Chapter 651 Yang of the Godwood (5800)

The eastern deep sea coast is rainy and forested all year round. The First Light Ship was moving along a fixed mobile city track in the forest, and a layer of thin frost had covered the forests on both sides.

Luo Ya stood on the deck of the First Light Ship. The rumbling research vessel made the earth shake. He leaned on the railing at the edge of the ship, silently watching the iron pillars flashing with various colors in the distance.

Under the scarlet moon, all the children suffering from the Demonization Disease were in pain, lying sick in bed.

This was an unprecedented Demon Moon bloom, and the amplitude of source energy activation exceeded any moonlight in the past four hundred years.

After taking care of all his companions, the exhausted Luo Ya came to the deck to relax. When he looked up, he could see the various waves created by the Dean in the distance. Whether it was the Pillar of Protection along the way, or the endless karmic fire that seemed to ignite even the sky, they all attracted the world's attention.

In the cold air of late-year early winter, the boy exhaled a thin white mist. Having practiced the Embers of Ruin Fire and the Myriad Manifestations True Method, he was no longer affected by heat and cold, but what truly made people feel cold was not the weather.

The Demonization Disease. The Demonization Disease that he didn't have caused all his companions and friends to feel extremely painful. It took him a whole night to calm most of the children to sleep. Luo Ya himself was certainly tired, but he knew very well that those who fought against the Demonization Disease were even more tired.

Before becoming an orphan, Luo Ya's family was happy and fulfilling. His mother was an elf with bloodline close to pureblood, and his father was a well-known scholar in a half-elf family that had been rooted in the southern plains for a long time. He inherited the talents and advantages of his parents, and from a young age, he would tinker with those mysterious runes and alchemical parts, assembling them into his own toys.

Because of education, also because of his nature, and coupled with the fact that he had never encountered any malice in his life, the white-haired boy was kind to everything. He would always help those who needed help. Gasha, who was wandering at the time, also breathed a sigh of relief because of this, and spent a relatively pleasant time.

Until the Demonized Riot impacted the inner city, Luo Ya's parents died in the aftermath of the battle between the professionals and the city guards.

All along, Luo Ya's emotions towards the Demonized had been very complicated.

His friends were Demonized, all his companions were Demonized, and most of the people he knew, most of the good people he had met in his life, were Demonized.

But his parents died in the Demonized Riot, and his life took a turn for the worse, from happiness to becoming an orphan, also because of the Demonized.

On the continent of Aean, the Demonized were equal to the cursed. In ancient times, there were even rumors that the Demonized were condemned by heaven and rejected by the world.

Luo Ya was very smart. He had read many books and knew a lot of knowledge. He knew that the Demonized were not cursed existences, and could even obtain powers that ordinary people could not obtain in their entire lives.

As long as their strength was strong enough, professionals could suppress the symptoms of Demonization and become even more powerful existences than ordinary professionals.

As long as there was a reasonable system of guidance, education, and training, no Demonized person would easily go mad, but could instead contribute to the entire world.

Aean civilization would enter a new era.

Most people in the world are binary. They cannot tolerate any criticism when they like something, and they cannot allow any advantages when they hate something. Luo Ya was not like this. Because of his childhood experiences, he could not simply place the Demonized at the two extremes of 'good and bad'.

But precisely because of this, he could see one thing clearly: the reason why the Demonized were cynical, full of anger, and always wanted to destroy and resist the entire world was actually because the entire society took the lead in guarding against and persecuting them. The source of this chain of hatred was already untraceable, but the fact was just that.

In the past, Luo Ya knew this, but his life experience and knowledge were not enough to clearly express this vague feeling... until Professor Svetelana's explanation, until what the Dean had done after returning from the North Ionian Mountains, made him understand one thing.

"This world is wrong. The social structure and rules, people's discrimination and prejudice have created all of this. The nobles and emperors, all the upper classes have never treated the Demonized as human beings, they have never even treated ordinary people as human beings, only oppressing them, and then transferring the anger and hatred of ordinary people to the Demonized."

Grasping the warship's railing tightly, the white-haired, blue-eyed boy looked at the distant burning land and whispered to himself: "What the Professor will face, what she will fight, is this kind of world and order."

"She wants to shatter everything, return to chaos, and create a new society!"

"Well said."

Just as Luo Ya was muttering to himself, a voice suddenly came from the distance, directly into the boy's heart.

Just as Luo Ya raised his head, revealing a surprised expression, Su Zhou, who had returned with the First Light Holy Rock, was already standing on the deck, smiling and watching his student.

"As expected of the clever Luo Ya, you see more clearly than all the other children."

As expected of the future Twilight High Priest. No wonder, on the trajectory of the past, he would become a demon king-like existence, almost destroying this world full of hatred and resentment.

"Dean, you're back?"

Turning around, Luo Ya saw the First Light Holy Rock that was releasing vigorous vitality.

And this sacred, holy, sun fragment releasing pure light, was currently being carried on his Dean's shoulder like a mace.

Although it was exaggerated, if it was Professor Svetelana, then she could do it.

You know? That's Professor Svetelana!

"I got the First Light Holy Rock. Don't stay on the deck anymore. Although the First Light Ship has a shield, the Demon Moon's light still has difficult-to-analyze effects on people."

Ruffling Luo Ya's head, Su Zhou urged the other party to return to the ship, but this sentence aroused the question that Luo Ya had always hidden in his heart.

"Dean..."

The white-haired boy raised his head and looked at his mentor, half confused and half lost, and said, "If I also become a Demonized... wouldn't I be able to understand them better?"

"...Indeed, you could."

Hearing this question, Su Zhou, who had returned, could not help but become serious. He originally wanted to return to the ship as soon as possible to carefully observe the structure of the First Light Holy Rock, but now, it was more important to enlighten the young man in front of him: "But listen, Luo Ya, even if the essence of Demonization Syndrome is actually a blessing, it is still an abnormality in the final analysis."

"I protected you in the past, and Gasha also protected you, precisely to prevent you from suffering from Demonization Syndrome... Before we can completely analyze this abnormality and resolve all the unknown and harmful components, you cannot actively infect yourself with Demonization Disease for this temporary impulse."

Luo Ya was a good boy in the final analysis. After hearing Su Zhou's decisive denial of his idea, he obediently said 'Okay', and then returned to the First Light Ship with Su Zhou.

On the way back, Su Zhou had been analyzing the three-headed dragon heart-light body he had just condensed.

The seven-headed, ten-crowned Great Red Dragon, one of Yala's side projections, representing the ancient serpent dragon that is the source of demons. This was the power that Su Zhou extracted from this body's bloodline, one of the most powerful heart-light body prototypes in this world.

The three-headed dragon form was because Su Zhou's current strength was not enough, and he also did not sense the prayers of the entire world and receive the response of all 'original sins', so it was an incomplete version.

Heart-light body, a unique cultivation mode in the Aean world. A unique virtual soul body shaped by the high corrosiveness of source energy, it is essentially a purification and filtering intermediary, allowing people to control a large amount of source energy more safely.

This kind of cultivation method does not exist in the general world, because even if the spiritual energy in the general world is turbid, its concentration is not high, and the degree of harm to the human body is very small.

Because the corrosion of source energy is all-encompassing, the essence of the heart-light body is also a 'virtual machine' shaped by the resonance of the body and soul.

Su Zhou's soul is very compatible with Professor Svetelana's body, so he can naturally unleash the potential of this body, and also use the demons' ability to 'fulfill wishes' to communicate with the souls of all those who died unjustly around the East Sea, and sign a contract with them to obtain their curses and power.

"To continue to improve the heart-light body, I need to continue to improve my strength."

Carrying the First Light Holy Rock, Su Zhou fell into deep thought.

Cultivation in the Aean world, condensing the soul is just the basics. Reaching the Radiant Soul stage is considered the beginning. Professionals at this stage unite their soul and body, greatly strengthening the erosion of source energy, so as to avoid the sighing situation of being accidentally Demonized when touching source energy weapons.

And only when one reaches the Heart-light stage can one be considered to have entered the hall and had a name in the world. Perhaps someone would know their name wherever they go.

However, the most difficult thing is still from Heart-light to Divine Intent.

The Heart-light stage, as the name suggests, is the stage of condensing the heart-light body. However, contrary to what everyone thinks, it is not that one can be called the Heart-light stage only after condensing the heart-light body, but that when one reaches this stage, the source energy controlled by the professional greatly increases. If one does not condense the heart-light body, one will be eroded into a rampaging monster, a demon called the Human Demon, in minutes.

Human Demons feed on flesh and blood and souls. In order to maintain their constantly shattering and collapsing souls, they will frantically devour all the souls they can see - but the more they devour, the more the original soul fragments are replaced. In the end, the Human Demon will become a collapsed monster composed of countless soul fragments.

But there are rumors that if a Human Demon accidentally stabilizes its self-will after devouring a large number of high-quality souls, it will become a terrible disaster like a natural disaster.

From phantoms, projections, illusions, to substantial entities, is the process from the initial stage to the peak of the Heart-light stage.

Su Zhou's three-headed dragon, although unbelievably strong, is essentially just a materialized heart-light body, that is, the realm of the peak of the Heart-light stage.

For all the professionals in this world, advancing to Divine Intent is a huge problem.

In the entire Aean world with nearly 20 billion people, there are definitely hundreds of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of existences in the Heart-light stage, but the number of Divine Intent powerhouses who are famous and often show their faces definitely does not exceed five hundred.

This is certainly because many forces have hidden their strength and background, but even if they have not hidden it, this number is at most doubled, barely exceeding a thousand.

The biggest ditch and barrier between the peak of the Heart-light stage and the Divine Intent stage is 'God'.

In ancient times, the Divine Intent stage was like a god or demigod. Although their power was not as great as natural disasters that changed the terrain and destroyed mountains, they were enough to protect one side and allow their believers and worshippers to escape from it.

The reason why they can do this is because their heart-light body can temporarily immunize itself from all source energy erosion and burst out with the power of a god by relying on, entrusting, or absorbing some things or even thoughts.

It can be relied on some extremely powerful source energy beast, or it can be entrusted to some extremely hard source energy metal; it can either absorb some pure source energy gem and use it as a substitute to bear the filth brought by the source energy, or it can be the guardian god of a place and be protected by the power of everyone's wishes.

At that time, their will is as inviolable as a god, enough to cast profound mysteries that change the war situation and destroy city fortresses.

Su Zhou is very familiar with this path: external avatars, divine weapons replacing calamities, liches' phylacteries or magical girls' soul gems, and merit protection... the path of cultivation in the multiverse, even if the external differences are very different, the internal logic is always similar most of the time.

There are no heavenly tribulations or heavenly demons in the Aean world, and there are relatively few ways of cursing, but source energy itself is an omnipresent heavenly tribulation, heavenly demon, and curse, so this method of blocking calamities and eliminating disasters is unexpectedly advanced. Su Zhou browsed some of the information he obtained from Rozelia and found that the average professional in this world knows a trick of substitution, which is quite unique in the cultivation system.

Naturally, this secret method that allows people to advance from Heart-light to Divine Intent is a secret material of every great family. Even on Earth, similar methods of blocking calamities are high-level cultivation methods that require a large number of citizen points to exchange.

But what Su Zhou is currently troubled by is not quite the same.

"I have a little too many methods of blocking calamities."

Thinking hard, Su Zhou fell into a state of difficulty in choosing: "I know them all."

Men may lack resources, but he has never lacked cultivation methods.

And soon, the troubled Su Zhou relaxed.

Choices? Only children make choices!

Su Zhou wants them all!

What external avatars, divine weapons replacing calamities, soul gems, and merit protection... Good heavens, which one is he not good at? If it weren't for incompatibility, Su Zhou would even know the skills of the Moral Heavenly Lord and could perform the Three Purities in one breath on the spot.

He learned so many inheritances, not to balance the values in another world!

"I brought back the First Light Holy Rock."

At this moment, having returned to the hall of the First Light Ship, facing Master Flintlight and Lady Dawn who were already waiting here, Su Zhou stood the sun fragment on his shoulder on the ground: "I taught the East Sea nobles, the Holy Sun Church, the Light Chasing Order, and the Frost Delaying Army a lesson, helping them clean up the internal pests."

"I estimate that someone will come to thank us after a while, and I have never liked being thanked by people, so I will first head towards the coastal An息 (Ānxī - Peace) Mountains."

At this moment, Dawn was still in a state of shock.

The fact that Su Zhou was actually a demon and that his heart-light body was even the seven-headed Great Red Dragon made the silver fairy, who had seen similar heart-light body forms in the blood battles of the previous era, extremely shocked.

--Why is a demon bloodline that can use the three-headed dragon heart-light body also so strong in terms of plants?

Confused by this, a question that the Righteous Country Sage on Earth and many leaders of major forces have also been puzzled by could not help but emerge in her heart.

--Professor Svetelana (Su Zhou), what exactly is he?

But this confusion does not prevent her from talking to Su Zhou.

Silver fairies rarely hide their thoughts. After Su Zhou finished speaking, Dawn could not help but complain: "Isn't this just running away?"

"And without you saying it, we can see it very clearly. The flames are滔天 (tāo tiān - reaching the sky), and I estimate that even the coastal city can see it."

Dawn's gaze was firmly attracted by the First Light Holy Rock. She looked at this Holy Sun crystal and could not help but sigh: "How huge. This First Light Holy Rock is enough to manufacture dozens or hundreds of source energy furnace cores at the level of the First Light Ship engine... If it is transformed through fairy secret methods that even I don't know, it will be easy to support several large mobile cities."

"What do you plan to do with it?"

"I just don't like killing people randomly. Their attacks on me are like mosquitoes in the middle of the night, so troublesome."

Su Zhou shook his head slightly. He obviously looked down on the armies of those forces and just didn't want to be entangled by them, so that the children of the Hope Glow Society could not practice and study in peace: "As for what I want to do with this First Light Holy Rock... I do have a guess."

Speaking of this, the man turned his head and looked at the silent mechanical humanoid beside him: "Master Flintlight, can you help me get the branches of the Burning Ember Godwood over here?"

[Ah? Yes, okay.]

The reaction was a little slow, which was unusual for the mechanical body of Master Flintlight.

But it was not strange, because he was indeed in a somewhat complicated mood.

Master Flintlight was a member of the Light Chasing Order. He naturally knew very well that the organization he was in was not a white lotus. There were even many evil alchemists or people with unbearable morals mixed in, just wanting to use the influence of the Light Chasing Order for their own use.

But knowing is knowing. Really watching Su Zhou burn all the evildoers in the Light Chasing Order with karmic fire, including several people he knew... Master Flintlight always found it difficult to say anything.

--Clearly, clearly the Light Chasing Order of that year was not like this...

No, wait.

I have actually changed too.

Recalling his initial infighting with Yelena and others in the North Ionian Mountains, and even the mentality of wanting to kill all the members of the exploration team, the old alchemist suddenly woke up.

Sighing softly, Master Flintlight turned around.

He quickly brought over the crystal box containing the Burning Ember Godwood, and Su Zhou reached out and took it.

Dawn and Flintlight were not quite sure what Su Zhou was going to do.

But soon, the answer would be revealed.

Opening the crystal box, Su Zhou narrowed his eyes. He stared at the Godwood branches burning quietly inside, releasing vigorous vitality, and then activated a trace of the Godwood aura that came with the Eternal Rotation Method, and even activated the mark bestowed by the Great Dao Tree to sense the coordinates of the World Tree.

Immediately, there was an extremely intense resonance between Su Zhou and the Burning Ember Godwood.

Buzz--

A buzzing sound rang out, and an unspeakable sense of closeness appeared in Dawn's heart. The silver fairy subconsciously flew up, seemingly wanting to approach Su Zhou and the Burning Ember Godwood.

But after all, her will was one with the entire First Light Ship, and the warship's artificial intelligence pulled back her mind. After Dawn woke up, she immediately sucked in a breath of cold air. She didn't even notice that she had been affected just now.

Turning her head, the fairy's shock was even greater, because she found that even Master Flintlight, who was purely mechanical, also had a similar instinctive closeness, but since he was essentially a robot, he quickly regained consciousness.

[This, what's going on?!]

The two of them looked up at the same time, with Su Zhou as the center. The originally invisible and intangible source energy began to manifest. Circles of light patterns and light particles gathered from all directions, converging towards his palm, the First Light Holy Rock and the Burning Ember Godwood on the side.

Under the impetus of endless source energy, the Burning Ember Godwood and the First Light Holy Rock floated in the air, merging into one.

This scene looked very slow, but it actually only happened in half a second. The seven-colored source energy finally gathered into a ball of pure white light, a dazzling ball of light, with the Godwood and the Holy Rock as the center.

This light was incredibly familiar.

Because that was exactly the light of the Holy Sun.

Buzz--

The resonance reached its maximum.

The sound disappeared.

In an instant, a beam of light shot out from the light ball. It was initially just a thin ray of light, and then it rapidly expanded, penetrating all things - in a short moment that was too late to blink, a huge beam of light, composed of pure source energy and vitality, went straight into the high sky, pierced through the clouds, and caused the atmosphere to ripple like a lake struck by a boulder.

The scarlet light of the Demon Moon also receded - no, not receded, but fused! The scarlet light shining all over the sky was like milk and water blending together, mixing with the ripples brought by this beam of light, turning into a pure rain of harmless source energy, scattered between heaven and earth.

The entire eastern part of the Aean continent could see this dazzling beam of light, like a light arrow that went straight to the sky and shot towards the sun!

Dawn and Flintlight opened their mouths in astonishment, silently looking up at all of this.

And Su Zhou stood aside. He stared at this scene, stared at the source of the light beam, the First Light Holy Rock that began to resonate and even merge.

"As expected."

He whispered to himself, his tone firm: "Although I had guessed it long ago, I can now be 100% sure that the Holy Sun is a part of the Godwood."

"And..."

"'Godwood' is still alive!"

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