The Era of Gods

Chapter 369: Chapter 369: Embryo of the Divine Realm Civilization?

Promotion takes some time. Lin Xiao withdrew his gaze and looked down over his entire Divine Realm with a rather good mood.

With a flip of his hand, he took out several Breeding Cards and threw them into the Magic Cube Space, reassembled them into a Mythical Quality Breeding Card, and then merged it into the Divine Realm.

At the moment, there are still more than a dozen card slots available for merging in his Divine Realm, but there weren’t many cards left to merge.

Besides the Breeding Cards, he also had four Quality Ancient Cards and a dozen or so cards with a quality somewhere between Orange Legend and Golden Mythical Quality. Of the four Quality Ancient Cards, two were rewards from the last Ruins of Myriad event from the school and two were given by Jin Sisi.

The four cards were a Super Large Ecology Card, a Super Large Resource Card, a Summoning Card, and a rare Construction Card.

At the high Rank 3 stage, elites no longer needed any Weapon Cards or Species Cards, focusing instead on various Resource Cards and Special Cards.

This Super Large Ecology Card features a very common forest terrain. It reached the status of a Quality Ancient Card because the forest contained a large amount of rare trees like oak among others and deep within the forest stood an ancient tree over two hundred meters tall, which, given the chance, might even evolve into a Wisdom Tree.

Ancient trees refer to trees that have lived for an exceptionally long amount of time and developed a touch of sentience, while Wisdom Trees are those that have gained sentience and self-awareness, often possessing very special abilities.

The likes of the well-known Trees of Wisdom, Life, Miracles, and War are all members of the Wisdom Tree category.

It was fortunate that it was still just an ancient tree. If it had transformed into a Wisdom Tree, it would no longer be a five-star card.

This card suited Lin Xiao very well. Although his Divine Realm wasn’t lacking in trees, those were all randomly bred by the Divine Domain Heaven Card and could hardly be considered a forest.

His gaze swept over the Main Divine Realm and finally settled in the southernmost part of it; this forest card could be placed there.

Of course, before merging it, his thoughts summoned the Creation Rubik’s Cube, and he threw the forest card into it, slowly infusing it with Creation Energy.

This was not to enhance the range of the forest or the variety of trees within. The sole purpose was to strengthen the sentience and essence of that ancient tree.

The condition for an ancient tree to ascend to a Wisdom Tree is sufficient sentience; enhancing sentience dramatically increases the chances of evolving into a Wisdom Tree, which effectively strengthens the card since the most valuable part of this forest card is that ancient tree.

However, the consumption of Creation Energy in this single merge surprised him with its extent.

He originally estimated that merging about ten units would be decent, but to his surprise, he had consumed twenty units without stopping.

This wasn’t because the ancient tree itself had too little sentience—its inherent sentience was not too high but not too low either. The main reason was that the ancient tree seemed to sense the benefits of Creation Energy and began absorbing it actively, greedily devouring more and more Creation Energy like a bottomless pit.

In this respect, Lin Xiao was quite generous, not minding the large consumption at all.

Having used the Creation Rubik’s Cube for so long, how could he not know the rules of Creation Energy consumption? The greater the consumption, the more substantial the gains. The ancient tree’s voracious consumption of Creation Energy surely had its reasons. After all, since the tree was his, he wouldn’t be at a loss anyway.

This absorption consumed an astonishing sixty-three units of Creation Energy before the round of absorption ended. Then, the card in his hand shimmered with an intense crystal light mixed with an equally intense Life Force.

“Could this possibly be transforming into a Tree of Life?”

This couldn’t help but remind Lin Xiao of a rumor: theoretically, all trees originate from a World Mother Tree born in the Chaotic Void Sea. This legend is widespread in many different Crystal Wall Universes.

Of course, that’s too far off and not really relevant to the current situation. The key is another rumor.

According to legend, the World Mother Tree has long since vanished, but it left countless seeds scattering across the endless worlds of the Chaotic Void Sea, among which a few inherited the strength of the World Mother Tree and grew up to be known as Trees of Life.

Yes, that Tree of Life, regarded as a sacred tree by the Elf Clan.

The Tree of Life is a seed that inherited a sliver of the World Mother Tree’s strength, and the other tree seeds all originate from the World Mother Tree. Essentially, there is no difference between them and the Tree of Life, except that their strength is too weak to awaken.

But some trees, over long epochs, slowly gather enough Life Force, develop that hint of sentience into ancient trees, and thus have the potential to evolve into Trees of Life.

Having absorbed enough Creation Energy, the ancient tree within Lin Xiao’s forest card has complemented the missing part and has the potential to evolve into a Tree of Life.

No, it’s not just potential, but a certainty.

“This consumption is certainly worth it!”

Seeing that the card was about to exceed its limit, he quickly loaded it into the Divine Realm.

The next second, infinite tree phantoms descended from the sky over the southern part of the Main Divine Realm, sweeping over the wild jungles and integrating the oak forest seamlessly, creating an exuberantly lush forest.

A super ancient tree emitting a rich essence of life stood in the center of the forest. The wind rustled through its leaves, and flocks of birds rose and flew towards the ancient tree.

The second Quality Ancient Card was a resource card, a rare coal mine card capable of generating a super large coal mine.

This thing…

Lin Xiao thought about it and didn’t use Creation Energy to enhance it, since this thing couldn’t be enhanced; at most it could make the quality of the coal mine a bit higher, but what use was that?

With the mindset that coal was a resource too, he randomly placed it at the edge of the forest.

Although the rules limited the development of high technology within the Divine Realm, coal itself could be used for burning to keep warm, and goblin steam technology also required coal, so stockpiling a bit was still good.

As for that summoning card, it could summon a five-headed dragon with the strength reaching level seven. This creature possessed dragon bloodlines, extremely strong vitality, and a body that was even larger than the Black Dragon Nejelanmu before it ascended into legend. Its five heads could each exhale a different breath, making it very good for charging into battle.

The last construction card was called Steam Fortress, a super large fortress made of metal and capable of movement. Metal tracks were powered by steam, and it was equipped with a series of combat weapons, able to station or engage in combat with five hundred troops at once.

This thing was quite practical and could fully be used as a combat fortress, worthy of some enhancement.

However, before enhancing it, Lin Xiao went to the warehouse to take out a huge amount of metal and some precious magic materials, as this was one of the few things that required original materials to be enhanced.

Accurately speaking, normal enhancement didn’t require additional materials, but if one wanted to enlarge the fortress, metal was needed.

He directly enhanced the metal with Creation Energy to make it more durable and then expanded it.

The power source was still steam-driven, not magic-driven.

Although steam power was not as strong as magic power, there was an advantage of steam that magic couldn’t match – stability and durability.

While magic power was powerful in functionality, it was easily disturbed by various spells; steam power was different. Unless the enemy directly changed the rules, the fortress wouldn’t be affected in any environment.

If an opponent capable of changing the rules was encountered, it made no difference whether the thing was driven by steam or magic.

Now, Divine Realm had accumulated plenty of resources, and as the Divine Realm Master, he could freely dispose of these resources. Taking a vast amount of metal and magic materials to merge into it, he soon formed a super large fortress with a diameter exceeding three hundred meters.

It was not much bigger than before, but the key point was that this fortress could now fly.

Though it didn’t fly very fast, the fact that it could fly at all caused a qualitative change compared to before.

Summoning this thing, he directly consecrated it as a divine gift and asked the Red Furnace Clan to prepare to equip it with weapons, including some war machinery.

After sorting these things out, Lin Xiao began his final preparations. He purchased various soul-nurturing items through military connections and his homeroom teacher, such as water of life, soul dew, essence of the soul, and so on, that could help his soul quickly restore itself after splitting a sliver and descending.

Although the sliver he split off was very small, frequent splitting without restoration was not good either.

Having completed all his preparations, he left a message for Shen Yuexin, then left the school and headed to his destination.

First, he went to Yan Huang No. 5 Super War Fortress and caught a ride with a fleet that was heading to that Crystal Wall Universe through military channels. It took nearly a month in the Chaos Sea of Void to arrive at his destination, a Void Fortress situated outside a giant fireball-like sun.

The power emanating from this Crystal Wall Universe was immensely formidable, making it the strongest one among all the Crystal Wall Universes Lin Xiao had seen in the Chaos Void. The power oozing from its exterior was like the flames ejected by a sun, with a fiery ion stream extending for tens of thousands of kilometers.

This military fortress attached to the armed forces was of very high specification, with the fortress itself being as huge as a planet. It was said to station a complete Expeditionary Army, and its commander was a powerful Divine Power with a God Level as high as eighteen. Furthermore, there was an incarnation of great divine power permanently stationed there, ready to descend in true form should any major changes occur, giving the fortress an awe-inspiring status.

The massive fleet looked tiny upon entering the fortress’s harbor. Looking out through the transparent windows, he saw space filled with Void Ships, both military and civilian, likely belonging to civilian adventure organizations.

What attracted his attention the most was the colossal fortress, almost planet-sized, beaming a dazzling pillar of light into the sun-like Crystal Wall Universe, connecting the fortress with the world.

“This is the current channel for True-Body Descend!”

Jin Sisi, as an Incarnation of God, explained by his side that taking lessons from the past, this time her Incarnation of God would remain here with him.

Surprised by her emphasis, but he was also pleased.

She pointed to the other side of the Chaos Void and said:

“On that side, the other side of this universe, there is a Nightmare World Void Fortress. Nightmare Lords who patrol often pass by, so during this time you should stay inside the fortress in your true form and not go outside to avoid accidents.”

“I understand,” he replied sincerely.

“On the other side is the Void Fortress of the Soul Race. Although the Soul Race and us…”