Chapter 242: Emperor's Son, Star God's Will

Yun Yan and Qu Shao huddled in front of the computer screen, their brows furrowed more and more as they watched the piles of data flashing across it.

It seems that something is different.

Just now, at a certain location, the spatial coefficient suddenly fluctuated for a moment. Although the source has not been found yet, some clues seem to be found from the data analysis here.

"The fluctuation of this spatial coefficient looks familiar..."

Yun Yan and Qu Shao looked at each other.

"Old Qu," Yun Yan said, "You're good at air attacks. In this situation, can you use a teleportation array?"

"This..." Qu Shao frowned, thinking non-stop, "It's hard to say, there's not much data... But in theory, it exists, we can give it a try."

After saying that, Qu Shao immediately slapped the card box, and several soul cards flipped open beside him, and one creation after another fell to the ground from them.

At this moment, what emerged from these soul cards were countless totem stone pillars made using a special process.

Combining the Creation Clan with Totems is a popular method nowadays, but this method has great limitations. Totems with complicated abilities often cannot be completely made into Soul Cards. This requires Soul Card Masters to engrave some more detailed totem patterns on these Creations after summoning them.

Qu Shao grabbed a specially made writing brush, arranged the totem stone pillars, and wrote and drew on them with a very serious expression.

The data that can be observed from the instruments is too little, so if you want to open the channel, you must use larger, more numerous, and more complex totems.

My thinking process for playing with totems is this: when I'm stuck, I add a few more totems. What? The problem isn't solved yet? It must be that I haven't used enough totems, or they're not big enough!

Qu Shao's eyes were serious. The moment he picked up the writing pen, he had already devoted himself to it, with no distractions in his eyes.

And beside him.

Yun Yan suddenly seemed to sense something.

Is this an illusion... Why is there Yu Cang's aura above my head?

He looked up at the sky, the majestic flames gradually illuminated his face, and his eyes gradually became dull.

Wow… Wow…

So big...flying in the sky!

"Old Qu...Old Qu." Yun Yan still raised his head and reached out to pull Qu Shao's arm.

"What are you doing?" Qu Shao frowned, twisted his arm, and said impatiently, "If you have anything to say, wait until I finish making these totem formations..."

"No, I mean...it seems like we don't need to open the portal anymore."

"What?" Qu Shao frowned and raised his head, "What did you say..."

Qu Shao was stunned. Looking at Yun Yan's flushed face, he seemed to realize something. He raised his head with a stiff expression, and then his eyes gradually widened.

It’s bad. I didn’t check the weather forecast before going out.

Meteorites are falling!

…

aside.

Qi'er was holding the little doll, tilting his head back, his mouth slightly open, staring at the meteorite in the sky with his bright eyes.

As the meteorite passed across the sky, Qi'er's gaze shifted from left to right. When the meteorite was about to fall to the ground, he suddenly realized it and reached out his little hands to cover his ears.

boom!

An exaggerated loud noise exploded above her head, and the fiery red energy was woven into thunder, spreading in a ring shape in the air. When Qi'er looked up again, she saw a huge hole appeared above the giant ball. Due to the angle, she couldn't see the structure inside through the hole. She could only see countless thunders entangled at the edge of the hole, which lasted for a long time.

The girl felt something, but she breathed a sigh of relief.

"Brother is so awesome..."

…

Among the ruins

The traces of burning extended all the way, and after ten thousand years, the sunlight from outside shone in for the first time.

Yu Cang rubbed his brows and took a long time to relax before he could barely get rid of the headache in his head.

The mental pressure was a bit too high… After summoning it, Yu Cang could no longer maintain the Dragon of the Last Dawn. Before the meteorite even landed, Ye Lai was bounced back into the deck due to the increased mental pressure.

After all, all the soul cards in Yu Cang's deck have been disconnected, so there is no way for Ye Lai's [No Day After Day] to take effect.

but……

Yu Cang's eyes fell on the summoned beast in front of him, with a hint of surprise.

It looks like a giant relic statue.

However, compared to the crudely made giant statues seen in the ruins before, the one in front of him was undoubtedly much more refined. Pieces of dark green ancient stones were inlaid and assembled to form the strong and majestic body of this giant statue. The fiery red thunder slowly dissipated around it, making it slowly emerge in the wind like a mountain.

On its chest lay a deep, dark cavity, a faint bluish light seemingly emanating from it. Yu Cang peered closely and saw… a faint, luminous crystal?

The giant statue is about ten meters high, and just standing there can make people feel a tightness in the chest.

Buzz!

The colossus' eyes lit up with a faint light, causing the air around it to tremble.

Yu Cang looked into his eyes. Behind the faint light, he seemed to feel a vicissitudes of life will communicating with him.

"Thank you for summoning me... Emperor."

"Hmm?" Yu Cang raised his brows, "Why do you call me... the Emperor's son?"

This title was a bit confusing, but the strange thing was that Yu Cang could immediately tell that the other party was talking about the word "Emperor's son" and not disciple or anything else.

The giant statue did not move, but in the flickering light, the information appeared in Yu Cang's mind.

"When the Emperor Star fell, all things came into being. Now all the living beings on Blue Star are children of the Emperor Star."

Yu Cang frowned slightly, "Emperor Star...what is that?"

“…someone will give you the answer.”

"who?"

Buzz...

The giant statue suddenly moved. He slowly raised his thick giant hand, bent down, and made his palm level with Yu Cang.

Then, the Colossus slowly uttered the first words since its birth: "Stardust·Universe·Eyutianora"

The colossus's voice was emotionless, dull and trembling, as if it contained some kind of irresistible will.

Click!

As the voice fell, Yu Cang seemed to hear a sound like a mirror shattering. Then he saw clearly that the space above the palm of the giant statue was cracked with dense cracks. Countless light spots seeped out from these cracks and quickly condensed into a female figure in the palm of the palm.

It was the princess.

At this time, the will of the colossus entered Yu Cang's mind.

"You—you can ask her."

The princess looked very flustered as she was pulled out of the Starry Sky Vision by the unreasonable force of the Colossus. However, she hurriedly condensed the spiritual particle flow into the shape of her body, forced herself to remain calm, and stood up on the palm of her hand.

"Hello, Mr. Yu Cang... Hello, Star God. Yu Cang, thank you for giving me this opportunity to communicate. I have realized my previous mistakes. This concerns the peace of the starry sky. Please listen to my explanation!"

The princess bowed gently, and every move was in accordance with etiquette.

"Oh?" Yu Cang raised his brows.

Looking at the princess with sincere eyes, Yu Cang ignored her for the time being and turned his gaze to the soul card in his hand.

This soul card suddenly flew into his hand from an inexplicable place after the colossus appeared.

Soul Card Name: Emperor's Son - Star God's Will

Category: Summon Card

quality:-

Attribute: God

Race: Creature

ability:

[Divine Chosen Yu Yi]: This Soul Card cannot be added to the deck in any way. Once activated, it persists, cannot enter Death Cooldown, and is always used by Yu Cang. The arrival of the Star God's Will consumes [Rules]. When Yu Cang cancels the summon, the Star God's Will completely disconnects and returns to the Starry Sky Vision, slowly replenishing [Rules]. When Yu Cang initiates the summon, this Soul Card appears in Yu Cang's hand in the desired manner, causing the Star God's Will to descend at the cost of all [Rules], granting the corresponding Lifetime.

[Extreme Divine Grace]: The will of the Star God descends from the sky, gradually increasing the user's mental stress as it descends. The Soul Card's Actual Quality also increases until the mental stress reaches its limit, and the Star God's will fully descends. When the Soul Card's Actual Quality reaches Legendary or higher, its Race is changed to God.

[God's Name]: The Star God Will speaks its True Name, summoning all possessors of that True Name to its vicinity. While the Star God Will exists, all abilities possessed by that True Name can only affect the Star God Will. Beings of higher quality than the Star God Will can refuse the summon.

[God's Grace]: The Star God's will can refuse to accept the influence of all his abilities whose actual quality does not exceed his.

[Divine Compassion]: When the existence time ends, the user cancels the summons, or dies, the will of the Star God returns to the Star Sky Vision and takes away all damage, destruction, and death caused during its existence.

…

What a strong card.

Yu Cang hissed.

The first effect [God’s Choice] was a little hard to understand, and Yu Cang read it many times before he figured it out.

The usage conditions of this soul card are different from other soul cards. Other soul cards need to be put into the card deck first, and use the power of the card box to establish a connection with the soul energy well before they can be used normally.

But this soul card is very special. Once Yu Cang uses it for the first time, there is no need to keep it connected to him all the time.

When not in use, this soul card will enter the Starry Sky Vision Field and slowly absorb the [Rules] therein. When Yu Cang wants to use it, it will immediately appear in Yu Cang's hand and establish a direct connection with Yu Cang's Soul Energy Well.

There is no normal soul card process of putting it into the deck first to connect, and it will not even enter death cooldown.

Now, while ensuring the efficiency of retrieving soul cards, Yu Cang's main deck can accommodate forty soul cards, and this Star God Will will be the forty-first card in Yu Cang's deck!

It is not connected at ordinary times, but appears when in use and connects directly. Even the extra card does not affect the search speed, which is quite convenient.

Even if Yu Cang encountered some misfortune later and his entire deck was stolen, when he wanted to fight, the will of the Star God would immediately descend and fight for him.

However, the Star God Will cannot enter the death cooldown, and only has two states: connected and disconnected... This actually has disadvantages. Not being able to enter the death cooldown means that many effects cannot be linked with it... However, the advantages are greater.

The most notable point is that summoning this Soul Card does not require consuming Soul Energy!

Because after Yu Cang used it for the first time, this card has been in use all the time and has always been summoned... It's just that when it returns to the Starry Sky Vision, it does not take up any mental pressure.

There was one unpleasant thing, though. This card's summoning would gradually increase Yu Cang's mental pressure, reaching its upper limit. During this process, all of Yu Cang's summoned soul cards would be forced into death cooldown due to the increasing mental pressure. This process was unstoppable, meaning that after activating this card, Yu Cang would most likely end up with only this one card.

The "God" is too powerful. When he increases the mental pressure, other soul cards cannot resist at all.

However... it can be used as a support after using the Dragon of the Last Dawn.

The Dragon of Doom Dawn uses [Sublime Doom] to destroy the entire deck. Although this sword will be very powerful, Yu Cang will have no combat power after the sword... It just so happens that the Will of the Star God is not usually in the deck, and the Dragon of Doom Dawn cannot disconnect it. After [Sublime Doom], the Star God will appear on the stage again.

However, the Star God's [Divine Compassion] will cause it to take away all damage when it leaves the battlefield... This effect sounds like a treacherous ability. However, it seems to be very useful in some places.

Yu Cang raised his head and looked at the princess.

Well, in that case, this [God’s Name] should be the ability he used to summon the princess just now.

The princess can actually summon it directly while staying in the Starry Sky Vision. It seems that the priority of this ability is very high... By the way, the princess's "real name" is so long and difficult to pronounce.

After roughly understanding the capabilities of the new soul card, Yu Cang put it away and then looked at the princess with a smile.

"Okay, now, let's talk."

When Yu Cang was checking the effect of the soul card, the princess had been maintaining her original posture, motionless. Now that she saw that Yu Cang was finally willing to communicate, she breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing that there was no fight, Gu Jieshuang waved his hand to cancel the Bingxin Sword, and then came behind Yu Cang, stood still, and his expression returned to normal.

On the side, Zhong Qi glanced at the huge hole next to him.

OMG……

He thought of countless ways to escape, but he never imagined that a level five soul card master would come to him and summon a meteorite to smash through the wall.

Is this reasonable?

The freedom that Zhong Qi had been begging for for a month was right in front of him, but he didn't dare to move.

Well, I still have some vision.

The terrifyingly strong giant statue was right in front of him, and Yu Cang, who summoned him, hadn't even spoken yet. If he tried to run at this time... it wouldn't be a good idea.

It’s still equivalent to Cang speaking... Don’t wait until I run away, the giant statue shouts "Zhong Qi", and I am also captured back with great difficulty like the princess.

"Tell me your purpose." Yu Cang raised his head.

The princess took a deep breath and said, "I came here to resolve Huang's crisis."

"Oh?" Yu Cang seemed to be lost in thought. "You came from ten thousand years ago... Then is this so-called 'Emperor Star' related to Huang?"

"Yes, it's very relevant." The princess nodded. She thought for a moment, then said, "The Empire is the co-lord of the starry sky, but even as powerful as the Empire is, it cannot resist the power of the Wilderness. The Wilderness's infection is absolute. It targets all intelligence, and no one can escape."

Yu Cang frowned slightly: "From the look of you now, you are no longer a flesh and blood body. Will you be infected by Huang?"

"Yes—Huang's infection targets intelligence. As long as intelligence exists, no matter what form of life it is, it will be infected indiscriminately. And when all intelligence is infected, the 'Star God' of this world will be doomed, and then the entire world will dissipate like a bubble."

"...Star God?" Yu Cang glanced at the majestic statue beside him.

"A Star God is the dominant will of a particular world. You can simply understand it as a Star God, a being that uses the fixed stars of that world as their destiny. A Star God possesses near-absolute authority within their own world."

"Then you..." Yu Cang looked at the Star God's Will, wanting to say something but stopping himself.

At this moment, a voice entered Yu Cang's mind: "I am not a Star God. The Star God of Blue Star has long since fallen. I am merely a part of His will."

Yu Cang was silent.

The amount of information was a bit overwhelming and he didn't know how to react.

At this time, the princess continued, "The Empire possesses some documents from the previous era, so I know that in the previous era, and even the era before that, there were outbreaks of 'Huang' (Desolation). Every time this happened, the 'Emperor Star', which had been hidden in the starry sky for many years, would appear. At this time, a person with the Emperor Star as their destiny would appear. This person would be immune to the infection of Huang to a certain extent and could draw on the power of all things in the world... Only this person with destiny could fight against Huang."

Yu Cang's pupils shrank.

To a certain extent, they are immune to Huang's infection, and can also draw on the power of all things in the world... Isn't this what the Blue Star people and soul card master system are talking about?

Could it be that the life star of everyone on the entire Blue Planet is the Emperor Star?

...That's not right either.

The princess continued, "Originally, the Empire has found detailed documentation from the previous era and compiled a set of rituals. Through this ritual, we can, to a certain extent, manually guide the selection of the destiny star. Father has decided to let my... brother be the one destined to be chosen."

"Oh?" Yu Cang looked at the princess, "Can such a thing be decided by others?"

"...Not really." The princess shook her head. "My brother is absolutely qualified to be the Man of Destiny. Moreover, according to the prophecy of the Imperial High Priest, he is the one who will end the invasion of the wild beasts. Even without this ceremony, the destiny star would most likely choose my brother. It's just that this is safer.

"But... until my brother came of age, his destiny star never appeared. Then, the imperial astrologer discovered..." The princess's face was serious, "The Emperor Star has not returned to its place at all... There is no trace of the Emperor Star in the entire starry sky!

"In order to find out the truth, the Empire's astrologers deduced for years, and even the Chief Astrologer died in the process. Only then did they calculate... that the Imperial Star had already fallen!"

The princess clenched her fists, but her tone remained calm: "We suspect that Emperor Xing was attacked by Huang when he was still in seclusion, so... by then, it was too late. The battle with Huang had already begun, and we didn't have much time to wait.

"So, my father asked my brother and I to come to the place where the Emperor Star fell to see if we could find some power to fight against Huang."

Yu Cang glanced at the ruins around him.

"Then it seems that you didn't find it."

"...But we understand the Emperor Star's will." The princess sighed softly. "The Emperor Star...was indeed plotted against. However, in this era, He didn't want to rely on just one person to fight against the wilderness...This time, the Emperor Star...chose civilization."

Gu Jieshuang's eyes widened slightly: "...So, it's Blue Star?"

"Yes." The princess nodded. "When the Imperial Star fell, all things came into being. It crashed onto Blue Star, and everything was shattered into pieces, merging with the land. By the time we arrived, this process was already irreversible. We learned about the Imperial Star's will during our communication with the Blue Star God."

"So you are now..."

"...This was my brother's choice," the princess said calmly. "Learning that he was no longer the chosen one, my brother was devastated, but he chose to trust the Emperor Star. When the Emperor Star fell, Huang had already begun invading. Although Blue Star is remote, it wouldn't take long for Huang to find it. This time might not be enough for civilization to emerge...

"So Brother Wang decided to go to the depths of the starry sky to buy some time for Blue Star."

Yu Cang raised his brows slightly: "How...will he fight for it?"

"I don't know either." The princess shook her head. "Logically speaking, if Emperor Star hadn't chosen Brother Wang, he wouldn't have been able to resist Huang's infection... But since Brother Wang said so, then he must be able to do it. He's just that kind of person - look, now Blue Star has successfully given birth to civilization, hasn't it?"

Looking at the princess's confident look, Yu Cang remained silent.

He continued to ask, "What about the Star God? How did He fall?"

"The Star God... committed suicide," the princess said. "Although he gained a trace of the Emperor Star's power, it was far from enough for him to resist the wilderness. So... he decided to fall into an eternal sleep to accelerate the birth of civilization..."

"...Is that so?" Yu Cang and Gu Jieshuang looked at each other.

Next to him, Zhong Qi looked at Yu Cang, then at Gu Jieshuang, and found that no one wanted to look at him, so he shrank back into the corner.

Apparently, I heard something incredible...

"What about you? Did you capture Zhong Qi a month ago to speed up the progress of Blue Star civilization?" Yu Cang asked.

"No, that's not my goal." The princess shook her head. "To be honest, my brother, why you're doing this for Blue Star... I don't understand. Our race isn't immortal. I'm only alive today because of the protection left by the Star God's legacy. For me, dying in war thousands of years ago might have been a better outcome.

"I have no special feelings for Blue Star's civilization, nor do I wish to interfere too much—I'm still here because I support my brother, nothing more. My brother has entrusted me with the authority to manage the Star Armory, and has entrusted me to hand it over to Blue Star when its civilization matures. I've simply been waiting for that opportunity... After this matter is over, I may return to the Empire, or perhaps even seek out my brother."

"Star Armory?"

"The Star Armory contains the Empire's war celestial bodies, which can help Blue Star survive the initial attack from the wilderness. As long as people are infected, no matter how many weapons are in the Star Armory, they will be useless. Therefore, my father asked my brother to bring out most of the Empire's Star Armory."

Yu Cang looked at the princess.

After a while, he said, "Then, how do I obtain this permission?"

"It's not the right time yet." The princess shook her head. "You are still too weak. Even you haven't reached the standard to open the Star Armory yet."

(End of this chapter)