My health recovery is incredibly fast.

Every temple mage must undergo a loyalty ceremony and incorporate a light elemental before being promoted to high mage.

Only after this can they be qualified to enter the Great Volcano, see their own spiritual ocean, understand the essence of the spiritual ocean, and know the true nature of the elemental laws.

The element of light was able to destroy the traitor's spiritual ocean and take away all the elements when a human mage betrayed the temple.

The reason is simple, and the process is easy...

Xia Zuo closed his eyes and entered a shallow meditative state, sensing the elements within the black crystal.

These elements are precisely the elements within his spiritual ocean.

The leading light element, along with its followers, floated inside the black crystal.

If Xia Zuo were to betray the temple one day, the light element would break through the black crystal, allowing the elements inside to return to nature.

The significance of centralized management of black crystal goes beyond this.

When the alien demons are completely defeated and the starry sky no longer invades this planet, nature will destroy all the black crystals at once and reclaim the power of the elemental laws from humankind.

That's why it's said that black crystal is both the beginning and the end of humanity's control over the laws of the elements.

At this point, Xia Zuo had a new guess about the cheat code.

The starry sky used a divisive tactic to destroy nature's first way of resisting it.

Starry Sky used the alien demons to bring the second path to the brink of destruction.

A magic-suppressing field descended from the starry sky, defying the elemental laws of nature and threatening the third path.

Nature's counterattack is brewing.

It is plotting a fourth route, namely the golden finger held by Xia Zuo.

The specific details and structure of the fourth approach are currently unknown.

But Xia Zuo felt that his "golden touch" was more like a pilot test.

Nature provided Xia Zuo with a golden touch to test whether the fourth approach was feasible.

This approach is based on the laws of elements and has an extremely high lower limit.

Its upper limit is determined by the holder of the cheat device; the deeper the holder's understanding of the cheat device, the higher the upper limit.

Is the truth really as Xia Zuo thought...?

Xia Zuo didn't know.

No one ever told him how he got his cheat code, or why they gave it to him instead of arranging one for others.

No one ever told him how to use the cheat codes correctly.

Wait a minute.

Xia Zuo frowned slightly.

He remembered something.

He asked the Golden Finger many questions, but only received answers to three of them, one of which was wrong.

The question with the incorrect answer is: What are the rules for calculating free attribute points?

The answer from the cheat code is: the higher the level, the more free attribute points you have.

This answer is completely wrong.

Free attribute points are obviously only related to the quality of the bloodline. The three attributes with the lowest values ​​among the eight attributes determine how many free attribute points you can get each time you level up.

While studying at the Temple, Xia Zuo learned about Fritz, the traitor from Starry Night Academy, from Mars and immediately discovered that the cheat system had made a mistake in the "calculation rules for free attribute points".

At that time, Xia Zuo attributed this mistake to the fact that the cheat system knew that a high-level blood demon was lurking in the western continent, so it deliberately misled the host and did not give the correct answer, so as not to let the host be noticed by the blood demon because of the high quality of the blood pattern.

Now it seems... the truth behind the matter may be far more complicated than Xia Zuo thought.

Xia Zuo kept his eyes closed and asked himself:

"What are the calculation rules for free attribute points in the 'Golden Finger' feature?"

Golden Finger's answer:

"The number of free attribute points awarded for leveling up is calculated according to specific rules. The higher the level, the more free attribute points you will receive upon leveling up. More rules need to be explored by the host."

Ok?

When you first asked, did the Golden Finger say this much?

Xia Zuo turned to the last page of the information in his mind.

This page records the information about his cheat abilities during the first few days after he transmigrated.

Two lines clearly state the Golden Finger's answer to the question, which is consistent with the answer given at this time.

It seems that Xia Zuo was still upset about missing out on a lot of free attribute points, which is why he mistakenly thought that the cheat only said "the higher the level, the more free attribute points you get when you level up".

The cheat system was evasive and avoided the important points in the answers, and deliberately guided the host to level up quickly, causing the host to miss the opportunity to acquire a large number of free attribute points, which made Xia Zuo very unhappy.

Although it was later proven that the Blood Demon was indeed avoided, why not just openly admit that the Blood Demon was watching them?

Besides, the free attribute points given after the upgrade are not automatically allocated by the cheat system.

If Xia Zuo had known the rules of free attribute points earlier, he could have easily taken advantage of the situation and made good use of the calculation rules of free attribute points and various suppression levels to quickly and safely obtain a large number of free attribute points.

Xia Zuo became angrier the more he thought about it.

This cheat code seems to be deliberately going against him.

While maintaining a shallow level of meditation, Xia Zuo asked inwardly with a resentful tone:

"Golden Finger, I've figured out the calculation rules for free attribute points, and it's related to the quality of blood runes. It turns out that free attribute points aren't directly related to my character level. Why are you specifically emphasizing leveling up as quickly as possible?"

As expected, the Golden Finger remained silent.

This thing seems to have a specific question-and-answer mechanism, only responding to a few fixed questions, and in a rigid, unchanging way.

Xia Zuo sighed inwardly. Dealing with a system that was so unresponsive and unresponsive was truly exhausting.

Considering the many conveniences it offered, Xia Zuo decided not to ask any further questions.

"Selena," Shazo said, opening his eyes and looking at the glowing human beside him.

“I have seen the true nature of the elemental laws. To be honest, I was worried that elemental power would be abused by demons like bloodline power. Now it seems that my worries were unnecessary. Nature’s understanding of human nature and its control over the elemental laws are more profound than I imagined. I acknowledge and accept nature’s arrangements.”

“That’s wonderful, Shazo. I’m glad to see that you can accept the existence of this black crystal. You’re much easier to communicate with than other mages,” Selena said with a smile.

“I have a question that I haven’t answered yet.” Xia Zuo shrugged. “No offense, but your appearance has piqued my curiosity… Could you answer it for me?”

“Of course.” Selena nodded and pointed upwards. “We’ll go up to the sky, and you’ll know the answer soon enough.”

Chapter 104 Elementalization (2-in-1)

"Go to the sky?" Xia Zuo was clearly taken aback by Selena's words.

"When you touched the black crystal just now, you should know that many technological civilizations have been born in this world, right?" Selena asked as she moved upwards.

Xia Zuo followed closely to his right, "Yes. The black crystal told me about the origins of the Silver Moon Federation's culture and style, and also mentioned many unfamiliar terms that originated from a knowledge system called science."

He actually knew what "atomic energy" and "cold fusion" meant, but he just couldn't say it. Cooperating with Selena's performance to gather more information was the wiser move.

“Science is a discipline based on physical and chemical phenomena. Alchemy is a discipline based on elements.” Selena suddenly began to talk about theoretical knowledge. “The biggest difference between them is that science can be abused by demons, but alchemy cannot, because demons are not recognized by the elements.”

Selena turned her head to look at Xia Zuo, "Whether it's science or alchemy, in the end, it can enable mankind to ascend into the sky and explore the vast starry sky. But as you know, the starry sky is full of hostility towards us. Monsters and otherworldly demons are pollution from the starry sky, and the withering of bloodline power is also caused by the pollution of the starry sky."

Selena paused for a second, "So, have you ever thought about why the starry sky hasn't poured out an overwhelming force to conquer our world all at once?"

Xia Zuo fell into thought.

Selena quickened her pace, carrying Shazo as she emerged from the lava and flew straight upwards along the black plume of smoke from the crater.

“This is the answer.” Selena pointed to the billowing column of smoke. “It is the Pillar of Creation, also known as the Pillar of Salvation, the greatest creation of nature.”

Xia Zuo looked at the column of smoke but didn't notice anything special about it. Apart from being larger, thicker, and darker, it seemed to be no different from a regular volcanic smoke column.

Well… if we’re talking about unusual features, the Pillars of Creation do have one truly spectacular characteristic – the amount of smoke they produce is enormous and seemingly endless, as if it will keep gushing out forever.

Xia Zuo's gaze instantly became profound.

How long has that column of smoke been blowing?

Based on its eruption volume, the entire sky above the planet should have turned into a gray haze.

Xia Zuo looked up at the sky.

The peak of the smoke column was higher than expected, showing no sign of spreading outwards. It was almost perpendicular to the ground, stretching straight upwards as if it had no end, giving people the illusion that it was extending directly into outer space.

"Selena, how tall are the Pillars of Creation? Are they taller than the clouds?" Shazo asked.

"If the Pillars of Creation are likened to a high mountain, then the clouds are only at its foot."

Selena spread her arms, forming a crystalline magical shell to protect their bodies. "What's about to happen might make you uncomfortable. If you feel unwell, you can close your eyes for a while."

The crystal shell completely blocked out the outside airflow and supplied Xia Zuo with the necessary air.

"Activate the elemental shell. I'm about to accelerate," Selena instructed.

Xia Zuo poured energy into his body and put on a complete set of tower mage robes.

The whistling wind swirled in their ears as Selena and her people flew faster and faster, but their flight direction changed.

She was originally parallel to the column of smoke, pointing vertically upwards, but now she is circling around the column of smoke, spiraling upwards in circles.

The speed is getting faster and faster.

During continuous circling flight, the scene before my eyes seemed to repeat itself over and over again, as if it were stuck in time. The pressure on my body surface increased dramatically, every bone in my body felt like it was being crushed, and my internal organs felt like they were being held and kneaded in someone's hands.

Xia Zuo's eyelids felt heavy, and he couldn't help but want to close his eyes.

He struggled to stay awake, forcing himself not to close his eyes.

He knew what he was about to see.

That was a scene where clouds were trampled underfoot, and the planet's surface met the pitch-black space.

What Selena is doing now is increasing her flight speed to cosmic velocity and orbiting the planet.

Xia Zuo never expected that he would travel to a place at least tens of kilometers above the ground in his physical body.