After leaving the battlefield cleanup and aftermath to the Tang Zang army, Liu Zhenhuan, lost in thought, hurried to the Seven Treasures Pagoda with Yitiao to rescue his beloved Qingya Baiyu.
The Seven Treasures Pagoda, built during the Yun Qin era, has endured thousands of years of weathering and remains incredibly magnificent.
The towering majestic pagoda and the beautiful scenery beside the lake make visitors from the Aegean marvel with admiration. Nobody is stingy with their praise for the crystallization of ancient civilization and art from another continent.
Contrary to what Liu Zhenhuan had imagined, this Seven Treasures Pagoda was not a golden copper structure.
The tower, over seventy meters tall, is entirely covered with blue rectangular stone bricks. Apart from the marks left by the smoke and flames of yesteryear, the eaves of the pagoda are overgrown with wild grasses full of vitality, adding a sense of age.
Compared to the pagoda in Liu Zhenhuan’s impression, the Seven Treasures Pagoda is a spindle-shaped structure, narrow at the top and thick at the bottom, with spiral stairs on the exterior, looking very much like a colossal snail.
If there was even a trace of wondrous and complex longing in Liu Zhenhuan’s heart, the other pagoda across the lake reminded him that he must be homesick — on the shore where the water lilies bloomed beautiful, there was also a snail-shaped pagoda, framed by mountains and water.
Obviously, the pagodas of the Silk Continent have this spindle shape, with no resemblance to Earth or his own homeland.
Although the customs and traditions of the Silk Continent have some seemingly similar aspects, the civilization, language, and art here are completely different. It is these differences that sever Liu Zhenhuan’s last traces of attachment to this continent.
In this world, ultimately only the Donau Wasteland is his true home, and only the Bimon Kingdom is his true homeland.
"Let me go! Let me go!" Yitiao struggled like a madman as he was about to rush into the underground palace of the Seven Treasures Pagoda when Ninth Prince suddenly hugged him tightly from behind. Get full chapters from novel⟡fire.net
Although the Ninth Prince wasn’t exerting physical force using a ten thousand eight hundred-pound Jing Gold club, the mighty ape is renowned on the Silk Continent for its natural divine power, making the super-class divine beasts have no advantage in terms of strength.
"Don’t be reckless! Didn’t you see that this Seven Treasures Pagoda has been neglected and nobody dares to come? If you enter the underground palace, don’t expect to come out again! The underground palace here has an Imprisonment Spell Array left by ancient Yun Qin alchemists!" Ninth Prince Xiao Kong held Yitiao as tightly as he could, knowing that anyone losing their mind for the sake of love would gain a surge of strength. The Wave Breaking Fire Crane isn’t made of gold, and Xiao Kong felt like he was holding onto another mighty ape.
"I’ll count to three. If you don’t let go, don’t blame me for being rude!" Finding the struggle useless, Yitiao glared angrily at Ninth Prince Xiao Kong and growled, "One!"
"I’m doing this for your own good!" Ninth Prince shouted at Yitiao while looking to his father for help.
"Good my ass! Two!" Yitiao, unaware his words breached a taboo, shouted, not knowing Xiao Kong had multiple mothers he couldn’t insult.
"Yitiao, don’t you want to surprise your wife?" Liu Zhenhuan twisted the distorted face of the Wave Breaking Fire Crane with a sentence that calmed Yitiao from his impulsiveness.
"Yeah! I need to give her a surprise! Qingya is surely in a ’hibernation spell’ slumber now!" Yitiao’s breathing grew heavy, and seeing that, Xiao Kong quickly let go of the manic Yitiao.
"Who has a mirror?" Yitiao shakily touched his face, incoherently asking the shopkeepers, "Am I handsome now... Compared to before, am I more handsome or uglier...?"
"The freckles on your face haven’t completely disappeared, Freckled Kid." Liu Zhenhuan regretfully told his ace fighter, "The pigment residue left by the Flame Emperor Basturk doesn’t seem to be something that ’Fei Wenli Python Bile’ can dispel."
"You have an inner beauty too." Seeing Yitiao deflate like a punctured ball, Helen couldn’t bear it, "For women, external beauty isn’t everything."
"I’m an example; I was much uglier back in the day, yet your shopkeepers stuck to me relentlessly, couldn’t shake them off! Even in Demon Clan records, my image is a magical portrait of my nose exploding, and those demon women still drooled like waterfalls at it!" Liu Zhenhuan stretched his neck, peering at the entrance to the snail pagoda’s underground palace.
In front of the snail pagoda, there is a spiraling stone pathway entry, where a dilapidated wooden door hangs a brass lock. Through the gaps in the wooden boards, the dark, monster-throated underground can be seen, with gusts of chilling wind.
"Father, this underground palace is absolutely off-limits! The Yun Qin tyrant of old had the alchemists set an Imprisonment Spell Array to eliminate the most powerful scholarly warriors. Once inside, there’s no coming out!" Xiao Kong knew saying this would infuriate Yitiao, but he had to say it.
"In terms of space concepts, your Silk Continent still hasn’t developed cross-territory magic teleportation arrays, right?" Liu Zhenhuan boasted to his sons with a hint of pride, "My teleportation array isn’t just cross-territory, it can even cross dimensions because my portable teleportation array is made of Malong Crystal!"
"Hasn’t the Silk Continent developed teleportation equipment yet?" Several human Great Magicians were puzzled by this, "Based on the characteristics of the four main magic types, once developed to a certain extent, a magic scroll could achieve cross-territory teleportation!"
"We really don’t have teleportation equipment because we rely on flying to travel! As for cross-space magic scrolls, it seems no Silk practitioner has ever developed in that direction." Yitiao mimicked wing-flapping to the Aegean Great Magicians, "It’s an ideological issue, not a matter of our Silk practitioners lacking power!"
Seeing everyone’s puzzled looks, Yitiao summarized in the simplest terms — currently, Silk Continent’s official alchemists are called "Shos." Essentially, Tang Zang Shos and Yun Qin alchemists belong to a similar category.
The name change was to commemorate the Hanliu Empire’s Great Magician ’Dongfang Shoshi’ before the Tang Zang Empire, who, through unearthing ancient tombs, revived and organized the ancient Yun Qin alchemist culture, re-establishing this ancient profession.
Nowadays, the main task of Tang Zang Shos is to refine mercury and alchemy — which means crafting elixirs.
As for the production of magical equipment, since ancient formations have largely been lost, it has gradually become a sideline occupation of the Shos — it’s worth noting that the "Five Elements Defense Array" was precisely a creation from the magical equipment-focused Shos.
In terms of magical equipment manufacturing, currently at the forefront are the historically rich and powerful Divine Beast sects; unlike Aegean magical equipment, these Silk Continent artifacts heavily rely on being refined from body parts, making them unusable by others, being more widespread yet highly personalized.
Besides some ancient potent artifacts, currently, the only mass-produced common artifact on Silk Continent is the cloud-type tool.
Slightly higher-level practitioners in the Silk Continent can use cloud-type tools to fly long distances, with different speeds based on their strength.
Thanks to fast flying, the more powerful the Silk Continent practitioner, the less time it takes to travel to distant places.
This widespread flight advantage is a great achievement that even Aegean alchemy can’t imagine.
It can be said that the Silk and Aegean continents, with completely different practice and alchemy systems, each possessing seasonal specialties, have their own merits! Yet despite the widespread and fast speed of cloud tools, it’s an undeniable fact that Silk Continent has never seen a magic teleportation array.
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