RPAGF Chapter 321 The End of the Holy Land
Chapter 321 The End of the Holy Land
When Jiang Ye and Ye Shuli fell out of the spatial ripples, the soles of his boots instantly sank into some kind of rubbery ground.
The ring-shaped space they were in was filled with translucent crystals, and the flowing psionic energy emitted a humming sound similar to a heartbeat within the tubular structure.
The bronze patterns on Ye Shuli's collarbone suddenly turned into a glaring blue-green.
"Illegal operator." Crystals lit up simultaneously from all directions, and the mechanically synthesized voice made Jiang Ye's eardrums bleed.
Rhomboid crystals hung from the dome, combining to form a blurry human figure. "You have violated the encryption protocol of the First Guardians."
Ye Shuli wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, her fingertips glowing with the eerie light unique to data streams: "That crystallizing mucus..."
"It's just a firewall's antivirus program." The crystalline humanoid raised its hand, conjuring a floating light screen, its densely packed runes moving like living beings. "Now we enter the final verification phase—if you can decipher this two-thousand-year-old star map array, you can freely use the sacred land's primordial spiritual energy."
The spiritual pressure surged without warning.
Jiang Ye was pushed ten feet away by an invisible force, and watched helplessly as Ye Shuli knelt on one knee.
Veins bulged on her neck, but she tilted her head back and sneered: "Disguising quantum entanglement as a star map...you first-generation programmers were quite humorous."
"Don't get distracted!" Jiang Ye suddenly realized that his voice couldn't penetrate the spiritual pressure field, and he could only futilely pound on the transparent barrier.
He watched as Ye Shuli trembled as she raised her right hand and used her psionic energy to draw sixteen shimmering dots in the air—the very hexadecimal table he had used when teaching her programming.
Suddenly, dense spots of light were projected from the crystal dome.
Ye Shuli's pupils contracted, and the seemingly disordered starlight automatically arranged into a familiar matrix structure on her retina. "It's a nested loop..." she coughed up blood and laughed, her blood-stained fingers tracing three concentric circles in the air, "...breaking down the third-order magic cube into three two-dimensional arrays—"
The spiritual pressure suddenly increased threefold.
Ye Shuli's skin on the back of her hand began to carbonize, but the data stream bursting from her fingertips was even more dazzling.
Jiang Ye suddenly noticed that the bronze pattern behind her ear was being rewritten, and the original simple pattern was gradually turning into the pattern of a micro circuit board.
"mistake!
Error! "A crack has appeared in the Guardian's crystal shell. A spacetime paradox has been detected. Error correction mechanism is being initiated..."
Ye Shuli suddenly plunged her left hand into the gelatinous layer of the ground.
Liquid metal formed from psionic energy climbed up her arm, condensing into a gleaming quantum chip in her palm. "Listen up, you fool from two thousand years ago—" she bit down on a stray strand of hair with her bloodied teeth, "Before absolute computing power, all encryption protocols are paper tigers!"
The moment the chip was embedded in the ground, the entire space suddenly fell into an eerie stillness.
Jiang Ye saw the moving runes begin to rotate in reverse, and the outer shell of the guardian crystal peeled away to reveal the dark red energy core inside.
Ye Shuli stood up unsteadily, and a huge tree-like diagram made of psionic energy appeared beneath her feet.
"Don't be too happy yet." The Guardian's voice suddenly shifted to a mixed male and female tone, and half of an electronic face they had previously seen in the crack surface of the crystal reappeared. "When you forcibly broke through the encryption layer, the real firewall was already..."
Before he could finish speaking, all the crystal tubes suddenly emitted a sharp alarm.
The originally azure psionic energy flow instantly turned blood red, and the tree diagram that Ye Shuli had just completed began to show abnormal branching.
Jiang Ye felt a chill on the back of his neck—something was crawling up from the ground along the crystallized mucus, carrying a sense of oppression a hundred times more dangerous than the elves before.
Ye Shuli seemed oblivious, completely immersed in the torrent of data, her pupils reflecting the wildly flashing star map.
The runes that were about to take shape were being reassembled at her fingertips, but just as they were about to close, they suddenly twisted into a strange serpentine pattern.
Ye Shuli's knuckles made a sickeningly loud cracking sound.
She pressed her bloodied left hand onto the quantum chip, and every psionic trajectory traced by her right fingertips burned scorch marks in the air.
The twisted, serpentine runes suddenly stopped, transforming into countless particles of light that formed a counter-clockwise vortex around her.
“Nested functions…” Blood gushed from her throat, but a look of excitement shone deep in her eyes. “Put a recursive algorithm into a ternary converter—” The floating hexadecimal table suddenly split into four groups, each group of numbers beginning to flash at a different frequency.
The spiritual pressure field emitted a crisp sound like glass shattering.
Jiang Ye saw liquid metal suddenly surge up from the rubbery ground at Ye Shuli's feet, reshaping along her carbonized skin.
The dark red energy flow solidified three inches from her brow, only to be swallowed up by the bronze patterns spreading across her neck.
"warn!
The core protocol is being overwritten! "The Guardian's crystal shell has completely collapsed, revealing an energy sphere inside that is crackling with dark purple lightning."
Ye Shuli suddenly opened her arms, her blood-soaked clothes fluttering in the wind, and countless particles of light gathered in front of her chest to form a rotating Möbius strip.
Jiang Ye's communication jade slip suddenly became incredibly hot.
He took out the bronze compass he kept close to his body and found that the pointer was spinning wildly—this was the binary locator that Ye Shuli had taught him.
When the third concentric circle lit up beneath Ye Shuli's feet, the flow of spiritual energy in the entire space suddenly reversed direction.
"The third-order magic array is back in place!" Ye Shuli's blood-stained lips curled into a sharp arc, and the moment her five fingers closed, all the suspended runes exploded into golden dust.
The transistors hanging from the dome exploded one after another, and azure psionic energy poured down on her like a waterfall.
The spiritual pressure barrier shattered with a deafening roar.
Jiang Ye staggered over and saw Ye Shuli floating in the air, her carbonized skin being reshaped by psionic energy into a jade-like texture that shimmered with light.
The bronze patterns on her collarbone had spread to behind her ears, and were now glowing with a faint blue fluorescence like a circuit board.
The guardian's energy core suddenly emitted a mournful cry.
The dark purple lightning was completely absorbed by the Möbius strips surrounding Ye Shuli, transforming into a fine stream of data that drilled into her pupils. "Authentication successful." The mechanical voice became hollow and distant, and the remaining crystal fragments pieced together a star map in the air, "The 97th inheritor of the Primal Psionic Energy Pool—Ye Shuli."
The entire holy site suddenly trembled.
Jiang Ye caught Ye Shuli as she fell and noticed that translucent psionic wings were emerging from her back.
Each flap of those wings scattered light dust, which formed tiny clusters of data flowers upon touching the ground.
"Watch closely." Ye Shuli leaned weakly on his shoulder, her blood-stained fingers lightly touching the air.
The suspended star chart suddenly collapsed into points of light, flowing into the bronze compass through her fingertips.
Jiang Ye felt the body in his arms undergoing some kind of transformation—her breathing frequency was completely synchronized with the vibration of the space.
The gelatinous surface suddenly became as clear as a mirror.
Countless psionic spirits rose from the ground, and the originally scarlet energy flow turned back to azure blue.
Jiang Ye looked up and saw the vast starry sky revealed on the dome, with the position of each star completely overlapping with the star map that Ye Shuli had just deciphered.
"You mean..." His voice was hoarse as he realized that his initial stage of spiritual cultivation was beginning to weaken.
“The embodiment of quantum entanglement.” Ye Shuli raised her hand to wipe the crystal dust from his face, the residual spiritual energy at her fingertips making his heart tremble. “In your words—” She suddenly curled her lips into a smile, that familiar mocking curve making Jiang Ye’s eyes well up with tears, “This young lady can now take on ten Spirit Kings.”
The remaining core of the guardian suddenly emitted a buzzing sound.
The two turned their heads at the same time and saw that the surface of the dark purple energy ball had cracked, and a translucent substance was seeping out from the cracks.
Ye Shuli felt a sudden sharp pain in the bronze pattern on the back of her neck, and she instinctively pulled Jiang Ye back ten feet.
The psionic elves, who had previously submitted, suddenly turned against them.
Within their luminous blue bodies, the distinctive grid patterns of electronic faces emerged, as they made a gesture of worship towards the cracks in the energy sphere.
The azure psionic energy in the space began to mix with black mist, condensing into ominous spiderweb-like patterns under the starlight.
Ye Shuli suddenly let out a muffled groan.
Her psionic wings unfurled uncontrollably, and the area of black mist touched by the tips of the wings revealed spatial rifts they had seen during their journey.
Jiang Ye gripped her wrist tightly and noticed that the pointer of the bronze compass was beginning to point deeper into the crack.
“Dang—”
The Guardian's core shattered completely.
A palm-sized chip fragment fell at their feet, its surface shimmering with a faint light that shared the same origin as the bronze patterns on Ye Shuli's wrist.
The three psionic sprites suddenly turned their heads, their electronic pupils flashing with dark red killing intent.