Chapter 942: Chapter 711: Competing for Inheritance
"You are willing to give me the Rejuvenation spell?" Meina felt her heart tremble, but she still added the word "spell" to her question, ensuring that once Ai Lin confirmed, whether she was sincere or not, she had to give the spell to her!
"How could I? This is a spell I’ve analyzed laboriously. Just giving it to you like that would be letting you off too easily," Ai Lin rolled her eyes at Meina.
"Then what do you mean?" Meina asked, somewhat displeased.
"I will cast the Rejuvenation spell on you once, with an effect lasting three years. And starting from now, don’t bother me for one year," Ai Lin said.
For Ai Lin, dealing with one pest after another was really bothersome. Instead of that, it was better to have this person behave and not stir up trouble here. Especially since Meina was a woman, at least more pleasant to the eye than a man loitering around. Plus, this woman named Meina reminded Ai Lin of the mermaid princess Mina from the Human Realm; Ai Lin wondered how she was doing now.
Meina was immediately tempted, as her trip here was only incidentally about dealing with Ai Lin—she actually had a much more important task.
"I agree," Meina said.
"Then it’s settled," Ai Lin said with a slight smile while Meina felt a strange spell sweep over her.
"Wait, this is my spell!" Meina exclaimed in surprise, for she truly felt her own unique language spell actually succeeded in responding on her own body. That meant Ai Lin’s previous proposal was spoken with a spell!
"That’s right, I learned it, and then I used it on you, to prevent you from reneging," Ai Lin said cheerfully.
Meina’s eyes widened in shock; she truly had never considered that there could be such a magical person in this plane. Meina hadn’t cast many spells in front of Ai Lin, and the few times she had were enough for Ai Lin to learn her magic! You have to understand, this language spell was an insight gained by her teacher from the legacy of giants, and including her teacher and herself, there were no more than five people in the entire plane who could use it. But now, one more had to be added to the list.
"I finally understand how you got your Rejuvenation spell," Meina nodded thoughtfully, realizing she had to regard Ai Lin as an even greater threat. Any spell you want to cast in front of her comes with the risk of her learning it. Meaning, if your spell can’t decide the victory in one strike, then likely soon, the next spell hitting you will be your own.
Ai Lin just smiled and said nothing, casting a Rejuvenation spell. Meina’s heavy makeup started to flake off, and her plump figure began to slim down slightly. But her skin started to tighten again, becoming smoother and more delicate.
"Much better looking than makeup," Ai Lin said with a smile.
Meina cast a Mirror Image spell on herself and, looking at her reflection, she truly couldn’t believe her eyes. Because this change was truly an inner and outer transformation – young and full of vitality!
"I will keep my word, I will not bother you in the slightest. From now on, I will not appear before you again," Meina said as she made to leave.
"Don’t be in such a hurry to go, I still have some questions for you," Ai Lin stopped Meina.
"What else do you want?" Meina thought she should get as far away from Ai Lin as possible; she was very worried that Ai Lin might suddenly change her mood and take back the Rejuvenation spell.
"Recently, those ancient powerhouses have been very active; what’s the reason for this?" Ai Lin asked.
"You don’t know?" Meina replied with a question.
"Should I know?" Ai Lin countered.
"Yes, you should," Meina said.
"Well, unfortunately, you might as well just tell me then," Ai Lin said.
"Do you know about the giants’ legacy?" Meina asked.
"You mean the junk the giants left behind?" Ai Lin said with a laugh.
"The junk the giants left behind? If you can find a powerful giant’s legacy, that ’junk’ could make you the most powerful person in this plane overnight!" Meina said.
"Ok, that’s it?" Although Ai Lin was interested in these items, when it came to the giants’ legacy, Ai Lin had a living, bouncing giant at her side!
"Other than that, there’s only the Cosmic Stone shards left," Meina said.
Cosmic Stone shards?
Ai Lin lifted her arms, and two huge Cosmic Stone shards lay dormant, looking like ordinary crystal ornaments.
"These are... Cosmic Stone shards?"
Meina was amazed at the size of the shards.
"Yes, I haven’t really used them," Ai Lin channeled her mana, and the Cosmic Stone shards immediately erupted with terrifying energy fluctuations.
Meina was outright scared silly. A tiny Cosmic Stone shard was enough to elevate someone from an ordinary mage to Sanctuary level, and Ai Lin actually had two enormous ones! At that moment, Meina felt extremely grateful that she hadn’t engaged in any serious conflicts with Ai Lin. If there was a direct confrontation, her minor language magic might allow for some trickery. But once Ai Lin unleashed all her power, Meina wouldn’t be able to withstand a fraction of it!
Since Ai Lin was now aware of the recent activity of the ancient powerhouses, there was no need to talk further with Meina. Meina left with her heart racing, swearing never to come close to Ai Lin again. After all, she had three years of youth to enjoy! And after three years... if she asked again, Ai Lin probably wouldn’t refuse, right?
Afterwards, Ai Lin immediately contacted Long Yi to discuss the matters of the giants’ legacy and the Cosmic Stone shards. Of course, Long Yi had to take such matters seriously, as the true ownership of what was so-called the giants’ legacy should be Long Yi’s by right.
They unanimously agreed that when ancient powerhouses emerged to compete for the Giant’s legacy, neither the Sanctuary Empire nor The Divine Auffa Empire should have the time to continue their opposition. They should take advantage of this opportunity to search for the supposed ancient legacies and where they might be.
So, Long Yi and Ai Lin delegated their current tasks and then departed. Both Saint Jialin and Saint Danze, upon hearing that they were going to search for the Giant’s legacy, were almost eager for them to set out immediately. It was known that, aside from some ancient powerhouses, many nations across the plane were searching for the Giant’s legacy. Great empires hoped to consolidate their dominance through the Giant’s legacy, while small nations hoped the powerful Giant’s legacy could make them stronger.
After passing through several planets, Long Yi and Ai Lin, who had completely changed their appearances, met on an unfamiliar planet.
They embraced, kissed passionately, and engaged in a series of activities that Long Yi had dreamt of during many sleepless nights.
Long Yi boarded the ship they were to travel on this time.
The Great Explorer.
This was once the Floating Island of the Dragon Clan, where the Dragon Clan Council was located. After the end of the Dragon Island war, Long Yi had brought this floating island into his private space. At the time, he was merely indulging in a flight of fancy, yet he had never imagined his private space would be so terrifyingly capable that it could even contain the floating island.
The Great Explorer was originally a planetary outpost, not primarily designed for space travel. But adhering to the principle that anything produced by a Giant must be abnormal, it had no issue traveling through the cosmos. Not only did it have no issue, but it was also faster than the fastest ship in the current plane. Of course, Long Yi did not dare to use it blatantly; he had the ship’s own intelligent interface slightly modify the Great Explorer to make it appear more ordinary.
"Where are we heading?" Ai Lin asked, clinging to Long Yi’s arm, unable to get enough of him as they reunited, like newlyweds.
"The intelligent interface has already found a series of locations with the highest probability. By optimizing the route, we’ll just have to search each one in turn."
A giant star map emerged on the huge console. Points of light with a basic color twinkled, and the intensity of their flickering indicated the level of likelihood of something existing there. Apart from that, there were blue points, marking possible locations of Cosmic Stone shards.
Of course, this star map was not fixed. The Great Explorer would constantly search its surroundings, and as soon as it found the location of a legacy or Cosmic Stone shard, it would immediately update the star map.
"Let’s start with the biggest ones to avoid having them snatched by others," Ai Lin suggested.
"Great! I’ll listen to you!" Long Yi said with a chuckle, pinching Ai Lin’s cheek affectionately.
Although the Giant’s legacy and Cosmic Stone shards appeared on a massive scale every hundred years, they did not suddenly pop out of nowhere with a bang. First, Cosmic Stone shards would appear, from small to large, and only then would the Giant’s legacies emerge.
The Great Explorer traveled quietly until a blue dot suddenly appeared on the star map.
"A Cosmic Stone shard?" Long Yi looked up while holding Ai Lin sweetly.
"There are other ships nearby," Ai Lin said, pointing at a few symbols by the side.
"Let’s go! Snatch it!" Long Yi said laughing heartily.
Guided by the star map, the Great Explorer headed directly for the nearby Cosmic Stone shard and indeed encountered some ships along the way. These ships were flying slowly, and magic emanated from all directions, likely in search of the Cosmic Stone shards.
But searching for a stone in the vastness of space is no easy task. However, the Great Explorer was different; as a creation of the Giants, it reacted to any Giant-related objects.
As other ships saw the Great Explorer fly by rapidly, they started chasing after it. They only saw a gravitational beam pull up something from the depths of space and speed away, without even slowing down. After that, the fluctuation of the Cosmic Stone shard disappeared! The people on the two ships cursed furiously. They had been searching here for over ten days, their eyes nearly popping out, only to have it snatched away so easily?
"This piece is really not small!"
Long Yi laughed heartily as he handed a fist-sized Cosmic Stone shard to Ai Lin.
"Indeed, this is huge!" Ai Lin nodded in surprise.
"I heard there are some as big as houses!" Long Yi said, pointing to some larger blue points on the map.
"How big is a real Cosmic Stone then?" Ai Lin looked up with wide eyes.
"Does the intelligent interface know?" Long Yi asked the intelligent interface.
"Yes, I know," the intelligent interface said, "Because the early energy compression capabilities were not perfect, housing the energy to birth a plane needed to occupy a massive amount of substitute space. So the basic diameter of a Cosmic Stone was around one hundred and seventy thousand meters. Later on, as the compression magic greatly improved, the size of Cosmic Stones generally stabilized at around one thousand meters."
"Is our Cosmic Stone from the early period or the later period?" Long Yi asked.
"Transparent Cosmic Stones are from the early universe, and as the compression degree increased, the color of Cosmic Stones got darker, with the later Cosmic Stones being black," the intelligent interface explained.
"Do we have any black Cosmic Stone shards here?"
"No, the black Cosmic Stones have extremely high stability. According to the Giants’ speculation, aside from gods, no other being, not even the Giants themselves, could shatter it."
"Well, at least we have this one!"
Long Yi, though eager for a bargain, was fortunately not greedy.
"Yes, I’m not greedy at all!" (To be continued. If you like this work, please visit qidian.com to vote for recommendation tickets, monthly tickets, and your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users please read at m.qidian.com).
