Gao Wu: You have science, and I have magic!

Chu Yao's communication was blurred due to interference, and the voice that came was intermittent: "They... directly jumped to... the outskirts of the temple... Augustus... broadcast..."

A harsh electronic voice suddenly covered all channels: "Heretics! You have defiled the sacred territory!"

Augustus' voice was more mechanical than it was three days ago. It had almost lost all human emotions and became cold and ruthless: "Accept purification! For the true oracle!"

Cecilia raised her head suddenly, a resolute light burning in her golden eyes: "That is not an oracle! It is your selfishness and ambition that have polluted the core of the holy relic!"

She turned to Ye Qingzhou: "We must activate the temple's defense system, which requires at least three super-dimensional cores, and we also need..."

Her words were interrupted by a violent explosion.

The entire temple shook in the shock wave and the ceiling began to collapse.

Ye Qingzhou saw Augustus’ flagship, the “Doomsday Judge” which was three times larger than the Holy Inquisition!
This was a gorgeous pure gold warship, which was releasing hundreds of mechas at the moment. Even more terrifying was that there was some kind of cylindrical device floating in the center of the fleet, with patterns similar to those of the temple carved on its surface.

"Anti-dimensional bomb..."

Cecilia was frightened and pale in an instant: "They want to blow up the temple... and this star field..."

Chu Yao screamed from the communicator: "Stargazer is locked! We..."

The signal is interrupted.

Ye Qingzhou's super-dimensional patterns suddenly lit up, clearer than ever before.

He felt some ancient and powerful consciousness contacting him through the lines, and every brick and stone of the temple was whispering to him. In the moment when time and space seemed to freeze, he understood what he should do.

“Cecilia.”

He grabbed the white-haired girl's wrist and asked with a smile, "Do you dare to bet on the resonance of the Holy Word again?"

Her answer was to cut her palm open and smear the golden blood on the central crystal: "Use my blood as a guide..."

Ye Qingzhou also pressed his fingertips, which were emitting blue light, onto the crystal: "I swear on my soul..."

When the two energies intersected, the entire temple awakened.

Cecilia's blood boiled on the surface of the crystal.

The golden liquid was like a living tentacle, wriggling along the grooves of the super-dimensional text, while blue light was constantly emitting from Ye Qingzhou's fingertips, and the two forces intertwined into a spiral state.

At the moment when the golden and blue lights intersected, all the air molecules in the spherical space were ionized at the same time, and the dazzling light that burst out made the sky and the earth pale in comparison.

Ye Qingzhou's vision changed, and the whole world suddenly became different.

The walls of the temple became transparent, revealing the fleets fighting outside - Augustus's "Doomsday Judge" was releasing hundreds of antimatter torpedoes, and the Stargazer driven by Lao Chen was like a small boat in a storm, and its shield was already flashing a dangerous red light.

But all this seemed blurred and distant, as if separated by a layer of frosted glass.

“Spatial isolation…”

Cecilia's voice came from far away.

At this moment, her flawless white hair was suspended in a zero-gravity environment, and every strand of hair was coated with a faint glow of blue and gold.

"The divine light is shining upon us..."

Ye Qingzhou discovered that his super-dimensional lines had spread to his neck, and the blue light under his skin pulsated with his breathing.

The holographic image projected by the central crystal was playing at an accelerated speed. From the rapidly flowing light and shadow, Ye Qingzhou saw the super-dimensional beings separating the three core components and sending them to different star fields.

After that, the scene continued to flow, and Ye Qingzhou saw the three major civilizations established by the earliest human explorers after they discovered the holy relics.

Ultimately, the image freezes on a set of complex spatial coordinates—it is neither a star map nor a building plan, but a structural diagram of some higher dimension.

Ye Qingzhou suddenly understood, "The key composed of three super-dimensional cores can open the closed door."

The wall on one side of the spherical space suddenly twisted and deformed, and some sharp metal object was trying to break through the space isolation.

Ye Qingzhou's super-dimensional perception captured a familiar fluctuation. It was a modified model of Baxia Qingcang, but the energy signature was even more violent, as if countless suffering souls were trapped in the engine and burning.

"Augustus transformed the ascetics into living batteries!"

Cecilia's golden pupils shrank sharply, and she was shocked and angry: "They are using the resonance of the Holy Word to reversely erode the defenses of the temple!"

Chu Yao's communication was suddenly interrupted, and the signal was extremely weak: "Stargazer... the shield is about to collapse... anti-dimensional bomb... countdown three minutes..."

The holographic image flickered a few times and then disappeared.

Spider-web-like cracks appeared on the surface of the central crystal, and the interwoven blue and gold energy flows began to jump unsteadily.

Ye Qingzhou felt that the hyperdimensional link was weakening, and it was obvious that the temple's defense would not hold out for much longer.

“More energy is needed.”

He grabbed Cecilia's wrist and touched her open wound.

They both shuddered violently as the golden blood mixed with his blue energy - it felt like inserting nerve endings directly into the core of a star.

Cecilia's stigmata suddenly lit up. She arched her back in pain, but her expression remained firm, without wavering at all: "The Temple is asking for my memory... as verification..."

Countless scenes flashed before Ye Qingzhou's eyes: Cecilia's first touch of the holy relic in her childhood, and the baby-like cry she heard; the metal coffin she saw under the Cathedral of Divine Illumination, with six spears of light stuck in the chest of the sleeping superdimensional remains; the "oracle" Augustus showed her, which was actually the painful electrical signal intercepted from the nerve endings of the holy relic...

“They’ve been torturing it…”

Ye Qingzhou felt sick: "Using pain to extract technology..."

Cecilia suddenly broke free from his hand and rushed towards the central crystal.

She pressed her entire bloody palm against the crack: "In the name of the baptized Cecilia van Claudius, I ask the temple for absolution!"

Golden light surged like a flood, and the cracks on the surface of the crystal began to repair themselves, but the speed was far behind the intensified external attack.

The entire temple was shaking, and some areas had already experienced spatial collapse - Ye Qingzhou saw an area the size of a football field. Suddenly folded into the thickness of paper, the three Shenzhao mechas were compressed into two-dimensional silhouettes.

"not enough……"

Cecilia's silver hair is losing its luster at a speed visible to the naked eye: "A third force is needed..."

Chu Yao's scream exploded from the communicator: "Suanni! Let Suanni access the system!"

Upon hearing this, Ye Qingzhou immediately sent a summoning command to Suanni through the neural link, and at the same time released his true martial arts with all his strength.

When Suanni Jinyan broke through the corridor and entered the spherical space, its appearance had changed.

The same extra-dimensional runes as those on the walls of the temple appeared on the surface of the armor, and thorn-like protrusions similar to light wings grew on the eye lenses.

The most astonishing thing is the core module on its chest - the extra-dimensional seedling that was originally only the size of a fist has now grown into a small tree, and its roots have penetrated the outer shell of the mecha and directly penetrated into the floor of the temple.

"Trinity……"

Cecilia murmured softly, as if reciting a passage from the Bible: "Matter, energy, soul..."

The moment Ye Qingzhou jumped into the cockpit of Suanni, the intensity of the neural connection almost made him faint. He felt that he was merging with the entire temple.

Through the sensor of Suanni, Ye Qingzhou saw seven different dimensions of the temple at the same time. Some were complete, some were in ruins, and one version was being swallowed by a black hole.

"Sixty seconds to go!"

Chu Yao's warning was accompanied by a harsh sound of metal tearing.

Augustus's Baxia finally broke through the spatial isolation.

This mecha is more hideous than the one three days ago. A crystal array similar to the temple structure is installed on its back, but it emits a dirty purple light.

Its right arm has transformed into a hybrid of some kind of biology and machinery. Golden liquid can be seen flowing between the exposed muscle fibers. It is the concentrated holy word energy extracted from the ascetic's body.

"heresy!"

Augustus' voice distorted through the mecha loudspeaker: "You have defiled the last holy land!"

Ba Xia's biological arm suddenly stretched out, and the fingertips split open to reveal a needle-like syringe.

Ye Qingzhou manipulated Suanni to dodge sideways, but a crack was still scratched on the cockpit. Purple-gold liquid splashed on the control console, immediately corroding a honeycomb-shaped hole.

“Neurotoxin!”

Cecilia's warning was accompanied by a cough.

She was assembling some kind of device with the remains of the Holy Judge, sweat constantly oozing from her white forehead: "Don't let it touch the hyperdimensional core!"

Suanni's tactical computer suddenly marked Baxia's weakness, which was the super-dimensional core fragment embedded in its chest.

The polarity of that area was deliberately reversed at this moment, forming an energy vortex like an artificial black hole.

Ye Qingzhou instantly understood Augustus’ plan. The other party wanted to use this micro black hole to detonate the core of the temple!
“Cecilia! Now!”

Ye Qingzhou channeled all of Suanni's energy into his right arm.

The super-dimensional core turned into a seed, and the seed broke into a germ, which then turned into a seedling and continued to grow wildly, forming a layer of glowing exoskeleton on the surface of the mecha.

Meanwhile, Cecilia finished her device - a crude ring made from Templar crystals and mecha parts.

She threw the ring towards the central crystal, chanting in the ancient transdimensional language.

The rings disassemble and reassemble during flight, ultimately forming a perfect geometric structure that hovers above the crystal.

“Three…two…one!”

Chu Yao's countdown was synchronized with the activation signal of the anti-dimensional bomb.

Ye Qingzhou made a move that he himself had not expected. He controlled Suanni to pounce directly at Baxia and used his arm with super-dimensional roots to pierce the energy vortex in the opponent's chest.

Severe pain hit him like a tsunami along the neural connection, and he felt his consciousness being torn apart, but at the same time, a greater existence poured into his mind through this connection.

In the moment when time almost stopped, he saw it.

We see that the super-dimensional civilization was not destroyed by accident, but rather took the initiative to decompose the three core components because they discovered that this universe was just an experimental field for higher-dimensional existences.

Seeing the war among the three major forces for the holy relic is nothing more than fluctuation of data on the experimental record sheet.

The most terrifying thing was that he saw countless pairs of eyes outside the universe watching this moment, waiting for the arrival of a critical point...

"No!"

Cecilia's holy words finally broke out.

The ring fell down, fitting perfectly into the central crystal.

The blue, gold, and green energies formed a perfect equilateral triangle, representing Ye Qingzhou's extra-dimensional resonance, Cecilia's power of the Holy Word, and Suanni's true meaning of martial arts.

The temple awakens.

Space was like wrinkles being smoothed out by an invisible hand, and all distorted areas instantly returned to their original state.

The destructive energy released by the anti-dimensional bomb was introduced into twelve different time and space dimensions, which was like pouring a cup of water into the desert, which was completely useless.

Augustus's Baxia mecha disintegrated in the pure super-dimensional light, and the purple-black energy evaporated with a scream like a vampire encountering sunlight.

At this moment, the antimatter torpedo released by the Doomsday Judge suddenly changed direction and exploded a gorgeous flower of death in the center of the fleet.

Ye Qingzhou saw through the sensor of Suanni that Augustus took off the silver mask at the last moment, revealing a completely mechanized face.

His lips opened and closed, his expression showing neither joy nor sadness: "We will eventually return to the furnace of God..."

When the afterglow of the explosion faded, the temple returned to peace.

The central crystal was now perfectly transparent, with a miniature model of the universe suspended within it.

Cecilia slumped to the ground, her white hair turning back to a fiery red, but the gold lines around her eyes were deeper.

Chu Yao and Lao Chen’s communication requests kept flashing on Suanni’s screen.

When Ye Qingzhou climbed out of the cockpit, he found that his super-dimensional patterns had faded away, leaving only a glowing triangular symbol on the inside of his left wrist.

He walked towards the central crystal and reached out to touch the miniature universe.

The model suddenly unfolded, projecting three different star paths, each pointing to a flashing hyperdimensional beacon in a distant star field. At the same time, a hyperdimensional message was directly implanted into the consciousness of the three people:
[The first phase of the test has passed. The Trinity Key has been activated. Prepare to face the second level of the test]

“Assessment?”

Chu Yao's voice came from behind.

There was blood on her forehead, but she still held the data terminal tightly in her hand, feeling extremely uneasy: "What assessment?"

Cecilia stood up slowly, her pupils had completely turned golden: "All this... is just the beginning."

Then she raised her right hand and pointed to the brightest of the three star roads: "There... there are living super-dimensional beings."

Ye Qingzhou suddenly felt a chill.

In the illusion given by the temple, he clearly saw that all the superdimensional beings had self-destructed.

So what is waiting for them at the end of this star road?
Lao Chen’s exclamation interrupted his thoughts: “The external structure of the temple is being reorganized! Look!”

Through the transparent walls, they saw the fragments of the temple reassembled like a reversed explosion video, but the shape had changed - twelve spires were arranged in a perfect circle, with a platform rising in the center, on which three mecha-shaped objects were quietly parked.

But that's not a mecha!

Ye Qingzhou's super-dimensional perception told him that it was some kind of higher-level existence - the "messenger" of super-dimensional civilization, who had been sleeping until now, waiting for a qualified driver.

The three of them looked at each other. The Star Road was calling, and the messenger had awakened.

And in the shadow of this sea of ​​stars, the internal forces of Shenzhao are being reorganized, the Star Alliance's reconnaissance ships have arrived at the outskirts of the temple, and the Human Union's expeditionary force is also on the way to jump.

The war is far from over, but the stage has become wider. (End of this chapter)