Wizard's Journey

Chapter 197 Crystal Turtle

wrong!

Green suddenly paused, as if he had thought of something. His spiritual power surged forth, flowing towards the translucent crystal turtle, and he exclaimed in delight, "Soul of Natural Elements!"

The so-called elemental soul refers to the soul seed of elemental life that is born out of thin air under the rules of a world. In the wizarding knowledge system, this type of elemental life belongs to the elemental spirit category. Similar to plant spirits, they are asexual reproduction organisms that reproduce by self-division.

The souls of these first-generation elemental beings, naturally evolved from the rules of the world, are one of the most important materials for synthetic beasts in the wizarding knowledge system: the souls of natural elements.

The offspring of these first-generation elemental beings, who split off from them, do not possess the natural elemental souls required for synthetic beasts; they are merely ordinary souls.

The first generation of elemental life forms had no external difference from their offspring elemental life forms that reproduced and multiplied. The internal difference lay in their territorial immortality and the unique rules protecting them in certain aspects.

In other words, if an elemental soul is born in this region, the elemental life form will be nourished by the unique rules of this space, and its abilities in certain aspects will be amazingly enhanced, unless the rules of this space are destroyed or changed.

The crystal turtle before us is, without a doubt, a primordial water elemental life form!

boom!

With a single step, Green, as a formal wizard, used his talent for manipulating the power of nature to instantly draw and mobilize all the elemental power of the underground lake within a mere tens of meters radius, gathering it towards himself. The originally calm waters of the lake beneath his feet suddenly surged like a level twelve gale, with rolling waves crashing against the surrounding stone walls.

Primitive elemental life forms have a strong advantage over some passively evolved creatures, but for powerful elemental creatures of a certain level, such as wizards who have the ability to manipulate the power of nature and change the rules of an entire region, they are no different from ordinary elemental creatures.

Clearly, this small underground lake, spanning only a few dozen meters, is under the control of natural forces by Green, a formal wizard.

As for this translucent crystal turtle?

In the wizarding knowledge system, it probably hasn't even entered the ranks of first-level creatures and is not worth mentioning at all.

"No……"

The crystal turtle cried out in its soul the moment Green mobilized the power of nature to manipulate the rules of this world. It tried to control the swirling vortex around itself to protect itself, but Green's power of nature manipulated the rules and constantly dismantled and dispersed it. Water splashed everywhere, as if a rogue had ripped off the clothes of a helpless girl and stripped the crystal turtle of its shell in the blink of an eye.

"Hmph? Such a lowly creature actually possesses the ability to communicate with souls, that's rather interesting." Grimm sneered beneath his mask of truth, his body, imbued with undying flames, strode step by step over the turbulent waves around him. The splashing water was dispelled by an invisible force as soon as it approached Grimm.

A primordial elemental being, renowned for its ability to control the natural elements of its birthplace, found itself without any controllable elements in the face of a wizard far more powerful than itself.

It has to be said, this is a huge irony.

At this moment, only a few pitiful water columns surrounded the Crystal Turtle, and all the water elements around it had been stripped away by Grimm, 'escaping' from the Crystal Turtle's control.

"A noble and great being from another world, if I could, I would give everything I have to exchange for my life." The crystal turtle struggled to move its fins, controlling the few pitiful water columns around it, looking at Green with fear and pleading.

Give everything you have?

Ignoring all the defensive water pillars around the crystal turtle, the rolling waves of fire violently dispelled everything. His delicate white hand actually pierced through the crystal turtle's elemental body and grabbed a wisp of soul flame that was constantly dancing at its core. He said in a deep voice, "Everything you are to me is this wisp of natural elemental soul."

The voice was incredibly cold and calm, carrying the unique greed, cruelty, and rational evil of a wizard facing creatures from another world, a strange and ominous sense of mystery that was truly terrifying.

All the otherworldly creatures that came into contact with the wizards were unable to comprehend these so-called wizards with their own wisdom; even the most basic adjectives seemed utterly inadequate to describe them.

They were powerful, intelligent, and civilized, but this was accompanied by cruel plunder, evil killings, and even enslavement.

They are countless times more evil and ferocious than any other life form ever recorded in the history of this endless world community. No other life form in this world community has ever managed everything so tightly and orderly, so frantically, that the alien world targeted by the wizard had no way to resist and could only passively accept the will and civilization of that distant, terrifying, and unknown world.

They couldn't even understand why, as wizards were different from humans, there was such a huge difference in their power systems, even though their lives were essentially the same.

The instant the Crystal Turtle's elemental soul was seized by Grimm, its translucent elemental body trembled and began to disperse. With pleading eyes, the Crystal Turtle struggled one last time, saying, "No... I think my long lifespan will surely bring you some small help! At least, the living me is more useful to you than the dead me."

The eternal years of life?

Green scoffed, "A mere creature that hasn't even reached the level of a first-level life form dares to talk about eternal life in front of a wizard? Ignorant..."

"No! My eternal life is my instinct, and it has nothing to do with the form or level of a life form." Seemingly sensing a glimmer of hope, the crystal turtle struggled in the last moment before Green extracted the Soul of the Natural Elements.

instinct?

Green paused slightly.

Could it be that the crystal turtle born in this underground lake, whose nature is enhanced by the surrounding natural laws, is actually an eternal life form?

However, such so-called eternal life is nothing to true life forms like the Dryad. This is just a lucky elemental life form that happened to be born in underground water and survived the world's catastrophe and the detection of higher beings in a relatively closed environment. At the same time, these Amonro have a special worship of water.

Otherwise, the so-called eternal life is nothing but a joke!

For a truly immortal life form similar to a psychic wizard to exist in a world with balanced energy, it would require the energy support of an entire world to reach such a high level. Otherwise, it would require altering the world's balance rules or plundering resources from other worlds.

As for the crystal turtle's supposed permanence...

Green paused his hand briefly, then asked with a cold laugh, "So, how many eras are there in your eternal years?"

"An era? I'm not sure how that unit of time is calculated." The Crystal Turtle paused, then added, "However, when I was born, this world was still ruled by lava giants, and Amonro was just food for the lava dragons that the lava giants fed on."

Ok?

Suddenly, Green's expression changed slightly. Although the specific year and era of what the crystal turtle said was unclear, the information contained within was indeed quite unusual!

Green loosened his grip on the Crystal Turtle's Soul of Nature slightly. The greed and ferocity in his eyes, hidden beneath the mask of truth, gradually disappeared. He looked at the Crystal Turtle with the light of reason and wisdom and said in a deep voice, "Then, use your knowledge to exchange for your life."

"Knowledge? What's that?" The crystal turtle asked, slightly relieved.

"Knowledge refers to the natural phenomenon of mutual transformation between the surface evolution of the endless world and the deep rules of the endless world. It is divided into four parts: scope, historicity, connection, and truth. The long historical years of your life are the strongest carrier of historical knowledge accumulation," Green said in a gentle and detailed manner.

Wizards consider the years they live as a precious treasure.

The longer a wizard has lived, the more they can use their past ignorance, failures, and regrets to foresee their own future trajectory and effectively analyze and process their perspectives on things and the unknown.

Furthermore, Green's exceptional talent for communication requires him to use his long years of experience and memory to unlock the space of his imagination. This process allows no room for deception; one can only accumulate knowledge day by day.

Just like a wizard's accumulation of knowledge, one can only rely on one's own wisdom to gradually understand and accumulate knowledge, eventually becoming a life form that can reverse the rules.

"Then, how can I pass on my knowledge to you?" the crystal turtle asked Green hopefully.

Grimm smiled mysteriously beneath his mask of truth, though the crystal turtle couldn't see it. He said in a low, somber voice, "Knowledge can only be acquired through two methods: soul inheritance and cognitive accumulation. It allows no unrealistic fantasies of prying into it. And you can only reveal the essential knowledge that is useful to me through conversation, slowly communicating it through soul-to-soul exchange. The way to distinguish between the essence and the dross is to put yourself in my shoes and connect with what is useful to me—that is the essence of knowledge."

After a moment of silence, the crystal turtle asked hesitantly, "How can I possibly connect these clues to something useful for you, my esteemed sir?"

Hmph, hmph hmph hmph...

Green chuckled softly, then suddenly exhaled a wisp of soul flame, coldly saying, "Once you integrate it into your soul and become my soul slave, you will naturally associate with me!"

Do not……

The crystal turtle realized something and struggled instinctively, but its struggle as a lower life form was so powerless in front of Green.

Half an hour later.

Grimm released his left hand from the crystal turtle's soul and said calmly, "Now, do you understand?"

The crystal turtle's body, which was over a meter long, shrank as it evaporated, eventually becoming a tiny crystal point only three centimeters long, floating in the air, with a thin layer of water element enveloping its soul fire.

"Yes, I think I understand. What Master wants to know from me is the resources here and the historical nodes of this world, so as to deduce some historical relics and resources." The crystal turtle slowly floated onto Green's arm and said.

(End of this chapter)