The Era of Gods - Chapter 549

Chapter 549: Chapter 549 The Once Lost Incarnation

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This transformation allowed him to directly devour the Moon Xiao Crystal Wall System, causing his soul, which had already merged with the Origin Core of the Crystal Wall System, to transform and ascend once more, while his body merged with the Innate Ancient God Source to shape the Body of Titan Ancient God.

The soul that transformed and ascended from the Crystal Wall System’s Core bestowed him with the full ownership of the underlying rule network, meaning his soul now possessed the essence of the Origin of the Crystal Wall System, which is to say, his soul was equivalent to an origin of a Crystal Wall System. The soul’s feedback to the body induced an indescribable change in the Innate Ancient God Body he had condensed.

However, that was not the most crucial part. The key was that his Innate Ancient God Source contained a strand of essence from a legendary lifeform’s enigma, and when he transformed into a black hole this time, he sensed a terrifying will that shared the same origin as the nature of this black hole.

It was a will so terrifying that it defied description; Lin Xiao had never felt such a powerful will, not even compared to Gaia Will he had come across in the World Star of Master.

Clearly, the indescribable change brought about by his recent condensation of the Innate Ancient God Body, while devouring Moon Cloud Realm, had been influenced by the nature of black holes, causing an incredible sync between his essence of life and the legendary lifeform enigma. That is to say, all his actions and transformations were now almost identical to the birth of that legendary lifeform enigma.

Once he finished devouring Moon Cloud Realm and his transformation was complete, he would become the second Enigma.

Incredible, but true.

The conundrum he now faced was how to respond to the benevolent thoughts from the terrifying existence, slowly awakening somewhere within the Chaotic Void Sea.

This was the main reason he did not immediately think of running away; despite the will being terrifying enough to make his soul tremble, it conveyed very benevolent greetings filled with surprise, joy, and a sense of closeness.

But he had not responded yet.

He dared not!

He wouldn’t dare to respond to such an existence casually.

After much deliberation, he decided not to respond for the time being and wait until he had achieved divine enthronement.

Yes, divine enthronement.

He had initially planned to condense the Innate Titan Ancient God’s divine body and then achieve divine enthronement.

But because he became a black hole and directly devoured the Moon Cloud Realm, this caused his soul to transform again. When the time came, his divine body, Soul of God, and Divinity of Divine Fire would all transform simultaneously, allowing him to ascend to True Godhood in one fell swoop.

To be precise, he would directly ascend as an Innate Ancient God while simultaneously possessing the Divine Level of Ancient gods and the Divine Level of a New God, two in one.

But before that, he had to retrieve his lost avatars to make himself complete before he could directly achieve divine enthronement.

Two distant coordinates naturally appeared in Lin Xiao’s mind—the locations of his two lost avatars.

One was the avatar that he had traded with the Emperor of Myriad Forms into the Sinister Abyss Crystalline Wall, whose status he could clearly sense now and could communicate with using the Creation Rubik’s Cube.

The other was the Golden Ancient Tree Avatar that was banished by Nightmare’s Will into the Evil Spirit Crystalline Wall System; even now, in his current state, the feeling was so faint as to be almost non-existent, barely sensing its presence, beyond the reach of the Creation Rubik’s Cube.

This meant that he was only able to communicate with one avatar. The other avatar was too far away for him to sense, and even the power of the Creation Rubik’s Cube could not touch it, making it impossible to retrieve.

This implied that Lin Xiao’s divine enthronement would carry a tinge of regret, possibly leading to some future consequences.

But there was nothing he could do. Who knew into which corner of the Chaotic Void Sea the Golden Ancient Tree Avatar had been banished by Nightmare’s Will, beyond even the reach of the Creation Rubik’s Cube. There was simply no way.

Fortunately, these consequences were not insurmountable. If he could find it before ascending to great divine power, there was still time. However, if he had not retrieved it by the time of his ascension to great divine power, he would be stuck in his current realm, incomplete and forever unable to take that next step.

There was no immediate solution for the Golden Ancient Tree Avatar, but the Evil Abyss incarnation must be reclaimed.

With his divine enthronement imminent, he must reclaim it for his own completeness—one was better than none.

It was a miracle that, after so much time, these two avatars were still alive. Lin Xiao had never thought it possible.

If it had not been for his current peculiar state of transformation, he would never have sensed the avatars in the distant void. But now, he not only knew the exact location of one avatar, but he could also directly sense its state.

When the True Body can sense the avatar, it can communicate instantly with the avatar through the power of the Creation Rubik’s Cube.

“So, am I an avatar of a great existence?”

The demon hunter warrior Laine, sitting on a rock that still retained some warmth from a recent fire, mumbled as if in a dream.

Though his tone carried a hint of doubt, his eyes were clear and certain.

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Through the power of the Creation Rubik’s Cube, the True Body communicated with the Incarnation, the information synchronizing instantaneously. The Incarnation, lost in the Different Domain, snapped awake and knew what it had to do next.

Laine was his pseudonym in this world; he was none other than the Son of the Abyss Crystal Wall Universe, the Lord of Wrath.

However, that was a thing of the past. Ever since he had collaborated with the Emperor of Myriad Forms to trick the Will of the Origin of the Evil Abyss Crystal System, all his power had been stripped away, and he’d been banished to this unknown world to become a mortal, constantly reincarnating until the mark of the power of wrath in his Soul was worn away, leading to his utter annihilation.

If it weren’t for his True Body’s impending Divine Enthronement, and the peculiar state of his Soul capable of communicating with this Incarnation, he reckoned he would have been completely erased after living one or two more lives.

Then again, if Lin Xiao’s Divine Enthronement had been delayed by another couple of hundred years, this Incarnation would have simply perished, and there would be no need to figure out a way to return to the True Body.

The current Laine was merely a novice Demon Hunter who had just undergone job transfer, ranked at the bottom end of professional hierarchy at Tier Nine, only slightly stronger than mortals, living a precarious life in this sinister world where a careless moment could lead to death at the hands of bizarre monsters.

If he had died before, that would have been the end, but now that he had established a connection with his True Body, he couldn’t afford to die.

After understanding the Incarnation’s condition and the dangers of the world in which he found himself, Lin Xiao quickly prepared a series of equipment for his Incarnation and bestowed three points of Divinity, ten thousand points of Divine Power, a portion of Supreme Naga Bloodline Essence, and a unit of the Source Power of the Crystal Wall System, all fused into one by the Creative Power of the Creation Rubik’s Cube to form a crystalline body radiating golden light.

Extracting the golden crystalline body from the Creation Rubik’s Cube, Laine swallowed it directly.

The next second, a warm surge exploded from his stomach and rapidly spread throughout his body; he immediately felt himself changing.

His physique rapidly strengthened, became more agile, and his sensory perception sharpened. He turned his head and looked towards the short brick house behind him, his keen eyesight piercing through the darkness to see a small insect in the corner amidst the straw, tentacles waving back and forth.

Before, he would have been completely unable to sense and see these things.

In just a moment, his physical attributes improved by more than tenfold in every aspect compared to before, including the scant amount of spiritual energy within him.

Although his Professional Level remained at the bottom end of Demon Hunter hierarchy at Tier Nine, he felt that his strength had definitively surpassed that of Tier Seven, and with the Divine Power slowly remodeling him, his strength continued to grow.

“Whew!”

He exhaled lightly and stretched out his right hand, making a fist as the skin on his arm slowly turned gold. Soon, a layer of fine golden scales emerged, transforming into a powerful claw.

“Asura Naga’s Claws!”

For now, only his hands could transform, but as he slowly assimilated the Divinity and Divine Power within his body, this transformation would gradually cover his entire body, ultimately transforming him into a mighty Asura Naga.

Moreover, this power, drawn from Lin Xiao’s own bloodline, as a Creator, allowed him to possess the strongest Asura Naga Bloodline. By then, the power of Naga Slardar had become so formidable that even Lin Xiao could not predict its extent.

With the support of his True Body, Laine initially gained the power needed to protect himself in this world.

Yes, merely to protect himself, and even then, he had to keep a low profile at first, because the world to which his Incarnation had been exiled by the master of the Evil Abyss Crystal Wall Universe was just too perilous and strange.

He spent the whole night experimenting with his newly acquired powers, not extinguishing his campfire until dawn when he mounted his horse and set off.

His current location was halfway at a rest stop between Holly Town and an out-of-the-way little village called Horn Village. He was heading to Horn Village, where the villagers had reported strange incidents to Holly Town, with people and livestock mysteriously disappearing. As a newly promoted Demon Hunter, Laine had taken on the task to investigate Horn Village.

The so-called strange incidents were likely due to the presence of some low-level demon in the vicinity. Demon Hunters, a professional hierarchy dedicated to exterminating demons, were generally competent to handle such threats.

Soon arriving at Horn Village, he met with the somewhat oddly behaved village head to get a grasp on the situation and after observing the locations of the previous disappearances and learning more about the missing persons and livestock, Laine decided to wait until nighttime.

After resting in a house arranged by the enthusiastic village head until dusk, Laine picked up his weapon and left the house.

This was a world with a common ancient, exotic style. The villagers seemed somewhat fearful, most kept out of sight, and as night fell, the villagers finished their meals and rested, with all the doors tightly shut, making the village eerily quiet. Laine climbed a large tree in the center of the village and sat down, waiting while contemplating.

He wasn’t worried about the demon he was about to face; instead, he pondered how to return.

Having undergone countless reincarnations, he was technically a native by now. Without the power of the Creation Rubik’s Cube, he would have already forgotten his origins. Unable to rely on the power of the Main World to return, he had to find his own way out of this world and reach one where the Son of the Human Divine Realm resided to reconnect with the Gaia Will. As Lin Xiao, the Son of Gaia, he could re-establish communication with the Gaia Will.

Alternatively, if the Son of the Human Divine Realm descended into this world, he could also reconnect with the Gaia Will.

However, whether there was a Son of the Human Divine Realm in this world was uncertain. Previously, as a mere native, even face-to-face, he could not sense it, but he intended to try searching. If it proved fruitless, he’d have to find another way out of this world.

The prerequisite for all this, of course, was to acquire sufficiently strong power.