Chapter 288: Sand Compass And Bad Reputation (1/2)
Chapter 288: Sand Compass And Bad Reputation
Translator: TYZEditor: TYZ/KLKL
It was a palm-sized sand plate that was covered with densely-packed vein patterns and characters, resembling a compass.
Its name was called sand compass.
Sand compass was one of the greatest inventions by earth elementalists. It was created by the great earth elemental master Luo De seven hundred years ago.
Before Master Luo De, people treated the flow of the elemental energies in the Nature like ‘water’ and ‘air’. Master Luo De was the first one to propose that when the concentration of an elemental energy had reached a certain point, the nature of its flow started to change fundamentally.
At that time, Master Luo De’s theory was unconvincing and a lot people thought that he was indulging in his own fantasy.
However, eventually, Master Luo De was able to use his ingenuity and creativity to prove his theory.
Sand compass was the what he used to prove his theory.
Lou De realized that entire Avalon of Five Elements sat on a huge continent. Even Jadeite Forest, which consisted of numerous islands, shared the same continent as the other four elemental factions. This implied that the earth elemental energy at any places in the Avalon of Five Elements were interconnected, forming a massive base of earth elemental energy beneath the Avalon.
Deep under the ground, the concentration of such immense amount of earth elemental energy was extremely high. This knowledge formed the basis of the proof to his theory.
As such, he created the sand compass.
Beneath the ground, he opened up a stable earth elemental space. Every earth elemental space would have a particular sand compass that it corresponded to.
On the Mid-autumn festival seven hundred years ago, under the invitation of Master Luo De, the Jadeite City was packed with elders, division leaders and elementalists. Everyone in the Jadeite City turned up as they wanted to witness the miraculous night.
Under the watchful eyes of the people, Master Luo De and the Great Elder jointly placed a mooncake that contained the latter’s token onto the sand compass. Following which, the mooncake was slowly devoured by the quicksand on the sand compass.
The sand compass was immediately placed in an unique metal box that was being sealed up afterwards. Then, the metal box was being taken by the fastest flying elementalist at that time, Zhou Mingkui, who was also known as the ”Hurricane of the North Sea”, to the biggest city in Silver Mist Sea, Silver City. He traveled day and night and flew towards his destination in his fastest speed
And at this point of time, the Silver City was already fully packed with people. They were stretching their necks, waiting anxiously for the arrival of Zhou Mingkui.
Two days later, when Zhou Mingkui descended from the layer of clouds in the sky, draped in the first glimmer of dawn and mist, the people in Silver City exploded into cries of joy.
The bone-tired Zhou Mingkui took off the metal box on his back and passed it to the mayor of Silver City.
Under everyone’s attentive gaze, the mayor opened the metal box and took out the sand compass and placed it on the ground. Holding their breath, everyone looked on as the sand compass transformed into a very small sand whirlpool. Following which, a piece of mooncake emerged from the sand whirlpool. At this moment, everyone cried out in surprise.
To the mayor’s surprise, when he broke apart the mooncake, he saw the Great Elder’s token.
The mayor held the Great Elder’s token up high in the air. However, at this point of time, his surroundings had already broken into an uproar. Surging waves of deafening cheer almost overturned this time-honored city. Everyone understood that this day would definitely go down in history. They also knew that this day signified the coming of a new era. The creation of sand compass enable people to have a treasure box that could open anywhere and anytime, not restricted by the dimensions of space and time.
Master Luo De became everyone’s hero, receiving supreme prestige and a terrifying amount of wealth.
Those earth elementalists that followed Master Luo De kept on improving the sand compass. They made it more safe by adding a lock to it, increased its space, reduced its construction cost and etc.
However, until now, sand compass was not something that ordinary individuals could use.
Even Ai hui had only heard of it and not seen it before. However, it was appropriate for him to feel so excited. After all, a fugitive like Shi Youguang would hide his most valuable things in it.
Unlocking the sand compass might be a problem to many but not Lou Lan. To him, unlocking the sand compass was a piece of cake.
The technology of sand compass might be improving, but so did the technology of unlocking it as well. Ai Hui knew of elementalists that knew how to unlock a sand compass. If he used the identity of Chu Zhaoyang, he could definitely find people to unlock it for him. However, by doing so, it would be very difficult for him to maintain secrecy.
Ai Hui looked forward to seeing what kind of treasure would be kept inside the sand compass. If the items that Shi Youguang brought along with him were already so valuable, the item that he stored in the sand compass would definitely be an even more valuable treasure.
Wiping off the saliva stain on his mouth, Ai Hui carefully kept the sand compass.
It was already nighttime but Ai Hui did not want waste any time. He had already wasted a lot of time.
He needed to find out where the nearest town was to determine his current location.
Luckily, it was already nighttime and the layer of clouds in the sky had cleared. This enabled him to quickly locate a dimly-lit place in the distance after flying up to the sky.
The pair of azure wings on his back spread and he flew in the direction of the dimly-lit place in a burst of light.
He could feel something different with his body. The elemental energy in his body was surging violently, increasing his flying speed sharply. At this moment, he realized why everyone only cared about base level. He felt so powerful just by achieving elemental externalization. Even though he was flying with reservations, his current flying speed had already surpassed the highest speed he achieved in the past.
Ai Hui became excited and increased his speed to its maximum. He felt like an extremely sharp sword that was slicing madly through the air.
It was too fast!
His current speed was at least twice his top speed in the past. The Starry Gem Swordwings was able to withstand the test. Even when Ai Hui was flying at such a high speed, the Starry Gem Swordwings did not tremble the slightest bit. Not only that, Ai Hui could also feel the pair of azure wings still had potentials that had yet to be unveiled.
The thing that amazed Ai Hui the most was the metal elemental energy in the wind kept on gathering around him, forming a metal elemental force field around him.