Chapter 3325: Starry Temple
Chapter 3325: Starry Temple
Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Fang Heng withdrew his gaze from the game hint.
It was now clear that the mission to fuse with the spiritual world and the mission to fuse with the Netherworld were extremely similar.
Fang Heng was very curious; expanding the Netherworld could raise his God-level necromancy.
Then what about the expansion of the spiritual world?
What benefits could he gain from it?
Apart from the spirit crystals provided by the game mission, there didn’t seem to be anything else for the time being.
"Chi, chi chi, chi chi..."
As the passage gradually expanded, Fang Heng could already see the insect attendants and the instructors of the Undead Council appearing on the other side of the fusion passage.
However, the instructors themselves couldn’t make sense of this newly emerging world.
A world that could only be entered through spiritual consciousness — even the undead instructors had never heard of such a thing, and for the moment, they couldn’t think of any safe method to enter it.
The Seed of Ouroboros focused purely on physical enhancement and was completely helpless when it came to a spirit-type world.
At the side, Adam, who had been continuously eliminating spirit constructs, was already on the verge of exhaustion.
After all, he was fundamentally still just an ordinary academy student. Even though Zane had forcibly strengthened his physical abilities, the prolonged strain left him short of breath, forcing him to retreat for a short rest.
He hadn’t closed his eyes for rest since the day before. Adam was truly worn out.
Fang Heng didn’t mind.
With the power released from the Spirit Orb affecting the spirit creatures, and the Pillar of Black Fog in the game being temporarily secure, he could simply sit there and let it run automatically while the mission line progressed smoothly.
"Adam, how much do you know about the spiritual world?"
Adam had just sat down to rest when the voice echoed in his mind. His expression immediately tensed, and he answered in a deep voice, "Great Shadow God, I don’t know much about the spiritual world. From what I learned in textbooks, we believe the spiritual world is a realm controlled by God."
Fang Heng grew interested and nodded. He prompted, "Go on."
"Yes. Our innate mission is to help God guard the Netherworld. Because of this, we received God’s favor and the right to enter this world, allowing us to seek out the power of the spiritual world."
"Oh? What kind of power do you mean?"
"The power of heroic spirits."
Adam continued, "We obtain heroic spirits through the Heroic Spirit Orbs bestowed by God, and by means granted by God, we summon them to serve us. In addition, within the spiritual world, there exists an even more powerful structure — the Starry Temple. We can obtain power from the Starry Temple."
"What is that?"
"It’s roughly a semi-spiritual structure, similar to a building. Spirit constructs are born from the Starry Temple. The books say that oracles can wield the power of the Starry Temple to greatly increase the strength and breadth of their sea of consciousness."
The knowledge Adam had learned from textbooks since childhood was infused with indoctrination.
The books said there was only one God in the world.
The God Clan.
The appearance of the Shadow God had made Adam begin to doubt the truth of what he had read.
The Starry Temple!
Fang Heng became intrigued once more.
Could it be the same type of structure as the temples in the Netherworld?
Highly possible.
"Who built the Starry Temple?"
"I don’t know. I only know it’s a special construct belonging to the Spiritual Realm. It can be destroyed, but it slowly restores itself over time. If you have to say who created it, it’s probably the God Clan."
Fang Heng fell silent, extending his perception outward.
The spiritual world also greatly restricted his perception. As he traveled, he hadn’t found any trace of a spirit temple along the way.
"Zane."
"Mm, I’ll go take a look."
Zane understood and temporarily separated from Adam’s body to search for the spirit temple.
After waiting for more than half an hour, Zane returned to Adam’s body.
"I found it. There really is a temple — it’s not too far, about twenty minutes away."
"Believer, let’s go."
Adam once again heard the voice in his mind urging him to hurry toward the right.
"Yes."
About twenty minutes later, guided by the sea of consciousness, Adam arrived before a spirit temple. He studied the temple carefully, his eyes showing a hint of solemnity.
"Shadow God, this is the Spirit Temple. I’ve seen it in books."
Fang Heng gazed intently at the temple.
The Spirit Temple looked very similar to the ones he had seen in the Netherworld. The temple was made up of circular pillars with no walls on any side, resembling more of a pavilion structure.
Only, in size, it was much larger than a pavilion.
In addition, the Spirit Temple appeared somewhat ethereal.
Above the structure’s top was a star-shaped symbol.
Around the temple’s periphery gathered a large number of Tier 7 spirit constructs.
Adam cautiously glanced around, gripping the longsword tightly in his hand.
"Adam, deal with them. Go inside the temple and take a look."
"Yes!"
Adam immediately leapt forward, his long sword wreathed in Underworld Fire as he swung it fiercely ahead.
"Boom!!!"
The sword unleashed a cold flash of light, striking a large group of spirit constructs in front of him.
"Bang! Bang bang bang!!!"
More than ten spirit constructs were shattered by the sword’s aura in quick succession.
"Just a bunch of trash. No matter how many come, they’re still trash!"
As the enraged spirit constructs swarmed toward him, Adam smirked and kept swinging his sword, slashing continuously.
In just moments, all the spirit constructs surrounding the temple were wiped out.
Adam, holding his longsword, stepped into the temple.
The interior of the temple was spacious and empty, with only a single stone tablet standing in the very center.
"Shadow God, this temple has already been bound by someone else."
Adam crouched down to examine it and pointed at the inscription at the lower right corner of the stone tablet, saying, "The books say that once an oracle completes the binding with the Starry Temple, the binder’s spirit brand will remain on the tablet."
Fang Heng’s phantom form appeared behind Adam. He glanced at the stone tablet and raised his hand toward it.
"Chi, chi chi chi..."
Before Adam’s astonished eyes, the spirit brand on the tablet was swiftly erased, and a new inscription appeared in its place.
The spirit brand had been rewritten?
Fang Heng closed his eyes and extended his perception.
Oh? His sea of consciousness had expanded?
Due to Abe Akaya’s influence, his sea of consciousness was already thousands of times larger than that of a normal person. After binding the temple’s stone tablet, it expanded once again.
A rough estimate showed an increase of about one percent.
In addition, just like when he had bound the Netherworld temple, a new light spot had appeared within his sea of consciousness.
The light spot continuously released psychic force, allowing him to recover his mental strength more rapidly.
A very good thing indeed.
The Netherworld temple provided necromantic faith and higher-level Netherworld creature conversion, while the spiritual world’s temple was purer in function, directly enhancing the breadth and strength of the sea of consciousness and the recovery speed of psychic force.
Fang Heng opened his eyes again, gazing at the stone tablet bearing his spirit brand.
The temple’s previous binder must have already realized that their mark had been erased.
So what?
They couldn’t trace him back through the mark anyway.