by Zhuang Bifan
In fact, the sky-high tree in the dragon graveyard was simulated by Lin Li using his own World Domain and his understanding of the Tree of Eternity. In the collision of the Domain Worlds, Lin Li turned his understanding of the Tree of Eternity into a seed, which he then planted in the ancient wyrm's domain. Once the Tree of Eternity grew up, the ancient wyrm would completely lose control of its domain.
For a Sanctuary powerhouse, the Domain World was not the embodiment of his full strength, but to two Sanctuary powerhouses that were initially evenly matched, a slight loss of control of their Domain World would mean the disruption of the balance. Actually, it wouldn't be too difficult for an ancient wyrm to remove the Tree of Eternity from its own Domain World, but a slight change in power or time consumption would be enough to cause drastic changes in the situation.
Taking this opportunity, Lin Li immediately unleashed his strongest attack, and a scene which looked like an apocalypse appeared in the Domain World, condensing the terrifying destructive power of the world into a lightning bolt, just like the one that broke through the chaos when Anril emerged. It blasted the ancient wyrm hard.
BOOM!
The ancient wyrm did not even have time to let out a roar as its powerful body was instantly annihilated by the lightning. Peace was restored in the arena as if nothing had happened. In the arena, Lin Li was holding the Helios' Scepter and levitating quietly with his eyes slightly closed as he recalled the scene of the battle with the ancient wyrm.
After finally defeating the 11th opponent, what opponent would he encounter next? Would it be as terrifying as a god-like existence? Although Lin Li had reached the peak of level-27, he did not think that he had enough power to deal with a godlike existence. He might get killed immediately again.
However, after Lin Li waited for a moment, he realized that the arena did not arrange a more powerful opponent for him again as before. Instead, a stone slab that glowed faintly appeared on the ground.
Have I passed? Lin Li was doubtful, but he nonetheless leaped from the sky and landed in front of the stone slab.
The stone slab was engraved with strange words that looked somewhat like images that reminded Lin Li of the so-called hieroglyphs. Fortunately, hieroglyphic words were not as complicated as the High Elves' Print. Although he had never studied them before, he was able to guess some of the meaning.
The stone slab roughly recorded the development of some barbarians, but Lin Li was not an archaeologist, and was not very interested in these things. What he was really interested was the fact that the Immortal King was mentioned on the stone slab, which stated that the Immortal King had suddenly descended in the tribe of the barbarians, plundered all their treasures, and then built a massive battleship which he sailed off in while the barbarians watched in horror.
Lin Li was puzzled by that information. Although the Immortal King had always done shocking things, he who controlled the Sky Castle would not have to take the barbarians' treasures to build a battleship if he wanted to explore the Endless Ocean. Besides, what items could there be in the Endless Ocean that would entice the Immortal King to go to such lengths?
Looking at the time recorded on the stone slab, Lin Li carefully recalled the legends about the Immortal King, but he suddenly discovered that the time when the Immortal King left the ocean seemed to be the exact time when he last appeared in the world of Anril. Could the Immortal King have last appeared in the depths of the Endless Ocean?
That caused Lin Li to be in disbelief. After all, with the Immortal King's power, he could even kill an existence as powerful as the Dragon of Destruction. The Endless Ocean was extremely terrifying for ordinary people, but it didn't seem to pose any threat to the Immortal King. What could have caused the Immortal King to go missing?
After passing the test of the Barbarous Arena, Lin Li would still go in from time to time to challenge a few opponents, but his main focus was no longer on the arena. He knew that his current strength was already at a temporary bottleneck, and the Barbarous Arena would no longer be of much use at the moment.
During this period of time, the members of the Tower of Dusk had also begun preparing for their expansion to the Endless Ocean. Firstly, they managed to gain control of Baburia City, which was hundreds of kilometers away from Calon City, with the connections of the Malfa Family. Baburia City was located at the mouth of the Versair River, and was a natural harbor that was not inferior to Calon City. The giant battleship that Lin Li had seized from the Gilded Kingdom would usually dock at that port.
After gaining actual control of Baburia City, the Tower of Dusk immediately invested heavily in a large-scale reconstruction of the entire port, and established a large shipyard next to the port. With the navigation data of the Gilded Kingdom, as well as the alchemical techniques of Lin Li and Angelano, the shipyard was continuously constructing battlesh.i.p.s for the Tower of Dusk almost all day and night.
Is the Tower of Dusk really going to expand to the field of sea trade? In fact, even Gavin and the other senior executives of the Tower of Dusk were unclear about it. Besides, in their opinion, the Tower of Dusk could rely on their businesses on land to support the needs of rapid development, and sea commerce would not actually bring greater benefits to the Tower of Dusk.
Chapter 1043 - Prehistoric Times
However, it was Lin Li's orders, and even if Gavin and the others were confused, they wouldn't dare to disobey their president's command. Anyway, the Tower of Dusk now had a massive amount of wealth, and the hundreds of millions of gold coins invested in Baburia City were just peanuts to them.
Of course, the Tower of Dusk's actions had also attracted the attention of other forces, especially the Gilded Kingdom's people who began to look nervous. Back then, Cantory and Elder Jorre agreed to give the Tower of Dusk the information on the sea, but they did not expect the Tower of Dusk to decide to develop their naval force so quickly.
The Gilded Kingdom was far away in the sea. Once war broke out in the Breezy Plains, they would definitely need to get aid via the sea. If the Tower of Dusk also had a naval force, they would pose a huge threat to the Gilded Kingdom if a war were to break out in the future. Although Cantory and the others were confident that the Tower of Dusk's greenhorn navy definitely could not compare to their fleet of battlesh.i.p.s, it was troublesome for them too.
In order to figure out the Tower of Dusk's intentions, the Gilded Kingdom pulled plenty of their connections in hopes of finding out something from Lin Li, the young president of the Tower of Dusk. However, after the matters of the port and shipyard were on track, Lin Li once again returned to the inverted tower of the Sky Tower, not giving anyone a chance to probe at all.
In the inverted tower of the Sky Castle, Lin Li, who had already reached the peak of level-27, currently no longer needed to train himself through the Barbarous Arena. Perhaps he would feel some enlightenment in those battles, but there seemed to be no significant help to his improvement in strength.
Lin Li, who had once again returned, mainly wanted to explore a higher level of the inverted tower in hopes of finding a better chance of breaking through. However, what he found bizarre was the fact that the space on the second floor of the tower had been explored, but he could not find the stairs that led to a higher floor no matter what. It seemed he could only enter the Barbarous Arena.
However, after entering the Barbarous Arena, Lin Li had only experienced a few battles before getting sent out of it when he was defeated by the last opponent. Could it be that that was the end of the inverted tower? Clearly, that was impossible. Although the magic books on the first floor and the Barbarous Arena on the second floor each had incomparable value, Lin Li believed that it was by no means the entirety of the treasures left by Geresco.
However, just as Lin Li was being clueless, and was preparing to put the matter aside, he suddenly discovered that there seemed to be some issues with the stone platform that was used for storing the crystal ball after his observation through the crystal ball outs
ide the Barbarous Arena. To be more specific, Lin Li could vaguely see something strange about the God's Eye mageweath that was carved on the stone platform.
The God's Eye mageweath was rampant in every Magic Tower, and it was a common method used for monitoring the surroundings of the tower. Generally, most of them had only reached the Master-level standard. The difference between those and the mageweath on the stone platform was that the latter could not only be used to monitor another area, it could also record the scenes that took place on the battlefield. It could also allow one to observe and study the battle scenes from all angles. Hence, making the complexity of the God's Eye mageweath had already reached the Guru-level standard. In fact, it could be considered a Guru-level mageweath.
However, when Lin Li saw the God's Eye God's Eye mageweath for the first time, and memorized all of its functions at a glance, he stopped wasting his effort on it. After all, increasing his abilities was the most urgent thing that he had to do at this moment. Besides, simple supportive Guru-level mageweaths were not worth his time to study at all.
However, Lin Li could not find the entrance to the next floor this time, and thus could not find another solution even if he wanted to spend more time and energy to continue improving his abilities. Naturally, he had the energy to pay attention to the aspects that seemed irrelevant. Lin Li initially wanted to take a casual look when he was bored, but after doing so, he couldn't take his eyes off it at all.
Initially, there seemed to be a vague mageweath with an unknown use in the Guru-level God's Eye. Just like the Conquering Mageweath and the Psychic Array which shared the same mana pathway above the Sky Castle, the God's Eye mageweath array also shared the same mana pathway with another mageweath inside it.
Besides, the mana pathways that the Conquering Mageweath and the Psychic Array shared were the main pathways to achieve the purpose of sharing the same mana source. However, the God's Eye mageweath could not be considered to be sharing the same mana pathway as the other mageweath. It was as if it formed another mageweath using the mana pathway, and they were in perfect synchronization. From that alone, it was clear that Geresco's skill in inscription was not much worse than that of Highlord Osric.
In Lin Li's opinion, his technique of drawing mageweaths was already at the peak Guru-level, and he was probably just a step away from becoming a Divine Smith. If the mageweath was just a magic trap, it would take Lin Li at least a month or so to resolve it. Besides, the process would involve plenty of inevitable danger.
Fortunately, Lin Lu discovered that the mageweath hidden in the God's Eye was also a trigger-type mageweath, but it was not a deadly trap. Actually, it made sense. Since Geresco left the treasure to Lin Li, how could it leave any deadly traps behind? Recharging was only a test for Lin Li.
Lin Li spent half a day analyzing the entire mageweath before finally realizing that the mageweath contained in the God's Eye mageweath was in fact more of an evaluation device for testing the mana and talent of a mage. However, it was much more exquisite.
Lin Li could not guess why the evaluation mageweath was so well hidden to the extent that he almost missed it. Be it magic, inscription, alchemy, or even pharmacy, it was actually all about the use of power and one's comprehension of the Laws. Perhaps the power involved was different, but the Laws were the same. The ultimate goal was to step into the realm of the gods and obtain the same power as the gods.
Lin Li managed to discover that hidden mageweath not only because he had Master-level attainments in inscription, but more importantly because he had a deeper understanding and mastery of the Laws after this period of honing and sharpening his skills. Hence, the hidden mageweath could only be considered a test to him. If he'd discovered the mageweath as soon as he entered, that would've meant that he had already reached a certain standard in his understanding of the Laws, and he naturally would not have had to enter the Barbarous Arena to train.
After figuring out how the mageweath was triggered, Lin Li gently pressed his palm against the center of the mageweath on the stone platform, and slowly infused his mana and mental strength into it. With Lin Li's movements, the mageweath of the stone platform that was holding the crystal ball gradually became brighter to the point where Lin Li's figure vanished.
At this moment, Lin Li also suddenly felt as if there was an eye that was secretly scanning him from inside out. Be it his mana, his mental strength and the sense of familiarity with the Laws, or the combat experience that he had acc.u.mulated in his body, they were all revealed in the endless light. It could be considered a detailed and comprehensive evaluation of one's personal strength that no other evaluation could compare to.
After the light faded, receding like a tide, a ladder-like staircase leading to the next level appeared on a wall. However, there were no turns in the stairs that led straight ahead, and Lin Li could already see the end of the staircase from below. Lin Li left the crystal ball and the stone platform, made his way up the stairs, and soon arrived at the third floor that he thought about for a long time.
The third floor was not very spacious, but due to the fact that there were not many appointments there, it seemed extremely empty. There was a large Alchemy Array that covered the entire ground of the third floor. However, it seemed that only the mana source in the center of the Alchemy Array was emitting the light of mana, while the others were in a dormant state. They were not immediately activated because he appeared, and not a single tinge of mana flowed in the mana circuit.
The Alchemy Array was definitely the key to entering the third floor. Suppressing his excitement and agitation, Lin Li quickly strode away from the stairs, and cautiously entered the giant Alchemy Array to look at it carefully.
The Alchemy Array was also close to the realm of a Divine Smith; in fact, Lin Li could vaguely sense the aura of a Divine Smith within it. That was also the very reason that he still felt far more inferior when he was looking at the Alchemy Array on the ground even though he was also a Guru in alchemy.
However, what shocked Lin Li even more was the fact that the Alchemy Array that was near the level of the Divine Smith, which he could not master, was exactly the same as one he saw in the game, Endless World.
That Alchemy Array in the Endless World was known as the gateway to the prehistoric times. It was the entrance to a large dungeon which would allow players to enter a prehistoric world through the door of the outer realm.
Since it was called a prehistoric world, it naturally contained plenty of terrifying prehistoric magical beasts that remained only in legends.
Chapter 1044 - Viper
Those prehistoric magical beasts were some of the top prehistoric magical beasts that belonged to the same era as the terrifying existences like the ancient wyrms and the Titans. Hence, the dungeon with the gateway to the prehistoric times was definitely the one of the dungeons with the highest rate of deaths in the Endless World.
However, if there was really a team in the dungeon in contrast, they would obtain huge gains even if they simply stayed longer in the dungeon. Aside from being terrifying, the beasts' bodies were filled with treasures, and as long as a team could kill a prehistoric magical beast, it would be akin to obtaining a gold mine.
Lin Li did not have a guild in the Endless World, but he had once had a few friends who had entered the prehistoric world with him for a few raids. However, they were individuals who were not bound by the strict restrictions of the game guilds; hence, they would often have much to consider and be scrupulous about in such dungeons that required teamwork. Back then, Lin Li was backstabbed by his so-called friend, but of course, the latter did not get to enjoy his victory, and even got killed by Lin Li who took advantage of a later opportunity.
Lin Li had only gone to the Door to the Prehistoric World a few times. After all, the difficulty of party dungeons was extremely high. Even though he was already the first in the leaderboards of the game, the combat power of an individual could not possibly be compared to that of major guilds. By the time he obta
ined the debris of the stars and the Stars of Fury from the Well of the Sun, he saw the Dragon of Destruction.
In fact, if not for the fact that he had transmigrated to Anril, Lin Li would have used the debris of the stars and the Stars of Fury to break through the Door to the Prehistoric World. It might just create an unbelievable record in Endless World.
Looking at the Door to the Prehistoric World in front of him, Lin Li was filled with doubts apart from being astonished. It was not that the things in the Endless World had never appeared in Anril before, but they were basically always related to the Immortal King. For example, the seven pieces of the debris of the stars, the Stars of Fury, the Endless Labyrinth in the Central Tower of the Sky Castle, and the Hunter's Shadow in the Whispering God were all directly related to the Immortal King. There was also the Whispering God in Prince Brahere's mausoleum. Since Prince Brahere was a suspected illegitimate child of the Immortal King, he could be considered to be related to the Immortal King.
However, the Alchemy Array that was known as the Door to the Prehistoric World in the Endless World had appeared among the treasures left behind by Geresco. In that case, what did Geresco have to do with the Endless World, or with the Immortal King? One was the wise man who led the human race to overthrow the High Elves, and was known as the God of Mages. The other had a mysterious origin, and had the ability to kill the Dragon of Destruction, as well as create a prosperous era for the High Elves Dynasty. Apart from being the best of the best in their respective races, there seemed to be no real commonality between the two.
Of course, to Lin Li, there was a similarity between Geresco and the Immortal King, and that was how they most likely had some sort of prediction of him transmigrating into this world. In fact, he even suspected that the Immortal King might have been the culprit who'd caused him to transmigrate to Anril.
