Volume 1 Flood 098, The Divine Spirit Smiles

  Moyun Goddess suddenly appeared in the Black Fire Swamp, Ahmon bowed and asked: "Goddess, are you waiting for me here?" It was the first time they met since escaping from the Underworld.

  "Don't call me goddess, my name is Yoon Na-na, have you forgotten?"

  Amon also changed his mind and stood up, saying: "Yin Nana, are you waiting for me here?"

  Yin Nanna smiled sweetly: "Amon, you really exceeded my expectations. When I sent people to the underworld to rescue you, I heard that you had already escaped on your own...... My hero, can you tell me how you did it?"

  Amun suddenly took out a scroll: "It was because of this thing that the gatekeeper of the underworld opened the way for me. At that time, I had two more scrolls, namely Information Oblivion and Space Turbulence, which were used up, and I barely escaped from the underworld."

  Yin Nanna's eyes widened in surprise as she stretched out a jade-like hand to cover her mouth: "You're going to destroy the legacy of Storm Nero? No wonder that coward didn't dare block your way. Your staff contains a spatial artifact made from the Wind Dancer, and you hid the scroll inside it to bring into the underworld? How clever!"

  Amun nodded and said: "That's right, this 'branch' is my staff. You saw it on the Yu Di River, and there is indeed a spatial artifact embedded in the divine stone inside."

  Yinanna reached out and took Ahmon's iron branch staff, stroking it with a slightly admiring tone: "What a wonderful staff, it must be the work of the most outstanding artifact master. It's actually made from the hide of a Mageran. The place where the divine stone is inlaid uses an intact mineral core to conceal it. If you're not careful, even a god might not notice."

  She stretched out her slender fingers to open the mechanisms on the staff one by one, revealing the Earth's Pupil, the Water Heart of the Dusky Orchid, the Wind's Enchanting Dance, and a corner of the Flame Spirit. She praised: "What a precious staff! For a magician, having such a staff is an astonishing stroke... Hmm, you seem to be a bit tense, could there be some secret in this staff that I don't know about?"

  Ah Mon couldn't help but feel a little tense at this moment, as this staff contained many of his secrets. He had managed to keep it hidden from others, but he couldn't hide it from Yin Nan Na. As long as he didn't use it, even the gods wouldn't notice, but Yin Nan Na had already seen him use this staff on the banks of the Yuandi River.

  Yin Nanna examined the play rod with an expression as if a grown-up was studying a child's toy, and after half a day of careful consideration, she finally discovered the mechanism at the top of the rod. With a light touch of her finger, she opened the recessed slot inlaid with the tears of the gods. It was empty inside, and the tears of the gods had been stored in the bone, which was now hidden under her ribs, just like the cat in the leather pouch. Even a god would not have discovered it if they hadn't searched her body directly.

  But the gods are indeed the gods, and Old Man Crazy once said that at least having both mid-tier body techniques and mid-tier divine techniques would be needed to open the most hidden recess on the staff. Yin Nanna's divine technique was naturally impressive, but she didn't look like a warrior at all, yet she easily opened this mechanism with a flick of her wrist. In front of Ah Mon, who had a keen eye for these things, she inadvertently revealed some secrets about being a god.

  Amun seemed lost in thought, and Yuna spoke up again, "This recess is both hidden and interesting. We've been together for so long and haven't discovered it yet. Is it prepared to inlay the tears of the gods? The ambition of the person who made this staff is not small at all." There was still information in the Earth's Pupil, Amun, can I take a look?

  Amun smiled wryly: "Do you have to look at it if I refuse? Besides, you've already seen it, why ask me?" The other party was a divine spirit, and when he discovered the information in the Earth's Pupil, it was equivalent to instantly reading the information inside. This is the wonder of high-level information magic.

  As he spoke, Amun muttered a word of luck under his breath. After becoming a great magician, he had already read the last message left by the old madman in the Eye of the Earth. The content of the old madman's message is as follows:

  "Child, this is the last message I leave for you. When you see it, you have already become a great magician. As long as you don't look for trouble, you can live a comfortable and carefree life, because you are already one of the strongest existences in the world."

  I too have gone through this process, but spent the second half of my life pondering the meaning of existence - what is the essential difference between me, a living being, and a stone on the ground or a dog outside the door? Perhaps the act of thinking itself is the meaning of existence, but the world remains the same, with the stars twinkling ceaselessly in their billions of years of birth and death.

  When you feel noble for being among the strongest on the continent, people will indeed give you a noble status, thus escaping the predicament of being a magician, which is what many people pursue in their lifetime. However, this is not our predicament, nor my pursuit, I am a magician for life.

  When you feel noble in the human world, you often forget how small you are under the starry sky. All lives will pass away, this is the great prophecy of the human world. This world does not truly need anyone, because everyone will be gone, including you and me. So what kind of existence is eternal?

  When I think, it seems as if the gods are laughing at me. When I no longer exist, does this world still exist for me, and what is the significance of the gods then? The sneering gods, whether they exist or not, whether they are idealistic or materialistic, have already died to me. But Ah Meng, you are still alive?

  I hope you can verify an answer, but I don't want you to be another Bell.

  As a great magician, you will possess unprecedented powerful powers that are infused in your body and mind as if they were born with you. But one day you may face a dilemma: is everything you have just you, and who else has the same thing? Why are you you, and would you lose yourself if you lost all of this?

  "This is my last hint for you, sorry I can no longer teach you more. Good luck, kid."

  Nietzsche's last message was a series of questions and thoughts, without mentioning any specific cultivation. After Amun read it, the information automatically disappeared. In the Earth's Pupil, only two permanent divine messages were left. The first one is the scene where Amun knelt in front of the old madman, and the second one is a line of Egyptian text written on the wall: "Amun, my name is Aike."

  Yin Nanna saw only these two pieces of information, and she smiled: "I accidentally caught a glimpse of your private matters, but I am your guardian deity, so it's nothing." Then she activated her staff, and a light shadow appeared in the swamp, which was exactly the scene where Amun knelt in front of the old madman.

  The goddess asked again, "This man is the longest-lived miner in Duketown and also a magician. You originally learned divine magic from him, and this staff was also forged by him, right?"

  Ammon said frankly: "Yes, you're right."

  Yin Nanna returned the staff to Amun. Amun restored all the opened mechanisms back to their original state with a wave of his hand. This unintentional action also somewhat exposed his secret, and Yin Nanna exclaimed in surprise: "The hidden mechanism on the top of this staff requires at least mid-tier body technique power to open or close it. I can tell that you are already a great magician. It's not uncommon for great warriors who have undergone a second awakening of their powers to learn divine magic, but for a great magician who has undergone a second awakening of their powers and then started from scratch to practice the arduous body technique and achieve mid-tier accomplishments... apart from Gilgamesh, I think you're the only one I've ever seen."

  This is a very natural misunderstanding, and it also reveals that many people are not clear about one thing. A great warrior, if successfully awakened through the second awakening of power, can cultivate auxiliary middle and low-level divine techniques, which everyone knows. However, a great divine technique master, in theory, can also perform the second awakening ceremony of power, and if he succeeds in awakening the power in his blood, he can also cultivate middle and low-level body techniques.

  But I've never heard of any great wizard doing that, the simplest reason being that wizards have already grasped magical powers beyond ordinary people's understanding, so there is no need or desire to do so. For example, if someone can easily and effortlessly control a thousand-pound object in flight, they naturally won't carry very little stuff and trudge along on foot until they're half dead from exhaustion, this is the natural transformation from ability to state of mind.

  There are many other reasons, such as the fact that in secular society, the status of a divine technique master is far more noble than that of an ordinary martial artist. Divine techniques do not need to cultivate physical techniques, nor do they deign to do so. Moreover, cultivating physical techniques is another kind of arduous test that requires using one's muscles and bones to withstand, otherwise it is impossible to make a breakthrough. Many great divine technique masters are already very old and hold esteemed positions, and it is not possible for them to start practicing from the most difficult low-level physical techniques, even if they were to practice and achieve something, their accomplishments would be limited.

  Mastering divine magic itself can exhaust a lifetime of energy, and even a great divine magician finds it difficult to master all the profound high-level divine magic. So no great divine magician will undergo a second awakening ceremony, wasting unnecessary energy starting from the most basic first-level body technique, let alone mastering high-level divine magic?

  After a long time, many people had a misunderstanding that the second awakening of power was only for warriors. However, today Inanna revealed Gilgamesh's unknown secret: this city lord is actually a great divine magician who has undergone the second awakening ceremony and started practicing martial arts from scratch, having already achieved mid-tier accomplishments through repeated trials.

  "Ah, what level of divine magic and martial arts does Gilgamesh possess?"

  Gilgamesh's cultivation realm is his private matter, usually not willing to be mentioned by others. However, Yin Nana casually told Amun: "He is a 9th-level Great Divine Technique Master and also has a 6th-level Body Technique achievement. You are also a Great Divine Technique Master and at the same time a 6th-level Warrior, right? You are much more lovely than him, that arrogant person doesn't even put gods in his eyes, unfortunately he is not a god after all."

  Ahmon remembered another person, Bel, a former student of the old madman who was also a 9th-level divine technique user. To explore the secrets of the gods, he re-cultivated his body from scratch and eventually became a 6th-level warrior. Unlike Gilgamesh, Bel did not undergo a second awakening through power, but instead directly re-cultivated both sides of his power.

  Ammon was thinking, and then heard Yinnana laughing and asking: "What are you thinking about?"