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"Yes, the first phase is almost complete, it's time to move on to the second phase."

Seeing the long-lost [Azure] Will, Chen Hong felt a sense of relief. The Star Dou Empire's God Hunting Project was divided into two phases: the core of the first phase was 'encirclement,' and the core of the second phase was 'hunting.' Together, they constituted 'encirclement and hunting.' The God Hunting Project was never about individual heroism or personal strength; it was about concentrating resources to accomplish great things.

Now that [Azure] has been freed up, it means they can finally start to set up for the second phase of the 'hunt'.

While Chen Hong was chatting with [Youlan], the golden-haired dragon girl, dressed in a white and gold dress, stood in the suburbs of Star City, bathed in the glow of the sunset, staring blankly at a system panel that had suddenly appeared in front of her.

[Your Guixu permission has been confirmed, Lord Jinlin]

In the myth of Guixu, it is the end of all rivers and seas, and also a metaphor for the end of all things, the finality.

Do you have any news about Chen Fu?

Although the girl was a little dazed, her still cold golden dragon eyes softened slightly. Originally, she wanted to ask other questions, but she chose to ask the question that concerned her the most first.

The Creator's soul resilience is currently terrifying, the world's will AI is evolving rapidly, and he's having a great time.

Compared to the systematic language He displays when facing others, [Azure] is undoubtedly more human in front of Golden Scale. It's not that He doesn't have His own joys and sorrows, but because He is a rational personality, His emotional changes are not very obvious. In addition, He needs to process tens of thousands of massive amounts of information almost every moment, so over time His speaking habits unconsciously lean towards coldness and indifference.

"have a good time???"

Jin Lin was stunned, her beautiful little face full of big question marks.

The simulated time in the Refining God Demiplane is 256 times that of the outside world. The battle between the two sides lasted for 231 years. After that, Tang San was very restrained. The Creator and Tang San maintained a 42-year period of silence. After that, the two sides began to live together peacefully for 1,000 years.

Jin Lin's 'Return to the Void Authority' seems to possess extremely high privileges. The internal situation of the Refining God Matrix, which Electrolux has yet to explore, is now being revealed to him without reservation by [Azure].

According to [Azure]'s explanation, the interior of the Divine Refining Demiplane has unknowingly passed through 'a thousand years' under the deceptive illusion of a time flow rate of 256 times!

Jin Lin felt that she had too many questions in her mind, so she decided to ask them one by one: "So the strange illusion I entered while I was unconscious?"

【Azure】 responded calmly:

[Your soul possesses some characteristics of Tang San's daughter and shares certain soul similarities with Tang San. When the Refining God Matrix rose, the Refining God Demiplane briefly overlapped with the material plane. During this time, Your Highness happened to fall into a deep coma and was thus accidentally brought into the interlayer between the Refining God Demiplane and the real plane.]

That period was precisely when Tang San's resistance was at its strongest. A large number of spiritual illusions were repeatedly slaughtered in the Refining God Demiplane, a process that lasted for 146 years before the Refining God members began to possess a certain ability to fight back.

[Thanks to the large number of members in the Spirit Refining Sect, the burden of 'death' could be shared by the collective will, ultimately enabling them to withstand Tang San's mental attacks during the most dangerous phase.]

【Youlan】 straightforwardly acknowledged Jinlin's own conjecture and even briefly introduced the situation inside the Refining God Demiplane to her.

Is it dangerous?

The most dangerous phase has passed.

"Then..." Jin Lin breathed a slight sigh of relief upon receiving [Azure]'s reply, and continued to ask, "Could you please tell me what exactly this Refining God thing is all about?"

This problem actually troubled Jin Lin, and even the entire Star Dou Empire, for quite some time. Chen Fu had originally intended to explain the term "Refining God," but Tang San's "sneak attack" was too fast, causing Chen Fu to raise the Refining God Matrix with most of the world's 100,000-year-old soul beasts and Title Douluos without any explanation!

[The system has just been updated. To explain to you, you can also view 'Divine Refinement' as an alternative 'Evil God' project, borrowing from the Pandora Evil God Project of the Sun and Moon Empire.]

【Azure】slightly updated its database, then explained using the content that shocked Golden Scale:

[The Pandora Project appeared in my database shortly after the emergence of Pandora Core Technology, but it was just a low-end technology that was never implemented and was a short-sighted attempt to exploit resources.]

From a certain perspective, the Sun Moon Empire has been copying the Star Dou Empire's answers, and they have actually achieved some results. Unfortunately, all those results have been replaced by other options within the Star Dou Empire.

The core idea of ​​the Pandora Evil God Project is to gather myriad things to nurture one, and the underlying logic of the current Heavenly Dao Spiritual Network is still to gather myriad things to nurture one.

Jin Lin understood that the Heavenly Dao Spirit Network was nourishing [Youlan], which was Chen Fu.

However, compared to the inhumane practice of the Sun Moon Empire, which directly treats people as "human resource packages," Chen Fu has reached a relatively harmonious symbiotic model with people through a kind of "exchange."

Within the Star Dou Empire, the fact that the Heavenly Dao Spiritual Network needs to draw a small portion of the users' spiritual power is openly acknowledged. The Heavenly Dao Spiritual Network can provide everyone with high learning and work efficiency, so the price is that everyone needs to support it.

The underlying logic of the Divine Refining Matrix is ​​to use the spiritual power of all the people in the stars to replenish the spiritual power consumed by the members of the Divine Refining Matrix. Ultimately, through the long process of energy absorption and 'the passage of time', they enhance their soul resilience and eventually transform into divine souls.

[The creator, as the core, indirectly absorbs a portion of the soul power of other growing divine souls, continuously enhancing its own soul strength and resilience, ultimately reaching a quality comparable to that of a god-king.]

What is the soul? Chen Fu's answer is: the upper limit of computing power.

Mental power is computing power.

As for soul power, that's the mecha.

Mechs can be built very large and complex at any time, but the computing power of the main controller determines the maximum precision with which it can control the mech.

"So he's really bold," Jin Lin didn't know how to comment on Chen Fu's thoughts. To call him audacious would be an understatement.

The evil god Pandora used the Pandora Core as a purifier, absorbing various energies from the 'humanoid resource pack' to comprehensively enhance himself. And Chen Fu? He treated those hundreds of Title Douluos and 100,000-year-old soul beasts as 'humanoid purifiers,' growing stronger through their constant annihilation, while Chen Fu also grew stronger through the constant annihilation of others—a win-win situation, winning twice!

"So Chen Hong's task is to build a gigantic 'mecha' for Chen Fu?"

This is a fairly accurate description.

"Then what is this pendant I'm wearing?" Suddenly remembering the sword-shaped pendant around his neck, Jinlin subconsciously grasped the pendant and then asked [Azure] in his mind.

You already know, don't you?

【Azure】This time, instead of responding directly to Golden Scale, she used a rhetorical question, which is extremely rare.

"Inheritance?" Jin Lin raised a slight brow, then asked curiously, "Why can't I cultivate it?"

When the time comes, you will be able to cultivate.

The unreserved [Azure] began to keep Jinlin in suspense.

"Can't I know now?" Jin Lin puffed out her cheeks, looking a little angry.

I just granted myself very powerful permissions, and what happened? In the blink of an eye, things have hit rock bottom.

Hehe, that works too.

【Youlan】seems to be showing more and more of her humanity, which makes Jinlin a little stunned.

There's nothing to be curious about. The Heavenly Dao Spiritual Network has expanded about four times, and I'm adapting to these newly emerging disordered spiritual energies. The burden of running the Heavenly Dao Spiritual Network is decreasing for me, and my rational personality is being gradually liberated.

【Azure】seemed to sense the question in Golden Scale's mind, so it directly explained its current situation, and continued:

[To explain whether or not you can cultivate, we first need to explain what the Void Return Permission is.]

The Creator actually mentioned the responsibilities of the Void Return Authority to you personally.

Upon hearing this, Jin Lin replied without hesitation, "Chen Hong?"

【It is true】

What did Chen Fu say to Jin Lin? Jin Lin was terrified that Chen Hong would replace Chen Fu, so she told Chen Fu that if he were gone, she would kill Chen Hong.

As it turned out, Chen Fu laughed and said that she couldn't usually kill Chen Hong, and then said she would give her a permission that could help her fulfill her 'wish'.

Now it seems that this permission is the so-called "Return to the Void Permission"?

The Creator once said that Hong was His most perfect creation, so perfect that it had no flaws whatsoever.

This is utterly inconceivable to the Creator, for I am also a creation of the Creator, only that compared to Hong, I inherit the Creator's spirit and authority, while Hong possesses only body and wisdom.

The Creator himself has 'flaws,' and I also have 'flaws,' but Hong alone has never discovered these 'flaws.'

The machine tool paradox states that the mother cannot create a child that surpasses itself using its own power, but Chen Hong's existence is so perfect that even Chen Fu feels a sense of unreality.

He had no aesthetic cognitive impairment, nor did he have the emotional cognitive impairment of [Azure]. This perfection made Chen Fu wonder if his 'maternal concept' might be stripped away. However, Chen Fu eventually deduced another kind of 'flaw' that needed to be tested by time.

However, Chen Fu knew she couldn't possibly spend a long time alone with Tang San in the Refining God Demiplane. Therefore, she used Jin Lin's [Return to the Void Permission] to bypass Chen Hong's presence and forcibly break through the Refining God Demiplane, activating [Azure]'s 'Return to the Void Program' to directly connect with the world's will, refining either the entire world or Jin Lin. Given Jin Lin's personality, he would most likely choose to sacrifice himself.

However, in that case, the first thing Chen Fu, after breaking through the illusion and descending into the real world, would do is abandon all the advantages he has gained through long planning and prioritize killing Chen Hong! Then, in the form of exchanging benefits, he would bring the God Realm to kill Tang San!

"So... Chen Hong needs me to kill him?" Jin Lin was eager to try. She had long disliked Chen Hong's sour face, which was very similar to Chen Fu's!

Although I don't know why the same face looks handsome on Chen Fu but grumpy on Chen Hong, it's best not to pry into girls' affairs.

After the database update, I understood Hong's 'flaws'.

"Oh? What is it?"

The brilliance of life

"Hongjun: The Heavenly Dao is forty-nine, I am the one who escapes to the end!"

"【】Note: A perfectly good technological civilization has been turned into a myth."

—The Bold and Extraordinary Book of the Ten Great Books of the Guixu Universe: The Precious Record of the Hongjun by Fu

Chapter 308: The Awakened Spirit Refiners! The Reincarnation of the Dragon King! [Seeking monthly votes! Love you!]

Within the silent and dreamlike metal palace, an unknown material reflects a pastel, dreamy starry blue in the faint glow of soul power. Inside the metal palace, which has been silent for an unknown period of time, layers of enclosed iron thrones, arranged like staggered steps, resemble devout knights, slumbering silently within this space, guarding the circular, tree-shaped metal coffin located at the heart of the palace, in the space between dream and reality.

click

A faint metallic scraping sound suddenly rang out in the mythical, dreamlike palace, which had been silent for an unknown period of time. Then, a soul-guided metal coffin, resembling an 'iron pupa,' located on the steps of the Iron Throne, let out a hoarse roar, and then, with great difficulty, it slowly opened, like the strained cracking of an old man raising his hand.

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As the green-haired bald man slowly opened his eyes, the hazy, real light from outside the metal coffin, carved with various intricate soul-guiding patterns, gradually entered his cloudy and aged eyes, causing his nearly stagnant soul to fall into a strange sense of bewilderment.

Through the crack in the metal throne, from his perspective, what lay directly in front of him was a magnificent, beautiful, and dreamlike scene.

Countless shimmering white branches, seemingly reaching into a false starry sky, form nine concentric rings of varying sizes in a perfectly coordinated arc. These tree-like images occasionally shimmer with dazzling colors that do not exist in the real world, resembling the vastness of the starry sky, the silence of the abyss, the creation of all things, and also endless carnage.

At the very center of those rings, a soul-guided coffin, seemingly both present and absent, floated silently like something out of mythology. It was as if it were the center of heaven and earth, yet also as if it had never existed—real yet illusory, mesmerizing yet clear.

"I'm."

After a long silence, Green Hair Egg's cloudy, weathered eyes began to regain a glimmer of light. A hoarse voice came from his dry throat. He could feel that his body was healthy, but it gave him a sense of unreality and disorientation.

Finally, after an unknown amount of time, his vast soul memories were fragmented and analyzed by his outdated physical body, and he finally understood what was going on.