The person guarding Dongjun Tower is an old doctor. He is sitting behind the long table behind the screen wall. His whole face is pierced by an old scar. He wears thick glasses on the bridge of his nose and is reading an ancient book with his head lowered.
There is no spiritual energy fluctuation in this old doctor's body, and he looks like a pure ordinary person.
He only shows up at the academy gatherings every year when school starts. Even students such as Li Ang don't know his name - it seems that he was already in the academy when Pu Liuxuan's generation first entered school.
Xue Che took off the badge from his belt, placed it on the old doctor's desk, and said respectfully: "Guard, these students are going to participate in the trial."
The latter raised his head and glanced at him lightly, then picked up a pen and wrote a few lines on the list.
The next moment, the cold aura that enveloped everyone disappeared, and the discomfort of being spied on quickly receded.
‘Some kind of prohibition... to prevent unregistered thieves from breaking in or stealing the alienated objects in Dongjun Tower.’
From the corner of his eye, Li Ang glanced at the book in the hands of the old doctor known as the gatekeeper. There was no text on the book.
Strange books, strange janitors.
Everyone followed Xue Che and walked through the long corridor, meeting some strange "people" along the way.
Wearing only three colors of school staff uniforms: black, white and gray, they move stiffly and have unchanged expressions on their faces. They go in and out of various rooms with bunches of keys on their waists.
Some people also push carts with all kinds of strange and weird items.
Dried crickets, smashed jade, hot soup with green onions, etc.
"Puppet Servant."
As if he knew what everyone was thinking, Li Hui lowered his voice and said: "There are many alienated objects in Dongjun Tower. Some of the alienated objects only need to be locked in a box and sealed, so that they will no longer turn into monsters.
Some alienated substances are active and need to be ‘maintained’ every once in a while, and they must be followed according to specific rules to calm them down.
Each alienated substance corresponds to different laws, and a little carelessness will lead to disaster consequences.
Even doctoral scholars who specialize in this can hardly cover everything.
Therefore, Dongjun Tower will use this kind of lifeless puppet servitor that only follows rules to complete trivial and complicated maintenance work."
"..."
Li Ang looked at those lifeless servitors and narrowed his eyes.
Puppetry is a cross between Nian Xue and Fu Xue. There are many schools, including controlling others as puppets like Crow Jiu.
There are also puppet master brothers like Yu Yong and Yuyuan whom I met in Taiyuan Mansion - the puppets they made using secret techniques are lifelike and undoubtedly like living people.
Who is controlling the many puppets in Dongjun Tower in front of us? Who is providing energy?
And...
Li Ang observed carefully and found that the appearance of these puppet servitors seemed too perfect. Whether it was the dry and split ends of the hair or the pores of the skin, they were too real to be fake.
‘No wonder there are rumors circulating in the ghost market that the academy secretly transported prisoners on death row from Chang’an City Prison to conduct experiments on alienated substances.’
Li Ang paused for a moment, 'I wonder if these puppets will contain wood, cotton, bamboo...'
In a strange atmosphere, everyone walked through the long corridor. After pushing open a certain heavy door, the scene in front of them suddenly became clear.
We have reached the other end of the mountain. The cliffs on both sides are towering and steep. Several streams of water fall vertically along the rugged mountain walls, falling like waterfalls into the deep green pool below.
Around the rocks, many wooden scaffoldings were built to form a dock.
In the center of the dock is naturally a ship.
A giant floating wooden boat.
Many students subconsciously exclaimed that the ship in front of them was too big and too high.
The Aunt Yu's ship, which the Yu State was proud of in the south of the Yangtze River and could carry hundreds of crew members, was just like an insignificant little sampan in front of it.
"The former Sui Dynasty was one hundred feet long, fifteen feet wide, and weighed nearly eighteen million kilograms. It had Kunlun Ruomu as its keel and Xuantie Orichalcum as its skeleton."
Xue Che said in a rather complicated and subtle tone: "In its drawings, the Tianfu can carry more than 20 kinds of flying beasts, hundreds of war aliens, and a full load of tens of thousands of crew members.
It is the creation of the craziest and most arrogant fantasies of the previous Sui emperors."
"Sui Chaotian..."
A Jingguo student opened his mouth and his eyes almost popped out, "It's actually true."
Li Ang, a disciple of Pei Jing's academy, couldn't help but take a deep breath. In some pre-Sui unofficial histories, it was recorded that the emperors of the Sui Dynasty were obsessed with finding the sacred mountains and islands in the endless sea that could give people eternal life.
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They sent countless monks, scholars, and ships to the Endless Sea to search for news about the Island of Gods.
It's a pity that no matter how huge the ship is, it can't cross the endless sea, which is full of dangers and terrifying monsters.
Therefore, they decided to use all their national strength to prototype some war structures from the pre-Qin period.
Use unspeakable and taboo methods to build an unprecedented giant boat.
The passengers on this giant ship will only be the Sui Dynasty clan and some servant families who have proven their absolute loyalty.
The emperor of the Sui Dynasty will personally board the giant ship, lead the royal family and people, cross the endless sea, and arrive at the legendary Paradise Island.
As for the ending, as described in the history books of the Yu Kingdom, the last emperor of the Sui Dynasty died suddenly and mysteriously, and the empire fell apart in the blink of an eye.
"After the death of the Sui Emperor, because he had no heirs, the former Sui clan selected a new little emperor. Faced with the chaos, the little emperor decided to use this unfinished Tianjian to suppress the rebellion.
Unfortunately, before that, hundreds of sects had already joined forces to break through the Chang'an formation, burning, killing, and looting everywhere.
This Tianshu was also buried under the cliff during the war. Until the fall of the Sui Kingdom, there was no chance to sail."
Xue Che sighed with rare sentimentality, and led everyone to step on the creaking wooden boards and board the giant ship.
Captain Yama, Cardinal Nobuyoshi and other representatives from various countries are already waiting at the bow of the ship.
Cardinal Xinxiu was as calm and indifferent as ever, while Uncle Jing, Imperial Master of Nanzhou and others had stiff smiles on their faces.
Tianyou is the creation of the Sui Kingdom at the pinnacle of its national power.
Even if some of the above structures and formations are secrets that were not passed down by the former Sui royal family, they cannot be copied and used in the present generation.
Most of the strange beasts and alienated objects carried as weapons on the Tianxuan were also destroyed.
As long as such a magnificent ship can levitate, it will be a huge threat to all countries - among other things, when the two armies are facing each other in a stalemate, the morale of the opposing armies will collapse on its own when the Sky Dragon flies far above the battlefield.
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"Everyone is here?"
The mountain chief glanced at the many students who were boarding the ship, looking here and there, and looked at Chen Danqiu, who was offering the wine.
The latter nodded, took off a simple jade pendant from his belt, and put it into the central groove of the flat rudder at the bow of the ship.
Buzz——
A faint light shone on the rudder, and the seven sails raised on their own, fluttering in the strong wind in the canyon.
Dozens of heavy iron ropes tied to the ship's fence and dock also untied themselves, releasing the giant ship.
The wooden deck made a continuous creaking sound, but it was not the dying groan of a decaying ship.
It's more like a giant war beast that has been sleeping for a long time, breathing and waking up.
Tianxuan, it’s started.
Except for a few Zhuxiao monks, everyone subconsciously grasped the guardrail of the ship to resist the violent shaking under their feet.
Li Hui raised her arms and released her mind power to block the falling stream above her head.
A certain Nan Zhou disciple on the other side of the deck failed to react in time and was drowned by the waterfall.
The steep mountain wall recedes slowly,
As the sun shines generously, the view ahead suddenly becomes clearer.
Mountains, forests, farmland, roads, cities.
Li Ang breathed in the morning breeze and overlooked the land of Yu Kingdom.
This chapter has been completed!