Chapter 1250 Heaven Rank and Challenge
Endless Seal Technique…
It was known as the most unreasonable sealing method. Thousands of new combinations would be formed whenever one of these several thousand runes runes changed. And there were several hundred runes changing every second. The number of combinations appearing every second was astronomical.
After watching for a minute, Lin Yun knew that the total number of transformations the runes went through added to about ten thousands. It would take over a millennium of straight calculations to go through it.
And this was with the help of the Magic Array and the Spell Wheel. If another Artisan did the calculations without eating or drinking, they wouldn't crack the seal, let alone find the core password combination.
The sealing method was simple, but the amount of calculations was too important to calculate.
Seeing this seal, Lin Yun immediately gave up on cracking it. Cracking it without damaging Pabiete's memory system? No way.
He unhesitantly re-assembled Pabiete's skull, he had completely gave up the notion of cracking it.
He only had two methods: The first method involved finding the core password of the seal covering Pabiete's memory system. With it, he would be able to crack the seal within three hours, but without it he would need a millennium.
The second was simply waiting until the memory system's seal disappeared on its own. The most likely way to make that happen was to continuously increase Pabiete's level. When Pabiete's strength rose to a certain level, he might be able to open that seal on his own.
Although Pabiete had re-awakened his wisdom and hadn't solved Lin Yun's doubts, Lin Yun was even more certain that Pabiete's memory system contained some crucial clues. That "Is there still someone alive?" sentence absolutely didn't come out of nowhere, it was definitely related to the end of Noscent.
Since there was no good option, Lin Yun could only give up for the moment. After all, Pabiete already awakened his wisdom, Lin Yun would inevitably get the answer one day. At the moment, he could only think of ways to increase Pabiete's level, this was the most dependable method.
Not only did Pabiete reach level 40 and re-awaken his wisdom, he was stronger than the average 1st Rank Heaven powerhouse. Lin Yun only increased his strength by one level in fear of ruining Pabiete. Once Pabiete adapted to his strength, strengthening him wouldn't be a problem.
Lin Yun frowned as he sensed the Natural Demiplane's laws fluctuating. The entire world seemed to be reacting and a large amount of mana converged towards the source.
He took one step and instantly disappeared. After establishing the foundation of the Spatial Law, Lin Yun could instantly teleport anywhere within the Demiplane.
As he appeared at the foot of a mountain, Lin Yun watched as a huge crack appeared on Xiuban's cocoon. The runes and bloodline auras had completely disappeared. Over half of the cocoon's power had dissipated and the rest was rapidly being absorbed by Xiuban.
A blood cloud condensed in the sky and a large amount of mana started converging towards this location from the mana lake.
A Three-Headed Gold Dragon's shadow appeared in the blood cloud, followed by an Ancient Poison Dragon's shadow, an Abyssal Blood Dragon's shadow, and finally, a Crystal Dragon's shadow.
These were all the draconic bloodlines contained within Xiuban's body. Xiuban had taken the initiative to fuse with the first three, while the Crystal Dragon's bloodline was actually Xiuban's own bloodline.
The appearance of the Crystal Dragon's shadow was undoubtedly a great surprise.
After all, Crystal Dragons were a race of Ancient Dragons, few in numbers, living during the Mythological Era. But Crystal Dragons didn't like war, instead, they loved hibernating. They could sometimes sleep underground for thousands of years. As time passed, crystal veins filled with draconic aura would be produced, and the quality would far exceed ordinary crystal.
There had been no trace of Crystal Dragons as early as the Nesser Dynasty, and the main reason was that it was very hard for them to reproduce… And they also weren't fond of reproducing, they weren't very energetic so extinction was inevitable.
Yet, Xiuban actually had the bloodline of a Crystal Dragon. This gave Lin Yun a ridiculous feeling.
But Xiuban's bloodline awakening after reaching the Heaven Rank was undoubtedly a good thing.
And after the four kinds of terrifying bloodlines appeared, a human-shaped shadow appeared. The shadow couldn't be seen clearly, but it was huge and the four kinds of draconic shadows were hovering around it.
At the same time, divine aura started spreading.
Lin Yun frowned as he looked at that shadow. This was obviously the power contained within the God's blood. As Xiuban grew stronger, some overlooked soul fragments might have grown stronger within that power.
After advancing to the Heaven Rank, all these auras had to be merged with Xiuban, but it would be troublesome with that God's shadow. Later on, these soul fragments might grow even stronger and attract other soul fragments before ultimately devouring Xiuban's soul and allowing a God to revive within Xiuban's body.
That was completely unacceptable!
On the ground, the blood cocoon wrapping Xiuban suddenly split open and collapsed, transforming into energy that poured into Xiuban's body.
A layer of bloody light covered Xiuban's body and his body grew by more than half a head. He was already 2.2-meter-tall. He then raised his head and roared at the sky.
At that moment, the Three-Headed Gold Dragon's shadow, the Ancient Poison Dragon's shadow, the Abyssal Blood Dragon's shadow, and the Crystal Dragon's shadow rapidly turned into a layer of bloody light and pressured the huge God's shadow. Xiuban was easily controlling these draconic shadows very easily.
That God's shadow didn't react to the pressure, when suddenly, the four draconic shadows pounced towards the God's shadow. The draconic shadows grew stronger under Xiuban's control, and not only did they have a steady flow of power supporting them, they immediately began an unrelenting assault on the God's shadow.
The God's shadow used a simple move, a several-dozen-meter-big hand kept swatting at one of the four draconic shadows, but its body recovered in an instant. Taking advantage of the opportunity, the other draconic shadows pounced and tore at the God's shadow.
Slowly, the four draconic shadows grew bigger and bigger while that kilometer-tall God's shadow grew increasingly smaller and weaker.
It took less than half an hour for the shadow of the God to be devoured by the four draconic shadows.
Lin Yun was somewhat amazed as he looked at the scene. As for Enderfa and Shawn, the first had his mouth wide open, while the second had a lifeless expression.
Enderfa let out a strange muffled sentence once the God's shadow completely dissipated, "Damn, Xiuban really only knows how to eat and sleep…"
Lin Yun had been planning to give pointers to Xiuban in order to remove potential trouble, yet Xiuban thought of the most perfect and most cruel method by himself.
Letting the four draconic shadows devour the God's shadow…
Their bodies doubled in size after they devoured the God's shadow. They then rushed towards Xiuban and the four blood-colored lights merged with his body.
Blood-colored tattoos started appearing on his skin. The Ancient Poison Dragon could be seen on his left arm, while the Three-Headed Gold Dragon could be seen on the right arm. The Crystal Dragon appeared on his back while the Abyssal Blood Dragon appeared on his chest.
All the powers fused together and formed a flood revolving around Xiuban as layer upon layer of blood light kept cleansing Xiuban's body before ultimately merging with Xiuban's body. Then, the blood-colored cloud turned into a fine drizzle.
All the lifeforms around the mountain coming in contact with the blood red drizzle started frantically evolving. Many insects directly burst into puddles of blood and many turned fierce. Ordinary insects now had a wisp of bloodline power or were filled with mana.
If not for the mountain's pressure, that drizzle would have turned into a heavy rain covering the entire Demiplane. That wouldn't have been a good thing, it would have forcibly changed the Demiplane's evolution process and twist the Demiplane's growth. But since only this area was hit, it would instead increase the Demiplane's biodiversity and was absolutely beneficial.
Xiuban grinned as he looked at the tattoos on his arms and chest, he felt invincible.
"Sir Merlin, the great Xiuban has advanced to the Heaven Rank, I'm already invincible, hahaha…"
Lin Yun ignored Xiuban and looked towards the north. Xiuban had just advanced, but a similar scene was happening in the north as a lot of mana was converging over there.
Lin Yun's body instantly disappeared and reappeared in the northernmost ice field of the Demiplane. As for Xiuban, he stretched his neck and glanced towards the north before loudly saying, "Hahaha, the great Xiuban advanced to the Heaven Rank before that ice woman, I should go and properly tease her. I also have to show her that the great Xiuban is now invincible."
After a laugh, Xiuban suddenly jumped up and flew into the sky like an artillery shell. He forcibly tore through the air as he flew towards the north, cyan gales curling around his body and continuously pushing him forward.
The northernmost area was already the coldest part of the Demiplane, the seawater had already frozen into a few-dozen-meter-thick layer of ice. Looking at it from the sky felt like looking into a huge white mirror.
Now, a large amount of mana was converging towards this area. The ice at the northernmost part of the ice field started emitting blue light and its color turned deeper and deeper until it finally transformed into deep blue ice.
Cold air started spreading from the northernmost side and over a dozen kilometers of ice turned blue before the spread stopped. Mana even condensed into snowflakes and fell over the northernmost part of the ice field, condensing into rhombus crystals.
The cold air became more and more vigorous, and even his own mana circulation was getting affected by the cold air. His body, which hadn't felt cold or hot for a long time, was now feeling somewhat cold under the protection of his shield.
As the snow got heavier and heavier, the extreme north was completely shrouded in a blizzard. A dozen minutes later, the ice field started shaking. Even the deep blue layer of ice was shaking. The blue ice's hardness could absolutely compare to the most solid black diamond. Yet it was now being disintegrated into fragments as a 100-meter-long silver blue ray rushed out of the depths of the ice layer.
At that instant, the snow covering the sky was immediately dispersed and a hundred-meter-long slender silver blue Dragon hovered in the air alongside countless fragments of ice. Everything in the surroundings was getting frozen, even the air itself.
This clearly wasn't the shape of a Frost Dragon, Reina looked more like the fusion of a Frost Dragon and an Ancient Poison Dragon, it was the most suitable and strongest shape.
Reina let out a Dragon Roar and the mana condensed in the sky froze and turned into blue ice crystals falling onto the ice field.
Reina made a circle in the sky before her body rapidly shrunk and turned back into her human-shape, slowly falling down. She now had silver-blue hair and two draconic horns that couldn't be hidden in her human shape. She was also wearing a long skirt that seemed to be made of blue crystal.
At that time, an arrogant roar could be heard in the distance.
"Reina! You are too slow, the great Xiuban has advanced to the Heaven Rank many days ago! I'm already invincible! You are too slow, hahaha…"
Xiuban flew over while laughing heartily, but his flying technique was too rough, he could only push forward by using the gales' power.
Xiuban flew over like an artillery shell and looked as if he was about to test his strength on Reina, but Reina coldly glanced at the flying Xiuban and opened her mouth, letting out a wisp of cold air. In an instant, the cold air transformed into a silver blue rune spanning over several kilometers and hitting the fast Xiuban.
Xiuban's smug laughter came to an abrupt end and his body was instantly frozen into a seven-meter-big chunk before ruthlessly falling on the ice field.
The powerful impact created cracks on the ice field. As the ice broke apart, an enraged Xiuban jumped out of the ice as if he had suffered no injuries.
"Reina, you actually sneak attacked! You sneak attacked the great Lord Xiuban! The invincible Lord Xiuban! If you have the ability, follow me…"
A light blue ray hit Xiuban before he could finish his words and froze him into a huge chunk of ice, once again.
After a few seconds, the chunk of ice exploded and Xiuban's wrath soared. He raised Carnaged and flew towards Reina.
But in less than three seconds, another chunk of ice fell to the ground.
Lin Yun helplessly covered his eyes, and Enderfa couldn't bear to look at the scene.
"That idiot Xiuban, I thought he would gain some intelligence after advancing to the Heaven Rank, but I truly hadn't expected that he would instead become even more stupid. This is stupid to the point where I don't even have the heart to scold him…"
"Reina! If you have power, be straightforward and fight me fair and square! The great Lord Xiuban wants to let you know that my power is invincible! If you have power, endure one of my…"
But his shout once again came to an abrupt end. It wasn't an ordinary chunk of ice this time, Xiuban had been frozen in light blue ice, which froze even the ice field under it.
Xiuban's expression distorted as he was frozen. He stood there quietly for a long time while Reina followed Lin Yun towards the east part of the Demiplane.
An hour later, the puppet army had already assembled in the Demiplane. Pabiete, Reina, and the small wolf were all present. Xiuban suddenly fell from the sky, his joints apparently frozen stiff but with no injury. He only glared at Reina with a poor expression.
Xiuban clearly understood that let alone fighting Reina, he couldn't even get close to her.
Not only could he not beat Reina, Pabiete was currently occupying his position next to Lin Yun.
In a bad mood, he said, "Hey, Iron Can, move. This position is the position of Sir Merlin's strongest subordinate, Lord Xiuban. Why are you standing there?"
But just as he finished his sentence, he saw Pabiete raise his right arm and a pitch-black cannon appearing from within his silver shell. Then, a terrifying white ray of light burst out and fell on Xiuban's body.
Xiuban raised his arms in front of him to block, a crystal armor instantly covering his body, but he was still sent flying a few kilometers away.
After a few minutes, Xiuban returned and dejectedly stood to the side, no longer daring to make noise…
Surprise couldn't help flashing in Lin Yun's eyes. Xiuban's defense had grown increasingly stronger and his body was already powerful enough to resist Pabiete's cannon.
Reina's freeze and Pabiete's cannon didn't harm Xiuban at all. Even if he just stood there to take a beating, a 1st Rank Heaven powerhouse wouldn't be able to kill Xiuban.
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When everyone arrived, Lin Yun left the Demiplane and flew out of Neverwinter City. He then opened a Planar Path in a remote corner and let Reina, Xiuban, Pabiete, and the small wolf out of the Demiplane. He then took out the Planar Key to the Puppet Plane.
That Planar Key wasn't a true Planar Key, but rather a Planar Path that led to the Puppet Plane. He could set the coordinates himself, but if he had used it before, he would have had to rely on the coordinates stored inside the key, thus Lin Yun hadn't dared to use it.
A place like the Puppet Plane was too dangerous, if he was discovered by the powerful existences within the Puppet Plane, they would absolutely ruthlessly chase after him.
And with the coordinates he had gotten last time, marching on the Puppet Plane might be possible.
A steady flow of mana was poured into this key, and after three minutes, the key emitted countless runes. Then, the runes formed a three-meter-tall stable round door and a Planar Path appeared in front of everyone.
After stepping into the Planar Path, they reappeared into that huge puppet cemetery with countless piles of parts. They could faintly see some low level puppets searching for components in the distance.
The air and oxygen was so sparse that no human could live here, it also contained all kinds of gases toxic to humans. Above them was the endless void, and although there was a scorching sun in the sky, it couldn't illuminate that dark void.
To be continued