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Chapter 343 Research on [The Secret of Eternity] and Critical Secondary Loss of Control! An Incredible, Huge Upgrade?

Rumble!

The words of [Secret Prayer Eyes] struck Xia Fa's heart like a thunderbolt, causing him to tremble violently and instantly recalling many, many things.

In the land where time stands still, the magicians call him and Tefaro the Decayers.

Also in the place where time stood still, the Bronze Cleanser only cleansed the extraordinary beings of Mystic City, ignoring the mages of Arcane City—

And, in the old forge, the silver cleaner spoke of the masters who feared attracting supernatural beings—

In that instant, countless questions arose.

Could it be that superhuman beings, including those with extraordinary abilities, are truly destined to die, and are truly evil?

Does this mean that the cleaners are the righteous ones, which is why they can act so recklessly?

Or perhaps this is the reason why the "temporary reality" and certain entities and Outer Gods chose to side with the Cleaners?

The fact that humans with supernatural powers were unknown to ordinary humans and magicians was like a bombshell, causing a huge uproar in his heart.

Furthermore, on second thought, imagine if, thirty thousand years ago, when the universe had just given birth to extraordinary powers for unknown reasons, a human or magician encountered a fungus-level extraordinary being who had signed a "tentacle pact," and watched helplessly as that extraordinary being grew octopus-like tentacles with suckers and sharp teeth from under their ribs—

That is indeed almost like an unknown existence.

As Xia Fayue thought about it, more and more questions arose in his mind, almost to the point of being uncontrollable.

Coincidentally, the unknown being at the Quasi-Celestial Venerable level, [Secret Prayer's Evil Eye], was right there, and seemed to have no ill intentions. Xia Fa couldn't help but ask the most crucial question: "If—we human superhumans are also considered unknown beings, doesn't that mean we are the ones who are inherently impure and should be eliminated?"

[Secret Prayer Eyes] seemed surprised that Xia Fa would ask such a question. She thought for a few seconds, and her ethereal voice became more serious than ever before, even carrying a sense of sincerity: "That's not how it is, Xia Fa."

Her voice softened, as if a young girl were comforting a boy whose mind had been shaken: "Perfect, now that you are a Heavenly Saint, I can reveal some things to you, some information that won't cause you trouble by knowing those secrets."

"I've thought about this problem before. In a sense, the cleaners are not wrong."

"But we beings who are associated with supernatural powers—are not wrong either."

"This is not a simple battle between good and evil as depicted in novels or dramas. Neither we supernatural beings nor the Cleaners are wrong, but neither can tolerate the other's existence, and we are each other's greatest threat."

"Therefore, only one side can survive: the superhumans or the cleaners. The prerequisite for survival is to kill the other side."

"From the simplest perspective, think about it: 30,000 years ago, the universe was certainly prosperous, but in those 30,000 years, did our world really encounter any problems? No, right?"

"Furthermore, since the superhumans are far more powerful than magicians and do not need to rely on the power of the so-called ancient gods, the footprints of humans and demi-humans have spread to every planet in the universe with the conditions to give birth to life. Even if we only count the planets with the highest level of civilization development, there are hundreds of millions of them."

"Thirty thousand years ago, this would have been impossible. Back then, magicians were only gathered on a few hundred inhabited planets."

"When encountering slightly more powerful monsters, mages need to pray to the ancient gods to bestow divine power so that they can cast high-level spells."

It must be said that the [Secret Prayer Eye] truly lives up to its reputation as the source master of the "Eye of the Mist" among unknown beings, a supreme powerhouse with the quasi-Celestial Venerable status.

These words immediately calmed Xia Fa down from the great shock he had experienced.

After thinking for a moment, he seized the opportunity to ask again: "But, regarding the matter of the extraordinary beings going out of control, and the fact that beings of godhood and above cause pollution when they enter the real world—"

【Secret Prayer Eyes】A gentle smile appeared in those double pupils, and she said in an ethereal voice, "This is actually more normal. Just like a person who suddenly gains great power, they will also lose control of themselves."

"When he goes to the bar, he might easily crush a thick glass beer mug with a light squeeze, or he might accidentally turn off the faucet while washing up in the restroom."

"Think about it, every living being has a limit to the power it can contain. If it gets close to that limit and can't control it, it will overflow. That's perfectly normal, and it has nothing to do with evil or justice."

"The mages have stabilized, but what's the point?"

"Thirty thousand years ago, when supernatural powers were first born, the ancient gods were either dead or in hiding, so magicians could no longer borrow their divine power. At that time, a fungus-level supernatural being could destroy a whale-level magician."

"I have even seen a demigod-level transcendent who defeated a supreme archmage of the Dominator rank."

"Therefore, it is normal for living beings to become gods or higher and be unable to control their powerful forces, thus polluting reality. Unless they become true gods, there are almost no exceptions."

Xia Fa finally understood. He had to admit that [Secret Prayer Eye]'s words answered many of his questions.

However, this has brought even greater questions, such as what exactly happened 30,000 years ago that led to the near annihilation of the ancient gods and the birth of extraordinary powers.

It seems that the Nine Great Gods also rose to power around that time.

And if neither side is at fault, then how did the Cleaners come about, where did they come from, and why are they so powerful and unreasonable?

Especially among the Gold Cleaners, over thirty have awakened, but the majority remain dormant.

However, there's still more than a year to go, so now is not the time to think about this.

Once you become a god, you can ask the Golden Axe Cleaner, the Young Miner, and the Wise One yourself.

Oh, and by the way, one could even ask Lord [Paradox Clown] and Lord [First History], if the true god [First History] is willing to communicate with him—

"Okay, I understand. Thank you sincerely, [Secret Prayer Eye]."

Xia Fa placed his hand on his chest in a very sincere gesture of thanks and said these words from the bottom of his heart.

[Secret Prayer Eyes] The smile in those double pupils deepened, carrying a hint of playfulness: "Simply saying thank you isn't enough. Being able to attend our unknown beings' conference is the real honor you're bestowing upon me. I bet none of them expected I could pull over the third Celestial Saint in the history of our real world, hehe—"

As soon as the words were spoken, the pairs of double pupils in the air suddenly closed and disappeared, and the starry purple in the bedroom faded away.

[Secret Prayer Eyes] blinked and disappeared into the air, seemingly having already left.

Xia Fa then realized that what came from [Secret Prayer Eye] was not its true form, nor even a clone or a thought. It was more like it was in the Star Spirit Realm, communicating with its real-world counterpart through some means. The means it could use were limited, so it did not cause any pollution to the real world.

After calming himself down, he didn't dwell on it and stood there for a while, digesting the information he had just received.

Whether it's the classification of unknown beings, the relationship between the extraordinary and the Cleaners, or many other things—

"By the way, are there only a few types of unknown beings, such as the Nature Bees? I don't think so."

After a while, Xia Fa came to his senses and looked at the Nature Bee that was silently waiting by his side, and asked it curiously.

The Bee of Nature chuckled: "Actually, most unknown entities are unique and cannot be classified, and they make up the vast majority. There are probably more than thirty that can be classified."

More than thirty kinds —

Xia Fa couldn't help but click his tongue in amazement. It seemed that the vastness and complexity of the Celestial Spirit Realm far exceeded his imagination. This meant that there were at least thirty powerful forces outside of the nine major churches.

"Okay, I understand. Shall we go to the conference of the unknown entity together tomorrow?"

"Yes, Master!"

A few minutes later.

Within the small world.

In this little world, it always seems to be a scene of blue sea, sky, and bright sunshine.

Of course, Xia Fa liked it very much as well.

Every time I come to the Little World, I feel safe and relaxed like never before.

However, he also understood that his little world was probably not absolutely safe; it was just that no one was watching him for the time being.

The truly safe little world was found by the combined efforts of the Wise One and the Transient Reality.

The one that sustains the "Sparks" is so safe that even the Paradox Joker, the Silver Universe, and the First History have personally acknowledged its safety.

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But at least for now, his little world was relatively safe, so Xia Fa relaxed and lay down on the beach, taking a rare break.

The sand was soft and slightly warm from being exposed to the sun. A crab, blowing bubbles and raising its pincers, crawled past his head.

Since less than a day had passed, Benedict and Meowkor seemed to still be intoxicated and had not yet woken up, so they did not come to the beach to greet him for the time being.

Xia Fa didn't care much. After resting for a while and recovering his physical and mental state, he stood up again.

Tomorrow I have to attend the Unknown Beings Conference. Although it doesn't seem too dangerous, Xia Fa still decided to improve his strength first.

Even though there was no danger at the Unknown Existence Conference, the year was drawing ever closer, and he wanted to use every day to improve his strength as much as possible.

"Hmm—let me think. I can absorb the sacred metal [Gathering of All Miracles] corresponding to [Miracle Fantasy] first. This only requires the consumption of the extraordinary power within my body and does not consume anything else."

"Then, we need to figure out how to use the authority of [Eternal Secret] so that we can act more freely when competing for [Eternal Critical Strike] three days later —"

"Then, should I choose between training that's on the verge of going out of control a second time, or mastering the Rhine Secret Forging Technique?"

After thinking it over, Xia Fa decided to undergo the training that would lead to a near second loss of control.

After all, in terms of improving strength alone, the boost brought about by the second loss of control at the cultivation threshold is almost the greatest so far.

"I wonder if the Crimson Agent will ever fully break free of control. It didn't use any of its divine battle techniques in the arena—it was understandable that it didn't use them when so many people were watching, but it didn't use them in the end either."

Thinking about this, Xia Fa suddenly had a guess: the Crimson Agent was not talented enough, so he was unable to learn either the critical loss of control or the divine battle technique.

This cannot be obtained through the "plundering" authority of the Eternal Plunder Treasure, after all, one is a forbidden secret technique that has been jointly prohibited by the nine righteous gods, and the other directly involves the righteous gods.

Xia Fa was filled with anticipation, wondering what incredible improvements he would experience if he could truly cultivate to the point of near-secondary loss of control.

Without delay, he immediately flipped his palm and took out the sacred metal he had bought from the [Sage].

The Gathering of All Miracles

As soon as these miraculous objects appeared, they began to change shape in his palm, sometimes turning into a chair, sometimes into a bottle of wine, and then into an iris.

A strong sense of wonder and imagination emanated from his palm, and Xia Fa immediately felt that the secret runes on the overlord-level secret contract [Miracle Imagination] at the junction of his mental body and astral body had become much more active.

After taking a large piece of flesh from the Wall of Flesh and Blood from the copper box and swallowing it while enduring the strong smell of blood, Xia Fa took a deep breath and suddenly absorbed all the miraculous energy in his palm!

Suddenly, his body trembled, and his eyes, which were as black as charcoal yet surprisingly bright, transformed into dazzling and dreamlike colors.

Then, an incredible scene unfolded: around him, tables and chairs, beer, perfume, stockings, swords, nuts, houses, and other things suddenly appeared out of thin air.

These things landed and hit the sand, splashing up large and small grains of sand. Clearly, they were all real, not illusions!

Almost immediately, in the sea not far ahead, a blue sea bream that had been bitten in half and was floating on the surface, about to die, suddenly trembled slightly and became lively again!

Despite its severe injuries showing no signs of healing, it swam directly into the deep sea, its tail wagging.

This is a "miracle," a "miracle" of being brought back from the dead, a "miracle" of being severely injured yet having no effect whatsoever!

Suddenly, Xia Fa shuddered violently, as if he had come to his senses.

Absorbing the Gathering of All Miracles did not produce the same dramatic effect as absorbing the Pure White Light-Chasing Silver, but the improvement was noticeable, given that it was a Gathering of All Miracles the size of a fist.

"The original secret technique, 【Paper of Coincidence】, can now write up to seven lines, greatly relaxing the conditions for achieving coincidences."

"As for the things I can 'imagine' or the miracles I can achieve, they seem to have improved considerably, but this is difficult to experiment with—"

Xia Fa decided that when he returned to Garlic City and established his own First Faith, he would try using "miracles" and "fantasies" to fulfill the residents' wishes, and then he would know the effect.

He took out another large piece of flesh from the wall of flesh from the bronze box, and devoured it rather ravenously. Then, with two fingers, he took out the [Secret of Eternity], which looked like a black glass bead.

He put his most important things into the Black Bag and then hid them in the time rift of the secret ability "Time Concealment". Things that could not be put into the Black Bag were also hidden in the time rift.

For example, there's the [Eternal Secret], and the [Old Treasure: Rhine Blade of Calamity], and so on.

In a sense, this is simply the most useful secret ability in "Gate of Stars" under normal circumstances!

This "eternal secret" was something he secretly took from the flesh of his waist and hid in the cracks of time, after the surprise attack by the Outer God "Crimson Demon Tree".

"Dick told me to study it carefully, but how exactly should I study it? —"

Holding the black glass bead-shaped "Secret of Eternity," Xia Fa pondered.

After thinking for a few seconds, he decided to give it a try first!

With a quick glance, he spotted the little blue crab that had crawled past his head earlier.

The idea of ​​"keeping it secret" popped into his mind. Immediately, Xia Fa held the black glass bead-like "Eternal Secret" in his left hand and pointed at it with his right.

"secret!"

The next moment, something incredible happened!

As soon as Xia Fa pointed, a quiet, translucent light appeared around the little swimming crab, and then it really disappeared into thin air in front of Xia Fa!

Because he held the [Secret of Eternity], Xia Fa was still able to sense the presence of the little swimming crab. He immediately put the [Secret of Eternity] into his bag and sensed the general location of the little swimming crab again.

Sure enough, this time, he couldn't sense anything, just like the Soul-Destroying Bullet that the Crimson Agent had fired from his back!

"This is really useful—wait, does this mean I've succeeded in my research?"

Xia Fa was quite surprised, and immediately took out the black glass bead-shaped "Secret of Eternity" and tried it on himself again.

This time, he didn't shout out the word "secret" in a childish way. Instead, a thought popped into his mind, and he decided to keep himself a secret.

In an instant, tranquil, translucent light spots appeared around him, covering him completely.

With his spiritual intuition and third-person perspective, Xia Fa clearly saw that he had simply disappeared on the beach!

Moreover, this isn't "invisibility" or "stealth," but true "stealth."

The authority of secrecy encompasses all means of concealment and stealth, and can achieve even better results.

Or, in other words, if anyone dares to hide or sneak in front of me in the future, I only need to hold the [Eternal Secret] in my hand, or I don't even need to hold it in my hand, but can put it into my flesh to meet the conditions for contact, and I can detect them immediately!

Not only can it detect them, but it can also directly use the "Secret" authority to remove their stealth and invisibility!

Xia Fa persevered and continued experimenting, trying hundreds of times. Sometimes he hid on the beach, sometimes on the reef, and he even tried to hide his secret ability. Finally, he confirmed that as long as he made contact with the [Eternal Secret], he could use two to three tenths of the "Secret" authority!

Of course, this refers to 20% to 30% of those below the level of gods. If it were 20% to 30% of those at the level of true gods, they could easily hide countless star fields.

After playing with it for a while and making sure he was familiar with it, Xia Fa then put [The Secret of Eternity] into the Time Rift.

Immediately afterwards, he took a deep breath and took out the shortcut cultivation method for the critical second loss of control given to him by the ancestral outer god Gilgamesh.

Upon opening it, his pupils suddenly lit up, and his face revealed an expression of extreme surprise: "So—this is how you cultivate?"

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