The Clockwork Monkeys waved their arms and gave the Abyssal Key a whack.
Then a light bulb lit up above all six monkeys’ heads.
The key then vanished without a trace.
Simulator alert.
[The Clockwork Monkeys have completed disassembly and parsing to obtain the hidden coordinates of the Black Abyss.]
[Anchorable world found: Black Abyss]
[Should we connect the world to the Tree of Silvanus?]
[Expected to consume 0 Faith Points]
Lu Yao finally officially connected the Black Abyss to the tree.
As this process was completed, a fourth ball of light was added to the tree. This ball of light was pitch-black in colour, with a faint white light emanating from its periphery, somewhat resembling a super-small eclipse.
Lu Yao clicked on [Black Abyss] and entered [Rule Repair].
The backstage of this mysterious world was finally opened.
……
[Black Abyss] – [Tree of Silvanus]
[Introduction]: A special world created by the God of Darkness with the Tree of Sylvanus to imprison captives and enemies.
[History]: Originally the roots of the Tree of Sylvanus were hollowed out by curse worms and formed a boundary dimension passageway that connected to the nests of curse worms in the Leap Zone.
The God of Darkness transformed it into a separate world, placing gods and various monsters to fight the spellworms in order to continue to gain the Flame of Faith.
……
There were three options on the ball of light in the black abyss, [Placement] [Extraction] [Faith Extraction].
The last one, Faith Extraction, was displayed in gold colour.
Lu Yao tried them one by one.
Projection and Extraction was to send some individuals into it or bring them out from it.
Lu Yao found an experimental target.
Sinner Hai Fold.
He was imprisoned in the special prison (Ghost Armour) underneath the Ghost Lighthouse in Salt City, and his ghost body was still serving his sentence.
It was still a prison sentence anyway, where not to sit.
Lu Yao dropped him with the ghost and the armour to the ground floor of the abyss.
He reckoned that there was a hundred people sized Clay Clan on the ground floor of the Abyss, and it shouldn’t be too harmful for Hai to fold a locked ghost over. At the same time this was also a small experiment to see if there would be any changes in the outside world when life entered the abyss.
Then Lu Yao brought out a clay villain called Border Bone.
Feasible.
Border Bone stood in a jungle with an exclamation mark lighting up above its head, “What is this place?”
Lu Yao put it back down to the ground floor.
There was no problem either.
A question mark appeared at the top of Border Bone’s head, “…… Looks like a dream.”
Lu Yao found that it was now possible to easily open up a passage into the Abyss, like a connection between other worlds.
He clicked [Faith Extraction] again.
The Sylvanus Tree began to tremble slightly, and the entire canopy shook uncontrollably as the dense leaves rustled.
[Faith Extraction in progress ……]
As the prompt appeared, the giant tree blossomed with a golden shimmering light, and a cluster of full-bodied flames grew on the branches as if they were tired fruits.
[This extraction is complete, collecting a total of 16,431,804 points of faith.]]
Lu Yao used the mouse to count against it verbatim.
Individual ten million ……
16.43 million flames of faith.
After experiencing the initial millions of Faith income, Lu Yao had still seen big scenes and was calm.
At this moment, what he was thinking was that he finally had the chance to open the throttle and race!
This massive amount of faith was instantly integrated into the upper right corner. Now Lu Yao’s faith reserves came to 20.78 million, entering the ranks of gods with ten million faith assets.
He suddenly reacted.
It turned out that this was the true usage of the Black Abyss.
This world, because of the imprisonment of many gods and spellworms hedging their bets, was able to constantly generate the fire of faith. Regardless of whether it was the God of Darkness or the later God of the Forest, it was possible to extract the power of faith on a regular basis.
It was just unknown whether this extraction was a hard draw directly from the Gods and Curse Worms, or whether it was sucked away with a soft knife using some other mechanism.
Lu Yao checked up on the Black Abyss’s backstage words.
……
[Faith Extraction]: Through the roots of the Sylvanus Tree, it collects the Flame of Faith that escapes from the [Black Abyss], fixes and gathers it, and extracts it through the crown of the tree. The longer the collection time, the better the extraction effect.
……
I see, it’s the extraction of the fugitive faith from the abyss.
Lu Yao had some understanding of this point.
He had bombarded the idols with miracles in several previous divine battles. The old sites of the God Wars were often infested with all sorts of animals, and they grew fast there, occasionally giving birth to some transcendent species.
Pixel villains also made pilgrimages based on this, and by observing and comprehending the relics of divine wars, they could grow to different degrees.
The source of all this is the power of faith.
The fire of faith itself could not be touched by non-divine groups, but once faith was transformed into a miracle by the gods, it became visualised and intuitive. Ordinary villains would be able to feel it, and would even imitate and try to understand transcendent powers.
Lu Yao couldn’t help but think again.
Why didn’t the God of Darkness just extract all the Flames of Faith?
According to reason, it was much safer to leave it in the bag.
He hadn’t done so and was deliberately building and growing the Abyss, constantly stuffing the Gods into it, thinking that this would yield higher returns.
Lu Yao suddenly realised that he had overlooked the Curse Worms.
Curse Worm groups could be seen as best*alised forms of gods, and they were also capable of storing Flames of Faith. Obviously the focus of [Faith Extraction] was on the Spell Worms.
Since the abyss was connected to the spellworm nests, the spellworms would hunt each other along with the gods and other captives, and the spellworms’ Flame of Faith would continue to overflow with the battles and be collected by the Tree of Sylvanus.
The Black Abyss was a huge deposit with which the Dark Gods purchased a risky spellworm fund by constantly adding to it, thus constantly generating ongoing returns.
It was a long term investment in the Flame of Faith.
Lu Yao lamented that ginger was still old and hot.
People’s old players could sit back and collect tens of millions of Flames of Faith just by messing with an Abyss.
A Lord God is a Lord God, and he does nothing but eat and drink all day long!
What are you doing? What’s the point of playing with your life?
It’s not like the gods, who either keep developing their civilisations to increase their population, or fight in a war against the gods, winning and losing.
Previously, Lu Yao had positioned this place as a super duplicate because he had too little information, which led to his misunderstanding.
He decided to view the current state of the Abyss in detail.
Visually, the Abyss had turned into a trapezoidal structure similar to nine floors, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom.
The topmost layer was still the same as before, with the ghouls occasionally appearing and mostly lying around.
Without Count Fading and the Ghoul Hunters to drive them, they were much less aggressive, and didn’t even look at the Clay Ones that snailed around at the other end of the large birdcage.
The second level was still the water world, and it was dead silent. The deep pit on the centre island that once housed the Wishing Star, underneath which was the passageway into the third level.
For some reason, the passage between the second and third floors was not sealed.
Lu Yao looked downwards.
The scene on the third level was very peculiar, littered with translucent green bubbles. These bubbles were huddled together, pushing and shoving each other, constantly devouring each other and reproducing new individuals from their bodies, and each of them seemed to have activity and autonomous consciousness.
……
[Grid Limb LV2]
Life Value: 2/2
Mana: 1/1
Damage: 1
Defence: 0
Speed: 2
……
They have another ability in addition to having the self-contained [Overeating] trait.
……
[Split]: They split themselves into new individuals.
……
The cell-like vesicle-like lattice limbs filled almost the entire third layer, giving the place a layer of colour that looked fantastic at first and bizarre at second.
And in a zone with fewer gristle limbs, a fight was going on.
A large brownish-yellow Silt Monster was clashing with a grey Monster Insect, with [Battle in Progress] displayed above its head.
Lu Yao clicked to enter the battle screen.
The monster worm was like an upright, legless jellyfish with a grey body. It had a pair of grey arms on its upper body, while its head was covered in thick black messy hair, and its mouth spat out a long, curved scarlet tongue that dragged all the way down to the ground under its abdomen.
The top of its head displayed: [Spell Bug LV95] Parasite Bug.
The other sludge monster, with a twisted and constantly melting body, had no other five senses in its head area, only a pair of round blue eyes that stared like copper bells.
The name appeared on its brain: [Earth Alien Demon LV87] Lord of the Star Ocean – Borderer.
Both sides were going back and forth, and on the scene, the Lord of the Star Ocean was in a disadvantageous position, with its residual blood count much lower than that of the Parasite.
Lu Yao looked a little puzzled.
This was the Star Sea God that should have fallen? How did He come back to life?
It looked like He was seeking revenge on the Host Worm.
Lu Yao felt that after taking the Star Sea God’s gift, it was necessary to help him out.
