184: Chapter 184 Visitors from the Earth's Core

Inside Tianshu Dragon Garden.

The stone Seal hovered in Jiang Feng's palm.

That line of text was still glowing.

[Please, Namer Jiang Feng, proceed to the core of Blue Star.]

[She wants to see you.]

Liu Cuilan looked at the dishes on the table, then at Jiang Feng.

"Is it absolutely necessary to go?"

Jiang Feng nodded.

"Yes."

Liu Cuilan didn't ask further.

She set down her chopsticks and turned to enter the kitchen.

Li Yan was stunned for a moment.

"Auntie, what are you..."

Before long.

Liu Cuilan came out carrying an insulated lunch box.

Inside were sweet and sour spare ribs.

The rice was packed down firmly.

She thrust the lunch box into Jiang Feng's hands.

"Take it."

Jiang Feng took it.

"Okay."

The corner of Li Yan's mouth twitched.

"Wait, you're going to the earth's core to meet the Old Master, and you're bringing a packed lunch?"

Jiang Feng glanced at him.

"To eat when I'm hungry."

The Dragon Girl's true form, holding her bowl, nodded earnestly.

"Grandma's cooking can beat the bad things."

Li Yan fell silent.

This statement was absurd.

But in Jiang Feng's house, it was strangely reasonable.

Zero Seven stared at the stone Seal, her expression remaining tense.

"Mr. Jiang, the Former Lord of Blue Star belongs neither to the Nine Realms nor to the First Blue Star."

"For her to be sealed by The Name Writer, her status must be incredibly high."

Jiang Feng put the lunch box into his storage space.

"If it's high, I'll just dismantle it."

Zhang Changlin gave a dry cough.

"Simple and clear."

Li Yan grinned.

"That's what you call professional alignment."

Xiao Zhenjiang's communication came through at that moment.

"Jiang Feng, the Huaxia Leylines are opening."

"The four ancient traces of Kunlun, Mount Tai, the Yangtze River, and Dongjiang are all pointing to a single coordinate."

He paused.

"Beneath Dongjiang City Fourth High School."

Li Yan was amused.

"Why is it the Fourth High School again?"

"This school is really busy."

Jiang Feng said, "They love having classes."

"I love dropping out."

In the next second.

He took a step forward.

Space cracked open.

The others followed.

Dongjiang City Fourth High School.

The playground had already been cleared by the military.

Beneath the old teaching building, the ground split open on its own.

It wasn't a collapse.

It was more like a door opening.

A flight of bluish-black stone steps led from deep within the playground all the way underground.

There were no runes on either side of the steps.

Only common names, one after another.

Dongjiang.

Mount Tai.

Kunlun.

Yellow River.

Yangtze River.

Huaxia.

With every step down.

Those names would light up for a moment.

As if Blue Star were lighting lamps for itself.

Zero Seven whispered, "These aren't external names."

"They are the place names Blue Star has acknowledged for itself."

Li Yan touched the wall.

"That's pretty good."

"One's own doorplate should be written by oneself."

Jiang Feng continued downward.

When he reached the ninety-ninth step, a black door appeared at the end of the stone steps.

A person stood before the door.

The person wore old hemp clothes and held a stone knife in hand.

There were no facial features on the face.

A wooden plaque hung on the chest.

Three words were written on the plaque.

[Heart Guardian]

The Heart Guardian raised the stone knife, blocking Jiang Feng.

"The earth's core has not awakened."

"Outsiders, halt."

Jiang Feng looked at it.

"Who is the outsider?"

The Heart Guardian raised a hand and pointed.

A grey ring emerged beneath Jiang Feng's feet.

[Earth Core Rejection activated.]

[Target being judged: Jiang Feng.]

[Identity Conflict: pangu godhead, Outsider Soul, Blue Star Citizen, Namer.]

[Recommendation: Expulsion.]

Li Yan's expression changed.

"Is it trying to kick you out of the Blue Star residency?"

Jiang Feng glanced down.

"Quite practiced."

After speaking, he lifted his foot.

And stomped.

Crack!

The grey ring shattered on the spot.

The System prompt sounded.

[Contacted: Earth Core Rejection Rule.]

[Plunderable.]

Jiang Feng said, "Plunder."

[Secret Art: Pangu Plunder activated.]

[Plundered Earth Core Rejection Rule.]

[Gained all attributes: 180 ganges sand.]

[Current basic six-dimensional attributes: 2180 ganges sand.]

The black door shook.

The Heart Guardian took half a step back.

A stroke of the characters on the wooden plaque on its chest faded.

But it quickly raised the knife again.

"The Former Lord of Blue Star shall not see weapons."

Jiang Feng glanced at the stone knife in its hand.

"What is that you're holding?"

The Heart Guardian stopped.

Li Yan couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"Brother, your double standards are a bit too smooth."

The Heart Guardian did not answer.

The stone knife fell.

This strike did not cut the Physical Body.

It cut belonging.

Behind Jiang Feng, the shadow of Tianshu Dragon Garden, Liu Cuilan's old wooden box, Jiang Jianguo's ruyi heaven-breaking staff, and the red light of the peace buckle were all pulled by the blade simultaneously.

The Heart Guardian's voice was hollow.

"Sever the small home to see the Great Star."

Jiang Feng's gaze turned cold.

"You're even more in need of a beating than The Name Writer."

He reached out and grabbed the stone knife directly.

The blade pressed against his palm.

It didn't break the skin.

Not even a white mark was left.

A System prompt popped up.

[Contacted: Heart Guardian Stone Knife.]

[Function: Severing family belonging, weakening the Namer's private anchors.]

[Plunderable.]

Jiang Feng's five fingers squeezed.

"Plunder."

[Secret Art: Pangu Plunder activated.]

[Plundered Heart Guardian Stone Knife.]

[Gained all attributes: 220 ganges sand.]

[Current basic six-dimensional attributes: 2400 ganges sand.]

Bang!

The stone knife shattered into powder.

The wooden plaque on the Heart Guardian's chest cracked along with it.

Jiang Feng raised his hand and pressed the stone knife powder against the black door.

"When I see my homeland,"

"I don't need to forget my home first."

Boom!

The black door opened.

Behind the door was not a path.

But an inverted starry sky.

Though they were clearly standing underground, they saw mountains and rivers flowing above their heads.

Rivers were above.

Cities were above.

The names of countless Blue Star people were also slowly glowing above.

Like lamps.

And like stars pinning down reality.

And in the deepest part.

There was a massive heart.

That heart was not flesh and blood.

It was blue stone.

It hung there quietly; every beat caused the entire earth-core starry sky to undulate with it.

Three locks were wrapped around the heart.

The first was The Name Writer's closed-eye symbol.

The second was the Pangu axe mark.

The third was the pattern of the red peace buckle.

Zero Seven's voice was dry as she watched.

"This is the Blue Star core?"

Zhang Changlin said solemnly, "It looks more like a Seal core."

Li Yan stared at that heart.

"Then where is the Old Master?"

As soon as he finished speaking.

A woman's voice came from behind the heart.

"I am here."

The blue light parted.

A woman walked out.

She was barefoot, wearing a very old bluish-green dress.

Her face couldn't be seen clearly.

But she was holding a child in her arms.

A red peace buckle also hung around the child's neck.

Li Yan's scalp tingled.

"The mother routine again?"

Jiang Feng didn't move.

The woman looked down at the child in her arms.

"It's not an act for you to see."

"This is the last form I remember."

She looked up.

Her gaze fell upon Jiang Feng.

"Jiang Feng."

"Thank you for returning my name."

The System prompt flashed.

[Detected: Remnant Soul of the Former Lord of Blue Star.]

[Status: Semi-awakened.]

[Danger Rank: Unknown.]

[Current target has no hostility.]

The Dragon Girl poked her head out from behind Jiang Feng.

"She doesn't look like a bad thing."

Li Yan lowered his voice.

"Bad things don't write the word 'bad' on their faces."

The Dragon Girl thought about it.

"That makes sense."

The woman ignored them.

She raised her hand.

The stone Seal formed from the Fusion of the three old names flew up from Jiang Feng's palm and landed before the blue heart.

The old names on the stone Seal finally became clear for a fleeting moment.

But as soon as those two characters lit up, the entire earth-core starry sky began to vibrate.

Half of the monitoring symbols before Zero Seven's eyes exploded instantly.

Her face turned pale, and she hurriedly closed her eyes.

"Don't look!"

"The status of this name is too high!"

Jiang Feng raised his hand, blocking the others' view.

The stone Seal darkened again.

The woman said softly, "My name was once called..."

She stopped.

After a moment, she whispered:

"It cannot be spoken."

"If it is spoken, the Inverted Chessboard will make a move."

Jiang Feng looked at her.

"Who is the Inverted Chessboard?"

The woman looked up towards the inverted starry sky above the earth's core.

"The Name Writer is merely the one holding the pen."

"First Blue Star is merely the delivery room."

"Pangu is merely the axe."

"The one truly playing the game is at the Inverted Chessboard."

Following these words.

The blue light of the earth's core suddenly dimmed by half.

A crack appeared in the first lock on the blue heart, the closed-eye symbol.

The System prompt blared.

[Remnant Soul of the Former Lord of Blue Star has provided a Truth Fragment.]

[Triggered Hidden Advancement Chain: World Name Guardian.]

[Current Class: Pangu Sovereign.]

[Can open Fourteenth Awakening Pre-requisite: Name Guardian, Chess-Slayer.]

[Pre-requisite Condition 1: Shatter the three locks of the Blue Star core.]

[Pre-requisite Condition 2: Sever the first piece placed by the Inverted Chessboard.]

[Upon completion, the class will advance to: Pangu Sovereign · Divine Name Lord.]

[Estimated all attribute increase: Unknown.]

Li Yan's eyes went wide.

"Fourteenth Awakening?"

"Didn't he just reach Level 1000 and become a god?"

"It's coming again already?"

Zhang Changlin also couldn't help but whisper, "This path is no longer a conventional cultivation System."

Zero Seven watched the System prompt, her throat moving slightly.

She had a feeling.

Jiang Feng wasn't following a path of leveling up.

He was dismantling the paths written by others and treading out a new one for himself.

Jiang Feng looked at the three locks on the heart.

"Can they be dismantled?"

The woman looked at him.

"They can."

"But the third lock cannot be forcibly dismantled by you."

Jiang Feng's gaze fell on the pattern of the peace buckle.

The woman said, "That is a blessing left for you by Liu Cuilan."

"It is also the final thread I borrowed to suppress myself."

"If it's dismantled incorrectly, she will hear my dreams."

Li Yan's expression changed.

"Auntie is going to be involved again?"

The woman shook her head.

"It's not involvement."

"It's an invitation."

"For Blue Star to awaken, it needs a Mortal mother to confirm one thing for it."

Jiang Feng's voice dropped.

"Confirm what?"

The child in the woman's arms suddenly moved.

The child slowly raised its head.

The face was exactly the same as a three-year-old Jiang Feng's.

Only the eyes were blue.

He looked at Jiang Feng and spoke.

"To confirm that after Blue Star awakens,"

"Whether it will be a homeland,"

"Or be a god."

The heart of the earth's core thudded violently.

Thump!

Tianshu Dragon Garden.

The peace buckle in front of Liu Cuilan lit up.

A small blue door opened in the living room.

The woman's voice came from inside the door.

"Cuilan."

"I am not stealing your son."

"I just want to ask you one question."

"If Blue Star is to awaken,"

"Are you willing to be its mother once?"