What is the Fountain of Spirituality?

In fact, even today, when the spiritual arcane has developed to such a high level, there is still no definite definition of the spiritual fountain.

Usually the mages believed that the fountain of spirituality was the meeting place of the true spiritual sea and the real world.

Because of this, the spiritual fountain will continue to gush out spiritual particles, nourishing everything in heaven and earth.

There are also mages who believe that the sea of true spirituality is in the center of the earth, and the spiritual fountain is from the center of the earth to the surface.

There are also mages who believe that the spiritual fountain runs through time and space, and is a mineral deposit condensed from all things in the old days of death. Therefore, the fountain of spirituality will have the existence of ancient spirits, which is like amber excavated from ore.

And the phantom of the ancient times is also a kind of amber-like existence.

The spirituality of the dead era is condensed in the spiritual fountain, and from time to time these amber-like spirituality will erupt, forming the phantom of the ancient era, impacting the spiritual sea of today's people.

"The illusion of ancient times is very dangerous, especially the closer the era, the stronger the spirituality of the dead, and the greater the danger. Even if the arcane mage is shocked by the phantom of the ancient era, one will sink into it if he is not careful, and become a walking corpse-like sinking demon. ”

Duke had asked his teacher Sukhtara about this topic before, and Suktara's answer was like this.

However, Sukhtara had seen the spirits of the ancients, but he had never encountered the impact of the phantoms of the ancient times - the spiritual springs that could initiate the phantoms of the ancient times were generally large spiritual springs, only the spring under Shenjiao City was large enough.

It's just that the spring under Shenjiao City has been tamed by the arcane mages, and a steady stream of spirituality is exported to serve the entire city.

There will be no more Ancient Shadows.

"I didn't expect that the spiritual spring of Cuihai Valley would be able to burst out of the ancient era phantom, doesn't it mean that this is just a medium-sized spiritual spring?"

Duke was in the ocean of insects in the ancient era of phantoms, and with Xiaoyi and the vine of guardian mysteries to help him protect the spiritual sea, he didn't feel any danger - after all, the ocean of insects was the oldest era, and the preserved phantoms were very dim.

His fingertips poked at the phantom of a trilobite, which fled as if it were a living creature.

Then a huge straight-shelled nautilus swam over, as if to see Duke.

This apex predator in the ancient ocean suddenly accelerated, and several tentacles two or three meters long stretched out from the mouth of the shell, tightly wrapping Duke, grabbing Duke and stuffing it into its mouth.

Duke quickly unleashed his Dou Qi Armor and wrapped himself up.

Then I found myself in a false alarm, this straight-shelled nautilus, which was about ten meters long, had no strength at all.

At the same time, a lot of rattan suddenly appeared on his body, and when these rattans appeared, they wrenched the tentacles of the straight-shelled nautilus inch by inch, and the straight-shelled nautilus wanted to escape in pain, but it was entangled by the rattan little by little until it was completely enveloped.

The next moment, the phantom of the straight-shelled nautilus shattered like a bubble.

The rattan that grew out of Duke's body also slowly dissipated, and this was undoubtedly the vine of guardian mystery in the spiritual sea.

"It turns out that the vine of the Guardian Mystery is to deal with the phantom of the ancient era." Duke's mind froze.

When he was infected by the molting of an ancient evil creature before, the Guardian Mystic Vine didn't react, and he thought it was useless.

I didn't expect the effect to be here.

Seeing the huge predator straight-shelled nautilus, all of which had been crushed by Duke, the other small phantoms that had been around it before all dispersed and swam in all directions.

The sea lily growing beside him also reined in his wrists and feet.

However, in the distance above the forest, there are still countless phantoms wandering in the sky, in addition to the straight-shelled nautilus, there is also a kind of apex predator, like a giant shrimp, and like a giant squid, this is a helmeted shrimp.

The mercenaries armed with bright portable lamps turned a blind eye to the sea of insects.

Vivien, who was in the black beetle car, turned over and continued to lie down, unresponsive to the ancient phantom outside.

Duke was the only one standing on the roof of the car, feeling the impact of the ocean of insects.

As the vine of guardianship and mystery dispersed, the frightened phantoms quickly swam over again, looking at Duke curiously, as if they were living in the same era.

Live in that ancient ocean of insects.

Then Duke saw a tiny insect phantom, crawling in the void as if it were crawling on the bottom of the sea.

The little bug was strangely grown, with a misdistinguished head and tail, two rows of side-by-side spikes on its back, and two rows of thin legs standing side by side. Whether it's upside down or upside down, it seems to be the same.

"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, on the vindictive holographic screen, the information of the grotesque worm was given.

At this moment, Duke has entered a special state, as if he has crossed hundreds of millions of years of time and come to the Ocean of Worms.

Live with many strange insects in the ocean of insects.

Feel their breath, feel their joys and sorrows, feel their hunting and hunting, feel the cruelty or fun of the scenes.

The grotesque insect ignored Duke and crawled away from Duke.

But then another insect crawled over, and its appearance was no worse than that of a grotesque insect, with no head or eyes, only tentacles of varying lengths, and a fat body.

Duke couldn't help but stick out his finger and meet the little bug the size of his thumb.

The little bug crawled and crawled onto Duke's fingers, and as if sensing something was wrong, it stopped and shook its tentacles, as if it was intimidating Duke, but it was not intimidating.

"There is an 81% probability that this species is a phantom of the cheering insect in the ocean of insects." On the holographic screen of Douqi, the information of the insect is displayed.

Duke didn't realize it, his attention was on the cheering worm.

A few seconds later.

He laughed.

Then he stretched out his other hand and pointed at the cheerworm that was still waving its tentacles, and it was a snap of the fingers, snapping, and the cheerworm was bounced far, far away.

Then a strange palm-sized bug burst out, swallowed the cheering worm in one gulp, and then swam quickly out of Duke's field of vision.

Right now.

From the bottom of the Sea of Insects, that is, in the forest of Cuihai Valley, a huge phantom suddenly emerged, and its brightness was extremely high.

The phantom of the ocean of insects is not as bright as this phantom.

The phantom seemed to be a scorpion or a shrimp, with two chelicerae like a large knife on its flat body.

"There is a 58% probability that this species is a platoon-legged horseshoe crab in the Ocean of Worms." Xiaoyi gave the data.

Duke immediately thought of the insect tide that had been launched to invade Shenjiao City before, the 9-ringed spirit beast - the black jade horseshoe crab dragon, although the two had a huge difference in size and appearance, but their demeanor and appearance could be more or less similar.

One is a wurm, and the other is an ancient phantom.

But in the location of Cuihai Valley, there is an intersection of time and space.

Duke inexplicably sighed: "Maybe the ancestor of the black jade horseshoe crab dragon countless billions of years ago was this plate-footed horseshoe crab that crossed the barrier of time and space......"

This moment.

In his spiritual sea, there was a rumbling vibration, and then a swaying horseshoe crab condensed and swam wantonly in the spiritual sea.

Immediately after that, more and more horseshoe crabs condensed, filling any corner of the spiritual sea.

It seems that there are many more little scorpions in the spiritual sea.

The vine of Guardian Mystery, as always, is also wrapped around the body of the horseshoe crab, so that between each other, you have me, and I have you.

I was stunned for a moment.

Duke grinned, "Sure enough, the Ancient Illusory is both a danger and an opportunity, but I didn't expect it to help me comprehend the eleventh vision...... This vision is called a sea scorpion, whether it is a black jade horseshoe crab dragon, or this horseshoe crab, it is quite like a scorpion. ”

Wildflowers, wheat seedlings, branches, ants, stones, whirlpools, white paper, rainbows, spirit crystals, spears, and now sea scorpions, a total of eleven visions.

Coupled with the Guardian Mystic Vine, they are all scenes in his spiritual sea.

Duke withdrew from his inner gaze and continued to stare at the Ocean of Insects around him, expecting to comprehend more of the illusions of the Ocean of Insects.

But after a while, the sea of insects suddenly receded like the tide of the sea, and in an instant everything retreated cleanly, no longer the feeling of warm sea water, no more strange insect phantoms, and no longer intoxicating ancient spirituality.

The phantom of the ancient times has retreated into the old time, as if it was just a dream.

Duke jumped out of the black beetle cart in a bit of a daze, and the whole camp was as untouched as before.

"Go and call Captain Xena." Duke said to a mercenary standing guard.

"Yes, sir."

In a few moments, Zina rushed over, she had fallen asleep before, as if she hadn't woken up yet, her sleepy eyes were fluffy.

"My lord, are you looking for me?"

"How are you feeling right now?" Duke asked.

Zina shook her head suspiciously, as if she wanted to sober herself up: "I don't know, I just feel that my body is very heavy, as if I am sleeping, my lord, why do you ask this, is it what happened just now?" ”

"No, let's go rest." Duke waved his hand.

Zina is a pseudo 1-ring card warrior, with both blood sea and spirit sea dual cultivation, but there is no way to break through the 1 ring in both aspects, so she can only rely on the mixed combat of fighting spirit and spirit card, and reluctantly raise her strength to the level of 1 ring, and assess the profession of a card warrior.

This kind of profession is generally recognized by the Mercenary Mission Center, and is not recognized by the Faling Tower, and it is not registered.

"Looking at Zina's appearance, she should have been impacted by the ocean of insects, but she only lost a little energy, and it didn't hurt."

Duke glanced at the dark night, which had become drowsy again, and returned to the black beetle cart.

Vivian, who slept outside, sat up from the hard bed, her daytime cloth armor had been taken off, and with the help of a dim light in the car, she could be seen wearing only a small shirt, her plump figure was undoubtedly revealed, and the erect chest was particularly attractive.

"Are you ready to rest, my lord?" Vivien asked.

Duke raised his eyebrows, took Vivian's hand and said, "It's still early, come, come and talk with me for a while." ”

In fact, there is nothing to talk about, Vivien is not a person of many words, and as for Duke himself, he has not completely detached himself from the shock of the Worm Ocean.

There are still so many questions lingering in my mind.

Why did the medium-sized spiritual spring in the Cuihai Valley break out into the Ocean of Worms?

There are two 3-ringed tree kings growing in the Cuihai Valley, could there be some kind of connection with the Ocean of Insects, indicating that this spring is not medium-sized?

Why did the molting of the ancient evil creature appear here, and could this be the reason for the outbreak of the Worm Ocean?

There was also the Pioneer War in the Tsui Sea Valley led by the Bernoulli Mage Tower, which suddenly fell silent; The Bernoulli Earth Master who said that he would come to Shenjiao City in person has not appeared in Shenjiao City for a long time; There was no movement from the dragon hunting for foreign help.

In addition, the chicken's grandmother, according to the chicken's description, is the image of a trilobite, and she happens to live in the spiritual spring of Cuihai Valley.

So the grandmother of the chick, could it really be a trilobite living in the era of the ancient insect ocean?

Wrapped in spiritual amber to survive to this day?

There are so many questions that Duke can't see through.

But.

He quickly handed over these same questions to Xiaoyi for analysis, and he hugged the female knight who was close to him and chatted.

……

On the fourth day, I was refreshed.

After chatting for a night, it didn't consume much of Duke's energy, and after Vivien's day off, he still rode a spirit horse, galloping through the forest, and pulling out his spear to hunt spirit beasts.

It was not until the evening that we returned to the camp.

It was found that Xiaohong had finished her wedding flight and returned to the black beetle car.

"Good girl, this is the right person!" Duke touched Red's tentacles and felt the faint emotion transmitted by Red.

It urgently needs to build a nest and then breed its own colony.

"Let's go, back to Snake Head Town!" Duke directly ordered the mercenaries to surround the black beetle cart and return to Serpent's Head Town in the middle of the night.

Stayed overnight at the Black Snake Manor, and set off early the next morning.

"Mulali, your sister wants to play with you in the city for a few days, see the Mage Tower, you help your aunt take care of her." Mu Lashan's mother took her niece Mu Lali's hand before leaving, and said with some reluctance.

Mu Lali agreed: "Auntie, you can rest assured, it's great that Shanshan came to accompany me, you don't have to worry about us." ”

With Mula Shan, Mula Li boarded the Shadow Chasing airship.

The airship arrived at the Sukhtara Mage Tower at ten o'clock, and Sukhtara went to work at the Union Tower, so no one let Duke go to class.

Duke was able to continue his vacation and personally arrived at Duke James Farm with Little Red in person.

Red had already dug a nest here, and Duke put it down, but Red didn't immediately climb into the underground nest, but stopped at Duke's feet, and then kept rubbing her two wings until she rubbed them off.

Duke squatted down and picked up the two wings: "Thank you for the gift, go and build your own ant colony." ”

With a wave of her tentacles, Red burrowed into the lair.

The wings of the 5-ring bloodline crypt marching ant queen are definitely a valuable spiritual material, but Duke is not willing to use it as a spiritual material.

He handed it to his attendant and said, "Go back and find someone to make a specimen of these wings and hang them in the living room of Beverly Manor Villa." ”

"Yes, sir."

"Where's Boss Jade?"

"I'm here, my lord." James, the owner of the farm, ran up to Duke, "I haven't congratulated you on becoming a polymath yet!" ”

"It's just a name, it's not enough." Duke waved his hand indifferently, "The farm here will go back and change the name, hide my name, I am now a big man, there is no need to take advantage of the small income of the farm." ”

"Ah, my lord, you ......" James was in a hurry, without Duke's sign, how could the farm be run on his own.

"Don't worry, listen to me, that's what I thought, James." Duke explained, "You and I have known each other for so long, and I have a lot of trust in your abilities, so I have offered you two solutions, you can consider for yourself. ”

"Your Excellency, please speak."

"First, you have become my vassal, and you will help me manage the affairs of spirit plants full-time, I will have the opportunity to study spirit plants in the future, and I need an assistant, I think you are suitable; Second, if you feel that vassalage is too restrictive, you can continue to run the farm, but in the future it will only be a cooperative relationship, of course, I can help you solve problems on the farm a few times. ”

The two met at the end of the day, and although Duke decided to quit the farm, he would not let James suffer.

"I ...... I need to think about it, sir. ”

"Well, it's okay, think about it slowly, and get back to me after thinking about it." Duke smiled and patted James on the shoulder.

Performing the breathing method, cultivating the 2-ring elf Ben Lingzhi - Ji Yulu, cultivating the blowing snow pillar that is not good in the farmland, and being busy for two hours, Duke left the farm.

When I returned to the Sukhtara Mage Tower, it was already evening.

"Duke, continue classes in the evening." As soon as Sukhtara got off work, he came over in person and greeted Duke.

"Uh, good teacher."

"Another thing, now there is a chance, you can get a stake in the Xibi Diling Mining Company, do you want to participate in the competition?"

"Shares of the Spiral Mining Company?" Duke was surprised, "I'm just a 1-ring mage, can I get a stake too?" ”

"All I can say is hope."

Suktara told Duke the truth of the matter: "Klelinda decided to sell the shares to raise money to compensate for the loss of the Runwanjia Spirit Weapon Factory, don't underestimate this 1% of the shares, which are worth at least millions of gold dragons, and there is a steady stream of dividends, few people are willing to sell." ”

Just as Duke left the Mage Tower and went to Serpent's Head Town to work on Xiaohong's wedding, Keystone Futao, as the chairman of the board of directors of the Xibi Diling Mining Company, held a board meeting.

Discuss what to do with the shares sold by Clelinda.

"Some shareholders think that it should be recycled, so that everyone can share a little bit of money, and their shares can go up a little bit. The high-level leaders of Lord Keystone still insist on choosing newcomers to take over the shares, and they have always been united. ”

Sukhtara said, "As for the newcomers, Lord Keystone recommended you, and there are also four 2-ring arcane mages who have also been recommended, so there are five candidates including you. ”

"Lord Keystone recommended me?"

"Although you are only a 1-ring arcane mage, you are already a scholar and a rising star, so it is not surprising that I recommend you...... If you're interested in participating, I'll help you respond to the board and wait for a later vote on who will take over. ”

Hybpidi's shares, which is a kind of threshold.

Shen Jiao City's arcane mage is also divided into grades.

The first grade is naturally Keystone Fury, Williams, Erwin, and Stephen Tiger, the four Great Arcane Mages, plus the chief director of the Farling Tower, Oruqi, the governing Jovis Bobcat, and Penrose, who form the leadership team of the Five Towers Council.

The second-rate grade is basically the shareholders of Xibidi, including most of the 3-Ring Arcian Mages, as well as some outstanding 2-Ring Arcian Masters.

As for the third-rate grade, it is the remaining arcane mages.

Duke doesn't have to be a maverick, so it's the right thing to do to fit into the circle of Hope and raise your level.

Moreover, this is a stake sold by Clelinda, which is of great significance.

He immediately replied: "Of course I am willing to take over this part of the shares, but teacher, if the price is millions of gold dragons, I can't afford to pay at all." ”

"If you have this in mind, the teacher will help you." Sukhtara said kindly, "This is indeed a good opportunity, if it weren't for Klelinda to take the initiative to sell the shares, even if you were promoted to the 2nd Ring Arc Mage, you might not be able to buy the shares of Xibidi." ”

"Teacher, you are so good to me."

"You are my successor, and the research on the future ring replication materials depends on you to complete, and some external factors will be handed over to the teacher to help you deal with them." Suktara said, "In the past hundred years, the teacher has not been idle, and he has saved a lot of golden dragons. ”

Duke said gratefully: "Teacher, don't worry, when the Giant of Light earns money, I will repay the teacher immediately." ”

Sukhtara smiled: "Don't worry, it's just something outside the body, you don't have to be burdened, follow the teacher to learn alchemy, it is the best gratitude to the teacher." ”

"Yes!"

I am grateful to my teachers for their kindness.

In the alchemy class in the evening, Duke listened very carefully and did the experiments meticulously, and he hoped to master the art of alchemy as soon as possible.

If you can make some achievements in the lifetime of the teacher, you can 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." Sukhtara looked at Duke, who was seriously doing the experiment, and was full of joy.

So the next day, she informed the board of directors of Duke's intention to compete for a stake in Sibbidi.

Just as Duke was on his way to Penrose's Mage Tower to take another card-making course.

The second board meeting of the month was held, with Chairman Keystone Nutao personally in charge and Executive Deputy Director Erwin presiding.

"At this meeting, a successor of 1% of the shares of Xibidi will be selected, and there are currently five candidates who are interested in taking over, namely the 2-Ring Arcane Scholar, the Spirit Plant Scholar Outlet, the 2-Ring Arcanist Scholar Trespo, the 2-Ring Arcanist Nigel, the 2-Ring Arcanist Yvette, and the 1-Ring Arcanist and Polymath Duke."

Erwin smiled like a little old man and read out the names of the five people, and then said, "You can speak freely, which one you support, and why...... It's still the usual practice to wait until everyone is done before voting. ”

"Then I'll talk about it briefly." The United Tower spoke first to the external director, the 3-ring arcanist, and the elemental scholar Flor, "I support the outlets, the outlets are my old friends for many years, and they have been rooted in the field of spirit plants for many years......"

Soon, another director said: "Ahem, I'll also tell you what I think, I think Nigel is good, young and has potential, has performed well in several pioneering wars, and as a 2-ring arcanist, he has a promising future......"

At this time, Penrose, who is the director of Xibidi, also said: "Duke, I support Duke, he is my student, his talent is obvious to all, and there is no need to say anything else. ”

"Duke is good." Erwin smiled and followed.

As everyone discussed, three candidates were quickly ruled out, leaving only two candidates, Outlet and Duke.

The other three are not scholars, and their natural identities are shorter.

"Duke is only 1 Ring Olympian Mage, it's not appropriate."

"What about the 1st ring, as a genius arcane mage, he should be treated preferentially."

"It's too active, it's better to let him concentrate on research, and it's not necessarily a good thing to be included in Xibidi now."

"Wouldn't letting him in just so that he could reduce the interference of external factors and facilitate him to focus on his research."

"The outlets have been waiting for more than ten years, and he has long been enough in terms of qualifications, so I think it's better to let the outlets in."

"A new generation replaces the old, Xibidi is to choose the best arcane mage to join, Duke is good enough, why not give him a join?"

"yes, yes."

"I also support Duke, the youngest scholar in the field of wind breathing, and joining Xibidi is the right time."

"Well, no matter how much you argue, you can't argue about it." Erwin interrupted the noise in the meeting and said directly, "Raise your hand to vote." ”

More than 20 directors, after a raise of hands.

There were twelve people at the outlets and eleven at Duke, with two directors not raising their hands.

"Ahem." Sitting in the first seat, Keystone Nutao was one of the people who didn't raise his hand, and he said slowly, "To be honest, I've seen enough of the old faces of Shenjiao City, and it's just a few of us who come and go, and there is no novelty at all. ”

The crowd fell silent and listened to Keystone.

Keystone didn't sell it either, and said slowly: "Klelinda is what I watched grow up, and the outlets are also considered to be what I watched grow up, what's the point of going out and going in." It's Duke's kid who gives people a new look, and I still want to carry this kid. ”

When he finished speaking, everyone looked at each other.

Immediately, they unified their opinions: "Since the chairman is optimistic about Duke, let's look forward to Duke's future performance." ”

Ask for tickets~

(End of chapter)