ATPnovel Chapter 1122 Ancient Ruins
Chapter 1122 Ancient Ruins
Duanmu Clinic is the largest clinic and the largest pharmacy in the Five Elements Federation. It is said that it was founded by the ancient saint Yao Qianshu. Legend has it that after the end of the holy war, the ten saints were all rewarded by the five empires. The Jiamu Saint was named Duanmu Gong by the Dongmu Empire and was given dozens of cities as his territory. After that, Yao Qianshu engaged in business and practiced medicine. People called him "accumulating wealth from the rich and distributing wealth to the people." He gradually accumulated huge wealth and created the Duanmu Clinic chain throughout the federation. Even the cities he governed became prosperous.
The Duanmu Medical Clinic is famous for developing various magical potions and has absorbed a large number of doctors and pharmacists from all over the Federation. However, its headquarters is not in Duanmu City, but in Tianji City.
Ever since the war between the Bright Five Elements Continent and the Dark Five Elements Continent ended in ancient times, Dark Tianji fell and Bright Tianji became the only Tianji. He is well-known throughout the world as the prophet of the Five Elements Federation. It is said that it was that generation of Tianji who vigorously promoted the federalization process of the Five Elements Continent, causing the nobles to gradually withdraw from the stage of history.
Despite this, successive generations of Tianji never expanded their power. They only managed Tianji City, making it the holy city of the Five Elements Federation. Its reputation was no less than that of Zhongyuan City and Chihuo City. In terms of scale, it was much larger than Duanmu City. No wonder the Duanmu Medical Clinic set up its headquarters here.
At this time, He Qiang and Tang Ya were at the headquarters of Duanmu Medical Clinic, looking at various magic potions.
This place is worthy of being the headquarters of Duanmu Medical Clinic. In the lobby, he saw many magic potions made from thousand-year-old elixirs and seventh-level monster crystal cores. However, these were obviously not all. The real fine products must be on the second and third floors, and only distinguished guests could see them.
However, compared to those treasures, He Qiang cares more about the magic potions exhibited on the first floor. The reason why the magic potions on the upper floors are precious is not that the refining techniques are more advanced, but that the materials used are more precious. In terms of the number of magic potions, these not-so-precious ones on the first floor must have an overwhelming advantage, and the refining techniques used are naturally the most abundant. By observing them, one can analyze the vast majority of the refining techniques used in Duanmu Medical Clinic.
He Qiang has always been passionate about various research. When it comes to drug research, perhaps only Liu Xiaoxiao and Xiaopang can compare with him.
Not long after, a girl in white walked in lightly from the door and walked straight towards him.
He Qiang turned his gaze away from the potion and looked over, his eyebrows raised. "I knew that as long as you come to Tianji City, you will naturally attract Tianji. I wonder what brings you here?"
"I just noticed that an important person was coming, so I came to pay him a visit." The girl smiled lightly, obviously admitting that she was the contemporary Tianji.
"Your cultivation is profound, you've already achieved sainthood. In this day and age, it's only a matter of time before you reach the threshold of godhood," He Qiang said calmly. "However, your fusion with the Eye of Heaven is still lacking. Since we've met, and it's a destiny, I'll help you."
He pointed his finger, and the girl's forehead shook, her third eye opened, emitting a strong golden light.
She closed her eyes and didn't open them for a long time.
He Qiang and Tang Ya were not in a hurry. They were originally out traveling. Although they had set a deadline, they could come here at any time in the future. After all, this place was within the Eternal Realm. The reason they didn't come before was simply because they had too many things to do and were delayed.
Not long after, her Eye of Divine Wisdom suddenly looked at He Qiang, but He Qiang waved his hand, and the power of darkness piled up layer by layer, forming an invisible curtain.
"Don't pry into my destiny, it will only backfire on you." He Qiang's voice came out, and the next moment, the girl's Eye of Heaven was tightly closed.
He Qiang's figure reappeared. For him, even though he was just the incarnation of divine power, with his superb control over the laws, facing the goal of becoming a god, anything was easy for him.
"We have finished our business in Tianji City. There is no need to disturb me too much. If you want to see me again, we can meet again in the God Realm." After saying this, he and Tang Ya disappeared without a trace.
Notting Forest is located three hundred miles north of Tianji City. He Qiang and Tang Ya appeared here and strolled all the way to the depths of the forest. From time to time, magical beasts appeared, but when they were within a certain range of them, they would naturally bypass them and dare not disturb them.
Before long, a swamp appeared before them.
"Inside the Misty Swamp is our target this time, the underground palace." He Qiang continued forward, explaining, "I've always been a little concerned. Some of the features of that underground palace don't seem to be something that humans on the Five Elements Continent could have. I suspect it's related to prehistoric civilization."
The road was shrouded in fog, but they could see the road clearly with their eyesight alone without using their spiritual sense, and the poison could hardly invade their bodies. They moved forward smoothly and soon came to a tree.
He Qiang sensed the breath of the tree and pressed it with one hand. A huge amount of extreme Yang wood magic power was evolved by him with the power of chaos and injected into it.
The next moment, the teleportation array on the tree was activated, and a green light lit up in the center of the trunk, reflecting a door not far away, which seemed to be the channel for plane teleportation.
The two of them stepped in and were surrounded by smooth walls made of rock. In the distance was a huge stone portal with ten totems carved on it.
In fact, they could have been teleported directly from the outside world, but He Qiang took this most troublesome route in order to ensure that no details were missed.
He Qiang came to the door, thought for a moment, pressed it with one hand, transformed the ultimate Jiamu magic power, and injected it into it.
The hollow carved Azure Dragon totem on the door suddenly lit up with an emerald color. At this moment, a melodious and clear voice rang out from all directions: "Welcome, Jiamu Saint."
The entire corridor was lit up with emerald light. At this moment, He Qiang suddenly increased the input intensity of Jiamu magic power, from three crowns to eight crowns, and then entered the saint level, and finally reached the god level directly.
"Extreme Jiamu, above the Saint level. I've detected Jiamu's divine power, presumably divine." The voice paused for a moment. "Respected deity, please enter."
The stone door slowly opened, and He Qiang's eyes narrowed. "Sure enough, this isn't a simple conditional judgment with a recording, but rather a low-level artificial intelligence. This isn't the level of civilization expected of the humans of the Five Elements Continent; it's a so-called ancient civilization or perhaps an alien one. This underground palace wasn't built by Heavenly Saints. To be more precise, it was probably reconstructed by Earth Saints from a pre-existing relic or damaged aircraft."
"A civilization of this level shouldn't be using low-level artificial intelligence," Tang Ya speculated. "Perhaps the Heavenly Stem Saints, unsure how to utilize the relics here, modified them to make use of them to some extent. Perhaps there are still intact remains of advanced intelligence here."
He Qiang nodded, and his spiritual sense suddenly swept around the surroundings. At this moment, there was a sudden violent reaction underground.
"Warning, warning. Spiritual consciousness detected. Unable to confirm target's intention, awakening the main program. Wake-up failed. Repeat attempt. Wake-up failed..."
He Qiang's spiritual consciousness instantly locked onto the ground below, and the power of chaos transformed into earth magic, instantly opening a large hole in the ground, and then he fled downwards.
His expression changed slightly. In his spiritual sense detection, the target's location did not seem to be in this underground palace, but deeper, separated by a thick layer of magma.
The world at the center of the earth, is it actually the world at the center of the earth?
However, judging from the history of the inner earth, that thing should not be a creation of the inner earth, unless a certain fire spirit was sealed in a container. Otherwise, it is more likely to be a product from outside the domain, which just happened to be obtained by the inner earth.
After a while, a layer of magma appeared before their eyes.
If they were the real bodies coming here, it wouldn't be a problem to pass through, but now they are the incarnations of divine power, so they naturally cannot force their way in.
As the main god, He Qiang naturally has the ability to travel through space. With just a thought, he passed through the magma layer and arrived at the first layer of the vast inner world of the earth.
His gaze swept into the distance. On this layer, there were a large number of fire elves. They were similar to goblins, with short stature, large heads, and slender limbs, but they had established their own kingdom.
The place they are in belongs to one of the Fire Spirit Kingdoms, and the target they are looking for is in the Fire Spirit Tribe’s palace.
This Fire Spirit Kingdom is only a fraction of the size of a state on Earth, and its population has reached 20 million. However, the most powerful Fire Spirit is only at the sixth level, which is far behind the human civilization on Earth.
Of course, He Qiang also knew that with the innate physical fitness of the Fire Spirit Clan, it was already quite good to be able to reach this level. The Fire Spirit Clan was just a small clan in the inner world, and the only thing that could rank high was their wisdom and population.
There are also a thousand third- and fourth-level fire crow guards in this palace, and even seventh-level fire giants as offerings, but for He Qiang, this level will not have any impact at all.
They teleported to the inside of the palace and saw what they were looking for.
It was a bulky and strange instrument, all silver and appeared to be damaged in many places.
As soon as He Qiang thought about it, Liu Xiaoxiao appeared beside him.
Liu Xiaoxiao used the Time Rewind and Omniscient Net on the instrument and immediately understood its origin and structure.
"It fell from the universe 480 million years ago, was captured by the Delta people 3.2 billion years ago, and was originally created 55 billion years ago by a civilization called Taiyan...
"The core is made of spacetime beacons and various metals. It possesses powerful self-repair capabilities and resistance to harsh environments. It is the detector of the Taiyan Ancient Clan... The Taiyan Ancient Clan once served an ancient god. At that time, the Eternal Star Domain did not exist. The Taiyan Ancient Clan prospered because of their service to the ancient god, but declined with the ancient god's fall. The last contact was 54.7 billion years ago...
"It passed through the hands of multiple civilizations, the last time falling into the hands of the Delta people. The Delta people once ruled two star systems in the Eternal Star Region, but were later destroyed by the Ether Zerg disaster in the neighboring Ether Star Region. It has been drifting in the universe ever since..."
Liu Xiaoxiao quickly passed the information to the two of them, "The Ether Zerg still survive in the Ether Star Region and actually rule that region. We don't have enough intelligence on them yet."
He Qiang looked at some runes inside the detector and asked, "Can you decipher the meaning of these runes?"
"The Taiyan Ancient Tribe's writing is very different from the Universal Language, and we have almost no data." Liu Xiaoxiao shook his head. "At least with our current capabilities, we can't decipher it. I'm accelerating my research with the Divine Realm, combined with Miracle and the Omniscient Network, and with the analytical power of my divine consciousness and the computing power of my intelligent brain, perhaps I can find a way to understand its meaning."
"Even if we can find the relics of the ancient Taiyan clan now, they are definitely antiques and probably difficult to obtain." He Qiang frowned, "There's no need to waste time and energy on such a thing."
"I have a feeling it's more important than we thought." Liu Xiaoxiao shook his head.
"The Taiyan Ancient Clan isn't a very advanced civilization, and they're not necessarily as powerful as the Eight-Armed Demonic Clan." He Qiang sighed, "Even those civilizations with a long history may not have records of them."
"After all, the Taiyan Ancient Clan is a civilization that existed during the dividing line between the Phanerozoic and Primate Eras. Perhaps its scattered records can help us understand what happened during that era." Liu Xiaoxiao narrowed his eyes. "For example, the events of the birth of the Four Divine Beasts. I have a hunch that it may be related to the mystery of Mo Xiao's fall."
He Qiang's expression also grew serious. "In that case, let's make it the focus of our next investigation. Following the connection of fate, perhaps we'll get some clues."