Chapter 124: The Ancient Savage World, Long Aotian
This was not her illusion.
Although Gu Lingnan was careless, her eyes recorded everything for her.
She replayed these hundreds of battles in her mind, rewinding the scenes frame by frame, analyzing the variables one by one. Then she understood: it was time.
The opponent's magic was far from as simple as she thought.
Just like the classic story, the wise man asked the king for rice, requiring that the amount of rice placed in each square of the chessboard be twice that of the previous square. Even if there was only one grain of rice in the first square, the amount in the last square would still be so huge that it is beyond imagination. This is the secret of exponentiation.
In other words, the Four-Horned Deer's innate magic is actually an amplification magic that can be infinitely stacked.
Thinking of this, Gu Lingnan's gaze towards it suddenly became fiery. This was a truly powerful magic. She immediately used her double pupils to disassemble and analyze the runes engraved on the deer antlers one by one.
She dodged another attack and deliberately gave the four-horned deer time to accumulate strength. Gradually, she figured out the advantages and disadvantages of this magic.
One is time, the other is body.
For the four-horned deer, its foundation is too poor, and it takes an extremely long time to accumulate and increase its strength. According to Gu Lingnan's estimation, it will take about an hour.
At the same time, this amplification technique had a limit. Even if Gu Lingnan released the sea, the Four-Horned Deer's strength and speed would increase to a certain point and then cease. The amplification of the Four-Horned Deer by the technique could not exceed the load on the body; there was a limit.
Gu Lingnan still has another question, what effect does this magic have on her?
She thought for a moment, and finally decided to engrave this precious technique in her sea of consciousness.
Aside from the innate innate magic skills, humans who wish to learn the magic skills of other races and apply them to themselves can only use them by engraving the magic runes into their sea of consciousness. The number of runes that can be engraved in the sea of consciousness is closely related to each person's mental strength and realm.
Gu Lingnan had clearly seen every direction of the rune. Having made her decision, she no longer hesitated. Using her mental power as a pen, she smoothly engraved the rune in her sea of consciousness.
At the moment of engraving, the formed rune flickered in her sea of consciousness. Gu Lingnan's mind moved slightly, and she instantly understood the complete function of this rune.
Unfortunately, this rune indeed has many limitations. It can only enhance physical fitness, but cannot enhance the power of other magic techniques. Moreover, the enhancement is not as exponential as Gu Lingnan imagined.
Taking her and the four-horned deer as an example, the four-horned deer's basic body value is 1, and the first increase is also 1, while her basic body value is 100, and the first increase is only 10, and as the value increases, the effect of the increase will decrease.
After some thought, Gu Lingnan named this rune "Power." Although the effect of the Power Rune was slightly different from what she had imagined, perhaps she could find a way to improve it in the future.
In fact, she already had some ideas, but now was not the right time to try them out. However, it would be a good idea to try out the power of this rune for the time being.
Only practice can bring true knowledge.
Gu Lingnan looked at the four-horned deer, eager to try. The rune of power in her sea of consciousness lit up brightly. She clenched her fist and threw a punch. Gu Lingnan was certain that this blow would break the force of 100,000 kilograms.
Divine light shone on the fist, and in an instant, pure power destroyed everything in front of it. The bronze floor was destroyed and shattered, and the figure of the four-horned deer turned into nothingness in the light.
But the green walls around it, although seemingly dilapidated, remained motionless under such a terrifying shock wave.
The material of this wall doesn't seem to be simple.
Gu Lingnan felt a little itchy. This material would be perfect for making self-defense armor.
But thinking that this place was inside the Heavenly Palace and the person in the painting she had seen before, and considering that there might be unknown beings in the Heavenly Palace watching her every move, she gave up this dangerous idea with a little regret.
It’s better not to do anything out of line before you understand the other person’s attitude.
After the four-horned deer disappeared this time, the bright pearl did not emit any new light to form a new entity. Just when many speculations were running through Gu Lingnan's mind, the bright pearl trembled slightly. After a few breaths, the place where Gu Lingnan was located began to spin again.
The scene before him became clear again, but he was in a different place. This square was wider, but with the same pearls overhead and the same ancient walls surrounding it, Gu Lingnan suddenly felt a sense of unease.
Sure enough, the pearl shone again, and this time, it was a handsome eagle.
The eagle circled in the sky, its sharp eyes fixed on its prey, and it let out a sharp cry, spreading an invisible deterrent force.
Gu Lingnan resisted this mental pressure, his eyes slightly serious. The four-horned deer before was just an ordinary wild beast, not even on the path of cultivation, but this ferocious bird, if converted into human realm classification, has already reached the blood-moving realm.
Is this increasing difficulty too fast?
Moreover, after the battle just now, Gu Lingnan vaguely understood the method to pass the level. She guessed that perhaps it was to use the enemy's runes to defeat the enemy.
However, although Gu Lingnan's mental power is several times stronger than that of his peers and there are many spaces in his sea of consciousness for imprinting runes, it is not a waste like this. If the rune is not exquisite enough, Gu Lingnan will not look down on it.
But the weak have no choice. As the one being tested, Gu Lingnan can only obey the rules.
She cursed inwardly: If this tower climbing rule were applied to the game in the previous life, this bastard planner would just be waiting to be overwhelmed by the players.
Gu Lingnan tiptoed and faced the swooping ferocious bird head-on.
On the other side, Gu Jingyao also noticed something. After defeating the four-horned deer with runes, what appeared in front of him was not an eagle, but a giant tiger with fleshy wings. The giant tiger's eyes were full of ferocity, and it opened its mouth full of sharp teeth and pounced on him with a roar.
Gu Jingyao sighed like a little adult and muttered, "Although I really want to play with you, can you please not separate me from my sister?"
"This little guy seems to have realized that someone is controlling everything." The old man said in surprise.
"You've already made your presence known to him. It's only natural to suspect that this is all artificially controlled."
"Really? This trial tower stores information on millions of ferocious beasts, is engraved with more than 100,000 runes, and can even tailor-make ferocious beast trials for the trial-takers. It consumes a huge amount of resources every time it's opened. It's really a bargain for these two little guys." The childish voice complained.
A boy in white clothes and a white hat appeared beside the old man. The old man stroked his beard and smiled, "It seems that you have made up your mind, old friend."
The boy snorted coldly and said nothing.
"Let me see if they can break through the final barrier. On the path of cultivation, talent is both a gift from heaven and a shackle. Only those with top-notch understanding and perseverance are the true successors that Daojun desires."
In the pursuit of the supreme path, talent is of the utmost importance; the world is never short of genius. Among the greatest physiques throughout history, supreme bones and double pupils wouldn't even make the top three. And looking back at the great emperors who dominated an era, how many were born with unparalleled natural gifts? Only unparalleled perseverance and talent could have enabled them to dominate the world.
The boy's gaze was once again cast on the two people in the trial tower. As for the large number of ferocious beasts pouring into the Heavenly Palace and the useless people who couldn't even pass the first level, he was too lazy to pay attention to them.
After countless encounters, facing a beast whose cultivation surpassed her by a major realm, Gu Lingnan dared not lose her focus for even a moment. The slightest negligence could be fatal. And Gu Lingnan didn't dare gamble on whether her death here was real or fake.
After repeatedly using her double pupils' power at high intensity, Gu Lingnan's eyes were already extremely dry, and her internal strength was nearly depleted. But she couldn't rest. Taking advantage of the gaps between killing the beasts, she raced against time to recover.
But this time, what greeted her was not a ferocious beast with further cultivation.
Gu Lingnan observed her surroundings in confusion. She was floating in the sea of stars, meteors with trailing tails passed in front of her, and countless shining planets sank and floated in the ocean.
Her body seemed to become extremely huge, and the planet was just a tiny dot of light in her eyes.
Go, a voice whispered in her ear, go find the star you want most, and then, catch it.
In that case, let’s find it.
Gu Lingnan took a step forward and observed the beautiful stars in the dazzling sea of stars.
Some stars are tiny, yet the light around them is very bright; some are huge, yet their surfaces are dim and pale; some flaunt long cloaks of starlight, igniting blazing flames, huddled together with other stars; some are plain and simple, covered in heavy snow, isolating themselves from all other stars...
But these are not the stars that Gu Lingnan wants.
She walked past them one by one, without a trace of regret. She kept walking forward, and the further she went, the sparser the stars became, from wandering around the sky to scattered, from actively coming to her to looking down on everything with aloofness. The stars ahead, both in appearance and character, became more distinctive.
Finally, Gu Lingnan stopped. She frowned in confusion. There was no road ahead. She had reached the end, but she still hadn't found the star she wanted.
Is it possible that there is no star she wants here?
She also asked aloud, but the original voice did not answer her.
She frowned, her eyes swept across the few superstars at the end, or, just pick one
No, Gu Lingnan asked herself, she didn't want to.
She thought of the stars she had seen before, the power hidden in them was evident in their appearance, perhaps... she had not seen all of them.
She closed her eyes, looked carefully, and randomly chose a direction to walk.
At first there was only darkness, but gradually, a few dots of flickering candlelight appeared. As her mood calmed down, she could see more and more, not just stars.
She saw gray moths and nine-petaled ice flowers as she walked along.
She finally saw the star she really wanted. Perhaps it wasn't just one star, but two giant stars, one blue and one red, that were constantly rotating around each other. They were separated by a distance but could not be separated. They were calling her.
Gu Lingnan stretched out her hand and touched nothingness, but she did not stop. She firmly believed that this must be where the superstar was.
Continuing to stretch forward, her hand seemed to sink into quicksand. Sensing her intrusion, the quicksand calmed down slightly, then rioted, extending along her arm and dragging her into the bottomless black hole.
She opened her eyes and saw a footless red dragon perched on a sacred tree that reached the sky, its huge eyes half open and half closed, with the shadows of the sun and the moon hidden in them.
There is a Ruo tree in the east of the sky, with a candle-holding dragon placed under it.
Gu Lingnan stood in front of the dragon that was more than a thousand miles long and couldn't help but hold her breath.
【Author’s words】
1: From Li He's "The Short Day"
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