Chapter Eighty-Four: The Land of Dreams: The White Palace
The gray building looked like a magnified version of a Gothic church on Earth, except that the ground floor, which was supposed to be the entrance, was completely blocked off by a black granite wall.
There are many raised or concave reliefs on the surface of the building, and when Li Jinyi recalled after the reminder of the magic sword, he thought that he could climb these reliefs to the entrance above the church, but now when he looked up and looked closely, he found that these reliefs came to an abrupt end about 50 meters above the ground, and further up, there was a long wall that looked smooth and smooth, like wax, and was completely impossible to climb.
The front can't get in, maybe there will be an entrance to the side or back, and with this in mind, Li Jinyi circled around the gray palace.
He walked more than 100 steps and came to the open space on the left side of the palace, the floor tiles here are diamond-shaped, and it is not the soil that fills the gaps in the floor tiles, but some flowing light and shadow that do not know the source, the shape and color are similar to those colorful aurora lights under the transparent floor tiles of the golden garden, Li Jinyi guesses that these lights and shadows are the source of energy to maintain the operation of the dream land, after all, in the case of no one taking care of it, the plants in the garden are still vigorous, and the devices in the palace can also be used normally, which must require a huge amount of energy supply, and in addition to these lights and shadows that seem to contain strong magical power, Li Jinyi has not found other devices or substances that can provide and transport energy。
Outside the clearing, there is a row of neat and brilliant glass trees, which are about five meters high, and are completely white and transparent from the main trunk to the branches and leaves, looking sacred and pure.
"It's good-looking, but you can't photosynthesize like this, how good green is, and it's healthy. Li Jinyi complained on the surface, but in his heart he really wanted to transplant a tree back into his yard, and when the guests came to visit, they must have more face.
Considering the consequences of revealing his information or the possibility of invasive species, he gave up the idea and looked instead at the wall on the side of the palace.
This huge wall is like a continuation of the façade of the church, and the lower part of the relief and the stone columns used for decoration are dense, and there are many points of focus, but once you reach 50 meters above the ground, the wall is smooth enough to be mirrored, and it is impossible to climb directly.
At the same time, Lai found that the back half of the palace was surrounded by golden auspicious clouds, and the road to the rear was also blocked by it.
"Why are these auspicious clouds standing in the way here?" Li Jinyi came to the golden auspicious cloud wall that surrounded the entire dream land for the first time with a strong curiosity.
He summoned the soul of the heart and asked the other party to try first, in case there is any danger in the clouds, it is also the magic sword that is cannon fodder.
Holding the heart abyss in his hand, stabbing slowly horizontally, and the moment the tip of the sword touched the auspicious clouds, Li Jinyi felt a lot of resistance, but it could be overcome.
As the blade gradually sank into it, the repulsive force transmitted from it became more and more powerful, and Li Jinyi's entire arm trembled as a result.
"Did you see anything?" he asked, gritting his teeth.
"Clouds, except for clouds, are still clouds, clouds that look exactly like them from the outside. The magic sword replied.
As soon as the words fell, the repulsive force in the clouds suddenly increased, and directly pushed the two people and swords into the air, flying out for nearly twenty meters, but fortunately, the Soul Oblivion Ritual • Divine Body gave Li Jinyi enough agility and coordination, so that he avoided the fate of being broken ass.
After two weeks in the air, his feet hit the ground, and he slid a few meters out of the floor tiles, Li Jinyi stood still, shrugged his shoulders, pouted and laughed at himself:
"Alas, even a cloud can bully me. ”
A minute later, Lai returned to the front of the gray church, walked to the open space on the right, and reaped exactly the same results as the left, but the exploration of the palace could only be slowed down.
"You can go to the last white palace and see what is in it. Xin Yuan Soul Lan proposed.
"That's exactly what I mean, but rather than treasures, I hope to find more reinforcements that can help Earth fight against the Void sooner, and that's what I'm exploring here. As he spoke, he immediately turned to the White Palace.
Five minutes later, Lai arrived in the courtyard in front of the palace and took a closer look at the entire building.
The overall appearance of the palace looks like a huge white top hat placed upside down on the ground, with the top of the hat and the brim above, and in the center is a stone ball that seems to be detached from the main body of the building, and floats in the air with a radius greater than any Ferris wheel on the earth with energy support.
There are a large number of flying flakes hanging on the "brim" of those protruding buildings, and when you look closely, you can see countless gray-white flames swaying in the wind.
These flames are attached to the underside of the brim platform that does not appear to have any combustibles, hanging low, slightly like the tongue of fire spewed by a space booster, but the former is softer and swaying, which is very strange.
"What are those fires for? If it's just decoration, it's not very pretty. Li Jinyi complained, and made a denial in his heart about the level of appreciation of the former owner of the palace in front of him.
Stepping into the circular gate of the palace, the interior was completely dark, and the light outside the door seemed to have stagnated at the door.
As he walked forward, he searched for lighting equipment in his pocket.
Just as he held the flashlight, his feet suddenly fell into the air, and then he heard a "boom".
"Puddle?"
Li Jinyi exclaimed in surprise and hurriedly withdrew his left foot, and at the same time, the surrounding dark space shone out of thin air like fireflies, and these fluorescents gathered more and more, gradually illuminating the entire palace.
The scene in front of him made him involuntarily stop the action of throwing water on his feet.
The floor of the palace was submerged by a layer of clear water, no, not submerged, judging by the hollow structure of the ground design, it seems that this water could be stored here, and I don't know what it does.
In the center of the water pool, a rapidly rising pale yellow light mist reached the dome hundreds of meters high in a few seconds, and there were no other floors in between, and a closed petal-shaped entrance could be vaguely seen in the center of the dome, which presumably led to the giant ball above the palace.
What surprised Li Jinyi the most was that there were no other doors in this palace with a diameter of more than 100 meters, and on the walls as high as a mountain, there were all kinds of books densely placed, innumerable, more than an order of magnitude more than all the books in the library he had ever seen.
Regardless of his feet getting wet, Li Jinyi stepped directly into the calf-deep water and walked towards the waterfall rising in the middle of the water dozens of meters away.
At first, he thought it was caused by the mud deposited at the bottom of the water, but as the surrounding light became brighter, he realized that the floor of the palace was spotless, and the shoes that he had worn on his feet for several days and had experienced many battles were now looking like they had been carefully rinsed.
The mud came from the dirt on his shoes, and as soon as Li Jinyi had this thought, he saw that the muddy water seemed to be swallowed, and suddenly disappeared at a speed far beyond dissolution.
The water here seems to have a purifying effect, which is probably why it is stored here.
"Meaning that coming here to read a book can not only cleanse the soul, but also baptize the body? Well, the magic sword, in a sense, this is very similar to your characteristics, maybe you can find some evidence against you here, you have to be mentally prepared. Li Jinyi casually mentioned the previous bet.
Hearing this, Xin Yuan Soul Lan just snorted disdainfully, and did not react otherwise.
As the distance between him and the central waterfall grew closer, Li Jinyi felt that his body was gradually detached from the water and floated in the air as if someone had applied a powerful light cat rune at some point, which forced him to use his swimming position in mid-air to continue his progress.
This gravity-altering effect comes from the influence of the waterfall, which is both a lighthouse illuminating the temple of wisdom and a staircase to the repository of knowledge.
In this way, Li Jinyi half-flew and half-swam to the book pavilion on the high wall, and took out a random book, only recognizing one of the symbols that resembled braces, and the rest was completely incomprehensible.
Instead of putting the book back in its place, he picked out four more books in different positions that seemed unrelated on his way up, pocketed them, and asked the disc translator to translate what was written on it the next time he came.
Under the effect of the gravity of the light waterfall, Li Jinyi was able to continue upward, speeding close to the palace dome.
When he was about to reach the top, he quickly performed the slowing technique, trying to achieve the effect of emergency stopping, but he had memorized too many things recently, and for a moment he forgot that the slowdowning technique was only aimed at the same movement as the direction of gravity, and his current movement direction was exactly the opposite of the direction of gravity, and the remaining distance was too short to make a remedy, and he was about to hit the solid dome of gold and bronze at a speed of about 30 meters per second.
"Smack!", Xin Yuan Soul Lan summoned a huge blood ball to protect the top of Li Jinyi's head at the last moment, cushioning the impact for him.
In the bloody rain, the latter supported the roof with one hand, wiped the blood on his face that did not belong to him with the other, and sighed with palpitations:
"It's so dangerous, I almost braked with my face. ”
"No thanks. Xin Yuan said in a tone that mimicked the tone of some gentleman.
Li Jinyi didn't mean to thank him at all, he didn't pay attention to the words of the magic sword, and instead looked up to take a closer look at the huge closed petal door in the center of the dome, about forty meters in diameter.
Each petal of the door was tightly snapped together, so tightly knit that Lai was able to tell that it was a door that could be opened, thanks to the brightly colored sliding tracks on the periphery of the dome that pointed to the center of the circle.
He began to wander around, looking for a device that resembled a passage switch, but time passed by until he was about to leave the Dream Land.
Due to the large collection of books in this place and the difficulty of escaping, Li Jinyi gave up today's poisonous jaw worm summoning practice, and enjoyed the feeling of flying on his back in the air, and then returned to Earth.
Outside the window, night had fallen, and in the song of birds and insects in the back garden, Li Jinyi took out "The Gate of All Souls", turned to the fifth page, and sang in a high-pitched voice:
"May all things be blessed and puppets give souls. ”
As soon as the words fell, the puppet lady wearing a panda hood returned to him through the gate of the other world, and at the same time, he also felt a large amount of magic power being withdrawn from his body, and the whole person seemed to have entered the sage mode at this moment.