Ascension

"Our Lord's relic is just ahead!"

A crowd of mermaid samurai escorted Wu Ming and the Mermaid Princess to the center of Shell Island.

There, a large number of stone statues formed a sort of formation. Their carvings were crude in style, clearly the work of the mermaids.

"Since Our Lord never specified what He left behind, we set these up and sealed this place off completely..."

The Mermaid Princess explained.

"He didn't leave any clear instructions?"

Wu Ming smiled faintly and stepped into the formation of statues.

It was clearly a formation, designed to isolate and protect. Of course, before Wu Ming, it was nothing to speak of.

Without needing the mermaids to remove the formation, he went straight to the center.

At the heart of the island stood a solitary black stone wall, its surface gleaming darkly with a metallic sheen.

At the center of the wall was a carving.

"This aura... there's no mistaking it..."

Wu Ming was somewhat excited. He recognized it: the thing here had clearly been left behind by that mighty being from before.

The carving depicted a strange mandrake, its many black snakes entwined around it, living symbiotically with the flower and forming its branches, leaves, and roots.

"Here, yet not here. A projected grotto-heaven? Spatial folding?"

Wu Ming immediately sensed that something was wrong.

No wonder the other party had left the object here so openly. It had already been encrypted once over.

In other words, besides him, the one who controlled the Main God Space, no other being could break through this barrier and obtain the true legacy.

"It just feels like the traces of a conspiracy are too obvious..."

Wu Ming sighed, but without hesitation, he activated the Main God Space with his mind and made contact with the mandrake