Chapter 216 Standing on the edge of Yunding Garden, unable to drag his hind legs , he seemed to be able to take in the entire scenery of the Black Dragon River Land, with undulating mountains and rushing rivers.
"Isn't it beautiful? Is the Black Dragon River beautiful?" Christian asked calmly with his hands behind his back.
"Beautiful," Duke replied.
"Grandpa likes to stand here the most, overlooking the entire Black Flood River. Further north is the kerosene area. Black oil is abundant there, but the environment is far worse than that of the Black Flood River," Kiriya said.
"Don't mention the hot land, thinking about Bernoulli gives me a headache. Cuihai Valley is such a good place, but it is given to outsiders!" Christian is getting older and more naughty. He never hides what he wants to say, "Grandpa Grandpa The reason why I like to stand here and enjoy the scenery is to protect this land." "
Your Excellency is truly the Optimus Pillar of Black Dragon River Land." Duke flattered him a little.
"Hey, Optimus Prime, hey!" Christian was very satisfied with this statement, but soon sighed, "It's a pity that the side of Cuihai Valley couldn't hold it up." "That can't be blamed on you, Grandpa
. After all, there are Yalongs."
"You misunderstood what Grandpa Grandpa meant. As for me, it means that this piece of meat from Cuihai Valley did not rot in our Black Dragon River land and was snatched away by Bernoulli!"
Keystone He bared his teeth and said, "I originally planned to arrange for Williams to develop, but Williams stayed in Shenjiao City and refused to leave. There were also the useless descendants of the Mubia family, who directly passed the news to Master Bernoulli's Tower. !"
Arcanist mages have deep regional prejudices, especially in border areas like this.
Duke did not have this kind of prejudice. He smiled and said: "Sir, Master Bernoulli established a family in Cuihai Valley. In the future, he will also increase the strength of Black Dragon River. After all, Cuihai Valley is far away from Huoyou. It is impossible for his family to sacrifice the near for the distant."
"You are quite powerful, but I just don't like Bernoulli. He is so old and cliché, but he is still so afraid of death."
Christian snorted and continued: "If it were me, I would have done it long ago . He fought with the Black Jade Horseshoe Dragon and blew up his spiritual core to kill her!"
Duke thought to himself that Bernoulli was here to start a family, not to be a martyr.
If he doesn't completely occupy Cuihai Valley, wait for the Seven Towers Federation to register him with a title, and doesn't refine the spirit beast bloodline for his family, I'm afraid Bernoulli won't be willing to die.
But there is no need to say this.
Christian knew everything, he just said what he felt.
"By the way, sir, I remembered something." Duke thought of the Insect Ocean in Cuihai Valley and decided to report the matter. "I went to Cuihai Valley before to pay for one of my ant spirits. Beast, looking for a marriage partner, unexpectedly bumped into something."
"What happened?" "
In the Ocean of Insects, I encountered an outbreak in the Ocean of Insects in Cuihai Valley, and I also saw a plate-footed horseshoe crab that looked similar to the Black Jade Horseshoe Dragon. "
"Ocean of Insects? Are you sure you hit the Ocean of Insects?" Keystone's eyes widened.
Kiriya also looked at Duke with beautiful eyes, surprised that such an extremely rare event could be encountered by Duke.
"I'm sure. I thought the higher-ups should know, so I didn't say anything. It was only after we were chatting here today that I thought of saying something."
Duke really thought so.
He also wanted to find out some information about the Ocean of Insects from the higher-ups, and then see if he could find an opportunity to benefit from it and rescue Xiaoji's grandma.
Who would have thought that after asking around, he would be the only person involved in Chong Zhiyang.
"I have never seen an ancient phantom in my life, but I did it to you, kid?" Christian looked Duke up and down, "I never saw how magical your kid is, how come you are blessed by spirituality to be like this?" How deep is it?"
"Maybe... it's a preference." Duke responded seriously.
Christian rolled his eyes: "The Ocean of Insects is the least threatening among the ghosts of ancient times. No matter how wrapped up in spirituality those ancient ghosts are, they will gradually decay in time. It can be said that you are very lucky. If If you encounter an ancient phantom like the Sea of Fishes, you might be killed." "
I'm quite scared to say the least." "
Wherever there is danger, there are opportunities, little Duke, you are in the Sea of Insects. Did you get any chance?" Christian asked curiously.
He has never encountered such a rare thing, which is undoubtedly a huge regret on the path of exploring spiritual arcana.
"It's like watching a show. There are really no other benefits. However, I did understand the vision of an insect." "Have
you realized a new vision again?" Kiriya on the side said in surprise.
She felt even more inexplicably sad in her heart. Everyone called her the sweet girl of heaven, and Duke was undoubtedly a proud son of heaven.
We are all talented people, why is the gap so big?
Since she was promoted to arcane mage, she has spent a lot of effort to reorganize the meditation method, but Duke's vision is like drinking water.
"Yes." Duke nodded.
Christian also clicked his tongue and exclaimed: "Little Duke, I seriously doubt that you jumped out of the spring of spirituality. How is this different from growing up soaking in the spring of spirituality... I made the right choice to let you join Xibidi." , this is not a hundred times more interesting than some outlets!"
It was getting dark.
Christian directly took Duke back to his small villa, asked the butler to serve the food, and chatted with Duke and Kiliya while eating.
"Sir, I'm very curious. The spiritual spring in Cuihai Valley is only a medium-sized spring. How could an ocean of insects break out?" It was rare for Duke to see an old antique who lived for 190 years, so he regarded him as a living encyclopedia. The whole book.
"Medium size?" Christian shook his head, "Although I had doubts before you mentioned the Ocean of Insects, I did think it was a medium-sized spring. But now I can confirm that this spring is not simple, it is definitely a large spring. "!"
"Grandpa, didn't you say that you went to see the spring in person?" Kiriya was puzzled.
"I have been there and confirmed it myself. Judging from the performance of the spring and the interference intensity of the magical spiritual field, it can indeed only be regarded as a medium-sized spiritual spring. However, there are two three-ring trees growing next to the medium-sized spiritual spring. This is unreasonable."
3 Ring Spirit Plant, known as the King of Trees, needs strong spirituality to activate, otherwise it will be difficult to survive.
"It should be noted that the spring in Shenjiao City only had two three-ring tree kings at the beginning, and there were dragons guarding the spring..." Christian drank a glass of wine and continued, "Little Duke said that he experienced the insect Zhiyang, then I realized that this spring is probably not simple."
Duke quickly asked: "Sir, why is it not simple?"
"It doesn't hurt to let you know. I'm afraid this spring is blocked for some reason. Halfway through, it will show the characteristics of a medium-sized spring. In fact, it should be a large spring!" "
Could it be artificially blocked?"
"No, the Black Snake family was the first to discover this spring, but they didn't have the ability to block it. The spring, as for Bernoulli, he only found out about the spring after us and had no chance to do anything about it." Christian squinted his eyes and smiled, "But this old guy must have discovered the clues!" He continued to explain:
" If it were an ordinary medium-sized spiritual spring, Bernoulli would have invited the Arcane Master to come over and hunt the Black Jade Horseshoe Dragon. Now he has not invited him. Instead, he has created the illusion that he is arguing with the Arcane Master, just to cover it up and fear that he will be betrayed by the Arcane Master. Peep through.”
Duke nodded and followed Keithon's train of thought: "If it's a large spring, a city will definitely be built. I'm afraid it won't be able to become the fiefdom of the Bernoulli family. Is he worried about this?" "No!"
Keith Ston suddenly sneered, "Look at him, I'm afraid he wants to daydream, use the large spiritual spring to break through the 4th and 5th ring, and be on an equal footing with me!" He said
.
Christian immediately raised his glass: "Come on, little Duke, I want to toast you. You have made a great contribution this time. If you hadn't met the Ocean of Insects... this old guy would have succeeded in stealing the chicken from the Black Jiao River." Isn’t the earth occupied by doves and magpie’s nests!”
After clinking glasses with Duke, Christian downed his drink and said, “Your contribution is huge, if you want any benefits, just ask for it!”
Although Duke is important to the large spiritual spring Sex is not fully understood yet.
But this did not prevent him from realizing that he had been lucky, so he thought of something and decided to seize this opportunity: "Sir, if possible, I want the ancient spirit in the spiritual spring of Cuihai Valley, a three-dimensional The ancient spirit of the leaf insect."
"You actually knew that there was an ancient spirit in that spring, and that it was a trilobite?" Christian was surprised, "Your teacher didn't even know that, oh, Penrose told you? "
No, my mentor never told me. I knew it from an elf."
"Elf?"
"Chicken, come out and see me." Duke patted his belly.
Then a large green tadpole swam out. Without understanding the situation, he first saw Kylia next to him.
Suddenly he grinned and shouted: "Oh Duke, isn't this the big bobby girl you have been longing for?"
Bang!
Duke slapped the chicken on the table, and then explained with a smile: "I'm sorry, the chicken grew up in an ant pile and lacked tutoring."
Kylia's eyes lit up, and she was completely touched by the chicken. Attracted by Jade's beautiful appearance, she didn't notice who the chick called Big Ponniu.
Looking at the chick intently.
The chicken was patted on the table. It was connected to Duke's mind and knew that it had been a little rash just now. Although it had a bad mouth, it was not a fool and knew what to say on any occasion.
So I just lay on the table and pretended to be dead.
On the other side, after the chicken came out, Kisson looked at the chicken with a smile. He didn't care at all about who the chick called Ponniu and who had his heart set on Ponniu. Instead, he marveled at Duke's good luck.
It is said that he obtained the relics of a senior arcane mage from the forest and mastered a powerful arcane weapon in advance.
Then I took a look at the secret vine of the Union Tower and understood the guardian secret vine.
I went to the Well No. 3 area of Cuihai Valley and realized the vision as soon as I went down the well. I accidentally bumped into the Ocean of Insects before and realized the vision again... Only now did I know that he had picked up
an elf a long time ago.
"Tell me, little Duke, are you related to that trilobite ancient spirit?" Christian couldn't help but ask.
"What?" Duke wondered.
"Were you also born in the spiritual spring of Cuihai Valley?"
Duke then realized that Christian was joking, and replied: "When you say that, I also doubt that my birth may be extraordinary."
"You kid really knows how to kill snakes and follow them on a stick, but the spiritual blessing on you is so strong. Cherish this favor, kid!" "I know." "I
also
have an elf like this at home, but it's a docile one. Caterpillar, I'll ask Gina to bring the caterpillar over later. Let's meet your...chicken, right? Let's get to know the chicken, and maybe we can serve as a reference for each other's evolution." "My chicken is a chicken
. A queen of burrowing army ants was delivered to my doorstep." Duke recounted what happened at that time.
"Insects also have feelings and righteousness, but you said you got news about trilobites from chickens. Why is that?" "
Before humans discovered Cuihai Valley, the ancient spirit should have discovered that a group of ants raised An elf, so he often comes to the ant nest, teaches the chicks some knowledge, and calls himself the chick's grandmother." "
That's it." Kisson nodded.
Then he pondered for a while and said: "The original ownership of the ancient spirit has been determined to be handed over to Stephen Yihu. His mage tower lacks a tower spirit."
Just when Duke thought there was no chance, Keystone said again: "But you have made such a great contribution, and it is unjustifiable not to reward you. I will say hello to Stephen and ask him to give you the trilobite. When we break Bernoulli's trick and end the pioneering war, the trilobite will be yours." "
Thank you, sir!" Duke was overjoyed.
The little chicken on the table who was pretending to be dead was immediately resurrected with full health: "Wow, Duke, we are going to rescue grandma, ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot to to..." ok, don't embarrass me, be quiet, come back
. Go into the sea of air." Duke patted the chicken.
With the help of Christian Raging Waves, he not only cleaned up the chick, but also successfully caught the chick's grandmother, and no longer had to worry about being robbed.
Kiriya suddenly said with some embarrassment: "Duke, can you let me hug the chicken? I have never seen a tadpole-like elf."
Duke immediately glanced at the chicken.
The chicken also stared back at Duke with wide eyes.
In an instant, one person and one elf had exchanged countless thoughts, and then reached a unanimous agreement. Duke raised his head and handed the chicken over with a smile: "Let's hold it and play with it. The chicken likes to eat spiritual crystals. I haven't done that today." There's still time to feed it."
"I'll ask housekeeper Gina to help me get the spiritual crystal!" Kiriya didn't pick up the chicken, but turned around and called housekeeper Gina.
It just so happened that Gina was going to hug the caterpillar elf, so she could bring the spirit crystal with her.
After returning to his seat, he took the chicken and put it in his arms.
The chick also obediently let her hold it, and would rub its head against Kiriya from time to time, acting very well-behaved and sensible.
Within a moment.
Gina came back with the elf from the Keystone Wizard Tower and carried it in a basket. Inside was a fat, snow-white caterpillar. Its whole body was made of jade. It didn't feel disgusting at all, but it was full of cuteness. .
The caterpillar didn't seem to be able to fly. After seeing the chick, it immediately climbed to the edge of the basket and looked at the chick curiously.
No opening or closing of the mouth is seen.
But there was already a gentle little girl's voice: "Hello, what's your name? Are you an elf too?" "
My name is Little Chicken, and I am the future Great Elf, no, the future Elf King!" Little Chicken Swimming out of Kiriya's arms, she came to the caterpillar's side and circled around it, "Little white insect, what's your name again?"
"My name is Platycodon grandiflorum," the caterpillar replied.
"Jikyo? Your name is not as nice as mine, and you are not as good-looking as me, but it doesn't matter, just follow me from now on!" The chick swung its thick tail, a pair of short and thick hind legs, and made a gesture in the air The action of bending and pedaling is a sign of its excitement.
Letting the two elves play, Duke quickly finished his dinner.
Seeing that it was getting late, he said goodbye.
"Go back and keep the matter of the Ocean of Insects a secret, otherwise you may be targeted by Bernoulli and you may get into trouble." Kisson warned.
"Thank you for the reminder, sir. I will keep it a secret."
"Well, little Kilia, you go and see little Duke off. Grandpa is tired."
"Okay, Grandpa."
Kilia sent Duke to sit down The spiritual ladder went all the way down to the first floor of the Mage Tower: "If you put the chicken into the sea of qi, will it be bored?" "
I don't have time to play with it." Duke said.
"Then it must be very boring."
"If you have free time, you can go to my office. I'll call the chick out and you can play with it for a while?" "
That's... okay." Kilia nodded with a smile. .
Duke raised his eyebrows and had already reached the gate of the Mage Tower. His shuttle had been driven to the door by the driver and parked.
"Okay, no need to send you off again, I'm going back first."
"Okay, slow down on the road."
Waved his hands, the two of them said goodbye, and the shuttle quietly followed the main road and disappeared around the corner.
The lights are bright, and the Kirsten Master Tower and Castle are all replaced with strong lighting. Every night, it seems that the entire mountain is lit up.
Kiriya stood at the gate and watched the shuttle disappear before turning around and walking back.
As if he thought of something funny, the corners of his mouth could not help but turn up, and his youthful and beautiful face shone brightly under the street lights.
...
Since having dinner at the Keystone Mage Tower, Duke felt that the relationship between Kylia and himself had obviously improved a lot.
Occasionally, when Kiriya gets tired from practicing, she will go to his office and play with chicks for a while.
Don't tell me yet.
The little chicken is a big green tadpole with a foul mouth. He plays tricks when nothing happens, but he is very popular with girls. Not to mention the little assistant Mulali, who begs to play with the chicken every day, even Kiriya can't forget to bring it spiritual crystals every day.
"It saved me a fortune in feeding expenses." Duke looked at this indifferently.
I didn’t feel that the relationship between them had improved by leaps and bounds just because Kiriya came to the office a few times. We continued to do whatever we should do.
Concentrate on your studies and work.
During the day, he was busy with card making and research on topics in the tower. After work, he returned to the Suktara Master Tower on time. After dinner, he followed the teacher to learn alchemy.
Time flies so fast, a few days pass by in a flash.
With the work of the financial team, after the handover between Duke, Clarinda, and Xibiti, Duke, with the support of his teachers, successfully purchased 1% of the shares of Xibiti Ling Mining Company, and became a leader in Shenjiao City A small circle of arcane mages.
"Xibi Di pays dividends once a year, and the dividend of 1% of the shares can be distributed to about 70,000 gold dragons." The financial director reported to Duke.
In other words, Xibiti can dig more than seven million golden dragons every year by digging spiritual mines.
The Giant of Light is now relying on strong light technology, and its valuation is rising steadily. It is already three million in size, but it is not as much as the money Xibiti made from mining in half a year.
"Very good." Duke nodded, "Although the handover of shares has been completed, the work of your financial team cannot stop. You must supervise my industry. In addition, you must also hand over the work with Youshi Clothing Company. ."
Youshi Clothing Company was one of his three previous affiliated companies, the remaining two being Shenjiao City Hotel and Giant of Light Spirit Weapon Company.
Now, in order to acquire the shares of Xibidi Ling Mining Company, he sold the shares of Youshi Clothing Company.
In fact, Youpiers and Mulus have no intention of running Youshi Clothing Company anymore. The dividends from Giant of Light's 2% shares in the next year will far exceed Youshi Clothing Company's income.
Duke had talked with Yupiers and hoped that he could serve in the Giant of Light.
Eupils is already interested and is now considering it.
"Don't worry, sir. My team members and I are taking over your properties one by one and helping you calculate every income and expenditure." "
Very good."
Duke was very satisfied with this, although it costs a lot to maintain a financial team. Money, but his property is getting bigger and bigger, and he must have professionals to help him take care of it.
Besides, there is a contract, which can save him a lot of worries.
Don’t worry about your finance team stealing from you.
After sending away the financial director, he went to work in Master Penrose Tower. Not long after he entered the office, the leader of his research team came to report to him on the progress of the project and had completed all the experimental contents he planned.
The team leader is his accustomed spiritual apprentice, Dras, the old man from the Mage Tower.
Respectfully submitted a data report: "Sir, please take a look."
"Yes, go find Mulali, she will arrange your rewards." After Duke got the test report, he immediately gave it to Xiaoyi for calculation.
Then he asked Xiaoyi to help him write an excellent paper.
He then typed the paper onto paper using a typewriter.
The paper that smelled of ink was stapled. Duke shook his latest paper in a good mood, got up and walked to his advisor's office.
It has been almost two years since he came to Master Penrose Tower. Since last year, he has been steadily producing papers on various topics.
"Mentor." Duke entered the office.
Tutor Penrose was on vacation in the Union Tower today and stayed in the Mage Tower all day to handle research tasks: "Why are you here?"
"I'll hand in the thesis." Duke handed the paper over.
"Did you really finish writing the paper so quickly?" Penrose was surprised. "I visited the Mage Tower yesterday morning and saw your research team doing experiments. Why did you finish it so quickly? Don't fool around with the paper. The paper is more important than the experiment."
"How could it be?" Duke smiled, without making any distinction.
Penrose opened the paper and looked at it carefully. The more he looked at it, the deeper his frown became. It was not that the paper was not well written.
on the contrary.
The paper written by Xiaoyi has been greatly polished on the basis of solid data and clear organization, so that the content of the paper is no longer a dry display of data, but is both interesting and gorgeous, as beautiful as prose.
You can also add some fashionable academic jokes from time to time.
Not only does it not feel boring at all when reading, but it also makes people smile occasionally in a comfortable and natural state.
This is naturally attributed to Duke's continuous reading of a large number of excellent papers in the past few years, which allowed Xiaoyi to expand the database, extract the essence of excellent papers, and greatly strengthen his writing skills.
As a 9-ring level arcane weapon, Xiaoyi is showing its expected style bit by bit.
"Hiss!" Penrose unknowingly finished reading the paper of more than 12,000 words, and then involuntarily took a breath of air.
Not to mention the value of the content of this paper, the writing alone was enough to shock him.
Even though he had been writing papers for decades, and he had spent so much time improving his writing skills, he still could not have written such a smooth and beautiful paper.
"Supervisor, how is my thesis?" Duke asked.
Penrose put down the paper, pondered for a while, and said slowly: "It's not bad. I'll revise some sentences a little and I can publish them in "Runwu City Lingka"... Speaking of which, you have already published in "Runwu City" this year. "Lingka" has published two papers."
"Yes, last year, three papers were published in "Runwu City Lingka", and two papers were published in the first half of this year. If this one is passed, it will be the sixth." Duke replied.
Even though he was busy with the lighting battle and studying alchemy with Suktara, in fact, his card-making skills had not fallen behind at all.
Although the tasks in the tower were not deliberately pursued quickly, they were successfully completed one after another.
Of course, most topics are not as sharp as his invention of portable lights and bright light technology, and can only be regarded as solid basic work. As a newcomer in the field of card making, I can only complete this kind of hard-working research project.
For more advanced ones, not only the ability is not enough, but also the key points cannot be received.
"Work hard." Penrose sighed with emotion, and then added, "Also, you must concentrate on studying alchemy and don't let your teacher down." "I understand." Duke nodded
.
Instructor Penrose was a very kind person and didn't mind his distraction in the field of alchemy, and even supported him in succeeding Suktala's class.
Immediately holding the paper, Duke left the instructor's office.
Hearing the sound of the office door closing, Penrose leaned back in his chair slumped, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "In the field of erudition and alchemy, I heard that I am still studying spiritual plants and spiritual insects. There are so many distractions. Can't it hold you back in the card-making field?"
Then he thought sadly: "If this momentum continues, in a few years, I'm afraid I can get the title of card-making scholar!" "
Where does this put me? Ah!"
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