Chapter 124 Pseudo-God Ember

Holding the pale flame in his palm, he slowly raised it. The skin of his palm was unharmed, and there was no burning pain.

On the contrary, the divine mark beneath the skin reacted, conveying an eager desire for the pale flame.

[Name: Pseudo-God Ember]

[Type: Divine Relic (Fragmented)]

[Quality: Epic]

[Effect: Ember. The Pseudo-God Ember contains the truth of the God Ascension Ladder. It is currently fragmented and can be completed and unlocked by investing high-quality divine creature essence into it.]

[Consumption: None]

[Cooldown: None]

[Usage Requirement: None]

[Note: Current Divine Essence Repair Progress 0/500]

[Note: A dying fragment of divine fire, originating from an unknown being who has long since fallen.]

"Pseudo-God Ember?"

Li Ang stood there for a moment, stunned. This item was of Epic grade, on par with the Glimmering Dice of Destiny, but the item description was unprecedentedly strange.

As an Epic item, it had absolutely no active or passive effects. According to the description, it needed to be repaired by investing a considerable amount of divine essence in order to be used.

Like the Mind Power Crystal Manual, it had to be unlocked first.

However, divine essence was a conceptual existence and could not be quantified with precise numbers. The 0/500 progress bar...

Li Ang wasn't sure how much divine essence was needed.

"When I chose this item, Hanba was supportive. There shouldn't be any harm in it,"

Li Ang frowned slightly and muttered, "Moreover, the effect description records the words [Pseudo-God Ember contains the truth of the God Ascension Ladder].

If I want to take another step on the path to godhood, I have to use it..."

Li Ang pondered for a while, not in a hurry to explore the Pseudo-God Ember,

but looked at another item – the slowly rotating black three-dimensional Rubik's Cube.

[Name: Cardinal Cube]

[Type: Magic Item]

[Quality: Epic]

[Effect: Forging Cardinals. The Cardinal Cube devours extraordinary elements to create corresponding products. All products will lose some of their original mystique, and instead possess the new attributes granted by the Cardinal Cube's forged Cardinals.]

[Consumption: None]

[Cooldown: None]

[Equipment Requirement: None]

[Note: The Cardinal Cube feeds on extraordinary elements and cannot be placed in backpack slots or other types of space devices. After the user binds to the Cardinal Cube, they cannot carry any equipment or items not produced by the Cardinal Cube, otherwise the Cardinal Cube's devouring mechanism will be triggered.]

[Note: Only one binder can exist for the Cardinal Cube at a time. Until the previous binder dies and the soul dissipates, other beings cannot use the Cardinal Cube.]

[Note: The Cardinal Cube has two functions: production and storage. Its binder can customize the appearance, attributes, and other factors of the items produced. All creations will slowly lose their mystique after leaving the Cardinal Cube for a certain distance, until they re-enter the Cardinal Cube.]

[Note: Current Binder – None]

Another Epic...

Li Ang looked at the cube's description, his brow furrowed.

From the description, this Cardinal Cube, like the Alchemist's Box, was a logistics-type item,

but its effect was much more overbearing.

It could devour extraordinary elements and produce creations of the same series.

The owner could not carry any equipment or items that did not belong to that series.

It was a bit like... a demonized *Transformers* AllSpark, or a portable universal factory?

Li Ang frowned slightly, took out some edge creatures containing extraordinary elements from the sodium ring that he was originally going to throw into the forging furnace – such as beast fur, teeth, etc.

He picked up the fur and teeth and slowly approached the black three-dimensional Rubik's Cube.

At first, nothing changed until the fur touched the surface of the cube.

With a click,

the cube suddenly disassembled, its components flying and rotating. In the blink of an eye, it expanded more than tenfold.

It was no longer a simple black cube,

but a magnificent square factory composed of countless metal mechanical parts.

One side of the factory's wall turned into a blood basin, swallowing the approaching beast fur.

Rumble rumble—

A noisy sound rang out inside the Cardinal Cube, with engines roaring, gears turning, sawteeth cutting, and hammers pounding.

A few seconds later, the cube spat out the beast fur.

The fur still retained its original shape, but the material had become a fragile metal sheet, looking a bit like curled gold foil.

Li Ang thought for a moment, logged into the game square, made some purchases in the mall, and returned to the real world to continue feeding the Cardinal Cube.

After experimentation, Li Ang discovered that all items containing extraordinary elements,

whether they were materials or ordinary, rare items with item descriptions, would be transformed into metal mechanical materials after being fed into the Cardinal Cube.

Ordinary items without extraordinary elements, after being fed in, would be discharged in the form of metal garbage.

Some smaller creatures, such as mantises and cockroaches,

would also be transformed into mechanical forms of living things after being put inside.

However, for some unknown reason (perhaps because Li Ang had not yet bound this piece of equipment),

mechanical living things usually did not survive for more than a minute after leaving the factory. They would stagger and disintegrate on their own.

"This Cardinal Cube only looks a bit similar to the Alchemist's Box, but there are huge differences in essence."

Li Ang muttered to himself, "The forging furnace in the Alchemist's Box simply produces items,

while the Cardinal Cube erodes and assimilates external things, turning them into the same construct as itself.

It's more... overbearing."

As a first-tier high-level player, Li Ang immediately imagined the correct usage of the Cardinal Cube –

using the forging cube as a personal base, continuously feeding it raw materials and producing an army of constructs that blotted out the sky.

Although he had not yet bound the cube and seen more information, Li Ang could feel that

the Cardinal Cube was almost a solo civilization route that was not inferior to a Zerg hive.

The only problem was...

"The Cardinal Cube also reacts to the Glimmering Dice of Destiny, the Divine Mark, and the Pseudo-God Ember."

Li Ang frowned deeply. When his hand directly touched the surface of the Cardinal Cube,

the cube would spontaneously expand, moving towards the location of the Divine Mark like a spider, showing an extremely strong aggressiveness and uniqueness.

The item description was not wrong. The Cardinal Cube could not coexist with other equipment and props not produced by the cube.

After binding, it was equivalent to only being able to carry this one piece of equipment on his entire body.

"Everything else is easy to say, but if I can't coexist with the Divine Mark at all..."

Li Ang pondered for a moment, his gaze towards the cube filled with hesitation, "I might not be able to use it myself."