Above The Sky
Chapter 760 - 760 18 Anomalies in the Book of Silver Radiance_2

760: Chapter 18 Anomalies in the Book of Silver Radiance_2 760: Chapter 18 Anomalies in the Book of Silver Radiance_2 And it wasn’t just that.

Although Ian never paid much attention, he knew that the Leyan Territory had indeed been a holy ground for the Mountain People since ancient times…

Even the Empire had made concessions, allowing the Baron Leyan of the Mountain People’s bloodline to manage this land generation after generation.

So, could it be that this place was really the holy ground where the Qing Steel Dragon was worshipped back in the day?

“Scott, wait here for me,” Ian instructed.

With a calm expression and an even tone, Ian steadied his heart.

Scott seemed to sense something and promised with all seriousness, “I understand.

I will make sure that no one else approaches Leyan Lake.”

“Hmm.”

Ian patted his shoulder then returned to the castle and took out the Book of Silver Radiance from his own pack.

This book, too, glimmered with pure silver light, just like the mysterious phenomena at Leyan Lake.

In the recent days, he had been busy with municipal affairs and the Magnetic Storm Generator.

Whenever he had time, he would practice refining Origin Quality to strengthen his spirit—the three stages of the Second Energy Level.

Ian had reached the last one.

According to a certain tradition, after the blessing of the Deceased Monarch and the events in the Avak Domain, he had awakened half a step towards the Heart Light Body and arrived at the great fulfillment of the Second Energy Level Peak.

As long as Ian continued to strengthen his spirit and found his own answer regarding the Heart Light Body, he could even enter the Third Energy Level of the ‘Pre-Eon Civilization Ascender Path’ ahead of the ‘Terra Ascender Path’ of the Third Energy Level!

Once he reached that realm, if Ian took the Magic Potion, he might be able to directly enter the middle stage of the Third Energy Level.

Compared with the difficult-to-obtain Third Energy Level Magic Potion, this path was more suitable for Ian, who was currently developing his domain.

That was also why Ian hadn’t been reading much lately…

After all, he couldn’t decode the secrets of the Book of Silver Radiance, so it might be better to wait until he met Elder Mantle of the Dragon Worship Cult to plan further.

“I didn’t expect…

the Book of Silver Radiance to have this kind of effect.”

Staring at the Book of Silver Radiance in his hands, Ian couldn’t help feeling sentimental, “It seems that you may be a precious book that can only reveal certain information in specific areas, or perhaps at specific times…”

Shaking his head slightly, Ian headed towards Leyan Lake with the Book of Silver Radiance.

The closer he got to Leyan Lake, the stronger the light emitted by the Book of Silver Radiance.

If it weren’t for Ian’s quick pace and the fact that he was already a Sublimator, which made his illumination unsurprising to others, he might have drawn unnecessary attention.

When he arrived at the lakeside of Leyan Lake, Ian just gave Scott a look, then rushed into the lake at top speed.

Leyan Lake was deep, reaching a kilometer in depth.

As a meteorite lake, such depth was enough to be called a profound abyss.

Aside from Sublimators, it was impossible for anyone to dive to the lake’s deepest parts.

This also meant its existence was an excellent hiding spot.

There weren’t many fish in Leyan Lake; on the contrary, it was unusually clean.

Most of the ecosystem was concentrated in the shallow waters.

The deep waters below two hundred meters were chillingly cold, which was somewhat abnormal.

Ian’s eyes lit up with brilliance.

With the enhancement of the Silver Chip, a faint light was all he needed to see distant sceneries.

He noticed strange patterns on the sides of the lake walls.

Most of these patterns were sacrificial languages, likely prayers etched by the Mountain People long ago.

Beyond these, there were also seemingly meaningless metal lines.

These lines were incredibly ancient, and the Silver Chip’s assessment indicated that the formation time of these lines was all over twelve hundred years.

From ‘The Lost Age’, before the Terra Era.

“Ancient ruins from after the pre-eon, ‘The Lost Age’?”

A thought flickered in Ian’s mind, and he suddenly had the feeling that what he was about to see would far exceed his imagination — some secrets about the True Dragon were about to unfold unexpectedly yet understandably before him.

Soon, he descended to the bottom of the lake.

As he suspected, what he found there proved his thoughts.

Because, on the lakebed that emitted a faint silver light…

there indeed was an ‘extraordinary relic.’

The bottom of Leyan Lake was not the usual complicated terrain of a regular lake filled with sediment and biological remains; it was extremely clean and tidy, a flat expanse of silver sand with light patterns flowing through with varying intensity, faintly outlining a totem.

This light was the very image of the ‘behemoths’ seen by the people of Leyan City on the surface since, due to its exceptional penetrating power, it could reach the lake surface straight through a kilometer of water.

As he gently descended onto the silver sand, Ian sensed an extremely evident reaction from the Book of Silver Radiance in his hands—a web of silver-grey light intertwined upon the book, causing it to levitate in the water, rapidly flipping through the pages automatically.

A net of light emerged from the Book of Silver Radiance and then formed an extremely peculiar pattern in front of Ian, so much so that it took Ian a moment to understand what it was.

It appeared to be a side view of a meteor colliding with a planet, but…

this planet didn’t seem to be Terra?

Along with the appearance of the mysterious pattern came a row of enigmatic text.

Theoretically, it was absolutely impossible for Ian to understand this mysterious script that had never appeared before—if he wanted to know, he would definitely have to first get his favorability with the Dragon Worship Cult and Elder Mantle to max, then complete a few tasks to prove that he indeed was one of their own, and then he could learn the extremely ancient Dragon God Script from them.

But the inconsistencies of this world lay right there.

“Silver Chip, translate!”

Instantly, to Ian’s eyes, this row of incredibly complex text, which might even have been written in some sort of three-dimensional structure and could only be fully glimpsed through light projection, was all translated into the common language of Terra.

There was even an indicator for switching to Chinese on the side.

Ian couldn’t help but marvel, “Every time I see this happen, I feel like the Silver Chip is ridiculously strong—what exactly is its origin?”

Then he observed the inner meaning of these mysterious texts closely.

[Core…

disconnected…

requesting…

interruption, escort mission…

aborted]

[Inquiry…

invalid…

free action…

broken!]

[Highest mission…

core…

engine…]

[Awaiting instructions]

Strangely enough, although there was a vast amount of mysterious text, the translation into the common language of Terra yielded so little information.

Ian slightly furrowed his brow; he switched to Chinese and found it was the same, even the meanings were exactly alike.

However, even so, Ian could confirm that this mysterious text was definitely created by some extremely advanced civilization—because Ian could sense that just the projection of these texts had a certain power that could cause fluctuations in the Origin Quality.

In other words, it was a type of script that could directly manipulate Sublimation Power merely through pure Marks!

It was very similar to the prototype of ‘Inscriptions’ in the common language of Terra, but the power was even greater than that of Inscriptions, achieving the same effects without the need for a Spirit Energy Field or Light Ink.

Or to be more precise, its very existence constituted a type of Spirit Energy Field.

This was a higher-level ‘Inscription’!

If this was the Dragon Language, then the level of civilization of the True Dragon race must be unimaginably high.

A vast amount of mysterious text flowed out from the Book of Silver Radiance like a waterfall, resonating with the silver sands at the bottom of Leyan Lake, but the content was almost identical, repeating a large number of invalid commands, almost like a program that had run into a BUG.

Ian gazed at these texts, and with his wisdom, he naturally thought of the only reason that could explain why there was such a small amount of information in the mysterious script.

“This thing…”

The youth muttered, “Could it be that one has to ‘read’ it with the soul?”

“Only beings with a soul, or even those with Spirit Energy, are worthy to ‘read’ it?”

After contemplating for a while, a silver-blue halo flickered in Ian’s eyes.

The youth surfaced to an area close to the surface of the lake to observe the weapons on Scott.

“Deep blue with a hint of red…” he muttered, “This proves that he probably had the chance to take a Magic Potion, but still might encounter danger.

War, quite normal.”

Having confirmed this, Ian immediately returned to the bottom of the lake.

He used his soul to touch the ‘Book of Silver Radiance.’