Chapter 23: The Labyrinth of the Underworld and the God of Wind (2nd Update, 5800)
Seventh Floor: Hurricane Cliffs.
This layer,It is estimated that it represents the area of the Wind God and the former Wind Era.,Of course,It may not be completely connected.,After all, the labyrinth is not so much a replica of the original era.,It's more of a 'underworld' that stores the information of those eras.。
Yes, the underworld. That's how Su Sun looked at the labyrinth.
At the beginning, because of the strange views brought by various entertainment cultures and games on the earth, Su Sun really thought that the labyrinth was a copy of the apocalypse, which was simply used to fight monsters and upgrade, but with the understanding of the world of Tartadis, he found that the elements of the labyrinth were extremely obviously related to the underworld and reincarnation represented by the Lonely Lord.
First of all, the labyrinth is located underground, and the creatures that live in it are likely, or even the reappearance of the ghosts and creatures of the life of the ages. Living in the labyrinth is indeed living in the underworld, but because the earth outside has fallen into dead silence, in a sense, the whole world has turned into a dead and silent underworld, so these underground underworlds are connected with the surface and connected with each other.
Moreover, the god of water and the narwhal people also apparently recovered from the labyrinth, they died at the beginning, obviously not completely wiped out by the process of era change, and the remaining part was kept in the labyrinth, and when the earth returned to the underworld, they came out again, communicated with the outside world, and then fought and killed each other.
In a sense, the war between the underworld and the present world is also an element that appears in some myths.
In addition to the relevant elements such as the underworld and the underworld, reincarnation is also evident - the epoch transition, the new epoch is being born, and the old epoch gods are also revived, even if it has nothing to do with the elemental reincarnation, the process itself is a symbol of reincarnation.
Therefore, the seventh layer of the Hurricane Bluff, and the other labyrinths around the world, is likely to represent the underworld of the ancient Age of Winds.
And the demonic beasts that live in the cliffs of the hurricane are likely to be the intelligent beings of the original era of wind.
It's just that, according to what Su Tian saw, most of these demonic beasts were huge insects, which made him secretly think, could it be that the God of Wind was also some kind of giant insect?
"As long as it's not a cockroach...... "He muttered the apparently unlikely conjecture as he stepped over the entrances to the seventh and eighth floors, a hidden place, an underground hot spring between two cliffs.
Hundreds of degrees of high-temperature water vapor diffused around the huge hot spring, and the spring water lake, which was hundreds of meters long and wide, had already boiled, and it erupted from a crack, forming a hot gas jet dozens of meters high.
Even if it is an extraordinary level that can withstand this high temperature, if it is not necessary, I am afraid that it will not deliberately enter it to explore, after all, being hit by this high temperature steam is like burning the skin on a red-hot iron rod.
And Su Sun walked through it, but it felt like taking a hot bath, and the gaps between the scales were cleaned, so he couldn't help but take advantage of the situation to flush inside, and Yara, who was resting, complained: "This water quality is a little hard, Su Day, if you take a shower here, there will be scale on the scales." ”
"When you are a dragon, you have to pay great attention to the maintenance of your scales, and you can't live so roughly."
"Really?" Su Tian, who felt that it was a bit of a fuss, was slightly surprised: "Is it so exquisite?" ”
"Of course!"
Snakes and less sophisticated people soon passed through a hot underground body of water, where even the sound of lava could be heard.
Eighth Layer: Misty Realm.
Filled with a mysterious aura mist that can block spiritual induction and aura perception, it is still extremely thick, but at this time, Su Sun can perceive that this is the power of the divine power of the water god.
It is the divine power of the god of water that blocks the perception of this layer of the situation by others.
And now, Su Sun, who has devoured the ghast of the water god and obtained the maximum affinity for the power of the water, can easily break through the barrier of the water god's divine power and easily explore this labyrinth.
Even, there was a hint of sense in his darkness, and there was a force that was guiding him in a certain direction.
This is very much like a sign of some kind of horror game premonition and flag, naturally, Su Sun will not be afraid - the water god has been killed by him, what can he do with the power he left? This sentence will be put here first, and when he is slapped in the face, he will withdraw it.
Along the way, he didn't encounter any magical beasts, nor did he encounter any crises, and following the guidance, Su Tian couldn't come to a quaint building complex more smoothly.
It is a strange temple complex that is very different from the human aesthetic, but can also experience the sense of 'magnificence' and 'grandeur'.
The entire body of this temple is made of a translucent light blue crystal, and there are no obvious doors, but there are entrances and exits everywhere, presenting a strange sense of transparency with entrances and exits and passages all up and down, left and right.
It is clearly better suited to the quiet sea and float among the currents than to be in the fog of the earth.
Looking at it, Su Tian could vaguely imagine the scene of countless swimming fish in the past, entering this floating temple in the sea from all directions.
But the imagination was fleeting, and he had already made great strides into it.
In the temple, there are many reliefs and statues carved from light blue crystal along the way, which seem to tell an ancient story, Su Tian naturally starts from the beginning, and then follows these reliefs, little by little, into the core of the temple.
[In the beginning, the world was filled with wind and darkness, and everything was chaotic and nothing]
The reliefs represent the wind with messy crystal lines, and the darkness is represented against a backdrop of dull dark blue crystals.
[Then the wind condensed water, and the water turned into rain, filling the chaos, and this first great rain rained down seven thousand days and nights, causing the chaos to subside, and the sea to arise]
[God walks in the sea, swimming in the afterglow of the wind and the last heavy rain]
can see, a giant whale statue swimming out of the gray mist, as well as a relief representing the rainstorm and the sea, Su Tian can naturally see that the giant whale is the god of water, but the spar on the top of the head is not so big, compared with the crown shape behind, it is like three small dots.
However, he was a little strange: "Isn't there any trace of the battle with the God of Wind?" Yes, the god of water also said at the end that he is the first generation of water gods in this recent reincarnation, and it is estimated that he is a new life born in the new era, and the god of wind and the other gods of the previous generation have finished fighting, and there is no winner - but in this case, where did he get the information of the previous generation of water gods? ”
But soon, the relief explained the doubt for him.
[At the end of the ocean, at the bottom of the seas, God measured the size of the world for all beings, divided the territory of the nine seas, and named each race]
[After all the work was completed, God was blessed by the world, that is, the lord of the nine seas and seas]
On top of the relief, a giant whale roams around, naming each new underwater creature it encounters, giving them the name of the language of the Water Age – followed by a long list of statues, including shellfish, whales, fishmen, mermaids, and many other marine races.
Su Sun patiently looked at these statues one by one, and then, he saw that the god of water had obtained something that emitted light in the deepest part of the ocean, and the relief could not be too clear, but after the god of water got this thing, the spar on his head became even larger, like a crown.
That was probably the time when He would be crowned God.
The following reliefs and statues are nothing more than the various feats of the god of water when he ruled the world, such as the establishment of a huge water city, the harmony between all races, and the creation of a huge alliance of gods. The civilization of the Water People did not progress very quickly, but they also developed the magic processing technology of the Middle Ages, which could convert seawater into solid water crystals for various construction and toolmaking.
They even built huge tidal wheels in the movement of ocean currents to collect the power of the ocean currents.
Seeing the end, Su Sun didn't see any information worth mentioning, which suddenly made him a little disappointed: "That's it? ”
It's not that he doesn't admire and sigh for the civilization of the Water Era, but after all, an era has passed, and what Su Tian needs most now is information related to saving this world and breaking the cycle of the era, that is, the information at the beginning of the era and the end of the era.
Obviously, the Temple of the Water God will not engrave the scene at the end of the epoch here, and there seems to be no information to describe it at the beginning of the previous era.
"You might as well watch it again."
Just when Su Sun was about to go back and take a look again, Yara also gave the same suggestion, which made Su Sun nod slightly: "It's worthy of you!" ”
Yara: "Huh? Well, it's me! ”
I don't know why, but the snake spirit is obviously not the kind of snake that can be modest.
And when he watched it for almost the fourth time, Su Yan finally noticed a hint of clues.
"Wait, how did this big whale come about?"
He grasped the slightest sense that something was wrong: "Water was born in the wind, which means that the age of wind is over, and the age of water is beginning - that's true, but how did this whale appear?" ”
Even if it is a jellyfish, it is a creature that appeared billions of years after the birth of the earth, take 10,000 steps back and say, it is a magical worldview that does not need to think about the evolution of what species, what world information can be transmitted, the void is born, the heaven and the earth are conceived or something, and all the brains are on the ...... But just the birth of the god of water is also something worth talking about.
Moreover, it is this seemingly simple setting that, perhaps, is the key to the truth behind this world.
"Moreover, why does such an abstract special effect behind this whale look a bit like gray fog?"
Gray fog is a strange natural phenomenon that is now engulfing the whole world, according to the feedback of the reconnaissance team sent by the previous Grand Duke, the edge of the world has been completely shrouded in gray fog.
Although the gray mist has no lethal power, and humans will not have any negative reactions after entering, there is no longer any life in the range, only pure inorganic matter such as sand and rocks remains.
But now, Su Tian looked closely at the relief, but he could see that if the abstract thing in the relief was regarded as gray mist, then the original body of the water god was the huge whale, as if it was born from the gray fog - it was a creature born from the gray fog at the beginning of the world!
In the same way, Su Sun can also suspect that all the creatures at the beginning of the birth of the new era were also directly bred by the gray mist, and they were all quite complete mature bodies with no evolutionary defects! Only in this way can we explain how the creatures of this world can develop the most basic civilization in the short epoch of one or two thousand years.
"In that case......"
At this time, an extremely vivid image appeared in Su Day's mind, who was frowning: an era ended, and the gray mist that gradually appeared began to envelop the entire world that had turned into the underworld, in which there were almost no living creatures, and then, the epochs alternately changed, and a new world was born in the fog of chaos, and this gray mist would give birth to creatures of a new era according to the attributes of the subsequent derived eras, and then dissipate away......
In addition to the supporting 'Labyrinth of Hades', which records the information of each era civilization and even the ecosphere, then the epochal nature of this world is ...... The incarnation of the Lord of Silence in this world......
Thinking like this, hiding his doubts in his heart, Su Yan no longer continued to look at the reliefs along the way, and he walked all the way to the center of the temple.
In the center of the magnificent temple of the mist is a huge circular hall, all of which are passages on all sides, but some of them are embedded in the ground, and in the center of the whole hall is a statue of a god floating in the air with magical power.
Obviously, this is a temple designed to welcome the people of water from all directions, which is indeed a bit difficult to understand from a human perspective, and the environment of the labyrinth can also be completely recreated its charm.
Su Sun raised his head, he could see the small water god phantom floating in the air, completely condensed by magic power, and couldn't help but nod slightly: "Is this the power he left here?" Although the amount is not huge, the quality of this completely materialized spiritual power is really high. ”
Su Sun has always had a rational analysis, although the magic power left by the god of water here is not controlled by spiritual intelligence, but the excessively high quality of spiritual power is like a living creature, with its own life, and can interact with the surrounding spiritual power. He felt that even the God of Water when he was at war with him at the beginning probably didn't have such high-quality spiritual power.
If the other party takes back this part of the power, the God of Water is likely to be able to take back a certain amount of the power of the overlord - in that case, no matter how indignant and angry Su Sun is, I am afraid that he can only be beaten to the ground, and the bones are gone, after all, there is such a thing as extraordinary fighting, except for the green X people and the X people Asura, it is useless to be angry.
…… Feeling angry seems a bit more useful?
"Sure enough, it's the 'Lord of Water'."
At this time, Yara, who shared Su Sun's vision, nodded: "This water god is estimated to have swallowed some of the initial creation element essence left after the birth of the water era at the beginning of the era, so he was able to achieve the 'overlord' realm without any inheritance and starting from scratch." ”
"Part of the power he left in this temple is a little bit of the essence of the 'Initial Water Element', if it is retrieved by him, it can really exert a little power of the overlord level, and it has the power of a god."
"Huh?" Suddenly, Su Sun's gaze at this water light became hot: "It means that if I take this thing, can I also accelerate to become an overlord?" ”
In the memories of watching the Dragon King of Tianchi, as well as the ghast soul of the Water God, there are sporadic memories of his heyday, for the power of the overlord realm, Su Tian wants to say envy, it is really envy. Moreover, if there is the power of the overlord, then this trip to the world of Tartadis will not kill a single innocent person as long as Su Sun arrives.
But the snake spirit shook its head, it was now nested in a scale depression specially created for it by Su Sun, and it was very comfortable to lie down: "The realm of the Lord of Water, in the final analysis, relies on external objects to achieve, and it cannot be regarded as the most orthodox overlord. ”
"The real overlord is to seek great power for himself, whether it is the body, the soul, or the skill, or the pure spiritual power, these four major levels, breaking through one, is the realm of the overlord, no matter which one is very powerful, not inferior, or even better than the realm of the lord of water."
"I'm not belittling foreign objects, after all, foreign things are powerful and powerful, it's just Su Day, since you have your own path to heaven, why bother to follow the old path of defeat under your command?"
The words are reasonable, and he secretly boasted about himself. Su Yan couldn't help but nodded: "It's still Yara, you are erudite, but this thing can't be wasted, right?" How do I put it away? In other words, since this thing is a remnant of the original element of creation, if I take it, will it affect the rebirth of this era? ”
"This thing doesn't have spiritual intelligence, you can just ask Elias to borrow his space ring and install it when the time comes, after cultivating your own space, you can throw it into it as a source of 'water element', whether it is watering the wisdom tree or making high-grade holy water, it is a good thing."
For a question behind Su Day, the erudite Yara couldn't help but shake her head: "Moreover, you underestimate the world's self-recovery ability, besides, this thing is hidden in the labyrinth of the underworld, which means that it has nothing to do with the reincarnation of the era in the outside world, or in other words, you took this thing away to brush the wool of the Lord of Silence, not the wool of this world." ”
That's a good feeling. Su Sun raised his head again, staring at the pale blue, life-like magic statue floating in the air.
The whale seemed to be singing.
Now that he has found the Temple of the God of Water, found treasures of sufficient value, and slightly analyzed the reincarnation and regeneration of this world, Su Day's labyrinth journey has been rich enough, so he set off for the city.
And just as he walked out of the labyrinth and was about to go back to Nether City to borrow the space ring from Elias, Su Sun suddenly stopped.
Because, at the entrance and exit of the labyrinth, there is a very strange person who seems to be waiting for him.
Su Sun rarely says that people are weird, because most people in this world are not as weird as him, if he often calls his enemies monsters, then Su Sun's self-awareness is actually a genuine freak - he is very abnormal, this self-knowledge is there, he has always been very numerous.
Since he is a freak, Su Sun naturally will not easily say that other people are monsters or weird. But the whole person in front of him, he is really too weird.
It was an adult man who looked to be in his thirties, he had long gray waist-length hair, a somewhat vicissitudes of life, he looked quite handsome of the hardcore, and the stubble was obvious, and he did look like an ordinary human male.
However, there is a clear sense of disobedience in his clothes - whether it is a scarf, a hat, a large chair and boots, there is a feeling of 'growing out of the body'!
It's not so much a garment as an exoskeleton armor in the shape of a garment, and there is no gap at all where it is connected.
"Ah, do you see that?"
And this strange gray-haired man noticed Su Sun's gaze, he raised his head and looked up at the head of Su Sun's huge dragon body, the man smiled, his voice was quite magnetic: "My disguise is really still flawed, after staying in one place for a long time, the locals will always find out, but Mr. Su Sun, you are the first to see through it in an instant." ”
He said a rare honorific to the highest level, which was really a bit difficult to understand for Su Sun, who had not been learning the local language of the Tartadis world for a long time, so Su Sun replied with a very kind soul communication in line with the attitude of 'others are polite to me, then I will also be polite, others are rude to me, then I will strike hard', and replied very kindly with soul communication: "You are polite, but although it is a little direct, who are you?" How did you know my name? ”
"It was my temporary idea, without applying in advance, I took the liberty to visit, please forgive me."
The gray-haired man saluted Su Sun slightly, and Su Sun also returned the salute, although one of the two sides was a monster with a hat growing out of his hair, and the other was a dragon with the body of a wingless dragon, but the communication between the two was unexpectedly gentle and reasonable, if someone familiar with Su Sun's Internet style saw it, such as Shao Shuangyue, he would definitely open his eyes wide, and his eyes would pop out in fright.
However, just after saluting each other, Su Yan suddenly sensed an unprecedented, extremely terrifying sense of danger.
This sense of danger is exactly the same as when facing the god of water!
And the gray-haired man had already raised his head at this time, he pressed his hand on the front of his hat, and smiled at Su Sun: "As you can see, my identity, according to the name of this era. ”
"It's the god of the wind."
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