I have to get lucky right away.

Chapter 633 Full of Ritual

"As expected of someone who has mastered the Taiyi Matter." Just as Feng Xue was re-analyzing the True Name System, the God Toto outside was frowning as he checked the progress of the naming process.

The bestowal of a true name is a complex ritual, and although in Egypt such rituals have long been a highly integrated technology, they can vary depending on the purpose of the ceremony.

For example, it is very easy to name an ordinary newborn, so easy that you can use a "fully automatic name-given machine". In Egypt, wherever there are people, there will be such a device. At the moment of birth, the child will be given a real name. However, only the gods worshipped in the region can know this real name, while the family still has to give the child a pseudonym for daily use (Note ①).

However, this naming machine can only cover newborns with ordinary destinies. If a newborn has a strong destiny, the fully automatic naming machine will not work, and the parents will send the child to a temple where a priest will use the power of the gods to perform a naming ritual.

If one happens to acquire a special destiny like that of a legendary hero, then a name must be bestowed upon them by the gods themselves.

The most special ones are the gods themselves. Those who are born with divine destiny cannot be given a name. Moreover, due to the special nature of Egyptian mythology, they are born with divinity and cannot be killed. Or rather, even if they are killed, it will only change their form of existence and bring troublesome enemies upon themselves. This is why those established divine holders will not stifle the newly born divine destiny.

However, these deities, upon reaching adulthood, also "name" themselves, not to restrain themselves, but to use their true names to unleash the power that truly belongs to the divine.

The process of God Toto bestowing a name upon Feng Xue was even slower than the process of bestowing a name upon himself. If he could not actually feel the circled stone slab slowly peeling away, he would even suspect that Feng Xue was also an "unnameable one" with a divine destiny.

"At the current pace, this ceremony will take about five more days. We can't stay here indefinitely, or that woman Isis will definitely become suspicious. Let's go visit that other kid more often!"

With these thoughts in mind, God Toto checked the operation of the naming ceremony again, and used his authority to set up a trigger mechanism to ensure that he would receive a message immediately once the ceremony ended. Only then did he turn around and leave the room to investigate the monster extraction on Chen Xuan's side.

Inside the stone slab space, Feng Xue finally completed the translation of "Bestowed Name" and began to try to write a new spell.

If I had to use an analogy, it would be like simplifying a spell that reads, "With my great and magical power, I bestow upon you, my humble self, a name I dreamt of last night. It took me a whole dream to come up with this name, and I think you should thank me for giving you such a name, and feel guilty and apprehensive for the dream time I spent on it... Blah blah blah, oh right, I forgot to tell you, this name is Zhang San." into "I've named you Zhang San."

The reason it's called a "new spell" is because Feng Xue isn't sure if the complex, redundant, and even cringe-worthy descriptions and embellishments can have a positive effect, like the symbols in the ritual system.

But that's precisely why he needs to make comparisons.

Spells are a rigorous discipline. If one approaches it with the mindset of "as long as it works," one will never progress. Only after acquiring a spell, and not merely learning it, but continuing to study why it achieves its effect, what each casting step means, whether adding or subtracting casting steps increases or decreases its power… only then can one innovate and create something new, rather than becoming a mere copyist who only knows how to use other people's spells. With the assistance of a spell computer, Feng Xue had no shortage of computing power. After Xiao Lingdang and Huiye handled most of the repetitive calculations, Feng Xue quickly created a preliminary version of the naming spell. Then, he reverse-haggled the name bestowed upon him by the god Toto.

It sounds exaggerated, but in reality, Feng Xue can't do anything. She just follows the behavior of giving the name to the god Tuotuo and "sends out" her magic!
If Feng Xue was truly imprisoned without any assets, then it would indeed be a difficult situation, since Feng Xue had more than twenty "suckers" in her possession.

Outside, in a room where the ritual was in progress, lines were slowly being drawn on a huge stone slab, as large as a wall. The original naming spell was still in effect, but it was much faster than before.

On this massive stone wall, within the intricate stone carvings of the temple, in each small window, figures of various shapes and sizes are circled by naming spells, and the power of the ritual is infused into them.

One by one, stone slabs detached from the stone wall, but beneath those slabs, instead of mysterious runes, were written Chinese characters with strong, elegant strokes!
As soon as the stone slabs hit the ground, they emitted a dazzling light, accompanied by the surging power of the stars, and more than twenty figures dressed in fine clothes and holding magical weapons gathered in the room.

"It's done!"

Inside the invaded temple, Feng Xue looked at the twenty-eight stone slabs in front of him. The original reliefs of cacti, date palms, jackals, and so on had disappeared. A satisfied expression appeared on his face. Through the connection between these stone slabs, he controlled the twenty-eight figures outside to record and replicate the layout of the entire room.

"Its controllability is perfect, and it can understand rather vague commands. It can complement the logical commands of AI virtual gods. What amazing technology! These idiots actually use this technology to control mortals and create cannon fodder!"

Feng Xue spoke with a somewhat God-like perspective, controlling the twenty-eight star lords in groups as if playing a real-time strategy game.

Actually, the seal could have been lifted directly at this point, but considering the sense of ritual, Feng Xue still issued an order.

Then a woman stepped out from the crowd. She had silver-white skin and a single horn on her head. After receiving Feng Xue's command, she suddenly transformed into a silver dragon. The single horn on her head returned to its original form, turning into a power of will, which merged into the naming ceremony.

Feng Xue gathered the stone slabs inside the temple, leaving only a small opening in the Pot Heaven Bag. In an instant, a surge of willpower flowed out from the stone slab inscribed with the three characters "Kang Jinlong". Feng Xue's figure swayed, and all her material form disappeared, transforming into a wisp of Primordial Qi that merged into the flow of willpower, leaving only a phantom image of willpower in the original place.

As if sensing Feng Xue's spell, the Kang Jinlong suddenly raised its head, and a stream of willpower was drawn out from the ritual, transforming back into a silver-white horn. Feng Xue's primordial energy then emerged from the horn.

As soon as he landed, he put away the stone slab copy, turned around, took out the long staff that Delis had transformed into, and swung it hard at the stone slab!
(End of this chapter)