Divine Beast Creator-Chapter 1253 - 1254: The Origin of the Ruins

"Wait a minute... This thing..."

Turning around speechlessly, Feng Yuan looked at the small mechanical puppet that had somehow appeared behind him. Ever since learning that the Yuhe Dynasty was connected to Omeilia, he wasn’t surprised at all by the presence of mechanical puppets here.

"Same crystal energy power source, not very strong."

Glancing at the mechanical puppet, Delong Tower said disinterestedly. This contraption posed no threat whatsoever; it might look formidable, but other than Qi Chen and his group, it probably wouldn’t be a match for anyone else. Not to mention Feng Yuan—Yang Hongzhi could easily handle them using Najia’s power.

After surveying the area, Feng Yuan hesitated for a moment before sighing softly and saying,

"Forget it. Keeping these things around serves no purpose. It’s fine when Gitalien is here, but the technology used in these puppets doesn’t seem to be anything lost or ancient. They’ll just become scraps."

As he finished speaking, Feng Yuan directly borrowed Xiao Ji’s power, transforming it into a longbow. Qi Chen instructed Ah Mu to guard him and Dou Yanlan, while Cotton jumped onto the tree crown of the Amu Tree. Thankfully, the hall’s space was large enough for Ah Mu to fight in its original size. A verdant barrier rose, shielding the two of them. As for Feng Yuan and Yang Hongzhi? Those two were far stronger and didn’t need his protection anyway.

Black arrows pierced the energy core of the mechanical puppet. The crystal shattered, and the puppet, now void of any energy source, collapsed. Dou Yanlan glanced at Xiao Ji, who seemed eager to summon the Wind of Death, and said, ƒrēenovelkiss.com

"Mechanical puppets are unaffected by Death Series ultimate moves with non-physical effects."

Be it soul-searing attacks or soul-targeted Wind of Death, none of it had any effect. Non-living entities were rare counters to both Ghost Series and Death Series abilities.

"Corruption-type ultimate moves can be used; they’re quite effective for physical destruction."

Standing nearby, Feng Yuan offered a reminder. He was aware that Xiao Ji possessed corruption-type ultimate moves. Although Xiao Ji rarely trained, Feng Yuan paid considerable attention to its independent practice results. If its training ever veered off track, Feng Yuan would promptly guide it back.

Upon hearing Feng Yuan’s advice, Xiao Ji let out a cry and flapped its wings to soar into the air. Its talons, gleaming with a pitch-black light, tore into the mechanical puppet’s heavy plating as if it were tissue paper. Rust spread rapidly from the claw marks, but only for a short distance, failing to expand further.

Observing this lack of effect, Xiao Ji let out an angry screech, its talons frantically tearing into the puppet. Moments later, the mechanical puppet was reduced to scrap—it lay defeated, covered in corroded shards of metal, with a pale yellow crystal on the ground emitting a faint glow.

Noticing Xiao Ji’s behavior, Feng Yuan shook his head helplessly. Corruption-type ultimate moves were not supposed to lack area-of-effect damage, but Xiao Ji simply couldn’t control it properly. An indiscriminate corruption attack would only cause problems for allies, and Xiao Ji angrily shredding the puppet into fragments was unsurprising to Feng Yuan. After all, these mechanical puppets posed no genuine threat—letting Xiao Ji play around with them wasn’t a big deal.

Casually firing another arrow to destroy the energy core of a puppet charging towards Qi Chen’s group, Feng Yuan pulled back his longbow once more. Although the puppets posed no threat to him, they were somewhat perilous for Qi Chen and the others. If the puppets were entirely ineffective, the Yuhe Dynasty wouldn’t have used them as guardians.

Just like Feng Yuan, Delong Tower also easily sliced through a mechanical puppet’s energy core with a single strike. Xiao Ji could technically perform the same feat, given its impressive sensory abilities. However, it hadn’t realized this yet and continued treating the puppets like regular opponents, attacking indiscriminately.

After a while, Agunas couldn’t help but offer Xiao Ji advice. Unsurprisingly, Xiao Ji’s sensory abilities inspired envy in Agunas, while Feng Yuan, ever indifferent, seemed too lazy to explain how to defeat the puppets properly.

With Agunas’ guidance, Xiao Ji immediately understood why its attacks had often been ineffective. Turning around, it clawed straight into the puppet’s internal energy core. The crystal shattered with a crisp sound, and the mechanical puppet instantly lost its power and crumbled to the ground.

"I can’t believe these things can still move after being submerged in seawater for so long."

Retreating to Qi Chen’s side, Feng Yuan said in amazement. He had previously observed that this location had not entirely escaped submersion. Though some rooms were unaffected, others were thoroughly soaked in seawater. Then again, the key feature of these machines was their immunity to environmental impact, so their functionality wasn’t all that surprising.

At this point, only a few mechanical puppets remained on the battlefield. Neither Agunas nor Veronia made a move—why bother? These weak contraptions posed no challenge. Feng Yuan and Delong Tower could easily fend them off; Yang Hongzhi had already eliminated several puppets.

After a round of destruction, the group left behind piles of debris and departed. As for whether their actions would cause irreversible damage to the ruins—well, it was already resting at the bottom of the Black Sea. Would it even matter? Archaeologists wouldn’t excavate ruins from the depths of the Black Sea.

"Why was that ruin submerged into the Black Sea?"

Inside Island Jellyfish’s spatial zone, Agunas looked puzzled as it turned to Feng Yuan. They had thoroughly explored the ruin yet found no truly prohibited or irregular items. While the ruins of Starlit Sea’s seabed were typically reserved for discarding problematic remnants, not every ruin would be abandoned therein.

Even for the Black Sea, if a ruin lacked unique significance, it could simply be destroyed on land. Why throw it into the Black Sea?

"That... I’m not too sure. Based on the internal facilities, it doesn’t make sense."

Rubbing his chin, Feng Yuan turned to Delong Tower. Perhaps only it could provide an answer, being the Lord of the Great Sea. Surely it would know why those ruins were submerged into the Black Sea.

After thinking for a moment, Delong Tower seemed uncertain and said,

"I think... back then, the Kui Shui Xuanwu, while dealing with the Yuhe Dynasty, directly dumped all their ruins into the sea. You know, I don’t typically concern myself with what they discard into the Black Sea."

Dangerous Mythical Era ruins must be thrown into the Starlit Sea. The Black Sea was merely for ruins deemed non-threatening but challenging to dispose of. As such, Delong Tower rarely cared about what the Divine Beasts discarded into the Black Sea, as long as they informed it beforehand. Submerging hazardous Mythical Era ruins into the Black Sea, though?

They wouldn’t dare. There were some responsibilities they adhered to. Besides, Delong Tower could easily recall who threw which ruin into the sea—if issues arose later, the embarrassment would be on them.

"Kui Shui Xuanwu... This is truly..."

Peering into the distance through Island Jellyfish’s barrier, Feng Yuan spoke in dismay. He didn’t fully grasp the situation regarding the Yuhe Dynasty at the time or how they had antagonized the Kui Shui Xuanwu. Yet, given the extreme measure of submerging everything into the sea, they must have incited its wrath. Otherwise, destroying the ruins on land would have sufficed—why expend such effort to drown them in the Black Sea?

Other than Gitalien and Delong Tower, only these two possessed the ability to effortlessly toss ruins into the Starlit Sea or Black Sea: one using spatial transfer, the other harnessing the ocean’s power to indirectly enable spatial transfer.

Other Divine Beasts could only lift ruins and carry them to the Black Sea or Starlit Sea for abandonment—a considerably labor-intensive process.

"Ah, so that’s it. Back when the Yuhe Dynasty targeted the kingdom under Kui Shui Xuanwu’s protection, while simultaneously employing numerous underhanded tactics, its involvement at Omeilia’s forward camp exposed them. Kui Shui Xuanwu retaliated by destroying the Yuhe Dynasty and nearly eradicating their cultural records."

Flipping through a book in its hands, Agunas explained. Listening to this, Feng Yuan couldn’t help but ponder how to evaluate the rulers of the Yuhe Dynasty. If it had been a Divine Land Region nation employing treacherous ploys, Kui Shui Xuanwu likely wouldn’t have been so enraged—after all, Divine Beasts never expected humans to fight wars entirely fair.

But to be treated like that by foreign invaders? Kui Shui Xuanwu would undoubtedly find it humiliating and retaliate immediately—it wasn’t surprising in the least.

Besides Qi Chen and Yang Hongzhi, the others understood why Kui Shui Xuanwu had been outraged. Scratching his head, Qi Chen couldn’t piece together the truth. Seeing Dou Yanlan perhaps grasp the reason, he hesitated before quietly asking her in a low voice by her ear.