Chapter 1291: Energy Construct, Eye Pattern, Evil Spirit
desert.
The hot yellow sand reflects the golden sunlight.
At the entrance to the hidden ruins, small cat paw prints were buried in the sand.
Jiang Yi looked at the vast ruins.
Away from the sun, the temperature dropped to a point where people felt a chill.
This is not only because the ruins are sunk underground, but also because there is an ominous and dark force in the ruins.
Clusters of ever-burning white candles often appear in the ruins throughout Teyvat. Under the flickering flames, the white wax seems to never burn out.
Jiang Yi walked up the steps. The tall and majestic stone buildings with a smell of sand and dust always gave living beings a feeling of mountain-like oppression, making explorers feel insignificant.
On the square stone basins on both sides are red balls of Eternal Yang Flame.
They burn silently, illuminating the ruins, forming dim light and shadows. Inside is a golden light path like the atomic structure, rotating and flickering, which is the wick.
This is part of the technology of the Red King civilization.
At the bend at the end, among the collapsed stone pillars, broken stones and yellow sand, there is a damaged energy construct.
There were traces of fighting on the walls and the ground.
"The king created a mysterious mechanism that should not belong on earth, and used it to build the capital on the sand plain."
"In order to build his dream paradise, the owner of the sea of sand once explored forbidden knowledge. These mysterious machines may be his creations."
Jiang Yi thought of two sentences from the ancient books of Xumi.
Raise your hand and hook.
Place this metal autonomous mechanism inlaid with glowing prisms and built with triangles as its building units into the outdoor cave.
In the exterior cave, there are teleportation anchor points connecting the research institutes in Mondstadt, Liyue, Inazuma, and Xumi.
Researchers under Jiang Yi will disassemble it for research.
Having analyzed some of the forbidden knowledge, he could give this answer, "The principles that drive these machines are similar to many mysterious mechanisms above and below the ground. However, they were not created as messengers of annihilation and conquest."
Continue forward in the deep ruins passage.
Although he had a mission, he did not walk fast. Instead, he was immersed in exploring the various totems, runes, technologies, and sculptures in the ruins...
Use supernatural powers to read the "memory" of this relic, which is the ancient history.
On the way, we encountered some wreckage of energy constructs.
These eternal guardians of the desert ruins have the power to chisel through rocks and reshape boulders, but when faced with invaders, they can only shatter the crystals and remain paralyzed on the ground.
Charred cracks like lightning spread around, as well as scratches from wind and sword blades.
It is the fighting skill of Saino and Ying.
"According to the information about the Order of the Lord Nashida gave me, the Courtyard of Silence is a secret place built by a shady sect during the Red King's time. There are indeed treasures inside, but there are more unknown dangers."
"Entering the Garden of Silence requires the price of life."
Jiang Yi could smell the lingering smell of death here.
People! The more something is forbidden, the more they want to study it. From the Ministry of Education to the people, countless people have lost their lives in this way.
In the corner of the passage, there was a rustling sound beneath the sand of a brown pottery jar.
One by one, three-meter-long, incredibly large desert scorpions emerged from the sand, with their ferocious tails as thick as giant centipedes, and their two sharp brown-red tail needles turned into afterimages and stabbed down.
The next moment, the crystal clear ice had frozen them.
"Scorpions live under desert sandstone. They are large arthropods that specialize in hunting with venom. When attacked, they secrete a highly toxic liquid. They are a common raw material for various poisons used by many conspirators and alchemists from ancient times to the present." Jiang Yi looked at the scorpion's brown-red poisonous pincers and its sharp and poisonous jaws.
He opened his mouth, and a poisonous scorpion was compressed by the force of space and fell into his mouth.
“It has seven times the protein of beef.”
The scorpion's shell shattered in his mouth, and Jiang Yi tasted the taste of chicken.
Countless genetic fragments of poisonous scorpions were integrated into its body.
The World Tree is the Book of Life, the Akashic World, and the archive that records everything.
Jiang Yi, who has embarked on the path of "life", naturally has the power to obtain and record life genes and the origin of life.
The magical power of "Seventy-two Transformations" can transform everything.
He ate two more, then dug out some poisonous scorpions hidden in the sand and used them as medicinal materials for his research on elixirs.
Scorpions, poisonous snakes and the like could perhaps form a five-poison pill.
Of course, the poison in people’s hearts is much more terrifying than these material poisons.
The mechanism in the ruins slowly turned, and the entire passage was rotating. The shape of the passage portal was like a long trapezoidal coffin, one after another, intricate and terrifying like a kaleidoscope.
As we walked through it, it was like entering a deeper underworld filled with death.
"Gui Ji means death, and the Gui Ji Garden is the garden of death." Where Jiang Yi is at the moment is just the remains outside the Gui Ji Garden, and it is not the Gui Ji Garden itself.
"A shady sect whose members are either believers of the defeated demon god or crazy people who believe in the power of the Scarlet King but are twisted and fanatical and cannot be tolerated by the true believers of the Scarlet King."
"The treasure hidden inside is the power to defeat the devil, or..."
Jiang Yi walked on the right path leading to the depths, and a mysterious four-diamond eye pattern appeared on the wall of the passage.
Purple light shines on the diamond-shaped eyelids, and the golden cubic pupils look at the incoming creatures with oppression.
A purple staircase with the same eye pattern appeared from nowhere, allowing Jiang Yi to approach the portal.
On the stairs, there was a hazy purple mist...
This familiar color, this familiar ominous feeling.
It's hard to say it's not the remnant of the demon.
Jiang Yi looked at the platform with blue gems at the top of the stairs under his feet.
After activation, the surrounding passages began to rotate again, upside down, but the platform he was on remained unchanged.
He thought of Inazuma's Onmyoji.
The four diamond-shaped mysterious eyes slowly half closed, revealing an even deeper passage behind. At the end of the passage, another four diamond-shaped mysterious eye was staring at the visitor.
Such eyes seem endless.
"The eyes are on Mount Sumeru, representing the eye of wisdom, the eye of omniscience, the eye of the sun, the eye of judgment... It has various meanings."
"The wise man hangs upside down on the World Tree to gain wisdom."
"In the legends of my homeland, this ritual requires the price of one's eyes."
"Then in Teyvat, can I obtain the eyes that represent 'omniscience' during the ceremony?"
The eyes were empty, with a cross of starlight flickering. Microorganisms were breeding in the spiral flesh-shaped eye sockets, and they were staring at the four-diamond eye patterns in the ruins.
When Jiang Yi was traveling alone, he had time to think carefully.
The words of the sinner and the ritual given to him come to mind.
The standard of the Sumeru Red King civilization is an eye surrounded by a triangle and endless light, that is, the all-seeing eye, the all-knowing eye.
Of course, in foreign legends, this is also the eye of "God" watching over the world. In Teyvat, for humans, "God" can naturally refer to the supreme gods and natural law, and is a symbol of their authority.
It seems that it is not without reason that the followers of Chi Wang believe that Chi Wang is the god of wisdom.
The wisdom to understand people's hearts and distinguish right from wrong is also part of omniscience.
The Red King is certainly not an omniscient god; His eyes more symbolize the sun.
Coincidentally, the sun on the Great Sun Carriage of Yuanxia Palace is also in the shape of a triangle and a cube.
The power of the White Night.
Opening the eyes is day, closing the eyes is night, it is an eye with the same pattern.
In mysticism, all patterns have meaning.
The eye of this relic is a quadrilateral plus a cube, and the extra corner is the broken cycle.
Everything is three, everything is four.
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The deepest part of the ruins.
From the rectangular chandelier hanging from the dome, an ominous purple flame burned.
On the stone pillars on the ground are golden-red circles of sun flames.
A hazy purple mist surrounded the entire hall like a river, golden light shone down from the top, and sand was flying in the air.
Ying, Paimon, and Senor looked at the figure they were chasing.
That was a discipline officer.
His hair and beard were silver-white, he wore a golden monocle, and his slightly old figure was dressed in the grass-green uniform of a discipline officer and a green scarf.
"Tajie..." Seno looked at this senior who, in his impression, was a man of integrity and honesty, had made countless contributions throughout his life, and had enjoyed great prestige a long time ago.
He was one of the most senior discipline officers and had been his only partner.
A long time ago, he had just become a disciplinary officer and was inexperienced. After closing a case, he encountered revenge from the remnants of the forces. It was this senior who blocked the knife for him, and they calmed the situation with great difficulty. Afterwards, he learned his lesson and became more cautious, even staying alert when sleeping.
It is hard to believe that it is discipline itself that violates discipline.
Taj Radkani looked at the person who came and said, "Seno, long time no see."
Jiang Yi appeared on a chandelier with light steps and looked down.
No one below noticed.
Only the purple mist around seemed to be moving a little strangely.
The two parties in confrontation discussed a past event.
Taj Radkani's only son was imprisoned for his research on the Garden of Silence and eventually committed suicide.
Before his death...he knelt down and begged his father, the discipline officer who had personally arrested him and put him in prison, to let him go.
But Tajie did not agree. When he got the news again, he could only see the child who had just lost his life.
As father and son, they don’t have a good relationship because their father is famous and highly respected.
When studying in the Religious Order House, everyone held Taje's children to the highest standards. The enormous pressure caused him to have a very unhappy quarrel with his father, but they finally reconciled.
This happened shortly after the settlement.
This seems to be... the reason why Tajie regrets his decision as a father and wants to resurrect his child.
"Seno, do you want to stop me with the excuse that 'the dead cannot be resurrected'?" Tajie said, "You should know that the theorem of life and death has been broken."
"The person next to you must be a friend of the God of Man!"
"Do you think you are still qualified to judge others?"
Paimon and Ying couldn't refute it.
We can't allow our own people to defy life and death, but not allow others to challenge the order of life and death.
"..." A red sand staff appeared in Seno's hand.
The golden lines spread like the sun's rays on the top of the black scepter, which was like a monument.
This is one of a pair of obsidian scepters from the ancient Red King Dynasty. According to legend, it has the authority to lead the people of the sand, but now... there are no ministers who can identify the image of this royal weapon.
It contains the hot dream at the end of the Desert God King's mirage, which has supreme power.
He sensed a hidden danger in Taj Radkani.
"Until the oldest 'Six Root Sins' of the Decree House are changed, I, as the Grand Disciplinary Officer, will judge all violators impartially. The same applies to the Sages. The same applies to the Disciplinary Officers..."
