The Eight Views Palace is the old man's residence, and since he moved to the relevant ministry, it has been vacant for a long time and has become the residence of Xianyun and Wild Crane. Lush fairy (weed) grass covers the antique hall, and the fragrance wafts out from it.

"They're barbecuing Zhao Mai. The Queen of Blades pursed her lips and snorted, "Sokka, take off all the communication tools from you." There is a magic circle in the main hall, which can destroy all kinds of items. You can put them on the stone platform over there and take them with you when you leave. ”

Soka did as he was told, and walked inside. The ground underfoot was made of a rather heavy and smooth stone, and the pillars that supported the house were made of the same material, without an inch of wood on all sides. In the center of the main hall, in the sunken area of the ground, an alchemy furnace that looks like gold and jade is emitting infinite heat, and the old man is holding a gourd in his hand, throwing out some flames from time to time, constantly heating it.

Iluvita was also here, fanning the cool breeze with his hands and lifting his sleeves to wipe the sweat from his forehead. "Come here, Sokka, don't get too close, watch your wings catch up in a flash. ”

The old man glanced at Soka, nodded slightly at her, and continued to release flames from the gourd. There was a sizzling sound in the stove, like the effect of meat burning oil on an iron plate and then twitching and shaking on the oil. "Zhao Mai, how do you feel in the furnace?"

"It's so hot, it's so hot inside!"

"Don't mess around, how do you feel?" the old man pulled out a long sword from his sleeve and struck it three times on the stove, and the sword melted into molten iron and then evaporated. "I can't say you're messing around, it's really hot......"

"No, no, I was wrong just now, but now it's so cool and comfortable!" Zhao Mai's dull voice came from the stove.

"Do you have to memorize the lines to have fun?!" the old man sighed vigorously, and then snorted: "If you feel cool and comfortable, then I will really use the fire of alchemy! Anyway, you can't die, you can always use it for alchemy." It's like cutting leeks, one stubble after another, which is much easier than me trying to grow fairy grass. I really want to know what kind of pill I can refine you into, just take it as your reward after eating my Nine Turns Golden Pill!"

"Wait!Don't!" There was a loud "bell!" from inside the alchemy furnace, and the whole furnace shook. Then Zhao Mai shouted: "Oh, I didn't notice my head for a while." Teacher, don't refine me into an elixir, don't dare to guarantee anything else, you will definitely have diarrhea if you eat it! And teacher, your nine-turn golden pill is a snack like jelly beans, I am a detached level guy, I can't be equated. I've made meritorious service to the world, I've shed blood for the living, I've been wounded on the battlefield, you can't just turn me into a big pill!"

"It seems that there should be no problem, at least this brain is still normal - by Zhao Mai's standards. Iluvita looked left and right, and there was no furniture in the hall except for the alchemy furnace. He had no choice but to beckon Soka to sit on the ground, where the ground sank and led to the alchemy furnace in the shape of steps.

"Zhao Mai, Soka is already here, you pay attention to your image, after all, there is a lady present now. The old man added another fire to the stove and sat down by Iluvita. He stroked his beard and took out a few long iron skewers from his large, wide sleeves, along with slices of mushrooms that exuded fairy energy, and distributed them to the other three people. So, a few people stretched out their arms, accompanied by the aroma of burning Zhao Mai, and used the heat wave here to bake mushroom skewers - finally suppressed the gluttonous worms in their stomachs.

Zhao Mai was in the alchemy furnace, and most of his senses were blocked except for sound. He first asked if it was a secrecy here, and then he said, "I'm sorry to tell you some bad news! ”

In fact, the angel has already been mentally prepared for this news, after all, according to Zhao Mai's character, if he wins, he will definitely go to the alliance headquarters with great fanfare, brag, and swagger to boast, and take away some delicious food or fun by the way. When the Queen of Blades appeared and called herself away, and did not call away Xiaohua at the same time, Soka already had a premonition. "Are you alright?" she asked.

"It's not a big deal. I'm healing in this alchemy furnace now, but this injury wasn't inflicted by the Shadow Dragon, it was made by myself. I found the shadow dragon invincible, so I bluffed it with a trick to make it think that I could also resist the Hindrance. It fears that I will snatch control of Naegus after my change, so it will go on the defensive for a certain period of time. I don't know how long I could fool it, but at least my Z-bug watched it wander around the borderline. The Queen of Blades will keep an eye on it. ”

"Is the Shadow Dragon so powerful? Why do you say it's impossible to defeat it? If you add the power of the Ring Alliance, and ask the old man for help, wouldn't it be hopeless?"

"Can you destroy the old man in the old man's place? impossible......" Zhao Mai's analogy made the old man frown, tugged at his beard, and waved his hand. "The reason is simple: the shadow dragon somehow did it, and it also became a detachment. Of course, unlike the teacher, it does not rely on the power of the source for detachment, but on the Naykosi, or the black spectrum. I seized an opportunity to rush into the interior of the Shadow Dragon and attack in a way that departed from the black spectrum, and I discovered this. The reason why the dragon always recovers is because of the power given to it by the black spectrum. Essentially, after combining the ending rules of Nacous, it is already dead and can no longer die, so how can it be destroyed?"

"If the direction of death does not work, what about the direction of death, and is it possible to restore it back to living beings?" said the old man slowly.

"I've thought about that too. Teacher, add a fire first, I'm starting to get cold again. Zhao Mai banged his head against the Dan furnace, and waited for the temperature to go up before he said: "Let the time go back, this kind of operation needs to control the origin power, and for that dragon, it is necessary to control the black spectrum." But the point is, every world has a black spectrum, which one is his? And, even if it is found, how can we go back to the black spectrum? This is a completely new field, and we have no theoretical basis at all. The shadow dragon had become a transcendent, wielding the power of the Black Spectrum. It's almost like trying to defeat a teacher on earth, it's completely impossible. ”

"It's not impossible. If the Earth's Origin Power is damaged, I will lose the ability to go back, and I will only be an ordinary transcendent. The old man said modestly. But after thinking about it, Soka and Iluvita were afraid that they would not be able to understand his modesty like Zhao Mai, and it might cause a miscalculation, so he changed his words and said, "No, that's sending death, this road doesn't work." ”

"Maybe it's still possible. Soka pulled out a few pages, and that was the Ring Alliance's research into the Shadow Dragon's origins. "I guess the shadow dragon couldn't have imagined that near the alliance headquarters, all events would be recorded. Although this can't stop Zhao Mai from walking around, as long as he knows the result, he can always trace forward. After a lot of data calculations, this is a possible ...... of the Shadow Dragon"

The angel stopped talking, his eyes sweeping over the old man and Iluvita. There's no doubt that the old man is a detached, but why does Iluvita have a similar temperament, and does he also become a detached? What she is going to say next has to do with the detached, and may even change the relationship between the Ring Alliance and the detached forever. If it weren't really a life-and-death situation, she would never have said it.

"The Coalition has a way of finding out when and where the Transcendent was detached, provided that he comes to the Coalition headquarters as a Detached. Soka finally said, "Theoretically, it is possible to destroy the ...... of the transcendents by interfering with the methods of the past."

"Don't talk about it, using time travel to erase a person's efforts is a scoundrel. Iluvita waved her hand sharply and said angrily. "This is not what you promised to the transcendents!

"It's not like the Ring Alliance is trying to hide it, it's my problem. There are only two people in the entire league who know about it right now, me and Norton. "Such calculations will only work if one person comes within the control of Device Zero, that is, near the Alliance headquarters," Sokka said. Researchers at Alliance HQ don't know what's going on with the algorithms they're using, or what's hidden behind the results. ”

"What is hidden in that?" Zhao Mai pushed open the door of the alchemy furnace from the inside out, sticking his head out. A stream of red, blue, and purple flames rose into the sky, directly burning a hole in the ceiling of the main hall. The old man hurriedly pinched a trick, and Zhao Mai quickly put his head back and closed the door. "I'm sorry!" he said.

The old man collected all the fires into the gourd, repaired the roof with a retrospective method, and then said, "All right, now you can come out." Why are you still reckless after so many years. ”

Zhao Mai, who was hairless all over his body and still exuded a burnt crisp fragrance, walked out of the Dan furnace, and the Queen of Blades immediately blocked Soka's eyes until Zhao Mai quickly completed the action of molting and changing clothes. He conjured up a mirror and looked at his face, and said with some disappointment, "Why didn't you become a fiery eye?"

"It would take seven hundred and forty-nine days in the furnace, and you'd have to be a monkey, don't think about it!" the old man looked up and down, and then asked, "How is it, is it all right?"

"It's all right, it's all right. Zhao Mai scratched his neck and moved his body: "This time is really dangerous, I almost turned myself into a Nays. Fortunately, I broke it early, lost a pair of hands, and then relied on the help of the two of you to re-temper my body, and I recovered. But now that I think about it, if I continued to transform at that time, I guess I wouldn't be able to turn into a full Nakuth state, and I would definitely be stuck at the last moment - unless the dragon completely died out and gave up the position of the only Nagus detachment. ”

Iluvita nodded and said, "Fortunately, you made a quick decision, and the timing was just right. The shadow dragon thought you could be like it...... Alas, I just don't know how long I can deviate from it. ”

"Actually, I didn't think about it that much. At that time, the battle consumption was too great, and I kept taking out blue crystals from the mental space to eat, and I almost ate a medium sun. Keep fighting, in fact, the result is the same: I eat the whole universe, or the black spectrum will make everything die. Zhao Mai shook his head: "If that's the case, I'd rather not fight, it's better to hurry up and live with my family for a few more days." I'm not a detachment anyway, and I'm sure I'll make it to the last moment of the multiverse. ”

"Don't say that, even if it is a catastrophe of heaven and earth, there is always a solution, and there is no perfect thing in this world. The old man returned the stack of papers to Soka: "Angel, now is not the time to worry about the Ring Alliance's concealment of the killer feature, how about you first tell me what the roots of this shadow dragon are?"

"Wait a minute, I need to do the math. Soka took back the stack of papers and put them together a very complicated equation. Zhao Mai saw that she had difficulty in mental arithmetic, so he conjured a box of chalk for her and asked her to write on the stone floor. She was deciphering it, deciphering the results of Device Zero's calculations in a way that only she knew.

The roots of the detached person are the most critical steps in the process of detachment. Every detached person always needs to "do something right" in order to be able to accumulate step by step, from quantitative change to qualitative change. Under certain conditions, at a specific time and place, the One One finally ignites the spark of wisdom and produces the idea of "right and critical", thus giving him the conditions to become a detached person, which is the root. After that, all that is needed is accumulation and waiting, and finding the right Source Power and Transcendent Throne.

The "root foot" is related to a specific external stimulus, but more importantly, you have found the right path. For Zhao Mai, the root foot is the moment when he synthesizes all kinds of knowledge, generates the idea of creating Z worm source matter, and provides a spark of wisdom for any origin power of the entire multiverse. With the sole purpose of acquiring knowledge and enriching its own rules, the Origin Force uses its ability to manipulate time and fate to protect these important "roots". No detached person, including himself, can parse it. It's remarkable that the Ring Alliance can rely on Device Zero to calculate these heels.

Soka was calculating on the ground, but instead of paying attention to the mysterious formulas, they were exchanging glances with each other. Between Zhao Mai, the Queen of Blades, the old man, and Iluvita, there is a secret communication through mind and brain. Zhao Mai looked eager to try, the Queen of Blades' face was as calm as water, the old man shook his head vigorously and pressed his sigh back into his chest, and Iluvita was extremely serious, her face cold as ice.

"Sorry, this is not the way to go. Soka finally finished his calculations and got up from the ground, "The roots of the shadow dragon are too long ago, and the Nexus Alliance has not yet appeared, and even more so before you and a few of you have escaped. The Sanctuary of Nagkos exterminated all the transcendents in order to prevent any transcendents from getting ahead of his roots. ”

Zhao Mai made an expression that he didn't quite understand, and the old man said: "Time travel needs to rely on the power of the origin, and the power of the origin must be controlled by the transcendent, so travel requires the consent of the transcendent, you should know this." In fact, there are other limitations, such as the fact that the detached person cannot teleport things to before their detached. At the moment, there are only two transcendents left in front of you in front of you in the entire multiverse, and the Ring Alliance can't send things back to before they were born. Therefore, the shadow dragon protected its roots, and no one could reach that time and place. ”

"Uh, what time and place is that?" Zhao Mai asked for the result from Soka, and after looking at it, his mouth opened wide in surprise: "So ancient! This dragon is too stupid, it took so long to become a shadow dragon?"

"Unless you go back in time – and that's simply not possible – no one knows. Soka sighed and said, "This road doesn't work, so what next?"

"I have a solution. Zhao Mai blinked his eyes and said in the old man's sigh, "Let's make a multiverse chain boat!" ”