Chapter 1346: Chapter 1346: The Ceremony Begins (Big Chapter Asking for Monthly Tickets)

The pervasive radiance converged on the round platform, and the once slender spear had already lost its shape, transforming into a mass of twisted light. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

Some unruly and restless aura of contamination was spreading from that light, surging towards He Ao’s soul.

’Analysis’ was already completely finished. Left on the round platform was the ’Talent Sequence 209: Thunder Dominator’ extracted from Andaville’s Spear.

He Ao gazed at the twisted light on the round platform, his figure flashing beside Li Cheng, and he slowly opened his mouth, asking softly, "Are you ready?"

Upon hearing his voice, Li Cheng raised his head, glanced at He Ao behind him, then turned his gaze back to the light on the platform and gently nodded, "Ready."

"Then let’s start," He Ao raised his hand, taking out the Secret Silver Bottle that Li Cheng had given him earlier. Some thunder radiance flowed within, illuminating the intricate patterns on the bottle, "Take this."

"This bottle was given to me by Liu, he was influenced too, could there be any issues?"

Li Cheng looked at the Secret Silver Bottle and asked softly.

"There are issues," He Ao replied swiftly without any pause, "But I just dealt with them."

On this bottle’s mithril, a finely inscribed array was hidden deep within. It was inherently non-aggressive and wouldn’t reveal itself proactively. Without a careful examination, it was impossible to discover it.

However, while He Ao was engraving the Strengthening Magic Array, he almost explored every area inside the bottle, thus found this array.

The essence of the array was a very simple yet efficient long-distance activation communication array, akin to some sort of deep locator. Once remotely activated, it instantly relays the bottle’s current state and the information of the items within to the person the array targets.

Apparently, this array most likely targets the Starlight Silhouette.

Hence, He Ao utilized this array. He estimated it probably had the effect of recording the final information.

Previously when ’misleading’ the Starlight Silhouette, He Ao deliberately loaded some of Andaville’s Spear’s power into the bottle, then pretended to ’suddenly discover something amiss,’ thoroughly destroying the array.

This ’misleading,’ coupled with He Ao’s clone outside creating a ’waterfall’ to attract the Starlight Silhouette’s attention, multiple overlapping influences allowed Li Cheng to smoothly dismantle Andaville’s Spear without interference.

"Alright."

Li Cheng looked up at ’Hao Yi,’ knowing that the whole process was certainly not as simple as ’Hao Yi’ made it sound, but now wasn’t the time to elaborate on these things.

He reached out, took the Secret Silver Bottle from He Ao, leaned forward, and brought the bottle’s mouth close to the center of the twisted white light on the round platform.

The light gathered together, with thunder flickering finer than strands of hair among them. Upon closer inspection, it seemed layers of dense thunder were coagulating here, melting into some form of liquid.

Each time the fine thunder radiance flickered, He Ao felt a sense of ’heart palpitations.’ The power contained within these tiny thunders seemed even stronger than real thunder.

The thunder permeated around, seemingly intending to tear apart everything that approached.

However, when Li Cheng leaned forward, the thunder didn’t attack him, instead it clustered together, slowly ’creeping’ towards his direction.

Seeing this, Li Cheng was slightly taken aback. Only then did he realize why ’Hao Yi’ wanted him to collect this mass of radiance.

Nearby, scattered electric sparks spread, hitting Li Cheng, but the main electric light of the radiance mass did not attack him.

He Ao quietly watched this scene.

It seems the ’fusion degree’ with the item formed from the Talent Sequences also influences the ’affinity’ of the extracted Talent Sequences from this item.

His hypothesis wasn’t wrong.

He also moved slightly forward, approaching Li Cheng, ready to immediately initiate rescue if accidents occurred.

Yet in the end, no accidents occurred, Li Cheng brought the bottle’s mouth closer to the light mass, and the residual thunder from Andaville’s Spear inside the bottle emitted a slightly surging radiance, akin to a child seeing its mother.

And that twisted thunder ’liquid,’ upon sensing the residual thunder, slowly passed through the bottle mouth and settled into the small bottle.

The thunder within the bottle instantly assimilated, transforming into waving thunder radiance.

Dazzling light flashed on the bottle, connecting into intricate patterns, which were the Strengthening Magic Array engraved by He Ao, briefly enhancing the bottle’s power.

"Did it succeed?"

Li Cheng picked up the bottle, looking a bit uncertainly towards He Ao.

It seemed he did not expect things to go so ’smoothly,’ without any setbacks.

Of course, he wouldn’t consider this as ’luck,’ throughout this process, there surely were ’arrangements’ by the person before his eyes.

’Hao Yi’ always seemed to have the ability to dissolve danger before it arrives, making it appear as if he did nothing.

Bang—

And as he spoke, almost as soon as his word fell completely, a soft sound came from the bottle in his hand.

Fine cracks unknowingly emerged on the mithril bottle surface, and the flowing ’Strengthening Magic Array’ radiance instantly became sluggish.

The small bottle inherently lacked the capacity to carry Angel Tier Talent Sequences; if not for the Strengthening Magic Array engraved by He Ao, the bottle would have shattered the moment the ’thunder liquid’ was loaded in.

Li Cheng lowered his head, looking somewhat astonished at the bottle in his hand.

Bang—

And with his gaze, dense cracks appeared on the bottle once again.

"We don’t have much time, let’s go hold the ritual first," He Ao glanced at the cracks on the bottle, quickly said, "You’ve prepared everything needed for the ritual, start the ritual."

Woo—

The sound of an old train’s rumbling echoed amidst the flashing array radiance.

"So fast?" Li Cheng widened his eyes looking at ’Hao Yi,’ "Was it He Ao?"

Though He Ao previously said he could get water and heat from someplace, he didn’t expect He Ao to settle it this quickly.

It’s too absurd.

Even running a pipe from the Main World wouldn’t be this fast.

"More or less," He Ao replied casually, "Got some other help."

Clack—

The old train stopped behind the two, the door opened. He Ao looked at Li Cheng and quickly said, "Let’s go."

"Alright." Li Cheng didn’t ask more and got on the train directly.

He knew that relying solely on ’He Ao’s’ strength, it was largely impossible to accomplish this task; there must have been help from that ’K.’

The two quickly got on the train, and just as the doors were about to close, He Ao looked up and glanced at the stone egg above.

The glow at the base of the stone egg had long disappeared, but it wasn’t until the ’Thunder Liquid’ was completely collected into the small bottle that He Ao could vaguely feel the ’eye’ deep within the egg close again, falling into a deep slumber.

The speeding train reentered the void, leaving only the ancient stone egg in the empty hall, emitting a faint blue light.

——

Relic · Near-Space

The Crimson Giant placed the last man-made sun in the sky, with the densely packed man-made suns clustering together like a group of stars, covering the entire gray-white planet.

The scorching sunlight baked the earth, evaporating and boiling all the water droplets covering the planet.

Thick vapor permeated the sky, forming mass upon mass of clouds on the planet’s surface.

The Crimson Giant put away the black book page in his hand, blinked once, lowered his gaze, and watched the planet below, which was shrouded in clouds and vapors.

He stood there with his hands at his sides, floating silently in the void, seemingly protecting something on the planet.

Silent stillness enveloped the empty space.

The Crimson Giant stood there like an eternal mountain range, obstructing the arrival of unwelcome guests.

It was unknown how much time had passed when wisps of spreading starlight emerged from the depths of the void, reaching out from the darkness like probing tendrils, cautiously spying on the Crimson Giant’s condition.

The Crimson Giant seemed unaware, still quietly standing in the cosmos.

The starlight continued to ’gaze at’ the giant, and after a brief wait, confirming the giant made no movements, it once again silently and swiftly spread out.

Just then, the Crimson Giant slowly raised his head, turned his neck slightly, shifting his gaze toward the other side of the gray-white planet.

The extending starlight paused slightly.

After another brief wait, confirming the giant merely changed direction, the spreading starlight once again began to surge outward.

Soon, it accelerated rapidly, surpassing its previous speed, expanding into the dark void.

These starlights quietly transformed into sharp Starlight Swords in the deep space, then transformed into a stream of light, abruptly piercing toward the Crimson Giant ahead.

The stream of light reached the back of the Crimson Giant, but as if piercing through a blurry illusion, it passed through without obstruction.

The entire deep black void fell silent.

The massive Crimson Giant glanced at the illusion that had already passed in front of him, slightly smiling, then in an instant, he transformed into scattered light, dissolving into the deep space.

The Starlight Sword shattered in a moment, condensing into a gigantic Starlight Giant, who raised his head and glanced at the area where the Crimson Giant had dissipated.

The colossal Crimson Giant was long gone, leaving only an empty illusion behind.

The Starlight Giant turned his head towards the gray-white planet, gazing at the man-made suns nearly covering the entire planet, and suddenly clenched his fists.

A man-made sun exploded violently, transforming into a dazzling splendor.

Simultaneously, the Starlight Giant had already redirected his gaze towards the center of the gray-white planet, a black dot piercing through the pervasive clouds.

It appeared to be a tower that soared into the sky, so towering that even the clouds could not obscure its form.

As the Starlight Silhouette shifted his gaze, a wisp of cloud, shimmering with electric light, appeared between heaven and earth on the cloud-covered planet and, like ink dripped into clear water, swiftly spread across the sky.

Seeing this, the Starlight Silhouette paused slightly, and in an instant transformed into a stream of light, moving toward the initial direction of the flickering lightning.

——Not long ago——

The speeding train shot out from the void, and the clones of He Ao and Li Cheng simultaneously jumped out of the train door, looking up at a sky already covered in hazy clouds.

"Am I seeing things," Li Cheng clutched the Secret Silver Bottle shimmering with Lightning Light, looking up at the sky, "why do I feel like there are so many suns up there?"

Above the hazy, pervasive clouds, he could vaguely see one scattered ’light source’ after another, densely lined up in the sky, so close to the ground, they appeared like suns.

"There are a few extra suns." He Ao said casually.

He felt the damp and scorching air, and just moments after stepping out, he could feel a sticky sensation on his skin, a result of clinging water vapor and sweat.

The scorching sun and abundant vapor made the whole land feel like a steaming pot, stuffy and humid.

Many exotic beasts around chose to lie directly on the ground or avoided the direct sunlight by hiding in the shadows of collapsed buildings, minimizing movement to prevent further elevating their body temperature.

"Is the whole Relic Planet like this now?" Li Cheng, looking at the ’Sun Group’ in the sky and feeling the pervasive vapor around, realized this was He Ao and ’K’s ’preparation’ for his promotion.

The water vapor was enough, the temperature was enough, and his difficulty in summoning a large-scale thunderstorm on this planet had been reduced to almost the minimum.

"Yes," He Ao nodded gently, retracting his gaze, looking back at the pervasive clouds in the sky, "let’s begin."

"Alright!" Li Cheng didn’t speak further. He nodded heavily, spread his palms, and reached out to the dense water vapor around, then slowly lifted his hand, closing his fist, and softly said, "Wind Thunder!"

It was as if under the dim sky, someone reached out and grasped the first cloud, which instantly sank down from its originally faint white, imbued with a heavy shade of darkness.

Then the darkness spread outward like a prairie fire.

Boom——

Thundering lightning illuminated the sky under the darkness.

Heavy cumulonimbus clouds emerged from above the firmament over the two, then rapidly descended, spreading from a radius of ten miles to a hundred miles, to a thousand miles, until they stretched to the sky’s end.

From the Ruined City to the wilderness, the entire world at that moment was gradually being shrouded by the heavy dark clouds.

Boom boom boom——

Dazzling thunderbolts spread and entwined like electric serpents within the clouds, the terrifying and oppressive cloud layers further pressed down.

Beneath the firmament, animals and exotic beasts, enveloped in scorching air, and machines not yet fully out of control paused their actions, lifted their heads, gazing at the thunder in the sky, watching the clouds rolling above, seemingly intent on covering the entire world.

Boom——

Amidst a thunderclap that seemed to shake the ground, a pounding rain descended from the sky.

Like heavenly dew, it caused the slightly wilting leaves, scorched by the blazing sun, to slightly unfurl their veins, the torrential rainwater forming tumultuous streams along fine gullies.

In the midst of the looming downpour and flickering lightning, a sharp starlight, akin to a keen and cold sword, pierced through the heavy dark clouds, descending to the earth.