On the throne in the palace hall, Bai Qi looked at the two items before him with great satisfaction.
A battle that was as simple as it could possibly be, had allowed Bai Qi to profit immensely. Not only did he spread the name of the Holy Dragon Church, but he also garnered a large number of followers.
This was not merely out of Bai Qi's whim, to gather a large number of followers to worship him and satisfy his vanity. There was a much grander scheme at play here.
He remembered the mission from the system to explore the lost continent. After completing it, Bai Qi had drawn three more statues of unknown significance from the system.
These three statues were bizarrely carved, each with a different form, but all of them shared one commonality: they had no faces.
After considerable research, Bai Qi had finally discovered the purpose of these three statues.
The statues were a form of container, capable of storing so-called faith.
Although Bai Qi had yet to fully comprehend the nature of those who believed, he knew that in the void, there were many powerful outer gods and void creatures who had a peculiar fondness for such things.
What Bai Qi could do was to fill these three statues with faith and then use them to exchange for useful items with those beings in the void.
It was precisely because of these three statues that Bai Qi had prioritized the development of the Holy Dragon Church and the recruitment of a large number of followers.
With a wave of his hand, Bai Qi conjured a statue before him. He took it in his hand and fiddled with it. This statue's appearance was an extension of a grotesque, octopus-like monster. Its main body was grayish-white, and at first glance, it would be mistaken for a bizarre relic. However, upon closer inspection, one could see that the tips of the octopus's tentacles had turned golden, the color of faith.
Looking at the complete statue, Bai Qi sighed helplessly.
"It has taken so long to collect so little faith. It is still a long and arduous journey to fill it completely."
Putting the statue away, Bai Qi's gaze returned to the two items: the Cosmic Cube storing the Space Stone, and the staff containing the Mind Stone.
"Father, you summoned me."
At that moment, Yong Huo walked in from outside the door and knelt before Bai Qi.
Bai Qi said, "Yong Huo, I've told you many times, there's no need for such formalism between us."
Seeing that Yong Huo below remained unmoved, Bai Qi sighed helplessly and waved his hand, saying, "Rise."
Upon hearing Bai Qi's words, the kneeling Yong Huo finally stood up.
Bai Qi was also quite troubled by his adopted son.
Yong Huo's loyalty to him was absolute, but the man was simply too rigid, especially in his presence.
Bai Qi had tried to correct Yong Huo on numerous occasions, but all attempts had ended in failure.
Ignoring this small interlude, Bai Qi used his telekinesis to break the staff, extract the Mind Stone, and then took out a thumb-sized magic gem. Through an ancient secret art, he injected the power of the Mind Stone into the magic gem.
Merely a few wisps of energy were injected into the magic gem before it began to tremble violently, as if on the verge of collapse. Fortunately, Bai Qi's quick reflexes allowed him to intervene just in time, cutting off the power injection and stabilizing the violently shaking magic gem with his magic.
After stabilizing the magic gem, Bai Qi took out a substantial piece of magical metal and forged it on the spot into a metal bracelet.
Finally, he embedded the magic gem into the bracelet.
Thus, a powerful mental magic item was created.
Yong Huo had witnessed the entire process of Bai Qi crafting the magic bracelet. Upon seeing the finished bracelet, he had a general understanding of its purpose.
As expected, after its completion, Bai Qi held the bracelet in his hand, confirmed there were no quality issues, and with a wave of his hand, he handed the bracelet to Yong Huo.
Yong Huo, upon receiving the bracelet, maintained a placid exterior, but his slightly trembling body betrayed his inner turmoil.
Indeed, Yong Huo was extremely excited.
After Bai Qi became the King of Kutor and with the backing of the Illuminati, he quickly created a powerful personal database. This database contained not only intelligence collected by the Shadow Ninjas from around the world, but also data and blueprints for various cutting-edge technologies, and a wealth of magical knowledge, some gathered by the Shadow Ninjas, and some inherited from the Holy Lord's original memories, all integrated and stored in the database.
Furthermore, it should not be forgotten that Bai Qi, as a transmigrator, had not only inherited the Holy Lord's original memories but also his memories from his previous life. Upon discovering the unique nature of this world, Bai Qi had recorded all his relevant memories and uploaded them to the database when it was established.
Of course, due to the sensitive nature of the database's contents, Bai Qi had taken all possible measures to protect its security.
Take its establishment, for example.
After completely eliminating the threat of Tara, Bai Qi had transferred the main body of the database from the main world to the depths of the Shadow Kingdom and entrusted its guarding to the Shadow Ninjas and his own dragon minions.
Naturally, not just anyone could access the contents of this database.
Firstly, simply entering the Shadow Kingdom filtered out a portion of people. Even those who could enter the Shadow Kingdom mostly relied on its rapid transit system, but they only operated in the outer regions of the Shadow Kingdom.
The number of people who could truly enter the depths of the Shadow Kingdom was exceedingly small.
Even among those who entered the depths of the Shadow Kingdom, Bai Qi had categorized those with the authority to access the database into three tiers. The higher the rank, the more core data they could access.
As Bai Qi's adopted son, and with his absolute loyalty, Yong Huo naturally held the highest level of access to the database, second only to Bai Qi himself. He had even served as the database administrator for a period. Later, due to Yong Huo's overwhelming workload and the fact that no fool dared to enter the depths of the Shadow Kingdom, Yong Huo was reassigned.
However, during the time Yong Huo served as administrator, his greatest hobby was perusing the various materials within, madly absorbing knowledge. This naturally included information on the Infinity Stones, and he was aware of their preciousness.
Yong Huo understood that given the immense value of the Infinity Stones, his father would never bestow them upon him. Furthermore, he had not accomplished much in terms of tangible achievements recently. To be gifted a magic bracelet with even a portion of the Mind Stone's power was already an overwhelming honor for him.
"Father, I am truly..."
Before Yong Huo could finish speaking, Bai Qi waved his hand, interrupting him, "Enough, I am already very tired. There's no need to discuss trivial matters."
Hearing Bai Qi's words, Yong Huo immediately fell silent.
Bai Qi continued, "How is Octavius's progress?"
Yong Huo pondered for a moment and said, "To speak frankly, Father, I believe Octavius alone may not be able to complete the task you assigned him."