Soul of Burning Steel

It is right to be late, but Joshua can't discuss the importance of punctuality with a world will who regards 1,500 years ago as "not long ago". After all, it may take half a month for the other party to gather will , So he didn't continue talking, but shrugged his shoulders, and changed another topic: "Xing, you said that because you want to prepare the reward, you want me to wait for a while before leaving, come to me now, does it mean that you are ready?" ?”

Not long after Joshua defeated the female beast and burned it in the giant flame storm of Poseidon, the ruling will from the sacrificial field of all worlds began to prepare to send him and Nostradamus back to Mycroft, This almost half-destroyed sage artificial intelligence has already had its heyday because it received Joshua's leftover "spiritual ascension" spiritual power and repaired many soul injuries that could not be restored by itself when lacking energy. % power, and it is still rising.

But just when the ruling will was about to penetrate the world barrier and use multi-quadrant teleportation to send the soldiers and others back, the steel python 'star' appeared and stopped the group of people. There is no doubt that even if the ruling will regains some power, it is far from being the opponent of the world's will.

During this period of time, the Steel Python, which needs a little light as a cohesion point, can temporarily have a clear self. By imitating the structure of the light sphere, it split itself and created a will aggregate that can serve as a cohesion point, and it took the initiative to show up. It said to Joshua that this time the soldiers crossed the border to help its people, which made it grateful, so it planned to give everyone a generous reward, but because the time was too short, Joshua and others had to wait for a while . In addition, Steel Python also secretly expressed that he hoped that Joshua could stay in its world longer and pass down the so-called "extraordinary way" inheritance as much as possible. The biggest shortcoming of this kind of civilization is that they will not be powerless to resist when facing ultra life forms.

Regarding this point, Joshua does not mind things like the spread of inheritance. After all, the world of stars is too far away from the world of Mycroft, and there is no competition at all. What's more, it's really interesting to accept one race as an apprentice at a time.

But in the end, this plan is still in vain: First, the free energy of the world of stars is very different from that of the world of Steel Force and Mycroft, and the original practice method needs to be modified on a large scale before it can be used. , is essentially not the same life form as the mammalian Mycroft human being.

With Joshua's background, it is not difficult to modify a set of training methods suitable for Zhongting people's fighting spirit or vitality, but it takes a lot of time to deduce and verify, and he just happened to be in a hurry to go home——During the half-plane exploration, the two empires The legendary strong man disappeared strangely. God knows how Israel felt after hearing the news. The soldier estimated that the emperor of the empire must have been very uncomfortable these days. If he didn't go back, he was worried that the situation would change and some big trouble would happen.

But even so, Joshua still modified a set of the most basic battle qi cultivation methods suitable for plant life to exercise vitality in less than ten days. He borrowed some knowledge about druid seedling cultivation, He also explained the essence of vitality from the perspective of a legendary strong man from a high position. As long as he practices this set of practice methods, the overall physical fitness and spiritual energy growth rate of Zhongting people will be significantly improved. The only disadvantage is that the speed of progress is too fast. Slow down, it takes nearly two hundred years to go from the most basic black iron to the high-level silver, which is ten times that of ordinary people in the Mycroft Continent. It is even more difficult to advance to the gold level. I am afraid that the number of Omega psykers who will naturally awaken There are more gold-rank combat class Atrium people than can be born.

It takes fifty years to get started, one hundred years to start, and two hundred years to take effect. This kind of practice can be used by people in the courtyard with a long life. In addition to being very stable and almost impossible to make mistakes, this practice that Joshua modified temporarily The practice method has no advantages, but even so, those experts in the atrium still took over the original manuscript of this practice method from the soldiers with great gratitude - after all, slowness is one thing, and whether it is good or not is another matter. The thing is, the real qualitative change is never from one to one hundred, but from zero to one.

"indeed so."

Winding around the Milky Way, the steel python on the dome of the star sea nodded slowly. It looked at Joshua with soft eyes: "Whether it's saving my people, awakening my will, or teaching me how to cohere myself, It is enough to make me willing to pay any price to express my gratitude to you."

Before he could finish speaking, with the star-like silver brilliance flashing in front of Joshua, three treasures wrapped in circular energy bubbles, whose true shape could not be seen clearly, appeared in front of the warrior , Steel Python star said concisely: "You deserve it."

Joshua is not hypocritical. He crossed half of the multiverse to the star world to fight with the evil gods, and saved a civilization and a race. No matter what reward he got, he felt at ease, so he directly reached out and touched the first one. energy bubble. The moment Joshua touched the energy bubble, it immediately turned into nothingness, causing the things wrapped in it to fall into the hands of the warrior.

"Huh?"

The first reward made Joshua gasp, because what he was holding was a group of energy cores that had shrunk you by some strange method—according to the familiar energy reaction and operation method, this was actually A purified female animal-level energy core! Seeing Joshua's surprised expression, Xing nodded slightly, and said: "Although those chaotic creatures are the source of destruction, they do have great power. I know you want to explore the operation method of the energy core of the female beast, but because the battle will They were all destroyed... so I used my power to copy a reduced version of the energy core of the female beast, hoping to help you."

Of course it helps. Joshua put away the energy core in his hand, which was only half the size of his fist, with a happy expression on his face. Even if the structure and operation of the mother beast's energy core are of great help to the optimization of his fusion core furnace, if the energy contained in this core is released directly, it is enough for him to temporarily enter the state of "spiritual ascension". This is a very powerful hole card for the legendary powerhouse, and it is enough to turn the tables in a key battle.

With joy in his heart, Joshua opened the second energy bubble, and then, a silver 'shard of steel' that released a misty radiance floated in front of his chest as if it had no weight.

Just like the world of Calliss and Ilgna, Hoshiya, like his own kind, divided part of his authority and gave it to Joshua. The soldier stretched out his hand and held this piece of steel in his palm. At this moment, a string of characters related to system identification flashed in front of his eyes, but even if there was no system, Joshua could still know the purpose of this piece of steel. .

Compared with the previous two powers that can control natural phenomena and allow lifeless matter to give birth to life, the powers bestowed by the stars this time are related to spiritual and spiritual aspects. Holding this piece of steel, even ordinary people can have abilities including mind reading, hypnosis, memory tampering, self-suggestion, and multilingualism. Even creatures from other worlds, the holder can also use spiritual language and The other party communicates. In addition, if the holder has not awakened the psionic ability, he can awaken the psionic ability after obtaining this piece of steel.

It is indeed a very powerful ability, but it is meaningless to Joshua. He can see through a person's thoughts just by observing muscle contraction, heart rate and hormone secretion. Mind reading is completely unnecessary, and hypnosis and memory tampering It can only be used for ordinary people without extraordinary power, but for ordinary people, instead of using this heresy, it is better to directly use fists for physical persuasion - the speed is at least ten times faster, and there is no need to worry about backlash, let alone he is Master it.

So after Joshua put away this fragment, he was ready to use it as dog food for Xiaoguang. Last time, after eating a piece of steel fragment, the light ball learned to create from the void, although the current form of expression is only Spray water, but who knows what ability he can gain after eating this piece of steel this time? He is looking forward to it.

As for the issue of waste—shards of steel don't exist for other people anyway, except for Xiaoguang and himself. Almost no one could sense its existence, and Joshua had a premonition that Xiaoguang, the embryonic form of the will of the world, would have great benefits after absorbing the steel fragments from other worlds. There is no obvious return for the time being during the accumulation period, but soldiers have to wait patiently.

The third reward, compared to the previous two, is a bit upright and simple. After Joshua opened the third energy bubble, he felt an invisible but pure force of steel gushing out of it, and then submerged into his body. Body - In this short moment, he found that the progress of his body's transformation into steel power had directly increased by 10%, and now it has reached 27%, more than a quarter! Although it seems that the assimilation progress is only a mere 10%, for the legendary powerhouse, this is at least ten years of hard training time. If you are unlucky, decades is also possible.

After all, for legendary powerhouses, the progress may be a little faster at the beginning of the advancement, but the later the sublimation of the life form becomes more difficult, even the heavenly wizards Pope Eagle and Emperor Israel, This step also took a long time.

Because of the rapid increase in the assimilation of the power of steel, Joshua immediately felt his whole body sink, and his weight increased by at least one-third—this is the nature of the power of steel, and soldiers have not yet been able to experience it The only intuitive feeling about the increase in combat power brought about by the power of steel is the sudden increase in its own quality. Joshua now even has some doubts that some ancient dragons may not be as heavy as him, because he even feels the space around him because There was a slight twist in his weight.

"This is the original power that I deliberately separated from my body. It is the purest power of steel without any impurities."

The Steel Python star seemed very satisfied with his reward, it twisted its huge head and said: "You have reached a point in the evolution of individual life that cannot be achieved by natural evolution, and I can only help you speed up your progress in this way , but that’s all there is to it.”

Joshua nodded silently. Xing was indeed right. In fact, the sudden increase of 10% assimilation progress was a bit beyond his control. Today's fighters can't even speak, but frown , trying his best to control his body, and adjust the balance of the concentration of steel power in his body. After a long while, he breathed a sigh of relief, relaxed his tense body, eased his limbs and said, "The adjustment is roughly completed... I almost made a fool of myself."

"My reward has been paid."

Looking at Joshua, the huge steel python rolled its body, like a galaxy-like huge body hovering under the dome of the star sea, it whispered in a light tone: "Although I am a little bit reluctant, but the moment of parting is about to come. Come, I think there will be a day to meet in the future, descendant from the land of the saints, I hope that by then, you will have grown into a reinforcement that even the world can rely on."

Steel Python is indeed an existence that doesn't like nonsense and acts decisively. After giving the agreed reward and expressing its gratitude to Joshua, it simply and neatly prepared to send Joshua out of the inner world and let Wan Wan The ruling will of the world sacrificial field took the warriors away. After all, its body was still spreading the news of the upcoming war in every corner of the star world, and the star world would soon fall into a grand war sweeping countless galaxies. Everything seemed insignificant compared to that.

But this time, it was Joshua's turn to ask the other party to stay.

"Wait, there is one more thing."

Calling the steel python who was about to leave, the warrior pressed the palm of his right hand to his chest when the opponent turned his head, and in the next second, a silver ball of light appeared in his palm and was lifted up. Joshua showed the light ball in his hand to the surprised star, and said slowly: "I think, he is your subject, although I don't know why he can enter my spiritual space, but I think, I The soul of this brave man should be returned to you."

At this time, it was the old atrium man Arzela who was entrusted by Joshua in the battlefield of the female beast, who used her life to provide the soldiers and others with news of the siege. The soul of this former Omega psyker After finishing the news, he entered Joshua's soul abyss for an unknown reason and fell into a deep sleep.

At this time, it is time to send this brave man back to his hometown. Joshua believes that the steel python planet is absolutely capable of sending this fragile group back to the home planet of the people in the courtyard, allowing him to enter the mother tree , Reunited with thousands of compatriots.

"...Joshua, are you serious?"

But for some reason, Steel Python didn't directly take over this group of souls. The will of the world clearly expressed doubts and displeasure. It said somewhat incomprehensibly, "Do you know what you are giving up?"

But Joshua nodded and said calmly: "Although it's not complete, I can guess a little bit. After all, in the world I live in, 'God' really exists."

Speaking of this, he shook his head with a smile: "Although it is just a coincidence, the steps of the people in the atrium are not wrong at all-new gods, temples, monuments, and spreading teachings. This set is simply a perfect foreshadowing. In addition The soul inexplicably sucked into my spiritual space, even if I guess, I can guess a general idea, not to mention that I have personally talked with several gods and know the special features of the gods."

"Then are you still planning to give up this opportunity?" Steel Python gave up the idea of ​​leaving, it turned around, looked at Joshua again, its eyes were full of disbelief: "You know, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, If you wish..."

"I know." Joshua interrupted the other party, and he said in a clear voice, "If I want, I can immediately become a god preparation for the people in the courtyard. How to use it to alleviate the erosion of divinity, maybe you can get enough power to instantly kill the Void Mother Beast."

"Then you still..."

"I do not want to."

Joshua didn't let the steel python finish his sentence. He looked directly at the pair of huge vertical pupils of the will of the world that seemed to reflect thousands of galaxies, and his tone was not slow at all: "I have no intention of becoming a god in the courtyard, and I don't want to be judged by others." Let me go, if one day, I want to become a god, then I will take the initiative to establish a sect and promote my beliefs, instead of borrowing the hands of others, I may simply create a race to promote my beliefs. "

Speaking of this, Joshua recalled the Void Mother Beast and its memory engraved in the genetic sequence. The warrior seemed to see the opponent's mother, the evil god that swallowed the entire ecological circle and swallowed the world into its belly. He laughed, his mouth parted, his eyes burning.

"What's more, who knows, after dozens or hundreds of years, will I who have not become a god be stronger than me who has become a god?"