CHAPTER 341: CHAPTER 101: THE TRUTH OF THE ABYSS

Despite having such a strong body, Yan Luo could only lie on the steering wheel now, unable to move.

His body felt like it was on fire, his blood boiling - perhaps even his brain was boiling.

Yan Luo’s body could withstand such high temperatures, but he was indeed very uncomfortable now.

The Hunter who had studied medical techniques stood by, at a loss.

They applied cooling patches, but they became ineffective within moments.

Physical cooling methods were useless. Even if they used ice to cool Yan Luo’s body, the ice would quickly melt and wouldn’t lower Yan Luo’s body temperature at all.

A Hunter used the measurement function of the exoskeleton to take Yan Luo’s temperature, discovering that it had reached as high as 96℃.

No wonder Chen Shan got burned when he used his hand to test Yan Luo’s temperature earlier. A blister had already formed on his finger.

Helpless, the Hunters could only move Yan Luo’s body outside of the car, using engravings to produce strong winds, while constantly pouring drinking water carried by the convoy over him, trying to cool down his body.

After a good amount of effort, Yan Luo’s body temperature finally began to drop.

At this point, Yan Luo could finally speak.

"Evil God... Mark..."

"What?"

Hearing Yan Luo’s words, Chen Shan immediately walked over, wanting to hear what exactly he said.

Yan Luo was still very weak, speaking in a very low voice. Luckily, Chen Shan had already pressed his ear close to him and could clearly hear what he said.

"Evil God’s Mark... I obtained the Evil God’s Mark..."

Chen Shan was stunned again, sitting up in surprise, looking at Yan Luo, "What exactly is the Evil God’s Mark?"

Feeling the knowledge pouring into his mind, Yan Luo took a deep breath and said with a gradually recovering voice: "I now know what the ’Abyss’ truly is - it’s a trial! Behind every Abyss stands a civilization that perished because of an Evil God. The destruction of the civilization is recorded by the ’Abyss’, and all civilizations influenced by the ’Abyss’ meme will receive related information projections, forming one Abyss after another.

"And in certain special Abysses, the original civilizations perished alongside the Evil Gods. At this time, if you can hunt two Masters of the Abyss and accept their Spirituality, you can obtain the Evil God’s Mark. Other Abysses, once destroyed, will only leave ’Spirituality’, but special Abysses like the Forbidden Demon Abyss will result in the appearance of the Evil God’s Mark."

Yan Luo’s mind was chaotic now. His speech was scatterbrained, but Chen Shan patiently listened to his account, turning on his personal terminal’s recording function to record everything Yan Luo was saying.

"Evil God’s Mark... The Evil God’s Mark I obtained is ’Frenzy’, it allows me to gain the ability ’Kill to Grow Stronger’, as long as I kill living beings, my abilities can grow stronger."

At this point, Yan Luo’s body temperature had finally dropped to 50℃.

Yan Luo, enduring soreness in his limbs and body, sat up from the ground, gasping heavily, "And, I can also share this mark with anyone who has ingested my blood."

"...What?"

Chen Shan was stunned for a few seconds before reacting, looking at Yan Luo in shock, "What did you just say? You can share that ability with others?!"

Yan Luo frowned and said, "To be precise, the Evil God’s Mark considers those who obtain my blood as part of me, but since the Evil God’s Mark is under my control, I can share the Evil God’s Mark with those I am willing to share with according to my own wishes."

Chen Shan fell silent again, not only him but the Hunters surrounding Yan Luo also heard his words and fell silent.

All the Hunters present had ingested Yan Luo’s blood; only by doing this could they resist the Forbidden Demon abilities.

That means, as long as Yan Luo is willing, they can obtain the ability of ’Killing to Enhance’.

"Huff!"

Chen Shan exhaled a turbid breath, looked at Yan Luo with a complex expression and asked, "Just how much do you know about things now?"

"A lot," Yan Luo pointed to his head, "At the very least I already know how the ’Abyss’ was born - in essence, it’s a ’meme organism’, also known as an Evil God, but it is controlled by a powerful intergalactic civilization, that civilization turned the Evil God into what we see now, capable of carrying a civilization’s information. The reason why the environment in the Abyss we see is all so desperate is because they are, in essence, a civilization that has already been destroyed.

"That powerful intergalactic civilization treats the Abyss as a trial. Civilizations affected by the Abyss can become powerful using the power of the Abyss, gaining the ability to protect themselves in the universe. However, there are also civilizations destroyed by the Abyss, and for that intergalactic civilization, civilizations that can be destroyed by the Abyss are all defective products and will be invaded and destroyed by other external forces even if they step into the starry sky."

Yan Luo killed the two Masters of the Forbidden Demon Abyss, and the Spirituality they carried fused within his body to form the ’Evil God’s Mark’.

The Evil God’s Mark is not something that exists naturally, but is instead made by that intergalactic civilization that controls the ’Abyss’ as a reward for strong individuals who kill two Masters of the Abyss simultaneously.

Chen Shan understood Yan Luo’s words and summarized, "So, in essence, other Abysses are merely residual information of a civilization that was destroyed by an Evil God, hence there is only one Master of the Abyss. But the Forbidden Demon Abyss not only has residual information of a destroyed civilization, but also residual information of a deceased Evil God. Thus, this Abyss has two Masters, and only by killing both can you obtain something like the ’Evil God’s Mark’."

Hearing this, Chen Shan couldn’t help but take a sharp breath, feeling a chill on his scalp.

What kind of powerful civilization could create an Evil God into an ’Abyss’ and spread it across intergalactic space measured in light-years.

"Yes." Yan Luo nodded, "To obtain the Evil God’s Mark, not only is powerful strength needed, but also enough luck, one cannot do without the other."

"Oh, by the way, what is the ’Spirituality’ you mentioned earlier?" Chen Shan curiously asked, "Is it because of a lack of this so-called ’Spirituality’ that strong individuals above the Second Rank cannot enhance their strength?"

Yan Luo nodded again, "Spirituality is an important component of the soul - here, ’soul’ is just a translation - by absorbing Spirituality and strengthening one’s soul, more power can be carried. The path of Engraving isn’t wrong, but Engravers, as they become stronger, do not reinforce themselves and thus need external forces to enhance their Spirituality.

"Currently, it seems that the power to support Sequence Three engraving is already the limit of the Blue Star People’s soul, ’Magic Power Adaptation’ is an important indicator of soul strength and weakness, the stronger the soul, the more Magic Power it can absorb. Blue Star People do not have organs to control Magic Power, so even if our souls absorb Magic Power, it cannot be used normally and instead can only be manipulated through Engraving - all the above are my speculations, whether this is the case still needs further research."

Yan Luo only knew of the existence of the soul and Spirituality from the knowledge inheritance of the ’Evil God’s Mark’, the relationship between the soul and Magic Power Adaptation may be more complicated than he speculated.

"So that’s how it is!"

The group of Hunters had an epiphany.

Yan Luo dusted off his backside and stood up, "Let’s go back, there’s not much time left before the Forbidden Demon Abyss begins to collapse."

The Master of the Abyss represents the ultimate goal of a trial, killing the Master of the Abyss means clearing the trial, and if that’s the case, the trial ground no longer has a reason to exist.

If a trial isn’t cleared over a long period, the Abyss will conclude that the local civilization doesn’t have the ability to clear it, thus canceling it, which is why the Abyss on the side of Alfheim dissipates automatically.

The ’Abyss’ is ultimately just a projection, a projection generated with Magic Power. Even if it disappears, as long as the source of the ’Abyss’ still records the information of the destroyed civilization, a similar Abyss will appear again.

The Hunters returned to the armored vehicle once more, started it, and drove towards the Abyss Entrance.

In the command vehicle, Chen Shan organized the recorded information he had collected and sent it back to the command center.

"Hehe!" Chen Shan chuckled.

After receiving this information, those people would surely be shocked?