Chapter 267: The Consciousness of the Star Soul in the Earth's Core
After sealing the earth elemental giant, Richard did not stop, but took Onyxia and cast a teleportation spell to leave Deepholm.

Kalimdor.

On this continent, the Burning Legion is fighting a war with the alliance of races in Kalimdor, and this war is coming to an end.

The Burning Legion's great demon, Archimonde the Defiler, had advanced to the vicinity of Mount Hyrule. When he saw the huge World Tree, Archimonde ordered his army to speed up.

Soon he will get the Well of Eternity that he has always dreamed of. As long as he absorbs the power of the Well of Eternity, he will be able to surpass Sargeras and become the most powerful demon. From now on, the Burning Legion will be his - Archimonde has the final say!
Archimonde looked at the night elves, orcs, trolls, etc. fighting on the front line, and was full of confidence. As for the casualties of the undead and demons, he didn't care at all.

The undead are just cannon fodder. They can be summoned again after they die, and once all the demons are dead, a new batch can be created.

Relying on the human wave tactics, the Burning Legion steadily advanced, and the coalition forces of various races were retreating step by step. No matter what tactics they used, the Burning Legion could only use one word: push.

The undead army and the demons cooperated with each other and were unstoppable. If there were no other changes, it would only be a matter of time before Archimonde occupied Mount Hyjal. Standing at the foot of Mount Hyjal, Archimonde looked at the World Tree with greed in his eyes.

"What is this place?" After the teleportation spell ended, Richard and Onyxia appeared in a strange place.

There was no sun in the sky, but he didn't see any stars either. It should have been dark here, but a large number of faint blue fluorescent plants appeared around.

These plants seemed to be breathing. The fluorescent bodies on them flickered on and off in a regular pattern. There were even some fluorescent mosses in the surrounding rocks that emitted a faint glow.

Richard discovered that most of the plants in the distance were tall mushrooms or fungi, and the entire forest seemed very quiet. The air was a little humid, and a breeze blew, and countless fluorescent spores were rolled into the air. The faint blue fluorescence was flying all over the sky, just like the mysterious galaxy in the quiet summer night.

"This should be the underground world." Richard immediately figured it out after seeing the surrounding environment.

In the multiverse, the material plane is usually divided into two types: one is the planetary plane, and the other is the flat plane. Why there are two completely different plane structures, even the great arcanists have not found the answer.

But in these two planes, more than 70% of them have underground worlds. When Richard was studying, he studied the theory of hollow planets and visited some underground worlds.

Except for a few special inner earth worlds, most of the inner earth worlds rely on fluorescent plants or fluorescent stones to provide light.

Most of the inner world is made up of huge rock caves. Some caves are only the size of a room, but some are so amazing that they are as big as a small kingdom.

Most of the underground is inhabited by intelligent life forms, including gray dwarves, drow elves, minotaurs, low-dwelling demon fish, cave dwellers, demi-humans, beholders, soul-sucking monsters, and so on.

But he didn't expect that there was such an underground world in Azeroth.

"How beautiful!" Onyxia looked at the mushroom forest in the distance. The mushrooms were five or six meters tall and had many fluorescent spores growing on them. They looked very beautiful and full of mystery.

"The more beautiful a place is, the more dangerous it is." Richard said with a smile.

"Danger? What danger is there here?" Onyxia said in surprise.

"Do you see that tree-like creature in the middle?" Richard said, pointing to a willow-like plant in the underground forest.

"What happened to the tree?" Onyxia asked.

Richard stopped talking and directly summoned a fireball and smashed it.

"Boom!"

The willow tree suddenly bared its teeth and claws like an octopus, and its branches stretched out ten times in all directions like tentacles. Hundreds of tentacles were dancing like a group of demons.

"This is the Ogre Willow. It may not look big, but its underground volume is surprisingly large. All its attacks have a paralyzing effect. Once you are tied up by it, it will inject a large amount of paralyzing toxin. An ordinary dragon will die if it is entangled by it."

"So powerful?" Onyxia looked at the magic willow tree in shock.

"But this thing is also a top-quality material for a staff!" As Richard spoke, spiritual light flashed on his body, and several exploding fireballs fell down. The power of the fireballs was so great that everything within a radius of ten meters around the magic willow tree was blown away.

This plant-type monster has a lot of health, but its vitality is quickly lost under the explosive fireball blessed by Richard's power.

The entire magic willow tree was blown to pieces, and the next second a black light filled with the breath of death suddenly appeared.

——【Finger of Death! (Extreme Spell Effect + Spell Penetration + Divine Blessing)】

The movement of the Magic Willow Tree, which was madly dancing its tentacles, stopped at this moment. The next moment, all the tentacles fell down, and the breath of life on the Magic Willow Tree quickly dissipated.

Finger of Death is an instant death spell. If the judgment is not passed, no matter how powerful the person is, he will die immediately. Originally, the success rate of this spell was not high, only 5%, but after adding various spell effects and divine power, the success rate has been greatly improved.

According to the calculations of the arcanists, one point of divine power increases the chance by 1%, and death divinity increases it by 3%. Adding his own strength and super magic skills, Richard's success rate of performing the Finger of Death is about 70%.

If the opponent's resistance is not high, the success rate will be higher.

Richard waved his staff lightly and instantly came to the side of the magic willow tree. He stretched out his hand and gently knocked on the trunk, then directly used the ability of the alchemy hand. In an instant, the huge magic willow tree was decomposed by a strange force.

All the tentacles were neatly arranged, the roots were cleaned, and the trunks were divided into very regular cylinders. They were sorted and organized into categories, and all the processes were completed directly.

This alchemical hand was developed by Richard when he was a great arcanist. It is used to process materials conveniently. For example, a rock can be decomposed into a unit of stone by tapping it lightly. The same is true for wood. It is just like a Minecraft game he played in his previous life.

But this ability cannot be used on living things.

After dealing with the magic willow tree, Richard and Onyxia explored the underground world. There were still many creatures in the underground world. Richard soon discovered some dinosaurs.

These dinosaurs have very good eyesight and night vision capabilities. They dare not get close to Richard and the others. Although Onyxia is now in human form, she still has the power of a dragon, and the dinosaurs can easily detect the danger.

In addition to these, Richard also saw the Proto-Dragon. The Proto-Dragon and the Guardian Dragon were one race a long time ago, but the Guardian Dragon accepted the blessing of the Titans and gained divine power, which is how it became what it is now.

The Proto-Dragon was less intelligent, shorter, and could not use magic, but had a strong physique. Richard used the space crystal ball to capture a few of them and planned to bring them back to his demiplane to breed.

These space crystals are blessed with the art of life hiding, which can put living things in a state of suspended animation. They are space props specially used to hold living things. After searching the underground world, Richard sensed a vague consciousness. The entire consciousness was not clear, but it was very huge, and it seemed to be everywhere.

This consciousness didn't seem to have any ill will towards him, it just stayed by his side, as if it wanted to communicate with him. Richard thought about it for a moment, then linked his consciousness to the others.

In an instant, Richard seemed to have traveled through time and space and arrived in a magical world. This was an extremely huge planet. The planet was barren, and then various lives appeared little by little. Countless lives appeared and disappeared.

Soon Richard discovered the four elements, and not long after, the Proto-Dragon and the Trolls also began to appear. Then, several huge Titans appeared outside the planet, and these Titans arranged various defenses around the planet, and then left.

But not long after the Titans left, some shadow creatures with tentacles appeared. As soon as these creatures appeared, they immediately parasitized the planet and began to use their power to pollute the Star Soul.

Seeing this, Richard has realized that this is the "memory" of the entire planet Azeroth.

Then the Titans returned, forcibly killed an Ancient God, and then sealed the remaining Ancient Gods. At the same time, they transformed this century according to their ideas, and left guards to guard the planet.

The light and shadows moved quickly, and soon the Ancient War appeared. The earth was torn apart, and a large vortex appeared. The original continent was torn apart by this huge force. It was divided into several continents, and some broken islands were submerged by the sea and disappeared.

"Are you the star soul of Azeroth?" Richard conveyed the information with his consciousness.

After a long while, this huge consciousness responded to him.

"Yes, it is."

"I'm in so much pain."

"Help me, help me."

The Star Soul's consciousness transmitted information, but the information was not very complete. Richard knew that this was because the Star Soul was not yet mature.

If the star soul matures, it can communicate freely like humans.

Richard was also very surprised that the Star Soul communicated with him in consciousness. He had always thought that the Star Soul of Azeroth was in a deep sleep, but now it seems that He has awakened.

After awakening, the star soul will grow faster. Maybe in a few hundred years, or even a few thousand years, the star soul will be fully mature and can break out of the shell. It's just unknown whether this planet will still exist by then.

Star Soul's consciousness has been asking him for help. He cannot speak, so it can only be regarded as an idea or a vague consciousness.

"You want me to save you?"

"What's wrong with you? Do you need me to save you?" Richard used his consciousness to convey his thoughts.

"Help me, it hurts."

Still in a hazy state, Richard realized that the other party might not understand what he meant. So he asked again, "Where does it hurt?"

"Help me, it hurts."

Richard also had a headache facing a conscious being with incomplete intellectual development. He was not good at this.

"Who caused your pain?" Richard asked again.

“It is They Who Suffer”

Richard's eyes once again saw a picture of several blurry and hideous shadows with distorted monsters. Then these hideous monsters swung their hands and fell onto the planet, and then their tentacles began to extend crazily underground.

As they extended, they absorbed energy, and at the same time, the power of these monsters began to pollute the Star Soul. These monsters extracted the power of the Star Soul, grew little by little, and at the same time, more tentacles were deeply inserted into the Star Soul.

"It hurts so much. Save me." Xinghun's consciousness came again.

"I want to help you, but you won't be able to bear it if I pull them out by force!"

".Help me. I'm in so much pain."

"Okay, I can try to save you, but I can't guarantee whether I can succeed. After all, I have never encountered such a situation before." Richard said.

Richard began to communicate more deeply with Xinghun, and at the same time he wanted to experience Xinghun's world. He wanted to determine Xinghun's endurance limit, and then prepare a way to help her kill those ancient gods.

The connection between the Ancient God and Him is very deep, and those tentacles penetrate into His body to absorb energy, so it is difficult to peel them out. If the movement is too big, it is likely to cause serious consequences to the Star Soul.

Eventually, the Star Soul and the Old Gods will collapse and die together, and the entire Azeroth will become a dead star.

After deeply sensing the consciousness of the Star Soul, Richard immediately felt a pain deep in his soul. This pain was unbearable, and there was also a feeling of disgust that kept coming to him.

Richard cut off the connection of consciousness. The pain made him frown. He tried to pull out the Ancient God by force. The Star Soul could not bear this kind of pain. The only power Richard had that could kill the Ancient God now was the power of death.

But his death power was very weak, and it was difficult to kill the Ancient Gods. He had just clearly sensed the strength of the Ancient Gods, and their power was between weak gods and lower-level gods.

If Richard wanted to kill them, he had to beat them to the brink of death to have a chance. But in order to beat them to the brink of death, the battle between him and the Old Gods would definitely be fierce, and they would definitely fight to the death.

By then, Xinghun may not be able to hold on.

Richard thought for a while and decided to strengthen the defense of Star Soul first, and then deal with the Ancient God. Star Soul has no ability to resist now. Although his power is very strong, he is like an egg. If he doesn't break out of the shell, he will be slaughtered.

"I don't have the power to kill them now. I can only help you put on some seals to restrict those ancient gods." Richard just passed his consciousness over, and the next second, he felt a surge of powerful force coming from the Star Soul.

The powerful energy infusion rapidly increased the magic power in Richard's body. Richard was frightened and quickly cut off the energy. Although this transmission method could improve strength, it had a greater chance of being blown up. He didn't want to end up like Archimonde, the Sun Tree.

(End of this chapter)