Chapter 1721: Chapter 575: Second Handshake {Part 2}_3

“If only Master Puskas were here, a Forbidden Magic Domain would sweep over and render any Imprisonment Spell Array useless,” Master Stefano’s unintentional remark almost made a certain Saint Xiao Mage spit blood on the spot.

Yes indeed, the Forbidden Magic Domain of Great Magician Saint Chiao is mighty!

After returning from the Demon World, Richard has tried using the “Twins of Destiny” to resurrect Master Puskas, but the blessing from the Southern Dipper Six Stars unsurprisingly failed!

Such a blessing defying the heavens, such a wish going against all natural laws—whether it will ever come true or not, no one can say for sure!

In today’s Aegean Continent, no one is capable of using the ultimate domain of a Mage anymore!

It took Dragon Knight Lampard about half an hour to bring back the elders among the four travelers from Yunqin.

These four elders, all legitimate alchemists, looked like they had just been dragged out of bed, with puffy eyes and disheveled clothes.

“Elders, please help me!” Richard was so anxious that he was about to have steam coming out of his nose. Seeing the arrival of the alchemist elders, he immediately went up to greet them.

“We’ve already heard from Lampard about the situation. The ‘Nine-Palace Sudoku Formation’ indeed confines any transmission of power! But Richard, your business is our business; we, the descendants of Yunqin, are duty-bound!” The most senior elder, Manichi Dongfang, gave Richard a reassuring word before rubbing his eyes and shrugging with a wry smile, “But…”

“But what?” Richard asked urgently.

“But even though we have the will, we fear we lack the ability!” Elder Manichi Dongfang said with deep shame, “Though we are the true descendants of Yunqin, the alchemist formation arts passed down to today have largely disappeared into the dust of history! With our abilities, we can only reach the level of the Six Harmony series of formations, and formations above the Seven Stars series are all lost, not to mention the profound and obscure ‘Nine-Palace Sudoku Formation’!”

“Alchemy is easy, but formations are hard to learn.” One of the alchemist elders sighed, clarifying that the loss of formation arts wasn’t due to the Yunqin legacy’s lack of effort, but because the ancient Yunqin formations were too complex.

“Besides, even if one could create the ‘Nine-Palace Sudoku Formation’, it has nothing to do with breaking the formation! A formation set up by a Yunqin alchemist, no other can know the secrets of the formation’s core but himself!” Another alchemist elder said.

“Richard, could you make a request to the officials of the Tang Zang Empire to not eat vegetarian all the time?” Another alchemist elder smacked his lips and said something utterly irrelevant but foolish, “Every time I think of the roasted red-saddle meat of Feilinzui, I start drooling.”

Richard had a look on his face that said he wanted to cook him as red-saddle meat.

“Don’t fret, Richard. Actually, there’s still someone who can decipher the ‘Nine-Palace Sudoku Formation’!” Elder Manichi Dongfang coughed loudly to remind the alchemist elder to curb his gastronomic desires in front of so many people, to maintain his image.

“Who?”

“Ferguson Xu,” Elder Manichi Dongfang said with a serious tone.

“Him?” Richard almost fainted.

“The alchemists venturing overseas for medicine are the most capable! Ferguson Xu is even more skilled than I; he has already thoroughly studied the formations of the Seven Stars series. Though with his abilities, he is not yet capable of unraveling the Nine-Palace Formation, he is a direct descendant of the first generation of alchemists, with a secret notebook passed down only through his family! In that notebook, there’s a detailed record of our first-generation Yunqin medicinal-seeking alchemists’ knowledge of the major well-known formation cores, including the Seven Treasures Pagoda of the Silk Continent, and various formations left by our ancestors on our westward journey at sea!” Elder Manichi Dongfang asked Richard, “Though Ferguson Xu perished seeking medicine, his secret notebook should still exist, shouldn’t it?”

“Damn it!” Richard was speechless, asking the heavens why on earth he even left the Penglai Vessel to Prince Similian, let alone that wretched notebook?

No wonder! Richard finally understood why Ferguson Xu could so easily break the Eight-Gates Golden Lock Formation on Sea God’s Island, it wasn’t by pure luck; he had read about it in the secret notebook long ago!

“Did… the notebook get lost?” Elder Manichi Dongfang saw Richard’s depression, cautiously and almost incredulously asked.

“Did the panda sailors and Ning Yu know about the notebook on the Penglai Vessel?” Richard now had a headache as big as a bucket, Ferguson Xu, though ‘alive’, but to ask the Sea Clan for him is tantamount to asking a tiger for its hide, this matter has become a hassle.

“This matter of the notebook is a secret of the alchemists; I doubt Ferguson Xu would tell the subordinates! But I think as long as the Penglai Vessel is still with you, the notebook ought to be as well?” Elder Manichi Dongfang chuckled slyly.

“Come, take the four elders back to bed,” Richard sighed wearily, waving his hand.

“What about Helen and the others, and Yitiao’s lover?” With tears brimming, Ning Yu pitifully held Richard’s hand.

“I’m heading to the Sea Kingdom of Seia now!” Yitiao gritted his teeth, preparing to storm into the Crystal Palace.

“I’m going with you!” Tenth Prince Ventéclair patted his chest.

“No need!” Richard said angrily, scrutinizing the Seven Treasures Pagoda, snapping his fingers, “Bring me my Chevrolet Battle Axe! Bring me my Roar of Rage! Tonight is a full moon; I refuse to believe it! I can chop a path through this pile of copper blocks!”

Many pairs of eyes twitched as they watched this overlord, to chop a path through the all-copper structure of the pagoda?

“If you can chop a path through, I’ll call you Grandpa,” Old Dragon Wenger scoffed.

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