As the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud merged into Chen Ming's Spirit Bone, he sensed a strange fluctuation.
It was not a normal Spirit Power fluctuation, nor was it a spiritual fluctuation from the Douluo world. It was a special kind of energy wave, one that seemed closer to some kind of system…
More specifically, it felt like the code formed when an edited program started running.
Chen Ming pushed his computing power almost to the limit. Aside from what he needed to maintain his body's basic functions, he poured all of it into analyzing that piece of code. Through the fusion between the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and himself, Chen Ming gradually read some broken pieces of information from it.
"Ocean Heart spaceship core… highest authority verification… energy engraving transcription…"
Chen Ming could not read the deepest information inside the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, but he managed to read some surface records.
There had once been a human civilization in the universe that focused on technology. The individual strength of this civilization was very weak. Even with technology like genetic modification, their strongest people could only reach a level equal to a Spirit Ancestor among Douluo humans.
Because they overdeveloped their home planet, this civilization stretched its reach into the universe. Their overall technology was powerful, but during their expansion, they encountered powerful individual beings known as gods.
At first, this civilization gained quite a few advantages through the power of technology, but in the end, they suffered a decapitation strike. Their entire capital was breached, and large amounts of technology completely lost its lowest-level control authority. After that, the whole civilization began to be destroyed.
In the end, the scientists of this civilization gathered the strength of their entire people and referred to the divine power used by gods. They created a spaceship called the Ocean Heart and sent the last spark of their civilization into the vast universe.
Through the coordinates of Douluo Star that they had accidentally obtained from a ruin, the scientists of the technological civilization arrived at Douluo Star. But at the same time, they also drew the attention of the spirit beast race.
Douluo Star's energy level was extremely high, and a large number of spirit beasts lived there. With their heavily damaged technological power, they could not fight against so many spirit beasts. The spaceship that had crossed the stars was eventually damaged in the attacks of the spirit beasts, and only the core of the Ocean Heart was preserved.
The scientists were shocked to discover that this world also had beings of their own kind. At the very least, they were almost one hundred percent identical in terms of genes. So they began to reproduce with the people of the Douluo world and left behind descendants.
Some of their descendants inherited their science and technology. But because the materials and energy systems were different, they walked the special path of soul tools.
Another group, because their civilization had faced destruction several times, learned a painful lesson. They believed the potential of technology could not compare to personal strength, so they began the so-called god-making plan.
After being modified and after a large number of human experiments, the core of the Ocean Heart spaceship gradually converted its lowest-level energy into Spirit Power, allowing it to combine with certain Martial Souls.
But because they had given up on technology, and because the god-making plan never succeeded, this branch that pursued god-making eventually fell completely under the waves of time. Their civilization returned to ignorance, and only a small part of their knowledge was passed down.
The core of the Ocean Heart was passed down as a tribal heirloom, until tens of thousands of years later, a special young man relied on his mutated Martial Soul and, by pure accident, absorbed the core of the Ocean Heart into his body, merging it with his Martial Soul.
The four abilities of the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud—Vast Sea Protective Barrier, Cosmic Stasis Barrier, Vast Sea Wild Waves, and Cosmic Magic Breaker—were the four abilities once possessed by that spaceship.
They were, respectively: a ability used for traveling through space, which hid its aura and achieved both physical invisibility and defense; a control ability used to restrain enemies or buy time; the Ocean Heart's group fire; and the Ocean Heart's charged shot.
(In the original story, the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud was defined as a god-level soul tool with four divine abilities. By Douluo Dalu 2, even Kong Deming's Silver Moon Divine Light Barrier could not reach this level. So saying this thing was the crystallization of another world's technology was not an exaggeration.)
This really is a story that's both sci-fi and fantasy…
Before Chen Ming could continue cracking the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud's deeper authority, he sensed a power awakening inside it.
It was a blue-gold figure, covered completely in light. Its facial features and appearance could not be seen clearly. Only a strange sense of majesty could be felt from it.
Although it looked very divine, the moment it opened its mouth, the imposing aura it had barely built up instantly shattered.
"Holy crap, there's actually someone in this world with spiritual power at this level? When did I reach this level back then? Was it at Titled Douluo? Or after I had been a Titled Douluo for some time? If I hadn't cracked the bottom-level authority ahead of time, this thing would've almost been refined by you directly."
"Kid, your talent isn't bad! Want to become a god? I've got a good chance right here!"
"As long as you're willing to take over my burden, forget just the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud. I'll even give you a super divine weapon. When the time comes, you can smack whoever you want on Douluo Continent."
Sea God's voice carried majesty, but also a trace of sleaziness and relief, like a creepy uncle using candy to trick a little girl.
"Senior, you are?"
"I'm the lucky guy you sensed in those records earlier, the one who happened to inherit the Sea God's Heart. But I wasn't only lucky. My talent was also very good, so I became a god…"
Sea God patted his chest. Then he casually grabbed at the empty air, and a blue-gold trident appeared in his hand.
This was not a projection of the Sea God Trident. It was an illusory trident formed from the power of this strand of Sea God's divine thought.
The Sea God Trident itself was Sea God's weapon, a super divine weapon formed after he became a god and fused it with the Ocean Heart. For him, summoning such an illusion was simply too easy.
"I originally threw this thing out as bait, hoping to see if I could find someone similar to me to inherit it."
"But I didn't expect that after so many years, no one would be able to gain its recognition. Not only did no one reach the level I wanted, but my descendants also couldn't receive my complete inheritance."
"Kid, your talent is very good. Better than mine back then. I have a path here that can let you rise quickly. Do you want it?"
"Senior, could you be the legendary Sea God who unified the sea?"
Looking at this unreliable Sea God, Chen Ming felt a few drops of cold sweat form on his forehead. After composing himself, he finally spoke.
"That's right. It's me. The legendary one is me. I am Sea God. I am Poseidon. Don't think gods have to be serious beings. In truth, before I became a god, I was human too. No one ever said a god must be as stern as a stone."
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