Alchemy Stone and the King of the Gods

The Skeleton Apostle walked into a fenced-off Breathing Soil pool. On the crystal rod fixed horizontally across it, countless fine cyan whiskers had grown—these threadlike strands of Light Gold fluffed out around the crystal rod, as if some invisible force were pulling and spinning them.

Lu Yao observed the cyan, flocculent metal Cotton Candy.

The Simulator could not identify it.

The text box above Philes's head kept typing: "Lord God, after you entrusted this object to me, I heard you say it was stimulated by the Flame of Faith, so I first went to consult Lady [King Wuji]..."

King Wuji burned it with the Flame of Faith and tried to make it react with Omnipotence Stone and World Stone, but the crystal merely Devoured the Power of Faith and showed no reaction with any other substance.

The thing was also astonishingly hard. Even when King Wuji unleashed the Miracle [Earth Roar], she could not make the slightest breach in it.

Later, she came up with a method: try cutting it with Light Gold, the sharpest material discovered so far. In the end, the crystal absorbed the Light Gold directly, turning it into part of its own body.

The cyan blade slowly Decomposed inside the unknown crystal, turning into clusters of fine, threadlike lines. These lines extended outward from the crystal's outer wall, like cyan hair growing from bone.

Philes had been shocked at the time.

Could this crystal pillar be a kind of life similar to a spine or a tuberous Root?

Its Engineer's mind immediately made the association: since the crystal pillar could produce a bonding reaction with Light Gold... why not try Breathing Soil?

It immediately carried out the experiment.

Then something miraculous happened. The crystal pillar began to adsorb large amounts of Breathing Soil. As if drawn