Mecha Era, Punch the Stars

"A time-space imprint?"

Flame pondered for a moment and said:

"I left three marks on you. And you? Judging from your appearance, you seem to be a demigod as well?"

Is Lin Jianlong also a demigod?
Li Yi's eyes flickered slightly.

This is unexpected; he had already been promoted but concealed it for some reason.

Was he recently promoted?
Lin Jianlong chuckled and said:
"I'm not like that. Don't talk nonsense. At most, I'm only a half-step demigod."

"A half-step demigod?"

Yan Hu glanced at Lin Jianlong suspiciously.

"Is there such a level?"

"Yes, of course."

Lin Jianlong said with a smile.

"Then how do you know that demigods have time-space imprints?"

“We humans also have demigods. You knew Qin Longchuan before, though you might not recognize him now, but that’s okay. He advanced to demigod status a month ago. I’ve talked to him and know quite a bit about him.”

Li Yi was speechless, knowing immediately that this was just Lin Jianlong's perfunctory response.

Half-step demigod, half-step of half a step?

Could this guy have already advanced to demigod status and just been pretending all along?
Considering that they were comrades-in-arms, Li Yi did not attempt to decipher Lin Jianlong's brainwaves.

But Li Yi estimated that this guy was probably hiding a lot of strength.

Lin Jianlong continued speaking, praising:
"Three spacetime imprints, that's truly remarkable. I heard that when Old Qin advanced, he only gained one spacetime imprint. You must have jumped to become the strongest human being this time."

"Putting everything else aside, the kill order the aliens placed on you will become a worthless piece of paper."

"With your power as a three-marked demigod, I can't imagine how many of the top alien experts are currently capable of dealing with you."

"Now that you are a three-mark demigod, our trip to the Ruins of Time will be much safer."

"As long as it's not a quasi-god who makes a move, we can just sweep through!"

Li Yi's eyes lit up:
"Is Sanhen considered a top-tier demigod?"

"No, a demigod needs at least six imprints to have a chance of advancing to a quasi-god."

Lin Jianlong explained:

"Quasi-gods perfect the spacetime imprint, forming spacetime divine patterns. Demi-gods are imprints, while quasi-gods are divine patterns."

"You can simply understand it as a stroke of a spacetime divine pattern."

"Therefore, it is usually six marks that are needed to form a relatively complete spacetime divine pattern."

"Of course, there are also clever combinations that can form a spacetime divine pattern with three or four marks, but such cases are very rare. It takes extraordinary luck to produce even one."

"Because once you reach the realm of the gods, although they are all the source of the universe, each person's understanding of them is different, which leads to each imprint of spacetime being different, even vastly different."

"But only by forming enough spacetime divine runes, or conceptual divine runes, can one reach the realm of a true god and control the birth and death of the entire universe with a single thought."

Upon hearing this, Li Yi's heart stirred slightly, and he said:

"The realm of true gods is the ultimate realm of the universe?"

"Above this, there are no higher realms?"

Lin Jianlong shrugged and said:
"Based on my experience from exploring many ruins, the True God is indeed the ultimate realm."

"Perhaps there may be, but even in the age of divinity, a true god may not have been born, let alone anything above a true god."

"Even whether the realm of True God exists is a question."

"After all these years, many sovereign-level powerhouses who are revered as the strongest supreme beings have still not been able to touch this legendary ultimate realm."

Li Yi understood. "In any case, a three-mark demigod is already rare enough in our current era. Apart from those top-tier experts who have revived, there is no need to worry about the others. Moreover, as far as I know, the strongest experts who can currently operate are only at the level of a quasi-god of the Universal Response realm."

This sentence was added by Lin Jianlong through telepathic communication to Li Yi.

After transmitting his voice, he asked aloud:

"So, how long do you plan to seal this woman away? Can your hand really last that long?"

Li Yidao:
"Currently, it's fine to let the spacetime rift exist on its own for more than half a year. If my skills don't improve during this time, I can take some time to reinforce it. If they do improve, then I can naturally extend it for a longer period at once."

Lin Jianlong laughed:
"With your current state of having no bottlenecks, that's a minor problem."

"General Lin is joking. What I have always emphasized is that I am not without bottlenecks, it's just that I break through them relatively quickly."

"It's all the same. In my opinion, the bottleneck you can break through in a few days is not a bottleneck at all."

Lin Jianlong chuckled and said:

"You're quite modest, but there's no need for that. Being too modest is just hypocrisy."

Li Yi felt ashamed.

He was telling the truth, because for him, being stuck on certain issues for a few days was already very difficult.

He simply changed the subject, saying:

"Speaking of which, Sister Yan, why hasn't this other ancient person recovered yet? I see that his eyes are still blank and confused."

Flame shook his head and said:

"I don't know, maybe he was in this state before he was sealed."

"At least his soul is whole now."

Lin Jianlong pondered for a moment and said:

"The soul is whole, yet it appears like this. Could it be that it has awakened another soul, an incompatible one?"

Yan paused, frowned slightly, and said:

"It's possible that the soul and body are not compatible, but the recalled soul is fine; perhaps the problem lies with the body."

"If it's a physical problem, then let me take a look."

Li Yi walked over and reached out to touch the ancient person's body.

Upon contact, it simultaneously unleashes a micro-force with a precision of 10 nanometers.

hum! ! !
Sensing the subtle force emanating from this ancient human body, Li Yi's eyes flickered slightly.

"I understand. This person's brain may still be active, but its internal functions have been out of sync for too long and are no longer functioning properly as a brain organ."

In other words, this brain cannot contain the soul.

"Most likely, it's because his lifespan is far shorter than that of the original holy race. Even with the sealing and suppression of his life force within the Wushan Maze, the passage of time is too long, and he still cannot withstand it."

Lin Jianlong frowned:
"So you mean this person is beyond saving?"

"No, there is another way."

Li Yidao:
“We can use cloning technology to clone a body for him. Although our technology cannot achieve a 100% match between body and soul at present, I will adjust his genes and physical body so that he can come back to life.”

Lin Jianlong said, "By the time the cloning is complete, his soul will have already begun to deteriorate, right?"

Yan said, "I can keep his soul alive for a while."

Li Yi laughed and said, "That's fine. I just carefully sensed this person's brainwaves, and he should be a pure human, different from that primitive holy race person from before. He might be worth saving. Even if he's an ingrate, we can still use this to figure out some things about ancient times."

They all nodded.

However, cloning takes a considerable amount of time, so Li Yi's focus now remains on further refining his Soul Forging Technique. (End of Chapter)