Chapter 394: Success (1/2)
Chapter 394: Success
Translator: TYZEditor: X, TYZ
”Wang Shouchuan, who had been working diligently and conscientiously throughout his life, probably did not expect that his last brilliance would have such a deep impact on the world. The Elders Guild conferred the title of Master on him without knowing that his research possessed the power of changing the world. They did not know this even after they built the God-subduing Peak using his knowledge. Perhaps the Elders Guild did not care about this at all. Seizures of power, fighting, and scheming among one another had depleted their time and energy, causing them to lose interest in knowing how the world would change. Far away from them, Wang Shouchuan’s disciple, Ai Hui, who had a bit of fame at that time, understood the value of his master’s research and became a forerunner in the field of elemental energy development. It was certainly unnecessary to elaborate on how Ai Hui’s later accomplishments were engraved in everyone’s memory.”
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The emergence of the God-subduing Peak had made a lot of people realized the value of Wang Shouchuan’s research. However, all of his research was confiscated by the Elders Guild and not a single piece of paper was left. The God-subduing Peak was a powerful and precious war machine, so it was heavily guarded. It was extremely difficult for someone to get close to it, let alone study it.
The Elders Guild was very pleased with themselves for their fast reaction in confiscating Wang Shouchuan’s work.
However, everyone overlooked one person: Ai Hui.
Logically speaking, no one would overlook Wang Shouchuan’s disciple. However, everyone quickly realized that [Treating The City As A Piece Of Cloth] was Wang Shouchuan’s last-minute, custom-made plan and that the science behind it was poles apart from his earlier theories.
At that point in time, Ai Hui was still fighting with blood fiends and blood elementalists. By the time he first came into contact with the plan, he was already preparing to lead a team to execute it. The science behind [Treating The City As A Piece Of Cloth] was extremely complicated and there were many blueprints on it. The Elders Guild did not believe that anyone could memorize everything about it in such a short period of time. All the craftsmen that were involved in building the gold needles were taken away by Elders Guild as well.
Furthermore, Ai Hui was only interested in swordsmanship. He was a typical fighting elementalist.
No one expected Ai Hui to not only memorize all the blueprints, but also to know the plan inside and out. For the past three years, he had never stopped studying the plan. To him, this was the last gift that his master had left him. If he did not understand it at all, how was he fit to be his master’s disciple?
There were two key points to setting up [Treating The City As A Piece Of Cloth]. The first one was to find the nodes of elemental energy, and the second one was to form the elemental traces.
The regions where elemental energy was distributed were important and would affect the flow of elemental energy. This logic applied to regions where multiple types of elemental energy existed as well.
Wang Shouchuan named these regions as nodes. If one wanted to control the elemental energy of a particular place, he or she would have to control the node of this region first.
So how does one control a node? Here was the second key point, elemental traces.
Elemental traces were nothing new to this time and age. The theories behind them were based on the spiritual traces from the glorious Cultivation Era. Forbidden arts, spells, and refinement of equipment were applications of spiritual traces.
Wang Shouchuan was not the first person to research elemental traces. There were countless people before him that desired to find the most important power of the Elemental Era, but they eventually failed to do so.
The reason why Wang Shouchuan succeeded was that he was the first who understood the importance of nodes. The energy level of elemental energy paled in comparison to that of spiritual force. Thus, only at nodes would the energy level of elemental energy be higher than the spiritual force. This was where the elemental traces would be formed.
Right now, Ai Hui was finding these nodes.
He had personal experience with finding such nodes. All the gold needles from the original [Treating The City As A Piece Of Cloth] plan were personally nailed by him.
In other people’s eyes, Ai Hui was just pacing around the cavern nonstop. There would be times where he stopped for a while and drew a circle on the ground with his sword.
They did not understand what Ai Hui was doing, but they could see the solemn look on his face. Everyone could not help but hold their breaths in anticipation.
For two hours, Ai Hui paced around in the cavern. More and more circles appeared on the ground.
When Ai Hui drew his last circle, he stopped and heaved a sigh of relief.
Then, he told Gu Tianning, ”Nail the stone pillars 30 centimeters deep into these circles.”
Gu Tianning acknowledged Ai Hui and quickly set off to work. He noticed a layer of perspiration on Ai Hui’s forehead and realized that he had exhausted a lot of energy just by pacing around the cavern for the past two hours.
”Let me do it as well!” Qing Feng volunteered.
He was filled with curiosity and wanted to see what was so special about the stone pillars and the circles that Ai Hui drew.
However, when he nailed a stone pillar into a circle on the ground and saw that there was no reaction, he was slightly disappointed.
When all 20 stone pillars had been inserted into the ground, the initially spacious cavern looked cramped and small. At this moment, everyone noticed that the positions of the 20 pillars did not correspond to one another. They were randomly scattered all over the cavern, appearing to be in disarray.
A lot of people felt apprehensive. They really could not see the use of these stone pillars.
Ai Hui found a corner, sat down ,and called out to Gu Tianning, ”We need to wait for two hours.”
Gu Tianning walked over to Ai Hui and sat beside him. He was not worried that Ai Hui was just talking big about increasing the concentration level of elemental energy in this place. Why would someone spend so much effort if he was just talking big?
Ai Hui did not have the free time to do that. If someone said that Ai Hui was trying to scam them, then what would be the point of him scamming them if they had nothing and were poor to begin with?
The two of them began to chit-chat. It had been a long time since Ai Hui had left the Old Territory. He did not know what the current situation there was like.
Upon seeing that Ai Hui was interested in the situation of the Old Territory, Gu Tianning tried his best to tell him more about it.
The advancement of the Blood of God in the Old Territory was not smooth at all. Since the people in the Old Territory possessed a tiny amount of elemental energy, the speed at which the blood elementalists developed their blood spiritual force was very slow. Furthermore, the Blood of God still needed a very long period of time before they could fully absorb the Yellow Sand Corner and Fire Prairie. This was also one of the reasons why the Blood of God was not anxious about their expansion in the Old Territory.
When compared to the decaying Avalon of Five Elements, the Old Territory was less impacted by the Blood of God because the Old Territory was poor and barren to begin with.
For the past few years, after the collapse of the Induction Ground, youngsters from the Old Territory did not have the chance to even be selected for schooling. This caused a lot of youngsters to feel disappointed. For the last 1,000 years, no matter how much everyone disliked the Avalon of Five Elements, gifted youngsters from the Old Territory were always given a chance to study in the Induction Ground and change their fates.
The Elders Guild, which could hardly look after itself, no longer cared about the Old Territory.
Gu Tianning was very worried that these gifted youngsters would swear allegiance to the Blood of God.