Chapter 116: Purple Cloud Scroll
The vast library, the place with the largest collection of books in the whole Junlong Federation, the documents, historical materials, and other books of the federation are distributed in the five-story platinum high-rise building, where only you can't think of it, there is no book you can't find, the strange page-like floor-to-ceiling windows and the surrounding green belt set off each other, making the vast library one of the landmark buildings of the holy capital.
Except for holidays, the library is open to the public all day, and there is an endless stream of citizens who come and go to the library every day to borrow books, including many travelers from abroad, some who want to learn about foreign cultures, some who want to do business in the local area, and some who simply want to increase their knowledge.
However, in order to find the Seven Artifacts, Ling Wenxuan led an expedition team to the Holy Capital from thousands of miles away, looking for an ancient scroll that recorded the canonization ceremony, which came from the hands of the ancestors of the Junlong Clan, and recorded the method of sealing the Seven Artifacts, after finding the Seven Artifacts, he had to seal the artifacts, so as not to confuse people's minds with the divine powers, or fall into the hands of traitors. There are countless people who covet the Seven Artifacts, and as long as you know how to seal them, you can prevent them from being stolen and used to bring disaster to the world.
There are very few historical texts about this ancient scroll, Ling Wenxuan almost rummaged through the books in the historical area, only to find a dusty historical material, the three words "Lin Yun Ji" in the book, which is a historical document recorded by a historian of Ziyun Kingdom thousands of years ago, which tells a magnificent legend of the dragon clan.
The Junlong people originated on the Middle-earth Plateau more than a thousand years ago, and that plateau was later renamed the Purple Mist Plateau due to the invasion of demonic beasts. Humanity that had endured the catastrophe of the Third Age repopulated on the plateau and established the first nation in the history of the Dragons, the Purple Nation. However, the Purple Yun Kingdom, with its splendid culture, was not founded by the Junlong clan, and at that time there were two major ethnic groups living on the Middle-earth Plateau, one was the Junlong clan and the other was the sacred dragon clan.
On the surface, dragons are no different from humans, except that they have two pairs of deer-shaped horns on the top of their heads, and they will transform into dragons that roam the sky when they encounter water. The supreme god Jena created the dragon clan with the Sosliyado spell, and sent them to manage the star, for humans, the dragon clan is the god of the world, so the dragon clan was worshiped by the dragon people, in the ancient Jun Dragon language, the word "Jun Long" means the descendant of the dragon, in the Ziyun country up to the king, down to the ordinary people are very in awe of the dragon clan, every year the king will regularly pray to the heavens on the altar, praying for the dragon clan to let them have a good weather. Due to the scarcity of dragons and the fact that their habitat is inseparable from water bodies, they generally live in the upper reaches of the Qier River, which originates from the Purple Mist Plateau, and a few of them wander in human form among the ordinary people of the Purple Yun Country. However, the good times did not last long, the dragon people and the dragon clan only lived in harmony for more than a hundred years, and the ninth king of the Ziyun country, Lin Yun, suddenly ordered the slaughter of all the dragon clans in the Ziyun country one day, and the war between the two sides broke out that lasted for more than 30 years.
The reason is the low reproductive ability of the dragon race, as a god species of Middle Earth, it must be combined with humans to reproduce, so a large number of dragons and dragons intermarry, compared with the long life span of the dragons, humans are only a drop in the ocean, the descendants of the dragons and dragons inherit the blood of the dragons, and will completely lose their human identity and become a member of the dragons, and in the long run, the dragons will eventually be assimilated by the dragons and disappear from the world. Ziyun's dragon clan of less than 100 people in the early years of the ninth generation of kings has expanded to 10,000, in order to save the dragon clan from extinction, Lin Yun decided to strike first, he issued a decree prohibiting the dragon people from intermarrying with the dragon clan, and sent three hundred warriors to attack the habitat of the dragon clan, the birthplace of the Qier River - Qishui.
Ling Wenxuan quietly closed the book and fell into deep thought, and Youna, who was so tired that she yawned, still couldn't help tugging at the corner of his clothes: "You have finally finished reading this book, seeing that you are concentrated, what kind of story is it about?"
"It's just the ancient history of our Junlong people, why do you care about this as a Wei clan. Ling Wenxuan replied impatiently.
"Tell me, what the hell?"
Ling Wenxuan couldn't bear Youna's begging, so he had to repeat the contents of the book to her.
"How did the Dragons defeat the mighty Dragons?" Yuna asked indignantly, "I think you Dragons are an ungrateful bunch of people who have helped you build your country, but you want to wipe them out. ”
"If you don't do that, what can you do? Do you want to sit back and watch the destruction of the Dragon Clan? Don't think too simply, from the perspective of the Dragon People, I agree with King Linyun's approach, and everything that happened later also proves this, if it weren't for King Lin Yun slaughtering 9,999 dragons, we Dragon People would not have a future at all. ”
"Nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine dragons...... King Linyun ...... How did he do it?" Yuna's mouth opened in shock.
"It is said that King Linyun and his three hundred warriors did not return that day, and all the warriors were killed, and the whereabouts of King Linyun are unknown. Enraged by the king's treachery, the Qishui Dragon Clan launched a counterattack against the Purple Yun Kingdom, and soon occupied the entire territory of the Purple Yun Kingdom and ruled the country. Ten years later, an unknown dragon slayer knight appeared in the Purple Yun Country, he used a silver sword, the dragon clan was terrified everywhere he went, and the dragon clan could not defeat this sword with all their might, so they could only sit back and watch the dragon slayer knight gather volunteers to retake the country. It turned out that King Linyun, who was defeated that day, did not die, but broke through the heavens at the bottom of the Qishui River and obtained the ancient divine sword - the sword of fearlessness, he practiced penance at the bottom of the river for ten years, and finally regained the country with the power of the divine sword, and the dragon clan was almost extinct in twenty years. ”
Speaking of this, Ling Wenxuan deliberately stopped, so that Yu Na's mind could keep up with him, and if he was a rosewood, he would definitely exclaim that this was one of the seven artifacts they were going to find, and Lan Lingxiang tried his best to scavenge the money needed for the trip from him, fortunately, these two people did not follow, Miss Lan, a shopaholic, had another attack, and he would not come out of the mall for a while, so he had to find an excuse to pit Rose, presumably the goods in the hands of this unlucky nun were already higher than her head. Since Yuna couldn't guess what he was trying to say, he felt that he had to put this issue aside, and there was something more important that he needed to do.
Seeing that Ling Wenxuan put the book back on the shelf, she had no intention of continuing to talk about it, she felt very puzzled, she felt that this story was not over, since Ling Wenxuan didn't want to say it, she was embarrassed to ask any more. It's just that the other party immediately sped up his pace and walked in the direction of the staircase.
"Where are we going?" followed Yuna in two steps and three steps.
"The forbidden book area on the fifth floor. Ling Wenxuan's answer was brief.
So the two of them headed towards the top of the building, and as the floor increased, there were fewer and fewer people around to read books, and they did not speak along the way, and when they reached the entrance of the top floor, the two stopped.
The man with the yellow mustache put down the newspaper in his hand and looked at the two of them with his fingers.
"This is a forbidden area, please show the relevant documents, otherwise the books here will not be allowed to be borrowed. ”
"I just didn't have the documents with me, can you be accommodating. Ling Wenxuan was so anxious that a drop of cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
"No...... That's the rule of the library, if you don't have documents, please go back. ”
Seeing that he couldn't move the administrator, Ling Wenxuan turned around and pondered for a while, then took out a badge from his pocket and handed it to the administrator: "Old man, do you know this thing." ”
The Administrator took the badge, took out his glasses and carefully looked at the intertwined texture of the crescent moon and the sword on the badge, and couldn't help but exclaim: "Crimson Moon Badge! What is your relationship with the Crimson Moon Adventure Guild?"
"It's nothing, I have a friend who happens to be on the Crimson Moon Adventure Guild. Ling Wenxuan smiled faintly and said, "Now you can let us go." ”
"Yes...... Please go this way, ......" The administrator quickly got up and smiled and helped them open the iron fence.
Through this iron fence, Ling Wenxuan and Youna came to the forbidden book area where the bookshelves were distributed in a circle, each arc-shaped bookshelf was about four feet long, and the bookshelves were separated by half a foot, just enough for three people to pass through side by side, and the periphery of the entrance was the circle with the largest collection of books, and as it approached the central area, the circle surrounded by the arc-shaped bookshelves had a total of five rings, the outermost ring had twenty-five bookshelves, and the innermost one had only five adjacent bookshelves.
Because many books have been unread for a long time, they exude an unpleasant smell of mildew, and there are brown and black bookshelves all around, it is inevitable to feel depressed when passing through them, but fortunately, Ling Wenxuan didn't come here to borrow books, or Yuna didn't want to stay with him for a moment.
Ling Wenxuan took Youna's hand and went straight to the innermost layer of the bookshelf ring, which was the center of the forbidden book area, in front of the five curved bookshelves, a square bench was placed for borrowers to rest, and in the middle was a pentagonal floor pattern, on which was carved a yellow-whiskered gold-scaled dragon, which corresponded to a golden-whiskered and silver-scaled dragon on the top of the curved glass ceiling. The double dragon dances its teeth and claws, looking at the sky with its majestic form, as if it soars from the painting, scattering gold and silver scales all over the forbidden area.
When Yuna came back to his senses, he realized that this was an illusion that he had imagined, but such an expressive carving was enough for Ling Wenxuan to squat aside and study for a long time, only to see his fingertips resting on the white marble made of white marble held by the golden dragon's right front paw, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"There are no more than ten people in the world who know the secrets of the forbidden area of the vast library, and I am one of them. Ling Wenxuan stood up and turned to the bookshelves around him, "Look closely, have you noticed any difference between these bookshelves around us and those in other places?"
Yuna glanced at it cursory and quickly replied, "The colors of these five bookshelves are very bright, they are yellow, green, blue, red, and blue. ”
"Very well! Then you look around the five bookshelves to see if there are any mechanisms, and turn them on in the order of the colors above. Ling Wenxuan looked at the ceiling and then at the sculpture on the ground, and fell into deep thought again.
So Yu Na followed Ling Wenxuan's method around the five bookshelves, and she found that the jade unicorn decoration on the side of the bookshelf was very suspicious, could this be a mechanism? With the mentality of trying it, she carefully stepped forward and reached for the jade unicorn on the yellow shelf, only to hear a "clang", and the jade unicorn sank downward. She was secretly happy in her heart, and then repeated the above action, opening all the mechanisms on the five bookshelves.
Suddenly, the five bookshelves shook slightly, and then sank into the floor, covered by the stone slabs that stretched out from the gap, the five stone slabs corresponded to the five runes, each rune shot out their own color of light, and in an instant, the yellow, green, blue, red, and blue rays shot at the black beads on the silver dragon's claws on the ceiling, causing the black beads to fall slowly under the domination of the spell power.
Seeing this scene, Ling Wenxuan shouted excitedly: "As I expected, these four bookshelves symbolize the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, the earth represents light, and the sky represents darkness. It didn't take much effort to get the Purple Cloud Ancient Scroll. ”
The white marble beads were dented, making room for the black beads, and when the black beads completely filled the white beads, a crack split the black beads in two, and inside was a bamboo slip wrapped in red cloth.
Ling Wenxuan carefully untied the red cloth strips, spread the bamboo slips in a well-lit place, and carefully read the information on the bamboo slips.
Yu Na came over curiously, and found that there were some incomprehensible words written on it, so she asked Ling Wenxuan what was written on the bamboo slip?
"Ancient Junlong script, of course you don't understand it as a member of the Wei clan, and there are no more than ten people in the world who understand ancient Junlong script, and one of them lives in Haojun City. Ling Wenxuan quickly put away the bamboo slip and said with a smile, "It seems that I'm going to visit that old friend of mine." ”
"Ahh......h
Yu Na pinched her shoulders and reluctantly followed behind Ling Wenxuan.