Divine Chapter 60

  "The gravitational lens" sounds like a science fiction term, but Lin Xu's method of achieving it is through divine intervention, which can also be considered a new divine technique.

  This move itself is not complicated, it's the same as when kids use a magnifying glass to burn ants, only on a much larger scale. By using divine power to alter gravity and create a super-gravitational field in a localized area, bending the sunlight projected by the sun, and finally focusing the gathered sunlight onto one point, the killing power will undoubtedly increase exponentially with the expansion of the "Gravity Lens" effect range. If not restricted by environmental and temporal factors, this divine technique created by Lin Xuan is enough to destroy the entire realm, a powerful killer move.

  No matter how great the accumulated power is, it must hit the target to be effective. This move is useless on the battlefield.

  The enemy, if aware of the anomaly, can easily disrupt the formation of this technique. Only when dealing with inanimate objects that do not think or counterattack can this "Gravity Lens" technique exert its maximum effect.

  "Cheers!"

  With Lin Xu's shout, the cloudless sky began to gradually darken. The darkening of the sky was not because it was about to rain, but because the sunlight within a radius of twenty miles was converging towards the mountain where Lin Xu was under the effect of "Gravitational Lensing", and the scene before him resembled an impending solar eclipse.

  To avoid any unexpected situations with the divine technique burning down his own home, Lin Xiang specially ran to a desolate mountain without any human traces before starting. The mountain peak chosen as the testing ground had its surrounding flying creatures and beasts driven away by the yin soldiers of the Mountain God Temple beforehand. Lin Xiang feared that his limited control would harm innocent lives and affect his merits, so he even dug up an ant nest underground and relocated it to a safe area. Afterwards, he sent someone to cast a spell to drive away insects in the surrounding area. Now, this desolate land was clean to the point where not a single living creature could be seen, except for a few clusters of weeds and sparse shrubs that couldn't escape.

  Lin Xu's series of spell arrays set up in the desolate mountains can block internal and external communication, only a limited number of energies that meet specific conditions can freely penetrate the ban.

  Imagine, under such airtight defensive measures, even if the master of the jade hook sensed that his divine instrument was about to be destroyed and rushed over after confirming its location, the rape flowers would have already wilted.

  At this time, the focal point formed by "gravity lens" in mid-air has no color to see, and people usually feel that sunlight is changing between golden and red. Now looking at it, there is only a piece of white light at the focal point position, and the whole sky seems to have become a black curtain.

  Although he hadn't calculated the timing, Lin Xu relied on his intuition to sense that the fire was almost ready. He then shouted loudly at the side and said:

  "Wait until you exit ten miles away."

  Sunlight contains abundant positive energy, which is the natural enemy and nemesis of all negative energies in the world. Indeed, sunlight can nourish the life of all things, but it can also kill life, depending on its concentration. When it destroys those with negative energy characteristics, it also has the same work efficiency.

  Ordinary yin souls will definitely disperse in ten minutes under sunlight, even if the yin soldiers are no longer afraid of ordinary sunlight, they will still be burned to nothing under the intense sunlight concentrated by "gravitational lens".

  Just before Lin Xu gave the order, the dark troops gathered near the desolate mountain had already sensed the danger threatening their lives, and their icy, lifeless bodies shuddered violently, like sieving chaff. Only because of the strict military law of the Mountain God Temple, they did not dare to move a single step. Now that they had received the personal permission of the Mountain God, how could the dark troops not run? In just the blink of an eye, the dark troops surrounding the desolate mountain had already run away without even leaving a shadow.

  After dispersing the irrelevant personnel, Lin Xu carefully took out a yellow silk fabric filled with talismans written in cinnabar. This time, he even saved the trouble of unpacking, and with a flick of his hand, he threw the bundle that bound the eight-foot-long qiong hook jade towards the focal point of the sunlight.

  "Hmm——"

  The scorching heat of the focused sunlight instantly incinerated the layer of fabric wrapped around the jade hook, turning it into wisps of ash that scattered in the wind. Immediately following this, the eight-foot-long jade hook began to emit a hazy, purple mist-like glow, struggling to resist the terrifying destructive power of the sunlight.

  The root of all techniques lies in manipulating energy. Although divine techniques are more brilliant than ordinary spells, there is no difference from this point alone.

  The channel for exchanging energy with the outside world has been cut off, and it is unbearable to bear the heavy pressure. Even if a powerful artifact like a divine instrument is at this point, it is only a water without a source, a tree without a root. No matter how much energy the eight-foot jade hook was accumulated when it was worshipped in the Eastern Shrine, it is impossible to compete with the nearly infinite positive energy provided by the sun. It's not yet noon, and the subsequent solar resources are abundant. Lin Xu has plenty of time to wait for the final fate of the eight-foot jade hook, which is only destined for destruction.

  "Rustle! Rustle! Rustle! Boom——"

  It was like this that they stood still in the sunlight for over an hour, until the Eight-Footed Jade Hook finally exhausted its stored energy and emitted a series of fine, glass-like cracking sounds, before exploding into countless fragments that fell to the ground amidst a thick, purple smoke.

  Lin Xu used the divine technique "Gravity Lens" to thoroughly destroy the external form of this divine artifact, but its essence did not disappear so easily. The reason why it has the title of a divine artifact is not only because it was born from a famous school of law, but also because there must be some kind of rule that conforms to the Heavenly Way hidden inside, which is the basis for a law treasure to be revered as a divine artifact.

  As the jade shattered into pieces and fell, a strange phenomenon appeared in the original position of the eight-foot-long jade. Countless golden characters with structures as fine as silk threads and radiant like the sunlight at noon suddenly broke free from the physical constraints of the jade and began to move on their own. These shining characters intertwined with each other in the intense sunlight that was too dazzling to look directly at, forming a structure consistent with the details, only several sizes larger than the same type of character, as if they had gained life and were lively and active, flying up and down.

  "Desist! Halt! Prohibit!"

  He had already glimpsed the text hidden in the eight-foot-long jade hook, and Lin Xuan was afraid that these extraordinary texts would escape. He removed the "Gravity Lens" that was constantly consuming his spiritual power. Then, with one hand holding the Mountain God Seal of his family, and the other hand pinched into a finger seal, he continuously shouted out three commands.

  Divine power is like a mountain, divine grace is like the sea. The special privileges enjoyed by the gods are often useful, relying on the prestige of the gods to suppress the effect, and in just a few breaths, the white * that came from all directions has already wrapped the golden character tightly. Those faintly glowing characters, once bound by external forces, instinctively began to violently collide with the surrounding *. The latter had the endless divine power support of the white *, although it was far less mysterious and wonderful than the golden character in essence, but it was also full of energy and didn't fall behind.

  For a moment, the intense golden light and the heavy white gas intertwined and rubbed against each other to produce flames that were as dazzling as electric welding arc lights, making people dare not look directly at their existence.

  The runes were inanimate objects, their struggles merely a manifestation of the rules being unwilling to be bound. As Lin Xu gradually increased his strength, these runes also gradually lost their vitality and soon calmed down from their throbbing.

  "Received!"

  Seeing this, Lin Xu knew that the eight-footed jade hook had been destroyed, and the original owner of the treasure must have noticed something. He was worried that the night would be long and he would miss his chance, so he had to act quickly. After a loud shout, the talisman wrapped in white air slowly descended from mid-air and landed safely in Lin Xu's palm.

  Lin Xuan carefully put away the spoils of war and waved his hand, saying:

  "Retreat, men! Return to headquarters!"

  "Got it!"

  The team returned to the old mountain temple under Tianzhu Mountain, and Lin Xu had enough time to re-examine the spoils of war. After a brief rest, in the quiet room of the mountain temple where he set up layer upon layer of seals, he calmed his mind and began to decipher this talisman.

  Unlike the divine artifact, the eight-footed qing hook jade previously obtained, this group of golden characters that appear mysterious at first glance are formed by energy aggregation. Although the external form exhibits some material characteristics, these characters are not actually existing substances no matter how much they look like entities. Due to the pure nature of energy, this symbol does not have the property of recognizing its master like the hook jade, and anyone who gets it can use it. For Lin Xu, only things that can be used have value, such as the eight-footed qing hook jade wrapped in sugar-coated poison, the sooner he dies, the better for him.

  When the former Mount Hua God passed on his divine position, he also imparted countless knowledge to Lin Xu. Now that he has digested and absorbed some of it, the increase in his knowledge has made Lin Xu no longer as bewildered and ignorant about everything around him as when he first arrived in this realm.

  If we say that as a common understanding, Lin Xu was very clear that in the ancient mythological era where gods and humans coexisted, human cultivators imitated the divine texts used by the great gods to record the heavenly laws, creating a simplified version of the divine text system - the symbol text system.

  Runes can be considered a paradigm of complex and varied writing systems. It is easy to understand that if a single character needs to describe a very profound technique, including the entire process from its basic principles to the application methods, then the structure of the runes themselves cannot be simple.

  Complexity means it is difficult to grasp, until ordinary people create a more convenient and easy-to-use writing system, the scope of use of Oracle bones has been greatly reduced.

  These intricate and varied strokes have been passed down to later generations, and are actually called "ghost characters" by outsiders who don't know how to decipher their meaning. It's really speechless.

  Even if the human cultivator created this set of glyph systems, its complexity has already reached the extreme that humans can understand.

  This profound thing, ordinary people spend their whole lives studying and can't learn a few, but compared to the divine text that is said to have been used to carry the laws of heaven and earth at first, as a product of human wisdom, the rune can be regarded as a reading material for kindergarten children to recognize characters by pictures.

  Any divine character you pick out is an expression of the law within the universe, including the description of a single law in different material forms and its changing rules and transformation programs under different time states. Therefore, learning how to correctly interpret even just one divine character requires spending a huge amount of time, which far exceeds what human beings can afford with their natural lifespan.