Chapter 587 - 370: Fang of Burning Steel, The Method to Enter the Ruins

Chapter 587: Chapter 370: Fang of Burning Steel, The Method to Enter the Ruins

"...Could you tell me a little more?"

A few days ago, Gang Sasi, representing Gang Long, purchased all the stockpiled thermal weapons from the Tri-Race Alliance within Yunlan Space.

Han Ning had thought they were taking these weapons to support the front lines, but with the sudden beast tide invasion today, it seemed the Steel Elephant People had other plans.

"Not just anyone can freely enter and exit the Relic of the Fallen God. To get inside, you must carry a special kind of pass."

Gang Sasi raised his hand, pointed to Steel Jade who had fainted and was now being carried by a group of Steel Elephant Beastmasters, and said,

"Her name is Steel Jade. She is the Saintess of this generation for our Burning Steel Divine Hall, and she bears the power of a Divine Spirit."

"A child bears the power of a Divine Spirit?" Han Ning asked in surprise.

In his understanding, the Burning Steel Mammoth was a Soul Beast. Shouldn’t its Divine Rank be passed down between Soul Beasts, like how the Old Water God passed his own Divine Rank to the new Water God? How could it be inherited by a member of another race?

"It was an act of desperation. According to the myths and legends of our Steel Elephant Race, the Divine Spirit suffered grievous injuries under extremely special circumstances and was on the brink of death. At that time, there was no other successor in the world capable of bearing Its power."

"Out of desperation, the ancestor of the Steel Elephants, who was the god’s Beast Master, used his own incomparably strong Spiritual Power to bind the god’s power, dispersing it into the bloodlines of his own clansmen."

"Even so, because the Divine Spirit’s power was too immense, the ancestor was only able to separate a quarter of the core of its Divine Power."

"The remaining Divine Power was still stored within the god’s body until It, along with the ancestor, completely perished in a battle against other Divine Spirits."

"Afterward, the Burning Steel Divine Hall was established to gather the Divine Power bit by bit and cultivate a new Deity. The Pope’s duty is to search the tribe for those with a strong divine bloodline. Step by step, the power within their blood is converged into a single clansman. Once the Divine Power is concentrated enough, it is transplanted into a Soul Beast on the verge of surpassing the Emperor Level."

"Generation after generation, the collected Divine Power has reached nearly a quarter of the original. The clansman who bears this Divine Power is the Saintess of our Steel Elephant Tribe’s Burning Steel Divine Hall."

"The Soul Beast designated to inherit the Divine Power is not His Holiness the Pope, but the king of the Steel Elephant Tribe, its strongest warrior. As of now, that would be Chieftain Gang Long."

"Now, the Relic of the Fallen God has been discovered. The Saintess, who bears the Divine Power, is the key to entering it. This beast tide invasion was planned to help the Saintess awaken the Divine Power within her."

Gang Sasi’s explanation immediately dispersed some of the fog clouding Han Ning’s mind. The "core of the Divine Power" Gang Sasi mentioned was what Yu Yang’s knowledge would probably consider a "Divine Weapon"—a special power that every Soul Beast who surpasses the Emperor level must possess.

The other Divine Spirits who killed the Steel Elephant ancestor and the Burning Steel Mammoth were most likely the Purple Crystal Race. They are the agents of the Immortals, intending to stabilize the world.

Connecting the dots like this, the logic suddenly clicked into place.

’But the Steel Elephant Race trying to cultivate a new Burning Steel Mammoth... that isn’t a good thing. The Purple Crystal World might look prosperous, but in Bobo Man’s words, it’s a world on the verge of decline, its Spiritual Energy content gradually weakening. If the Steel Elephant Race really managed to obtain the rest of the Divine Power and fuse it into an Emperor Level Soul Beast, it would probably put the Purple Crystal Race on alert. For me, someone who was just preparing to settle down in the Steel Elephant Race’s territory, this is an instant, massive headache.’

’Oh well, I’ll take it one step at a time. If things go south, I’ll just bolt,’ Han Ning calculated inwardly.

"These weapons of your Xia Race are quite powerful. I believe that with them, our Steel Elephant Race will soon be able to suppress that bunch of stinking pigs and successfully enter the relic."

Finally, Gang Sasi praised the effectiveness of the thermal weapons.

"I hope so," Han Ning agreed with a smile.

...

The conflict between the two tribes involved many different aspects.

Even with batch after batch of thermal weapons joining the battlefield, ending the war in a very short time was, in theory, unlikely.

Dean Wu was presiding over the production of the thermal weapons.

The Steel Elephant Race’s war was being planned by their own high-level leadership.

For a time, Han Ning had no pressing matters on his hands, so he threw himself wholeheartedly into training his Soul Beasts.

Huaimiao had inherited half of Wuzhiqi’s Divine Power, so its Talent was naturally beyond question. Normally, he just needed to provide it with plenty of combat opportunities to stimulate its battle instincts and let it practice releasing its Soul Techniques.

Of course, he also had to feed it far more food than other Soul Beasts of the same level to sustain its body’s massive consumption of Spiritual Energy.

For Han Ning, who had raised Grey for many years, this sort of situation was nothing new.

Give Huaimiao a sufficient supply, and it will break through naturally once it has accumulated enough energy.

This was the advantage of a high-Talent Soul Beast.

For now, Han Ning continued to focus his training on Yin Yi, Egg Pancake, the All-Encompassing Spiritual Silkworm, and Fei Lin.

The four little ones’ Talents had all reached B+, and as time passed, their on-paper strength grew closer and closer.

The threshold of Monarch IV and the mastery of Soul Force stood in their way.

Currently, Yin Yi and Egg Pancake had the deepest comprehension. Yin Yi’s strength had already reached Monarch IV. As long as she found a chance to enter the Sea of Death Stars to comprehend the principles of stellar birth and death, her probability of comprehending Soul Force would be extremely high. With that, she could break through to the Emperor level.