In this world, there are star souls, world souls that have given birth to their own will, and there are also ancient gods who specialize in corrupting star souls.
The origin of these ancient gods surprised him at first. They were not sent by the Nightmare Lord as he had imagined, nor were they derived from the evil side of the world. Instead, they were born from the instinct of the Crystal Wall System with the purpose of killing the Star Soul that was still in the process of being nurtured.
In other words, as long as a star soul is born on any planet in this world, the world mechanism will automatically breed several ancient gods to corrupt the star soul and kill the unborn Titans in the unformed stage.
The main reason why the Crystal Wall system instinctively does this is related to the Human Overlord and the Nightmare Overlord who are currently fighting for world domination.
These two overlords are actually Titans, the first Titans born in this universe. The universe itself does not reject the birth of innate ancient gods like Titans. It's just that after these two beings became powerful, they killed the original will of the Crystal Wall System and wanted to seize the origin to become the new masters of the Crystal Wall System.
This would naturally provoke the Crystal Wall's original instinctive resistance, leading to the birth of the Ancient Gods, who specialized in killing newly born star souls. This was different from the Ancient Gods of the Titan Crystal Wall Universe, who were created by the Void Lords to corrupt star souls.
To put it bluntly, this is an instinctive resistance of the Crystal Wall System, which has only brought suffering to the Star Souls that were born later.
The two overlords do not want to create new competitors, so they will not specifically protect the newborn star souls. Instead, they will kill the newly born Titans. For example, even if Duron kills the Old Gods and becomes the Dark Titan, he will be killed by the two overlords in the future.
Lin Xiao's birth was an accident, which means that he should be the third Titan in the world now.
This is also one of the main reasons why Lin Xiao is willing to cooperate with the Overlord. After defeating the Nightmare Overlord, he is the only Titan in this world. Theoretically, he is qualified to compete for the power of the Crystal Wall System. If there is a big man in the main world willing to give it a push, it will pose a huge threat to the human overlord, so he, the Titan incarnation, will undoubtedly die in the future.
The problem is that Lin Xiao doesn't have a big boss behind him who is willing to pay a huge price to give him a push, and even his father-in-law will not agree.
Not to mention that he has not officially married Shen Yuexin yet, even if they did get married, his father-in-law would not let him take this step.
Because doing so would have a huge hidden danger, that is, the guest would become the host. At that point, his Titan incarnation would be much stronger than his real body, and it would definitely backfire on his real body, and the real body would be completely unable to resist and it would be irreversible.
At that time he was no longer himself, but an ancient indigenous god of the exotic Crystal Wall system, the Lord of the Crystal Wall system.
There is another very speechless situation here. If he breaks up with Shen Yuexin and simply makes a deal with the ruler of Huiyao as an ancient Titan god of the Star Soul Crystal Wall system, he will definitely get the full support of the entire Huiyao, even if it will cost Huiyao a huge price and loss.
After all, if it succeeds, Huiyao will give birth to a new great god-level member, and any price paid will be worth it.
This is a paradox. Lin Xiao would definitely not want to be devoured by the incarnation. By then, he would no longer be himself. What's the point of becoming a great divine power? What does it have to do with me?
Fortunately, he has the Creation Cube, which can communicate with the incarnation at any time and keep control of the incarnation.
Well, at least I can still control it now. It's hard to say if I become stronger.
If another player's avatar becomes a Titan and loses contact with the real body for a long time, and the gap in strength between the avatar and the real body is too great, there is a high probability that the avatar will lose control, with unpredictable consequences.
Having said that, it doesn't make sense that this broken outside world has the Ancient Gods but no trace of the Star Soul has been found. The world's instinctive reaction is to send out the Ancient Gods only after discovering the Star Soul. Now that this world has the Ancient Gods but no trace of the Star Soul has been found, there are only two possibilities.
One possibility is that a powerful person has hidden the traces of the Star Soul.
The second possibility is that there were no ancient gods in this world at the beginning, and this ancient god migrated from other worlds.
There are only these two possibilities, there is no third possibility.
No matter which point, Lin Xiao was very interested. He walked around the huge pit and then jumped in.
The thick gray fog could not block his vision. There were some evil spirits floating in the gray fog, which would attack if they saw someone jumping down. However, he was falling too fast and passed by quickly.
Jumping into this bottomless abyss, it felt like falling into the void. I couldn't see anything, and there was gray fog everywhere. The fog became thicker as I went deeper. In the depths, the gray fog began to have a corrosive effect, corroding the equipment first. Previous attempters had their equipment corroded before they died, and when they were resurrected, they were left with nothing on their bodies.
Except for that set of orange equipment, everything else on Lin Xiao's body are orange legendary-level pieces of equipment, including accessories and rings. Even the staff in his hand is a top-level orange item.
As a genuine Titan ancient god, he might not be able to forge artifacts in large quantities, but he could still produce orange equipment. Before parting with his girlfriend, he specially prepared an orange suit for her and converted her career template into a hero template.
He also granted such authority to his high priest Afilia. Now, every month, she can borrow power from his real body through prayer and transform one hero template and ten elite templates. These templates are specially rewarded to master players who have made meritorious contributions. This is not limited to the subordinates of Yuexiao Guild, and other players also have the opportunity to obtain them.
Orange legendary equipment is considered a divine weapon for players. Having one piece can make one's own strength qualitatively stronger. He has more than a dozen pieces of orange equipment in his hands. Just the two sets of accessories that come with a 100,000 defense mana shield that automatically appears every half a minute are enough for him to withstand most of the damage.
So he descended dozens of kilometers in one breath, and the corrosive smell in the fog did not even touch his body.
At this depth, the corrosive mist in the void has begun to transform into various illusions as if it has life. According to the recollections of the players who have tried it, these illusions became more and more solid as time went on, and were finally able to transform into actual attacks.
But in Lin Xiao's perception, these illusions are the remaining power of the ancient gods.
He looked down into the bottomless abyss. Although he could not see anything, he always felt that there seemed to be some huge monster underneath.
After several hours, this almost endless sinking finally came to an end. At a certain moment in the fall, Lin Xiao suddenly sensed a huge shadow passing through the mist below that had turned into substance. Immediately afterwards, another black shadow quickly attacked and hit him heavily. The shield with a defense of up to 100,000 instantly shattered and knocked him away.
"You are attacked by an unknown entity. You are immune to the target's corruption, mind control and other effects on you."
This attack seemed to trigger something. Countless black shadows surged below, and then countless force field halos began to act on him. If an ordinary person came here, he would instantly find that dozens of different enemy BUFFs appeared on his body.
"What the hell? This fog is so annoying!"
Lin Xiao pointed his finger and shouted,
"Black hole!"
A point of black light appeared at the fingertips, and the next second an indescribable terrifying attraction emanated from this point of black light. The surrounding gray fog, which was so thick that it was solid, was bound by this terrifying attraction and quickly gathered towards him and sank into the black hole.
In less than a minute, all the gray fog within a radius of tens of kilometers was swallowed up. The gray fog in the farther distance was rapidly gathering here, but it was enough for him to see clearly what was beneath the gray fog.
Below was a mountain of flesh that stretched as far as the eye could see, or in other words, the entire range of his field of vision was the mountain of flesh, with countless strange and bizarre monsters growing on the mountain of flesh.
There are centipede-like monsters that are more than ten kilometers long, there are also huge tentacles with sharp teeth and suckers like those in horror movies, there are tentacles of unknown shapes covered with thorns, and there are also tentacles with human heads and snake bodies covered with claws. It's like a monster museum with everything.
Each of these huge monsters is an independent individual, and each is a leader-level monster with a level of at least 80, and some are lord templates of more than 90 levels. There are several extremely powerful auras in the distance, and the bases of their bodies are connected to the flesh and blood land that stretches for an unknown distance below, tearing and devouring each other.
As the gray fog swallowed endlessly, more underground spaces regained clarity, and Lin Xiao could also see a larger range, but the more he looked, the more shocked he was, far more shocked than when he saw the ancient god Sag Yulon the Life Devourer on the planet Duron.
The power of the Titan gave him eyesight far superior to that of ordinary people. As he saw more and more, the questions in his mind were constantly supplemented. Slowly, an answer that other players would not be able to know even if they saw it emerged in his mind.
In ancient times, star souls were indeed born on this planet, but the star souls of this world were unlucky and did not have the chance to grow up. Or, facing the attack from the Ancient Gods and the Void Demons, they were defeated early before their power grew to its peak. In the end, they were swallowed by the Ancient Gods before they even had the chance to transform into Dark Titans.
After devouring the Dark Titan, the unknown ancient god underwent some kind of transformation, got rid of his original huge body and left, leaving behind only this huge flesh mountain.
In other words, the situation in this world was the first one he guessed, that there was a powerful existence hiding the traces of the Star Soul's existence.
And that existence is most likely the ancient god who successfully devoured the star soul and transformed.
From this, Lin Xiao thought of something deeper. The Ancient God was the instinctive resistance of the crystal wall. If the Ancient God successfully devoured the Star Soul and transformed, what would it transform into? Where did it go after hiding itself after the transformation? How many other terrifying existences that quietly transformed are there in this world? Do the two masters know about this?
At this moment, Lin Xiao had many questions in his mind. He wanted to ask the human master, but his reason told him that keeping this secret might bring him extra gains, or it might be an opportunity.
As soon as this last thought came to his mind, he couldn't help but shudder and immediately realized the danger of this idea.
"I need to contact the real body!"
(End of this chapter)