Chapter 307: Divine Artifact, Main God? Faith
Hidden by the Sea of Clouds, at the foot of Paradise Mountain, there is a garden covering a thousand li. The ground of the garden is strewn with gold, pearls, and red agate.
Various trees grow from the ground, covered in strange and exotic flowers, a beautiful sight. Tang Song walked through the garden with his hands behind his back, looking at the densely packed fruits hanging on the towering trees. He spread his palm.
An orange-yellow fruit, like a pineapple, was pulled down by an invisible force and appeared in Tang Song's palm. Invisible sword qi penetrated through it, evenly dividing the pineapple fruit into six segments.
Tang Song picked up a segment and tasted it. A sweet fruity aroma filled his nostrils; the taste was good, but it was just ordinary fruit. Tang Song finished eating a few segments, clapped his hands, and strolled through the Garden of Eden, searching for the legendary apple tree that tempted Adam and Eve.
According to legend, that apple tree should be a type of spiritual plant and spiritual item, just like the Golden Apple tree.
Strolling through this Garden of Eden, the river water flowed murmuringly through the garden, nourishing the earth.
The river divided into four streams surrounding the Garden of Eden. Walking along the riverbanks, Tang Song finally saw two apple trees in the center of the Garden of Eden.
These two apple trees were surrounded by dense magic particles. Among the jade-like leaves, bright red, fist-sized fruits were hidden.
Tang Song stood under the two apple trees that towered into the clouds, looking up at them. In the Bible, these two fruit trees represent life and knowledge.
If a person ate the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge, they would become intelligent, gain wisdom, their eyes would become bright, and they would know how to distinguish good and evil, right and wrong.
So the Tree of Knowledge is also called the Tree of Good and Evil. However, these two fruit trees were clearly Yahweh's exclusive territory.
The Bible records that Eve, in pursuit of knowledge and wanting to become intelligent and bright-eyed, stole and ate the forbidden fruit of Knowledge, and also shared it with Adam.
When Yahweh knew they had stolen and eaten the forbidden fruit and become intelligent, he took away their patent rights to distinguish good and evil. Fearing they would eat the fruit from the other tree in the garden—the Tree of Life—and gain immortality, he simply drove them out of the Garden of Eden! "Crunch!" Tang Song took a bite of the bright red apple in his hand. A cool sensation immediately rushed straight to his heavenly spirit.
"This is a Spirit Awakening Fruit?"
Tang Song looked at the apple in his hand that he had bitten. The cool qi flow had an effect on him now that was like eating ice cream in midsummer.
However, Tang Song understood what the so-called forbidden fruit of knowledge was actually used for.
In the Jambudvīpa World, there are mountain foxes and wild beasts that, by chance, eat a certain mountain treasure or spirit herb, awakening their spirit and opening their minds, escaping ignorance and becoming part of the monster category.
There are numerous types of these mountain treasures and spirit herbs, but they are generally collectively referred to as Spirit Awakening Fruit or Mind Opening Pill.
This so-called Tree of Knowledge, the forbidden fruit of wisdom, is clearly this type of thing.
"Crunch!"
Tang Song took another bite, savoring the sweetness of the apple in his mouth. It seems that those high-ranking angels, different from ordinary angels, gained their wisdom by relying on this apple.
"Stop playing, come down and eat something!"
Tang Song shouted towards the vast expanse of white Sea of Clouds above his head, but there was no response from the Sea of Clouds. Clearly, the women were having a blast.
Tang Song shook his head. With a wave of his hand, nine thousand-zhang water dragons rushed out from the river surrounding the Garden of Eden.
Tang Song stood in the air, clenched his hand, and grabbed downwards. The impurities within the water dragons were stripped away, leaving their crystal clear dragon bodies extremely pure.
The thousand-zhang water dragons were refined by Tang Song, shrinking into nine water snakes half a foot long, coiled around his wrist.
Tang Song sprayed out a mouthful of true fire, and at the same time, sent dozens of runes and restriction formations into these nine water snakes. The true fire burned the nine water snakes red hot, and they gradually became smaller, falling down, each only about three inches long. Tang Song grabbed them in his hand, rubbed them together, and in his hand, he had nine sword implements. The sword tips, bodies, and hilts were all coiled dragons, extremely exquisite.
"With my current abilities and cultivation base, even if placed in the Jambudvīpa World, I could be the sect master of a sect! Be called a True Immortal!"
Boss Tang, feeling smug and satisfied, seeing no one around, boasted quite a bit about himself. He blew a breath of true qi onto his palm. The small swords in his hand transformed into several streaks of light, carrying a few fruits that had fallen from the trees, piercing into the Sea of Clouds and falling into the hands of Skye, Rogue, and Fox.
In the Sea of Clouds, Skye, Rogue, Fox, and Selene were stepping on clouds that felt solid, traveling through the Sea of Clouds and experiencing the thrill of surfing in the vast expanse of white clouds.
From time to time, screams pierced the silent void of the Heaven Dimension.
The clouds the women were stepping on were naturally not ordinary white clouds, but a magic tool refined by Tang Song from the essence and qi of the white clouds in the sky of the Heaven Dimension.
When unfolded, these clouds could not only spread a cloud miasma for a few li to defend against enemies and protect oneself, but most importantly, this flying magic tool could transform into a mass of white clouds and carry people in flight.
The speed might not be very fast, but compared to the flying swords Tang Song had gifted the women, flying on clouds seemed to be more liked by them.
Boss Tang's honeymoon trip with the girls after a short separation this time, the location he chose made the women completely ecstatic.
This was the legendary Heaven, the Heaven from the Bible.
This is like in a certain country, when a woman learns that her man has brought her to the legendary Heavenly Palace, the Heavenly Court, the thrill brought by subverting common sense and challenging taboos.
Inside the Mountain Interior of Paradise Mountain, thinking of the recent experience, he chuckled proudly a few times. Shaking his head, Tang Song sat cross-legged in the void in the very center of Paradise Mountain. Strands of black and white mist continuously sprayed out from his brow.
Tang Song was refining this Paradise Mountain. Although the Marvel World is not like the Jambudvīpa World, where magic treasures give birth to true spirits and retain the divine sense brand of the original owner.
However, this Paradise Mountain has been in the Heaven Dimension for who knows how many years. Perhaps Yahweh left some backup plan within it. It might as well be cleaned up completely at once.
Vast primordial spirit power poured out from Tang Song's brow. The black and white mist, carrying multicolored energy tides, formed a terrifying energy whirlwind in this void.
Endless energy formed a massive Taiji vortex, sweeping across the entire void. Tang Song carefully searched the entire void space and quickly discovered a golden dodecahedron cube in a hidden location within the void.
"Found it!"
Tang Song's divine sense locked onto this cube. The Yin and Yang vortex directly transformed into a large hand, clutching this golden cube in his palm.
Tang Song's divine sense poured into this golden cube. The next moment, his divine sense felt as if it had been severely slashed by a blade.
The pain was like having a finger directly chopped off. Under the severe pain, Tang Song let out a muffled groan. Three streams of qi rushed out from the top of his head, forming three lotus buds.
Tang Song summoned the Great Desolation Bell with a backhand motion and covered the golden cube with it. The bell sound vibrated. The golden cube continuously changed shape within the bell sound.
A golden winged human with thirty-six pairs of wings on its back, a fierce raptor, a mechanical construct with transformation abilities... In an instant, this golden cube changed into over a thousand forms. Tang Song even saw Yahweh's familiar face among them.
Dong dong dong dong—
The golden cube charged left and right within the Great Desolation Bell. It was even struck by it so hard that the bell walls continuously bulged outwards.
Tang Song used the Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown and all his magic power, but still couldn't quite suppress it. This felt like an ordinary person using an extra-large wooden basin to cover a four-hundred-jin wild boar.
Tang Song, whose qi and blood churned from the impact, realized something was wrong and immediately activated the Reality Stone and Time Stone.
The red light of the Reality Stone and the green light of the Time Stone intertwined. Quickly, a brass-colored bell hammer appeared in Tang Song's hand. The bell hammer merged with the Great Desolation Bell. The original words 'Great Desolation' on the bell wall disappeared, and the words 'Chaos' appeared on the bell wall.
As Tang Song shook the Chaos Bell, this time, the golden cube made no more movement.
Since coming to the Marvel World, Tang Song had seen many divine artifacts of the Marvel World, from Infinity Stones to the magic artifacts of the Underworld. Among these, there were not a few divine weapons in the hands of Skyfathers like King Odin's Gungnir.
But even King Odin's Gungnir and Thor's Mjolnir were not as mysterious and extraordinary, as bizarre, as this golden cube!
This didn't even seem like a product of the Marvel World. Tang Song thought of how the golden cube had just transformed. The golden raptor among them was very much like the Great Peng Golden-Winged Bird from the Jambudvīpa World.
And that mechanical body, those few shape changes, why did it give him the feeling of watching Transformers?
And the demons transformed from lava meteorites, the Burning Legion?
Tang Song pondered in his heart, but his hands didn't stop. Mouthful after mouthful of magic power sprayed onto the Chaos Bell.
The Chaos Bell rang forty-nine times consecutively. Tang Song felt that his magic power was almost completely depleted, and only then did he stop.
After the bell hammer transformed back into the Time Stone, and Tang Song retracted the Great Desolation Bell, a damaged and incomplete white cube module appeared in the void.
Tang Song once again used his divine sense to probe this cube. A cold and mechanical voice sounded in Tang Song's mind: "Main God, Barracks Module, damaged, main body severely damaged, energy severely depleted, module missing.
Current model is Paradise Mountain Barracks, troop template, Angel, troop requirements: Adapt to all environments, possess all-terrain, all-weather combat capabilities, quantity can rapidly multiply.
If you want to change the barracks, please input the required troop model, replenish energy—"
"Main God, barracks, what is this?"
Tang Song felt his CPU was overloaded. Too many elements. Even though he was already a Nascent Divinity Cultivator, with strength comparable to a True Immortal, he was momentarily stunned.
Didn't Tivan say that Paradise Mountain was a divine artifact left behind from the Previous Universe? Could it be that there was some Main God civilization in the Marvel Universe's Previous Universe? Or is it that it's really the Main God from his impression?
"Tell me all information about the Main God!" Tang Song looked at the cube, which was missing more than half, and interfaced his divine sense with the cold mechanical voice.
The cold voice sounded in Tang Song's mind once again: "Main God, Barracks Module, damaged, main body severely damaged, energy severely depleted, module missing.
Current model is Paradise Mountain Barracks, troop template, Angel, troop requirements: Adapt to all environments, possess all-terrain, all-weather combat capabilities, quantity can rapidly multiply.
If you want to change the barracks, please input the required troop model, replenish energy—"
"Tell me your origin, where are you from, the Previous Universe, or outside the Marvel Multiverse!" Tang Song changed direction and asked again.
"Main God, Barracks Module, damaged, main body severely damaged, energy severely depleted, module missing.
Current model is Paradise Mountain Barracks, troop template, Angel, troop requirements: Adapt to all environments, possess all-terrain, all-weather combat capabilities, quantity can rapidly multiply.
If you want to change the barracks, please input the required troop model, replenish energy—"
In Tang Song's mind, the mechanical reminder sound sounded once again.
He finally confirmed that this voice was just a rigid computer system, only operating according to predetermined software.
However, it did match his memory regarding the Main God from his impression.
In the void, there was a lotus pond, with lotus buds blooming in the pond.
In the pure white pond water, a lotus bud bloomed, and a figure three meters tall slowly walked out from the blooming golden lotus.
This Big man wore a yellow turban on his head, his face was like red jade, his Big Beard was like steel needles, his three-meter tall body was sturdy and broad like a wall, baring his muscular upper body. He wore a battle skirt embroidered with clouds and mist on his lower body. In the center of the battle skirt was embroidered a flying bear raising its body and roaring towards the red sun in the sky! The Big man heavily knelt down on one knee on the ground, cupped his fist and bowed towards Tang Song, saying: "Esteemed Senior!"
At this moment, in the void behind Tang Song, thousands of Yellow Turban Big men, similarly dressed and identical in appearance, stood like mountains.
"The energy crystal of the Space Gem is evaluated as low-grade energy. The power of faith is actually rated as medium-grade. The strength of a Yellow Turban Warrior produced from one hundred units of power of faith is equivalent to a Qi Refining Body Cultivator.
A Yellow Turban Warrior produced from ten thousand units of power of faith is equivalent to a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, and a Yellow Turban Warrior produced from a million units of power of faith is equivalent to a Low-Grade Core Formation Yao Cultivator!"
"One unit of power of faith requires the mental thoughts formed by one thousand followers praying piously for a month."
"No wonder the strength of the angels mass-produced by Yahweh using Paradise Mountain is uneven, with so many defective products!"
Power of Faith! Boss Tang looked at the white light spheres permeating the void, rubbed his chin, and was lost in thought.
Within the Federation territory, New Mexico, inside a large arms manufacturing factory of Tang's Arms Company.
At the edge of the testing ground on the lowest level, the door of an elevator slowly opened. Yuri Orlov, accompanied by the Major General from the Department of Defense's procurement department, had just walked out of the elevator.
Ivan Vanko, wearing a white shirt with clearly visible grease stains, opened his arms and walked towards Yuri to greet him.
As the only two Russians among Boss Tang's subordinates, Ivan Vanko and Yuri had a very good relationship.
Yuri, the former Arms Dealer, the Lord of War, is currently the Vice President of Tang Group's subsidiary Arms Company, responsible for the group's arms sales.
Yuri opened his arms towards Ivan Vanko, and the two men hugged fiercely. He then introduced Ivan Vanko: "This is Major General Gene from the Department of Defense, responsible for the acceptance testing of these weapons!"
"General Gene, this is Ivan Vanko, the Chief R&D Expert for the Juling Shen Exoskeleton Armor!"
"Hello, Mr. Vanko, nice to meet you!" Gene had a buzz cut and a stern face. From his appearance, he was a very principled and somewhat rigid person.
To be able to reach the rank of Major General in the Federal Department of Defense at forty was not just because he had a former Congressman father.
In his self-perception, all of this was due to his own abilities.
"Hello, General Gene!" Ivan Vanko shook his somewhat unruly, greasy long hair and shook hands with the Major General somewhat casually.
His attitude immediately made Gene somewhat dissatisfied.
"Mr. Vanko, the seabed wormhole incident this time has only been ten days from beginning to now. I am very curious, how could your Tang Group design targeted weapons so quickly? Could it be that you already knew the seabed wormhole would appear?"
Gene's words carried deep malice, causing Yuri, who was standing beside him, to frown.
Ivan Vanko reached out and twirled the lollipop in his mouth, glancing at Gene. "Are you questioning me, or are you saying this is the Department of Defense wanting to launch an investigation into our Tang Military Industry?
General, what you need to understand is that it was the White House that sought cooperation with us, not us who actively sought you out.
This set of Juling Shen Exoskeleton Battlegear from our company is a product developed earlier. The simulated hostile target was the original Tokyo Giant Snake. If you have any opinions, we can terminate cooperation at any time! As far as I know, this set of Juling Shen Battlegear does not lack a market, especially at a time like this. Believe it or not, even if the Federal Department of Defense doesn't procure it, we won't lack orders!"
"You!" Gene was retorted by Ivan Vanko's words and was speechless for a moment.
Give up the order? He didn't dare to make this decision. According to insiders at Congress, in order to obtain this batch of new weapons.
The White House had even drafted a Congressional bill regarding supporting the publicization of freedom of belief within the Federation territory.
At the same time, the White House intends to donate five hundred million US dollars to the affected Vatican.
This amount of money is not much, but the Federation's attitude towards The Church has undergone a nearly 180-degree change compared to before. This is a signal to the outside world.
Gene got accurate information from his aging, but widely connected in the political arena, old father. The driving force behind this bill is the Tang Group.
The President used a bill and support for the Vatican to exchange for the Tang Group's most advanced Exoskeleton Battlegear.
Although he didn't know why the Tang Group would propose such a strange requirement,
Gene knew that if he messed this matter up, even with his old father mediating, this good job of procurement and acceptance testing in the Department of Defense would probably not be kept.
But being cornered by this Russian guy with words, Gene knew clearly that messing things up would be detrimental to his future development, but he couldn't bring himself to lose face.
What a joke. Was he supposed to apologize to this Russian guy? What a joke.
"Ivan, General Gene was just praising your research progress, he had no other meaning. You first take us to see the Juling Shen finished products!" Yuri saw that the two were somewhat at odds and hurriedly played peacemaker.
Only then did Ivan Vanko lead the two to the testing ground. Along the way, it was full of busy staff wearing white protective suits. Ivan Vanko seemed to remember the names of all the research personnel in this testing ground and warmly greeted them.
Those staff members were the same, warmly responded to Ivan Vanko. Some young girls even pulled out lollipop after lollipop from somewhere and stuffed them into Ivan Vanko's hand.
It could be seen that Ivan Vanko was very popular.
Arriving at a corner of the testing ground, in front was an empty wall. The testing ground itself was even completely empty. Under Yuri and Gene's doubtful gaze, Ivan Vanko took out a red button from his pocket. As he pressed his palm down, the thick alloy floor slid open to both sides, and a humanoid machine about 3.3 meters tall slowly rose to the ground.
"This is our latest achievement, the Juling Shen Exoskeleton Armor!" Ivan Vanko proudly pointed at that entirely pitch black humanoid machine.
Yuri naturally knew about this set of battlegear developed for outer space combat. Moreover, he also knew that the Juling Shen model of armor was not the latest achievement as Ivan Vanko claimed.
This exoskeleton armor had been updated and iterated at least three generations in the Tang Group's Weapons Research Department.
The latest model of armor can fully adapt to outer space combat and is equipped with high-energy particle laser cannons and a series of the latest weapons.
But for Gene, this simplified and cut-down version of the Juling Shen Exoskeleton Armor was already enough to attract him.
Seeing this entirely pitch black set of Juling Shen Exoskeleton Armor, he couldn't help but reach out and touch it.
The surface of this set of armor used a matte finish, dark and dull, without any reflection.
The tall body gave off a heavy sense of deterrence. The smooth lines looked full of a murderous aura.
It stood there quietly. Just like the legendary god!
Having done arms procurement and acceptance testing for so many years, besides the usual kickbacks, Gene also had some professional knowledge.
Just the appearance of this exoskeleton armor surpassed the scrap metal that their military had developed themselves.
Every man has more or less a dream of piloting a Gundam.
Gene stroked this set of armor, stroking it for a full three or four minutes, only then did he snap back to attention at Yuri's cough.
"Cough cough, General Gene, do you think the appearance design of this set of armor is satisfactory? Shall we begin the weapon testing next?"
(end of chapter)