The Era of Gods

Chapter 279: Chapter 279: Attempting to Repair the Crystal Wall System’s Core 326 units of Creation Energy.

Lin Xiao racked his brains to think, what method should he use to break the deadlock?

Strengthen the Clan?

How much should they be strengthened to break the deadlock?

Enhance an Ancient Treasure?

This…

Lin Xiao suddenly felt a bit depressed. He had previously spent over thirty units of Creation Energy to enhance treasures…

There was nothing wrong with enhancing the treasures, given the circumstances at the time, the decision was absolutely correct.

He blamed himself for not being flexible in his thinking. Why had he only thought of enhancing treasures and not Ancient Treasures?

Putting the past aside for the moment, he now had summoned members of his Clan to the Divine Realm. The effects of the Ancient Treasures could affect all members of the Clan within the entire Divine Realm. Even if members of the Clan left the Divine Realm, they would still be enhanced by the Ancient Treasure effect. Therefore, it was the perfect opportunity to create a high-level Ancient Treasure.

The treasures of this world were very similar to Ancient Treasures, presumably a simplified version, which only worked for the troops directly under his command. If part of the troops were dispatched elsewhere, the effect would no longer apply.

Moreover, although he had not tried it, Lin Xiao guessed that these treasures seemingly could not be taken out of the Ruins of Myriad.

Therefore, it was pointless to enhance the treasures he currently held any further. They had reached their limit.

His Incarnation couldn’t operate the enhancement of an Ancient Treasure right now, but his True Body could.

Lin Xiao wrote his thoughts on a note and tossed it into the Creation Rubik’s Cube without further concern. Then, his True Body in the Divine Realm, feeling the note in the Creation Rubik’s Cube, knew immediately what to do.

As an artifact that could cheat right under the nose of Powerful Divine Power without being detected, Lin Xiao didn’t even fully grasp how miraculous the Creation Rubik’s Cube was. The Creation Rubik’s Cube that the Incarnation communicated with was not a projection, but the actual Cube in the Sea of Gods where his True Body resided.

In other words, both his True Body and his Incarnation could communicate via this ability, no matter how far apart they were.

He only discovered this little trick after the True Body absorbed the Law Fragment that emerged from that tiny singularity he had condensed before. He had never thought of it earlier.

Having conveyed his Incarnation’s current situation and thoughts to the True Body, Lin Xiao looked up at the defense barrier that was about to erode away. He ordered that a portion of the Mage team be freed up to establish a new defense barrier, aiming to extend the time as much as possible.

Within the Divine Realm, after reading the note from his Incarnation, Lin Xiao’s True Body… fell into deep thought.

He hadn’t anticipated the crisis his Incarnation was facing, and frankly, he wasn’t convinced that the method his Incarnation gave him would be effective.

He currently had only two Ancient Treasure, both of the First Level. One was ‘Fist of the Titan,’ a First Level Ancient Treasure received when he first entered Glorious Middle School, which, when loaded into the Divine Realm, would increase all Clan members’ strength by a small amount.

The other was ‘Blood of the Giant Beast,¹ also a First Level Ancient Treasure, which would increase all Clan members’ Constitution by a small amount when loaded into the Divine Realm. It was a reward for being top of the Glorious Middle School’s honor roll in the first half of the year.

Both were very ordinary and common Ancient Treasures, nothing out of the ordinary.

Like treasures, the enhancement of Ancient Treasures also followed certain rules, requiring corresponding base materials for enhancement.

Given the nature of these two Ancient Treasures, no matter how much he enhanced them, he couldn’t produce anything spectacular. At best, he could enhance a top-tier Ancient Treasure that significantly increased Constitution or Strength. That kind of enhancement would be powerful under normal circumstances, but faced with the situation his Incarnation was in, it wasn’t a game-changer.

Thus…

After a brief silence, he suddenly stretched out his right hand. Mysterious lights began to gather toward his palm. Following an invisible fluctuation and a flash, a sphere covered in cracks appeared in his palm.

The shell of the Origin Core of the Crystal Wall System!

Rather than enhancing the two useless Ancient Treasures, it would be better to take advantage of having enough Creation Energy to repair this artifact.

After all, considering the introduction of the Crystal Wall System’s Origin Core, spending a large amount of Creation Energy to enhance other Ancient Treasures might not be as effective as repairing this one.

There were a total of sixteen cracks in the Crystal Wall System’s Origin Core, and it would take ten units of Creation Energy to repair each crack. He used to think that the amount required was astronomical and wondered how long it would take to fix it. According to Lin Xiao’s initial expectations, if he could repair it before the Divine Enthronement, it would have been a quick progress. However, he never expected that his Incarnation would encounter such an adventure, earning more than four hundred units of Creation Energy in one go. It was outrageous.

When he first saw that massive amount of Creation Energy, he thought for a moment that it had suddenly become worthless. Now, it seemed that this was all due to his Incarnation risking his life and courting danger to obtain such a large amount of Creation Energy.

Opportunity always comes with great risks, and now the danger has arrived; Lin Xiao’s incarnation is trapped with no means to escape or retreat, leaving him with no option but to await death.

Strictly speaking, gaining such an amount of Creation Energy in one go was absolutely worth it for Lin Xiao. This trip to the Ruins of Myriad was definitely worth the price of admission, even if he was immediately eliminated, it wouldn’t be a loss. Even if he hadn’t obtained anything else from the Ruins of Myriad, the several hundred units of Creation Energy alone would be comparable to a Divine Treasure of Myriad for him.

Well, it’s what he considers equivalent to a Divine Treasure of Myriad. Perhaps not as valuable as those few hundred units of Creation Energy in terms of their effect on him, but that doesn’t mean the Divine Treasure of Myriad isn’t valuable.

With a thought from Lin Xiao, countless arcane rays that he couldn’t comprehend converged in front of the divine throne, swiftly outlining the phantom of a Creation Rubik’s Cube, which then solidified quickly.

He loosened his grip, and the shell of the Crystal Wall System’s Core fell into the Magic Cube, and a burst of transparent flame sprung from the seams of the Cube, burning fiercely.

This Crystal Wall System’s Core’s shell had a total of sixteen cracks that needed one hundred and sixty plus an uncertain number of units of Creation Energy for repairs. One hundred and sixty were for mending the cracks, but the damage to the shell of the Crystal Wall System’s Core wasn’t just limited to these sixteen cracks; there were also many minor uncracked damages and slight deformations to the entire structure and the interior quality that all required individual repair, which was expected to be quite resource-intensive.

Without mentioning anything else, he first allocated two hundred units of Creation Energy in the Cube’s interior, which turned into a sea of Chaos Energy. The crack-filled shell of the Crystal Wall System’s Core bobbed up and down in this sea, and with his thoughts, the Creation Energy rapidly gathered at the center, forming a vortex of Chaos Energy.

As Chaos Energy was injected into it, the cracks on the shell of the Crystal Wall System’s Core were filled with Chaos Energy, and an indescribable mysterious fluctuation slowly emanated from it.

Lin Xiao marveled once again at the wonder of Creation Energy; as the transformed Chaos Energy filled the cracks, under the influence of that arcane fluctuation, the Crystal Wall System’s Core’s shell slowly changed, with the cracks starting to grow inward, sealing as if healing.

As for the other minor damages on the shell, they had already been repaired, and now its surface was smooth, with the arcane patterns faintly visible.

As each crack was mended, the aura emitted by the Crystal Wall System’ s Core’ s shell grew stronger, and simultaneously, an inexplicable sense emerged from this core, indefinable and indescribable. Lin Xiao couldn’t understand it, but he had a certain strong premonition that he couldn’t quite articulate.

However, when it came to repairing the last two cracks, he was surprised to find that there was not enough Creation Energy left.

Two hundred units of Creation Energy were not sufficient.

With a sense of surprise, he poured another twenty units of Creation Energy into the last two cracks, watching them slowly heal, and then…

Lin Xiao’s surprise intensified in his eyes; he could sense that all the cracks inside the Crystal Wall System’s Core had been repaired, and the damage and slight deformations to the overall framework, as well as the internal quality, were also completely restored. Yet, the repair work was not over, and a piece of information, unclear whether it came from the Creation Rubik’s Cube or the shell of the Crystal Wall System’s Core…

Or perhaps a premonition told him, the shell of the Crystal Wall System’s Core had been fixed, but he was now facing a choice.

The first option was to end the repairs now, greatly enhancing the effect of the Crystal Wall System’s Core’s shell, and waiting until enough Creation Energy was accumulated to begin the second phase of empowerment.

The second option was to continue with the repairs, taking advantage of the freshly repaired and activated state of the treasure to invest another full one hundred units of Creation Energy and rekindle the internal Crystal Wall System’s Core that had vanished.

These two options weren’t just about investing one hundred units of Creation Energy; that wasn’t the point. The emphasis was on the method of utilizing this treasure.

If he chose the first option, it would be like turning the Crystal Wall System’s Core into a Super Divine Heirloom, continuously infusing Creation Energy to strengthen it and eventually forging it into his own Destiny God Artifact. Given its material and origins, theoretically, it could be turned into a treasure comparable to the Destiny Clay Tablet of the Ferun Crystal Wall Universe or the Disc of Creation from the ancient legends of Primordial Chaos in China.

No matter how many resources it would take, it was possible.

The second option was to reactivate the extinguished Origin Core inside the Crystal Wall System’s Core’s shell. If he did this… he didn’t know what would happen, because such a case has neither been heard of nor seen before.

The first option still had a reference in the method used by the gods to forge their Destiny Artifacts, albeit with more resources required and greater difficulty.

As for the second choice, it was unprecedented, and he didn’t know what the outcome would be.

Of course, even though he didn’t know, he could guess that the second option probably meant reconstructing the Crystal Wall System, that is, creating a new Core from scratch.

He didn’t know if it was so, but he guessed there was a possibility.

If that were the case, Lin Xiao was quite interested.

After all, if he could reconstruct a complete Crystal Wall System’s Core, that could help one with Powerful Divine Power break through and ascend to great divine power, and that was tantalizing.

Lin Xiao took a deep breath and made his choice.

Without any hesitation, a full one hundred units of Creation Energy were injected, transforming into bolts of lightning that struck the Crystal Wall System’s Core suspended in the center of the Magic Cube Space.

Whether it would work or not, it was worth trying; after all, compared to a super divine artifact, the prospect of potentially ascending to great divine power was more attractive to him.

Although both were treasures that ordinary gods could only dream of, for him, the latter was more compelling.