After going into the sea, I met the witch lady

Chapter 201: The artifact is made, a brand new sword!
The bright starlight shines through the colorful windows at the top of the temple, falling on the statue of the god dozens of meters high, bringing up a few wisps of dense light.

"Can you tell me what the 'aftermath of the catastrophe' is that caused Dawn Hills to become what it is today?"

Ryan's voice echoed softly in the temple, and what responded to him was Archbishop Luca's slightly confused words: "'The aftermath of the disaster'? Lord God Envoy, I don't understand what you are referring to?"

Ryan's eyes narrowed slightly.

Archbishop Luca's reaction was somewhat beyond his expectation.

Since the God of Wind left behind the "divine crystal" that predicts and senses aura, why didn't he leave any information about the "cataclysm" and the "aftermath of the cataclysm"?

Are you worried about something? Or is Archbishop Luca hiding something?
Seeing Ryan's reaction, Archbishop Luca understood and quickly explained bitterly: "Master God Envoy, you have misunderstood."

"About the 'aftermath of the disaster', this is also the first time I've heard about it."

"Presumably, this is the oracle you got from the mouth of the god."

"Five hundred years ago, after the god left the prophecy and the 'divine crystal', no matter how much we prayed and called, we never got an answer."

"It's just that in recent years, I've heard that there are 'things from the abyss' crawling out from under the ancient ruins. I don't know what's going on with the 'Wolf Blood Knights' now."

"Secondly, there is the abyss." Archbishop Luka's expression became solemn, even faintly fearful: "The 'abyss' has existed for a long time. It is said that it appeared when the glory of the gods spread across the continent."

Hearing this, Ryan nodded: "It is said that the Brass Church separated from the Yellow Sect after a turmoil led by Saint Aeochilis."

Ryan's pupils shrank. It was precisely because he knew the meaning of the word "god" that he deeply understood how terrible it was to swallow the gods.

After a pause to give Ryan time to digest and absorb, Archbishop Luca continued: "In the end, it is the Brass Church."

"The King of Flowing Wind and Lord Cangju disappeared without a trace, and his whereabouts are unknown."

Archbishop Luca's words left Ryan silent.

"?!"

"It's just that with the departure of the Lord God, the three 'Sons of God' all showed different abnormalities."

"What Iocillis swallowed was not a god like Zunshen, but one of the descendants of Zunshen left in the world in the past."

"In order to protect Witch Wu Guo, the Bai Sect, who was under the protection of Witch Wu Guo in the past, took on the responsibility of guardianship."

"For hundreds of years since then, Witch Wu Guo has been safe and sound, and her body has gradually grown."

Ryan listened very carefully. These are the main sources of his "experience" in the future, and there is no room for him to ignore them.

"Gray rot disappeared after the sight of the god disappeared, and it spread across the world. If you want to investigate, you can go to the royal city of Saint Geras."

Hearing this question, Archbishop Luca pursed his lips and remained silent for a few seconds before slowly speaking: "Iochilis, speaking of it, he is one of my disciples."

"However, if you want to investigate, I can give you several references here." Seeing Ryan's silence, Archbishop Luca said softly:
“Ashes, the Abyss, and the Brazen Church.”

"When you say 'the aftermath of the disaster', do you mean the source of all this?"

"The most powerful son of God, the King of Heat, Lord Sinyan, fell into eternal sleep in the central volcano of the continent."

"The most special thing is the King of Life, the Innocent Witch. His body gradually degenerated and finally turned into a baby no more than a swaddling baby."

"That's true." Archbishop Luka said softly, with a somewhat complicated tone: "But this is just an appearance. The real reason why Iocillis betrayed the Yellow Sect is the main factor why I think she is the 'aftermath of the disaster'."

"I see..." Ryan frowned and asked, "Saint Aeochilis, what is your status in the Yellow Sect?"

The creatures in this world are more miserable than he imagined.

"It's just that even I can't see clearly the essence of a person through the color of his soul."

"But from time to time, some strong people are silently eroded and corrupted by the 'abyss', resulting in numerous tragedies."

"But as the 'Primary Wind' weakened, the White Sect spent a huge amount of resources on the growth of Wushou Witch, which resulted in the decline of younger generations, and their strength gradually fell down the ranks of the top sects."

"After Iochilis learned about the existence of the Immaculate Witch, he used some method to sneak into the depths of the 'Nirvana Array', found the Immaculate Witch who had grown up into a little girl again, and cruelly killed her. devour."

Facing Ryan's curious gaze, she said in a serious tone: "Iocillis, swallowed the gods!"

"I found her in the slums and was attracted by her determination and perseverance. The most important thing is that this child has a very special soul color and unlimited potential. So, I brought her back to the Yellow Sect to train her and prepare her to Become a saint for the next generation.”

"When the Lord God first came, in addition to bringing the 'Primary Wind', the divine power left behind in the world was also combined with three special creatures, giving birth to three half-human and half-god beings, who are also respected by the world as 'God's son'."

"They built a stunning formation called 'Nirvana', and Witch Wushou is located at the deepest part of the formation."

"The first is gray rot. Gray corpses are not the final stage of development of gray rot. Whether they are humans, animals, or even plants, when gray rot develops to a deep level, they will 'evolve' into a disease called 'Pilgrimage' They have stretched wings as thin as cicada wings and are huge in size. They float over the world and wander around. Although their trajectories are uncertain, after hundreds of years of observation and summary by the Yellow Sect, it is found that these pilgrims will eventually Landed in the royal city - Sanglas."

"only……"

"The sufferings endured by all living beings are so great that I don't know which one is the 'aftermath of the disaster' you call it."

"After devouring the 'King of Life', Iocillis's strength skyrocketed, which led to the subsequent Yellow Sect turmoil."

With the strength of Saint Iocilis, can he do such a thing?
Seeing Ryan's eyes, Archbishop Luca explained: "Master God Envoy, you have misunderstood."

"By the way, Lord God Envoy, the 'Wolf Blood Knights' are a very special existence, and they were also the former 'Salary King'. If you want to investigate, you need to be prepared."

"It was also from that day that the 'primary wind' began to weaken, and various terrible disasters occurred in various countries on the mainland."

"They have inherited the flow, heat and life of the 'wind', three qualities respectively."

"Do you know the relationship between the Brass Church and the Yellow Sect?"

"With the blessing of the god, the three sons of god are all absolutely strong men who stand at the pinnacle of heroes, and they have established themselves as kings."

"Some people say that the birthplace of the 'Abyss' is the ancient country of Reims that perished thousands of years ago. In other words, it was the emergence of the 'Abyss' that caused the ancient country of Reims to collapse overnight. Including us here. , there is also a small entrance to the 'Abyss', located under the ancient ruins in the deepest part of the 'Poison Swamp Forest', which has always been suppressed by the 'Wolf Blood Knights'."

"Iochilis, who is always gentle and generous to people but never loses her decisiveness, is secretly a man-eating demon. She can strengthen herself by eating people's souls."

"When I discovered all this, hundreds of extraordinary people had died tragically in her mouth, and her strength had reached the level of a 'half-step hero'."

"In shock and anger, I took action boldly. After a fierce battle, I defeated Iochilis and imprisoned her in the deepest part of the Yellow Sect's prison."

"The occurrence of this incident made me feel disheartened and chose to retreat. Within the Yellow Sect, many relatives and friends who died tragically at the hands of Ioqili also exerted their resentment on Ioqili. On Si’s body.”

"Without my knowledge, they found a large number of gray corpses and even monsters infected with 'grey rot', threw them into the depths of the prison, and forced Iochilis to swallow these by whipping them. The polluting soul of things.”

"When I learned about this after I came out of seclusion, Iochilis had already deformed due to devouring a large number of souls contaminated by the 'grey erosion', but because of this, the strength of her soul had reached a true level. 'Heroic'."

"And a heroic soul has reached the standard of becoming a 'Salary King'."

"It happened to be the turn of the Yellow Sect during the nourishing ceremony, so, with my acquiescence, Iochilis was pushed out and became the sacrifice of the nourishing ceremony." "After the nourishing ceremony, he became the 'Salt King' Iochilis did not die, so she continued to be imprisoned deep in the prison. "

"The pain makes her wail day and night. Although I can't bear this, it is her own sin after all, and she has no blame for others."

"Time just passes by..."

"After years of guarding, we finally became careless... I didn't expect that Iochilis, who was imprisoned in the big prison, could possess a subtle way of deceiving people."

"During one of my outings, she used the bewitched guards to release herself. She used unknown means to sneak into the Nirvana Formation of the White Sect and devour the Son of God."

"As for everything that happened later, you generally know it, so I won't go into details."

Archbishop Luca said this with deep fatigue in his voice.

"So, that's it..." A look of thought flashed in Ryan's eyes.

He didn't care about the grudges between the Yellow Sect and Saint Iochilis. After all, the matter was at this point, and there was no point in pursuing who was right or wrong.

What Ryan cares about is the information related to Saint Aiochiris revealed in Archbishop Luca's words.

The most important of them is Saint Iochilis, who has the ability to devour the souls of others and transform them into his own power.

It can be roughly inferred from this that the power of Saint Iochilis to confuse the minds of others should be the power she obtained after devouring a large number of contaminated souls of patients with "Gray Erosion".

And it is precisely because of this that the current deformed model of the Brass Church exists - Brass missionaries go to various undead settlements to harvest souls and offer them to Saint Iochilis.

The nearly mass-produced knight-level extraordinary beings produced by the Brass Church are probably related to this.

However, this involves a more core issue.

Why do the contaminated souls of gray erosion patients have this power?

What exactly is the nature of gray rot?
There is insufficient information and it is impossible to draw a conclusion at the moment. Ryan suppresses the doubts in his heart for the time being and waits for Archbishop Luca to calm down before continuing:
"For subsequent investigations, I will start from the three aspects you mentioned."

"By the way, Ms. Luka, do you know about 'Forged in the Furnace'?"

Hearing this question, Archbishop Luca nodded: "Of course I know that the technology of 'smelting in the furnace' was finally created after being organized by tower scholars and cooperating with major sects."

"Why do you ask that?"

A smile appeared on Ryan's lips, the space ring in his hand flashed, and an old black and red furnace appeared on the ground beside him.

"I found this [old furnace], but I don't understand the related technology of 'furnace refining'."

"This is?!" Archbishop Luca was stunned for a moment, sat on the high platform and examined it carefully, and then said in shock: "Is this the missing furnace?"

Ryan smiled and nodded.

"As expected of the God's Envoy, you have found all of this." Archbishop Luca exclaimed, then shook his head: "'The furnace is made' requires the cooperation of King Xin, because at the beginning of creation, the [furnace] incorporated a trace of' The First Wind's mark."

After hearing this, Ryan's expression remained unchanged, but he felt a little disappointed in his heart.

He also knows about this matter, but the "Salary King" currently only knows two people, the Saint Iocilis and the Wolf-Blooded Knights. The former is obviously impossible to cooperate, and the latter, well, is even more out of the question. .

"but……"

Just when Ryan was disappointed, Archbishop Luca's turning words made him look over.

Archbishop Luca pulled up a strand of her hanging hair. Even though her lower body had turned into a maggot-like shape, she still couldn't hide her charm: "Master God Envoy, I was once one of the 'Salary Kings', but , because of the 'Nourishing Ceremony', my strength has dropped to the hero level. Even though I am qualified to use the [Forge], I am unable to use it."

"But it's not impossible."

She said softly: "I can feel that, Lord God Envoy, you are very powerful and your soul is very special, but your soul is still far away from the 'hero level'."

"Although strength and realm cannot be equated, [The Furnace] requires this, and I can't do anything about it."

"When your soul reaches the 'hero level', you can use me as a relay to perform the 'furnace refining' operation yourself."

"Soul strength?" Ryan thought thoughtfully, and then said: "How do you feel about my next soul strength?"

He tried the professional skills one by one and came to the conclusion that there was no change in soul strength.

It wasn't until the blue flames ignited on his body that Archbishop Luca said in shock: "Having become stronger?!"

really!

Ryan was convinced.

Consistent with his guess, soul strength is not pure spirituality.

It is the sum of [Physique] and [Spirituality], and it is also the most intuitive reflection of the strength of a creature.

The reason why using professional skills will not cause changes in soul strength is because these professional skills are traces imprinted in his true spirit. Even if they are used, they will not cause changes in soul strength.

But [Blue Power], the amplifying power that comes from the outside world and from the holy relics, is particularly different.

It can be deduced from this that without using [Power of Blue], I am still one step away from the hero level, but once I use [Power of Blue], I can truly possess the level of hero, that is, demigod level. strength?

And if you use "Blue Explosion" or even "Blue King", you will not be unable to fight against a real hero.

Thinking of this, Ryan felt certain.

After all, he had never actually fought against a demigod, so he couldn't accurately determine his own strength.

The last time he was killed by Saint Iochilis with one arrow from the air, it obviously could not be regarded as a fight.

Blue flames were beating and burning on the surface of the body. Ryan looked at Archbishop Luca and smiled: "So, do you have the qualifications to activate the 'furnace refining'?"

"That's enough." Archbishop Luca took a deep breath: "It's just that, my lord, the furnace requires a powerful deformed soul to be refined. Do you have it?"

"The best deformed soul currently in the Yellow Sect's inventory is only 'Paladin level'. Things made from souls of this level are difficult to adapt to you."

"And what kind of weapons or props are you going to make?"

Ryan pulled out the big sword on his back: "Are there powerful deformed souls? They existed before, but they were used by me. First, use the deformed souls in your inventory to try to refine them with this big sword. I'll take a look. Look at the effect.”

"The souls in your inventory are borrowed by me and will be returned later."

"What else? It's too foreign." Archbishop Luca shook his head: "I can't move, Lord God Envoy, please move the furnace in front of me."

(End of this chapter)