Chapter 300: The Place of Origin and the Old Capital of the Gods
A lake deep in Thunder Swamp.
Carmon and Shana were sitting in the boat, Shana was rowing, and Carmon tied a giant dragonfly with a rope.
Giant dragonflies like this are quite common in swamps and generally do not attack people.
They tried to put the dragonfly into the clouds and mist to see if it was the same as the rumors.
"Buzz buzz~"
The sound of the giant dragonfly's wings vibrating was extremely harsh. Shana wanted to cover his ears, but he had to use his hand to move the oar to row.
therefore.
He was shocked so much that his head was buzzing and goosebumps were rising all over his body.
Even as the giant dragonfly gradually flew away, the buzzing sound was still clearly audible.
Carmon pulled the rope and controlled the direction of the giant dragonfly like flying a kite.
Put it farther and farther.
Shana asked from behind: "Did you get in?"
Carmon stood on the boat and poked his head: "We got in."
Shana asked again: "Are you still alive?"
Carmon would turn his body to the left for a while, and then to the right for a while, as if he could see further: "I didn't see it!"
On the clear blue lake, clouds and mist flow against the water.
As we go deeper inside, the clouds and mist become denser and denser.
Stacked layer by layer.
Finally, it turned into a cloud mountain.
The giant dragonfly dived into the white clouds, and even the buzzing sound began to become unclear.
Shana and Carmon stared at it for a long time, but still saw nothing.
After a while, the buzzing sound became clear again for some reason.
"Buzz~"
Shana and Carmon suddenly felt something was wrong.
The big dragonfly actually flew back and rushed towards their boat.
"not good!"
"It's back again."
Carmon immediately let go of the rope, picked up the oar and turned around.
The two of them scrambled and finally got the boat to speed up.
But this time it was still Carmon in the front and Shana in the back.
Xia Na rowed the boat in a hurry and turned back to look at the dragonfly rushing towards him.
It can be seen with the naked eye that it is dissolving little by little and turning into a white mist-like existence.
It was about to dissipate and die, but it still stood and vibrated its wings vigorously, rushing towards the two enemies who were "playing with" its life.
Shana and Carmon were not afraid of this dragonfly, but were afraid of the white mist on its body.
Seeing the giant dragonfly getting closer and closer, there was no way to escape.
Shana had no choice but to yell.
"No, it's already here."
"Let's jump into the water quickly."
With a pop, he jumped into the water.
The idea is good, but this kind of fog is not real fog, even under water.
The giant dragonfly saw him jumping into the water and rushed directly into the water.
moment.
The dragonfly melted into the water like foam, and the strange white clouds also flowed freely under the water.
Xia Na under the water also saw it and immediately panicked.
How to hide this?
In this panic, he choked some water and swallowed some of the white mist.
Shana floated up from the lake and lay on the side of the boat.
He looked frustrated and desperate: "No, no!"
"I've been contaminated by that white mist. I'm going to die."
Carmon stood dumbly holding the oar. The more Shana did, the more dangerous he became. On the contrary, he did nothing and remained intact.
Xia Na covered his neck, looking as if he was about to die, and was so panicked.
"It's over!"
"It's over."
"This time it's really over."
However.
Xia Na held his neck for a long time and acted like he was about to die for a long time, but he still wasn't in a state of death.
Although he felt that he was really going to die, his face was pale and he looked like he was breaking out in a cold sweat.
However, Carmon watched for a long time and still saw no sign of him melting.
Carmon picked up the oar and patted him.
"Does it look okay?"
Xia Na raised his head: "Is everything okay?"
"How can it be okay?"
Carmon said: "It's really okay."
Xia Na also looked at himself and found that there was really nothing wrong with him.
He was so excited: "Is everything really okay?"
In addition to the great joy of not having to die, what was more important was that he discovered that he was not afraid of that kind of white mist.
This means that he can ignore the white fog, the biggest danger that isolates the inside and outside, and directly enter the Lost Kingdom in the sky.
Next.
Xia Na tried to contact the white mist a few more times, but the white mist really didn't respond to him at all.
"Have you seen?"
"It doesn't eat me, I'm not afraid of it."
Shana stood on another boat, returning from the clouds and mist.
Carmon was waiting in the distance and smiled when he saw Shana returning.
"It seems you are really different!"
"The gods do not allow others to enter this forbidden place, but they only open the door to you."
The previous boatman also said that the gods do not allow mortals to enter his forbidden areas.
Shana didn't know why, but suddenly remembered another sentence of the boatman.
"The white mist will swallow up all living life, and only dead things can survive there."
Xia Na was shocked and immediately shook his head in denial.
"No, no!"
"I am a living person."
After thinking for a long time, he finally determined something: "Is it because of the family's special bloodline?"
Their family's special ability made Xia Na feel that it might be because of this.
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Shana and Carmon have been coming to Silver Fish Island for a long time and have lived on the island for two months.
They got to know the fishermen, carpenters, blacksmiths and grocery store owners on the island. They got to know most of the people on the island, and even the merchants who often came to receive goods.
But no one on the island knew what Shana and Carmon were here to do.
Shaner said that he was a noble scholar who came to collect information about the lost country.
The great scholar Gwen recorded his name in the annals of history with a painting, and he also wanted to write a poem that would be handed down from generation to generation and become a scholar renowned in Suinhall and even the entire Ruhe Island.
This reason is very reasonable.
The islanders were convinced.
Even the residents of the island gave Xia Na a warm welcome and respected Xia Na very much.
Every day, residents say to Xia Na: "Xia Na, you must write a good poem!"
Shana: "It will definitely happen, it will definitely happen."
Someone else asked him: "Can we write down our Silver Fish Island?"
Shana replied: "Of course, Silver Fish Island is the most beautiful place I have ever seen."
At the same time, during this time.
Shana and Carmon also concluded the rules for the appearance of the Lost Kingdom. The Lost Kingdom will appear about once a month.
This morning.
Shana was finally ready.
Two small boats stopped at the foot of Yunshan Mountain. This is already a very dangerous area.
As soon as the clouds and mist spread, they may swallow up everything around them at any time.
No life forms can be seen in the lake here. The pure blue lake surface is paired with dense clouds and mist. There are no words to describe it except fairyland.
When the time comes.
Sure enough, the clouds in the sky slowly dispersed.
Above the clouds and mountains, under the sun.
The Lost Kingdom appears.
"I'm going."
Shana said something and set off towards Yunshan in the distance.
Carmon waved to him from behind: "Bon voyage, Shana!"
"It must succeed!"
"Come back and tell me what you saw."
Shana's figure disappeared little by little into the clouds and mist, but the boat he rowed also began to follow the clouds and mist, heading toward the sky little by little.
He actually rowed a boat on the clouds.
The white mist was so thick that it felt like paddling in water.
Not long after, he finally emerged from the clouds.
at this time.
He was already several hundred meters in the air.
Shana looked at the heights, the city named the Lost Kingdom by Master Breman.
Although the other party was still far away from him, it was no longer untouchable. He was getting closer to it little by little.
The bright sunshine shines down from the dispersed clouds, like the holy light falling from the Kingdom of God, full of redemption and faith.
Shana rowed the boat as if he were embarking on a great pilgrimage.
In the sea of clouds, a man is sailing alone.
The goal is above the sky and clouds.
He felt like he was the only one left in the whole world, and everything else in Shana's eyes disappeared, leaving only the Lost Kingdom in the sky.
As he continued to climb closer, a group of shadows appeared under the sea of clouds.
"What it is?"
Shana saw a beautiful life.
An existence with a beautiful transparent umbrella and waving fluorescent tentacles.
It's like a jellyfish in the sea.
But they are much larger, the small ones are tens of meters, and the large ones are hundreds of meters.
They shuttle freely among the clouds, just like elves in the sea of clouds.
Shana knew.
This kind of beauty carries fatal danger, it is a monster that no mortal can match.
And deeper in the sea of clouds, there are even larger existences.
Shana could only see the shadow, not the whole picture. The waving fluorescent tentacles were like giant tree vines hanging down from the sky, taking root in the clouds and mountains.
He stopped and hid in the clouds.
He was afraid that the other party would discover him.
As a result, the other party didn't sense him at all and gradually disappeared into the sea of clouds.
Shana then continued to row forward. He made an arc and finally reached the highest sea of clouds.
The sunshine here is extremely dazzling, and the city looks even more sacred.
He has already seen the Lost Kingdom, and it is very close at hand.
He rowed faster and kept exerting force with his hands.
at last.
There was a collision and a harsh clatter from the bottom of the wooden boat as it hit the ground of the Lost Kingdom under the clouds.
The boat jumped, and even some food and water rolled down.
Shana then stood up. He looked at the tall city wall in front of him and the buildings higher than the city wall, and couldn't help but speak loudly.
"I'm in."
"I'm in!"
Shana was so excited that she felt dizzy and didn't even know how to get off the boat.
He touched the misty ground.
At the edge of the Lost Kingdom, he noticed that the bottom of the city actually used a complete stone as the foundation of the city.
This way of building a city was something Xana could not even imagine, let alone hearing about it.
Shana looked at the edge of the Lost Kingdom and the sea of clouds below, unable to speak for a long time.
After he regained consciousness, he could only take a deep breath and exhale.
Say the previous sentence: "This is the city built by the gods, it belongs to the kingdom of the gods."
Things that are incomprehensible and unimaginable.
It can only be attributed to the gods.
This is always the case with mortals.
Shana approached the city wall little by little and watched the spire of the building disappear little by little before his eyes.
It wasn't until he passed through the city gate that the true features of those buildings were revealed to Shana one by one.
He saw the tall and majestic clock tower, and the hotel that was even grander than the Fire Protector Temple.
He saw wide canals that extended in all directions to the center of the city.
Each building next to the street is carefully constructed, with beautiful patterns on the walls, statues on the roofs, and transparent glass windows everywhere.
"What kind of gem is this?"
"Are they used to frame the windows?"
"Inlay the windows with precious stones? Just to make the room brighter? Just to block... the cold wind?"
He couldn't understand the extravagance.
It's like breaking the most beautiful piece of ceramic art into pieces to build a house.
He walked into a shop on the street, touched the beautiful stained glass windows, and caressed the empty shelves.
In the past, there must have been a dazzling array of merchandise displayed here.
Miracle workshops that far exceeded the imagination of alchemists are located here. Although Shana doesn't know what they were used for, he can feel that there were once piles of pottery, food, and cloth here.
He lay on the ground and seemed to be able to smell the fragrance of the cloth, and he also felt the scattered sugar sand.
He saw a bookstore, which was already empty.
But Shana picked up a scroll in the corner.
After Shana unfolded it, his whole body froze.
He only saw beautiful silk that he had never seen before, and it was covered with the characters of the three-leaf people. Although Shana had never learned this kind of characters, he didn't know why, but he could recognize their meaning.
Snake people currently only have coarse weaves, and even a king cannot have such beautiful silk.
In Shaner's opinion, such beautiful cloth is simply a gift from God.
Shana exclaimed: "They actually... actually used such a god-given thing to write."
And what makes it even more difficult for Shana to accept is that what is written above is not important.
It's just a poem praising love.
What does this mean?
Such silk is not an important thing in the eyes of the people who live here.
They have a lot and they can't spend it all.
Shana hugged the silk scroll and walked out.
He was completely out of his mind, and everything here made him dizzy.
What he saw and heard here exceeded his common sense.
"Is this the Kingdom of God?"
"Those people who live here are the most devout believers of the gods?"
"Is that why we can live in such a city, where everyone has a prosperous life and enjoys endless divine grace?"
Xia Na had heard many outrageous rumors, such as that the Golden City was filled with gold, but when he went there, it turned out that this was not the case.
And this lost country.
Shattered Shana's imagination of the Kingdom of God into pieces.
Here, his imagination of the kingdom of gods when he was young was nothing more than this.
It was like a beggar with nothing, using his pitiful and ridiculous insights and thoughts to speculate on the king's daily life.
Shana thinks.
Compared with the people living here, the snake people are worse than beggars.
Including their king.
The other side is the clouds in the sky, and they are the mud in the dust.
Shana walked in this city that was so big that people could get lost. Everything here was exactly the same as it was 250 million years ago when Xiinsai was at its most prosperous.
The entire City of Gods seems to be frozen in time, which is why this city can be preserved.
This is also the reason why Shana can see these things.
at last.
Shana came to the palace and immediately recalled this place.
He had seen this place before when he was looking at the mural of "The Lost Kingdom" in the Temple of the Protector of Fire.
Xia Na walked in the empty square. The fountain in the past had stopped long ago, and there was not a single soul in the square.
He walked to a place and stood still.
"This is it."
Shana remembered that he was standing here at that time, looking at the god Suinhor believed in, the First Ancestor of Blood, standing on a high place.
Gorgeous red hair and an otherworldly beautiful face.
Among the oldest ones, he is so conspicuous.
The obscure language came out of Shana's throat again.
"The Ancient One!"
"The city where the gods descended!"
Shana once again thought of the words he once read, and he vaguely understood that the most ancient ones were the races living in this city, and the City of God's Descendants was the name of this city.
Shana climbed the steps and saw a stone tablet erected in front of the palace.
It was the first code of law established by King Jessel, but there was an introduction at the beginning of the code.
"The spirit withdrew his gift, but also released the fate of the three-leaf people."
"The end of the God-given era symbolizes the beginning of civilized history."
In one sentence, the reason for the establishment of the City of God's Advent was revealed.
The Sanye people were expelled from the God-given land and headed to the other side of the sea to carve out their own future.
The civilization of the Sanye people truly began from then on.
However, it was impossible for Shana to understand the profound meaning of this sentence. All he could pay attention to was the word "god".
"god?"
"Who is this god? Which god is it?"
Shana didn't know that there was only one god in the time of the Trileaf people.
He could only continue to read, he felt that he could get very important information from it.
"The second-generation King of Wisdom, Jeser, left the God-given city on the orders of King Lederiki to find the legendary place where God descended."
"Searching for the place where it all began."
"The place where God descended at the beginning of eternity, where God created the King of Wisdom and the Mother of Life."
"That's right!"
"The world has a place of life and wisdom."
"King Jeser drove the Luch giant monster and found this place under the guidance of God. This is the new paradise promised to the three-leaf people by God."
"King Jeser named it - the city where God descended!"
Shana noticed the name Ruhe, its pronunciation was exactly the same as Ruhe from the giant island of Ruhe.
But Shana didn't understand what the Ruh Troll was.
However, Xia Na had no intention to pay attention to these at this moment, his eyes were fixed on that sentence.
The place where God descended at the beginning of eternity, where God created the King of Wisdom and the Mother of Life.
"Mother of Life?"
Xia Na shivered all over, as if he had been struck by lightning.
He couldn't accept it, so he repeated it again.
"Mother of Life?"
He kept shaking his head: "Who can create the Mother of Life? Isn't He the highest god?"
"Isn't she...the Creator?"
A god who can create the Creator?
What kind of existence is that?
Xia Na thought that the writing on the stone tablet in front of him was wrong, or that someone had made a joke on him.
But.
Who dares to make such a joke?
The First Ancestor of Blood once stood here. Who dares to make such a joke in front of such a being?
Even if it is a god that the Shana family believes in, he does not think it can be higher than this one. It would be good if it could be on the same level as the God of Alchemy and the First Ancestor of Blood.
He had heard too many myths about this god since he was a child.
The Mother of Life created the giant island of Ruhe and was the master of all life.
He set his sights on the title of King of Wisdom again, and he couldn't help but associate this title with the previous King Lederiki, as if only this name could be worthy of this title.
"King of Wisdom and Mother of Life?"
"So?"
"Is this a god with the same personality as the Mother of Life?"
Shana finally understood what kind of existence those ancient beings living here were.
They are not just followers of gods,
They are actually descendants of God.
"The Lost Kingdom."
"That's right...this is the Lost Kingdom."
Shana stared humbly at the top of the steps and once again recalled the scene where the red-haired god put the crown on the king.
"This is where the old gods wandered."
"It is the capital of the oldest."
Although what Shana said was not accurate, it was not wrong either.
This is the old capital of demigods like Xiao, Vivien, and Asai, and a holy place in their faith.
Shana felt weak all over, and his body involuntarily became shorter.
He suddenly wanted to crawl on the ground, and he even felt that he was not worthy to step on this land.
There once lived here a civilization that was unimaginable to the snake people.
They possess indescribable power.
They have extremely rich resources.
They walk with the gods.
In other words, they themselves are descendants of gods.
But now all of this has been lost, leaving only a city floating in the clouds recording everything.
Shaner also finally understood the profound meaning behind Breman's naming of the painting "Lost Country", although he didn't know how Breman knew it.
Was it a flash of inspiration?
Or is it God’s guidance?
"It must be the First Ancestor of Blood, guiding him!"
Thinking of the First Ancestor of Blood, Shana suddenly realized his purpose of coming here.
"Our god, the god that the Shana people believe in, must have lived here."
"What did God want us to do here?"
“What does He want back from me?”
He walked deeper into the palace, and he could feel something attracting him deep there.
The palace is very large, with as many rooms as a maze.
But Shana had some guidance, and he quickly reached his destination.
He stood in the corridor of the Palace of Wisdom and looked into the distance.
I only saw bloody flowers blooming outside.
They sway in the bright sunshine, blooming in their most beautiful posture.
Shana immediately recognized what it was, it was the legendary symbol of the First Ancestor of Blood.
"The Cup of Blood Mist!"
This is a beautiful flower that cannot be seen in the world, and it is also a plant with extraordinary power.
With such a large sea of flowers, Xia Na could easily devour the opponent as long as he dared to get close to him.
Deep in the vast sea of flowers is a birdcage-like garden, inlaid with thick glass.
These Cups of Blood Mist were once Cups of the Sun, growing out of the birdcage-like garden.
Xia Na did not dare to go deep into the sea of flowers, so he could only look at it from a distance.
"over there."
Shana saw something covered in the depths of the sea of flowers.
Those are mausoleums.
And the last tomb contained what he wanted.
With his strange sense of touch, Xia Na's sight passed through the sea of flowers and penetrated the mausoleum.
But something seemed to be activated immediately on top of the tomb, blocking Xia Na's sight.
"Ritual Array!"
Shana saw vertical and horizontal lines of light, with ancient spells engraved on them.
This ritual formation is only one of them, blocking the line of sight, but it possesses even more terrifying power.
Anyone who wants to break it will surely suffer backlash.
Shana couldn't cross the terrifying Blood Mist Cup Garden, let alone break the terrifying ritual circle and get what he wanted.
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Shana finally had no choice but to give up temporarily.
But because the clouds and mist had closed again, he couldn't find his direction and was afraid of encountering the terrifying existence in the clouds and mist.
He stayed in the City of Gods for a month before choosing to return to Silver Fish Island.
Carmon was very happy to see Shana return.
"How about it?"
"What do you see?"
Shana didn't say anything because what he saw was too shocking.
Sometimes a secret is called a secret because it is too dangerous to be known to ordinary people.
Xia Na could only say: "There is still one step left to complete. If you still want to know then, I will tell you."
Carmon was happy for Shana: "That's great!"
"It's just one step away."
Shana suddenly asked Carmon: "Carmon!"
"Aren't you curious about what I want to do?"
A wanton smile appeared on Carmon's face: "If you want to tell me, you will naturally tell me."
"But you can enter the Lost Kingdom."
"God must be guiding you, you are the chosen one."
"I trust you."
Xia Na suddenly felt that he was really the chosen one, otherwise why would it go so smoothly?
"Maybe that's really the case."
Carmon asked Shana: "You said there is still one step left, what are you going to do?"
Shana put a written letter into the package: "I'm ready."
"believe."
"The answer will be available soon."
Xia Na looked outside. The fishermen on Silver Fish Island were going out to fish again.
They were busy casting nets on the lake.
The boatman who had picked up Shana and Carmon opened the door: "Mr. Shana, I'm here to pick you up."
Xia Na nodded: "Well, I have to go out temporarily."
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The city-state of Suinhor.
Yoan Town.
Shana's father walked through a jungle outside the town and broke through an illusory barrier.
He raised his head.
Found a dreamy tree full of colorful flowers.
As an old family that has existed since the Alsini era, the Shana family is an ancient force with extraordinary power and a large number of props. Its heritage and strength are incompatible with this ordinary town.
Therefore, the Shaner family certainly has a way to find the rainbow tree. In recent years, the family has also used this method to pass information between themselves when they are outside.
Even the Shaner family once used this method to contact the "master" they called.
But there was no response at all.
Shana's father took out a letter from the tree hole and returned to the family castle in Yoan Town.
The old grandfather opened the letter and took a look, and the wrinkles on his face suddenly relaxed.
That kind of joy.
It cannot be concealed.
It was like a stone that had been weighing on my heart for many years suddenly fell to the ground.
Grandfather looked at Shana's father, and the gloomy old man seemed to laugh for the first time.
"He found it."
My father was stunned for a moment, and then tears filled his eyes: "That's really... great."
After a long time, my father asked again.
"Can he do it?"
The old grandfather put away the letter, and his expression of indifference and vicissitudes of life returned to his face.
"Destiny will make it happen."
"He can't resist, he can't refuse, he has to do it."