Gu Qing Shan tasted each bottle, silently pondered for a little bit, then personally made a glass of cocktail.
“You need to memorize the characteristic and smell of each kind of alcohol, then understand how to balance them in order to mix different kinds of alcohol”
He handed the cocktail to Scarlet.
Scarlet took a sip and looked at him in surprise.
“How was it? Doesn’t suit your taste?” Gu Qing Shan asked.
“No, it’s just… I knew that you were a very skilled cook, but I didn’t expect you to also be able to mix such tasty alcohol” Scarlet replied.
Gu Qing Shan decided to no longer care about breaking a cracked bowl and explained: “Perhaps people from the domain of Death like us naturally requires alcohol to stimulate and support us exert our strength”
“I think so as well”
Scarlet agreed and finished her cocktail all at once.
She stood up and chanted an incantation, summoning star after star towards her body to manifest into black flames.
These clusters of black flames slowly converged into a solid form, manifesting as black glowing components.
Scarlet muttered: “Mortals embrace death, but Gods use death as their armor—— go”
The components attached themselves onto Gu Qing Shan to form a perfect black full-body armor.
Black flames silently burnt on top of the armor, which exuded a stifling pressure.
Wearing this armor, Gu Qing Shan looked even more like the Death God of legends.
“This is your ability?” Gu Qing Shan asked in surprise.
“That’s right, I was studying with Shroud earlier, he taught me the method to construct objects using Star Force—– when I was choosing which one to practice as my power, I ultimately decided to continue exploring supportive abilities” Scarlet smiled.
Gu Qing Shan was a bit surprised.
Before coming into contact with the power of Death, Scarlet used to dream of being the supportive leader of a team.
And now, after being meticulously tutored by Boss, she has once again returned to this path.
Gu Qing Shan stood up and lightly moved his body around to get accustomed to the armor.
Lines of glowing text quickly appeared on the War God UI:
[Technique Armor: Flames of Death (full-body)]
[An armor manifested by using the Star Force creation method to guide the Law of Death, an armor created for a God]
[This armor houses the following unique abilities:]
[Divine Dignity: Attacks of mortals cannot go through this armor unless they’re at least 5 times stronger than the God]
[Deathfire: The Technique Armor will take all damage for the user, before this armor is completely destroyed, the user will not get hurt]
Gu Qing Shan read the War God UI’s descriptions and felt a bit moved.
For a suit of armor created by a technique, its capabilities had already surpassed Gu Qing Shan’s imagination.
—–Boss had clearly taught Scarlet everything he knew.
“How does it feel?” Scarlet asked.
“It feels great, this armor is very powerful” Gu Qing Shan praised.
While she was praised, Scarlet still appeared concerned: “In truth, I’m still not strong enough yet, so this armor isn’t actually that strong—– you have to be careful, this armor wouldn’t be able to take too many attacks for you”
“Being able to block just one attack can already be the difference between night and day on a battlefield” Gu Qing Shan sincerely told her.
He gently patted the black flames armor, feeling considerably delighted with it.
Up until this point, I haven’t had any luck with armor.
The armor I received from the cultivation world had already been destroyed a long time ago.
I’ve also worn the Bramble Bird Kingdom’s armor, but that belongs to them, so I returned it.
After that, during the Age of Old, I obtained the armor created by the [Demon King Order], but because of the [Demon King Order] prepared tricks, I’ve had to give up on it.
The Wing of the Condemnation Angel armor was a true divine armor through and through, having originated from the Condemnation Codex—– but before I even wore it a single time, I used it to save Little Dusk.
How could a sword cultivator not have a suit of armor?
——-finally, I have armor to use.
“Do you like it?” Scarlet asked as she observed his reaction.
“I do, I like armor a lot because with it, I would be able to disregard a lot of situations in combat” Gu Qing Shan replied.
Scarlet pondered his words.
“Thank you, Scarlet——– right, have you created a Star Force animal?” Gu Qing Shan asked.
Scarlet regained her senses and answered: “It’s still very hard, so I spent the effort to learn the Star Force armor technique first. After this, I’ll have a lot more to learn from Shroud before I can create a powerful Star Force animal—— no, I need to go and study it now”
After saying that, she hurriedly left.
Right after Scarlet left, someone knocked on the door.
“Come in” Gu Qing Shan said.
An elf nervously opened the door and bowed: “God above, your companion had sent me to ask whether or not your cultivation is finished”
Gu Qing Shan thought briefly and understood.
So Boss still feels a bit of trauma regarding the Dance…
“Go and tell him that it is finished” Gu Qing Shan replied.
“Understood!”
Feeling like he had been pardoned, the elf hurriedly left.
A few moments later, a face poked out from behind the door.
Shroud was hiding behind the door while glancing inside.
It wasn’t until he had confirmed that there was no music or dancing atmosphere that he finally entered.
Gu Qing Shan advised: “Hah, I need to explain. That Dance is actually very beneficial, it would even sometimes provide unexpected harvest, so there’s really no need for you to feel so repulsed by it”
Boss completely skipped over this topic and said: “If what we assumed earlier was true, then it’s time we make some preparations”
“Such as?” Gu Qing Shan asked.
“Do you know what kind of place this island was?” Boss asked.
“The Isle of the Protection Deity, as well as where her divine palace was situated” Gu Qing Shan replied.
Boss explained: “Protection Deity was the entity with the strongest defense, her divine palace was actually quite close to the center of the Pantheon ruins”
“And so?” Gu Qing Shan asked.
Boss sighed and continued: “In the past, I had attempted to explore the Pantheon ruins, but the furthest I ever reached was only this place and not any deeper, do you know why?”
Gu Qing Shan pondered and replied: “This place was the Protection Deity’s divine palace, which resides on top of an underwater reservoir—–”
He abruptly realized and glanced questioningly at Boss.
Boss nodded: “Yes, this place wasn’t actually an underwater reservoir, to be exact——- half of the Pantheon ruins was above water, while the other half was underwater”
“How did that happen?” Gu Qing Shan asked.
“I’m unsure” Boss replied: “The majority of the information I know came from the half that was above water. I’m not even sure about what kind of secrets might be hidden in the underwater ruins”
“Why didn’t you continue to explore downwards?” Gu Qing Shan asked.
“Because at that time, I had already established a new era, having to face the invasion of the Apocalypses every day. At that point, there was no need to clearly understand the past, after all, they were already so distant from our era that there was no practical meaning in doing so” Boss replied.
——–that’s true.
During the Age of Immemorial, the Age of Myriad Deities had already ended for a long while, even if there was another era before the Age of Myriad Deities, it was already so distant that it wouldn’t have affected Boss’ era at all.
At the time, Boss even had to focus his efforts on fighting the Apocalypses.
“Underwater… huh…”
Gu Qing Shan muttered.
“Indeed, I’ve learnt everything that was to learn about the surface, I’ve also explored the entirety of the Pantheon ruins’ upper half, confirming that there wasn’t any information regarding that era. Right now, our only choice is to attempt to explore further underwater and see if there’s anything else to learn” Boss confirmed.
The two of them exchanged glances and saw the seriousness in their expressions.
If that monster had been hiding inside the Pantheon, it would have most likely been hiding in the underwater ruins.
In the worst case scenario, even if their conjecture was incorrect, the two of them might still be able to dig up some information regarding that era in the underwater ruins.
——-at this pivotal point in time, any little bit of information could prove to be critical.
“Little Dusk had been managing this place for a while, I wonder if she had tried going underwater” Gu Qing Shan wondered.
Boss said: “I’ve already asked her. she said that there was another divine palace not too far away underwater as well as many other ancient structures, but she was able to sense some danger from them and opted against exploring too deeply”
“Alright, let us take a look”
Gu Qing Shan made up his mind and said.
The two of them left the secret room and followed the path straight towards the Isle of Protection’s riverbank.
Gu Qing Shan tried to gaze into the water.
The underground water flow was quite intense, the murky water made it impossible to see the bottom, giving off a feeling of being profound and indiscernible.
The Pantheon was buried underground.
Then, could the ruins of the era preceding their era have been buried even deeper underground?
While Gu Qing Shan was deep in thought, Boss suddenly sent his voice: “If an entity is truly monitoring us, what would it do if we tried to explore the underwater ruins?”
Gu Qing Shan replied: “That’s something we’ll have to go underwater to find out”
He dived into the water.
The river was frigidly cold, carrying with it a freezing chill.
Splash!
Boss also dived down.
As the two of them were about to dive deeper, the entire Isle began to tremble.
“What’s going on?” Boss asked with a low voice.
Gu Qing Shan had already released his inner sight to observe the entire Isle.
“Trouble” he quickly answered.
A lot of debris was gradually flowing down the river, which even included tattered corpses, broken bits of structure, as well as numerous damaged items of unknown functions.
The broken items of the samsara were flowing towards the Isle of Protection following the river.
“This debris is very troublesome, many of them are practically imbued with apocalyptic presence, there’s no telling what would occur if they were to spread” Boss frowned and said.
“We need to act right now” Gu Qing Shan said.
The two of them jumped out of the water, hovering in mid-air while waiting for the debris to slowly come closer.
Gu Qing Shan’s heart was sinking.
He glanced at Boss and saw that Boss also had a solemn expression.
——-something like this happened as soon as they prepared to explore underwater.
That monster who’s monitoring everything doesn’t seem to want us to explore the underwater secret.
