Wasteland: My Items Can Be Infinitely Upgraded-Chapter 461 - 229: The Holy Spring Sect’s Scriptures and the Dark Old Calendar Era (Part 2)

Chapter 461: Chapter 229: The Holy Spring Sect’s Scriptures and the Dark Old Calendar Era (Part 2)

Or rather, it was to accompany and monitor Lin Feng, ensuring he wouldn’t wander off and that the Oasis Key in his possession wouldn’t be "accidentally lost."

This was probably one of the conditions for Shen Yue to be promoted to Late Stage Tier One and become an Elite Assistant Priest.

It also required at least the strength of an Elite Assistant Priest to fulfill the duty of monitoring Lin Feng.

Otherwise, like before, the mid-stage strength of a Level 16 Official Assistant Priest wouldn’t even qualify as a helper and could only become a lackey trailing behind Lin Feng.

However, the person who issued the orders obviously didn’t anticipate that Shen Yue seemed unable to complete this task well. She wasn’t as vigilant and guarded towards Lin Feng as expected.

Once confirming that Shen Yue was mentally wandering elsewhere, Lin Feng began to carefully study the Holy Spring Scripture in his hand.

This scripture book was a full twelve centimeters thick, and each page was very thin, with an estimated two hundred pages per centimeter, totaling two thousand five hundred pages.

Each page was equivalent to the size of A4 paper, mostly filled with dense text except for some illustrations.

Lin Feng worried whether he could finish it within a few hours, but after flipping through, he found it was a complete set of scriptures recorded in three languages.

The front part was familiar Simplified Chinese characters, the middle section was Western English letters, and the last part had some text Lin Feng didn’t quite understand, possibly Spanish.

But that was unimportant; what mattered was reducing reading time by two-thirds.

Now only a third of the content remained, about eight hundred pages.

With the attention and memory capacity of a Tier Two Evolver, Lin Feng only needed a minute to finish reading a page of A4-size text.

Moreover, he could remember and understand all content, despite it not being comparable to legendary quantum reading, it was several times faster than ordinary humans.

Reading eight hundred pages would still require at least eight hundred minutes, or thirteen and a half hours.

It’s unlikely he would finish today.

The library’s books were not allowed to be borrowed, especially for outsiders like Lin Feng, and as a non-church member, he was theoretically barred from entering the library.

This secretive room was only available to official members of the Church for studying doctrine within.

Lin Feng was there purely due to his special current status.

Given the Oasis Key in his possession, theoretically speaking, Lin Feng was the principle.

Additionally, Lord Bishop had previously mentioned that Lin Feng should spend more time in the Church District, freely browsing there, and minimize visiting other places.

Even though Lin Feng’s own combat power could contend with someone like the Level 26 Patriarch Li Hao...

That was only viable in the expansive terrain of the Wilderness.

Now confined within the narrow and tight Oasis Battleship, forget speed advantage, even at a speed of twenty meters per second, could cause significant damage.

Moreover, wearing power armor was unsuitable.

Everyone remained in light armor, with whoever could endure more and had better resilience gaining the upper hand in close combat.

Lin Feng’s artillery advantage also could not be fully utilized within the Oasis Battleship unless prepared for mutual destruction.

The current situation favored the Oasis Church, so Lord Bishop worried the rebel forces like the Li Family might strike first, coercing Lin Feng into handing over the Oasis Key.

After all, if the rebel army felt defeat was inevitable, they might wish to destroy what they couldn’t have, incapacitating the Oasis Battleship near the Scorching Sun Forbidden Area.

To ensure the Oasis’s safety, the Church would likely agree temporarily, letting the battleship steer clear of the Forbidden Area’s threat before reclaiming control.

Hence, even if Lin Feng wished to step out, it had to be under the "protection" of Shen Yue and other church personnel, patrolling the Oasis.

Lin Feng had just finished the first Chapter, detailing the Scorched Earth’s descent after Three Days in the Sky and the initial growth journey of the Master of the Holy Spring born in the Sewer Kingdom of Zhuma City.

These events occurred in the Old Calendar before the gods’ birth, around six thousand years ago, or one thousand Wasteland Years.

It was only then Lin Feng realized that the term "Thousand Wasteland Years" used by Chen Shanshan, other Deserters, Hunters, and Evolvers actually began from the year the Master of the Holy Spring metamorphosed into a god.

Before then was the barbaric era, where countless underground shelters housed survivors awakening to face this unfamiliar and perilous apocalyptic world.

The dark desolate history before that was intentionally concealed.

Only the top forces under the All Gods recorded these hidden, unknown pasts.

When Lin Feng saw engravings on the stone atop Lao Mountain, they probably passed down from the barbaric dark era.

Possibly, over ten thousand years have passed.

Lin Feng furrowed his eyebrows, continuing to read carefully.

After the first Chapter’s background introduction, subsequent Chapters chronologically documented the experiences and observations of the Master of the Holy Spring.

Many valuable pieces of information could be uncovered here.

For instance, six thousand years before the gods’ birth, the era of barbaric chaos already lasted at least four to five thousand years, where survivors first awakened from underground shelters struggling on the harsh wastelands.

This included humans and other Evolution Beasts hiding in shelters, with some periods prompting the latter to become rulers of the Scorched Earth, thriving on their superior adaptability.

Preying on humans, they started ravaging shelters, consuming sleeping human Evolvers within.

During this period, many human Evolvers, especially Tier Three Kings, explored viable paths to godhood and embarked on different routes to ascension.

They didn’t leave the shelters leading their followers to rule the wastelands due to the harsh surface conditions...

As long as shelters operated, supplying their progressing evolution resources, why leave for hardships above?

But as Evolution Alliance leaders discovered dwindling resources within shelters...

A war brewing across the entire wasteland world quietly emerged.

The Master of the Holy Spring, during this time, managed to defy fate with just Tier One strength, empowering himself to become a Tier Three King with significant influence.

The era, though chaotic, wasn’t resource-scarce. New shelters continually appeared or joined conflicts.

They contributed not just lives like grass but abundant evolutionary resources, such as refined and preserved Pure Source Material from ancient technological eruptions.

The Master of the Holy Spring was one of the numerous unremarkable Kings.

Even undergoing Tier Three source metamorphosis, his superpowers didn’t stand out in actual combat. Yet it granted him endless Life Force, allowing rapid recovery in the presence of water sources.

His abilities inclined towards healing and control, a supplementary category akin to Salvation Army’s Bai Ye.

Through his unique capabilities, the Master of the Holy Spring withstood dozens of King battles, surviving to the end.

He earned the legendary title of the Immortal King for it.

In that chaotic era, survival alone laid the foundation for growth.

His distinct attributes allowed amassing water resources, rallying and incorporating numerous defeated factions, gradually augmenting his forces.

By the late stage, the Master of the Holy Spring, despite only possessing Early Tier Three strength, commanded forces rivaling Mid-Tier Three powers and even formed alliances with several Early-stage Kings.

Unsurprisingly, he soon advanced to Mid-Tier Three, dominating a region.

Over the subsequent centuries, the Master of the Holy Spring demonstrated astonishing administrative and developmental talents, with his victory rate in wars escalating, growing in prowess.

Approximately a thousand years before the gods’ birth, he ascended to become a Late-stage Tier Three Celestial King, dominating wasteland order.

During this period, numerous former Tier Three Kings of the Old Era emerged from depleted shelters, embarking on their ascent to godhood amid a scramble.

This spurred the Battle of Shenli during the thousand years preceding divine dawn.

Various late-stage Tier Three Celestial Kings emerged on their godhood quests.

All Gods rose, heralding the time of divine ascent.