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Chapter 27 The Ancient Temple

Ancient aura from the underground abyss is spreading.

“The place I’m looking for is right.”

Nostradamus, who used magic to suppress Joshua's crust torn apart and caused the aftermath, closed the magic book in his hand. Although he did not support Joshua's overly direct behavior, he also admitted that this was indeed the safest and fastest way.

Yes, although it seems to be a huge momentum, it is actually a very safe move to tear the crust in some areas under the power of the legendary power, especially before taking action, Joshua used his pressure to disperse most of the ordinary creatures and monsters living here. They will be guided to an empty field not far from here. Except for some underground creatures, no life will be injured. Moreover, tearing the crust, which was prepared for, is definitely safer than a battle that broke out underground to tear the earth.

"The first and syndicates left the marks, I just need to locate the marks along the marks' signal."

Joshua looked down at his achievements, a huge rift valley across the Northern Ural Plain. His pupils adjusted their focal length and looked directly at the cavity deep in the ground. The glimmer of glowing fungi thousands of meters underground was clearly visible to Joshua. He could even see large groups of underground bats flying out because of frightened, flying between the rift valleys like a rising gray cloud.

"To be honest, Joshua, I stopped you before not because of danger... mainly because permanently changing the terrain of a large area will have an irreversible impact on the entire ecosystem."

Nostradamus also stared at the gray cloud, and a hint of pity appeared in the old man's eyes. He whispered: "These bats have lived in the closed underground for the past years. They have no ability to adapt to the outside world. Within a few months, they will become extinct due to the drastic changes in the environment. The chaos caused by the migration of a large area of ​​grassland creatures cannot be reflected in one or two days."

"The Northern Baikal grassland has become a rift valley. The magic tide from the mountains will not drift to the north with the wind, but will settle here, or hedge against the magic power underground. The sudden change caused by the magic environment will lead to the migration of countless monsters. This is a change that lasts hundreds of years. The entire Northland will be deeply affected, and no one knows what the result it will bring... So I hope you can be cautious."

The power of legend is so terrifying that it can change the world, transform the desert into forests, and transform the sea into the continent... But unless necessary, no legend will forcefully change the natural environment changes, because it is caused by the life living in this land itself, chosen by oneself, and the rash move will make it worse.

After listening to the old mage's nagging quietly, Joshua did not immediately refute. He nodded happily and said, "I know."

If a permanent change of the terrain of a land will naturally have a great impact on the balance of local organisms and magic... For example, those fungi and various rare herbs that reproduce in the underground cavity may die, causing great property losses.

"But these are not irreversible. Look, behind us are the elites of Winter Castle and the Imperial Royal Mage Academy. These mages, vegetation scholars and druids will prevent the worst of the situation to the greatest extent. They will protect the environment underground to cherish herbs and obtain precious cultivation knowledge from it. Most importantly, Nostradamus, the existence we face is worth our risk."

The warrior turned to look at the Rift Valley. He saw the yellow ripples magnifying bit by bit. The light that is hard to describe in words but brings people the sense of "earth", "viability", and "prosperity" is weak, but it is clearly captured by Joshua. It is the power of the earth, which comes from the great power of the Earth Mother Goddess, a thousand years ago. Joshua said in a calm tone: "If that existence, the mother of the Mother Goddess wakes up, then it will not be just a Northern Ural Plain."

Hearing this, even Nostradamus couldn't help but sigh and admitted that Joshua was right.

Indeed, even if the existence they faced was sealed, it would be enough to receive this attention. If a world that hates humanity will wake up again, then how could the damage caused be compared to a mere prairie turning over? In order to judge the changes underground as soon as possible, Joshua's actions were decisive.

It is not the time to chat now. After a brief conversation, Joshua closed his eyes and detected the source of the earth's divine power. After a few seconds, he opened his eyes again and found the source.

"It was an ancient underground lake, with three underground rivers flowing into it... The surface was still very clear, but the depth of the lake was already full of corpses and secretions of mineral debris and aquatic slime molds, and it was a completely garbage dump."

"The source of the earth's divine power is in the deepest part of this lake."

The surface rift tore the unknown barrier, and Joshua's eyes could go deeper smoothly. He saw an extremely deep vertical pit in the center of the huge underground cavity. A wave of divine power came from the deepest part of the pit. It could interfere with all magical and spiritual explorations. However, Joshua was just simply "seeing", so he was not greatly affected. There were underground sewage and biological corpses that had been accumulated since many years ago. In the pit, there were heavy metal sewage that had almost turned into mucus in the depths of the pit. Almost no creature could get close to it.

Except for one.

blacksnake.

With a light eh, in Joshua's eyes, hundreds of black snakes were swimming in the lake. The light of the earth's divine power appeared on them, separating the water from the debris in the water, purifying it into pure water, and keeping the surface of the underground lake clean. Joshua also saw that these black snakes were parading along the underground rivers, purifying the debris and garbage in the rivers, just like the most faithful cleaners.

"interesting."

Joshua showed an interesting expression: "I originally thought these black snakes were guards, but I didn't expect that they were cleaning units that maintained the underground ecological cycle... In this way, I can't kill them at will."

"I found the location, Nostradamus."

Turning his head, Joshua said to the old master, "What do you mean?"

"What else can I say, I'll just take action."

Regarding Joshua's doubts, Nostradamus curled his lips, shook his head and said, "Send me the coordinates."

He didn't care about his friends' complaints, Joshua smiled slightly, and sent the coordinates of the underground lake, and then restrained the gravity of the powerful magnetic field that spread around him, and gradually landed on the surface with the other party.

The strong wind whistled beside him, and Nostradamus stood on the edge of the rift, with a faint blue rune light flashing in his eyes. After calculating for a while, the old mage stretched out his hand and pointed at the area where the underground lake was located.

Suddenly, accompanied by the slight sound of time and space being torn, a pitch-black crack was sourced by the old mage's fingertips and extended endlessly in his direction. It easily shattered all the soil, rocks and mineral veins along the way, breaking through nearly 2,500 meters thick rock layer, and reaching the location of the underground lake.

The huge magic of time and space slowly dissipated, and you could see that a smooth tilted tunnel of fifteen meters long and ten meters wide appeared in front of Joshua and Nostradamus. It directly leads to the underground lake without any twists and turns.

"Okay, let's see what is releasing the power of the earth...tsk, this time and space rift is not straight enough."

Withdrawing his hand, Nostradamus, who seemed a little unsatisfied, shook his fingers, then took a step directly and walked down the tunnel, while Joshua smiled and shrugged, and walked down the other direction.

Joshua was able to tear a rift in the earth's crust because his pure power was strong, but if he was accurately aimed at a target, he would not be as good as Nostradamus, who specialized in space and time.

Unlike the underground tunnel that is winding around and I don’t know how many kilometers you need to walk. This is a straight line, no more than four kilometers away. The two legendary powerful men crossed it in a few seconds. Qiao Xiuya released silver-white light around him, dispelling the darkness around him and seeing the dark underground lake.

Weird oil and colonies float on the surface of the lake. Thousands of black snakes swim in the lake, decomposing most of the dirt or transporting them to the shore. Looking around, the thick magic power even emits a light blue light in the air. On the rock walls around the lake, large areas of magic crystals are grown, and pure magic power accumulates here, almost forming an ore vein.

The existence of the earth's divine power brought unparalleled vitality here. There are all kinds of strange plants along the lake, and rodents and insects who are not sure whether they are mutated or born like this. If Alva came here, she would definitely feel excited because there were huge mushrooms and insect nests that matched his imagination of the underground on the lake. These creatures that were absolutely invisible on the surface formed a strange ecosystem.

Joshua tore the earth's crust and the old mage opened the tunnel, but it did not affect the creatures around the lake. An inexplicable force fixed the surrounding rock formations, so that they did not collapse due to violent vibrations. Joshua could clearly sense that it was the effect of the earth's divine power.

Having arrived here, Joshua naturally didn't have much nonsense. He and the old mage stretched out their hands at the same time, and the surface of the huge underground lake began to whirlpool. Countless turbid black lake water was pulled away by the warriors, and then teleported to the surface by Nostradamus. Countless black snakes fled from it in panic. Joshua controlled his power and did not kill these wild beasts who had worked diligently for many years. Gradually, as the lake water gradually dried up, a passage leading to the depths of the lake could be seen beginning to appear.

Feeling the increasingly surging divine power fluctuations, Joshua and Nostradamus stopped their actions. Until now, the two had not encountered the expected crisis. No wild beasts that became powerful due to divine power attacked them, nor did they have any world will or hidden weapons left by gods. They came to the depths of the ground smoothly and found the source of divine power, which made the warriors who were looking forward to fighting and the suspicious old mage feel full of doubts and inexplicable.

"It's that simple?"

Joshua murmured to himself, "I haven't done enough to eat yet."

"It shouldn't be..."

Nostradamus also thought hard: "There are some traps, ambush or mysterious magic circles left by ancient times, right?"

But it is obvious that the facts are different from those of warriors who are too eager to challenge and mages who are too eager to get killed. The journey is so simple, without any levels or monsters, and it is as smooth as drinking soup.

At this time, because most of the lake water was pumped away, the river was intercepted, and the remaining lake water dissipated in all directions along the cracks deep in the ground. This was hidden in the deepest part of the ground, and the source of the release of divine power gradually revealed its true appearance.

It was a quaint, ancient temple cast from rocks.

When it left the cover of the deep lake and appeared completely in the air, a faint wave began to move towards all directions with it as the center. At this moment, countless people on the entire continent who were not usually conspicuous stopped their work and stood there in a daze.

Some of them were ordinary peasants, some were skilled chefs, some were brave warriors, knowledgeable mages, some were smart thieves, and pious shepherds. Some lived in dirty and poor slums, living in illness and suffering, and some stood on the high platform of the palace, looking down at their subjects and their country with pride.

In the distance, in the Temple of Earth, the elder of the white-haired temple sat in front of the ancient temple made of rocks. He closed his eyes, as if he was thinking about something that could never be solved. But suddenly, a faint wave swept across. The old elder suddenly opened his blood-shot eyes. He stood up and looked at the northernmost end of the world, but then he glanced around in confusion, as if he had found something wrong.

And just under him, the ancient temple was glowing, the light was warm, gentle, and warm, as if it was the gaze of a mother.

On the eastern plain, a small island next to Hailong City, the residence of the East China Sage suddenly lit up a light silver light. All the ascetics left their house in surprise and looked at the holy land located in the middle of the island.

In the residence of the sage, Faina, who was originally meditating in the house and was in contact with her spiritual clone teleported to the world of stars, also felt this fluctuation. Her originally stable mood was broken, and the complex emotional fluctuations spread in her heart. Faina slowly stood up, she walked out of the house and looked at the northern end of the world, but soon, she turned her head again, as if she was looking around the entire continent.

In the sage's eyes, hundreds of light spots are shining brightly.

In the Northern Ural Plain, in the center of the crack, Joshua looked down at the glowing temple. He also felt the faint fluctuation and felt something was wrong with Joshua who originally wanted to stop it, but the fluctuation went straight towards him without any intention of avoiding it.

Even most of the fluctuations are coming towards him.

Joshua didn't dodge. He wanted to know what this fluctuation was. So the warrior simply took a step forward and took most of the fluctuations into his arms. Just as Joshua was analyzing the information contained in the fluctuation, he was stunned for a moment, and then stood there.

Then, there was a long silence, with silver light flashing in the warrior's eyes, and countless ancient memories swelled along the trend of steel power. He knew why the temple was deep underground and why it was built. Joshua even knew why this wave gathered towards him, as if he was the good target he had already booked.

The truth of everything is so simple.

"Wake up, Joshua, what's the thing that affects you?"

Not sure, Nostradamus, who had been waiting for a long time, saw Joshua's body move slightly, and knew that he had recovered from the daze, so the old master quickly asked: "What did you see from that fluctuation after you were idle for more than ten minutes?"

He is not the target of fluctuation, so he feels nothing.

"It's civil strife."

Hearing Nostradamus' voice, Joshua's eyes dimmed when he returned to normal. He smiled bitterly and looked at the ancient temple in front of him, then shook his head: "The chaos after the war, a dispute between people and the world."
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