Zhang Zicheng frowned a little. Being rejected by the rune might not seem like a big deal at first glance, but if you think about it carefully, there is almost no solution.
Even though the rune can answer questions and give yes or no replies, it is not an actual entity. So how to negotiate? How to exchange interests, how to use coercion and inducement to achieve the goal?
Zhang Zicheng did not waste time asking how Rune Rune can obtain qualifications, because Rune Rune has already answered, and it itself does not want Zhang Zicheng to obtain the power it represents. With such a clear-cut attitude, no matter how hard you ask,
Too much effort is in vain.
He began to focus on exploring the runes as the source of consciousness.
After all, it was hard for Zhang Zicheng to tell whether this consciousness suddenly appeared, whether it was the rune itself, or whether an entity obtained its own contact information by virtue of the activated rune, just like Hela's cloak of death.<
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This thing can only be activated when it comes to the Nine Realms, and it is difficult to say that it is an independent individual.
Zhang Zicheng just used ordinary mental power to conduct research at the beginning, but among the runes, although Zhang Zicheng did not encounter any resistance, he could still feel that consciousness ignoring and combing him intentionally or unintentionally. Even if he came into contact with the other party,
The other party did not have any interaction or communication with me. Apart from the initial inquiry, the light of the runes also became dim.
Sure enough, simply carving runes on your body is almost useless.
So, what conditions need to be met?
Zhang Zicheng thought this while escorting the pocket space back to the land.
What exactly is Loki going to do with Jörmungandr, how to prevent the arrival of Ragnarok, and why Odin allows Loki to do what he wants? To put it bluntly, these things have nothing to do with Zhang Zicheng.
He is an outsider. If something goes wrong, he can just leave in the pocket space. The earth-shaking here has nothing to do with him. Therefore, after Zhang Zicheng learned the runes, he left without being curious about Loki's subsequent actions.
In fact, Zhang Zicheng also had a vague feeling that Loki might have known about his existence for a long time, but he never exposed it. Zhang Zicheng didn't care if he looked at the real master, and of course he was just stealing the truth openly.
But this is just a feeling after all, so every time Zhang Zicheng secretly learns, he still hides himself to save face, otherwise he will force Loki to respond.
Now that I have learned the most important things, if I continue to keep them, I will be really perverted in peeking into other people's lives.
Zhang Zicheng was still wondering before. If Loki had really discovered him a long time ago, why did he let himself learn the obviously very precious runes used to perform the 'Ouroboros' ritual?
At this time, based on the reaction of the runes to him and why Loki did not use such a precious rune on himself, the two conditions combined allowed Zhang Zicheng to make a rough guess.
That is, Loki himself does not meet the conditions of the 'Ouroboros' ritual. He cannot use it himself. At the same time, he is also convinced that he, an outsider, cannot use it, so he shows him the complete picture of the runes without any hesitation. What is the condition that Loki cannot satisfy?
Is it because of the 'snake' in 'Ouroboros'? Only snakes can perform the Ouroboros ritual using runes?
Zhang Zicheng shook his head. If it were other people or gods, then forget it. Loki often has legends about turning into animals, and there are even legends about turning into animals and giving birth to children more than once... Although those legends come from the earth and not this world.
, but the Jormungandr and Fenrir of this world are also Loki’s children.
What exactly Loki did when he gave birth to a child is worth pondering.
All in all, he can turn into an animal and give birth to children who really belong to this kind of animal. His transformation ability is absolutely perfect. I am afraid that even if the real animal comes, Loki will not become real. In this case, Loki
Ji would at least give it a try instead of giving up right from the start and pinning his hopes on Jörmungandr.
So since the condition is not a snake, what is so special about Jörmungandr?
Zhang Zicheng thought about it and said to himself: "It's huge... and you were beaten into two pieces by me and then started to eat yourself?"
The condition of being huge is too simple, so let’s put it aside. Self-eating or something... Referring to the image of Ouroboros itself, it seems that this is really possible?
So the conditions of the ritual are just like Odin hanging himself upside down on the World Tree and sacrificing his eyes to himself. Does it require an act of self-mutilation called 'self-cannibalism'?
Considering Odin's most well-known ritual, Zhang Zicheng feels that this possibility seems to be the greatest.
But... does eating the clone count as self-eating?
Zhang Zicheng is not sure. After all, his body in the Nine Realms is a clone. Can he gain the power of the 'Ouroboros' by eating himself? Is it that simple?
"It's not troublesome anyway, why not give it a try?"
Self-eating, which sounds a bit scary, is really not a troublesome thing for Zhang Zicheng now if it is just 'self-eating' in a broad sense.
Wouldn't it be better to create a clone and transform yourself into an animal? What you will eat then will be animal meat, not human flesh.
Zhang Zicheng thought this way. He used the improved Wind Control Art to convert the kinetic energy into a spinning breeze covering dozens of miles of three-dimensional space. The potential energy between the breeze and the breeze will cancel each other out after contact, so
He didn't make any noise, but he flew to land very quickly.
Of course, it was said to be extremely fast, but it took a long time. It was just extremely fast compared to the distance. It was already approaching dusk at this time, and Zhang Zicheng happened to pass by a village. After thinking about it, he felt
There should be some simple condiments in the village, so I just dropped them.
As for the pocket space, if there is an empty ring, look at it from the other end. If necessary, it will close itself. If there is no problem, it will slowly bounce and move. There will be no problem.
Zhang Zicheng fell into the village. Because of the death cloak on his body, no mortal could see him.
Zhang Zicheng looked at the people walking around him, wearing linen clothes and carrying laundry baskets on their heads, talking to each other in groups, and suddenly felt that he had not interacted with something called 'group' or 'society' for a long time.
But not only did he not have any anxiety in his heart, he also didn't have the slightest nostalgia. With Zhang Zicheng's current personal situation, he no longer needs the behavior of "being in a group" to give him a sense of security.
This is not to say that Zhang Zicheng no longer looks down on ordinary people. Looking down on this kind of thing is boring in itself. He is just in a special situation and the environment he faces is extremely complex and changeable. In the process of exploration, he has no time to calm down and form a
It’s just an organization with stable development.
If Zhang Zicheng suddenly loses all his power to travel through time and space, he will most likely come into contact with the crowd again to digest the power he has gained over time and try to realize technology in different directions.
But at this stage, there is no need for that at all. Personal exploration has found that new technologies are more efficient.
Zhang Zicheng pinched the magic formula, and the breeze blew and swirled around, causing the passersby around him to squint their eyes to guard against the wind and sand.
After they opened their eyes again, they didn't notice that there was an out-of-place figure in the crowd.
Well, after all, the clone technique can't transform the magic weapon into two, and the cloak of death is still worn on Zhang Zicheng's golden elixir clone.
Zhang Zicheng's two clones looked at each other and suddenly discovered something.
That is this new clone that appears, and it does not have a golden elixir.
"So, am I really still in the stage of Qi training? This golden elixir was just forced out of me, and I haven't actually broken through the realm at all?"
Zhang Zicheng was a little confused by this scene, but he still shook his head and put aside his doubts for the time being. Now is not the time to study Qi. He has already opened up enough research directions and is already busy with multiple tasks. It is better to concentrate while being distracted.
.
The new clone kneaded the secrets again, and suddenly turned himself into...a chicken.
Zhang Zicheng took off the brim of his death hood, carried the chicken that his new clone had transformed into, looked around, and walked towards the only tavern in the village.
Hela, who had been observing Zhang Zicheng through the Death Cloak but remained silent the whole time: "..."
She had seen what Zhang Zicheng had done before, and since she knew the runes better, she had already guessed what Zhang Zicheng was going to do.
It's just that Hela didn't expect that Zhang Zicheng would actually create a clone and eat him in such a simple and direct way?
If it were so simple to meet the conditions, runes would not be a power that only a few Asgardian protoss could master.
In the tavern, Zhang Zicheng burped, looked at the chicken bones on the stone table, and fell into deep thought.
The runes naturally did not produce any reaction.
Sure enough, it's not that simple. Zhang Zicheng can't say he's disappointed, but after all, the cost of trying this method is very low. If you think of it, you can use it, and it won't be a waste of time.
But what went wrong?
Zhang Zicheng still feels that self-eating is the most likely condition. But eating a clone cannot satisfy the requirements of runes.
Do you really want to be like Jörmungandr, cutting off half of your body and eating it slowly?
However, after experiencing the failure of his first attempt, Zhang Zicheng also felt that he had viewed the problem too simply.
It's a little more complicated...
Even considering that after Loki finished drawing the runes for Jörmungandr, he went straight to chatting with Thor about home affairs without worrying about activating the runes. Maybe, in fact, Jörmungandr has not yet
Meet the conditions of Ouroboros?
So the question is not what Jormungandr is doing now, but what Jormungandr is going to do...
Uh, Ragnarok? Die with Thor? Devour the world?
Zhang Zicheng shook his head. Loki wanted Jormungandr to prevent Ragnarok, that is, to prevent the above-mentioned things from happening, so there is a high probability that those will not meet the conditions of the runes.
So Zhang Zicheng simply put aside Jörmungandr, who had not yet activated the runes, and turned to analyze 'Odin', who had obviously successfully performed the ceremony.
That is to say, after giving up considering what conditions Jörmungandr met, Zhang Zicheng suddenly realized a detail in Odin's ceremony...
The place where Odin hung himself upside down and performed the ceremony... is on the World Tree, which is completely unreachable to mortals.
So for thousands of years, only those guys who call themselves 'gods' can use runes? After all, it is too 'easy' for mortals to hang themselves upside down and dig out their eyes. There are only two people who really restrict them.
One is to go to the 'World Tree', and the other is to master the 'Rune Runes'.
Maybe the ceremony really has requirements on location?
Zhang Zicheng simply asked Rune directly: "If I want to use your power, one of the conditions that I need to meet is that I must be under the World Tree...or in other words, can the ceremony be held when I am extremely close to the World Tree?" Runes restore a sense of composure.
Sure enough.
Then I have obtained a conditional information...
So Zhang Zicheng simply struck while the iron was hot and asked him all the conditions he had come up with.
"Is one of the conditions that you need to eat yourself?"
The runes once again gave a sense of calmness, but it was very weak. It seemed that Zhang Zicheng had lost his curiosity and no longer had the original active feeling.
Zhang Zicheng realized that one of the conditions was that he really had to feed himself, so he quickly asked for more detailed conditions.
"It must be the main body, not the clone?"
"Must you feel the pain of being eaten?"
"Must you start eating from the feet?"
"Can I turn into an animal and eat it?"
After several questions in a row, except for the first one, after Rune gave me a sense of calmness again, there was almost no response.
Zhang Zicheng can feel that the rune has not weakened. On the contrary, its presence engraved on the body is getting stronger and stronger. Fortunately, the Death Cloak suppresses its light, otherwise Zhang Zicheng would
It's a blue light bulb.
But contrary to the presence of the rune, it is becoming increasingly lazy to answer Zhang Zicheng's questions.
In the next few questions, Zhang Zicheng neither felt calm nor weightless. Apparently Rune was too lazy to pay attention to him.
Zhang Zicheng stood up and walked outside again, throwing away a small dough filled with Qi.
He used someone else's spatula and a few spices to cook himself, which was considered a trouble for the shop owner, so he still had to pay some fees.
But Zhang Zicheng didn't have any money with him, so he had to use this 'elixir' to compensate.
This kind of 'elixir' is not refined, but purely infused with energy. Naturally, it does not have any special functionality. It will simply and crudely give the user a little bit of the true energy that will not increase on its own, but will gradually dissipate if it is not maintained.
That’s all.
But at least, in the process of gradual dissipation, it also has many benefits for the body, so it cannot be said to be completely useless.
Next, it’s time to head to the World Tree...
But Zhang Zicheng stood on the ground, looked at the dusk sky, and fell into deep thought.
So where is the World Tree...?
When he ran out of the thunderclouds of Helheim, he didn't see any giant cosmic tree with branches spreading to nine planets.