in grey mist, with a rugged path ahead and a dead end behind. He tried to press his hand against the wall behind him but it was immovable; he could only move forward.
The real problem wasn’t this, rather, Lin Xiao discovered that upon entering what seemed to be the Tomb of Myriad Gods, his strength was reduced to an extreme degree. The Golden Titan’s true form, capable of piercing through a world, was now completely suppressed by an invisible force, becoming extremely frail.
He attempted to move his body, estimating that his physical self was now comparable to a Rank 2 wizard, with his mana and spiritual power not much different.
From a Rank 8 late stage in his second true form being suppressed to Rank 2 was quite an exaggeration.
Fortunately, he had waited until now to come to the Tomb of Myriad Gods. If he had come when he was just a Rank 1 true form, he would have been suppressed to the level of an ordinary person.
Though Shadow Wind and Phoenix also ranked as Rank 8, they followed the orthodox wizard path, and their physical bodies were not as strong as his first true form, so if they were to venture inside, they would likely be suppressed to idiocy.
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