The Mighty Dragons Are Dead

This chapter is a bonus for "Bittertree" achieving ten thousand rewards.

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Chris was so enamored with the Elf Bug Amber that she set to study its secrets immediately, which would take time. Liszt did not linger long in the Magic Workshop; after returning to the Castle, he began attempting to cultivate.

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Having just advanced to a Sky Knight, his Intermediate Dou Qi had been newly born as Advanced Dou Qi and continued to evolve into Dragon Dou Qi, which made his cultivation plan rather choppy, and he had not groped much clue into it so far. He needed to wait for his body to stabilize before he could record the data properly.

However, there was no problem with cultivating "Rising Sun Blaze".

The techniques in the Advanced Dou Qi Manual were very vague, and this High-level Fire Attribute Dou Qi manual contained only seventeen techniques in total.

They were generally divided into two tiers, one tier of common techniques and another of charged techniques.

There were twelve common techniques, and five charged techniques, which were Full Sun Wheel, Rising Sun Ascend, Scorching Sun Sting, Setting Sun Drop, and Crimson Dawn Burn respectively.

The Advanced Dou Qi Manual had no Ultimate Mystery Technique.

The twelve common techniques were not too difficult, and with Liszt's memory and comprehension skills, it wasn't going to take much time to learn them. In fact, he had already begun researching these twelve common techniques when he was at the stage of an Elite Earth Knight, even though he couldn't wield them with Intermediate Dou Qi, simulating them was still possible.

Now, all he needed was to put them into practice, cultivating with ease and calm.

However.

The charged techniques were much more difficult, involving the operation mechanism of Advanced Dou Qi, which required a lot of practice and attempts to truly cultivate successfully.

Liszt had not yet mastered any charged technique for the time being.

Thus.

Time quickly moved on to the evening, and after dinner, Liszt immediately rushed to the Sea View Villa—Ake, who was salvaging the Sky Ship, should have returned by now.

Upon his arrival at the Sea View Villa, it was indeed the case.

Ake was waiting at the door to greet him: "Brother, you have returned."

"I have been back since this morning. When did you get here?"

"At dusk. By the way, brother, Ake has moved all the valuable things from that sunken ship over here." Ake led Liszt to another room, which was piled with a bunch of tattered items, "They're all here, and many chests can't be opened yet."

"Chests?"

Now the mention of chests inexplicably excited Liszt.

He first organized all the chests, placing them aside without immediately opening them. These chests were covered with dense patterns almost identical to those on the drift bottles used for messaging by the Child of the Sun, forming somewhat abstract patterns vaguely identifiable as forests.

In the forests, there were mountains, rivers, bears, eagles, fish, and some abstract human figures, as well as some strange instruments, bows, and arrows.

No locks.

Clearly, these kinds of chests probably required the blood of Old Phil from the Tanners' Shop.

"I'll have to collect some more blood from Old Phil later, the more I stock up, the better. However, it seems that the middle-aged widow found by Old Phil is probably pregnant?" Liszt thought, as he hadn't been paying attention to Old Phil recently because the drift bottles were not very useful.

After all, he had already stockpiled quite a bit of blood.

If the middle-aged widow found by Old Phil was really pregnant and gave birth, then there would be no concern over the bloodline of the Sun Descendant.

After organizing the chests, the remaining tattered items were some damaged utensils that could just about be identified as basins, buckets, longswords, bows, sticks, armors, ropes, etc. There were also stones embedded in the damaged utensils, likely once gemstones, now dim and lusterless.

"How long must these have soaked in the sea to turn gemstones into stones?" Liszt used the Eye of Magic to discern that this pile of broken items had no magic reaction.

From this, he could infer that the date of the Sky Ship's sinking was definitely not recent, at least several hundred to a thousand years ago.

"If it wasn't within the last hundred or so years, then it means the Sky Ship wasn't here to pick up the Sun Descendant, which doesn't conflict with the emergence of communication drift bottles... But why did this Sky Ship sink near the waters of Black Horse Island hundreds of years ago?"

Black Horse Island was formed by a volcano created from a fallen fire dragon's descent and eruption.

Liszt wondered if the death of this fire dragon had anything to do with the Sky Ship—perhaps the Sky Ship had come to excavate the fire dragon's remains; or maybe the Sky Ship had encountered the fire dragon in battle, and both had been damaged, sinking here.

With this thought in mind,

he asked Ake, "Ake, are there any signs of damage on the sunken ship?"

"Don't know, brother, half of the sunken ship is buried in the seabed mud, Ake only cleaned up the ship cabin. But the part that's out of the mud, the main structure seems to be undamaged; it's just that many of the ship planks are gone. There are also lots of fish and shrimp living inside."

It was normal for parts of a structure that were not sturdy enough to decay after having been submerged for so long.

"Then, did you see any human bones on the ship?"

"Seems not, the ship cabin is very clean, there are only some boxes."

Hearing Ake say this, Liszt immediately ruled out the possibility that the fire dragon and the Sky Ship had both suffered in a mutual battle. Given the fire dragon's power, if a battle had occurred, it could have possibly torn the Sky Ship to shreds.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

He suddenly asked again, "Right, Ake, is there anything different about that sunken ship compared to my ships?"

The Sky Ship and ordinary ships should have significant differences.

After pondering for a moment, Ake replied, "It seems there's no mast, Ake is not sure, brother; the sunken ship is too old, and its hull is covered with various corals."

Liszt didn't press the issue, as he was going to lift the Sky Ship sooner or later.

So he simply said, "Ake, you go rest, I want to study carefully what's inside these boxes."

"Mm, Ake will read now. Recently, Ake has been working hard to learn about magic arrays."

"Good, my dear Ake."

"Hehe."

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Having sent the Sea Sprite Ake away,

Liszt directly placed one of the boxes into the Gemstone Space, and then, inside the Gemstone Space, he smeared it with Old Phil's blood. However, to his surprise, there was absolutely no reaction when the blood was applied.

"What's the matter?"

"Is everything in the Gemstone Space at a standstill, even such reactions involving blood?"

Liszt waited for a brief moment, then decided to take the box back out. Once out, indeed, the reaction began instantly. The patterns on the box, strands after strands of magic power lines appeared, forming a series of dynamic images—bears, eagles, humans, mountains, running water, flashing by one after another.

In the end, it seemed as if the setting sun had slammed down on the lid of the box.

With a click,

the box opened.

Learning from the experience of salvaging treasure from sunken ships in the past, Liszt quickly put the box back into the Gemstone Space to avoid the items inside being exposed to the air and oxidizing or decaying on contact.

He stored it in the Gemstone Space,

before extending his senses into it, starting to observe the contents of the box in another way. To his considerable surprise, what was packed inside were seeds, lots of them.

Seeds of some plant.

Seeds faintly imbued with magic power.

He couldn't help exclaiming, "Magic Medicine Seeds?"