“This is part of the audio, the rest is still being revised.
It will be released in two days.”
Although only a portion of the audio was released,
it contains a huge amount of information.
【Wow, no wonder he's a diplomat who has lived for five hundred years, he knows who the Seven are so well.】
【The “sigh” he used when evaluating Venti was so insightful, fully reflecting how much this diplomat dislikes Venti.】
【So, does Yi Xuan actually eat food made by the Raiden Shogun?
Why else would mentioning it make people call for a doctor, and by name too? This Shigewen, isn't she a character too?】
【And that guy named Nahida, I remember Al-Haitham mentioned he seems to be the Grand Inquisitor.
Could he be the final boss of the Fontaine chapter?】
【What does the phrase "Water Dragon, don't cry" mean on a rainy day? Could this "Water Dragon" refer to the Hydro Archon?】
【Isn't the Hydro Archon our Kokomi?】
【Why is Yi Xuan silent when mentioning Focalors? Could it be that he's actually sidelined the Hydro Archon?】
【To be honest, it's possible. The diplomat has legislative power,
the Grand Inquisitor has enforcement power, and the Hydro Archon at most has only supervisory power.
From the current description,
the Hydro Archon has indeed been sidelined.】
【I heard that Fontaine is based on the Gao Lu chicken, wouldn't it be a scene from Louis XVI's time if it's about that.】
It has to be said, this audio release has made Yi Xuan's popularity soar again.
He's only 200,000 away from the 1 million mark.
Yi Xuan and Lumine, along with others, traveled for a few days
and finally arrived at the trading location with Laheman.
Yi Xuan, here, gives off an aura of mystery.
Laheman and his crew, along with a dozen village guards, were already waiting there.
“Grandpa~” Isaac spotted his grandfather at once and started to run toward him with his short little legs.
But Yi Xuan grabbed him by the collar.
“Kid, be patient, your grandpa is still in their hands, don't worry, we'll rescue him later.”
Seeing this, the kid could only stand still, his teary eyes fixed on his grandfather.
“Mr. Yi Xuan, I've brought the people to you, but in exchange, I need you to come stay with us for a while.
Don’t worry, we just want to use your name. We won't do anything disrespectful.”
Laheman had no choice. The chips in his hands were halved,
which significantly reduced the possibility of their plan.
After discussing with the members of his crew, Laheman decided to
invite Yi Xuan to stay with them for a few days.
This was literal, an invitation for Yi Xuan to stay for a few days.
Once the sages of the Akademiya learn about this,
they will surely be anxious to negotiate with them.
And that's when they will attack.
They dared not bring it up without Yi Xuan's knowledge because of his identity.
So last night, they secretly sent someone to contact Yi Xuan.
After receiving his approval, they brought it up.
“Didn't you say you would release him a few days ago? Why are you changing your mind?”
Paimon glared at Laheman angrily.
“I agree, now can you release him?”
Yi Xuan’s agreement surprised everyone. After all, with this guy’s personality,
he didn’t seem like the type to be easily intimidated.
“5, 4, 3, 2, 1”
As Yi Xuan silently counted down in his mind, the desert they were in suddenly began to sink.
A stage-like sand vortex engulfed everyone.
Yi Xuan, who had been prepared, had activated the defensive function on his clothes.
A golden shield covered his entire body.
But the others weren't so lucky. They struggled desperately in the quicksand.
At that moment, the void on the ear of the old man Isaac called grandpa suddenly lit up.
It rushed towards Isaac at an incredible speed, and his green elemental power protected everyone.
Her head felt dizzy, her eyelids felt heavy as if they were filled with lead, and
Lumine slowly opened her eyes. The first thing she saw was the blurry image of Paimon.
Paimon kept calling Lumine’s name.
Lumine reassured Paimon
and then began to look around. She realized that everyone was fine, and immediately understood.
It must have been Nahida who used the void to remotely save them.
Yi Xuan was already talking to Al-Haitham in front of a door.
Seno stood in a corner frowning in thought,
as if trying to figure out who had saved them.
“What’s going on?”
Diona walked over and pointed at the hollow above them that had suddenly appeared.
“We fell in, the good news is that this underground isn't a dead end.
We can easily leave.”
“If that's the case, then let's go quickly, I was scared to death just now.”
Paimon patted her chest. Though she could fly,
the scene just now really scared her.
“If you want to leave, you can go first.” Yi Xuan and Al-Haitham walked over.
Yi Xuan took out a water bottle and handed it to Lumine.
“This is an ancient relic of the Scarlet King, there may be some ancient documents inside. Al-Haitham and I are going to explore it.”
Paimon couldn’t keep up with Yi Xuan’s pace for a moment.
“Don’t we have so many people here, and it’s so dangerous, you’re still thinking about exploring documents?”
Yi Xuan simply waved his hand dismissively.
“We’re already here, of course we have to explore it properly.
But those from the Golden Slumber and the villagers need to be taken back. If you don’t want to go in,
you can leave with them.”
“I’ll go with you. This is the Scarlet King’s relic, as a descendant of the desert, I must go to pay homage to the Scarlet King's greatness.”
After giving orders to his men, Laheman immediately expressed his desire to join.
Lumine didn’t want to miss this opportunity either, so she immediately said she would join.
“Since that’s the case, I’ll have my companions take these villagers to the Aaru Village.
After all, our deal is done.”
No one else objected.
While these people had some skills, they were just ordinary people who couldn’t activate elemental powers. It would be a burden to bring them along.
After seeing the Golden Slumber members and the villagers leave, Yi Xuan and the others opened the door to the Scarlet King’s relic and walked in.
“To be honest, I’m really curious how the Scarlet King solved the energy problem of these relics.
After all these years, they still run so smoothly.”
Yi Xuan walked and talked to Al-Haitham about his experiences.
Laheman said with some pride:
“That’s because the Scarlet King is the greatest god.”
Yi Xuan and Al-Haitham sighed in unison.
It was impossible to reason with this idiot.
“This feeling, it’s not elemental power, it’s more like the power of the Luminescence.”
Yi Xuan carefully touched the door mechanism, recalling the power of the Luminescence in his mind.
Al-Haitham heard a new term.
“Luminescence? Is it a higher-level energy?”
Yi Xuan nodded.
“It is a higher-level energy beyond elemental power. It has a powerful restorative ability.
As far as I know, if you don’t use a God’s Heart, Archons can’t use this kind of energy.”
Yi Xuan didn’t continue to explain, but started to lead the way deeper.
As they walked, they looked for paper documents.
The Scarlet King’s technology was in a class of its own in the Seven Nations.
Even Fontaine, known for its technology, was far inferior. And
one of Yi Xuan’s main missions in Sumeru this time was to obtain the Scarlet King’s technology.
Although the Scarlet King’s technology came from forbidden knowledge,
he could use the power of forbidden knowledge to reverse engineer and create machines powered by Luminescence energy.
This shows that the Scarlet King was definitely a technological genius.
If he had simply used the power of forbidden knowledge,
Apep wouldn’t even have needed to swallow him.
Celestia would have directly come down to destroy him.
If they could find some remnants of the Scarlet King’s technology on this desert journey,
then Yi Xuan would have made a fortune.
Yi Xuan had four goals in coming to Sumeru.
First, he would actively join the plot and start to harvest popularity.
Second, he would take advantage of the chaos in the Akademiya to take all the academic materials he hadn’t obtained yet.
Third, after the plot ended, he would get the void from the Lesser Lord Rukkhadevata.
Anyway, Nahida had no intention of keeping the void running.
Such a good supercomputer, it was a pity to shut it down like that.
It was better to let Yi Xuan move it back to Fontaine to enhance human technology.
Fourth, he would see if he could obtain the Scarlet King’s technology.
The Scarlet King’s technology came from forbidden knowledge.
Forbidden knowledge, to put it bluntly, is Abyssal knowledge.
At that time, Khaenri’ah used Abyssal knowledge, and six Archons died, and Celestia was beaten into submission.
So, Yi Xuan had to get the Scarlet King’s technology no matter what.
Of course, he wouldn't be stupid enough to study forbidden knowledge.
Instead, he would use the Scarlet King’s technology as a theoretical reference
to enrich Fontaine’s existing technological system.
They continued to go deeper. Along the way, Al-Haitham had also noticed that there was a lot of Dendro energy in this relic.
No one could maintain elemental power for so long besides the Dendro Archon.
This was interesting, the Scarlet King’s relic actually contained the Dendro Archon’s power.
When Al-Haitham pointed out this discovery,
Laheman, who couldn’t sense elemental power, didn’t believe it at all.
“The Scarlet King and the Great Lord Rukkhadevata had a good relationship back then. Keep going, all the mysteries will be solved below.”