Chapter 238 Coveted by the Kaishu Family
"It's called Pheasant Feather, an ancient spirit from the era of the Ocean of Insects, you are really lucky, this ancient spirit is older than that dead-brained iron head."
When Keyston spoke, he was not without sourness.
The older the ancient spirit, the more extensive its knowledge. After all, it is a creature that has lived from ancient times to the present.
The tower spirit iron head of the Keystone Mage Tower, the main body is the armor fish of the sea of fish.
The Sea of Fish is separated from the Ocean of Insects by two spiritual eras, namely the Horn Beach and the Shell Beach. Creatures have developed from sea insects to sea fish. The time experienced during this period may be calculated in units of "hundred million years".
The experience of hundreds of millions of years, even if there is only a little bit of dust in the memory of the ancient spirit, it is enough to be an encyclopedia.
With the help of these ancient spirits, the arcanists here have a clear understanding of biological evolution.
Nothing more.
Arcanists do not believe that humans evolved from these primitive animals. The reason is very simple. The most recent type of phantom in the ancient era is the bird's sky where birds are entrenched. After that, there will be no phantom of the ancient era erupting.
How humans were born, there is no record of phantoms in ancient times.
And according to ancient legends, human beings rose from the island where the knights originated, and arrived at the wild continent by sea boat.
So human beings should have never participated in the biological evolution of the Manghuang Continent.
"Duke, take this trilobite ancient spirit with you first, and then transform it into a tower spirit or war spirit if necessary, but you have to pay attention, the transformation is irreversible." Keyston Rage said seriously, "An ancient spirit that leaves the spiritual spring is no longer an immortal existence."
"You mean, once the ancient spirit is transformed into a battle spirit, the battleship will be destroyed, and the battle spirit will also fall?"
"Not necessarily, as long as you protect the core unit of the battleship at the critical moment, you can continue to build new battleships and revive the battle spirit again. Only when the core unit is also destroyed and the battle spirit has no sustenance will it die."
"I understand. By the way, my lord, Pheasant Feather is staying in this crystal ball. How can I communicate with it?"
Duke held the crystal ball and could only watch the trilobites swimming in it, and could not establish effective communication.
Kiston shook his head and said: "It won't die in a while, you just have to wait and see, when you transform it into a war spirit or a tower spirit, it will naturally be able to communicate normally... I asked it some things in the spring, but unfortunately it didn't want to say anything."
Paused, he added: "After you transform it, I will come to you and ask it about the ancient evil."
"Ancient evil?" Duke raised his brows, "My lord, I know something about it."
"What?"
"When I comprehended the 3rd Ring Tree King - Wannian Pine Tower, I seemed to have seen an ancient evil, like a huge maggot, trying to devour the spiritual spring of Cuihai Valley... In the end, it was repelled by countless spirit beasts, leaving a tattered shell."
"So that's how it is..." Kiston looked at Duke, feeling more and more spiritually favored by this kid, "I didn't expect that even the tree king can reproduce time, and I have also comprehended the mysterious vine. Except for getting the guardian and mysterious vine, I didn't see anything."
"This may be because I opened the sea of qi, so I can resonate with the breath of the tree king, so that through the natural power of the tree king, time can be reproduced."
"Treasure this ability, your path in spiritual mysteries can go further than us."
"I see."
Kiston's conversation was not very happy. After admonishing Duke a few words, he waved his hand to indicate that Duke could leave. He needed to be alone for a while.
When Duke left, he put the crystal ball into the inner interlayer of the arcane robe.
This is a secret transaction, except for a few great arcane masters, no one knows about it, especially Bernoulli.
Otherwise, Bernoulli might guess that it was Duke who broke the secret of the Ocean of Insects, thus exposing the fact that the spiritual spring of Cuihai Valley is a large spring. At that time, Bernoulli, who can't think about it, may not make a move on Duke.
After all, a 4th-ring great arcane mage who is about to die, no one can guarantee that when he will risk his life, Raduk will go on the road together.
didn't wait for Duke to return to his camp tent.
It was discovered that Bernoulli had been waiting halfway back to the camp at some time. After seeing Duke, he showed a smile that he thought was kind.
"Your Excellency Duke."
"His Excellency Bernoulli."
"I don't mind delaying you for a few minutes." When Bernoulli spoke, the entourage he brought had already set up tables, chairs and benches.
Duke sat down and said, "If you have anything to say, just say it."
"Twin Springs, I would like to ask Your Excellency Duke to part with you. For this, I, Bernoulli Mage Tower, am willing to pay enough to satisfy Your Excellency." Bernoulli went straight to the point and stated his purpose directly, "I am old, and the only wish in my heart is the future of the family."
The twin springs are two small springs found next to each other when exploring the spiritual spring.
Duke frowned: "I'm sorry, Mr. Bernoulli, I also need the twin springs to build my sage mage tower."
"But your future is not in Heijiaohe, isn't it? Sooner or later you will go to the Holy City of Alchemy, where you can display your talents. So, why do you have to compete with me for a small spring in this small border city?"
Bernoulli looked very optimistic about Duke: "As long as you are willing to part with him, I can pay you a satisfactory reward. For you, going to the Holy City of Offa will cost you everything. And you will always get the friendship of the Bernoulli family."
"What you said makes sense." Duke nodded approvingly.
Bernoulli showed a satisfied smile, feeling that his words had touched Duke's heart.
The next moment, Duke's tone changed: "But I still want to build my own sage mage tower on the Twin Springs."
"You!" Bernoulli took a breath and didn't answer.
"This is my home, and I will never forget it no matter what. My glory is the glory of all the villagers in Heijiaohe. My tower of sages and mages stands here. I believe it will shine on all the villagers and cultivate more arcanists for my hometown."
These words were spoken with awe-inspiring righteousness.
He will indeed go to the Holy City of Offa to develop at a certain point in time, but this does not mean that he will abandon his hometown.
It took only half a month for the battleship to go back and forth between Shenjiao City and the Holy City of Arcane. He could do research in the Holy City of Arcane for half a year, and return to Heijiaohe for half a year to do research, and take Cuihai City as his base camp.
Bernoulli wanted to make Cuihai City a base camp, so why didn't he want to.
"Okay, okay, okay!" Bernoulli laughed angrily when he heard this, "Duke is a learned and sage, he is worthy of being the spiritual darling of Heijiaohe. You want both fame and wealth, and you will not let the Twin Springs go...I can only say, I wish you success in getting the Twin Springs!"
"Thank you." Duke stood up indifferently, "If there is nothing else, I will leave."
"Please go ahead."
broke up with Bernoulli.
Duke didn't take this matter to heart. The competition between the twin springs was based on their own means, and the favor and power of the 4th Ring Arcane Master could not shake his decision.
Back to the camp, Mu Lali and Mu Lashan had prepared bath water for him.
Duke didn't like to be served when he took a bath, so he dismissed the little assistant, and he undressed himself into the tub.
While taking a bath, he was playing with the crystal ball in his hand.
By the way, he called out the chicken.
"Duke, what are you doing again!" Chick was a little irritable, and was called around by Duke every day, not for food and shelter, and turned his face long ago.
"Look." Duke raised the crystal ball in his hand.
Chicken squinted at the crystal ball, his mouth was one step ahead of his brain: "What the **** is this, isn't it just a broken ball?"
next moment.
It saw the trilobite sealed in the crystal ball, excitedly shook its tail, and its eyes were already attached to the crystal ball.
yelled, "Wow, Duke Duke, it's my grandma, it's my grandma!"
The trilobite in the crystal ball also noticed the chick. Although it was sealed and unable to communicate, it did not prevent it from quickly approaching the crystal wall of the crystal ball and staring at the chick.
The difference is that the chick has a pair of single eyes, and the trilobite has a pair of compound eyes.
"Of course I know it's your grandma."
"Get my grandma out, I want to talk to my grandma!"
"Can't put it out."
"What?" Chick stared, "Duke, you are not moral, are you? Why did you lock up my grandma and stuff it in such a small broken glass ball!"
"Because your grandma is an ancient spirit, it is a spirit body and cannot exist independently. Moreover, this is not a glass ball, but a crystal ball, which seals the spring water of the spiritual spring." Duke held the crystal ball, "Once it breaks, your grandma will have to return to the spiritual spring to stay."
Finished speaking.
On the head of the little chicken, a brain crash: "It's chilling to have so little trust in me."
"I didn't!" Chick retorted feebly.
Then changed the subject and said: "But I really want grandma to come out. I haven't talked to grandma for a long time."
"Not yet, first, I haven't built a mage tower, and second, I don't have a battleship either. So your grandma will have to stay in the crystal ball for a while. But it's too soon, so many years have passed, and now your grandma is by your side, so it doesn't matter if you wait a few more days."
"All right."
Chick stuck to the crystal ball and shouted loudly: "Grandma, don't worry, I'll ask Duke to let you out right away!"
In the crystal ball, the trilobite swayed its body, as if responding.
Can see grandma, but can't hear grandma talking, the chick yelled, and couldn't help but shed tears, and the drops fell on the ground and turned into glints and dispersed little by little.
Can empathize with the chicken's emotions.
Duke also felt a little uncomfortable, so he couldn't help communicating with Xiaoyi: "Tell me, besides the battle spirit and the tower spirit, is there a better way to transform the ancient spirit?"
"There is too little information about the ancient spirits, master, Xiaoyi can't answer."
"well."
Duke sighed.
The transformation ceremony of the ancient spirit, Keyston Rage has already told him in full, basically it is to use a batch of special materials to build a "body" for the ancient spirit, and then use alchemy, contract and other means to fuse the ancient spirit with the body.
With the body storing the spirit body, the ancient spirit can move freely within the scope of the body.
"If I make a mechanical body for Pheasant Feather, Xiao Yi, do you think it will be successful?" Duke suddenly had a whim.
He thought of the six-legged spirit puppet jar he picked up in the cabin in the forest.
According to the records in the notes of the life scholar Baines, if the human soul can be extracted, it can be stuffed into a container and have a long-term vision.
But Baines died of old age as soon as he started the human experiment.
"The master's thinking has a certain basis in reality. Maybe we can conduct human experiments on the basis of Baynes' experiment to expand enough data." Xiaoyi gave a suggestion, "Then combine the ancient spirit transformation ritual to try to provide a body for the pheasant feather."
"Human experiments...forget it." Duke shook his head.
If he is a 7-ring or 8-ring arcane teacher with unrivaled strength, he might try human experiments.
But now, trying human experimentation is really an act of courting death.
"It's more practical to study film and television technology to pave the way for practice." Duke denied it in his heart, and also extinguished the idea of making a mechanical body for Pheasant Feather.
The senior arcane masters have already figured out a safe way to transform the battle spirit and tower spirit, he just needs to continue.
When you find a new ancient spirit in the future, maybe you can try one or two.
"Chicken." Duke put away the crystal ball, "I have rescued your grandma, and we just need to wait patiently."
"Duke!" Chick suddenly yelled in a solemn tone.
"What?"
"Let's build a battleship!"
"Eh..." Duke was stunned for a moment, "How about building a battleship, chick, do you really dare to think about it, do you know how much a battleship costs?"
"Isn't our family rich!" Xiaoji said confidently, "You are so good at making money, what's the matter with building a warship, don't be so stingy, okay? The big deal, the big deal is that when I practice with you in the future, I will persevere for a while, and I won't be tired so early!"
"Well, so you pretend to be tired every time you cry?" Duke discovered the blind spot.
Chicken's expression didn't change at all: "No, this is not the point, Duke, the point is that you are rich, Duke!"
"I have no money, and I haven't paid back the money I owe to the teacher."
"Why do you have to pay back the teacher's money?"
"Why not pay it back?"
"Anyway, anyway, anyway, you have money, I just want to build a battleship." The chicken began to play a rogue.
"Be good, we don't build battleships, we build mage towers." Duke patted the chick, "Duke Sage Mage Tower, isn't this cooler than battleships? When we go out for a long journey, we can completely rub against other people's warships, such as Lord Keystone's Rage, right?"
"That's fine, then hurry up and build the mage tower!"
"Don't worry, it will be soon."
…
Boom!
A wide air route extends from Sheshou Town to Cuihai Valley, and a large number of road construction puppets are laying the foundation for the route.
Airships can be seen flying by in the sky at any time.
The urban construction of Cuihai City has already started in a mighty way, and the interested people in the entire Fengxi field are rushing here, wanting to rise together with this new city.
Located in the southwest of the Spring of Spirituality, about 25 kilometers away, it is a low hill where the twin springs are located.
Several shuttles quickly flew to this nameless hill.
Duke and his entourage came down from the shuttle, and there was a camp not far away. Captain Zina of the Broken Sword Mercenary Corps quickly led people to greet them.
"grown ups!"
"Is everything on the mountain cleaned up?"
"Almost three feet into the ground, now there is not even a ring-0 spirit worm on this mountain." Zina said respectfully.
In the past, when Duke was only a ring 1 arcanist, she could still maintain a certain personality in front of Duke.
Now that Duke is an erudite sage, Zina no longer dares to presume in the slightest. When she sees Duke, she is extremely cautious.
This cautious approach did not make Duke feel respected, but instead gave him an awkward sense of alienation.
But the status is already very different, so there is nothing wrong with Zina's performance.
Duke could only go with the flow, and asked as he walked, "Have you checked the vicinity of the two springs? How do you feel?"
"My lord, this is the perfect place to build a mage's tower." Zina cheered up, "The slightly larger spring is on the top of the unnamed mountain, which is suitable for building a mage's tower, and the smaller spring is at the foot of the mountain, with a distance of no more than three kilometers. It is suitable for building a castle training area."
"It's really a good place." Duke expressed satisfaction.
Kiston Nutao chose this place for him, obviously he saw the advantages of the twin springs early on, which is enough to establish a family foundation that has been passed down for thousands of years.
Duke doesn’t have a family now, but he will definitely have children and grandchildren in the future, so it is especially important to have such a family business.
"Sir, this hill doesn't have a name yet, why don't you give it one." Mu Lali suggested.
"Okay, I'll give you one." Duke walked to the top of the mountain and looked around. This nameless hill was obviously the remnant of the Boundary Mountain Range.
The Boundary Mountain Range is the mountain range that divides Cuihai Valley and Sheshou Town, extending from northeast to southwest, across hundreds of kilometers.
In fact, the Boundary Mountain Range is only a temporary name, and soon Shenjiao City Union Tower will draw up a new name for it. At that time, a five-tower meeting will definitely be held to name the surrounding geographical locations of Cuihai City.
"That's Mutation Forest No. 3, right?" Duke pointed to the location to the east.
"Yes, my lord."
The unnamed hill is next to Mutant Forest No. 3, which is the place where the ancient maggot monster molted its shell. Until now, the evil spirit has not dissipated, and all kinds of animals and plants infected by the evil spirit have spread all over the forest, and evil plants and beasts are everywhere.
"It happened here that the ancient spirit beast repelled the ancient evil. Then, this hill is called..." Duke thought for a moment.
Immediately said: "It's called Lingya Mountain."
The spirit beast knocked off the shell of the evil thing, just knocked out half of the word "evil", leaving only "tooth". Lingya Mountain, this is a word game unique to Duke.
"Lingya Mountain?" Mu Lali looked at the hill at her feet, "It doesn't look like teeth either."
Duke reached out and patted the little assistant on the head: "Don't think about it, with your head, you can't think of why it's dark."
"Why is that?" Mu Lali asked unwillingly.
"Because there is no reason, I just want to call it Lingya Mountain." Duke turned his head to look at Zina, "Your mercenary group is temporarily stationed in Lingya Mountain. When I get the formalities and approvals, I will build a mage tower here, and you will protect the construction team."
"Yes, my lord." Zina replied.
Although the Black Jade Scorpions, the strongest spirit beasts in Cuihai Valley, have been pulled out, the spirituality dissipated from the spiritual spring still attracts a large number of spirit beasts.
Danger happens all the time.
Just as he was about to take a turn around, Duke soon discovered that another team of flying shuttles came from a distance and flew directly to the top of the mountain.
Stopped in front of Duke and his party.
Soon a group of people came down from the shuttle, and the leader was a middle-aged man in his thirties who was wearing an arcane robe.
After seeing Duke, the middle-aged man immediately showed a warm smile and strode over: "Your Excellency Duke, it's an honor to meet you."
"Who are you?"
"Please allow me to introduce myself." The middle-aged man has an aristocratic temperament, "My name is Delali Kaishu, a 3rd ring arcanist, a 6th ring sky arcanist, the chief director of the Element Tower of Runwu City, and the great-grandson of Kaishu Viscount Dexter Kaishu."
This long list of names is really bluffing.
Duke has been to Runwu City, so he naturally knows Dekter Kaishu. Apart from Loren Sangovi, the 7-ring arcane teacher, basically Decker Kaishu is the second-in-command in the entire Wind Breath field.
"It turned out to be Lord Delari." Duke returned a salute.
Immediately asked: "Your Excellency came to Lingya Mountain on this trip, what are you talking about?"
Dreili Kaishu asked in surprise: "Does this nameless hill already have a name? Lingya Mountain is the name of the hill?"
"I just got up."
"Ah, it turned out to be a random name given by Your Excellency Duke." Delari said with a smile, "Then let's call it Lingya Mountain for now. I'm here this time to inspect the Twin Springs here and plan to build my mage tower here."
"Sir..." Mu Lali's eyes widened, and she encountered a land grab.
Duke raised his hand, stopped what Mu Lali wanted to say, and looked at Delari lightly: "You also fell in love with the twin springs?"
Deleilly didn't seem to hear the meaning of Duke's words.
Self-serving enthusiasm said: "Yes, my brother is already a 4th-ring earth arcane master, and the Kaishu family will be inherited by him, so I will go out and start my own foundation. Cuihai City is newly built and has great prospects for development. My great-grandfather also hopes that I can make a fortune here."
"Heijiaohe land welcomes people with lofty ideals to come and develop. Your Excellency De Lailey, let's investigate to your heart's content." Duke responded with a few words.
Immediately ordered Zina to say, "Stay on Lingya Mountain, this is the only recent task."
Zina glanced at the not-too-distant Deliley Kaishu and others who were enjoying the scenery, and then nodded solemnly: "My lord, please rest assured that Broken Sword will not ruin your lord's reputation. You must guard Lingya Mountain for your lord so that no one else will disturb you."
"Don't overcomplicate things." Duke smiled softly, "Just wait for my message."
Soon, a group of people got on the shuttle and left Lingya Mountain.
On the way, Mu Lali said angrily: "Sir, that mouse family is really annoying, they came to **** our Lingya Mountain!"
"It's the Kaishu family, Dexter Viscount Kaishu, is a powerful arcanist who fought south and north and made great contributions to the expansion of the Wind Breath Domain."
"That can't let his great-grandson come and **** our Lingya Mountain!"
"He can't take it away." Duke turned his head and looked at the scenery outside the car window. A large area of trees in Cuihai Valley had already been felled.
Just leave some 2-ring spiritual plants.
It's not that the mercenary group is unwilling to poach the 2-ring spiritual plant, but that the transplantation of the 2-ring spiritual plant needs to be cautious. Therefore, in the pioneering war, under normal circumstances, the mercenary group will not be allowed to collect 2-ring spiritual plants, but will be rewarded once when they find one.
When the new city is built, these 2-ring spiritual plants may be removed collectively, or simply included in the planning of the new city.
In the Shangxingcheng Community and Beverly Manor in Shenjiao City, there are some 2-ring spiritual plants that grew naturally hundreds of years ago.
has never been moved.
"The news about the Kaishu family is very well-informed. The Twin Springs haven't been announced to the public yet, and Delaris came to investigate... Hehe, it's obviously Bernoulli, the old guy, who revealed the news to the Kaishu family." Duke had a clear mind.
But that doesn't scare Duke.
He took the shuttle to the newly built flight station on the foundation of Cuihai City, and boarded the airship Chasing Shadow in the Suktara Mage Tower.
"Xiao Lili, you send someone to the post station and tell your father that I will not go back to Black Snake Manor today, and go directly to Shenjiao City."
"Yes, sir."
The Chasing Shadow took off and returned to the Suktala Mage Tower in Shenjiao City before dark.
Didn't stop, Duke took the shuttle again, and rushed directly to Keyston's Mage Tower, where he had dinner and met Keyston Rage.
"Master Keyston, someone is coming to grab the Twin Springs, you have to make the decision for me!" Duke told the situation of Delilah Kaishu, "There is no doubt that Bernoulli hooked up with the Kaishu family when he saw that he couldn't compete for the Twin Springs."
"Hmph!" Keyston slapped the table, furious, "This old **** is in Heijiaohe, but his heart is always outside!"
He said solemnly: "You can go back with peace of mind. I promised you the twin springs. Unless Loren Sangovi comes personally, no one will be able to take it away!"
Duke nodded and left.
The news has been conveyed, and there is a big man standing in front of him, so he can hide his achievements and fame.
Looking for tickets~
(end of this chapter)