Ian? Are you alright?"

Inside the Ice Dragon's Lair, next to the Dragon's Lair.

Next to the huge dark gold dragon's body, due to the high heat generated by the previous battle, the dark ice that has been all over the dragon's nest for thousands of years is slowly melting.

With the dragon's body as the center, a semi-circular dome appeared, and the almost boiling heat was like a waterfall, beating the surrounding area into clouds.

Whether it is the cold air of the dragon's lair or the high radiant heat next to the dark gold dragon, it is difficult for ordinary people to get close, but the two seriously injured sublimators still rushed into the misty area, trying their best to rescue a person from the dragon's belly.

"What about it...... It's fine."

Pulled out of the flesh of the dragon's body like a radish by his friend, the blood stains on Ian's body were quickly washed away by the continuous dripping hot water, although the whole person couldn't move, he still smiled easily at the two worried friends, "Look, I'm still alive, it's really unexpected good news."

"Your body is in tatters!"

Theo pointed this out mercilessly, poking the wound on the young man's left arm that had not yet healed hard: "What potion is needed? Don't take it personally, although we have killed this big guy, we still have things to do!"

"yes." Ethan sighed, he lifted Ian's head from the gradually deepening water, and then took out a few potions from his arms to replenish his strength and essentia, ready to pour them into Ian's mouth: "If nothing else, there is already a fight outside the ruins, and the ruins are ...... inside I'm afraid that there are also a few powerhouses of the fourth energy level. "When you fought this true dragon just now, the entire subspace labyrinth shook for a moment, and it must have been the aftermath of Speaker Yaphda fighting with some strong man.

"Indeed." Drinking the potion, the exhausted Ian shook the shake to support his body, he sat cross-legged in the boiling water, slowly recovering his strength: "Speaker Jafoda is probably fighting with Goran and the Campany Ancestor in her body right now...... We're not here to rest yet."

"You also take a little potion to recover your strength, and we will have a lot to do in the future, trying to recover to the best possible.

With that, Ian motioned for the two to sit down as well, and he smiled calmly, "And while you're recovering, I'll tell you about the situation and who I really am."

「…… As long as you think you can, of course I want to know." Ethan and Theo glanced at each other, the blonde boy sighed, and the real dragon asked with great interest, "I'm really curious—Ian, you can actually fight back and forth with the fourth level of the true dragon!"

"Even if this true dragon looks badly injured, it shouldn't be something that an ordinary third level can fight against!" "That's because I'm not a normal third level, of course.

Moving his left arm, Ian showed it to the two of them, "Look, the living aether hearth, I call him the aether crystal, the sublimation organ of the fourth level."

Saying this, on the light golden crystal arm, the pale silver Mithril pattern gradually turned blazing white, which is a manifestation of the Mithril pattern running at full power, and the essentia fluctuations visible to the naked eye continue to diffuse heat in all directions, instantly transpiring the surrounding rain that was originally close to the boiling temperature into mist.

But even though they were obscured by the clouds, Theo and Ethan could still see the light streaks shining behind the fog in shock. "No wonder!"

Theo exclaimed, "You actually have a fourth-level essentia heart...... No wonder your endurance is so strong, even a third-level true dragon doesn't have this ability, but you are even stronger than a true dragon, there must be an additional essena source. "But I didn't expect that you actually have a fourth-level living ether furnace!"

"Actually?!"

And Ethan couldn't calm down, although the boy had long known that Ian's left hand was extraordinary, and it was probably some kind of dragon blood organ...... But he didn't know that the arm was actually the 'Bio Aether Furnace,'.

"The reason why our Eren family's etheric armament, 'Gloom', has not reached perfection for a long time is precisely because it has no separate source of energy and needs to be supplied by us sublimators......

Ethan muttered, "Although the enhancement of the colonization suit can allow those of us who hold the blood of the Eclipse Light Refining Dragon to burst out with several times more power in a short period of time...... But the energy consumption is also several times.

"It's all because we don't have the technology to master the Dragon's Heart Core and the Bio-Aether Furnace...... That's why the Ellen family has always wanted ......."

Ethan didn't finish the rest of the story, but everyone knew that the Eren family had always wanted to capture a true dragon to study and improve their legacy.

But now, Ian appeared in front of Ethan with the most critical technology.

"Actually."

Ian was a little embarrassed and pointed to his chest - because of the battle, the boy was now only wearing a pitch-black dragon skin vest on his upper body.

But just behind the dragon skin vest, a round of golden-red light was slowly lit up: "Actually, I also have a dragon heart core."

At this time, not only Ethan was stunned, but even Theo on the side was stunned.

"What?!" ＊2

The dragon girl and the boy shouted in unison, one of them was shocked, the other was incredible, and in general they were very much like passers-by in the knights.

But in the face of the dragon's heart core, how many people in this world can not be shocked?

Ethan and Theo both knew that at this time, Ian would never deceive them, not to mention, the surging dragon breath and the power that was strong enough to shake the crust of the mountains were enough to prove that Ian's body did indeed have the heart core of an earth-based true dragon.

...... of the fifth energy level Heart nucleus!

No wonder Ian, you can beat that dragon! Oh my God, my mother hasn't condensed the heart core of the fifth energy level!"

Theo stood up excitedly, and after walking back and forth several times to relieve the shock in her heart, she sat back down and said to the white-haired boy cautiously, "You don't know what this means, do you?"

"What does this mean...... As soon as you reach the peak of the fourth energy level, you can try to break through the fifth energy level!" "Huh?"

This sentence made Ian also stunned: "What is this statement?"

"The fifth level is not promoted by potions."

Holding back the astonishment and surprise in his heart, Ethan took a deep breath and slowly explained to Ian, "The limit of potions is the fourth energy level...... If you want to break through the fifth energy level, what you need is to obtain the key power of the fifth energy level through various means.

"The nucleus of the heart represents the source of energy, the phase neural network that represents psionic energy and reflexes, and the spinal cord that represents volitional perception...... There are many others, such as the system of authority that represents destructive power, the immortal bone that represents life force, and the crystal soul that represents computing power......

"These abilities, as long as you get one, the sublimator at the peak of the fourth energy level, you can use this to break through to the fifth energy level,."

Speaking of this, Ethan also slowly calmed down, he pointed to Ian's heart, and said seriously, "As long as you make up three, you can call yourself the fifth energy level perfect. But it's still not the 'top seat,'

"The so-called top seat is the 'fifth-level inheritance' that can pass on at least two fifth-level sublimation organs to the next generation!

"For example, our Eren family, even if we are lucky, we got the material of the fifth-level demonic beast, turned it into our own, and had a fifth-level ...... That's only temporary."

"As long as our technology does not reach the level of inheritors who can pass on the power of the fifth energy level to the next generation, we are just a temporary nouveau riche and cannot be called a top seat!"

"Even if you can inherit one, it will be regarded as a "great force in the future, the reserve."

The blonde boy said seriously, "That's what you have now, Ian.

"I don't know, though, how did the First Knight pass on his Dragon Heart Core to you...... But now, you have a ticket to the fifth level!"

"Moreover, you already have the 'Power Heart,...... of the fourth energy level" Speaking of this, Ethan couldn't help but get excited again, and began to stand up like Theo on the side, and walked around Ian to make a two-of-one transition: "This means that you have become a fourth energy level

There will be less time than we think!"

"Oh my God, my God...... In this way, as long as you become the fourth energy level and then cultivate to the peak, you can break through to the fifth energy level without any bottlenecks...... How old were you then? Maybe it's less than thirty? At most in your early thirties, right? The first knight is not so fast, Huaiguang is on the ......,

Isengard looked like he almost fainted, and he was clearly shocked by the possibility: "You have gathered all the materials that are most important to the sublimator so early......

"That's the case...... I thought it would save me a lot of trouble, but now it seems that ...... It's not just a little bit."

Suddenly, Ian lowered his head, looked at the light flashing on his chest, and showed a faint smile: "Teacher...... You've really helped me a lot.

After a moment of silence, the young man raised his head: "Speaking of which, I think it is necessary to tell you how the teacher handed over the ancient dragon's heart core to me, and it is also related to the reason why I fought this dark gold dragon."

With a wave of his hand, Ian motioned for his two friends to stop circling around him, "It was a super civilization called the Star God, a powerful prop given to the 'Harbinger', which was passed down from generation to generation, and was handed over by Inaga II to my teacher, Hilliard, who then ...... it."

"Don't talk about this yet. Anyway, I already know that you are the direct heir of my great-grandfather and the First Knight, and you have inherited their important legacy, including the Ancient Dragon Heart Core."

Ethan shook his head, signaling that there was no need to rush into telling them such important news here, "On the contrary, I have important news for you."

"That's news about ...... 'Eclipse Light Refining Dragon Bloodline' in my body."

Ethan told Ian what he had learned from the ancient dragon echo about the Dragon of a Thousand Stars.

「…… Echo of the Ancient Dragon...... Does the Blazing Star Dragon preserve its consciousness in the fragments of its body that remain?"

Frowning slightly, Ian could fully understand Ethan's caution - this news was indeed very important: "I also know the essence of the 'Thousand Stars Beast, from the mouth of the echo, that is, the controller of this dark gold dragon behind us."

"It was an ancient, powerful, super-civilized spark...... Because it consumes the entire biome and other fires, it is sealed under the land of Terra......

Ian also shares information about the Thousand Stars with Ethan and Theo.

By now, they had all discovered that the name of the Eclipse Light Refining Dragon actually vaguely revealed some clues.

The burning of the fire is the so-called 'light,...... Eclipping the light to refine the dragon, devouring the light and refining it into a dragon is a metaphor for the essence of the beast of a thousand stars, which devours other fires and transforms into a part of itself!

"So, Erg and I can still be considered brothers?"

After knowing that behind his family's bloodline actually hid the essence of the 'Thousand Stars Beast, a super creature disaster that is close to the detonator of the Terra civilization, Ethan could only sigh with a wry smile: "He is a parasite of the Thousand Stars Beast, and our Eren family is powerful, it is simply the Thousand Stars Beast itself!"

"Nope. There is still a slight difference between the Dragon of a Thousand Stars and the Beast of a Thousand Stars." And Ian pondered, he slowly shook his head and said: "The true dragon is the guardian of civilization, and it also has the same power as civilization, the dragon of a thousand stars is the guardian of the thousand stars civilization, not the fire itself, even if he has the combat power of the thousand stars civilization, but it is very different from the fire."

"Instead, you said that you think you are the 'Key to Darkness,' and this matter intrigues me."

Softly, Ian thoughtfully recalled what he had communicated with Bishop White Mist in the Great Labyrinth of the South China Sea.

The reason why Inaga II will incur great disasters is because he wants to become the master of the labyrinth......

- Although it has nothing to do with it, the Key to Darkness has something to do with the labyrinth...... If the processed Eclipse Light Refining Dragon Bloodline is the key, then the labyrinth it can open is undoubtedly related to the 'Thousand Stars Beast, in other words, Inaga II, at that time, was he actually thinking about unsealing the Thousand Stars Beast?!

Thinking of this, Ian couldn't help but feel a little crept—he was echoing

In my memory, I have seen some images of the Thousand Stars Beast raging, it is the ultimate destroyer who invades the entire continent like a tidal wave, without the slightest pause and unbearable.

If it weren't for the Star God who the Terra people called 'Heavenly Father', who came down and banned the Thousand Stars Beast, I'm afraid that Terra would have become a barren dead planet long ago.

However, the reversal.

Reverse your mind.

If you say, the Beast of a Thousand Stars is 'Terra, the final boss of this planet, the Great Demon King that no one can ignore.

Well, the so-called labyrinth......

Isn't it the entire planet Terra?

And one of the top-secret plans that Isengard was given was the plan called 'The Key to Darkness...... It is very likely that it is the plan to open this labyrinth and try to become the master of the labyrinth!

Ian looked up at Isengard.

The two looked at each other, and both found what they were looking for in each other's gazes.

"I see." Ian muttered, "No wonder Axel treats you so strangely...... He probably doesn't really plan to open any labyrinths at the moment, and he doesn't even have the desire to learn from Inaga II and become the master of the labyrinth."

"But here's the key...... Again, it's impossible to give up. Such a precious technique, such a precious idea, must not be wasted - so he is still trying to train you as much as possible to make you a ...... The key to the Empire's plan to destroy the world."

"It's like the development of nuclear weapons...... You don't have to, but you have to study it, is this the ultimate deterrent?"

「…… I don't think it's that exaggerated."

Ethan was a little unnatural, he still felt a little erratic and unrealistic, "I have such a big plan on my back...... No matter how you think about it...... it's incredible,

"Don't look down on yourself, Ethan, don't compare yourself to me, I'm a pioneer."

Patting his friend's shoulder, the white-haired young man felt that the other party might have been frightened by his performance, and now he was a little stressed, so he comforted, "Don't worry, there are four Orthodox Christians in the sky."

"Speaking of which, the Huaiguang Church must have known something about all of this... If I can go back safely this time, I'll have to find a chance to meet the Archbishop and even the Celestial Priesthood.

The Light of Glory...... This name, just like the Eclipse Light Refining Dragon, must have a more meaningful meaning behind the seemingly ordinary name.

That would surely reveal more truths on Terra.

Ian turned his head to look at Theo, who was flicking his tail and looking at him expectantly, "What about you? What's new for you?"

"That ancient dragon also told me a lot of things!" Seeing Ian take the initiative to ask him, Theo immediately proudly told Ian everything that Echo of the Ancient Dragon had said to him.

"Demon...... It's also a nuisance. ，

Ian frowned slightly.

Although he had known for a long time that the fifth-generation true dragon like Xi'ou was the result of Ryushima's research on the 'true dragon life...... But he didn't expect that Theo's Void Demon Poison was actually part of the plan. Without experiencing the 'original sin,' one cannot be' life,...... That being the case, the origin of those demons with an extraordinary number ...... It is likely that it is the spark of civilization that ended on Terra.

Perhaps, it is the greatest curse and resentment of many civilizations towards this planet and intelligent civilization that has buried itself.

"Hey......

Thinking of this, Ian couldn't help but let out a long sigh, "I thought that after figuring out the truth about the Star Prison and the Star God, I would be able to figure out a little bit about Terra...... Now it seems that what Echo said is probably quite one-sided." "At the end of the day, He's just an echo of 1,600 years ago."

Truth be told, the news that Echo said about the Star God, the Demon of the End, and the bleak future of this universe did give Ian a huge shock.

However, there is one thing that Ian doesn't believe from beginning to end, which leads him to doubt the authenticity of the information in Echo's mouth.

That's 'The star god is dead,'

star

God can't be dead. That's what Ian is most sure of.

No matter what the nature of the life of the star gods is, they are super beings powerful enough to create the 'Great Aetheric Circulation' that runs through time and space, and their creations, the 'Aether system' that is enough to rewrite the rules of the universe, are still functioning well and can be used by all life, how can they be said to be dead?

The ether is the weapon of the star god, the knowledge base, the means of transportation, and the means of work...... It can even be said that the ether is a part of the star god!

No matter how much the Demon of the End has no wisdom and is just a simple natural disaster, it cannot simply destroy the Star God and not commit any offense to the Aether System. It's impossible.

So, as long as the essentia and psionic energy, as well as the aether system, are still functioning, Ian is certain that the star god is definitely not dead.

They ...... It may be just a temporary retreat, just as they built the 'Cradle' and the 'Prison of the Stars' to deceive the demons of the End, to deceive their enemies into thinking they no longer exist, and then to observe their reactions. In addition to this, Ian has a rather unbelievable guess in his mind.

That's speculation about his psychic body's guiding star.

Ian's Psychic Guide Star can search for information on parallel time and space, and then obtain information about other possible oneself and exchange it with them.

Although he only connects two parallel planes of himself, Ian has already seen countless possibilities.

And these infinite parallel space-times...... All of them are shrouded in the 'Great Aetheric Circulation.'

The ether is not a single cosmic space-time existence, it is a superspace-time construction that transcends the universe itself and runs through infinite parallel space-time!

(Star God...... It may indeed have left our universe. ）

The boy muttered in his heart: (So I can't even respond to the fact that I became a pioneer)

(But that doesn't mean they don't exist in parallel planes...... Not to mention anything else, infinite parallel time and space are infinite possibilities, if the star gods of our universe lose, maybe the star gods of other parallel universes will win? ）

(No, is it possible that the Star God is a life that can travel between different parallel planes?) And their departure is to go to other parallel time and space to take refuge temporarily? ）

(In other words, if I could connect my parallel self to the stars of their universe...... Then I might be able to rely on the Guiding Stars, prostitute the help they get, and even attract the attention of the Star Gods directly? These are all things that are possible.

Compared to Echo's desperation, because the horizon is wider and there is more information to observe, Ian always maintains his optimism.

And it doesn't matter if you actually lose.

Ian had already made up his mind that even if he really lost, then he would pack all his memories, experiences, and some of his strength into the Guide Star and throw it to a parallel time and space himself with the earliest possible timeline.

Although the Guiding Star may not be able to carry much power and information, and may only have a little key information and power seed, compared to the beginning of his life, the Prophet Ian II, who accepted the guidance of his Guiding Star, can definitely go further than him.

With such a powerful psychic body and psionic power, Prophet Ian II would never have given up the fight as easily as an echo!

"I might lose, but 'Ian, no.'"

With that in mind, Ian perked up, ready to take a good look at what he had gained over the last echo.

However, just as Ian was about to take out the Soul of the Source, he suddenly paused.

"Wait......

Under the somewhat bewildered gaze of Isengard and Theo, the white-haired boy suddenly lowered his head, and he pressed his hands on the sides of his temples with a solemn expression: "Wait!"

"Foresight...... Guiding Star ...... Su Hui I recalled when I was eight years old......" He whispered a few key words quickly: "Quiet period or incubation period...... After awakening, you can directly awaken your spiritual energy and bring your own soul...... Ian's psychic body and psionic energy in other parallel planes are not necessarily prophets and guiding stars, I am special, but not necessarily the first special ......

"The exact same memory, and the thought pattern...... Damn it! Whether the name is Su Hui or the mystery of the unopened womb, isn't this all an echo?! It's just beyond time and space, and even across the echoes of the universe!" "Wait, Ian, calm down...... At least that's not a bad thing, and it's not necessarily an echo, it's a mirror..."

Muttering a large number of Chinese phrases that the two did not understand, the Prophet looked at his hands in disbelief, and he laughed a little strangely, "The Chehalorvo family has unearthed echoes of a pre-era...... All elders are voluntarily 'disciplined, which means that the echoes can latent in the body of normal beings and then awaken after a while......

"If it were me, there really wouldn't be a guarantee that if I threw my memories and thoughts at the other Ians, he would be able to accept them right away...... It will take him years to get used to it, to be awakened, to 'awaken, to the memories and powers that I have given him......

Looking up, Ian looked at the two friends who were looking at him with worried eyes, and a great shock and confusion rose in his heart at this moment, and there was a feeling of surprise or surprise that did not know whether it was "surprise" or "surprise" and "if everything was as I guessed......"

"Is my prophetic vision really a prophet?"

"And I, am I really a 'mirror' or 'echo' in a different parallel time and space wandering in the past and future,?!?"