This isn't a souls-like game at all.

The old blacksmith nodded, looking at the iron plate in front of him with emotion, and said, "After all, I also learned the experience of that master craftsman. It would be unreasonable not to help or do something... You can summon it directly when you get there later."

"Ah."

Ye Yiyi raised his hand, and immediately a huge crystal nearly seven or eight meters long fell to the ground behind him.

"What is this? A feather?"

The old blacksmith stood up and looked down, only to see a large number of golden feathers with skin wrapped around the crystal.

"This is what was left behind by a magical being called 'Future Beak'. I fought it in the shadows of the vast universe, and after it died, only this remained. All the other flesh and blood was annihilated."

"A fight took place in the shadow of the vast universe?"

The old blacksmith was stunned for a moment and looked at Ye Yiyi with a strange expression.

"Are you serious, kid? That place is the material reflection of the entire universe, and it's also where the space-time bubble is. Unless you use the magic of the light-tending shadow to jump through the space-time bubble, there is no way that matter can exist there..."

"why?"

Ye Yiyi was also stunned.

"That's because there's no concept of time and space there. Material entities that require time and space to appear generally can't appear without the concept of time and space. If they force themselves to appear, they will naturally be annihilated..."

Alice's voice suddenly came from outside the door. They both looked in the direction of the voice and saw the girl step into the door and look down at the crystal at her feet.

"Of course, I prefer to say that the matter that exists out there is crushed by the weight of the entire universe."

"Crushed?"

Ye Yiyi blinked, suddenly reacted, and looked down at the crystal under his feet.

No wonder he said that nothing could survive there... not even the loving Lord, who was also a magical being...

But the question is, why would the beak be used in the future?

Thinking of this, he saw Alice looking at the feather in the crystal and nodded slightly.

"I was right, this is Holy Spell Gold."

Ye Yiyi frowned slightly, lowered her head and touched the crystal, and a light curtain popped out.

[Sealed Crystal Holy Mantra Gold]

Item Description: A colorless crystal that seals the holy gold.

Sealed by the crystallization of pure magic power, life is frozen at a certain moment in existence.

Breaking the crystal will grant freedom to the recipient.

Let the solidified life flow again.

It is said that this is the power that the God Slayer gained from magic.

He can keep everything, life and even concepts in the present moment.

Sealed in crystals, it transcends the ages.

This is the pure magical substance left after Future Beak's death.

A fantasy metal named "Holy Gold" by the universe's light.

Possessing a life that is close to infinite, it is impossible to survive in this world.

Chapter 654: Yongyue Yaochen.

"...a life approaching infinity?"

His eyes fell on the last sentence of the explanation. This inexplicably familiar sentence structure made Ye Yiyi a little puzzled.

"Why is it approaching infinity again?"

The "material" characteristic unlocked after the strength attribute reaches the maximum level gives him the unique effect of "being able to approach infinity when using strength."

The common point between the two is "approaching infinity", the only difference is that one is "power" and the other is "life".

"Power" is easy to explain. If Ye Yiyi were to describe it, it would probably mean "the ability to increase the power one uses without limit."

According to this understanding, would "life approaching infinity" be something similar?

Then again, is there any difference between this thing and the "infinite life" that Ye Yiyi possesses?

If so, what is the difference?

He couldn't help but frown and think deeply, but his mind felt a mess and he couldn't sort out such purely conceptual and logical things at all.

"Wait, you just said again?"

Alice, who was also crouching beside the crystal and examining the objects within, heard his mumbling and looked up curiously.

"Why do you say that? Have you seen other things approaching infinity before?"

"more or less."

Ye Yiyi decisively put aside the chaotic logic in his mind, relaxed his brows, nodded and replied.

"Do you know the core catalyst of the Folding Tower? It's the thing called the 'Infinite Spacetime Core'."

"of course I know."

Alice smiled delicately, reached out to push up her glasses, and raised her chin towards the crystal beneath her.

"Here, this is one of the raw materials for the Infinite Spacetime Core."

"what?"

Ye Yiyi was stunned.

He looked down at the golden feathers in the crystal, and subconsciously looked up at the old blacksmith.

"Is that right?"

"How should I know this? This is the first time I've seen anything like this."

The old blacksmith was speechless.

"Don't look at me, look at Alice. She's the one who's researching magic."

"I'm just an ordinary craftsman. I'm good at tinkering with weapons and tools, but when it comes to advanced stuff like this, I'm completely clueless."

"...weapons and tools?"

Ye Yiyi's eyes suddenly lit up, and he took out a bright golden double-headed axe from behind him.

"Then you should recognize this thing, right?"

"what?"

Alice looked at the axe and examined it for a moment, a look of surprise in her eyes.

"That weapon is actually made of holy gold?"

"Yes, this is an experimental weapon made by Xiti. It seems to be specially used to deal with dangerous forces in the universe."

"Use this thing to deal with dangerous forces in the universe?"

The old blacksmith took the axe with a strange expression, looked it up and down, swung it with both hands a few times, and then looked at the axe with emotion.

"As expected of a weapon crafted by Master Craftsman Wang himself, this double-headed axe is impeccable, both in terms of feel and balance."

"But the only problem is that the weapon's positioning isn't quite right..."

As he spoke, the old blacksmith picked up the hammer on the table and gently hit the axe handle.

A faint golden light lit up along the long-handled axe, emitting a brilliant sacred light outward.

"Location? What does that mean?"

Ye Yiyi looked at the shining axe in the old blacksmith's hand, somewhat confused about its meaning.

Alice beside him seemed to understand something. She suddenly sighed and asked.

"Since it's an axe, then its correct use should be for close combat, using its sharp axe blade and the huge kinetic energy generated when swinging to chop down the enemy, right?"

"……right"

"Then here's the problem."

Alice shrugged helplessly. "Since you said this weapon is used to deal with dangerous forces in the universe... then what kind of dangerous force in the universe would you be able to use this thing to chop it down?"

"Is it the Zhoujue meteorite, or the Jiemie sorrow cloud?"

Recalling the description of the weapon, Ye Yiyi seemed to understand something, but he still couldn't help asking.

"World-annihilating Zerg and the Curse of Stagnation... isn't that possible?"

"World-annihilating Zerg? You mean the World-annihilating Will?"

Alice was stunned for a moment when she heard this, then shook her head.

"Forget it. The two different wills of world annihilation discovered so far by the land nations are essentially incomplete... In other words, they have already accomplished their goal of annihilating civilization and naturally died out."

"Of course, even the land nations of ten thousand years ago were far from meeting the standards for the arrival of the Will of World Annihilation. As for now, there's even less need to worry. After all, our population is far too small compared to those cosmic civilizations that have existed for an extremely long time."

"As for the stagnation curse..."

Having said this, Alice suddenly fell silent.

"what happened?"

Ye Yiyi was puzzled.

"Can't this axe be used to attack beings infected by the stagnation curse?"

"I don't know that either..."

Alice lowered her eyes, and a hint of gloom inexplicably appeared in them.

She said in a low voice, "The Cosmic Folding Tower was originally planned to be built to prevent the possible appearance of cosmic meteorites and devastating clouds."

"At that time, the nations of the land had not yet discovered the existence of the Stagnation Curse, nor did they know that the Stagnation Curse was one of the dangerous forces in the universe."

"Later, Chaos Impermanence observed the existence of the Stagnation Curse on the Eternal Moon."

"Later, the curse descended, and a great war broke out. The Universal Light Master died on the eve of the war, and the Cosmic Folding Tower was unable to complete its final construction."

"No one knows whether a folding tower made of holy gold can withstand the dangerous forces of the universe, or even the stasis curse."

"And then, there was no chance anymore..."

Ye Yiyi looked at the gloomy girl and spoke softly, as if thinking about something.

"Are you trying to say... that it was because of the Folding Tower that the Universal Light was ambushed and killed by the Chaos Impermanence?"

"I do not know."

Alice still just shook her head.

"Looking back now, there are so many suspicious points about Her Highness's death... A head-on confrontation between kings should have been earth-shattering, but Her Highness's death was completely silent, as if she wasn't killed by the Chaos Impermanence, but rather by Her Highness herself... (Liao Ling, Qi Si Wu, and Temple Guilt (VIII))? She simply chose death..."

The old blacksmith quietly extinguished the golden light on the axe. Ye Yiyi looked at him, and they both fell silent, listening to Alice's low voice.

"Although I have been by Her Highness's side for many years as her research assistant, to be honest, I have no idea what Her Highness is thinking all those years."

"Her Highness Yaochen is a very rational person with very calm emotions. She never talks nonsense and basically never talks to me about anything other than magic research."

"She dislikes formalities and rarely socializes, except for grand events that require her to travel, such as national festivals. But later on, Her Highness even stopped attending national festivals, and it was almost entirely Her Highness Yuechen who attended..."

"In the eyes of ordinary people, the Universal Light is the king of Leftgard, one of the kings who founded the kingdoms on land."

"But I feel like Her Highness doesn't seem to care about the title of 'King'."

"Or rather, she seems uninterested in anything... I heard from her knights that before I was chosen as Her Highness's assistant, besides studying magic, Her Highness's most common activity was simply staying at the top of the Universe Palace, day after day, year after year, silently gazing up at the starry sky above her head..."

"What happens after you're chosen as an assistant?"

Ye Yiyi suddenly spoke.

"I remember... it seems that it was because of me that you were chosen as an assistant by the Universal Light One, right?"

"Um……"

The girl nodded slightly, took off her glasses, closed her eyes and sighed softly.

"...After being chosen as my assistant, there wasn't really any noticeable difference. His Highness never mentioned it again after initially asking me about you..."

"Never talked about it?"