Chapter 1430: Chapter 1431: World Rift

There are several ways to enter the Heart of the World, but the most famous is undoubtedly the Black Sea Maelstrom Gate.

The Elemental Wizard Apprentice Holy Tower qualification battle, and other Holy Tower institutions also hold similar events, sending the most promising family members to the World’s Heart, directly upgrading to First-Level Creatures, including the Dark Realm Dark Wizards.

The black sea, though not devoid of life, was merely influenced by the Abyss rules.

Green’s figure flickered uncertainly, silent as he moved; one moment in the sky, the next before one’s eyes, and then disappearing into the horizon again, flying towards the Vortex Gate.

Whoosh!

Green’s sudden visit stopped over the deep-sea vortex, with many Guardians gathered at the Vortex Gate staring at him blankly. Each Guardian held power equivalent to a World Master, numbering nineteen, representing the nineteen Holy Tower Institutions of the Wizard World.

This visiting wizard, though striving to hide his energy fluctuations and suppress his power, was seen by the World Guardians for what he truly was from the change in the world’s internal quality. They were puzzled, not knowing what such a formidable Stigma Sorcerer intended here.

"Uh, is the Holy Tower Apprentice Ascension Ceremony being held here?"

Green, feeling quite awkward being stared at, quickly added, "I am here to visit the great Winter Guardian; I have already visited the Spring and Summer Guardians previously, concerning True Spirit Dedication."

"Gah gah, those little guys are coming."

Xiao Ba, standing on Green’s shoulder, looked out into the distance, already sensing the wizard apprentices and lower beings from various Holy Towers gathering here, riding creatures similar to the Heaven Peak Giant Turtle Green once rode.

Swish! Splash!

Mechanical Bees sliced the air on the sea’s surface, swish, swish, swish, swish, swish, with five arriving at once. With a "clack," the Mechanical Bees’ hatch opened, and five wizard apprentices emerged, looking around in awe. When they saw the black sea maelstrom below, they "gulped" hard.

A Guardian stepped forward to welcome them. After some simple exchanges, these wizard apprentices followed the Guardian, descending towards the bottom of the Black Sea Maelstrom, as faint cries of "waah" could be heard.

One wave of wizard apprentices sent by various Holy Tower Institutions followed another. Such a ceremony happens once every hundred years and is quite frequent for a Stigma Sorcerer like Green, who just happened to stumble upon one.

After a while, a Tyrant Ridge Whale emerged from the Black Sea maelstrom. This massive creature, over ten kilometers long, is the largest native organism in the Wizard World and belongs to the oldest group of oceanic creatures in the Wizard World. Their numbers are relatively few, and they receive the will of the Wizard World’s favor. Once coming of age, a Tyrant Ridge Whale may directly ascend to World Master.

The black skin armor was entwined with countless seaweed vines, and some iron anchors from ships served as ornamentation. With a mighty echo, this creature from the Sea King Altar opened its mouth, releasing five small black dots.

A sea snail, a seahorse, a starfish, a sea turtle, and a giant octopus, these potential creatures selected by the Sea King Altar were also led away by a Guardian.

Gradually, as Guardians around Green dwindled, a chill swept from the depths of the dark maelstrom, "crack," "crack," "crack," the sea water of the Black Sea Maelstrom began freezing rapidly.

"Stigmata Sorcerer of the Oblivion Tower."

Under the watchful eyes of the remaining two Guardians and Green, it was actually the pure white snowflake behind the Winter Guardian.

Six corners, fluffy feelers, humanoid facial features in the center, with big eyes and arched eyelashes radiating a mysterious glow.

The arched eyelash snowflake looked at Green.

"The Winter Guardian asked me to take you down, hehe, the little guy from before has grown into such a powerful wizard; it’s truly incredible."

The Little Snowflake seemed to remember Green quite well.

Uh?

Green felt a bit strange but said nothing more, merely nodded silently and followed the arched eyelash Little Snowflake, descending into the depths of the Black Sea maelstrom.

In any world, the basic structure comprises rules as the framework and elemental energy as the building blocks. The amount of elemental energy usually far exceeds rules; however, at this moment, as they entered the influence zone of the Wizarding World’s shattered heart, the quantity of rules surpassed that of elemental energy. World’s power leaned towards elemental energy; within the limited space, elemental energy was compressed to an extremely pure degree.

Green had already sensed this when the wizard apprentices first entered the Black Sea Maelstrom.

Here, wizard apprentices unable to manipulate rules would find themselves unable to perform any witchcraft.

After a sandglass time.

Green looked down, and gradually, a hint of warm light appeared in his view.

At this moment, Green felt a warmth like falling into a mother’s embrace; he genuinely experienced a sense of warmth, acceptance, nurturing, and care from that gleam.

Even after all these years, Green could still feel that wondrous sense!

"We’re here, let’s not wait for them, let’s go first."

The Little Snowflake said to Green, as Xiao Ba, who hadn’t spoken a word while on Green’s shoulder for quite some time, suddenly said in a low voice, "I’m heading to the Dimensional Gap; you go by yourself."

With that, Xiao Ba vanished.

Green naturally understood Xiao Ba’s reason; though he would often curse the old bastard, there was a complex, inexplicable emotion between them. Antonio had sacrificed himself for the Wizard World, leaving Xiao Ba to long wait in the Dimensional Gap and leaving a Page of Destiny in its belly. If there were no emotions involved, no one would believe it.

The distant unknown center of this space was surrounded by countless chains intertwined between reality and fantasy, stretching outward. Above Green’s head was a pitch-black vortex void, where neither the Source Spring Light nor rule chains penetrated.

The stone walls surrounding the vortex space were pierced by countless chains, gradually becoming phantasmic.

Traversing rule chains that appeared solid but were in fact phantasmal, suddenly, a surging gold river of light appeared in their sight. This gold light river was like an infinite ocean, mighty and unstoppable on the surface, yet nurturing hope and encompassing all living beings within its depths.

This light river was like the resplendent stars in the night sky.

"Let’s go!"

Little Snowflake was the first to step into the light river, followed by Green, as both vanished in a flash, speeding downstream towards the light river, disappearing from sight.

It was like lying in a mother’s embrace, infinitely accommodating and fleeting. A silently gliding gray stone statue passed by, holding the River of Light high in his right hand and the Book of Destiny in his left hand, standing quietly, unmoved by the passage of time.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Green and Little Snowflake swiftly glided through, and gradually, the source of countless rule chains in the Wizard World appeared before everyone’s view.

This was an irregular red sphere with a diameter of about ten thousand meters. The reason it’s irregular is that below the red sphere, a black-gray sphere of about five thousand meters in diameter was spawned.

This is the Origin Will of the Wizard World, the World’s Heart!

The main body of the World’s Heart seemed like lava, its crimson hues laced with golden radiance emerging from its cracks, yet without any sense of burning heat.

The golden river of the Lever of Destiny surged like a giant spindle, delicate at both ends, connecting the World’s Heart and the Wizard’s Fulcrum Plaza, with the central expanse being the fate fulcrum.

Green could clearly see a massive crack with a diameter of several hundred meters at the part where the World’s Heart connected to the Lever of Destiny. This crack was surrounded by countless endless seven-colored runes, seemingly forming a massive sealing array, like a bandage wrapped around the massive wound of the World’s Heart.

From time to time, this seven-colored seal bandage would tremble slightly, causing countless runes to flash, seemingly preventing something from erupting from within the wound, and it appeared to be quite effective.

However, in the gaps of these seals, there were always sporadic spots of light bursting forth.

Beneath the Green Truth Mask’s three-colored light eyes, Green stared intently at the seven-colored seal barrier of the World’s Heart, eyes flickering, unspeakably pained.

The World’s Heart of a world is the highest embodiment of the collective consciousness of all living beings within it.

Under normal circumstances, the destruction of a World’s Heart comes about in two ways. One, through endless ages and an excessive self-exhaustion of certain internal natural laws, leading to a loss of balance and the World’s Heart reaching the end of its lifespan, thus self-collapsing.

The other is through continuous destruction of a world’s fundamental rules by numerous True Spirit-level super creatures, until all creatures of the world are completely annihilated, causing the World’s Heart, representing the will of all beings, to naturally collapse.

Apart from these, the World’s Heart is nearly indestructible.

Even if the mightiest creature managed to slightly damage the World’s Heart, the balance rules of the Endless World would restore it, with no chance of shattering.

However!

The World’s Heart of the Wizard World is an exception.

In ancient times, Antonio sacrificed his life as the fate fulcrum to save the last civilizational legacy of the Wizard World, using all resources and wealth as energy power to pry the Wizard World’s world coordinates from the Endless Void, altering the tragic fate of the Wizard World’s impending demise.

On the surface, this seemed to mark the end of the Wizard World’s tragic fate and the beginning of a new journey.

However, the true phenomenon is...

Even though Antonio gave everything he had, he only managed to delay the Wizard World’s destined demise by a few epochs. Beneath the World’s Heart and above the Lever of Destiny, a broken crack appeared on the Wizard World’s Origin Will.

It seemed the Wizard World had completely detached from its original coordinate relation within the Endless World. Thus, the balance rules of the Endless World did not apply to the Wizard World’s Heart.

The fate of the Endless World no longer favors the Wizard World, attempting to escape its destiny of annihilation!

The crack in the Wizard World’s Heart couldn’t self-repair, and because the outer shell fractured, the inside of the World’s Heart began to disintegrate, marking the beginning of the World’s Heart’s impending collapse.

Ancient Wizards, in panic, tried every method, but ultimately could only set up this seven-colored space-time seal technique, representing the Wizard World’s most potent sealing ability.

On one hand, the Wizard World desperately delayed the day of the World’s Heart’s destruction, while on the other hand, exhausted every means to develop and expand wizard civilization, aiming to defeat the powerful civilization that once forced the Wizard World to flee like a stray dog, all before its complete annihilation.

Only by relocating the Wizard World back to its original remembered coordinates, can it return to the balance system of the Endless World and thus salvage its fate of destruction.

For this goal, for this ideal!

The True Spirit Wizards of the Wizard World forsook all past internal conflicts, forming a unified will, striving with all efforts to save the Wizard World from impending doom.

"Guardian, Stigmata Sorcerer of the Oblivion Tower has arrived."

Little Snowflake flew to the Winter Guardian’s side, enveloped in a white mist, the harsh winter will of the Wizard World, the black-robed sorcerer looked towards Green.

"Alright."

Winter Guardian looked at Green, speaking in a deep voice: "Your affairs have been conveyed to me by the One Ring True Spirit Sorcerer. If you can complete this True Spirit Dedication, your indelible contribution to the Wizard World might earn you enough recognition from the world’s will to surpass me, becoming the strongest guardian of the Wizard World."

Green seemingly calmly nodded.

At the same time, this is the foundation for the True Spirit Dedication of the Ancestor of Sorcerers, the most basic capability for self-preservation.

"I will dedicate my lifelong efforts to completing this True Spirit Dedication for the Wizard World!"

Green solemnly stated, and under the Winter Guardian’s gesture, Green walked step by step towards the broken crack of the World’s Heart, while pieces of the World’s Heart shard occasionally sprayed out from the gaps of the material space-time sealing technique, captured by the Winter Guardian.

Green felt the pulse of the World’s Heart, his expression gradually becoming serious and solemn.

"About three more epochs, only thirty thousand years left?"

Green’s mutter prompted the Winter Guardian behind him to respond with a deep voice: "It should be slightly extended; the integration of the Nightmare World has solidified the Wizard World’s Heart quite a bit, but that is all."

"Alright, I understand."

Green solemnly nodded, then said in a deep voice: "I need to properly study and comprehend here, see if any Taiyi Magnetite here can help in solidifying and gathering the World’s Heart!"

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