Divine Beast Creator
Chapter 765 - 766 Ritual_1

Chapter 765: Chapter 766 Ritual_1

Dou Yanlan helplessly shook the note in her hand and said,

"I think perhaps we’re overthinking this."

"The puzzle is very simple, the patterns on the ground should be the ritual array, all we need to do is to hold the ceremony as written."

"But we don’t have enough materials, there are many things we haven’t found, we can’t hold that ceremony at all."

Someone objected; indeed, some people had thought the same thing at the beginning, but the first ceremony was incorrect due to a lack of core materials, making it impossible to continue.

"No, we only need to perform the final escape ritual, I’ve checked, and we have just enough materials."

"What about the others? The escape ritual can only open the exit, right?"

"It’s not necessary."

Dou Yanlan shook the paper with the rhymes in her hand and explained,

"It’s clearly written here that the anti-ritual can only summon demons back, we should be able to leave with just the last ritual, after all, this is just a game."

By now, there weren’t many people left in the field, and the number was gradually decreasing over time. Since no good solutions could be found in this round, everyone simply decided to follow Dou Yanlan’s instructions.

The final escape ritual required several potions, but Dou Yanlan argued that visitors to a haunted house might not necessarily have guests capable of concocting potions, so they surely weren’t essential. Therefore, everyone placed the materials at the designated spots according to the recipe.

"Ah Chen, come on!"

When Dou Yanlan suddenly said this, Qi Chen was stunned for a moment; turning her head, she indeed saw Dou Yanlan being engulfed by the black liquid, and Qi Chen quietly sped up the pace with a heavy heart.

"Why is it taking so long? What the hell are you all doing?"

Feng Yuan complained to Qi Chen and the others in exasperation, as everyone stood at the entrance to the garden, which at that moment was sealed by withered giant vines, and the inside of the garden had returned to its original desolate state.

Qi Chen glanced at Feng Yuan and replied irritably,

"Easy for you to say when you’re just standing there; people keep disappearing, and the puzzle is quite confusing. It’s already impressive that we managed to get it right on the first try."

"Really?"

Feng Yuan looked skeptically towards Agunas, who flicked his tail and said without any courtesy,

"Had you not left early, we’d have probably solved it by now."

"Eh? So what was the puzzle?"

Feng Yuan was puzzled since he had left early and was thus unaware of the central puzzle of the garden.

"A teleportation circle. The center of the garden is a teleportation circle; we could pass through by arranging the casting materials according to the rules."

"I see."

Feng Yuan nodded in understanding. He had appeared at the garden’s entrance all of a sudden in a flash of white light, so he didn’t know that Qi Chen and the others had come out through a teleportation circle. Thinking for a bit, Feng Yuan said with confusion,

"And it took them that long to do it?"

"Would you have thought of it right away... Besides, I don’t think you’d have thought of this at all," Qi Chen retorted discontentedly, to which Agunas, flipping through the book in his hand, replied irritably,

"How could that be? Just one look at the ground and those materials would reveal that the teleportation circle is a Universal Teleportation Array, using the exact same casting materials."

"Impossible, right?! I remember the Universal Teleportation Array was sealed, wasn’t it?"

Feng Yuan said in surprise, and Qi Chen looked at him puzzled,

"What’s a Universal Teleportation Array? What is that? And how would you know about it?"

"It’s an antique from before the Guardian Wars. Back then, there were many teleportation arrays set up in the Divine Land Region to facilitate travel between various places. The effect is similar to that of a Space Gate, except it doesn’t rely on a Spirit Beast to maintain it."

"However, it was exploited during the Guardian Wars, and afterwards, Gitalien sealed the loopholes used to exploit the teleportation arrays. Now, only the power of Spirit Beasts can open Space Gates, and Spatial Transfers are strictly restricted."

"Because of Gitalien’s blockade of the teleportation arrays, related information hardly circulates anymore. It’s surprising they knew about such a thing..." Feng Yuan explained with some astonishment, and Qi Chen responded dryly after scanning him,

"But you knew about it, didn’t you?"

"It’s different, but never mind. Perhaps they had some encounters, but it doesn’t matter anyway. That thing is just for show; it can’t actually be used."

Feng Yuan wasn’t particularly concerned about it. Gitalien had sealed the use of teleportation arrays at a fundamental level; not only the Universal Teleportation Array, but most of the modified secret arrays were also inoperative.

"No wonder that period of history is filled with all kinds of strange, inexplicable phenomena. If such a convenient means of communication was suddenly lost, all the subsequent problems that arose make sense."

Dou Yanlan seemed to ponder, she had just arrived to find Qi Chen when she heard Feng Yuan explaining this matter, hugging Xiao Ji he smiled and said

"About that, the Guardian War period did indeed bring about many changes, otherwise the Alliance wouldn’t have risen so rapidly."

"You can even recognize the teleportation array..."

In the darkness, a man looked at Feng Yuan with an indescribable expression.

"This garden seems so uninteresting that someone could leave early."

Looking back at the garden with dissatisfaction, Feng Yuan said, while Agunas floated to his side and glanced at him, he said

"Are you unhappy because you didn’t get a chance to show off your knowledge?"

"Yeah～"

"What do you think about this thing? Is there any problem?"

Dou Yanlan stuffed the notes and the paper with the rhyme she had collected earlier into Feng Yuan’s hands and asked, looking somewhat puzzled. Feng Yuan, not understanding, said

"Is this the puzzle you encountered before?"

"Yeah."

"All the potions and such are fake, if you really followed those so-called recipes, they would all be a botched concoction for sure. As for the teleportation array, I’ve never heard of potions being used as casting materials."

"What about the evil rituals?"

"Fake."

Casually handing the papers back to Dou Yanlan, Feng Yuan once again hugged Xiao Ji and said

"It’s just a variant of a prayer array, totally ineffective, just for show."

"What is it?"

Looking at Dou Yanlan somewhat strangely, Feng Yuan didn’t understand why she was so concerned about this stuff, but with a slight smile, Dou Yanlan said

"I thought those evil arrays were real... after all, wasn’t the final teleportation array based on a real one?"

"They can’t possibly be that suicidal, right? You should know that nothing good comes from being called a demon, if it really worked, not to mention Agunas intervening, I would bet that Lorraine Tower itself would appear here."

Feng Yuan said speechlessly, since in this world, there were no such evil demons in existence, to actually summon one would mean only one possibility, breaking the world barrier and pulling invaders from other worlds over.

Those who could do so wouldn’t dare and those who dared didn’t have the capability. Plus with Lorraine Tower squatting over the river of time, if there really were such death-wishing things that dared to spread widely, wouldn’t Lorraine Tower show up at their doorstep the moment the news leaked out? Did they really think it was easy to lead the way?

"We need to pay special attention to this place."

Agunas stated calmly, though nothing particularly abnormal had been discovered yet, it was certain that the other party possessed some things from before the Guardian War, it was just not known how much they knew.

Sometimes, what annoyed them the most were those half-informed individuals who knew something inappropriate, yet not the taboo, and ended up causing them trouble instead.

"Are you planning to watch over this place?"

Looking at Agunas with some curiosity, Feng Yuan got an eyeroll in response as Agunas said

"No, monitoring potential dangers is Lorraine Tower’s duty, it’s none of my concern."

"Tch! Great at passing the buck."

"Lorraine Tower, huh..."

In the darkness, the man muttered in a low voice, with a mix of anger, unwillingness, and hatred.

"What’s wrong?"

Feng Yuan looked puzzledly at the Little Green Snake, which seemed to be hissing a warning at something. Agunas looked around strangely and said

"It says there’s something odd here, a strange presence is spreading gradually."

"Does that presence feel a bit like the one on Xiao Ji?"

"What do you know?!"

Agunas looked at Feng Yuan with surprise, and with a shrug, Feng Yuan gave a mysterious smile and said

"While I do know, could we please just enjoy this haunted house journey?"

"Are you sure you can really control it?"

Agunas asked worriedly, hesitating whether to urgently summon the other Divine Beasts over.