Chapter 592
The Grand Stage of the Spiritual Disaster, Little One, Don't Come!
The soul-severing surgery on the gentleman penguin lasted a full four hours.
During the surgery, Wu Wang took a moment to ask the other party if having some means to restore the soul to its integrity would affect the outcome of the surgery.
Wu Wang was worried that he might use the special property of "immortality" to refresh his status again.
Wouldn't that make it meaningless?
Although the gentleman penguin found it strange that someone with his brain pried open could still have a normal conversation, he still explained it to him.
"The reason why a person's aura can be perceived by the outside world, especially by powerful beings across countless worlds, is essentially because as long as you are in a certain world, your soul will inevitably resonate with all the creatures that come into contact with in that world."
"For example, if you meet a stranger in the real world once, even if it's been several months, he might suddenly dream about you one night."
"This does not mean that he is really impressed with you or intentionally storing these memories. Even if he dreams of what you look like, he himself cannot remember who you are. This is just that his soul subconsciously touches other souls that have come into contact with him. But he himself is a native creature connected to this world."
"This will inevitably lead to the world piecing together your complete aura as you interact with native creatures one by one, thus allowing powerful beings to locate you remotely."
When the gentleman penguin got to this point...
The question mark hat on his head was turned upside down, and a portrait fell out from the inside.
The portrait was about half the height of a person, and it shattered into countless fragments the moment it appeared.
But it was quickly pieced back together at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Although the reassembled portrait is like a poorly made jigsaw puzzle, with cracks visible everywhere.
However, it is still possible to recognize that the content above is of Wu Wang, who is currently lying on the operating table.
Seeing this vivid metaphor, a look of understanding flashed across everyone's faces, including Wu Wang's.
In other words, if you travel to other instance worlds, each soul you come into contact with is equivalent to filling in a small fragment of the outsider's portrait in the world itself. As time goes by, the complete aura of the outsider will soon be remembered by this world.
“What if we don’t contact other people?” Oink asked, frowning.
Aside from the time he was unexpectedly trapped in the "Devil's Prison" and unable to escape, which forced him to live in the prison and interact with many criminals and the warden, he had no other dealings with them.
In fact, during most of his wanderings in various worlds, Oink preferred to hide away alone, living a self-sufficient life in the deep mountains or on deserted islands, completely cut off from the outside world.
In that case, there's no way you'd encounter any soul that could remember your presence, right?
In response, the gentleman penguin shook his head and said, "The privilege of the soul is not unique to intelligent beings."
"Insects, plants, animals..."
"All living things born under natural conditions that possess life functions have a soul, and they will record your breath."
These words made Oink look thoughtful.
If that's the case, then it's indeed impossible to hide one's aura simply by relying on the concealment of the environment.
"Yan Shuangying, you don't need to worry about your problems either."
"Even if you suffer some kind of spiritual damage in the future, the surgery will not fail while you are healing it."
"Because this surgery doesn't actually harm your soul, it's not within the scope of healing."
"The aura has been stripped away, not destroyed."
Upon hearing this explanation, Wu Wang subconsciously recalled the situation where his sense of pain had been stripped away by the Lord of Pain.
Indeed, even after being resurrected countless times through "immortality," there was absolutely no sign of his pain returning.
Because it was not destroyed, but existed perfectly intact.
It's just not within myself.
The current surgery on gentleman penguins is similar in principle.
After the surgery, the gentleman penguin handed Wu Wang a palm-sized sphere that resembled a luminous pearl.
This is something he continuously peeled from Wu's soul during the surgery, a special creation condensed through a certain [legendary] prop.
He then said, "From now on, before your soul aura comes into contact with the outside world, there will be an extra step: it will first be transferred to this [Aura Orb]."
"All you need to do next is bury the [Spirit Orb] in the [Void Sands]."
“In this way, your aura will be completely covered by the [Void Sands]. This is a magical material that even Venerables cannot see through. It is said that its birth is related to the [Ancient Times], but the information I have about this is not yet complete.”
Wu Wang stared at the [Aura Orb] in his hand, slightly dazed.
He quite approved of the effect of [Void Sand] in shielding one's aura from being perceived by the Venerable One.
Previously, in order to avoid being kidnapped by other Venerables, the [Desire Sea Spirit Venerable] had temporarily hidden himself in the [Forsaken Land of Gods].
He said at that time that in the land forsaken by God, no being can perceive itself.
Looking back now, I'm glad that I happened to run into the All-Knowing NPC who needed to trade [Void Sand] when I left, so I filled my backpack with a lot of [Void Sand].
"Won't this spirit orb itself be assimilated by the [Void Sands]?" Wu Wang suddenly asked.
He clearly remembered that when he was in the Forsaken Land, his clothes and even his limbs were assimilated after coming into contact with the [Void Sands].
It seems that only by placing it in the backpack will the sand not affect other materials.
The gentleman penguin rolled his eyes and slammed his cane down on Wu Wang's head.
He said angrily, "Why do you think I spent so much time and used so many magical items to create just a small ball?"
"In fact, cutting off your soul aura only takes half an hour at most; the rest of the time is spent making this spirit orb resistant to [Void Sands]."
At this point, his gaze also fell on the [Fragment of the Past] in his hand.
He squinted and said, "As I just mentioned, the birth of [Void Sands] is suspected to be related to [The Old Days]. The reason is that when I was researching it, I accidentally discovered that only things enveloped by the aura of [Fragments of the Old Days] are not affected by [Void Sands].
At this moment, Wu Wang examined it carefully and also discovered it.
The top of that rhombus-shaped "fragment of the past" seemed to be missing a piece the size of a grain of rice.
Within the [Spirit Orb] in his hand, there was a fragment that was vaguely visible, spinning around in an irregular trajectory.
After receiving an explanation from the Gentleman Penguin, Wu Wang followed his instructions to bury the Spirit Orb in the [Void Sands] and store it in his personal meeting room before entering the [Spirit Disaster Plaza].
There is a "back compartment" there, which is used to store items.
Wu Wang was worried that if he put this item in his backpack, it might lead to some unexpected situations if he encountered a situation like the one in the Demon Prison where items in the backpack would be taken out in advance.
This thing is like Voldemort's Horcrux now, so it's best to put it somewhere that no one else can find it.
A private meeting room, a place that can never be entered without one's invitation, is naturally the best choice.
After completing these tasks, Wu Wang took out the "People Leave, Tea Grows Cold" scroll and asked the Gentleman Penguin for a reply.
"The problem of concealing one's presence has been solved. The next step is to find a way to travel through countless worlds."
Looking at the "People Leave, Tea Grows Cold" gentleman penguin in his hand, he raised an eyebrow and replied:
"After you drink this stuff, you will irreversibly sever your connection with the real world, and you will be rejected by the real world immediately."
"Next, you will be randomly relegated to another world."
"After that, you can travel to different instance worlds simply by playing the Spirit Disaster game."
"Because you cannot return to the real world, you stay in that world after completing the mission in each new instance world you travel to."
Upon hearing what the gentleman penguin said, Wu Wang frowned slightly.
He then immediately realized the problem and asked:
"That's not right. All the passages to the dungeon are now in the real world. The mechanism that forced players to enter the dungeon was removed after the open beta."
"How can I enter the dungeon through the Spirit Disaster game without being in the real world?"
Wu Wang originally thought that after drinking the "People Leave, Tea Grows Cold" drink, he would gain some kind of ability similar to Oink's, which allows him to directly break through the barriers between worlds and travel to other worlds.
Unexpectedly, the gentleman penguin said he would use the dungeon mechanics of the game to keep traversing through the dungeons.
At this point, the second sister standing next to her was also taken aback.
That's right, there are no dungeon entrances in other worlds. How will my brother be able to enter dungeons in the future?
Seeing the siblings' confusion, the gentleman penguin gave a playful smile and teased:
"That's why I've always felt that the game 'Necropolis' is far too lenient on players."
"You did not undergo any training or power system from scratch. The power you gained was given to you out of thin air by the Spirit Disaster game after completing the dungeon."
"This will cause you to be like rootless duckweed, lacking a thorough understanding of your own power and having no intention of thinking about the source of this power."
"For example, since the arrival of the Spirit Disaster game, only a handful of people have discovered that they can actively apply to the Spirit Disaster game to enter new instances."
"This is why I said you caught a good time. Whether it's using [When People Leave, Tea Grows Cold] to sever the connection between worlds or using the dungeon mechanism to travel to other worlds, these are shortcuts that only players of the Calamity can achieve."
"Otherwise, if it were a normal living being, you would at least need to reach the power level of those three to travel through the world."
The gentleman penguin pointed to the three dungeon bosses next to him: Oink, Mary, and Lilith.
A hint of surprise flashed across Wu Wang's and Wu Xiaoyou's faces.
Players can actually request to enter dungeons from the game "Spirit Disaster"?
They were indeed unaware of this.
Even the game's app forum doesn't have this information, and it's estimated that even the databases of the three main game companies don't contain this kind of information.
Before the public beta, everyone was waiting for the mandatory dungeon invitations to appear every now and then.
After the public beta launch, there are dungeon entrances everywhere you can enter.
Who would actually think of voluntarily requesting to enter a dungeon in the Spirit Disaster game?
The most difficult thing is that they learned about this from someone who wasn't a player from the Necropolis.
But considering the close connection between Gentleman Penguin and the Necropolis game, and that his treasure vault is even the Necropolis game's lottery pool.
The siblings felt somewhat relieved.
After the gentleman penguin finished speaking, he cut off a rice-grain-sized piece from the [Old Fragment] to use as material for Oink's surgery.
The fragment of the past was resealed back into Wu Xiaoyou's body so she could continue to absorb it.
Furthermore, the sealing technique he used this time was far more powerful than the one provided by Qin Shusheng.
It even allows Wu Xiaoyou to open and close the seal independently, so that she won't lose control when she unleashes her full power in the event of an emergency.
"Oh, and there's something else you could help me identify."
Wu Wang took out the Pandora's Box he had just obtained from his backpack.
However, the gentleman penguin's expression clearly froze for a moment when this thing appeared.
He then subconsciously asked, "Where did you get this thing? Didn't you choose 'When the person leaves, the tea cools'?"
He recognized that the item was drawn from the [Thousand Machine Trial].
Wu Wang's action of taking two items out of the dungeon while holding the [Key of the Void] left him somewhat stunned.
Anyway, the gentleman penguin already knew about the existence of the Abyss God's Mark, and even owed him a deal for stealing something.
Wu Wang then recounted what had happened.
When the gentleman penguin heard the Abyss God's tentacles pull the thing out of the box, the question mark hat on his head subconsciously shrank back.
It's obvious that she recalled some unpleasant memories.
Before he could even console himself with the question mark hat, the gentleman penguin could only exclaim in disbelief, "They can even steal something like this from the derivative of [Death]?"
"Stop being a riddle! Just tell me what this thing is!" Wu Wang retorted bluntly.
The other party then responded, "This is the core item for mastering the [Thousand Machine Trial] dungeon. In theory, it can only be obtained by passing all the trials of the [Thousand Machine Trial] in the game. It shouldn't even appear in the scope of item draws. You still managed to steal it by force. Is it bad luck or good luck?"
What are the core items for the [Thousand Machine Trial] dungeon?
Wu Wang was suddenly stunned.
His first thought wasn't that he had a chance to obtain the massive amount of items in the [Thousand Machine Trial].
Instead, he thought of the young man with the white fox, who was also the tower master of the Tower of Order.
The other party seems to still be playing the game in the [Thousand Machine Trial] to complete the test and master the dungeon.
If the tower master completes all the game's challenges, only to find that the core item for the dungeon is missing...
Uh, it has nothing to do with me, it's all Yuan Shen's fault.
"Then why would you say it's bad luck?" Wu Wang suddenly noticed that the gentleman penguin's wording was strange.
The other party shrugged helplessly and said, "Because you haven't completed the test at all. Even if you have the core item, you won't be able to gain recognition. I even suspect that if you open this box now... it will explode, and with great force."
This left Wu Wang somewhat helpless.
It truly lives up to its name as a magic box.
It's like the app exploded as soon as someone who didn't get approval opened it, right?
Sure enough, such a windfall wouldn't happen to me.
But then he took out a pen and paper, wrote the words "Do Not Open" in big letters, put it in his backpack, and said with a grin, "It's okay, I'll just use it as a self-destruct trap. Then when I encounter someone I want to trap in the dungeon, I'll secretly hide it near them."
"Tell me, who wouldn't want to open a box with a 'Do Not Open' sign when they're looking for clues in a dungeon quest?"
Upon hearing this, everyone present twitched at the corner of their mouths.
Are you using core dungeon items as self-destruct traps?
That's a very real life.
And this trap is way too insidious.
The phrase "【Do Not Open】" perfectly captures the legend of Pandora's Box, arousing a curiosity in anyone who sees it, making them want to open it.
This guy is a born devil.
"Alright, buddy, you can continue the surgery here. We'll head out now."
After saying goodbye to Oink, Wu Wang led Wu Xiaoyou and the others to leave.
Oink seemed to sense his emotions as he watched Wu Wang walk away.
He began by saying, "Friend, cherish these last moments together, and don't let yourself or those you cherish regret this parting in the future."
Wu Wang raised his hand and waved without turning his head.
The figure gradually disappeared at the entrance of the secret room.
As Oink said, he wasn't really out there doing anything important.
Instead, she planned to cherish the last moments she had with her second sister.
There are 8 days left until the Venerable One invades reality.
The siblings decided to do something they had thought about before, but had never done before—
Wu Wang and Wu Xiaoyou need to enter the same instance.
Let's embark on a shared adventure.
The siblings treated it like a childhood adventure, making this farewell a final memory.
A team-up strategy for conquering dungeons featuring those with the [Immortal] trait and the power of the [Ancient].
No one knows whether this means another kind of disaster for normal players who encounter this brother and sister.
All that can be said about the fall of Wu is—
The stage for spiritual disasters is set; don't come if you're a minor character.
He has located the target instance... (End of Chapter)