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.
Generally, arcane mages 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 spout out spiritual particles, nourishing everything in the world.
Some arcanists believe that the true spiritual sea is in the center of the earth, and the spring of spirituality leads from the center of the earth to the surface.
Some arcane mages believe that the spiritual spring runs through time and space and is a mineral deposit condensed from all things in the dead old time. Therefore, ancient spirits exist in the spiritual spring, which is like amber excavated from the ore.<
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The shadow of ancient times is also an existence similar to amber.
The spirituality of the dying era is entirely condensed in the spiritual spring. From time to time, this amber-like spirituality will erupt, forming a shadow of the ancient era and impacting the spiritual sea of today's people.
"The phantoms of ancient times are 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 struck by the phantoms of ancient times, if he is not careful, he will sink into it and become a walking zombie.
The Fallen Demon."
Duke had asked his teacher Suktala about this topic before, and Suktala's answer was this.
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 ghosts from ancient times.
"I didn't expect that the spiritual spring in Cuihai Valley could erupt the shadow of ancient times. Isn't it just a medium-sized spiritual spring?"
Duke is in the phantom of the ancient times, the Ocean of Insects. With Xiaoyi and the Guardian Vine of Mystery helping him guard the spiritual sea, he doesn't feel any danger - after all, the Ocean of Insects is the oldest era and has been preserved.
The 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 out of Duke's body also slowly dissipated. There is no doubt that this is the guardian and mysterious vine in the spiritual sea.
"It turns out that the Guardian Vine of Mystery is used to deal with the phantoms of ancient times." Duke suddenly realized.
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 he saw the huge predator Nautilus, he was crushed to pieces by Duke. The other small shadows that were surrounding it before all dispersed and swam around.
The crinoids growing around me 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. The head and tail cannot be distinguished. It has two rows of sharp spines on its back and two rows of thin legs on its lower body. Whether it is turned upside down or upside down, it seems to look the same.
Appearance.
"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, information about the grotesque 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 weird bug ignored Duke and crawled away from Duke.
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 welcome 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 vindictive holographic screen.
Duke seemed unaware, his attention focused on the cheering bug.
A few seconds later.
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, and bang, the cheering bug was bounced far, far away.
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Then a strange bug as big as a palm rushed out, swallowed the cheering bug in one bite, 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 Cuihai Valley, a huge shadow suddenly emerged, with an extremely bright brightness.
None of the shadows in the Ocean of Insects are as bright as this one.
This phantom looks like 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..."
This moment.
In his spiritual sea, rumbles and vibrations were generated, and then a swaying plate-legged horseshoe crab condensed and roamed wantonly in the spiritual sea.
Immediately afterwards, more and more horseshoe crabs gathered, filling every corner of the spiritual sea.
It’s as if there are many more little scorpions in the spiritual sea.
As always, the vines of protection and mystery are also entwined around the horseshoe crab, making it so that between us, we are part of you and you are part of me.
I was 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 protective and mysterious vines, 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 ebb 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 with ancient spirituality.
The phantom of 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 Zina." Duke said to a mercenary standing guard.
"Yes, sir."
Zina rushed over in a moment. She had already fallen asleep before, but now she seemed to have not woken up, her eyes were puffy with sleep.
"Sir, are you looking for me?"
"How do you feel now?" Duke asked.
Zina shook her head in confusion, as if she wanted to wake herself up: "I don't know, I just feel that my body is very heavy, as if I was distracted in sleep. Sir, why do you ask, did it happen just now?"
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"No, you go and rest." Duke waved his hand.
Xina is a pseudo-level 1 card warrior, possessing both Blood Sea and Spirit Sea cultivation. However, she is unable to 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, nor will it 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 eyebrows, took Vivian's hand and said, "It's still early, come and chat with me for a while."
In fact, there is nothing to talk about. Vivian is not a talkative person. As for Duke himself, he has not 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 Arcana 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
There was no movement from the dragon.
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, is it possible that Chicken's grandma is really 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 for Duke to understand.
However.
He quickly handed these same questions to Xiaoyi for analysis, while he hugged the female knight who was 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 the camp in the evening.
I found 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 by Xiaohong.
It urgently needs to build a nest and then breed its own ant 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.
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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, a little uncomfortable.
She warned.
Mulali agreed: "Aunt, don't worry. It's great that Shanshan comes to accompany me. You don't have to worry about us."
Taking Murasan with her, Mulali boarded the airship Zhuiying.
The airship arrived at Suktara Master 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 build your own ant colony, Xiaohong."
Waving her tentacles, Xiaohong got into the nest.
The shed wings of the crypt army ant queen with 5 rings of blood are definitely valuable spiritual materials, but Duke is not willing to use them as spiritual materials.
He handed it to his 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 for becoming a scholar yet!"
"It's just a superficial name, it doesn't matter." Duke waved his hand indifferently, "The farm will change the name later and hide my name. Now that I am a big tree, there is no need to take advantage of the farm's small income.
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"Ah, sir..." James was worried. Without Duke's brand name, how could he possibly run the farm on his own?
"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 have great trust in 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 matters full-time. I will have the opportunity to study spiritual plants in the future and need an assistant. I think you are suitable; second, if you feel that being a vassal is too restrictive, you can continue
We will run the farm, but it will only be a cooperative relationship from now on. Of course, I can help you solve problems on the farm a few times."
The two met at a young age. Although Duke decided to withdraw from the farm operation, he would not let James suffer.
"I...I need to think about it, sir."
"Well, it doesn't matter, think about it slowly, and then reply 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 Master Suktara Tower, it was already evening.
"Duke, class will continue in the evening." After Suktara got off work, she came over in person as soon as possible and greeted Duke.
"Um, good teacher."
"There is another thing. Now there is an opportunity for you to get shares of the Xibit Ling Mining Company. Do you want to participate in the competition?"
"Share shares of Xibidi Spirit Mine Company?" Duke was surprised, "I am only a Level 1 Arcane Mage, can I still get shares?"
"All I can say is that there is hope."
Suktala told Duke exactly what happened: "Clalinda decided to sell her shares to raise money to compensate for the losses of Runwanjia Spiritual Weapon Factory. Don't underestimate this 1% share, which is worth at least one million gold dragons.
And there is a steady stream of dividends, so few people are willing to sell."
Just when Duke left the Mage Tower and went to Snakehead Town to busy himself with Xiaohong's wedding arrangements, Christian Fury, as the chairman of the Xibiti Spirit Mine Company, convened a board meeting.
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. Christian still insists on choosing new people to take over the shares, which is the usual unity routine."
Suktala said: "As for the candidates for the newcomers, Sir Christian recommended you. In addition, there are four second-level arcane mages who were also recommended, so there are a total of five candidates including you."
"Lord Christian 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.
."
Shares of Xibithi, this is a threshold.
Arcane mages in Shenjiao City are also divided into levels.
The first-class ones are naturally Christian Raging Waves, Williams, Erwin, Stephen Wing Tiger, these four great arcane mages, plus the chief director of Faling Tower, Orucci, and the governor of the United 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 and 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.
Moreover, these are the shares 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, "This is indeed a good opportunity. If Clarinda hadn't taken the initiative to sell shares, even if you were promoted to the second level Arcane Mage, you might not be able to
Bought shares in Hippit."
"Teacher, you are so 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." Suktara said, "This teacher has been working for more than a hundred years.
I haven't been idle, and I still saved a lot of golden 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 an external thing. Don't be burdened. Study alchemy with the teacher well. This 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." Suktara looked at Duke who was doing experiments 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 shares in Hippit.
Just when Duke went to Penrose Wizard Tower to take another card-making course.
Hibiti held its second board of directors meeting this month, with Chairman Christian Nutao personally sitting in the meeting and Executive Vice Director Erwin presiding 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, namely the 2nd level arcane scholar, the spiritual plant scholar outlet, and the 2nd level arcane scholar Trespo.
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 you support it... It is still a common practice. We will vote after everyone has finished speaking." "Then let me talk briefly." Union Tower spoke to the external supervisor, level 3 arcanist and elemental scholar Flur first, "I support Outlets. Outlets have been my old friends for many years.
The field of spiritual cultivation has been rooted for many years..."
Soon, another director said: "Ahem, let me also share my thoughts. I think Nigel is good. He is young and has potential. He has performed well in several pioneering wars. As a 2nd level arcanist,
, his future is promising..."
At this time, Penrose, who was the director of Xibet, 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 followed with a smile.
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 Arcane Mage, which is inappropriate."
"So what if it's level 1? As a genius arcane mage, you should be treated favorably."
"He's too active. It's better to let him concentrate on research. It may not be a good thing to include Xi Bi Di now."
"Let him come in, wouldn't it just reduce external interference and make it easier for him to focus on research?"
"I have been waiting for the outlet for more than ten years. In terms of qualifications, he is already qualified. I think it is better to let the outlet come in."
"A new generation replaces the old ones. The purpose of Xi Bi Di is to select the best arcane mages to join. Duke is good enough, why not let him join?"
"Yeah, yeah."
"I also support Duke, the youngest scholar in the field of wind and breath. It is the right time to join Xi Bi Di."
"Okay, no matter how much we argue, we can't come up with anything." 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.
Twelve people supported Outlets and eleven people supported Duke. Two of the directors 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've seen enough of the old faces in Shenjiao City, coming and going.
It’s just a few of us, 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 this guy Duke, why?
It feels like a new person, I still want to support this kid."
When 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."