Chapter 214 What is the source of spirituality among the fresh faces in Xibi ?
In fact, today, when spiritual arcana has developed to such a high level, there is still no definite way to define the spring of spirituality.
Arcane mages generally believe that the spiritual spring is the intersection of the true spiritual sea and the real world.
Because of this, the spiritual spring will continuously spew out spiritual particles to nourish everything in the world.
There are also arcanists who believe that the real spiritual sea is in the center of the earth, and the spring of spirituality leads from the center of the earth to the surface.
There are also arcanists who believe that the spring of spirituality runs through time and space and is a mineral deposit condensed from all things in the dead old time. That's why ancient spirits exist in spiritual springs, just like amber found in ores.
The shadow of ancient times is also an existence similar to amber.
The spirituality of the dying era is entirely condensed in the spring of spirituality. From time to time, these amber-like spiritualities will erupt, forming a shadow of the ancient era and impacting the spiritual sea of today's people.
"The phantom of ancient times is very dangerous, especially the closer the era is, the stronger the spirituality of the dead, and the greater the danger. Even if an Arcana mage is impacted by the phantom of ancient times, if he is not careful, he will sink into it and become a walking corpse. Sinking Demon."
Duke had asked his teacher Suktala about this topic before, and this was Suktala's answer.
However, Suktala has seen ancient spirits, but has never encountered the impact of ancient shadows - spiritual springs that can trigger ancient shadows are generally large spiritual springs, and only the spring under Shenjiao City is big enough.
It's just that the spring under Shenjiao City has been tamed by arcane mages, and it continuously outputs spirituality to serve the entire city.
There will no longer be an outbreak of ancient shadows.
"I didn't expect that the spiritual spring in Cuihai Valley could erupt the shadow of ancient times. Didn't it mean that this was just a medium-sized spring of spirituality?" Duke was in the ocean of insects of the shadow of ancient times, with Xiaoyi and guardians
· The Mysterious Vine helps him protect the spiritual sea, and he doesn't feel there is any danger - after all, the Ocean of Insects is the oldest era, and the preserved shadows are very dim.
His fingertips gently poked the shadow of a trilobite. The trilobite seemed to be a living creature and ran away quickly.
Then a huge straight-shelled nautilus swam over and seemed to see Duke.
This apex predator in the ancient ocean suddenly accelerated, and several tentacles two to three meters long stretched out from the mouth of the shell, wrapping Duke tightly around him. He grabbed Duke and was about to stuff it into his mouth. go.
Duke quickly used "Fighting Armor" to wrap himself up.
Then I realized that I had made a false alarm. This straight-shelled nautilus, which was more than ten meters long, had no strength at all.
At the same time, many vines suddenly appeared on his body. After these vines appeared, they cut off the tentacles of the Nautilus inch by inch. The Nautilus was in pain and wanted to escape, but was bitten by the vines. Wrap it around until it is completely covered.
The next moment, the phantom of the straight-shelled nautilus shattered like a bubble.
The vines growing on Duke's body also slowly dissipated. There is no doubt that these are the guardian and mysterious vines in the spiritual sea.
"It turns out that the Guardian Vine of Mystery is used to deal with the shadows of ancient times." Duke suddenly understood.
When he was infected by the shed shell of an ancient evil creature before, the Guardian Mysterious Vine had no response. He thought it was useless.
I didn't expect it to work here.
When they saw the huge predator Nautilus, they were crushed to pieces by Duke. The other small shadows that were surrounding it before all dispersed and swam around.
The crinoids growing around him also restrained their arms and legs.
However, over the forest in the distance, there are still countless shadows wandering in the sky. In addition to the straight-shelled nautilus, there is also an apex predator, like a giant shrimp or a giant squid. This is the helmet wonder. shrimp.
The mercenaries holding strong portable lamps turned a blind eye to the Ocean of Insects.
Vivian in the Black Beetle rolled over and continued to lie down, showing no reaction to the ancient shadow outside.
Duke was the only one standing on the roof of the car, feeling the impact of the Ocean of Insects.
As the guarding and mysterious vines dispersed, the frightened shadows quickly swam over and looked at Duke curiously, as if they lived in the same era.
Living in that ancient insect ocean.
Then Duke saw a very small phantom of an insect crawling in the void, as if crawling on the bottom of the sea.
This little bug looks very strange. Its head and tail are unclear. It has two rows of sharp spines on its back and two rows of thin legs on its body. Whether you turn it upside down or head to tail, it always looks the same.
"There is a 97% probability that this species is a grotesque insect phantom in the Ocean of Insects." Xiaoyi did not directly respond to Duke's doubts.
Instead, the information about the weird insect was given on the Dou Qi holographic screen.
At this moment, Duke has entered a special state, as if he has crossed the distance of hundreds of millions of years and arrived in the Ocean of Insects.
Live together with many strange bugs in the Ocean of Bugs.
Feel their breathing, their emotions, their hunting and being hunted, and the cruel or interesting scenes.
The grotesque bug ignored Duke and crawled away from him.
But then another bug crawled over. It looked no worse than a grotesque bug. It had no head or eyes, only tentacles of different lengths and a fat body.
Duke couldn't help but stretched out his fingers to meet the little bug, which was only as big as his thumb.
The little bug crawled onto Duke's finger. It seemed to sense that something was wrong. It stopped and swung its tentacles. It looked like it was trying to intimidate Duke, but this action did nothing to scare Duke. No deterrent.
"There is an 81% probability that this species is the shadow of the cheering insect in the ocean of insects." The information about the insect was displayed on the grudge holographic screen.
Duke seemed unaware, his attention focused on the cheering bug.
After a few seconds.
He laughed.
Then he stretched out his other hand, pointed at the cheering bug that was still swinging its tentacles, and flicked it with a snap of his fingers. Snap, the cheering bug was bounced far, far away.
Then a strange insect as big as a palm rushed out, swallowed the cheering insect in one mouthful, and then swam quickly out of Duke's sight.
Right now.
From the bottom of the Ocean of Insects, that is, from the forest of the Green Sea Valley, a huge shadow suddenly emerged, with an extremely bright brightness.
All the shadows in the Ocean of Insects are not as bright as this one.
This phantom seemed to be a scorpion or an anomaly, with two large knife-like claws on its flat body.
"There is a 58% probability that this species is the phantom of the horseshoe crab in the ocean of insects." Xiaoyi gave the data.
However, Duke immediately thought of the 9-ring spiritual beast that had launched an insect wave to invade Shenjiao City - the Black Jade Horseshoe Dragon. Although the two were hugely different in size and had different appearances, their demeanor and appearance were more or less similar. Find similar places.
One is a dragon, and the other is an ancient shadow.
However, at the location of Cuihai Valley, there is an intersection of time and space.
Duke felt inexplicably emotional: "Perhaps the ancestor of the Black Jade Horseshoe Crab countless millions of years ago was this plate-footed horseshoe crab that crossed the barrier of time and space..." At
this moment.
In his spiritual sea, rumbles and vibrations occurred, and then a swaying plate-legged horseshoe crab condensed and roamed freely in the spiritual sea.
Immediately afterwards, more and more plate-footed horseshoe crabs gathered and filled every corner of the spiritual sea.
It was as if there were many more little scorpions in the spiritual sea.
As always, the vines of protection and mystery are also entwined around the horseshoe crab's body, making it possible for each other to feel like I am in you and you are in me.
Stunned for a moment.
Duke grinned: "Sure enough, the phantom in ancient times is both a danger and an opportunity. I didn't expect it to help me understand the eleventh vision... This vision is called the Sea Scorpion or the Black Jade Horseshoe Dragon. This horseshoe crab looks a lot like a scorpion."
Wild flowers, wheat seedlings, branches, ants, stones, whirlpools, white paper, rainbows, spiritual crystals, spears, and now sea scorpions, a total of eleven kinds of visions.
Coupled with the vine of protection and mystery, they are all scenes in his spiritual sea.
Duke exited the inner view and continued to stare at the surrounding insect ocean. He also looked forward to understanding several more phantoms of the insect ocean.
But not even a moment later, the Ocean of Insects suddenly became like the ebbing tide of the sea. In an instant, everything receded cleanly. There was no longer the feeling of being enveloped by warm sea water, there were no longer any strange shadows of insects, and there was no longer any disturbing feeling. Intoxicated by ancient spirituality.
The shadow of the ancient times has retreated into the old time, as if it was just a dream.
Duke jumped out of the Black Beetle with some disappointment. The entire camp was as before, without any impact.
"Go and call Commander Xina." Duke said to a mercenary standing guard.
"Yes, sir."
Zina rushed over in a moment. She had fallen asleep before, but now she seemed to have not woken up, her eyes were puffy with sleep.
"My lord, are you looking for me?"
"How do you feel now?" Duke asked.
Zina shook her head in confusion, as if trying to wake herself up: "I don't know, it just feels like my body is very heavy, as if I was distracted in sleep. Sir, why do you ask, did it happen just now?" "
No, you go and rest." Duke waved his hand.
Xina is a pseudo-level 1 card warrior with both Blood Sea and Spirit Sea cultivation. However, she cannot break through the 1st level in both aspects. She can only rely on fighting spirit and spirit card mixed combat to barely raise her strength to the 1st level. , assess the career of a card warrior.
This profession is generally recognized by the Mercenary Mission Center and is not recognized by the Magic Spirit Tower and will not be registered.
"Looking at Xina, she must have been impacted by the Ocean of Insects, but she only lost a little energy, nothing serious."
Duke glanced at the dark night that had become groggy again, and returned to the Black Beetle.
Vivian, who was sleeping outside, sat up from the hard bed. The cloth armor she had worn during the day had been taken off. With the help of a dim light in the car, she could be seen wearing only a small shirt, revealing her plump figure. , the chest is particularly attractive.
"Sir, are you ready to rest?" Vivian asked.
Duke raised his brows, took Vivian's hand and said, "It's still early, come and chat with me for a while."
In fact, there was nothing to talk about. Vivian was not a talkative person. As for Duke, I haven't completely escaped from the shock of the Ocean of Insects.
There are still many questions lingering in my mind.
Why can the medium-sized spiritual spring in Cuihai Valley erupt into an ocean of insects?
There are two three-ring tree kings growing in the Cuihai Valley. Could there be some connection with the Ocean of Insects, indicating that this spring is not medium-sized?
Why do the molted shells of ancient evil things appear here? Could this be the reason for the outbreak of the Ocean of Insects?
There is also the Cuihai Valley development war led by Bernoulli Mage Tower, which suddenly fell into silence; Bernoulli Earth Arcane Mage, who said he would come to Shenjiao City in person to take charge, has yet to show up in Shenjiao City; foreign aid is invited to hunt The dragon also made no movement.
In addition, Xiaochi's grandmother, according to Xiaochi's description, is the image of a trilobite, and she happens to live in the spiritual spring of Cuihai Valley.
So could the chick's grandma really be a trilobite living in the ancient era of the Ocean of Insects?
Being wrapped in spiritual amber, can you survive to this day?
There are too many problems that Duke cannot see through.
but.
He quickly handed these same questions to Xiaoyi for analysis, while he hugged the female knight close to him and started chatting.
...
On the fourth day, I feel refreshed.
After chatting all night, Duke did not consume too much energy. After giving Vivian a day off, he still rode the spirit horse and galloped in the forest, hunting spirit beasts with guns drawn everywhere.
Return to camp in the evening.
It was discovered that Xiaohong had ended her marriage and returned to the Black Beetle.
"Good girl, you have found a suitable partner!" Duke touched Xiaohong's antennae and felt the weak emotions transmitted from Xiaohong.
It desperately needs to build a nest and then breed its own colony.
"Let's set off and return to Snake Head Town!" Duke ordered directly. The mercenaries gathered around the Black Beetle and returned to Snake Head Town in the middle of the night.
We stayed one night at Black Snake Manor and set off early the next morning.
"Mu Lali, your sister wants to spend a few days with you in the city and see the Mage Tower. You can help my aunt take care of her." Murashan's mother, before leaving, took her niece Mulali's hand and felt a little uncomfortable. She warned.
Mulali promised: "Aunt, don't worry. It's great that Shanshan comes to accompany me. You don't have to worry about us."
Taking Mulashan with her, Mulali boarded the airship Zhuiying.
The airship arrived at Suktara Mage Tower at ten o'clock. Suktara went to work in the Union Tower, so no one let Duke attend class.
Duke was able to continue his vacation and personally took Xiaohong to the Duke-James Farm.
Here, Xiaohong had already dug a large nest. Duke put it down, but Xiaohong did not climb into the underground nest immediately. Instead, she stopped at Duke's feet, and then kept rubbing her two legs. Wings until they are rubbed off.
Duke knelt down and picked up the two wings: "Thank you for the gift, go and get it, Xiaohong, to build your own ant colony."
Waving his tentacles, Xiaohong got into the nest.
The fallen wings of the 5-ring crypt army ant queen are definitely valuable spiritual materials, but Duke is not willing to use them as spiritual materials.
He handed it to the entourage and said, "Go back and find someone to make a specimen of these wings and hang them in the living room of the Beverly Manor Villa." "
Yes, sir."
"Where's Boss James?"
"I'm here, sir." James, the owner of the farm, ran up to Duke, "I haven't congratulated you yet, sir, for becoming a scholar!" "It's just a
name, it's nothing." Duke said calmly. He raised his hand and said, "Let me change the name on the farm and hide my name. I am now a big tree and attract the wind. There is no need to take advantage of the farm's small income." "Ah, sir..." James was very anxious and stopped
. Duke's trademark is that there is no way he can run the farm by himself.
"Don't worry, listen to me. This is what I think about, James." Duke explained, "You and I have known each other for so long, and I trust your abilities, so I have provided you with two solutions. , you think about it yourself."
"Sir, please tell me."
"First, you become my vassal and help me manage spiritual plant affairs full-time. I will have the opportunity to study spiritual plants in the future and need an assistant. I think you are suitable. "Secondly, if you feel that being a vassal is too restrictive, you can continue to run the farm, but it will only be a cooperative relationship in the future. Of course, I can help you solve problems on the farm a few times." The two met in Weimo, although Duke decided to withdraw from the farm
. Management, but it will not let James suffer.
"I...I need to think about it, sir."
"Well, it doesn't matter, think about it slowly, and then get back to me after you think about it." Duke smiled and patted James on the shoulder.
Using the breathing method, he cultivated Ji Yulu, the second-level elf spirit plant, and cultivated the snow-blowing pillar that did not grow well in the farmland. After two hours of busy work, Duke set off to leave the farm.
When we returned to Suktala Master Tower, it was already evening.
"Duke, continue the class in the evening." After Suktara got off work, he came over in person as soon as possible and greeted Duke.
"Um, good teacher."
"One more thing. Now there is an opportunity for you to get shares of Xibiti Spiritual Mine Company. Do you want to participate in the competition?" "
Share of Xibidi Spiritual Mine Company? "Duke was surprised, "I'm just a 1st level arcane mage, can I still get the shares?"
"I can only say that there is hope."
Suktala told Duke exactly what happened: "Clalinda decided to sell The shares are used to raise money to compensate for the losses of Runwanjia Spiritual Weapon Factory. Don’t underestimate this 1% share. It is worth at least one million gold dragons, and there are continuous dividends. Few people are willing to sell it." Just as Duke left the Mage
Tower , when he went to Sheshou Town to attend to Xiaohong’s wedding arrangements, Keithon Nutao held a board meeting as the chairman of Xibiti Ling Mining Company.
Discuss what should be done with the shares sold by Clarinda.
"Some shareholders think it should be recycled, so that everyone can share a little bit of money and their shares can rise a little bit. Senior management like Mr. Kisson still insist on choosing new people to take over the shares, and they have always used unity." Suktara said
: "As for the candidates for the newcomers, Sir Christian recommended you. In addition, four second-level arcane mages were also recommended, so there are a total of five candidates including you." "Sir Christian actually recommended me?
"
"Although you are only a level 1 arcane mage, you are already a scholar and a rising star. It is not surprising to recommend you... If you are willing to participate, I will help you respond to the board of directors and wait for the future vote to choose who will take over. ."
The shares of Xibithi are a kind of threshold.
Arcane mages in Shenjiao City are also divided into levels.
The first-class grades are naturally Keithon Fury, Williams, Erwin, and Stephen Wing Tiger. These four mages, plus the Chief Director of Faling Tower Orucci, and the Governor of Union Tower Jovis Bobcat , and Penrose, members of the leadership team of the Five Towers Conference.
The second-rate class is basically the shareholders of Xibidi, including most of the third-level arcane mages, as well as some outstanding second-level arcane mages.
As for the third-rate level, they are the remaining arcane mages.
There is no need for Duke to stand out, so integrating into the Xibiti circle and raising his level is the right thing to do.
Besides, this is the share sold by Clarinda, which is of great significance.
He immediately replied: "Of course I am willing to take over this share, but teacher, if it sells for millions of gold dragons, I simply cannot afford it." "As long as you have
this intention, the teacher will help you." Suktala said kindly Said, "This is indeed a good opportunity. If Clarinda hadn't taken the initiative to sell the shares, even if you were promoted to the 2nd Ring of Austrian Mage, you might not be able to buy the shares of Xibiti." "Teacher, you are really kind to me
. "
You are my successor. In the future, the research on ring replication materials will have to be completed by you. Some external factors will be left to the teacher to help you deal with them." Suktala said, "This teacher has been here for more than a hundred years." I'm not idle, I still saved a lot of gold dragons."
Duke said gratefully: "Teacher, don't worry, I will repay the teacher as soon as the giant of light makes money."
Suktara smiled and said: "Don't worry, it's just a matter of time . It's just an external thing, don't be burdened, and follow the teacher to learn alchemy well, which is the best way to express your gratitude to the teacher." "
Yes!"
I am grateful for the teacher's love for me.
Duke listened very carefully to the alchemy class in the evening and was meticulous in doing experiments. He hoped to master the art of alchemy as soon as possible.
If I could make some achievements during the teacher's lifetime, I would even solve the problem of ring-copying materials.
Then, it will be the best reward.
"What a good boy. He understands everything and is meticulous." Suktala looked at Duke who was doing the experiment seriously, and was filled with joy.
So the next day, she informed the board of directors of Hipvite about Duke's intention to compete for the shares of Hippit.
Just as Duke went to Penrose Wizard Tower to take another card-making course.
Hibiti held its second board meeting this month. Chairman Keithon Nutao sat in person and Executive Vice Director Ervin presided over the meeting.
"At this meeting, the successor of 1% of the shares in Xibi will be selected. Currently, there are five candidates interested in taking over, including the 2nd-level arcane scholar, the spiritual plant scholar Outlet, and the 2nd-level arcane scholar Trespo. , 2nd level arcanist Nigel, 2nd level arcanist Yvette, and 1st level arcane scholar and erudite Duke."
Erwin read out the names of the five people with a smile like a little old man, and then Said: "Everyone can speak freely, tell us which one you support and why...it's still a common practice. Let me vote after everyone has finished speaking." "
Then let me talk briefly first." United Tower's external supervisor, 3rd Ring Arcana Teacher and elemental scholar Flur spoke first, "I support outlets. Outlets are my old friends for many years. They have been rooted in the field of spiritual cultivation for many years..." Soon, another director said
: "Ahem, let me tell you what I think. I think Nigel is good. He is young and has potential. He has performed well in several pioneering wars. As a second-level arcanist, he has a promising future..."
This Penrose, who was the director of Hippie at the time, also said: "Duke, I support Duke. He is my student. His talent is obvious to all. There is no need to say much else." "Duke is good." Erwin laughed
. Hehehe followed.
As everyone discussed, three candidates were quickly eliminated, leaving only Outlets and Duke.
The other three are not scholars, so their status is naturally lower.
"Duke is only a level 1 arcanist mage, which is inappropriate." "
So what if he is a level 1 arcanist? As a genius arcanist mage, he should be given preferential treatment." "He is too
active, so why not let him concentrate on research? It may not be a good thing to include him in the Xibi land now. Oh."
"Let him come in, wouldn't it just reduce external interference, so that he can focus on research." "He has been waiting for
Outlet for more than ten years, and he is already qualified in terms of qualifications. I think it is better to let Outlet come in. ."
"A new generation replaces the old ones. Xibidi selects the best arcane mages to join. Duke is good enough, why not let him join?" "Yes, yes." "I also support
Duke
, Wind Breath The youngest scholar in the field, it is just the right time to join Xibidi."
"Okay, no matter how much we argue, we can't argue about the reason." Erwin interrupted the noise in the meeting and said directly, "Let's vote by a show of hands."
After more than 20 directors raised their hands.
Outlets received support from twelve people and Duke received eleven support, including two directors who did not raise their hands.
"Ahem." Keithon Fury, who was sitting in the front seat and was one of the people who didn't raise his hand, said slowly, "To be honest, I have seen enough of the old faces in Shenjiao City, coming and going. It’s just us, there’s nothing new at all.”
Everyone fell silent and listened to Christian’s speech.
Christian didn't show off, and said slowly: "I watched Clinda grow up, and I watched the outlet grow up, so what's the point of going in and out. But Duke, this guy,... It feels like a new person, I still want to support this kid."
After he finished speaking, everyone looked at each other.
Then they unanimously agreed in the name of haha: "Since the chairman is optimistic about Duke, let's look forward to Duke's future performance."
Please vote~
(End of this chapter)