Feng Yuan joked, and Arnis glanced at him and said,
"What else can we do? None of us have the ability to restore the environment."
With that, Arnis seemed somewhat helpless. They were all creators with a limited scope of authority. It wasn’t that they couldn’t restore the damaged environment, but compared to the efficiency of the Life Divine Beasts, their speed was significantly slower.
They could create special artifacts to restore the destroyed environment, but ultimately, they couldn’t revive all things as quickly as the Life Divine Beasts could.
"Such a disagreeable thing."
Ernis wore his discontent on his face, giving a menacing look to the white orb in the center of the Nien Wheel. Using the remnants of the metallic giant beast, a series of ancient metal rings swiftly emerged from the wreckage. As the spherical metallic shell encasing the orb gradually peeled away, the metal rings quickly flew to encase the orb within them.
"What are you planning to do?"
Feng Yuan could sense the terrifying and immense power within the orb. If that power were to fully erupt, destroying this area completely wouldn’t be a problem. In terms of might, it would be roughly equivalent to what the Divine Beasts could do with their full power—of course, he was referring to attack-type Spirit Beasts like Arnis.
The orb was compressed by the metal rings into an extremely small sphere. Those metal rings orbiting the orb were slowly rotating. If someone who didn’t know better saw it, they might think it was a strange decoration created by a mage.
"I don’t know, it could be used as an Energy Core."
Ernis stared at the orb, speaking with an inexplicable expression. He genuinely didn’t know how to utilize the thing. Though it could serve as an energy source, it wasn’t replicable and wasn’t particularly useful to him as it wasn’t a purely mechanical creation.
Noticing Ernis looking at him, Feng Yuan waved his hand and said,
"Don’t look at me; you deal with it yourselves. I’m not going to touch that thing."
"Is its nature rather unique?"
Arnis glanced at the floating Energy Core. After Ernis had extracted the orb from the heart of the Nien Wheel, the surrounding metal rings and discs lost their power and fell to the ground. Ernis lifted a forehoof and gently stepped on the void, causing the remaining metal debris to turn to dust and scatter into the air.
"Hey, hey! That’s such a waste, and besides, don’t you care about polluting the air?"
Feng Yuan covered his mouth, displeased, and glanced at Ernis, who said calmly,
"What are you covering for? Can that dust penetrate your Barrier?"
Seeing the dust that couldn’t breach the Barrier surrounding him, Feng Yuan put down his hand and laughed, saying,
"I’ll take this thing with me. Leave the aftermath to me. You can go after dismantling those mechanisms."
Arnis said to Ernis. After he finished speaking, he left the ruins with the Energy Core. Ernis muttered something under his breath for a while before looking at Feng Yuan and saying,
"Aren’t you leaving?!"
Feng Yuan, holding his head high with a disdainful look, carried Xiao Ji and flew out of the ruins. Looking down from the sky, there was now a huge pit where the ruins had been, surrounded by various odd pillars. Without asking, Feng Yuan could guess that those pillars were certainly the handiwork of Ernis.
If Arnis had been the one to dismantle the ruins, they would have been preserved intact, rather than destroyed and having all their informational content obliterated by Ernis.
"What a... nasty fellow..."
"That’s why the people of Omeilia have gradually come to detest it."
The phantom of Agunas swayed its tail and said. Feng Yuan glanced at the pillars reforged from the ruins’ metal walls and said,
"Actually, what it did can’t exactly be called wrong..."
"Knowledge that shouldn’t be possessed."
The phantom of Agunas said calmly. This was actually quite similar to Drudgeon, except Drudgeon was duty-bound not to allow lost knowledge to be easily reacquired by living beings, and the reason was precisely what Ernis was concerned about; lost knowledge doesn’t mean it’s outdated.
The artifacts from the Mythical Era were actually very special; many of them had the power of Divine Beasts, just like the Nien Wheel, which could surpass ordinary Spirit Beasts’ celestial marvels.
And the Emerald Ruins were another kind, belonging to unconfirmed knowledge. The unknown signifies unpredictable effects, and even It doesn’t know what those pieces of knowledge would lead to. Ernis would destroy any such knowledge it encountered without any hesitation.
Therefore, the scholars of Omeilia really disliked Ernis because it showed no respect for knowledge, even deliberately destroying ancient artifacts that recorded wondrous knowledge.
The White Wolf Deity approached Feng Yuan. Mo Ling stared at Feng Yuan and asked. Feng Yuan nodded and said,
Seeing the mess around him, Feng Yuan scratched his head with a bright expression. Yao Yin glanced at Feng Yuan and said,
"I’m used to it. Some people always tear down wherever they go. I’m not surprised at all."
"Hey! What do you mean by ’tearing down everything in my path’!"
"I didn’t say it was anyone in particular."
Yao Yin looked up proudly at Feng Yuan, then landed on the back of the White Wolf Deity before Feng Yuan turned to Mo Li and asked,
"Back to the city..."
Mo Li said guiltily, looking at the severely damaged forest, while Mo Ling looked curiously at Feng Yuan and asked,
"Aren’t you going to restore all this?"
"How can I restore it?"
Feng Yuan said, gazing at the mess of fallen trees in the forest. Mo Ling gestured and then smiled sweetly,
"Like what you did before, right? Waving the staff and all the trees would recover, right?"
"No can do, there’s more than one god of life. Nagna is the god of life for the Divine Land Region, and although I can borrow its power here, I can’t use its authority because that would exceed its jurisdiction."
Mo Ling was startled. She had thought that Feng Yuan didn’t restore the forest because he didn’t like the people here. Guo Huai looked at Feng Yuan with ill-intent and said,
"Then why don’t you borrow the power of the local life divine beast?"
Feng Yuan glanced at Guo Huai and said irritably,
"What are you thinking? Even though I could borrow it, Arnis already said it would come to take care of the aftermath, so why would I trouble myself?"
"Can Arnis really command it?"
Guo Huai was somewhat skeptical, knowing that despite differences in strength among the divine beasts, there was no real hierarchy that would allow one divine beast to command the others.
"It’s not a big deal, who would refuse?"
Feng Yuan said, looking at the apparition of Agunas and nodding as Agunas explained,
"That’s about right. After all, everyone’s authority is slightly different. As long as it’s not too excessive, lending a small hand isn’t an issue. Otherwise, it’ll be more troublesome when you need help in the future."
"Of course, except for one particular guy."
Feng Yuan said discontentedly, looking into the resentful eyes of Agunas,
"Hey! Don’t act like I’ve done nothing! If we’re talking about difficulty, I’m the one who’s had it the roughest, okay!"
The apparition of Agunas swished its tail doubtfully. Feng Yuan, a bit puzzled, asked,
"Didn’t It tell you?"
"No, only to help you as much as possible when I can. It didn’t say anything else."
Feng Yuan pursed his lips in dissatisfaction as he landed on the White Wolf Deity and asked Mo Li,
"So where are we going now?"
Mo Li looked over the chaotic forest and said with a wry smile,
"Let’s just tour the city. After causing such a scene, where else can we go?"
"Or rather, if we went to another ruin, we might just tear this place down,"
Liu Wenli said calmly. Feng Yuan looked at her disapprovingly and said,
"What do you mean by that? That was just an accident, okay?"
The White Wolf Deity walked through the air towards the direction of the city while the soldiers guarding the gate panicked, raising their weapons upon seeing the White Wolf Deity approaching. However, the White Wolf Deity didn’t pay any attention to them and simply landed outside the city gates.
After disembarking from the White Wolf Deity’s back, Omeilia rapidly ran off, and Feng Yuan, looking around with some helplessness, said,