Above The Sky
Chapter 487 - 487 456 Reincarnation of the End 33

487: Chapter 456: Reincarnation of the End (3/3) 487: Chapter 456: Reincarnation of the End (3/3) When crossing the Ground Hurricane Bridge, it bestowed upon Ian a very peculiar ‘weightlessness’.

If one were a denizen of Earth during the Star Era, they definitely would have found it easy to understand, right?

It’s akin to the slight floating sensation when an elevator plummets rapidly or a plane lands, yet it was fifty times more intense than that subtle feeling.

“This is not the wind!

Or rather, the wind is indeed present, but it’s not the true essence, just the superficial layer…”

Right off the bat, Ian sensed that something was amiss, “Is this…a reduction in gravity?!”

This discovery sent a shiver down the boy’s spine.

The Ground Hurricane Bridge was not long, Ian let Hua’an and the Frost Butterfly go ahead while he approached the edge of the bridge, looking down into the seemingly endless abyss of Bart’s Great Rift Valley.

Invisibility, the Foresight View was just as dark, the solid cliffs were smooth and gentle on both sides, there were also blocking nets and fences, apparently set up by the surrounding towns to prevent pedestrians and children from falling into them as a safety measure.

The bottom of the valley was far too remote, the depth of Bart’s Great Rift Valley surpassed several thousand meters, even tens of thousands of meters; it was said to be a ‘new sea embryonic shape’ formed by plate movements, originating from the split between the foundation plate beneath the Bison Mountain Range and the Setar Plate.

Even after activating the Silver Chip, one could only vaguely discern a faint dark red at the very bottom…

but it wasn’t clear, Ian couldn’t be sure if it was just an illusion.

But regardless of the truth, he had to abandon his previous notion that the bottom of Bart’s Great Rift Valley housed ‘some geothermal power station’…

That thing clearly wasn’t up to the mark; what lay beneath must be either a pre-civilization anti-gravity engine lab or some kind of fallen starship research base, or some other such confounded entity.

No wonder building a bridge over this was simple.

Reduced gravity plus wind, it would be strange if it weren’t easy!

If it weren’t for the scarcity of time, Ian truly would have loved to stay and witness the carnival festival of the towns around the Ground Hurricane Bridge.

It was said that Sublimators particularly adept at handling the Ground Hurricane environment would come to this place, displaying their extremely skilled flight techniques, with a grand finale featuring large fireworks and a free buffet, quite lively indeed.

“I must come to see this in the future if I get the chance, whether it’s the festival or the bottom layer of the rift—Terra Continent is truly full of wonders!”

This was something worth recording on the Silver Chip by Ian, to ensure it wouldn’t be forgotten.

And after passing the Ground Hurricane Bridge, the team of one human and two fae gradually headed towards Bart’s Grand Station.

On the way, Hua’an was constantly teaching the Frost Butterfly some common knowledge about the life of fae, and occasionally, Ian would chime in as well, for fairy knowledge often doesn’t apply to human realms, and after all, the Frost Butterfly was meant to traverse the world with him, not to have the strange perceptions of the Tara Confederation like a true fae.

However, some of the things Hua’an taught were very useful.

For example, the ‘Spirit Energy’ that reduces one’s presence.

Fae are Spirit Energy beings, they are also creatures that value beauty and various thought memes; their appearance is so stunning on the Terra Continent that it could lead to various dangers.

Of course, most fae that are permitted to leave the Fairy Homeland are already Great Fairies, like Hua’an, which, if converted to human terms, possess the strength of a Middle-to-High Tier of the Second Energy Level, along with various unique abilities.

The most important among these is the ability to easily reach supersonic speeds.

The carapace of a fae is essentially equivalent to a small Armor Suit; with their core power, they can easily accelerate to a degree unfathomable to ordinary people, and even Ian cannot be certain whether his sword’s full speed can keep up with Hua’an’s top speed—putting other things aside, according to his observations, Baron Leyan’s rock cannon might just barely match the full speed flight of Hua’an.

If your killer charge is as fast as someone else’s hundred-meter dash, how can you inflict any harm on them?

If they bump into you a little, you’re supposed to be sent flying!

Of course, the Fae’s carapace was very costly.

This time, in addition to preparing part of it at Harrison Port, Ian had also purchased some alchemy materials in the Leyan Territory, Nauman City, and Yellow Vine Town, and had even hunted magical beasts in the Nine Spiral Abyss – even so, he hadn’t gathered all the materials required for the Frost Butterfly.

It was only after Hua’an had used many potions and demonic beast materials worth several hundred Talle that the shaping was successful.

Besides their strong bodily qualities, the Fae also possessed quite a number of Spirit Energy abilities, with reducing presence being the most critical one, only next to their physical speed.

This was a Spirit Energy ability that could affect human perception, allowing people to see the Fae without eliciting any special reaction.

At most, the thought “Ah, it’s just a Fae, nothing of consequence,” would flit through their minds.

Only individuals with strong souls or children who had an imperfect grasp of concepts could find the flaw in this cognitive blockade of Spirit Energy.

The former, like Ian, could keenly sense that something was amiss and observe the existence of the Fae intently.

The latter simply couldn’t discern what to focus on and what to disregard, rendering this Spirit Energy ineffective.

As children grow up or become precocious, forming a concept of the significance of things, they too would be unable to notice the presence of the Fae.

“There are four, or perhaps five, main categories of Spirit Energy.”

While Hua’an instructed the Frost Butterfly, Ian would listen in, occasionally voicing opinions and questions.

Hua’an, like a patient teacher, would explain in detail for Ian.

Once, when Ian asked, “What’s the difference between the Fae’s Spirit Energy, human Spirit Energy, and the Spirit Energy of the various magical beasts and magical plants?

How many kinds of Spirit Energy are there?” Hua’an patiently explained to Ian the Fae’s internal classification of various Spirit Energies.

The first type of Spirit Energy was the Chosen One’s Spirit Energy.

The Fae called this Chosen Psychic Power or Heart of the Heavens Ability, also known as Void Spirit Ability; its academic name was ‘Chosen of the Void’.

It originated from an unknowable entity, potentially the awakening of a pre-existence force in a true spirit, or it might entirely be the possession by the vast masterless Spirit Energy in the Void – in any case, it depended on luck, and no matter what, it was an irreplicable Spirit Energy.

Moreover, every person received a different Spirit Energy that would change with the bearer’s mindset and grow with the bearer’s growth.

The second type of Spirit Energy was the type possessed by Awakeners like Ian.

Its academic name was ‘Vessel of Desire’, also called the Craving Spirit Energy or Awakened Spiritual Power.

Extreme emotional stimuli caused the natural Origin Structure to change, provoking the soul to appear and awakening the Spirit Energy…

This type of Spirit Energy, despite seeming inferior to the Chosen Ones’, was equally mysterious in its origin.

Although it could be replicated through various extreme experiments, there were to date no particularly stable methods to induce it, and its limits were subject to the will of The Dao.

The third type of Spirit Energy was Life Spirit Energy.

Its academic names were ‘Ascension Radiance’ and ‘Light of Life’.

The ‘Heartlight Body’ that all Third Energy Level Sublimators possessed was a physical manifestation of Life Spirit Energy, which related to things like Origin Quality, human spirit and will, and even conviction and enlightenment, seemingly ethereal concepts.

It would change with one’s mindset and level of resolve; the more a person was convinced they were unquestionably right and the stronger their body, the more indestructible their Life Spirit Energy became.

The fourth type of Spirit Energy was Natural Spirit Energy, academically known as ‘Essence of All Beings’.

It was omnipresent, infinite, and never exhausted, also forever without boundary – at least, that’s how it appeared from the human perspective.

To humanity’s current usage, the power of nature was limitless.

If humans could still conduct some research on the first three types of Spirit Energy, then Natural Spirit Energy, even to this day, was only used by the Fae; there was no way to start researching it.

The good thing was that Natural Spirit Energy was also the easiest to exploit.

Even the pre-epoch civilizations had mastered a highly-efficient usage technology.

Now, it’s named ‘Inscription Art’, which was the main reason the Tara Confederation countries could still ensure productivity after the Calamity of Heavenly Fall.

Because as long as one mastered Inscription Art, even a mere artisan could build a town from scratch on a blank site, ensuring stable resource circulation.

“What about the fifth type of Spirit Energy?”

Hearing this, Ian instantly felt his understanding of Spirit Energy deepen by another layer – at Harrison Port, apart from himself, there were no other Spirit Energy Users, and neither Hiliard nor anyone else could instruct him in this knowledge.

Though the Bishop of White Mist could use Spirit Energy, Ian still found the Spirit Energy from the Huai Guang Church very dubious, so he did not include him.

Moreover, the Bishop could not teach him anything, because Ian “was not a member of Embrace Light and couldn’t use it like they do”.

“The fifth type exists only in theory.”

Since Hua’an was a shaper, even though a novice, she was considered a ‘scholar’ among the Fae.

After a moment of thought, she carefully whispered to Ian, “Don’t tell anyone about this – because this topic is quite significant in the Fae’s Dream Academy!

Actually, I don’t know much either, just some things my teacher mentioned…”

“The fifth type of Spirit Energy is essentially a composite of the first four types…

How should I put it?

We’ve observed that all Spirit Energies, in essence, are ‘virtual manifestations’ derived from that initial as well as final Spirit Energy, and its most fundamental ‘reality’, its original form, is the Fifth Spirit Ability.”

“The Dream Academy calls it ‘Genesis of Origins’…”

“Or, ‘Reincarnation of the End’.”