The red crystal in his hand still didn't look very eye-catching. It didn't emit any resplendent light, and it wasn't crystal clear either. It was just an ordinary piece. If one squeezed it hard, it would change shape slightly. It gave off the impression that it was a slightly harder piece of red jelly.
But when Lin Yun held the red crystal in his hand, he suddenly discovered that there was something at the center of the red crystal.
A small black dot …
At first, Lin Yun didn't pay much attention to it and only thought that it was an impurity in the red crystal. But as he looked at it, Lin Yun felt that something was wrong. This small black dot actually carried a faint aura of life, giving the feeling that it was a seed.
'No way …' Lin Yun's expression suddenly changed.
If this red crystal had come from somewhere else, Lin Yun wouldn't have been surprised. The aura of life itself was omnipresent in all things. Wherever life existed, it would inevitably be filled with the aura of life. The only difference was whether it was strong or weak.
But …
This red crystal was clearly obtained from the Heaven Enlightening Plane.
Everything in the Heaven Enlightening Plane had died. Even Time, Space, and all Laws no longer existed. This was a boundless tomb in the void.
How could a red crystal obtained from a void tomb like this give off a weak life aura?
Even if it was weak, it was still the aura of life …
'What a pity …' Thinking of this, Lin Yun couldn't help feeling regretful. The secrets of the Heaven Enlightening Plane were much more than he had imagined. Unfortunately, he no longer had the opportunity to uncover these secrets. Under the Doomsday Storm, everything would eventually turn into nothingness. In this lifetime, he might never have the opportunity to step into this Void again.
After sighing with regret, Lin Yun picked up the strange red crystal and turned it over in his hand to study it.
Speaking of which, it was a bit strange. This red crystal in Lin Yun's hand made Lin Yun feel apprehensive.
'How could it be so strange …' This inexplicable feeling made Lin Yun feel a chill. Lin Yun originally wanted to put the red crystal back in his pocket, but now, Lin Yun felt that it was inappropriate.
After thinking for a long time, Lin Yun chanted an incantation once again and opened the Demiplane.
This was the second time Lin Yun opened the Demiplane after stealing it.
The first time, he had placed in a fragment of an Ancient God's soul, something that even Lord Xiao En feared. This time, he had placed in the red crystal that he had just obtained.
Without a doubt, these two things contained a huge secret.
But this kind of secret was accompanied by danger that Lin Yun simply couldn't bear. The only way to deal with it was to put it in the Demiplane and wait for the day when he had enough strength to unravel these secrets.
As for now …
Lin Yun was more concerned about that drop of Silver Dragon Blood.
It was the most important thing. Perhaps in terms of rank, that drop of Silver Dragon Blood couldn't compare to Xiuban's Three-Headed Golden Dragon Blood, but to Lin Yun, the highest rank wasn't necessarily the most suitable for him. Wasn't the Book of Death's rank high enough? But Lin Yun only used the Sage Chapter.
The Book of Death had a total of thirteen chapters, and each chapter had the power to destroy heaven and earth. In those days, Heaven Mage Bane had the Book of Death in hand and had never been defeated for a millennium. He could be considered a legend in Noscent.
It wasn't that Lin Yun didn't want to use the remaining twelve chapters, but rather that Lin Yun couldn't use them.
Twelve chapters meant twelve Augments.
Lin Yun clearly remembered that the weakest of these twelve Augments were True Spirit rank, and the three most powerful ones were on the same level as the Book of Death. They were genuine Heaven Rank Augments.
There was no need to mention how to gather these Augments.
Just how to control these Augments was enough to make Lin Yun despair.
Lin Yun, who was only a 9th Rank Great Mage, wanted to control twelve Augments that were at least True Spirit rank, or even the entire Book of Death. This was no different from a daydream. Not every Augment was like the Sage Chapter, which could be used as long as it absorbed enough death energy.
To Lin Yun, the most trustworthy thing was the power he could truly grasp in his own hands.
For example, that drop of Silver Dragon Blood.
That drop of Silver Dragon Blood would make the Magic Array transform once again. Once it was completed, the Magic Array would be pushed to a whole new realm, a realm that no Great Mage had ever reached since ancient times.
Even to Lin Yun, this was an unfamiliar realm.
After completing this transformation, even Lin Yun didn't know what kind of changes would happen to the Magic Array.
Lin Yun was very careful at the start.
The drop of Silver Dragon Blood was completely wrapped in mana, and the Magic Array revolved at full speed to probe it again and again, only extracting a few runes to analyze each time. This situation lasted for three days. After three days, Lin Yun was finally convinced that this drop of Silver Dragon Blood wouldn't pose too much of a threat, so he gradually let go of the restrictions on the Magic Array and planned to start the systematic analysis.
"Cousin, Cousin …" But at this time, William Merlin's voice echoed.
'It really came at the right time …'
Lin Yun sighed and temporarily stopped analyzing the Silver Dragon Blood. "What is it?"
"Cousin, look …" After William Merlin came over, he sneakily looked around before mysteriously taking something out of his pocket. "I found this a few days ago …"
"Hmm?" Lin Yun took that thing and looked at it. It seemed to be a damaged crest.
The design on the crest was already somewhat fuzzy, and he could only vaguely see a Dragon's head dripping with blood.
Lin Yun frowned as he thought about it. In his memories, there didn't seem to be any force using a Dragon's head dripping with blood as their crest.
As he thought of this, Lin Yun couldn't help looking at William Merlin with some doubt.
"Cousin, this is the crest of the Merlin Family!" William Merlin had an excited expression as he looked at that damaged crest, his hands faintly shaking.
"You must be mistaken …" Lin Yun clearly remembered that William Merlin had stood in front of a carriage at the entrance of the Gilded Rose and pointed at the crest of a burning staff, telling him that it was the crest of the Merlin Family. How could the crest of the Merlin Family have become like this in less than half a year?
"No, no, no, Cousin, the crest of the Merlin Family was like this in the 3rd Dynasty!"
"The 3rd Dynasty?" Lin Yun suddenly froze.
"Didn't your father tell you?" This time, it was William Merlin's turn to be doubtful.
"Never."
"Alright …" Although William Merlin didn't dare to believe it, he couldn't suppress his excitement after thinking about it and said with a smile, "Cousin, the history of our Merlin Family is much older than what people know. Almost everyone thinks that the Merlin Family rose after the founding of the Empire, but in fact, the history of the Merlin Family can be traced back to the distant 3rd Dynasty …"
"Oh?" To be honest, although he had lived in Noscent as Mafa Merlin for over a year, Lin Yun hadn't paid much attention to Mafa Merlin's family.
Lin Yun only knew that Mafa Merlin came from a huge Family. Their ancestor had once established the Empire and made great contributions. Thus, the entire Family skyrocketed with the establishment of the Andalusia Kingdom, becoming one of the peak forces of the kingdom.
Apart from that, Lin Yun wasn't too clear about it.
Hearing William Merlin say that the history of the Merlin Family could be traced back to the 3rd Dynasty, Lin Yun couldn't help becoming interested. He fiddled with the damaged crest in his hand while urging William Merlin to hurry up and continue.
"I heard it from my father. He once entered the Family's Ancestral Land and read a secret tome there. It was said that the Merlin Family had risen as early as the beginning of the 3rd Dynasty, and that one of their ancestors had once followed Charles the Emperor. At that time, the Merlin Family used a Blood Dragon Head as their crest. This was an extraordinary honor at the time. It meant that the Merlin Family had participated in a Dragon Slaying War …"
"…" Merlin couldn't help holding his breath when he heard this. In Noscent's history, there had been countless Dragon Slayers, but there had only been one Dragon Slaying War in the past millions of years.
In the final battle under the Throne of Life, the Chromatic Dragons came out of their nest and fought to the death with the imperial army. Blood dyed the sky and the earth, and the Throne of Life was covered in corpses. In the end, Charles the Emperor shattered the Throne of Life, and the Chromatic Dragons and Pureblood Elves escaped into the void. After that battle, the Silver Era ended and Noscent entered the era of mortals.
This was a battle that had already been recorded in the annals of history.
The powerhouses that could participate in this battle had already become legends and lived in everyone's hearts. Their names were written into poems by bards and spread to every corner of Noscent.
Lin Yun originally thought that …
Even if the Merlin Family's history could be traced back to the 3rd Dynasty, it would at most be an ordinary Family.
Lin Yun truly hadn't expected that the Merlin Family's history would be so illustrious.
That was a Family that had participated in a Dragon Slaying War!
In all of Noscent, few Families could compare to the nobility of their bloodline.
But why did such an illustrious and noble Family decline in the 3rd Dynasty?
Lin Yun clearly remembered that there was no Merlin Family among the Thirteen Families of the Empire.
"Unfortunately, some unforeseen events happened later on …" William Merlin continued as Lin Yun was feeling puzzled.
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