Soul of Burning Steel

The sun sinks.

There was only one broad, long, crimson arc left on the horizon.

The holder of the blood of the ancient dragon, a young dragon named by Earl Radcliffe with legendary qualifications, Hei, is lying in the vast wilderness on the west side of the Black Forest Fortress at this moment, powerless, with his eyes staring at the sky, Watching the fading sunset light from the corner of my eye, thinking about life.

"I should have been... just a war horse."

After a whole day of high-intensity training in a high-gravity environment, the black dragon girl who didn't want to move at all couldn't help feeling sad: "Even if I change bloodlines, I'm still a dragon, right?"

"Obviously, I only need to sleep to improve my strength, why do I have to exercise so hard every day?!"

"And the master never rides me - what's the use of my strength improvement?! He flies faster than me, carries a higher weight than me, is stronger than me, and sees farther than me. Is it really meaningful for me to exercise... ...Ah, the more I think about it, the more annoying I get, I'm so angry!"

"Ding dong~"

Just when the black dragon girl fell into the routine self-doubt and self-loathing at the end of daily training, accompanied by a clear ding-dong sound, a jet of water fell from the sky and poured on the black dragon that was exuding high heat and scorched and cracked the surrounding earth. body.

Baba—the sound of steam rising, and a ball of light happily fell from the sky, submerged in the steam, and then accurately stuck between the two corners of the black dragon girl.

"Woooooo... Sure enough, Xiaoguang is the only one who still loves me... You are the best!" I felt that the heat overflowing from my body due to over-exercise was sucked away by the ball of light above my head, and it also flowed out from the ball of light. A series of cool breaths repaired the injured body part of the black dragon girl. Hei was deeply moved, and then he struggled to get up, took Xiaoguang off his head (Xiaoguang: Ding Dong?), and hugged and rubbed vigorously in his arms: "And It still feels so good!"

It has been a while since Xiaoguang joined the big family of the Lord's Mansion.

According to everyone, especially Joshua's improvement in strength, Xiaoguang's original mysterious form of existence and mode of existence can gradually be analyzed.

Among them, the reason why Xiaoguang relies on to maintain his existence on weekdays, and why he especially likes to be with Hei, has been answered.

As a high-purity energy aggregate, Xiaoguang absorbs the free energy of the outside world all the time. Just like a fairy, it pays special attention to high-energy environments. Generally speaking, when Joshua is present, it will follow the fighters and use them to fight against the opponent. The power of high-purity steel overflowing from its body feeds on it. If the warrior is not around, it will choose the only black dragon girl among the people in the lord's mansion who has an entity and can radiate energy instead of absorbing it as a food source.

Because of the awakened black dragon bloodline, even if Hei controls it carefully, he will involuntarily overflow a large amount of high-energy energy. This is Xiaoguang's favorite source of energy. If it is too much, Xiaoguang will also give feedback and treatment intimately, just like an angel.

It's just that, not to mention the sensitive other people in the lord's mansion, even if they are a little dull, Hei, who often holds Xiaoguang in his arms and rubs him, can't help but feel a little puzzled after living together for a long time and witnessing each other's growth.

Hei raised the light ball in his hand and aimed it at the last light of the setting sun at the new end of the horizon. The light silver brilliance and the deep sunset red blended together, which made the structure at its core clearer.

It can be seen that inside the nearly solid energy barrier, a small silver vortex is rotating at the core of Xiaoguang.

"Why is your form, Xiaoguang...so familiar?"

"Why is your form...so familiar?"

Starfall 840, on the afternoon of April 20th, Blood Moon Abyss.

Joshua stood on the outside of the blood moon that was about to become the sun, and whispered to himself: "Not only that, but the essence of your existence is also so familiar... All souls, all civilizations, and all races in one world The geometry of life, plus the resentment that civilization was deceived and led to the destruction of the world-look at this huge vortex of soul, light, you say.

"You and the evil god are so similar."

In the Blood Moon Abyss, on the huge floating continent, a towering blood-colored tree is thriving.

Nearly a quarter of the lake of blood, which is so vast that it is almost the ocean, is covered by this mutated tree of life. The huge root system fixes the structure of the continent, and the falling leaves from time to time cause ripples in the sea of ​​blood.

It can be seen that there is a bright sun hanging directly above the giant tree, providing majestic energy and light and heat all the time.

Joshua stood in the middle of the giant tree and the sun—that is, the blood moon. Facing the figure of light who didn't seem to understand what he said, the soldier smiled helplessly.

"That's right, you haven't seen the evil god, and you don't understand what I'm talking about."

He whispered to himself, and then returned to his normal expression: "Also, rather than saying that you are similar to the evil god, it is better to say that the evil god is similar to you."

The predecessor of the Blood Moon Abyss, the world of Xilaye, is a world of empty islands. Because the original sun gradually dimmed and extinguished, civilization was almost cut off and races were almost extinct. In desperation, they sent a void battleship in an attempt to obtain assistance from other civilizations. If it was impossible, they could also transport some seeds of civilization to avoid the end of the entire family's extinction.

Whether their luck is good or bad, they did encounter a 'friendly' void civilization and got the other party's way to avoid the crisis-because it was weak, the Xilaye civilization had no choice but to follow The seemingly gentle practice of the void civilization launched a ritual to awaken the sun.

Then they 'became' the sun.

According to the information collected by Joshua in the follow-up, it should be the black mist that the Xilaye civilization encountered at the beginning. Civilization self-destructed, forming a mass of blood-colored stars with pure energy. But for some reason, the black mist did not recover the energy soul aggregate of this civilization. It was not until thousands of years later that the five-color dragon ball and the demon took a fancy to this powerful energy aggregate, and prepared to use its power to break through the conflict with Mike. The time and space channel of the Rove world, to achieve the abyss ceremony, to destroy the seven sacred mountains, the biggest thorn in their eyes.

Needless to say, Joshua's arrival seemed to ignite the blood-colored star that had been silent for thousands of years, causing the aggregate of "all souls, all energies, and all lives in a world" to regenerate will, transform Made the embryonic form of the will of the world.

But in fact, this process is a bit different from the birth process of the serious steel python.

After all, Joshua is also a person who often gathers and chats with Calliss and other steel pythons. He naturally knows that the birth of the steel python requires a civilization with wisdom as its foundation. But let alone intelligent life in the world of Xilaye, even the souls of the dead are condensed into one. Logically speaking, the Steel Python would not have been born so soon.

But facts speak louder than words, Xiaoguang has appeared, so can it be assumed that it does not exist? Just when Karlis was deep in thought, thinking about whether there were multiple possibilities for the birth of the steel python, Joshua had a vague guess in his mind.

That is Xiaoguang's body, which is actually not the orthodox steel python, but another peculiar existence.

Think about it carefully, the destruction of civilization, the demise of the world, the resentment of being deceived and the despair of being forced to merge into one... Coupled with the gathering of infinite energy and souls, this process, this condition, is exactly the same as the evil god!

Of course, Xiaoguang is not an evil god, Joshua is sure of this.

The only difference between Xiaoguang and the Cthulhu is that a mysterious force may have intervened in the birth of the Cthulhu, and the birth of Xiaoguang is just a "similarity" caused by a coincidence... But, in this world, the mere similarity is very different. enough.

Even ordinary people without magic power, if they draw a character that is exactly the same as the rune, then the characters will also have magical power. If it is running, then he can also use fighting skills.

Magic spells and martial arts movements are all tools created to be 'similar' to the steps of using real extraordinary power, because as long as the method is the same, even if the user is unintentional, the same result will be produced.

Xiaoguang... It is very likely that it was born by accident, not mixed with chaos, resentment and despair were also purified, and no destruction, war orders were written, pure white and flawless, pure natural...

evil god.

But this statement is too weird-can an evil god who has no chaos, neither resentment nor despair, let alone destroy civilization, be called an evil god? Even things like the will of the abyss might be more similar.

Rather, it is just resurrected from the identity of a world's undead. It turns into the sun to shine on the world, and revives the blood moon abyss. This is basically a reincarnation within a world.

Xiaoguang's main body, the doll of light, didn't understand what Joshua said, and didn't care about those words. It just happily shone a beam of light on top of Joshua's head.

"Thank you very much." Feeling that the surrounding energy was rapidly becoming thicker, Joshua raised his head and smiled helplessly: "But there is no need, I just came to visit you."

But then again, so far, Joshua has never seen a normal world, the situation after normal destruction.

There is no such record even in the big information database of Guangyao Era.

Some time ago, the soldier even specifically asked the steel python Karlis, but the other party's answer also indicated that it was not clear.

"How long is the lifespan of a world? If it weren't for the existence of civilization, it would not be surprising for ordinary primitive life worlds to exist for hundreds of millions of years, billions of years, or even until the stars burn out."

This is what Karlis said. At that time, the steel python was wrapped around the shoulder of the soldier, and he said helplessly: "Actually, some dead worlds were born in this way. Their suns burned out, so primitive life Therefore, it is extinct—but any world with steel pythons, or civilizations, will not wait until that day to be destroyed due to war or other reasons... Most of those abyss worlds were born because of this. .”

A normal world with intelligent life, no one knows the end after the natural death.

According to Joshua's speculation, the final outcome of the world should be self-disintegration, turning into one of the energy sources of the great demon tide, the power of steel drifts away, and finally gathers somewhere, like a maelstrom in the void, waiting to be reborn into the world Moment.

But looking at it now, perhaps, the ending of such a world will be the same as that of Xiaoguang. All the lives and souls that once existed will be integrated into one, re-turned into the sun, and perform another reincarnation.

Like [eternity], there is no need to experience destruction and rebirth, and it goes on and on forever and ever.

"[Eternity]... Haha, is this also eternity?" Joshua couldn't help laughing because of his own thinking: "How could I have such an idea? If even this kind of reincarnation is called eternity, then what in the world? Isn’t it eternal? Even the memory of the soul has been emptied and changed. In terms of this, it is not as good as the evil god.”

It is also an existence born of countless souls mixed with the will of the world. At least the evil god still holds the memories that all souls had at the beginning. Those memories are its information barrier and the basic unit of its core structure.

If you have to talk about eternity, the evil god is almost indestructible, almost impossible, and very difficult to kill. Perhaps it can barely be regarded as "half eternity". It can exist in the world for a longer time than the world, but it cannot live forever without dying.

Of course, even so, it is closer to [eternity] than any existence in the world.

Joshua always had a lingering sense of familiarity and sight in his heart, but he couldn't think of any connection for a while, so he simply gave up thinking about this aspect, and then entered the blood moon abyss, Played with the doll of light for a while, making him happy.

In any case, no matter how similar Xiaoguang's essence is to the evil god, it is now the light and heat of a nascent world, representing a brand new future and hope.

If it is possible, Joshua really wants to purify the other evil gods into Xiaoguang's current appearance. Although it is impossible and there is no way to do it, he still can't help thinking about it... Those evil gods born out of resentment, despair and sorrow, even if they are destroyed, will not eliminate the mist and haze that shroud the world. Only by turning them into flames can they illuminate the dark multiverse again .

Transformed into a gigantic thousand-meter giant, the warrior stroked the long hair of the figure of light, which was like a band of light. The soft touch made him reveal a relaxed smile.

But suddenly, Joshua's smile froze.

wait a minute.

He thought so. wait a while.

——If we say that the steps of the formation of the evil god are similar to Xiaoguang's experience, they all condense the soul, life and energy of a world to form a huge entity.

So.

The bottom of the legendary abyss, the place where the steel fragments of countless worlds condense, the despair, pain, and resentment of countless destroyed worlds, plus the endless gathering of souls of the lost... That unprecedented "Nirvana Land" land'.

There, the darkest place in the galaxy of the entire world, the place where the sages and the evil gods of abundance will battle.

Isn't it the hotbed where the evil god is the biggest and most likely to be born? !

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