Chapter 74: Legends on the Sea
Chu Yi held the orange in his arms and walked slowly towards the city center with a pilgrimage mentality. According to her previous divination, the control center of Atlantis is there. As long as it can still be used, this legendary city will one day regain its glory.
If the core has lost power, then in order to restore the city, it would require a weapon-refining master above the immortal level to repair it bit by bit. Otherwise, it would just be a pile of ruins.
This city is so big that Chu Yi walked for almost an hour and still hadn't entered the main urban area. Although Baizhi doesn't feel tired in her current physical state, the mechanical movements repeated for a long time can be irritating. Chu Yi stood still, looked far away in the direction of the center, calculated silently, and finally decided to teleport directly there.
The next second, Chu Yi stood in the air above the central controller, shaking his nine fox tails.
Orange looked the center up and down and said with a little surprise: "Isn't this a mermaid statue?"
"It's not an ordinary mermaid, this is the sea god." Chu Yi corrected it.
However, no matter whether it is an ordinary mermaid or a sea god, they cannot hide the appearance of the Atlantis control center in front of them, which is a statue in the shape of a mermaid.
A very huge mermaid.
Chu Yi silently measured her own height. The statue in front of her was probably five times her height.
She swam around the statue several times and finally stopped at the statue's face. Looking at the blurry face, an idea suddenly popped up in her mind. She didn't know if this was the true appearance of the former sea god.
After all, when ancient people used sculptures to express their reverence, one of the ways was to carve the sculptures into gigantic sizes to show the greatness of the person being revered. So we don't know whether this sea god is really so huge or his people enlarged him themselves.
After some wild fantasies, Chu Yi entered the crown on the top of the statue, which was the real control center.
After coming in, she looked around the huge space. She didn't know whether it was because of its age or because it had lost the protection of the barrier, but there was nothing in there anymore. The only thing that showed its presence was a suspended ball of light in the center of the space.
The ball of light emitted a pale blue glow, which was so dim that only a spark was left. Even candlelight was brighter than it. Chu Yi frowned and walked closer to observe carefully.
This is an extremely huge magic circle. The patterns on it are as complicated as the most complex mathematical formulas. Chu Yi, a pure flower grower, doesn't recognize a single character, so there is no point in analyzing the situation.
She frowned deeply and switched to the witch vest, wondering if this vest could be of any help now.
Fortunately, after changing her vest, those scribbles that looked like hieroglyphs seemed as simple as 1 and 2 in her eyes. With a flick of his fingers, he threw out a ball of light, illuminating the entire magic circle. After carefully observing the formation, Chu Yi got a good result and a bad result.
The good result is that the core was not completely damaged and can still be used after some repairs. The bad result is that the entire Atlantis is actually a huge magic circle. The magic circle in front of them is just the core. It is combined with the city area outside to form the ancient and powerful Atlantis.
But now, due to the dissipation of magic power and the fall of gods, the city outside has been damaged beyond recognition, and only the central magic circle remains, which is of no use.
In this situation, Chu Yi has only two choices: either repair the entire city area and get a complete legendary city; or repair only the core and get a fragment of the legendary city.
Of course, she could also choose not to repair anything and let this legendary city be lost in time.
This option is certainly the easiest, but thinking about the magnificent scenery we have seen along the way, it would be a pity if we could only practice in the deep sea. So Chu Yi didn't think about it for long before deciding to repair it.
After making the decision, she switched back into Shenmian's vest and carefully examined the ruined city from the perspective of a weapon master. His vast divine sense swept through inch by inch, imprinting the details of the entire magic circle into his mind, and then relying on Chen Mian's profound knowledge, he sorted out a suitable maintenance plan.
After repeated consideration, Chu Yi finally chose a plan that best suited her development plan.
Since the sea god is dead, all the sea people have disappeared. Even if there are still people like Johnston left among humans, I think there won't be too many. This city may not be able to welcome residents in a short period of time. So in order to save time, she only needs to repair the most important magic nodes. As for the other small magic circles that are just for the convenience of life, she will leave them to the future owner to worry about.
She will leave the maintenance plan of the entire magic circle in the central control room, and after obtaining Atlantis' approval, she will naturally obtain the maintenance plan. Then how to transform this dilapidated legendary city is what the other party needs to think about.
Chu Yi also had no intention of taking over the city. They already had enough flowers from growing them, and they needed to release something to attract the hyenas' attention away.
Find a parchment scroll from the witch's collection, use your spiritual consciousness as a pen, and engrave the entire magic circle and detailed explanations on it. When completed, roll it up and place it next to the core, then set a restriction, and the first step is completed.
The second step is to charge the core of the central control room.
If the central energy is insufficient, subsequent peripheral repairs cannot be carried out. This is a difficult task, because the core is on the verge of breaking, and it may collapse completely if you are not careful. Fortunately, Chu Yi does not have much else, but he has a lot of various magical vests. If one doesn't work, he can try another one. There will always be a solution.
Holding the maintenance plan, Chu Yi put on Shenmian's vest and circled around the core. He thought of one solution after another in his mind. After thinking about it, he always felt that there were flaws and the problem could not be solved perfectly.
In ancient times, the operation of this core relied on the power of the sea god. It was connected to the sea god and drew endless energy from the god. This energy was not only inexhaustible, but also very advanced, making the entire Atlantis impregnable.
Now Chu Yike had no way to find another water god for it, but if she just charged some ordinary energy into it, she was worried that it would affect the operation of the entire Atlantis.
After staring at the core in worry for a while, Chu Yi gave up thinking and decided to choose a plan that would be the most unfriendly to the person who would become the master of this city.
Originally, she thought that Atlantis still had to recognize a master, so she ruled out this plan at the beginning. Because once this was done, the city would no longer be the private property of a certain god or a certain race. It would become part of the ocean and part of the blue planet, no longer controlled by anyone, and all future owners would only have the right to use it.
She felt that this was not a good idea, so she crossed out the plan. But then she changed her mind and thought again, if she didn't take action, the city would just fall into the arms of Blue Star and disappear, and no one would get it, so what difference would it make?
So Chu Yi simply stopped worrying about it and directly chose this most perfect solution.
The specific plan is to change the core's operating settings from a passive mode that requires absorbing energy to operate, to an active mode that connects to the ocean of the blue planet, directly absorbs energy from the ocean, and directly merges with the energy.
In this way, the situation where a certain owner dies, leading to energy depletion and city decline will no longer occur. Because after that, Atlantis will be the virtual representative of the ocean on the blue planet. All beliefs about the ocean on the blue planet will be absorbed by this city. Unless the ocean disappears, it will be immortal.
But if this happens, will the sea god no longer appear?
Chu Yi suddenly thought of this question. After all, the Goddess of the Sea relied on the faith of humans and underwater creatures in the ocean to condense her divinity. Now she has grafted part of her faith onto a city. Does this mean that if someone in the West wants to become the God of the Sea, they must seize this core?
That won't work.
Chu Yi quickly stopped what he was doing, stood there and began to think, trying to find a solution.
Although gods have endless life, they will also die, just like the original history of this world. If she modified the setting of the core of Atlantis, causing the future sea god to snatch and devour the core in order to successfully become a god, then it means that this sea god will be immortal like the ocean, unless the ocean disappears.
But doesn’t the disappearance of the ocean mean the end of the planet? Isn't this equivalent to elevating the godhood of the sea god to the level of planetary rules? No, no, absolutely not.
Although it is almost impossible to devour it after the core rules have changed, what if there is a one in a billion chance? Chu Yi didn't dare to gamble.
So if you want to continue to adopt this plan, you must solve this important problem.
"Hmm..." Chu Yi started scratching her head and trying to find a solution again, but this problem was indeed difficult to solve. She thought of many countermeasures, but they all felt like there were loopholes that could be exploited.
After thinking hard and still unable to come up with an idea, she told her problem to Orange, hoping to find inspiration from it to break the barrier. Orange knows nothing, but perhaps it can discover things that she cannot.
After listening to her rambling, Juzi asked her a question: "What are the conditions for Western gods to become gods?"
This question was simple. Chu Yi told it, "Excluding those innate gods, to become a god after birth, you first need to ignite the divine fire, which requires a deep understanding of the law you have chosen. Then you need to condense the godhood from the divine fire. This step requires a thorough understanding of the law you have chosen. Once you are recognized by that law, you will be a true god."
"Then can gods control and change the laws?" Orange asked further.
"No, they can control it and make temporary changes on a small scale, but they can't rewrite the overall rules of the world."
This world does not have only one system. The gods of countless systems control the rules, which leads to conflicting functions of many gods. Just like Pluto in the West and Hades in the East, they are both gods of death and are in charge of the world after death. They can influence the hell under their control and resurrect an object, but they cannot change the law of death.
This is the limitation of higher laws.
"In that case, Lingling, you don't need to worry about it. After the core is connected with the law, the law will naturally change the conditions for gods to become gods. After all, the so-called rules were formed because of a joke." Orange was talking about the original rule of 'After the founding of the country, no spirits are allowed' when planting flowers. Remember that they once went on a live broadcast to change this rule.
"So Lingling, you don't need to think so carefully. You used to say that everything has its own rules and doesn't need too much human intervention."
Chu Yi: "......"
It seems to be the case.
What happened to her these two days? I always get into a dead end and have no idea how to think in a different way. I just keep going to the end. What exactly goes wrong?
"Okay, my brain is stuck again." She sighed and held her forehead in her hand. "Thank you, Orange."
After hugging Orange and giving her a kiss, Chu Yi was ready to officially take action.
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