Gods Vanish on a Cloudy Day
Chapter 3 The Age of Elements
Ever since Su Zhou condensed his true form, Ya La, who had been hiding in the wingless great dragon's scales and sucking blood to her heart's content, had become quite large.
The Ruthless Iron Hand took out the somewhat reluctant snake spirit from his bosom, and Su Zhou frowned, watching the little snake drooping on his finger...
No, it can't be called a little snake anymore!
Now this Ya La is as thick as his thumb and as long as his arm, almost no different from a normal snake!
When coiled up, it's even as big as a tomato!
"Ya La, you've grown so big, it's impossible to hide in my hair anymore—so what should I do in the future? Should I carry you around in a special little bag?"
He stared at the snake spirit, his expression suggesting he was about to go to Taobao to buy a portable little bag. At this moment, he had already imagined the scene of himself walking around with a small bag hanging from his waist or neck in the future, and his face became quite serious.
Ya La also frowned and thought about that scene, feeling that it was just like a kangaroo baby. Immediately, it shook its head and said, "No need, there's no need to be so troublesome."
"Me turning into a snake is just a habit. My real body is just a blood slime condensed from your blood!"
Su Zhou: "Ya La, what do you want to say?!"
Ya La: "Su Zhou, I'm not going to be a snake anymore!"
After saying that, Ya La scurried to the top of Su Zhou's head. After a series of changes, the red little snake lay prostrate on the youth's head.
At this time, Su Zhou picked up his phone and looked at himself with the camera—still handsome—but, in addition to that, he found that there was half a black baseball cap on his head, with even a winding long strip logo on it.
The reason it's called half a cap is because this baseball cap only has the front half, and the back half has disappeared for some reason, not covering the hair in the back. If passersby don't look carefully, it's fine, but if they look carefully, they might think that the hat grew out of Su Zhou's hair!
Naturally, this half baseball cap is the form that Ya La transformed into!
"Oh! Awesome!"
Immediately, Su Zhou exclaimed, "I didn't expect you could change colors, Ya La!"
Su Zhou had known for a long time that Ya La could transform, as could be seen from the fact that it turned into a stress ball when it slept.
Ya La also responded, "How is it? Is it hidden enough this way?"
To be honest, it's not hidden at all, but at this time Su Zhou didn't need to hide Ya La. He already had enough strength to protect himself and the people around him, so he boasted without any reservations, "That goes without saying! As expected of you!"
This trip to the Samsara World, the biggest gain was the New World Crystal he obtained at the end.
The New World Crystal is like a miniature galaxy. It's a rhombus-shaped crystal with a black background and countless twinkling stars inside. Generally speaking, a New World Crystal that can be obtained by someone is already very impressive if it's the size of a grain of rice or a fingernail, and even at that size, it's enough to be used as a material for space equipment, creating a large-capacity space equipment that is extremely small and extremely hidden.
And the New World Crystal that Su Zhou obtained was the size of a fist. Using the 'Personal Space' secret technique taught by Ya La, he used it as a ritual material, transforming the entire New World Crystal into runes, engraving them on his soul, and then opening up a soul space. The initial length, width, and height were a full four hundred meters, enough to fit an aircraft carrier!
Opening the personal space doesn't require any other extra steps. Just like spiritual vision, concentrate your spirit, suggest it to yourself, and you can easily open it—and Su Zhou's chosen self-suggestion is to use the Blade of Annihilation to wave and cut through space.
As for why he chose this, it's mainly because it's handsome. Su Zhou himself likes it, and there's no other reason.
At this time, Su Zhou waved the Blade of Annihilation and opened his personal space. It can be seen that it's not like ordinary personal spaces or demi-planes, which are empty at the beginning. Because of the gains from the Samsara World, Su Zhou's personal space already has a complete cycle of the four elements.
The earth-brown elemental earth, the light-blue water elemental spring in its center, the fire elemental light hanging in the center of the space like a chandelier, and the whirlwind surrounding this small cycle... Although it's still very simple, it already has quite a presence.
"This is your new home!"
Su Zhou easily moved the Wisdom Tree from the Shao family's old house, along with all the Kunlun soil at its base, into his personal space, placing it well next to the spring to enjoy the care of the fire element. During the time Su Zhou was away, the Wisdom Tree had grown very large, almost like an ancient tree in a primeval forest.
Although it's still a bit far from the Pan Rong Immortal Tree, which grows one zhang every day and seven chi every night, in another six months or so, even the Shao family's old house wouldn't be able to hide it.
"Good! Cool!"
The spirit of the transplanted Wisdom Tree also twisted its branches and made a clear but intermittent praise: "Su... awesome!"
"Hey, you're sensible!" Hearing the praise from the spirit of the Wisdom Tree, Su Zhou patted the trunk with satisfaction, causing the Wisdom Tree to cry out in pain, "It hurts, it hurts..." And the youth continued, "This trip to the Samsara World, you can be considered to have made a great contribution. Without you, I wouldn't have been able to defeat the Water God, but it's a pity that the Demon Emperor Dragon Horn Spear was damaged. I have to find another new weapon."
It's strange, how could his spear be so severely damaged?
"Want, other, grass!"
At this time, the spirit of the Wisdom Tree also gave a little of its own small request—it felt that Su Zhou's personal space was good, but it didn't have other vegetation to set off its specialness, which was quite boring.
To this, Su Zhou said perfunctorily, "Ah, okay, no problem, um, I'll plant other grass for you."
After dealing with the Wisdom Tree, Su Zhou began to carefully examine the Blade of Annihilation in his hand.
Although, in terms of power, the breath of his condensed true form is his most powerful attack method now, the Blade of Annihilation is also Su Zhou's irreplaceable attack method—whether it's mixed in the breath as an armor-piercing steel cone, or used as a flying sword with Heavenly Lightning Sword Control, the Blade of Annihilation can perfectly cooperate with him.
What's more, it seems to be getting stronger now.
Su Zhou could see that on the black, earth's core iron blade of the Blade of Annihilation, there was a trace of blood flashing, which was the brilliance of the God's Blood, releasing pure baleful aura—holding this blade, even an ordinary cultivator could give people a dangerous and terrifying feeling.
Moreover, above the blood, Su Zhou's spiritual vision could vaguely see another layer of faint light, and black resentment.
How should I say it? This resentment is a bit like the black curse that surrounds evil spirits... But that light is not a curse, but something completely opposite to a curse.
"Could it be that this is the power of vows?"
Thinking that the Blade of Annihilation had been worshiped by the million residents of Nesser City for a long time, Su Zhou couldn't help but have a guess in his heart: "The curses on evil spirits are essentially the curses and resentments of other people whose fates have been affected by the master of the evil spirit. Just like the Water God, He certainly possesses the power of vows from the Water People, but the curses of the Earth People who were killed by Him in large numbers have also attached curses to Him."
"It is precisely these curses that allow the Supernatural Power Devouring Devil Lord to judge Him as an evil person—and I must have affected the fates of some people, so it is only natural that there is resentment condensed on this blade."
Conversely, this power of vows, which is the opposite of curses, is probably also a kind of power... Su Zhou vaguely has a feeling that his Supernatural Power Devouring Devil Lord can not only react to the curses of evil, but also probably react to the opposite power of vows... Whether this idea can become a reality depends on his future training.
The Blade of Annihilation, which houses a large amount of the power of vows, has not yet fully demonstrated its power, and Su Zhou is very much looking forward to it.
Finally, there are the evil spirits.
The evil spirits of the Water God and other Water People have greatly increased Su Zhou's affinity for the water attribute, and even made his water assist to the next level—at this time, Su Zhou doesn't even need to scrub his back when taking a bath, the water flow will automatically rub his shoulders with various just-right forces to relax his muscles, and washing dishes is the same, just turn on the faucet and dish soap, and the water and dish soap will automatically wash the dishes, scrub the dishes, and drain them!
Of course, washing clothes is the same, but Su Zhou hasn't tried it yet, but he thinks there won't be much difference.
"Even my weakest wind attribute among the four attributes now, its full burst of power is enough to accelerate iron sand to hypersonic speed, which can easily cut through tank armor and destroy buildings."
Looking around his entire body's abilities, Su Zhou suddenly has a sense of fulfillment: "Now I am simply invincible on Earth—and for cultivators of the same rank, even if they have the inheritance of immortals and gods, if they want to be evenly matched with me, at least a few more people are needed!"
After summarizing his gains and putting the Wisdom Tree into his space, and his true form has been shaped, Su Zhou can now be said to have perfectly achieved his original goal.
Taking out the Celestial God Imprint, the old pocket watch that made Ya La subconsciously tremble, Su Zhou could see that on the green imprint representing the God Tree World, there was another gray imprint shining.
That is the imprint representing the Silent Lord, representing the Samsara World Tartarus.
"God Tree World... I wonder how Zhou Buyi and the others are doing now."
Staring at the shining light on the Celestial God Imprint, Su Zhou couldn't help but miss them: "Now I have also advanced to the Commander rank. I can go back and see sometime to see how the God Tree World has developed during this time."
Of course, not now.
Now Su Zhou is planning to go home and have dinner with his parents, whom he hasn't seen for a long time.
"Sure enough, the food from my hometown tastes better."
At the same time.
No, it can't be said at the same time.
It should be said that at the moment when Su Zhou used the Celestial God Scale to open the connection between the Tartarus World and the Earth World.
May 20, 2014, European Union, 12:37 PM.
West Slavic District, in a small and medium-sized game studio that has recently emerged.
This game studio, called 11 Bit, is good at creating dark and depressing game atmospheres and writing about real human nature in various environments. In the past few years, they have only made several small-scale but extremely sophisticated games, including the sci-fi strategy series 'Alien: Earth War Zone' and the war survival game 'My War', all of which have been well received, and 'My War' is even considered by many game players to be a truly touching work of art.
However, recently, 11 Bit Studio has been in a stalemate. Some of this is due to the impact of the spiritual energy recovery—several programmers have awakened quite good cultivation talents, and a few have even gained superpowers and been absorbed by the European official superhuman organization 'Concord Bureau'.
Since they can eat official wages, enjoy superhuman welfare, and bask in the sun comfortably on the coast of Northern Europe, why should they work overtime in a small office in the West Slavic District to make games—of course, there are also some producers who really like to make games, even if they have awakened superpowers, they still want to make games, but that is ultimately a minority.
In fact, it is not just the game industry that has been affected worldwide. In the two years since the recovery of spiritual energy, in addition to the original complete industrial systems, a large number of spiritual energy-related industries have been added out of thin air, and before this industry brings benefits to all mankind, the feeling to all countries in the world is 'lack of people', extreme lack of people.
Spiritual energy-related industries lack people, and the original industries also lack people because they are bled by spiritual energy industries... But they must grit their teeth and persevere, at least to build the framework! Otherwise, they will fall behind the times and be unable to catch up with other countries.
It is precisely because of this that all countries in the world are now carrying out related industry intelligence, replacing low-end labor with only mechanical programs... After all, the first industry of the spiritual energy industry also requires a large population and cannot be replaced by machinery.
This huge industrial transformation, from a macro perspective, is like a huge vortex that is dragging all human beings into it.
Of course, narrowing the perspective to the individual level is just a trouble.
The game producer of 11 Bit was racking his brains, thinking about where to recruit a few employees to fill the manpower gap and develop new games... But today, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration and couldn't help but touch his increasingly sparse head: "Eureka!"
He shouted Eureka, his eyes shining with light: "I've got it, yes, that's it!"
At this moment, it was as if the inspiration of an entire world was pouring into his brain, making him radiant: "What I want to do is this!"
"What should I call it... This world, the Death Age? No, it's a bit too desperate." Thinking like this, he stood up and paced back and forth in the office: "Then, the Frostpunk Age? That's not right, after all, that place is not cold..."
"Yes, that's it—let's call it the Elemental Age!"