Please be my partner.

At this time, the energy of the high-maintenance shield has accumulated to 7 units. If the bonus of "Dimensional Jump" is taken into account, Melen feels that it should be more than enough to test its protective effect.

When he came to the outside world, Melen summoned his two generals... Spike and Golden Retriever.

After hearing Mellen's request, the golden retriever was extremely resistant. He shook his head like a drum and lay on the ground, refusing to move.

Golden Retriever: Attacking the owner? Impossible!

Spike glanced at the golden retriever, and that look seemed to say "You are a loser, you failed at the critical moment". Although he was not happy about it, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and go ahead.

Although Mellen also has the saint-level combat power of Little Red Lotus and the spirit world messenger Dark Blade, in Spike's opinion, the former is even more "useless" than the golden retriever and is even less likely to attack the boy. Although the latter also has a contract, it is different from these dogs after all. Spike is afraid that he will hurt the boy seriously.

After Melen stood still, he activated the high-maintenance shield. He waited for a while to detect the natural consumption of the high-maintenance shield. The result was indeed no different from when he was in the high-dimensional world. It was enough to maintain it around the clock. At most, it only reduced the original 5 units of energy that could be accumulated every day to 4 units.

Mellen nodded slightly to Spike, indicating that they could begin.

The hesitation and indecision in Spike's eyes were instantly swept away. He flashed in front of Mellen and swung his claws suddenly. Of course, the sharp blades on the claws had been retracted by the dog. Although canines cannot extend and retract their claws as freely as cats, it is still very easy for someone with Spike's strength to control his body.

In this attack, Spike only used the physical strength of a saint.

"Bang!~"

After a muffled sound, Mellen did not move at all. The invisible barrier surrounding him did not even cause a ripple, just like a mosquito hitting the glass.

Melen looked at the energy consumption, there was no consumption!

Of course, there may be some, but it only consumes one ten-thousandth of 1 unit of energy, or even less, which is not as much as natural recovery, so it cannot be seen at all.

Mellen's eyes lit up slightly, and he said expectantly, "Spike, show us some real skills!"

Spike nodded, a serious look on his dog face, and golden light exploded around his body. It was still a claw, but this time, both the power and strength were far beyond the previous attack.

"Boom!~"

Amid the huge explosion, Melen remained motionless, but the barrier around him turned from invisible to visible. The golden light could be seen to linger for a few moments before finally going out.

This time, Melen finally felt the consumption of the shield's energy, but it was only about one thousandth of a unit.

Mellen showed satisfaction on his face, and once again said to the dog: "Spike, give it your all!"

Spike's expression became serious. He had not expected the shield built by the young man to have such a strong defensive capability. He immediately stopped holding back and [Immortal Fighting Will] shone with all its might. A long river of fighting will appeared in the sky. His body only expanded slightly, but gave people a feeling of standing tall and upright, which was an addition to the concept of 'world'.

The claws swung out, as if to cover the sky and shatter the universe.

"Boom!~"

Spike gathered the powerful force in a small area and hit Mellen. The shield outside Mellen's body reappeared, with some dents and ripples appearing.

Most of the force of Spike's attack was directly absorbed by the shield, and only a very small part escaped to the surroundings, creating a claw-shaped pit with a radius of one hundred meters.

Mellen waved his hand to disperse the smoke and dust, a faint smile on his face, and said to Spike: "Okay, let's end this test here."

Spike's final attack only consumed about one percent of the shield's energy. Of course, this doesn't mean that the difference between Spike's first and third attacks was a hundred times greater. It's just that when Spike attacked with all his strength, with the addition of various rules and concepts, the destructive power and energy consumption efficiency were qualitatively improved.

At the same time, Melen was also somewhat impressed by the power of the demigod. After his high-maintenance shield had undergone a "dimensional jump", it had just touched the threshold of demigod. Even so, it had such a great suppressing effect on the saint.

However, Mellen did not get carried away by this. Not to mention those invincible saints who mastered powerful means, even a perfect saint would probably only need a certain amount of time to break this shield.

The most fundamental purpose of the high-dimensional shield is to serve as a guarantee for exploring the low-dimensional world.

Sitting on the recliner, Mellen fell into deep thought.

The completion of the high-maintenance shield means that the exploration of the low-dimensional world can begin, but the top priority now is the promotion of Xiao Liuli and Green Mist Dog. Both dogs have reached a critical moment.

In addition, there are only four or five months left before the one-year agreement with Feixue and others. His high-dimensional body has been completed, and it is time to show his cards.

Thinking of this, Mellen took out the token he got from Tim and sent a message into it.

There was a response soon, and Feixue asked, "Liuying, have you thought it over?"

"Of course, I chose to join this adventure," Mellen said.

Feixue was silent for a moment, then said, "Liuying, this isn't a good choice. You haven't received any information about this adventure. Going there rashly... is very dangerous. It's no exaggeration to say you're in for a near-death experience. That's all I can say. Believe it or not, it's up to you."

Melen naturally believed Feixue's words. He had already seen a corner of the future from the fog of fate. The ruins this time were most likely located in a higher-dimensional world. Without a high-dimensional body built in advance, even the strength that a saint could exert in the higher-dimensional world would be less than one hundredth. In this case, it would be an exaggeration to say that it would be a life-or-death situation to take risks in unknown ruins.

A consciousness sneered and said, "Humph! You don't know whether to live or die. Anyway, we won't reveal any information before the ruins are opened. If you want to come, then come!"

Mellen didn't rush to point it out, but asked doubtfully: "The key in my hand should be very important, right? If you say that, aren't you afraid that I won't go, and won't let you go?"

Another consciousness tried to smooth things over, saying with a smile, "Liu Ying, with our strength, profit comes first. If you keep the key in your hand and don't use it, you'll gain nothing except pissing us off to death. On the other hand, if you sell it to us, not only will you not have to bear any risks, you'll also get some benefits for free. I don't need to explain the pros and cons of this, do I? "

Mellen nodded slightly, thinking that this was a pleasant thing to hear. There was not even a conflict between them. It was really unnecessary to give up huge profits for such a small matter.

At this point, Mellen didn't intend to continue testing. He uttered two words lightly: "Upgrade."

As soon as these words were spoken, the other four links fell into silence. After a long silence, Feixue was the first to ask, "How did you know?"

Melen said directly: "No need to test it anymore. I have already built a high-dimensional body and am fully prepared for this adventure in the ruins."

Feixue said, "Now that things have come to this, there's no point in hiding it any further."

The other three did not respond, seemingly agreeing.

Feixue continued, "Yes, the key can indeed open a relic located in a higher-dimensional world."

Melen asked, "Besides opening the ruins, what other functions does the key have? Don't tell me there isn't one. The competition between you isn't as simple as just fighting for a key to 'open the door.'"

"Liuying, you're really perceptive." Feixue chuckled and said, "It's also your fault. You were too obvious."

"In addition to opening the ruins, the key itself also represents a right of access to the ruins. According to the information we've obtained, these ruins are the remains of an intelligent machine civilization. This intelligent machine civilization arose in the real world, gradually grew stronger, and eventually completed its overall sublimation into a higher-dimensional civilization. Unfortunately, due to some unforeseen circumstances, it eventually disappeared. Even the name of this civilization was lost in the long river of history, leaving only a few remnants as a witness to its former glory."

"That's all we know."

Mellen nodded slightly. He finally got some useful information, but he didn't believe that Feixue only knew these words. Although Feixue had always been friendly to him during these exchanges, this could not change the fact that the four of them had joined forces to block the information from him.

Just imagine, if Mellen had joined this adventure into the ruins without any relevant intelligence, wouldn't he be at the mercy of others after entering the higher-dimensional world and being suppressed?!

Mellen didn't think that after the four people took the keys from him, they would politely send him away.

But this is understandable. After all, we are not related to each other, so we can just pretend to be nice. Who would really be a "good guy"?

Melen asked, "When exactly will the ruins be opened?"

Feixue said, "There's still about half a year left. These are the coordinates we agreed upon..."

After receiving the coordinate information, Melen discovered that this was an area somewhere in the spiritual world.

"As long as we gather together and use the five keys, we can directly open the passage to the ruins."

Mellen said, "One last question... What are the names of the other three?"

The man with an aggressive tone said, "Heavenly Fire!"

The man acting as a peacemaker said, "Just call me Xuanshi."

The man who was always silent said, "The giant spirit."

After informing each other of the code name, it also meant that the others recognized Mellen.

"Omnics? Authority? Ruins?!"

After the link was disconnected, Melen's eyes flashed. He turned the token over and over in his hand for a while before putting it away.

In Mellen's original plan, because the resources needed for Garuru to evolve into the [Dimension Wolf] were too difficult to find, he planned to start his promotion to Saint immediately after Xiao Liuli completed his transformation, so that he would be able to search better after his strength increased.

But now, Melen hesitated again, because he vaguely felt that if Garuru could evolve into a [Dimensional Wolf], it might be helpful for the exploration of the ruins this time.

In other words, Melen will devote all his energy to searching for Garuru's evolution materials in the next six months.

In this case, Mellen would have to consider whether to wait another half a year until Garuru completes his evolution and becomes a saint, and then bring the mechanical dog along for the promotion. This would save several years or even decades of hard work in the saint stage.

But after a moment, Mellen dispelled this thought. Reality is not a game. There is no such thing as "just right". It is really unnecessary to save a large amount of resources just to wait for a so-called perfect promotion.

As I said, once you become stronger, things that seemed difficult before will naturally become simple.

Just like in WOW, in the 1970s, it required 25 people to cooperate tacitly to complete the dungeon, but in the 1980s, certain professions could fight alone (I was so sick of farming Phoenixes in World of Warcraft that I gave up in the end, and no one had dropped one o(╥﹏╥)o).

If Mellen was arrogant enough to use his current strength to search for the core of the low-dimensional world and the complete rules treasure, if something really happened, he might not even have a chance to cry.

After deciding on the next action plan, Melen began to wait patiently. Every day, in addition to organizing the extraordinary knowledge recorded in his mind and trying to complete the [Wolf Tamer], he steadily supplied spiritual energy to Xiao Liuli and Green Mist Dog to help them evolve.

A month later.

Melen glanced at Xiao Liuli who was still sleeping peacefully in the fairy tale kingdom and couldn't help but sigh. The little fox's promotion this time took longer than he expected. In comparison, Green Mist Dog's side was much smoother.

When the scope of the Poison Secret Realm expanded to one-third of the poison cloud area, it directly evolved into the Poison Realm. Not only were its original abilities greatly enhanced, it also had the ability to transmit power remotely and self-grow.

In other words, even if the Green Mist Dog is not in the Poison Realm, it can still receive the power of the Poison Realm. Of course, with the current strength of the Poison Realm, the distance cannot be too far, and at most it can only cross several spiritual realms. In addition, a lot of losses will be generated in this process, but this loss increases in a curve. As long as it does not exceed a certain threshold, it is within the acceptable range.

The ability of self-growth is easy to understand. Even if Green Mist Dog does not use Poison Erosion, the Poison Realm will expand on its own. Of course, the speed is far inferior to the latter.

Although the blessing of the Poison Realm to Green Mist Dog is not as great as that of the Saint Realm, it is not far behind. This is also the fundamental reason why Green Mist Dog's promotion progress is getting faster and faster.

By now, it's almost over.

Melen looked towards the direction of the Nether Spider's nest and could vaguely sense that a terrifying life form was rapidly recovering. Its breath covered the sky and the sun, surpassing the scope of the poison realm and covering the entire poisonous cloud area.

Chapter 424 Rebirth and Essence

The entire poisonous cloud area was covered by a layer of colorful and thick clouds.

The clouds slowly rotated around the Hades Spider's Nest, and the bright colors were distributed in a regular pattern, appearing beautiful and gorgeous.

“Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!…”

The sound like a heartbeat matched the pulse of the sky and the earth. Every beat would cause the poisonous cloud area to form an overall response.

During this process, the speed of the poison's erosion increased tenfold or even a hundredfold. The poisonous boundary, which originally occupied only one-third of the poisonous cloud area, began to expand rapidly, and in a short period of time, it exceeded one-half... two-thirds...

As the Poison Realm expands, more and more power gathers within it. Every poisonous life shrouded in the Poison Realm begins to interact with it naturally. While absorbing the power of the Poison Realm, they will also unconsciously release part of their own life essence and integrate it into it, gradually becoming a member of the 'whole'.

One day later, the entire poisonous cloud area was completely eroded and became part of the Poison Realm, and then the expansion of the Poison Realm came to an abrupt halt.

Even during the almost unconscious promotion period, Green Mist Dog still strictly obeyed Mellen's orders.

However, having an entire area that completely matches its own attributes for nourishment is more than enough for the Green Mist Dog.

The heartbeat still echoed like a drum, each time stronger than the last.

At a certain moment, as if naturally reaching a critical point, the heartbeat suddenly stopped.

This was like a sudden break of some kind of balance. The colorful clouds poured down, and the earth's veins flowed back at a rapid speed. All the poisonous creatures in the poisonous cloud area bowed towards the direction of the Nether Spider's nest. Strands of visible and invisible power emanated from them and gathered towards the center.

This extreme silence lasted for more than ten minutes. Suddenly, a stream of energy like smoke and fog gushed out from the Nether Spider's nest, forming a vague shadow in the air. The obviously small body seemed to have opened a huge mouth that covered the sky and the sun, completely swallowing the sky and the earth.

In the next trance, the world returned to its original state, as if everything that had just happened was just an illusion.

However, the colorful clouds in the sky have disappeared, and the veins of the earth have fallen silent because too much energy has been consumed.

In mid-air, a small green dog was looking at the world with clear eyes full of curiosity.

Suddenly, the dog turned its head, and its sight seemed to cross infinite time and space and intersect with a certain existence.

…………

In a faraway place, there is a world full of natural harmony, with clear blue skies, ancient trees growing in forests, lush grass and flying birds, exotic flowers blooming in profusion, picturesque mountains and clear waters, and all things living in harmony.

On this land without any trace of human beings, two figures were walking slowly.

At this moment, one of them suddenly stopped and looked in a certain direction thoughtfully.

Jonathan, who was walking in front and wearing a priest's robe (see Chapter 216 for details), saw his companions stop and asked, "Luolu, what's wrong?"

Luoluo turned his back to Jonathan and said nothing. At this moment, tears flowed from his eyes. He was moved and sad.

What moved him was that he could clearly sense that the part of his body that he had previously discarded had been reborn.

The sad thing is that that part of the body has completely severed all connections with him and no longer belongs to him.

Soon, the expression on Luoluo's face changed to fear and... greed.

For Luoluo, although giving up part of his body was somewhat forced, overall it did not exceed his expectations.

Green Radish was originally a forbidden wonder, the 'Swallowing Swamp'. Later, when people wanted to get rid of its status as a wonder, Green Radish was born.

It can be said that the green ivy was born with the essence of the 'Swallowing Swamp'.

The part discarded by the green ivy is naturally the "dross".

For a long time afterwards, Green Ivy had been trying to grab more usable things from the discarded "dross". It was not until Mellen completely defeated the "Devouring Swamp" that he really made up his mind to abandon it completely.

Originally, there was nothing wrong with this choice. Although the remaining part also contained some of the essence of the "Swallowing Swamp", with the "death" of this remaining part, these essences would eventually return to Green Ivy.

But now, the problem arises. Not only did the remnant not "die", but it was "reborn" for some unknown reason. This also caused the essence of the original forbidden artifact "Swallowing Swamp" to be directly split into two!

Moreover, the two parts are now taking completely different paths.