Chapter 666 Three-Party Talks (8200 Words, Monthly Request for Monthly Tickets!)

If someone were to ask who has the greatest authority and power in the Aean World, more than half of the people would naturally say it is His Majesty the Sun Emperor of the Asmodei Empire, while the remaining portion would believe that the barbarian Great Chieftain located in the Northern Lands, the inheritor of the Twilight Dragon, is the strongest person in this world.

But if someone were to ask who is the wisest person in the Aean World, the most capable of answering people's doubts, then the answer would be very simple.

Everyone would answer in unison, 'Grand Master Ebben of the Light Chasing Order', the leader of the Order.

The Light Chasing Order is the only group of researchers in the Aean World that uses alchemical technology as its sole principle. Since the first leader of the Order separated from the Holy Sun Church and established a mobile city of their own, the Light Chasing Order has brought countless changes and new things to the Aean World.

Mobile city improvements, small source energy reactor cores, household sewage purifiers, eleven types of fertilizers, seven improved crops, small land-going boats, portable mobile communication terminals…

Thousands of new inventions, various species manuals and encyclopedias compiled into books, and the unique improvements to alchemy, directly separated alchemists from the branches of spellcasters, making them a new major category.

Four hundred and seventy years ago, when the Northern barbarians invaded southward, the Frostwind Army did not receive enough material support due to conflicts with the Empire and was unable to stop the barbarians in the northern provinces, resulting in the devastation of the central plains. The Dire Wolf Iron Cavalry swept through major settlements and even surrounded the Light Chasing City, which happened to be moving nearby.

At that time, everyone thought that although the Light Chasing City was unlikely to be breached, it would definitely flee in a hurry to avoid being surrounded by the Iron Cavalry and then being hit by the main force of the barbarians.

But the alchemists of the Light Chasing City activated a group of incomparably powerful giant combat units—these were not even puppets, but a part of the city. The alchemists' city was like growing arms and swords, turning into a giant killing machine, crushing all enemies who dared to stand in their way.

Some Northern tribes' priests even swore that they saw half of the Light Chasing City transform amidst huge metal rumbles, turning into a city giant god soldier, destroying the main force of the Dire Wolf Iron Cavalry with an unbelievable concentrated beam cannon.

With the vanguard crushed, the Frostwind Army also recovered after receiving support. This time, the Northern barbarian invasion ended inconclusively.

This incident made all those who still looked down on alchemists, thinking they were just researchers who could do experiments, make potions, and control puppets, completely dumbfounded. They began to re-examine these usually taciturn weirdos and became awed.

Some people even began to worship the Light Chasing Order, believing that they were the collective that could bring a new future to all beings in Aean.

But even for the Light Chasing Order, there are some things that are difficult to solve.

For example, the end of the world, class conflicts, and legacies from ancient times.

And knowledge from another world.

Holy Sun Calendar, September 30th.

Seven days after Svetreya of Xiguang preached to the world.

The entire world was in turmoil.

The prototype of the Great Calamity that plagued the Northern Territory dissipated, calming down the restless Frostwind Army and tribal people. They somewhat unaccustomed to spending a relatively warm winter under the radiance of light. Even the meat penguins raised by the tribes forgot to mate because it was too warm.

Yes, meat penguins.

These large penguins raised by the Northerners are full of fat, large in size, and grow rapidly, making them a good source of meat livestock, but they only start breeding in climates below minus eighty degrees Celsius, leaving the current tribal herders in confusion.

And the bewildered are far more than just the tribal people. The five group armies that were originally on high alert on the northern border, waiting for the barbarians or even the Frostwind Army to attack, are still stationed on the border.

At this moment, they dare not retreat, nor dare they take the initiative due to Professor Svetreya's reputation and the rising momentum of the North. They can only stay in place, waiting for change nervously and fearfully.

In addition, the fact that the coastal city retreated to the South Sea volcanic belt and began to use volcanic lava as energy to open up new mining areas is really just a trivial matter.

And because the Emberfire cultivation method originating from the Xiguang Society has basically spread throughout the city in the coastal city, all demonized people and even ordinary people feel that they have seen the hope of a new future.

A cultivation method that, although its efficacy is quite low, can indeed allow everyone to cultivate and reduce source energy erosion… is simply priceless.

It should be known that before this, most of the cultivation methods that could reduce source energy erosion were extremely expensive and had many side effects, such as weakening cultivation and reducing lifespan.

But the Emberfire is all positive effects. Although most of the effects are weak, positive numbers are countless times higher than negative numbers!

This kind of precious cultivation method is spread for free, which is really unbelievable. Many people suspect whether Professor Svetreya has a backdoor in this cultivation method, otherwise, this would be too incredible.

In fact, Su Zhou really did leave a backdoor—after all, he also has to update the cultivation method, so what's so strange about leaving an update backdoor?

Programmers are like this, so can he, the Candle Sun!

In fact, Su Zhou also knows that the law should not be passed on lightly.

If the cultivation method is spread arbitrarily, it will only make later generations less and less appreciative, and those who get gifts for nothing will resent themselves after they don't get gifts later.

But Su Zhou doesn't care at all: Those who don't cherish the cultivation method are their own idiots, and those who resent themselves cannot get further advanced cultivation methods from the Xiguang Society.

Idiots and ingrates, at most, only get a little insignificant, popular benefit, and they won't be able to touch the big ones next.

Of course, some people will try to bypass this spiritual judgment. For example, the professionals belonging to the Empire have been studying this aspect, wanting to analyze the specific principle of the Emberfire.

Naturally, it's all in vain.

The principle of the Emberfire is very simple. To put it bluntly, it's just a disaster elimination and adversity resolution cultivation method from another world, plus a part that removes impurities from the soul, fused and sublimated. However, Su Zhou has specially encrypted the core of the cultivation method, and only those who meet certain spiritual conditions can start it and then analyze it.

In other words, it's a camp restriction.

Villains want to bypass the restriction?

Talking about this with the Evil Devouring Demon Lord, the real big devil, is too much of an underestimation.

Although Su Zhou is very tolerant most of the time, he is the professional when it comes to unreasonable contracts!

Although the Northern barbarians of the Empire have stopped their footsteps, discerning people know that the threat has not only not disappeared but is even accumulating more and more. The Xiguang Society has expanded to its current level in less than a year and is already a real power on the continent.

In the East, the Eastern Sea nobles have been retreating to their eastern coastal headquarters since the Battle of the First Radiance Holy Rock, watching the changes on the continent.

In the South, the Southern nobles were originally suffering the Empire's encroachment. Although Count Evind, who was the main force of division, was killed, and the Empire lost a fulcrum of influence, this could not change the situation.

But what really makes all forces pay attention and worry about is the three-party talks initiated by Professor Svetreya with the Light Chasing Order and the Holy Sun Church in the northwestern region of the continent.

Recently, after preaching, Su Zhou has been learning about the history behind the northern tribes in addition to going to various parts of the Northern Territory to eliminate the impact of natural disasters.

The Dusk Tribe, led by Darrot, and the Winter Tribe located in the northwest region were originally a whole in ancient times, which is the so-called 'Twilight Clan'. It's just that the habitable area of the Arctic Icefield could not support many people, so they were forced to separate.

The reason why the Twilight Tribe worships the Twilight Dragon is nothing special. It's just because only the Twilight Dragon will respond to their calls and give them a little power so that they can survive in this icy world.

Believing in nothingness for existence, this kind of spectacle probably only appears in the world where the God Tree and Twilight are fighting.

If someone asks why only the Twilight Dragon will respond to them, the tribal people can't say why, but can only answer 'the ancestors were like this'.

And among the various gifts given by the Twilight Dragon, the most important is the ability to suppress the demonization disease.

Su Zhou is very clear about this because his Emberfire version 2.98 also uses some characteristics of the Twilight Soul in terms of targeting the erosion of demonization disease.

After all, the erosion of demonization disease is ultimately a mutation of the blessing of the Burning Salary God Tree. It is a mutation of existence, a blessing like cancer.

And the power of nothingness represented by the Twilight Dragon is like chemotherapy, directly erasing the cancerous part. Although it will damage some normal source energy structures, it can indeed save the patient's life, which can be regarded as treating the symptoms.

No wonder the Northern tribes' faith is so firm. After all, almost all tribal people are demonized people, and the Twilight Dragon's blessing is the biggest guarantee for the continuation of their tribe.

In order to expand the belief in the Twilight Dragon, the tribe will often send out some processed Twilight Marks, which are fragments of the Twilight Dragon's soul, intending to expand the Twilight Dragon's positioning anchor on the Aean Continent and unseal its return as soon as possible.

The Empire also seems to be planning to use the power of the Twilight Dragon, especially the Twilight Dragon's cleansing power against demonization disease, so they also allow this.

A very troublesome matter.

Su Zhou can't forcibly eradicate the belief in the Twilight Dragon in the Northern tribes now. After all, for the Northern tribes, they don't care what the Twilight is all about, but the Twilight Dragon has indeed accompanied them through a long time.

Moreover, it has never asked for any sacrifices or offerings. It only moves and gives blessings when the tribe actively sacrifices and asks for blessings.

Fair trade, without any extra actions.

If judged by the standards of gods, the Twilight Dragon is undoubtedly a first-class good god. It does not interfere with the development of civilization, nor does it bring disasters. Others sacrifice and pray, and it fulfills their wishes, and it does not force blood sacrifices.

This impression is quite surprising.

Since this is the case, Su Zhou will let it be. Since the Northern tribes have been able to survive for thousands of years relying on the Twilight Dragon, then this is a good thing—Yala also said that Twilight, except for its own existence being a threat to other great existences, the biggest threat to ordinary races that are not great existences mainly comes from its crazy dependents and眷属.

After all, it itself is just the source of borrowed power. For the Aean World, as long as the Northern barbarians don't want to destroy the world, then everything is easy to say.

As for the Twilight Dragon that is about to be unsealed… Su Zhou will just seal it again then.

If it comes down and dares to destroy the world, Su Zhou dares to destroy it.

The gods can do it, and Su Zhou at that time can naturally do it too.

"The essence of this world is really complicated."

After learning about the relationship between the Northern tribes and the Twilight Dragon, Su Zhou sighed to Yala several times: "Existence and nothingness are intertwined, and the influence of great existences is secretly affecting the world… Moreover, the relics of civilizations of various eras are intertwined, and history is covered in fragments, making it impossible to know the truth of ancient times."

"The Holy Sun has been extinguished several times, and the degree of influence and interference on history is immeasurable—just like the fact that the Northern Territory and the Frostwind people are descendants of the gods, I have searched many ancient books and found that this statement is only recorded in the earliest few eras, and most of them are vague."

Su Zhou does not doubt the investigation results of the Frostwind General. He also perceives that the bloodlines of the Frostwind and the Northern people do have a common ancient source and are quite different from the humans in other regions through the Candle Sun's unique method (referring to his own extraction of bloodlines for simulation).

This makes him even more curious about the secrets of ancient times.

Fortunately, through the negotiations between Flint and Loya with the Light Chasing Order, and the connection with the Holy Sun Church, Su Zhou has finally established a certain degree of connection with the two major forces in the Aean World that hold the most literature and information.

And today is the time for the three-party talks.

The meeting place for the Xiguang Society, the Light Chasing Order, and the Holy Sun Church is located in the northwestern region of the Aean Continent, where the Empire's power is relatively weak, which is near the First Radiance Ruins where Dawn is located, not too far away.

Recently, Master Flint has been running around in the Light Chasing City, responsible for the liaison and mediation between the Xiguang Society and the Light Chasing Order, and is extremely busy, while Loya is assisting him, which can be regarded as seeing the technology contained in this mobile city, which is known as the most advanced in the entire continent.

In the Light Chasing City, almost complete automation has been achieved. Industrial alchemical puppets have replaced almost all manpower. All alchemists, except for occasional maintenance, spend most of their time in their laboratories studying technology and conceiving new inventions.

It sounds like it is very beautiful, but in reality, because the number of new papers published and new research results are the main indicators for major laboratories to obtain funding, various garbage papers and 'new achievements' that have been renovated and squeezed out countless times are emerging in the current Light Chasing Society.

The phenomenon of senior mentors exploiting the labor of junior apprentices and even taking their papers to sign their own names is also emerging in endlessly. The phenomenon of academic cliques is intensifying, to the point where the mentors are building their own factions to confront each other, and there are few who are really working hard to research technology.

This can be regarded as a common problem of a country ruled by technicians. Even if the Holy Ones' Supervision System of the Earth's Proper Country has the power of people's wishes as a restriction, the phenomenon of academic cliques has not been reduced.

The leader of the Light Chasing Order, Grand Master Ebben, naturally wants to rectify it, but unfortunately, he can't do it. Master Flint was also tired of such a chaotic environment in the Order, so he took the initiative to go on a mission to the First Radiance Ruins.

The Light Chasing Order did not react much to Master Flint's almost complete joining of the Xiguang Society. After all, their first leader also ran out of the Holy Sun Church himself, which is considered organizational culture.

Even Professor Svetreya, as an alchemist, is actually barely considered a member of the Light Chasing Order. His creation of the Xiguang Society, ignoring his identity as an alchemist, can even be considered a situation replication.

They are very willing to exchange technology with Su Zhou, especially the other-world knowledge that Su Zhou inadvertently reveals. Those new technology systems that they have never seen before fascinate these alchemists who have started to involute because they cannot develop new systems.

The Holy Sun Church is very simple—they are extremely shocked and stunned by the existence of the ancient sprite Dawn.

A silver sprite who awakened from ancient ruins. Su Zhou did not deliberately hide the existence of Dawn. All members of the Xiguang Society would occasionally see this sprite lady wandering around the high tower and would appear on time in the cafeteria at noon and night to eat ice cream.

The Holy Sun Church had actually known about Dawn for a long time, but they thought that this was a half-sprite who had awakened the sprite bloodline, but after getting detailed information recently, the stone-crowned bishops were stunned.

Yes, Dawn is indeed a half-sprite, but she is a creation of the earliest sprite era civilization, the first batch of 'artificial half-sprites'!

The sprite civilization is one of the direct successors of the gods!

As an organization inherited from the gods' church, the Holy Sun Church has too many documents and too much information related to sprites. Some of the obscure places are written in the sprite language, and many of the metaphors can probably only be understood by the sprites of that era.

In addition, they also have some more secret information that needs to be unsealed by Dawn.

Coincidentally, Dawn is also very interested in these ancient era materials—she had already fallen asleep and entered the stasis pod when the disaster occurred. She actually doesn't know very clearly about the final end of the sprite civilization and even the struggle in the last period.

The two sides hit it off.

On September 26th, the mobile warships sent by the three parties gathered in the deserted wilderness in the northwestern part of the Empire.

The trend of the Holy Sun's dimming is becoming more and more obvious. The temperature this winter is obviously a few degrees colder than in the past—don't underestimate these few degrees. For the entire world, it means reduced grain production and ecological upheaval. If the technology of the Aean World were not still relatively advanced, and greenhouse planting and even vertical building hydroponics had long become standard for farms and mobile cities everywhere, I am afraid that famine would have appeared before the end of the world.

It's not even October, and the wasteland has already begun to frost. On the gray-white ground, icicles hang on the withered branches of trees. Three distinctive warships are gradually approaching and docking.

This is a semi-public private meeting. Semi-public means that there are double agents in each organization, and it is basically impossible to hide it from other forces.

Private means that the people participating in the meeting are so powerful that no spies dare to eavesdrop, even though they know they are exchanging information.

The warship of the Holy Sun Church is very simple and unadorned. It looks like a square white box, but there are densely packed rune formations engraved inside and outside their warship. Although the flat surface of the warship looks strange, it is also an excellent place to engrave magic formations, making its combat power extremely powerful.

The warship of the Light Chasing Order is very interesting. Su Zhou can tell at a glance that this warship can transform—through those complex joints and strange mechanical structures, Su Zhou can infer that after transforming, this warship will become a giant combat puppet with a humanoid upper body and caterpillar tracks on its lower body. It should be the 'War Terminator' that the Light Chasing Order is famous for.

As for the special thing about the Xiguang Society, their warship is alive.

Yes, alive. Its essence is a living spiritual plant that uses the source energy of all the crew members as fuel.

This is the inspiration provided by Su Zhou: As we all know, the Candle Sun is the God Tree, and the Candle Sun is the warship. The God Tree can build warships, so God Tree = Warship. This is an equation that has been practiced in the Earth and many worlds.

Since this is the case, then it is naturally feasible to manufacture warships by transforming giant spiritual plants—with some Druids who joined the Xiguang Society as the core, they successfully created a living, self-walking spiritual plant warship under Su Zhou's guidance.

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The three warships have formed a triangle. The aura of Su Zhou, the Holy Sun Pope, and the Light Chasing Order's leader rises and connects with each other, then successfully verified.

Then, a simple meeting began.

Su Zhou naturally doesn't care about etiquette, and in front of the inheritors of knowledge and the gods, the Light Chasing Order and the Holy Sun Church don't intend to engage in any complicated etiquette.

Soon, the leaders and representatives of the three parties met in the central area of the triangle.

Su Zhou raised his head and silently looked around at the Holy Sun Church Pope, who was wearing a stone crown and a white robe with a gold bottom, and Grand Master Ebben, who, like Master Flint, had transformed himself into a robot, but with a layer of human skin covering the outside.

To be honest, he has a hunch that the information he brought can certainly scare these two old men who are over three hundred years old combined.

But the history and truth they hold in their hands are even more amazing than he imagined.

"Sage Svetreya."

As soon as they met, the Pope of the Holy Sun Church, as the leader of a church, bowed slightly to Su Zhou to pay his respects. This old man with bright eyes and an inverted triangle mark on his forehead was holding a light golden book, looking more like an old scholar than a pope.

"Your behavior of reclaiming wasteland around the Xiguang Mountains and expanding human settlements is exactly the supreme act taught by the gods and sages of the past. And teaching all beings without discrimination is an action that even the gods have never done... If everyone in this world is as strong as you, why worry about the end-of-the-world crisis, and why would humans fight each other internally until now?"

He has a very high evaluation of Su Zhou and even cannot hear much respect for the ancient gods in his mouth. It seems that he only regards them as imperfect organization creators, rather than true 'divine' worship.

"That's right."

Grand Master Ebben next to him also nodded in agreement. Although he looks a little younger than the Pope, he is also white-haired.

He echoed the Pope's praise and sighed softly: "Moreover, Professor Svetreya, you have developed many new guiding techniques and inventions, benefiting one place and spreading these things that are beneficial to all beings without hesitation, without hiding anything, and even the Northern barbarians have been enlightened."

"If our Light Chasing Order can also do this, perhaps it would be the most perfect form of the Order in the heart of the former first leader."

"You flatter me, I can't bear your praise. On the contrary, His Majesty the Pope and the Grand Master have made hundreds of years of contributions to this world, which I am far from being able to match..."

Instinctively returning the praise, Su Zhou suddenly realized that his current image is actually an old man with white hair—in the eyes of outsiders, this meeting is obviously three old men with white hair praising and flattering each other.

In addition, Roselia, the leader of the Coastal City, although she looks like a beautiful young man, is also very old.

Thinking carefully, the leaders in the Aean World are indeed almost all old people, even the Great Chieftain and the Frostwind General, they only look young. If you really want to talk about seniority, they are all of the older generation.

The strongest people in the whole world are essentially a group of old people.

It's not surprising. After all, in the Aean World, those who can 'exist' are the strong, and the longer they exist, the more powerful they are.

Very God Tree.

The time for exchanging pleasantries ended quickly. In this three-party meeting, except that Su Zhou alone can make the decision for the Xiguang Society, there are opposing voices within both the Holy Sun Church and the Light Chasing Order.

Although both major churches do not have much goodwill towards the Empire, there are also many members who are unwilling to be involved in the struggle between the Empire and the anti-Empire party.

In particular, the fact that the Northern tribes were conquered by Su Zhou makes them wary and even calls on the general public to be vigilant.

They believe that Su Zhou's giving of inheritance to the barbarians is essentially a betrayal of humanity and is handing over more powerful weapons to the enemy of all beings.

What they said is not wrong... It's just that they have never thought that the Northern tribes are also people in the final analysis, not a natural phenomenon that is as irresistible and unpreventable as a natural disaster.

They only went south because they couldn't live anymore.

Since they are now living comfortably, and are at most worried about the meat penguins not breeding, the tribal people are crazy to start a war.

Even if they sacrifice to the Twilight Dragon, there are more and better ways.

The technology exchange of the Light Chasing Order is presided over by Master Flint. Although it is very important, Su Zhou does not need to do it himself. The specific summary can be done later.

Therefore, the first to communicate is the Holy Sun Pope.

This old man, holding the Artifact Book of Omniscience and possessing a perfect aura that makes Yala unable to help but tsk tsk, carefully took out a small stone box from his arms.

As soon as this stone box appeared, it attracted the attention of Su Zhou and Grand Master Ebben.

Because this small stone box is actually carved from the First Radiance Holy Rock!

The warm Holy Sun's radiance shone, even softening the surrounding frosted wasteland and melting the icicles into water droplets that fell on the ground.

"As we all know, our Holy Sun Church is an organization that has been passed down through relics and secret treasures across many eras."

The Pope, who took out the stone box, stared at the small box in his hand. He couldn't help but sigh: "The Holy Sun Church of this era obtained the church inheritance of the previous era from the ancient ruins in the Western Great Rift Valley and then established it."

"And in the inheritance, there are many information records about the ancient times and even the era of the gods. It is said that there are also extremely precious records of the first ancestors of various races walking with the gods!"

Hearing this, Dawn, who has been quietly floating behind Su Zhou, suddenly perked up her pointed ears. She couldn't help but raise her head and look in the direction of the Holy Sun Pope.

Then, she also saw a pair of eyes that, although old, were bright and piercing.

As if the sun was rising in his eyes, staring at the silver sprite in front of him, the Pope's words slowed down, but the tone became heavier and heavier, as if a big drum was being beaten: "The box in my hand contains a 'First Sprite's' spiritual core. It contains a large number of precious memory records about the First Era."

This sentence shocked Dawn's pupils, and Grand Master Ebben gasped.

First Sprite—the prefix 'First' means that she is one of the batch of lives directly created by the gods back then! One of the earliest sprites!

In other words, she is the direct ancestor of all those with sprite bloodlines on the Aean Continent!

The Holy Sun Church actually has such a thing? Such an old and powerful force is indeed extraordinary and incredibly profound!

The Pope's voice was lingering but clear.

"However, if you want to awaken and extract the records in the spiritual core, you need the sprite's bloodline... There are indeed atavistic half-sprites on the continent, but their bloodlines have become extremely mixed after several eras of mixed blood. The purity is not enough, and even atavism does not meet the requirements."

The sprite and the Pope looked at each other. The old man did not continue to speak but silently raised his hand and directly opened the stone box in his hand, opening this ancient secret box that has been preserved for more than 80,000 years.

Since he has already met the right sprite, why hesitate?

He also wants to know the truth.

The box opened, and light overflowed.

Everyone's eyes converged, and they could see that in the center of the stone box, there was a Metatron cube that was naturally suspended in the air and presented colorful brilliance.

The sharp diamond thorns looked sharp, but there was a warm luster shining at its top.

That is the spiritual core of the First Sprite, a source energy crystal condensed into a solid, which is also the sprite's 'corpse', the purest, most powerful, and most cohesive source energy core in the Aean World.

The dazzling spiritual light flowed out of the box like a life force at the moment this cube appeared.

Standing on the side, Su Zhou instantly seemed to see a light ball with six wings of different colors, which was probably the image of the First Sprite.

He is not a sprite, and even with the bloodline of the Candle Sun, it is impossible to analyze the information in it—but if he absorbs the sprite's bloodline, and can transform into the Candle Sun·Sprite form, maybe he can.

However, no problem.

Turning his head slightly, Su Zhou looked at Dawn beside him.

Before departure, Su Zhou had connected his spirit with Dawn's—a very simple spiritual link, but it requires the other party to agree and have no rejection to do it.

After such a long time, Dawn has long believed that Su Zhou can lead the gods of this world to overcome the end of the world, the end of the Holy Sun, so she completely agreed to his request.

At this moment, the silver sprite opened her mouth blankly, her eyes dazed.

In Dawn's eyes, countless phantoms seemed to fly away and disappear, flashing like a revolving lantern.

Obviously, she is receiving the information contained in this First Sprite's spiritual core... The sprite's special bloodline, that is, their unique spiritual power structure, acts as a decoder.

Close your eyes.

Su Zhou connected his spirit with Dawn's.

Then, she and he saw it in the Holy Sun Pope's expectant and nervous expression.

They saw the beginning of the Aean World, when the God Tree was prosperous, and the gods and the first ancestors of all races walked in the world.

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