Why can't humans do it too?

No explanation is needed. Suer, who had frequently visited Xinke's workshop to satisfy his curiosity over the past two years, had easily recognized what it was—a divine essence.

All these dramatic changes happened almost in an instant. By the time the three of them reacted and tried to explain, the almost unbearable pressure had vanished in an instant.

The distant seawater was flowing back, filling the void here. Apart from the unusual fluctuation when the heavenly strike fell, this unknown divine being did not utter a single word, nor did it show any intention of communicating with the three.

Even when faced with provocations that could be considered detrimental to the dignity of the divine race, He acted as if He didn't care at all.

Everything seemed eerie. Xin Ke closed her eyes with a serious expression and stretched out her hand. As the emerald green magic circle unfolded, a translucent band of light flowed down into the sea, passing through the still turbulent waves.

“…No wonder we didn’t find it. It’s been hidden beneath the island all along. Normally, if it were to see the light of day again, we’d probably have to wait for the tectonic plates to slowly rise, right?” Not daring to disturb Xinke who was making her probes, Suer whispered to Jibril, “That doesn’t seem right either? We didn’t find anything unusual when we checked the Pokémon before, and…”

"Why doesn't it look like a truly activated divine species?"

It was merely a divine marrow, and it hadn't shown any signs of becoming active until now. No matter how you looked at it, it seemed like an inactive divine marrow, just like those piled up in Xinke Workshop. However, just now, this inactive divine marrow actually unleashed its power.

“Something’s not right,” Xin Ke, who hadn’t spoken since the beginning, finally opened her eyes and said in surprise, “If you use magic to search, there’s nothing there. There isn’t even an elven cave. Flowing elves can pass through that place without any obstacles, just like in the soil next to them. There’s no hindrance or barrier.”

But this is obviously impossible. Putting aside everything else, after the magic pushed away the seawater that had filled in from behind, the spherical divine marrow was still properly embedded there, and it was definitely not some kind of mud.

Putting aside the process of testing little by little, things became simple, especially after Jibril discovered that even after moving the essence of this... divine being, it still wouldn't react.

"Hello? A great being?"

"Could you please show yourself?"

"Hello? Can you hear me?"

"hello?"

The transition from respectful audience to casual greeting was swift. After receiving no response for a long time, Suer even dared to reach out and tap the divine marrow, but there was still no reaction. It was like a little mobile phone, except that he didn't dare to say the last word.

This divine marrow was just like an ordinary, inactive divine marrow, motionless and playing dead. It was hard to imagine that this was part of a divine species with its own will—you're not some kind of god who's playing dead, are you?

They had already tried using all the languages ​​the group knew, but the black-spirited deity acted as if they didn't exist. To be honest, Suer even suspected that if time could be reversed, this deity might not have made that move at all in the first place.

He was no longer unfamiliar with the divine species Suer. He knew that these beings could be said to possess their own concept of will, yet their minds were also bound by their own concepts, making them rather simple beings.

This also means that as long as this deity is determined not to communicate with the outside world, even Jibril can't do anything about it. After all, its current state is no different from an inactive divine essence. The only thing Xinke can be sure of is that it is definitely different from its unawakened kin and is consciously hiding itself.

The only remaining option was to try slowly, and this trying... took more than half a year.

During what was already a long time for Suer, he simply asked Xinke to build him a house on the island using magic, right next to the Divine Essence. Every day, from the moment he woke up in the morning until he went to bed at night, whenever he had time, he would go to the Divine Essence and chatter away... I mean, request a heart-to-heart talk.

Brother Su, a man of leisure.

Instead of placing all their hopes on this uncooperative deity, Xin Ke and Jibril spent the past six months meticulously investigating suspicious locations based on the limited information recorded in the few books available to the sea-dwelling species. Xin Ke also remotely monitored the movements of the forest elves on land. Although they discovered some remarkable things, including a fantasy species living in the sea and the demon species it created, none of these had anything to do with the answer Okan had given them.

Rather, as time went on, the three of them focused more and more on this unknown divine being, since it was the most likely candidate at the moment.

"How is it, Sur? Still no reaction?" Suddenly appearing before Sur, Jibril flapped her wings and pressed her ear against the divine essence, listening intently. "If it really doesn't work..."

"What are you thinking about?" interrupting Jibril, Sul rolled her eyes and continued, "Taking you to the Winged Race is a completely different matter, isn't it?"

Yes, that's exactly what Jibril is more concerned about.

A living, but not fully living, god-like being in a state of near-life is undoubtedly a super collectible never before seen by the entire Skywing race. It is unique, and according to Jibril, her sisters would be willing to fight a grand war for the ownership of this collectible.

"Ugh~, but He didn't react at all, did he?" Jibril protested, crossing her arms in dissatisfaction. She kept glancing at the surface of the divine marrow, her desire couldn't be clearer.

This perseverance sometimes amazed Suer in secret—this pink-headed Skywing didn't choose to directly attack and snatch it?

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I'm so touched, so touched that I want to give Jibril a little red flower as a reward.

So you better stay away from the essence!

Snapped!

Without hesitation, he slapped Jibril's outstretched hand. If he didn't use a heavy punch to wake this woman up, Sull suspected that this drooling, unladylike guy would create space and take away the divine essence in the next second.

"Tsk," Jibril sneered, grinning in dissatisfaction. "You haven't given up after all this time. I'll give you some credit for your patience. But you'd better hurry up. That weed seems to have some kind of plan."

"Huh? Xin Ke?" Su Er was slightly taken aback.

"I'm off~ By the way, my power will be restored soon, and you'll be sorry~" Without any further explanation, Jibril vanished in the blink of an eye, leaving only that sentence behind.

Apart from the constant sound of waves crashing against the rocks and the beach, the area has returned to its original tranquility.

"Sigh...you heard that too, right?" With a long sigh, Su Er also felt a bit thirsty. "Those two guys are probably planning something bad. Give me some reaction, brother."

Well... after half a year of mentally unstable self-talk, Su Er had become much more lenient in his wording when he was almost at the point where he had nothing left to say.

If it weren't for Xin Ke and Jibril occasionally coming to talk to him, he would really suspect that he would have developed some kind of schizophrenia. The feeling of having to find topics to talk about and answer his own questions from morning to night is something that cannot be fully described by a single stand-up comedy routine.

Several times, Suer even heard the divine being's reply, but after the initial euphoria subsided, he belatedly realized that it was just a voice he had imagined in his mind.

Its jet-black appearance initially led one to believe it was a perfect sphere, but upon moving it to the island, it was revealed to be shaped like a pot. What one had seen before was merely its base; its surface was incredibly hard. In an extremely daring act, Suer even dared to smear his own blood on it, but nothing new changed.

【……none……】

The sound echoed in the vastness of this world, its gender indistinguishable.

"Ah~, here we go again. I'm telling you, I got a real scolding last time I called Xinke over like this... Stop messing with me..." Su'er muttered to herself as she cast the fishing line, holding the fishing rod she had made herself.

It's practically impossible to catch anything; it's just a way to relieve boredom.

[...in vain...]

This time, however, he heard it clearly, and it even formed a complete word, spoken in the language of the forest elves.

"Here we go again, it's just fishing! How can it be all in vain! Even subconsciously, don't look down on fishermen like that... You know you'll get yelled at, right?" Having gotten used to this rhythm of talking to himself, Su'er chuckled easily, "Speaking of which, the voice I imagined this time was quite something, wasn't it? It really had that divine quality to it, haha, so this kind of imagination can automatically improve itself?"

[...unwise...]

"Hey, hey, hey, don't swear! How can you swear at yourself... huh?" Suer looked to her left in surprise. Jibril, who had just disappeared there, reappeared with a sound like shattering glass. The pink-haired girl stared wide-eyed in shock, her mouth slightly agape.

In a split second, realizing something, Suer suddenly trembled with excitement. Jibril's expression at that moment was simply too convincing, meaning that this voice, which seemed to exist directly between heaven and earth... was not his imagination?!

"Ah, ahhhhh, ahhhhhhhh!!!"

This divine being has finally spoken!

"Quickly, call Xinke back!!"

He scrambled towards the house, needing to notify the woman immediately.

The essence has come alive!

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"Generally speaking, I call this method 'talking,' and it seems to be working well now?"

Sur was extremely pleased with himself for his success in using rhetoric. He had managed to get even a reclusive deity who refused to communicate to start responding. This was a tremendous success.

To be honest, even with his temperament, he felt a surge of emotion that brought tears to his eyes. Thinking about it, he could understand the foolish sea creature god who was so angry that he ran home in tears many years ago.

"Even if you say that, He hasn't said a word since I came back, has he?" With a hand pressed against the surface of the divine marrow, Xin Ke turned her head and asked suspiciously, "Could this be another hallucination of Mr. Monkey?"

"Absolutely impossible!" Half a year of hard work has finally paid off. Although the deity didn't seem to say anything nice, there was indeed a reaction. Suer will not allow this success to be erased!

"Don't believe me? Ask Jibril!! She was there too! She heard it too!!"

"Ah~~~, yes~~, and Miss Monster too~", Xin Ke's voice bounced up and down like she was on a roller coaster, "You guys aren't all ganging up on me, are you?"

"What are you thinking? Why would I lie to you?" Suer rolled her eyes in annoyance. This forest elf was really talking weirder and weirder.

"Heh~, I knew you wouldn't dare," Xin Ke chuckled lightly, and began to inscribe spells on the surface of the divine essence and in the surrounding space.

The forest spirit characters, flashing brightly and dimly, seemed to solidify in mid-air along Xin Ke's fingertips. The unfolding spell possessed a unique beauty, and at least Su Er found it quite satisfying.

"Hello? May we talk some more?"

Standing at the edge of the spell, Suer tentatively asked again.

However, there was no response. If Jibril hadn't repeatedly assured him that she had heard it as well, Sue would have almost started to doubt herself.

“It’s no use. When I got back this time, I asked my subordinates to ask that good-for-nothing Kenas from the side. I have a little understanding of the current state of this god-like being.” While rapidly inscribing the spell, the spreading magic array even extended from the air to the ground. Xin Ke casually stopped Su Er’s futile efforts.

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"To put it simply, this is probably the remains left behind by a once-active deity," Xin Ke recalled slowly.

"wreckage?"

“That’s right, or more accurately, um… this is the divine essence left behind by that deity after its death… therefore, it is completely different from those inactive divine essences.”

Chapter 196 Slightly Worried

“Because it was once activated but died, it has different properties from a divine marrow that has never been activated. It is not even completely dead and returned to the Elf Corridor. It died, but not completely... Is this also the special feature of the divine species?” Xin Ke finished the last stroke of her self-contradictory and comical words, stood up and looked at the divine marrow with a deep sigh.

"Don't divine beings return to the Elven Corridor after they die, leaving behind only their divine essence, or fall into a deep sleep?" Suer asked curiously.

"Yes, if the power to break through the divine essence is strong enough, even the divine essence will not be left behind. The will born from that concept will disappear and return to the state of the basic concept until it is reactivated after an unknown number of years. Although it sounds very much like an immortal state, in reality, the divine species that is reactivated is a different existence from the previous one," Xin Ke nodded and explained.

"So, the reborn will is unrelated to the previous one?" Su'er thought she roughly understood, but then remembered the special nature of this divine essence that Xin Ke had emphasized. "Then what you mean by dying but not completely dying?"

"Just as you thought, this divine essence will not give birth to a new will, because the divine species it carries has not died. What continues is still the consciousness that was born when it first gained life activation. The current state, hmm~, can be understood as a state of suspended animation?"

“It’s just an approximation; the definition of the state of a divine species can’t really provide the most accurate description,” Xin Ke replied, checking and verifying her conjecture while using the spell she had just drawn. “How about this: let’s name this state, which is peculiar even among divine species, ‘pseudo-inactivation’?”

"...Wait a minute," Su'er suddenly realized, looking at Xin Ke speechlessly, and said, "Didn't you already know everything? You even came up with a name, so why did you act like Jibril and I were lying to you just now?"

"Oh~, of course it's because I want to see how Mr. Monkey will react~, isn't that interesting?" Xin Ke chuckled.