Countless years of research, countless years of research, but my understanding of my transplanted bloodline is actually inferior to Mafa Merlin's casual glance. Just a casual glance and a seemingly joking remark, but I didn't expect such a casual remark to increase the stability of my bloodline by at least twofold. I now have more room to explore in terms of the usage of my bloodline. This is a true transplant …
That's right, this was how this eye should have been transplanted in the first place. Just one eye was more than enough. A single eye was much stronger than the previous two eyes combined. My research wasn't about strengthening this eye, but rather weakening the crystal eye's own power …
So scary, Mafa Merlin is really too scary. Just how far has his research on bloodline transplants progressed? I can't even begin to imagine, I can't even begin to estimate …
A group of members from the Crown of Thorns surrounded Maz. They were a little worried when they saw Maz's bewitched expression, especially when they saw the crystal eye that only had one remaining. It was obvious that the crystal eye had changed. Everyone understood what was going on.
They also recalled the casual remark that Lin Yun had made in a joking manner. They didn't expect that such a remark would become the truth, a life-saving truth, and at the same time, a fatal truth …
"Lord Maz, what's wrong? Isn't it a good thing that we found a way to increase the bloodline compatibility? "
"Lord Maz, don't worry, maybe this is just a coincidence …"
Everyone understood why Maz became like this. As the person with the highest research on bloodline transplants in the Crown of Thorns, his research on his transplanted bloodline was actually inferior to someone he had just met for the first time. This wasn't a blow that everyone could understand.
Maz took a deep breath and shook his head.
"Don't worry, I'm very happy. I'm very happy to see someone like us who can research research that others can't understand. Also, Mafa Merlin's strength has definitely far surpassed mine. He has completely surpassed all of us.
I was very happy to see such a ray of hope. There were many times when I felt that the research on bloodline transplants had reached its end, that it could no longer be carried out, that it would never get better. But now, I saw hope, and I could see further. This was a good thing for all of us.
I believe all of you understand what this means to all of us! "
Max's deep voice rang out, and everyone fell silent. However, there was a hint of fanaticism on their faces. It was the light of hope in the dark path of despair. Apart from those who had successfully transplanted their bloodlines, no one could understand this feeling …
Maz raised his head, a trace of longing and sighing on his face as he turned to look at everyone behind him.
"From the moment we set foot on this path, we were destined to be unable to turn back. We simply couldn't see the path ahead, we couldn't find the light in the darkness." After so many years, how many mages have fallen because of bloodline transplants? We can't even remember, there are too many …
"They all fell on the side of the road." We were lucky enough to succeed. Fate favored us and made us the few that could reach the Heaven Rank, and I was the luckiest one.
"We groped our way through the thorns, dyed them red with blood. Now, I feel that we can already use these bloodstained thorns to weave a crown and wait for the final coronation …"
Hearing Max's words, many people's expressions changed. Those who followed Max had a determined look on their faces, while Shelton's lips curled into a sneer.
'Mafa Merlin is so powerful, maybe it's because he transplanted a powerful Extraordinary lifeform's bloodline. Otherwise, how could he have such an understanding of bloodline transplants? As long as I grasp Mafa Merlin's weakness, everything he knows can become an opportunity for me to become even more powerful. That old guy Maz wants to get closer to Mafa Merlin.
The Crown of Thorns is destined to only be able to walk in the darkness of the world. Only by becoming more powerful will we be able to survive. All research is for the sake of becoming more powerful. It would seem that they have forgotten that the Crown of Thorns is suffering because they are not powerful enough!
The Crown of Thorns' people barely survived, and the most crucial life-saving straw was Lin Yun's words at the start. This made Maz feel very complicated and he started having some other thoughts. But the other members of the Crown of Thorns might not necessarily have the same thoughts as Maz.
The Crown of Thorns had already fallen, or it would be better to say that some of them had already fallen. They weren't looking for a new path to the true meaning of magic, but rather, they were looking for pure power. For power, they could sell everything, by hook or by crook. They didn't even care about their own souls, let alone other things.
The eruption of the mana storm ended. On the surface of the plane, the rainbow-colored bands of light that were rushing towards the sky like huge fountains also started to wane. After the terrifying mana rushed to the surface, the power of the mana storm started to rapidly decrease.
Apart from being shredded by the mana storm at the beginning, there wasn't much power left. All the creatures on the surface of the plane were hiding in their nests and shivering. Even the giant bug army that had rushed to the surface to hunt had dug a hole in the ground and hid in it, trembling in fear.
In the underground caverns and the tunnels that extended in all directions, the mana crystals and mana crystals exposed on the surface were all crushed by the mana storm and turned into pure mana that spurted to the surface.
When the mana storm was underground, its power would grow stronger and stronger as the mana within the mana crystals was released, but when it appeared on the surface, the mana would rapidly dissipate and transform into a storm that wreaked havoc on the entire plane.
Now that the underground was no longer erupting mana, these storms lost their support and slowly turned into pure mana that dissipated throughout the entire plane. In a short hour, the density of the entire plane's mana sharply increased by at least two times. Countless plants that hadn't been destroyed were greedily devouring the suddenly rich mana. Many magic items had already started mutating and changing into new types, or even new species.
The magic plants weren't affected much. Even if some of them were destroyed, they would quickly grow back. Moreover, they didn't know what fear was. However, the magic beasts in the plane all felt that a terrifying existence had awakened. Even though the mana storm had disappeared, they all hid and trembled in fear. None of them dared to come out.
In the depths of the ground, after the mana storm ended, Lin Yun didn't come out of the array's protection. Instead, he calmly waited.
"Sir Merlin, the storm outside seems to have stopped, aren't we going to run?"
Xiuban crouched at the edge of the array, his face a bit green as he looked at the empty cave outside. The mana crystals that had originally been exposed on the surface had completely disappeared, and only a layer of dust was left on the hard stone walls. The originally bright cave had now turned into a barren desert.
Lin Yun ignored Xiuban's words and started setting up the array. The original array had the best protection against mana, and with Reina's Ice Seal, it wouldn't be too much of a problem to resist the pure mana storm. But the next step was the most troublesome.
After changing the array's arrangement, it took less than half a minute for the array to be transformed into another kind of array. It was no longer as simple in terms of pure mana resistance, but rather, another kind.
The mana storm outside was gradually declining at an even faster speed. After losing the mana crystals and mana crystals to replenish their mana, the mana storm burst out of the ground decreased even faster after passing through these winding passages and caves.
After five minutes, the mana storm completely disappeared, and a large amount of dust fell, covering the cave's surface with a thick layer. In the spherical space deep underground, the mana erupting from the huge mana crystal slowly calmed down. Inside the mana crystal, the huge soul that had turned into an eye also started to emit the radiance of intelligence unique to lifeforms.
After a few minutes of change, the light in the huge eyeball turned into rage. Soul undulations mixed with the slowly flowing mana and spread out from the spherical space. Then, they spread through the caves and spread to the surface, and then to the entire plane.
In less than a minute, Lin Yun 'expression became somewhat serious. He then took out a few potions, crushed them, and sprinkled them on everyone's bodies. A breeze slowly blew in the empty cave. It felt like a normal wind, but in an instant, it spread from one of the caves to the entire cave before continuing to spread from the other caves at an unfathomable speed.
The surface of the array blossomed with a glaring light, and over a hundred mana crystals used to replenish mana exploded in an instant, transforming into mana to replenish the array's consumption.
In less than five seconds, the mana of over a hundred mana crystals was completely consumed. Lin Yun had a solemn expression as he replenished the mana crystals, but even so, the light breeze-like fluctuations started seeping through the surrounding stone walls. It was like countless ants slowly nibbling away at the array's defenses.
After a few seconds, some small cracks appeared on the surface of the array, and those fluctuations seeped into the array and spread to everyone's bodies. In an instant, the potions on everyone's bodies started showing their effects, and they seemed to be slowly fusing with those fluctuations. The potions they had swallowed also started showing their effects, and the potions slowly fused with those fluctuations, slowly adapting to those continuously strengthening fluctuations.
After half a minute, the array thoroughly collapsed, and the terrifying fluctuations from the cave submerged the small cave they were hiding in. But these fluctuations only caused ripples when they came in contact with their bodies, and they didn't have any effect on them.
Lin Yun sighed in relief and walked out of the cave.
"Come out, there is no danger for the time being. But we can't continue our exploration this time. We won't be able to return to this plane within a few decades. Let's return to the surface first. I hope that the Crown of Thorns' people have already died, or it would be very troublesome …"
They followed the path they had come from, and their speed was a lot faster than before. It was very difficult to find the direction to go underground, but it was a lot easier to return.
After passing through two caves, when they passed through another cave, the surrounding stone walls suddenly rippled, and Stone Insects with sinister mouthparts drilled out of the stone walls. After these Stone Insects appeared, they crazily attacked everyone.
At least thirty Stone Insects drilled out of the stone walls, but their bodies had undergone an inconceivable change. Their originally stone bodies now seemed to be covered in a layer of crystal. These crystals completely wrapped the Stone Insects, and even the sharp teeth in their mouthparts were covered in a layer of crystal.
Xiuban roared and swung Carnage. A layer of yellow radiance covered the surface of Carnage, and a terrifying power ruthlessly hit a Stone Insect's head. A loud sound echoed as the Stone Insect's head was smashed into pieces. A large amount of fragments fell to the ground, and the layer of crystal on the surface shattered. The fragments inside the Stone Insect's head were no longer stones, but rather stone-like crystals. But they still looked like stones, nothing more.
The sounds kept echoing, and after a dozen seconds, Xiuban completely smashed the heads of those Stone Insects. But after one of their heads was smashed, the Stone Insects didn't run away. Instead, their bodies drilled out of the stone wall, and the remaining head continued to attack, completely crazed and reckless.
Lin Yun frowned after getting rid of all the Stoneworms, but he quickly led the group forward.
Before entering this plane, Lin Yun already knew what this place was famous for. Why couldn't such a perfect environment give birth to powerful intelligent lifeforms?
The instant that monster woke up, the normal breathing of the mana crystal would stop and erupt. With the mana contained in that terrifying mana crystal, even if it breathed heavily, the mana would gather into a terrifying mana storm.
This kind of pure mana storm was completely unreasonable. Apart from facing it head-on, there was no other way to use mana to defend against it. Apart from a competition of endurance and mana consumption, there was no other way. In fact, if the difference in the quality of mana was too great, they wouldn't even be qualified to engage in a tug-of-war. They would be torn to pieces in an instant.
And these bursting mana storms would sweep away the exposed mana crystals and mana crystals. The first burst would definitely be the strongest, it would be unbelievably powerful. No one under the 7th Rank of the Heaven realm would be able to resist it head-on.
After the mana burst, the monster would thoroughly awaken. Its body was too huge, and its soul was too huge. This awakening process would take a long time. After awakening, the first thing the monster would do was clean up everything within the plane. Everything in this plane was under the control of the other side. With the other side's terrifying soul power and mana, forcibly controlling everything within the plane wasn't a difficult matter. It could even be said to be very easy.
After controlling all the lifeforms within the plane, the purge would start. As long as any lifeform that the monster felt threatened existed, this purge wouldn't stop and the entire plane would sink into madness. The purge wouldn't end until all the lifeforms within the plane were exterminated.
The magic beasts that originally existed within the plane, apart from being too weak, were like parasites. Their incomplete souls were the fundamental reason for their survival.
As long as a lifeform was born, or if any Extraordinary lifeform entered, the monster would immediately awaken. All intelligent lifeforms, even lifeforms with a slightly complete soul, would be destroyed. Their bodies would be turned into nourishment for the plane, and their souls would be torn apart and refined, transforming into soul power that could be devoured before being devoured by the monster's soul.
This was the growth process of that monster. It would fall into a slumber and let the entire plane develop on its own. Once it developed to a certain degree, the monster would awaken and harvest the fruits of its labor. After completing its nourishment, it would once again fall into a slumber, leaving behind some low-level magic beasts to reproduce in the plane, maintaining the vitality of the plane.
Countless years had passed, and it was unknown how long that monster had existed. It wasn't that this place couldn't give birth to intelligent lifeforms, it was that intelligent lifeforms couldn't exist. There were no conditions for them to be born. As long as a race with a bit of intelligence appeared, the purge would start.
Clearly, now that the monster was awakened, it instinctively started its purge and nourishment. There were a dozen Heaven Rank powerhouses here, and the souls of every Heaven Rank powerhouse were leapfrogging materials for that monster. No one would be able to stop it from getting rid of all the outsiders here.
It controlled all the targets of nourishment and controlled them to enter the ground. The monster opened its bloody mouth and waited for its prey to jump into its mouth one after another. This was the simplest and most effective hunting method.
Lin Yun frowned and led the group to rapidly move towards the surface. This burst was clearly a lot more powerful than expected. Not only was the burst of mana even more powerful, but even the burst of soul power was far more powerful than what had been recorded.
It was clear that this monster hadn't woken up for a very long time. The mana crystals condensed in the caves were already exposed to the surface and definitely hadn't condensed in a few hundred to a thousand years.
The potion that could resist the monster's control couldn't be completely resisted after taking it, and they even had to use the potion as a barrier to resist that kind of terrifying control.
This was very different from what was recorded. Moreover, the monster didn't continue pestering them after being freed from control. The spreading fluctuations had already thoroughly disappeared, making Lin Yun a bit uneasy.
Although the monster's burst couldn't be used continuously, or it could be said that it didn't have the ability to do so, how could it give up on such a fat piece of meat? It was definitely impossible. That monster only had instincts, it kept strengthening itself, especially strengthening its soul. How could it give up?
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