High Above

What happened at the church door was something that could happen anywhere.

It’s not uncommon for a human child to learn how to blowjob and become better than anyone he knows!

For a remote place like Harrison Port, the average child may not even be able to spell the Grant family's surname correctly, so naturally they cannot be expected to name the ascendants other than the viscount and bishop.

And in the end, who won...

The answer is self-evident.

"As of now, my brother is undoubtedly the strongest in Nanling!"

The children around them were eating melons, fish, beans and cold jellyfish. Elan, who was eating grilled sausage, used his natural momentum and words to intimidate them. For a moment, they were unable to refute.

Coupled with the good reputation that Ian has brought to him as "someone else's kid" over the years, everyone suddenly feels that "he is right".

——Fuck, the master alchemist in the imperial capital is fighting against his disciples, but you ended up fighting against your brother in Harrison Port?

And when I heard it, Elan really stopped stuttering, and his sentences became clearer and smoother!

Ian felt quite strange in his heart.

He didn't know that Ellan was actually his die-hard fan... but when he thought about it, it wasn't surprising. It was normal for his younger brother to like him!

If Elan doesn't brag about himself, then he has to reflect on why his majestic image is not reflected in the other person's heart!

Not to mention, what Elan said was true.

"Ah, brother!"

Ellan, who was bragging about Ian with his friends, saw Ian walking out of the church door. His eyes lit up immediately, and then he ran over.

Ian didn't care if the other party's oily hand slapped his waist after he had just eaten kebabs and grilled fish. Anyway, he was a sublimate of the water attribute, and removing the oil stains was just a matter of thought.

"good."

Ian touched his brother's head and said kindly: "Don't be so arrogant when discussing with your friends next time. Even if we are the strongest in the future, we have to keep a low profile now. Do you understand?"

"Uh-huh!"

Ellan nodded in agreement seriously, but was a little confused: "But I'm not arrogant. I'm just telling the truth!"

"You don't understand this." Ian sighed and shook his head: "For genius brothers like us, stating the facts is the greatest arrogance."

"In order to prevent them from having too much psychological pressure, next time Elan, just lie. Put me in second or third place. When I go to a bigger place, I will be more humble and say that we can stabilize the top eight." ."

"Yeah, yeah." Elan agreed without hesitation: "Okay, next time I will say that brother you is the second strongest."

"In the church, just say Grandpa Baiwu is the best, and in other places, say the Viscount is the best!"

"Yes, Not Bad!"

Ian was very pleased that Ellan had revealed this, but he rubbed the other person's soft white cheeks vigorously: "You are very smart, Ellan, then let me test you. What if two people are present at the same time?"

"Then brother is third!"

"Okay, okay! My Elan is the smartest!" Ian was very satisfied.

——That’s how it should be! The children of their Yinfeng family should have the ability to adapt to the situation and speak to people!

"Don't teach bad children!"

On the other side, Elder Pude's voice sounded. The old man who had just bought three coconuts looked helplessly at Ian teaching children to lie: "Are you done talking to Bai Wu?"

"yes."

Putting down the hand that was rubbing Elan's face, Ian took the coconut with two holes punched in and inserted into the reed pipe from Elder Puder: "Over there in the redwood forest, people from the Suming Cult are also coming. The speed of our action Gotta hurry.”

"Oh?" Elder Pude couldn't help but feel a little nervous after hearing this. He frowned: "Are they also interested in foreseeing Futaba?"

"No." Ian said, he took the step now and took Elder Puder and Elan to the seaside outside the city: "They are obviously interested in me - foreseeing Futaba is just an excuse, Su Ming Cult should have foreseen it There is something about me, but it turns out there is a prophetic influence blocking it.”

"So they sent people to Harrison Port to ask about the situation of the Huaiguang Church. The Huaiguang Church couldn't confirm that I had prophetic abilities, so they could only tell them the news about foreseeing Futaba."

“This just happens to be relevant to us again.”

"The four orthodox religions..."

The old man took a sip of coconut juice and said in a deep voice: "You said last time that you wanted to gradually show your prophetic ability... It seems that this is the opportunity."

"With the endorsement of any of the four orthodox religions, your ability will not be doubted or you will encounter danger."

Ian nodded: "Yes. That's why I came here specifically to ask about Bishop Baiwu's tone."

His communication with Bishop Baiwu was very simple, but he could hear the other party's hidden meaning.

yes. The Suming Cult discovered signs that there was a prophet in Nanling...but for no reason, why did the other party suddenly discover that there was a prophet in Nanling?

That must be because something happened in Nanling that made them try to predict, but to no avail.

To be honest, it's not arrogance. Ian feels that based on the current situation in Nanling, the people and things that are qualified to be predicted are basically related to him.

And the scope of the field that the Netherworld Cult will try to predict... coincidentally, Ian is also involved.

(Temporary Hades?)

Walking on the road to the coast outside the city, Ian thought to himself: (Obviously, the Sui Ming Cult has a prophecy method similar to the Huaiguang Church to detect natural disasters. They should have predicted the temporary Hades I was preparing, or something else. Similar technology, but I don’t know where it is because I am a prophet)

(And they obtained the existence of the prophetic Futaba from various channels, and believed that it caused the misjudgment, so they sent an investigation team to investigate... As it happened, Elder Pude was also making preparations to improve my prophetic ability. He is also investigating this)

(In this way, the Huaiguang Church, which already knew a lot of news, can confirm that I am indeed a prophet this time - what a coincidence)

However, if the Underworld Cult really has the means to detect technology like Temporary Hades, then they are definitely well aware of Archduke Thorin's plan to destroy the king.

And the Suming Cult did not prevent the birth of the Dead King... It was impossible to stop it, or are they also the promoters behind the technology of the Dead King?

It's possible.

Ian shook his head, he didn't want to think about this for the time being. In the future, the Minghui Cult will definitely come to visit us. Whether it will be cooperation or something else will be decided at that time.

No matter what moves the opponent makes, he just needs to wait in Xiahui Ling.

As for now...

"Go find Shark first."

This time, Ian took Elder Puder and Ellan directly to the beach, just to find Shark Shark and Hua An, and they all went to the Great Maze of the South China Sea together.

On the way, Ian examined Ellan's body in detail.

Nowadays, Elan can be regarded as half a psychic. With the help of the Huaiguang Church meditation method, Ian can even see some primitive spiritual matter appearing in Elan's body.

This is the advantage of psykers. They will naturally give birth to souls and enter the ranks of ascendants... Although there is no magic potion, as long as there is psychic energy, they are ascendants. This is the iron law on Terra.

And Ian was also keenly aware that the so-called connection between Ellan and the 'crystalline creature' was not in the body... but in the soul.

What does this mean?

With this in mind, they came to a seafood breeding factory run by Bai Zhimin.

It can also be regarded as the entrance and exit where Shark Shark and Qingchao Scott met before, and where Hua An Frost Butterfly took Ellan to go out to play.

Qingchao has been waiting here for a long time.

"Boss."

From a distance, I saw Ian and others approaching. The blue-haired swordsman stood up from the pontoon along the coast, and a bright flash of light also lit up at the same time: "Oh! (Boss!)"

"Qingchao, Sharksha, you look quite energetic."

Ian walked directly into the sea, and a huge steel-armored shark came galloping over and hit Ian... exactly the same action as Elan before, but the force was a little stronger. Ian almost didn't use the source material. The power of the heart of the furnace is used to resist the impact of the shark.

"...You grow up quite quickly."

After taking a breath, Ian carefully observed Shark's current condition and found that he was simply too healthy - the matte silver shell, the smooth body lines, the regular electrical crystals protruding on the back, and the increasingly perfect body. The soul structure... It can be said that Shark Shark is the healthiest and happiest monster he has seen in so many years!

This kind of health cannot be explained by natural growth! Even if Ian used precognitive vision to guide Shark to grow, it was nothing more than that, but he hadn't seen Shark for almost a whole year. How could he develop so well?

"Oh? Oh!"

He asked as soon as he thought of it, and after Shasha knew Ian's doubts, he twisted his body and connected some soul links to tell the young man some information.

"You said that there was an elf who came over to see you and carefully guided you on what you should eat and what you shouldn't eat. He also told you how to swim to exercise every corner of your body..."

Ian felt something familiar as he listened: "Isn't this Master Oak? He really came to Nanling to see you?"

Master Oak is the leader of the Elf Candle Bearers who are chasing Anfa. He is also a friend of Marquis Barton and a shark lover - he is obviously a sublimator of the wood attribute, but his mind-light body is a shark. He is a very special third-level powerhouse.

Master Oak said he was chasing Anfa. In fact, he should be an elder sent by the Jin Deng family to protect Anfa. He should have noticed that Ian had contact with Anfa and that he was a person favored by Marquis Barton, so he Ian also paid close attention to it. After discovering that Ian had raised a quite healthy shark, he became interested and went to the Great Maze of the South China Sea, specially coming to give guidance on the growth of the shark.

"Next time I go to Canaan Moore, if I have a chance to meet Master Oak, I really have to thank him."

Ian carefully observed Shark Shark again and found that Master Oak should really teach him everything he could. He couldn't help but sigh: "The world is so big and full of wonders. Shark Shark, you can be regarded as the template for the protagonist. There are people who eat fish and crash into ships in the South China Sea." I am sending you a secret book from the sky... what a blessing!"

"oh!"

Shark didn't understand what the protagonist template was. It just saw Ian, so it happily took a spin in the sea.

However, in addition, Ian also noticed that Shark's state in the silver chip also had the same tendency of 'crystalline biomorphization' as Elan. It is the result of the same model being affected by advanced crystalline organisms.

Now things get interesting... Ian begins to think that this may be the influence of the crystallized lake?

But it didn't matter, they were going to go there soon to see what was going on.

With Shark Shark's current size and strength, plus Ian's protection, it won't take long for it to lead everyone to the Great Maze of the South China Sea.

The dark silver giant shark flew at lightning speed through the increasingly vibrant offshore waters of the South China Sea, then reached the depths of the far sea and swam towards a secret passage on the seabed.

It used to be the passage used by the crystal dragon to enter and exit the maze, and it was also a shortcut to the crystal lake. Now it is the entrance for the sharks to return home. Ian and others avoid the sight of others and enter the secret passage inside the maze.

"This is my first time here."

Leaning on the back of the shark, Elder Puder stroked his beard curiously and looked around at the wonderful scenery around the deep sea - due to the cause of the big storm, the heat dissipation of the maze energy system was abnormal, and most of the earth's core on the surrounding seafloor showed strange melting and solidification. It looks like an alien planet, with regular octagonal prisms standing on the smooth seabed.

After entering the channel, the closer you get to the inside of the crystal lake, the more obvious this regular crystallization phenomenon becomes.

The rich natural source of matter and spiritual energy field made the elder frown, and he was slightly shocked: "The natural source of matter here is almost substantial... No wonder the master of the labyrinth was cultivated in the maze, which is far beyond normal. With the existence of Warcraft and this kind of environment, even the most common tidal fish school can give birth to a fish king that is almost a dragon, right?"

"Yes. And the source of essence in the crystal lake is very pure. Elder, if you have time in the future, you can bring Elan here to practice and exercise."

The reason why Ian did not recommend this place to Elder Puder and Ellan before was mainly because Elder Puder was not so free at that time. The Redwood Natives were defeated. As Viscount Grant's deputy, he still had a lot of work to do, not to mention What is needed to nourish the body is not a high-quality environment, but a stable ordinary environment.

Elan had not received formal training at that time, and entering a high-quality environment rashly might cause physical dysfunction.

Just like the upper city area of ​​the Imperial Capital, ordinary people may die even if they get close to it. Although Crystal Lake is not that dangerous, it can easily cause good things to turn into bad things.

But Elan can now enter the 'tranquility' level of meditation, so the crystal lake is only good for him.

"I understand."

Elder Pude also knew this, and he nodded solemnly.

"When will our Xiahui collar have such a good environment?"

Qingchao also lamented that for a second energy level like him, the environment of the crystal lake is also very superior. It can not only improve the body's adaptability to the source material, but also accelerate the growth of the soul, which has all the benefits and no harm. , What a pity is that unlike Elan, he will live in Harrison Port for a long time in the future and can come here often to practice.

"It's not like nothing."

Ian thought about it and found that there was indeed a similar area in Xiahui Ling: the bottom of Xiahui Lake was a similar high-quality environment.

But the bottom of the lake is too small, and it is not a cave area like the crystal lake. It needs to dive to a depth of a thousand meters, which is impossible for ordinary people to do, and can only be used by sublimators.

When the Leyline Furnace is developed, perhaps we can imitate the principle of the 'Ghost Crystal Engine' to create an artificial high-quality area.

While everyone was sighing, Sharksha arrived at Crystal Lake.

Inside the crystal lake, everything is the same as when Ian left last time, and Shark took good care of it.

Shark sent everyone to the shore, while Ian went directly to the crystalline island in the center of the lake.

He wanted to see what happened to the crystallized dragon egg that was suspected to be the source of 'crystallization' in Elan and Shark.

The crystal dragon egg is located in the center of the crystal island. It was originally only the size of a human head, but after being continuously catalyzed and nurtured by the spiritual energy field around the crystal lake, it is now half the size of a human.

The entire egg looks like a huge diamond composed of countless regular crystals. Thousands of facets are crystal clear, absorbing all the brilliance around it, and releasing warm and pure light to the outside.

There have been cracks in its shell. Just as Shark Shark said, it has hatched, but something went wrong. The little crystal dragon did not leave the egg, but maintained this state of 'coming out but not coming out'.

But its vitality has not declined, but has become more and more vigorous as time goes by.

Silver-blue eyes flashed.

[Ether Crystal Dragon Egg]

[First energy level·Special species·Cornerstone·Edible]

[Beyond the designer’s expectations, it was a perfect transformation, one of the three eggs that the etheric crystal dragon reached its complete form using its last life to catalyze]

[As the only dragon egg without defects, it should have hatched the first naturally conceived etheric crystal dragon normally. However, due to being contaminated by the insect nest, it had undergone special changes. It had already produced a soul before it was born, and was connected with the dragon egg. The link between his brothers and sisters, who were supposed to have died young, has undergone indescribable changes]

[The egg has hatched, but it is still one step away from the final birth]

[Contains source quality: 2853.1391 base unit]

【……】

"Huh?"

Ian was a little surprised.

He has long known about the abnormality of the crystal dragon egg, and the contamination of the insect nest, or the transformation has indeed been there for a long time - as an old opponent who has fought with the crystal dragon for so many years, it is said that the insect nest has nothing against the crystal dragon. Ian doesn't believe in the method.

The Insect Hive's countermeasures against the Crystal Dragon can basically be called 'If I can't beat you, how can I beat your cub? ’——The contamination of dragon eggs by the insect swarm was quite direct and effective. Even if the ether crystal dragon was finally purified with the power of its own life, abnormalities were still left.

The two dragon eggs taken away by Master Gesai were the two with the most serious abnormalities.

He saw this, so he specifically used these two dragon eggs as mission targets and left the intact one to Ian.

But now it seems that the connection between the crystallized dragon eggs seems to be far beyond Ian's imagination... This seemingly intact one still has some 'trouble' remaining.

Of course, it may not be a future trouble... In a sense, the introduction of superior external forces is an 'evolution' for a fickle group like the Crystal Dragon that is already extremely adaptable.

"interesting."

Ian thought for a moment of the 'three-headed crystal dragon' that emerged from the sea on the way to the swarm. He couldn't help but narrowed his eyes: "Could it be that the three-headed crystal dragon was not a modification of my bad taste, but Is it necessary?”

"Three crystal dragon eggs, due to the influence of the insect swarm, have actually been linked into one, instead of being three separate entities... so they must be hatched together?"

"The reason why the one in my hand has not fully hatched is because of the connection between the three dragon eggs that transcends time and space, which prevents it from fully maturing before the other two dragon eggs hatch?"

This is just a guess, and Ian feels that this guess is not quite right.

This does not explain the impact that Shark and Elan were affected.

The relationship between the three dragon eggs should be simpler than he imagined.

There’s no point in overthinking it. Ian walked forward directly, stretched out his hand, and touched the dragon egg.

Then, he felt a feeling that was almost like cheering.

A feeling of invitation.

And…a ‘sense of expectation’ waiting for guidance.

It is like an ignorant cub, a machine that has just been born but has no program. It does not know how to eat or breathe, so even if it has been born, it can only stay in the eggshell... waiting for the 'teacher' 's arrival

Tell how it should ‘exist’.

How to be ‘life’.

Ian is its ‘teacher’.

Its... [parent].

"How should I teach you?"

Ian asked.

Then he got a response.

——Demonstration in person, of course.

-- in another body.

At this moment, Ian felt that his spirit had received an invitation. This invitation was similar to the feeling that he had used the authority of the labyrinth to come to Shark, the 'Agent of the Lord of the Labyrinth', and his soul suddenly appeared. A perspective.

"The other body...is interesting."

With a guess in his mind, Ian sensed it and didn't notice the danger - he was immediately interested: "Okay, let's give it a try."

So he slipped his consciousness into that perspective.

Then, Ian felt his eyes go dark.

And when he opened his eyes again.

Ian discovered that he had turned into a dragon.

The building at home seems to have tested positive and has been blocked. All I can say is, safe and sound!