High Above

"Ian? Are you okay?"

Inside the ice dragon's nest, next to the dragon's nest.

Next to the huge dark gold dragon's body, due to the high heat generated by the previous battle, the black ice that had lasted for thousands of years all over the dragon's nest was slowly melting.

With the dragon's body as the center, a semicircular dome appears. The almost boiling heat is like a waterfall flying out, beating the surrounding area into clouds.

What does ice and fire mean? This is an example. Whether it is the cold air of the dragon's nest or the high radiant heat next to the dark gold dragon, it is difficult for ordinary people to get close. However, the two seriously injured sublimates still rushed into this foggy area and tried their best. Using all his strength to rescue a man from the dragon's belly.

"Uh... not bad."

Being pulled out by his friend like a carrot from the dragon's flesh, the blood on Ian's body was quickly washed away by the dripping hot water. Although he couldn't move, he could still look at the two of them with worry. My friend laughed and said, "Look, I'm still alive. What an unexpected good news."

"Your body is in tatters!"

Xio pointed this out mercilessly. She poked the wound on the boy's left arm that had not fully healed: "What medicine do you need? Don't take it seriously. Although we have killed this big guy, let's go on next There are still things to do!”

"Yes." Ethan sighed. He lifted Ian's head from the gradually deepening water, and then took out a few potions used to replenish physical strength and source of energy from his arms, preparing to pour them into Ian. He said: "If nothing else happens, there is already a fight outside the ruins, and inside the ruins... I am afraid there are also several fourth-level experts coming in."

"When you were fighting this real dragon just now, the entire subspace labyrinth was shaken. That must be the aftermath of Speaker Yafoda's battle with a certain strong man."

"That's true." After drinking the potion, the exhausted Ian shook his head and propped up his body. He sat cross-legged in the boiling water and slowly recovered his strength: "Speaker Yapheta is probably in the process now. The battle with Galan and the Campani Ancestor in her body... we haven’t reached the time to rest yet.”

"You guys should also take some medicine to restore your strength. We will have a lot to do later and strive to recover as well as possible."

With that said, Ian motioned for the two of them to sit down as well. He smiled calmly: "While I am recovering, I will confess to you the current situation and my true identity."

"...As long as you think it's okay, of course I want to know." Ethan and Xiou looked at each other. The blond boy sighed, but the real dragon asked enthusiastically: "I'm really curious - Ian , you can actually fight back and forth with a fourth-level real dragon!"

"Even if this real dragon looks seriously injured, it shouldn't be something that ordinary third-level people can fight against!"

"Of course that's because I'm not an ordinary third-level person."

After moving his left arm, Ian showed it to the two of them: "Look, the biological ether furnace heart. I call him ether crystal, the fourth-level sublimated organ."

With that said, the pale silver mithril lines on the light golden crystal arms gradually turned into blazing white. This was a sign that the mithril lines were operating at full power, and the fluctuations of source material visible to the naked eye continued to spread heat in all directions. In an instant, the surrounding rainwater, which was already close to boiling temperature, evaporated into mist.

But even though they were obscured by clouds and fog, Xiou and Ethan were still shocked to see clearly the shining light patterns behind the fog.

"No wonder!"

Xio exclaimed: "You actually have a fourth-level elemental heart... No wonder your battery life is so strong. Even a third-level true dragon doesn't have this ability, but you are stronger than a true dragon, for sure. There is an additional source of sefirah.”

"But I didn't expect that you actually have a fourth-level biological ether furnace!"

"Really?!"

And Ethan was even more unable to calm down. Although the young man had long known that Ian's left hand was extraordinary and might be some kind of dragon blood organ... but he didn't know that the thing in this arm was actually a 'biological ether furnace'.

"The reason why our Ellen family's etheric weapon, 'An Hua', has not reached perfection for so long is precisely because it does not have a separate energy source and needs to be supplied by us ascendants..."

Isen murmured: "Although the enhancement of the breeding equipment allows those of us who possess the blood of the corroded dragon to burst out several times the power in a short period of time... but the energy consumption is also several times."

"This is all because we have not mastered the technology of 'Dragon Heart Core' and 'Biological Aether Furnace'... so our Ellen family has always wanted..."

Ethan didn't finish what he said, but everyone knew that the Ellen family had always wanted to capture a true dragon for research and improve their inheritance.

But now, Ian appears in front of Ethan with the most critical technology.

"actually."

Ian pointed to his chest with a bit of embarrassment - because of the battle, the boy's upper body was now only wearing a dark dragon skin vest.

But just behind the dragon skin vest, a golden-red halo was slowly lighting up: "Actually, I also have the core of a dragon's heart."

This time, not only Ethan was stunned, but also Xio who was standing beside him was stunned.

"What?!"*2

The dragon girl and the boy shouted together. One of them was shocked, the other was in disbelief. Overall, they looked very much like passers-by in knight novels.

But facing the Dragon Heart Core, how many people in this world can not be shocked?

Both Ethan and Xio knew that Ian would never deceive them at this time, not to mention that the surging dragon aura and the power that was thick enough to shake the crust of the mountain were enough to prove that Ian's Within the body, there is indeed the heart core of an earth-type true dragon.

The fifth energy level...the core!

"No wonder you can defeat that dragon, Ian! Oh my God, my mother hasn't even condensed the core of the fifth energy level!"

Xio stood up excitedly. She walked back and forth several times. After the shock in her heart was relieved, she sat back down again and said cautiously to the white-haired boy: "You don't know what this means, do you?"

"This means...as soon as you reach the peak of the fourth energy level, you can try to break through to the fifth energy level!"

"Huh?"

This sentence made Ian stunned: "What is this?"

"The fifth level is not promoted by magic potions."

Ethan suppressed the shock and surprise in his heart, took a deep breath, and slowly explained to Ian: "The limit of the potion is the fourth energy level... To break through the fifth energy level, you need to go through various methods. Means to obtain the key power of the fifth energy level."

"The core represents the energy source, the phase neural network represents spiritual energy and reaction ability, the spinal cord represents will perception...and many others, such as the authority system representing destructive power, the immortal bone representing vitality, and calculation The crystal soul of ability..."

"With these abilities, as long as you get one sublimator at the peak of the fourth energy level, you can use this to break through to the 'fifth energy level'."

Having said this, Ethan also slowly calmed down. He pointed to Ian's heart and said seriously: "As long as you get three of them together, you can claim to be at the fifth level of perfection. But this is still not the 'top'."

"The so-called top seat is the 'fifth-level inheritance' that can pass on at least two fifth-level sublimated organs to the next generation!"

"For example, our Ellen family, even if we are lucky enough to get the materials of a fifth-level monster, make it our own, and have a fifth-level... that is only temporary."

"As long as our technology does not reach the point where we can pass on the power of the fifth level to the next generation of successors, we are just a temporary upstart and cannot be called the top!"

"Even if one can be passed on, it will be regarded as a reserve for the 'big power in the future'."

The blond boy said seriously: "That's what you have now, Ian."

"Although I don't know what method the first knight used to pass on his Dragon Heart Core to you... But now, you already have the ticket to enter the fifth energy level!"

"Moreover, you already have the fourth-level 'Power Furnace Heart'..." At this point, Ethan couldn't help but get excited again, and started to stand up like Xiou beside him, and performed the two-person transfer step around Ian. : "This means that the time it takes for you to reach the fourth energy level will be shorter than we thought!"

"Oh my god, my god... So, as long as you reach the fourth energy level and then reach the peak of cultivation, you can break through to the fifth energy level without any bottleneck... How old were you then? Maybe less than three. Ten? Early thirties at most, right? The First Knight is not that fast either, he has a bright future..."

Isengard looked like he almost fainted. He was obviously shocked by this possibility: "You actually gathered the most important materials for the Ascended so early..."

"It's actually like this... I thought it would save a lot of trouble, but now it seems... it's more than just a little bit."

Ian suddenly understood. He lowered his head, looked at the light flashing on his chest, and smiled slightly: "Teacher... you really helped me a lot."

After a moment of silence, the young man raised his head: "Speaking of this, I think it is necessary to tell you how the teacher gave me the core of the ancient dragon. That is also related to the reason why I fought with this dark gold dragon."

With a wave of his hand, Ian signaled his two friends to stop circling around him: "That is a powerful prop given to the 'Pioneer' by a super civilization called Star God. It has been passed down from generation to generation and was handed over by Inaga II. Give me Teacher Hilliard, and then Teacher Hilliard..."

"Don't talk about this yet. Anyway, I already know that you are the direct heir of your great-grandfather and the first knight. You inherited their important inheritance, including the core of the ancient dragon."

Ethan shook his head, indicating that there was no need to rush to tell them such important news here: "On the contrary, I have important news to tell you."

"That's the news about... the 'Eclipse Dragon Bloodline' in my body."

Ethan told Ian the information about the 'Dragon of Thousand Planets' that he got from the ancient dragon Echo.

"...Echo of the Ancient Dragon...Does the Blazing Star Dragon preserve its consciousness in the remaining fragments of its body?"

Frowning slightly, Ian can completely understand Ethan's caution - this news is indeed very important: "I also learned about the identity of the 'Beast of a Thousand Stars' from Echo, the controller of the dark gold dragon behind us."

"That is an ancient and powerful, super-civilized fire... because it will swallow up the entire ecosystem and other fires, it was sealed under the earth of Terra..."

Ian also shared information about the Beast of Thousand Planets with Ethan and Xiou.

Now that things have happened, they have all discovered that the name of Eclipse Light Refining Dragon actually revealed some clues.

The burning of fire is the so-called 'light'... Eating light to refine a dragon, devouring light and refining it into a dragon is a metaphor for the essence of the 'Beast of Thousand Stars' that swallows other fires and transforms them into a part of itself!

"So, that Elger and I can still be considered brothers?"

After knowing that behind his family's bloodline was the 'Beast of Thousand Planets', a super biological disaster that was close to the detonator of Terra's civilization, Ethan could only sigh with a bitter smile: "He is the parasite of the Beast of Thousand Planets. Our Ellen family is so powerful, we might as well be the Beast of Thousand Stars itself!”

"No. There is still a slight difference between the Dragon of Thousand Stars and the Beast of Thousand Stars." Ian pondered, he slowly shook his head and said: "The true dragon is the guardian of civilization, and also has the same power as civilization. The Dragon of Thousand Stars is the guardian of the Thousand Stars." The guardian of the star civilization is not the fire itself. Even if it has the combat power of a thousand-star civilization, it is very different from the fire."

"On the contrary, you said that you think you are the 'Key to Darkness', which interests me very much."

Speaking softly, Ian thoughtfully recalled the content of his exchange with Bishop Baiwu in the Great Labyrinth of the South China Sea.

——The reason why Inaga II caused huge disaster was because he wanted to become the master of the labyrinth...

——Although there is no connection, the Key of Darkness is related to the maze... If the processed light-refining dragon bloodline is the key, then the maze it can open is undoubtedly related to the 'Beast of Thousand Stars' related……

——In other words, Inaga II, at that time, was he actually thinking about unsealing the Beast of Thousand Stars? !

Thinking of this, Ian couldn't help but feel a little horrified - he had seen some images of the Beast of Thousand Planets raging in Echo's memory. It was the ultimate destroyer that invaded the entire continent like a tide, without any pause or intolerance.

If the Star God, whom the people of Terra hadn't called 'Heavenly Father', hadn't come and banned the beast of a thousand stars, Terra would have become a barren and dead planet.

But, reverse.

Reverse your thinking.

If we say, the Beast of Thousand Stars is the final boss of the planet 'Terra', the big devil that no one can ignore.

So, the so-called maze...

Isn't it the entire planet Terra?

And one of the top-secret plans that Isengard obtained, the plan called the 'Dark Key'... is probably a plan to open this maze and try to become the master of the maze!

Ian raised his head and looked at Isengard.

The two looked at each other, each finding what they wanted in the other's eyes.

"I see." Ian murmured: "No wonder Axel's attitude towards you is so strange... He probably has no intention of actually opening any maze at the moment, and he doesn't even have the desire to learn from Inaga II and become Lord of the Labyrinth."

"But, the key is here... It's impossible to give up. Such precious technology and such precious ideas must not be wasted - so he is still training you as much as possible to make you... a part of the empire's plan to destroy the world. key."

"It's just like the development of nuclear weapons...it doesn't have to be used, but it must be studied. Is this the ultimate deterrent?"

"...I think it might not be that exaggerated."

Ethan was a little unnatural. He still felt a little erratic and unrealistic: "I am actually carrying such a major plan... It's incredible no matter how you think about it..."

"Don't always look down on yourself, Ethan. Don't compare yourself to me. I'm a pioneer."

Patting his friend on the shoulder, the white-haired boy felt that the other person might have been frightened by his performance, and he was under a lot of pressure now. He comforted him: "Don't worry, there will be four orthodox sects to hold up the sky if it falls."

"Speaking of this matter, the Huaiguang Church must have known about all this back then... If I can go back safely this time, I will have to find an opportunity to meet the Huaiguang priests at the archbishop level or even above. "

The Light of Embracing Light... This name is just like the Eclipsed Light Refining Dragon. Behind the seemingly ordinary name, there must be a more profound meaning.

That would surely reveal more of the truth on Terra.

Ian turned his head and looked at Xio, who was wagging his tail and looking at him expectantly: "What about you? What new news do you have!"

"That ancient dragon also told me a lot of things!" Seeing Ian taking the initiative to ask himself, Xiou immediately told Ian with pride what the ancient dragon had said to him.

"Devil...this is also a problem."

Ian frowned slightly.

Although he had known for a long time that fifth-generation true dragons like Xiou were the result of Dragon Island's research on the 'real dragon life transformation'... But he did not expect that Xiou's void demon poison was actually part of the plan.

Without experiencing 'original sin', one cannot become 'life'... In this case, the origin of those extraordinary numbers of demons... is probably the sparks of civilization that ended on Terra.

Perhaps that is the biggest curse and resentment that many civilizations have for this planet and intelligent civilization that buried themselves.

"Why……"

Thinking of this, Ian couldn't help but let out a long sigh: "I thought that after figuring out the truth about the Star Prison and the Star God, things about Terra would be clearer... Now it seems that what Echo said is probably quite one-sided. ah."

"In the final analysis, He is just an echo from 1,600 years ago."

To be honest, what Echo said, the news about the Star God, the Demon of the End, and the bleak future of this universe, really gave Ian a huge shock.

However, there was one thing that Ian didn't believe from beginning to end, which led him to doubt the authenticity of the information in Echo's mouth.

That is ‘The Star God is Dead’.

The Star God cannot be dead. This is what Ian is most certain about.

No matter what the life essence of the Star Gods is, they are super beings powerful enough to create the "Great Ether Circulation" that runs through time and space. Their creations and the "Ether System" that is enough to rewrite the rules of the universe are still functioning well. , can be used by all beings, how can we say they are dead?

Ether is the weapon, knowledge base, transportation tool, and working method of the Star God... It can even be said that the ether is a part of the Star God!

Even if the Demon of Finality has no intelligence and is just a natural disaster, it is impossible for it to simply destroy the Star God without causing any harm to the etheric system. it's out of the question.

Therefore, as long as the source of matter, psychic energy, and the ether system are still functioning, Ian is certain that the Star God is definitely not dead.

They... may just retreat temporarily, just like they built the 'Cradle' and the 'Prison of the Star' to deceive the Demon of the End, deceiving the enemy into thinking that they no longer exist, and then observing their reaction.

In addition, Ian also had a rather incredible guess in his mind.

That is the speculation about his inner light body ‘Guiding Star’.

Ian's heart-light body, the Guiding Star, can search for information in parallel time and space, and then obtain other possible information about himself and exchange it with them.

Although he has only connected himself from two parallel time and spaces, Ian has already explored countless possibilities.

And these infinite parallel spaces and times... are all shrouded in the 'Great Ether Gyre'.

‘Ether’ is not the existence of a single universe of time and space, it is a ‘super-space-time construction’ that transcends the universe itself and runs through infinite parallel time and space!

(The Star God...may indeed have left our universe.)

The young man murmured in his heart: (So even I can’t respond to the fact that I became a pioneer)

(But this does not mean that they do not exist with other parallel time and space... If nothing else, infinite parallel time and space means infinite possibilities. If the star gods of our universe lose, the star gods of other parallel universes may Did you win?)

(No, is it possible that the Star Gods are a kind of life that can travel through different parallel time and space? And their departure is to go to other parallel time and space to temporarily escape?)

(In other words, if I can let my self in parallel time and space contact the Star God of their universe...then I may be able to rely on the Guiding Star, prostitute them for the help they get, and even directly attract the attention of the Star God ?)

These are all possible things.

Compared to Echo's despair, because the field of vision is wider and more information can be observed, Ian always remains "optimistic".

Moreover, it doesn’t matter even if you really lose.

Ian had already made up his mind, even if he really lost, then he would pack all his memories, experiences and part of his strength into the Guiding Star and throw it to himself in a parallel time and space as early as possible in the timeline.

Although the Guiding Star may not be able to carry much power and information, and may only have a little key information and power seeds, compared to the beginning of his life, the Prophet Ian II who accepted the 'guidance' of his Guiding Star ', you can definitely go further than him.

'Prophet Ian II', who has such a powerful mind and spiritual power, will never despair and give up the fight like Echo!

"I might lose, but 'Ian' doesn't."

With this thought in mind, Ian cheered up and prepared to take a good look at what he had gained after defeating the Last Echo.

However, just when Ian was about to take out the 'Soul of Source', he suddenly paused.

"etc……"

Under the somewhat confused gazes of Isengard and Xio, the white-haired boy suddenly lowered his head. He put his hands on both sides of his temples with a solemn expression: "Wait!"

"Precognition vision... the guiding star... the Su Hui I recalled when I was eight years old..." He quickly whispered a few key words: "The silent period or the incubation period... After waking up, you can directly awaken your spiritual energy. With soul... Ian's light body and spiritual energy in other parallel time and space may not be prophets and guiding stars. I am special, but I may not be the first special..."

"Exactly the same memory, as well as the thought pattern... Damn it! No matter whether the name is Su Hui or the mystery of breaking the womb, isn't this an echo?! It's just an echo that transcends time and space, and even spans the universe!"

"Wait, Ian, calm down... at least this is not a bad thing, and it may not be an echo, but a mirror..."

Mumbling something that the two of them could not understand, mixed with a lot of Chinese phrases, the prophet looked at his hands in confusion, and he laughed strangely: "The Cejalrovo family has unearthed echoes of the previous era. ...All the elders voluntarily were 'punished', which means that the echo can be latent in the body of normal life and wake up after a period of time..."

"If it were me, there is really no guarantee that if I throw my memories and thoughts to other Ian, he will accept it immediately... He will have to adapt for some years before he can be gradually awakened and 'awaken' to the memory and power I gave him... …”

Raising his head, Ian looked at his two friends who were looking at him with worried eyes. At this moment, he felt huge shock and confusion in his heart, and there was also an emotion that he didn't know whether it was 'surprise' or 'surprise'. Writhing: "If everything goes as I speculated..."

"Is my precognitive vision really a prophet?"

"And am I really a 'mirror' or an 'echo' wandering in the past and future in different parallel time and space?!"

A very important chapter, I think quality is more important.