The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 462: Li Chang'an (Please subscribe, please collect, please vote)
Chang'an, the core of the Celestial Magic World. Ryan's great uncle brought Ryan and Hermione here through the Cloud Road. Before leaving, Ryan released Rose Crystal. How could he miss the little one when he was going on a trip? But what he didn't expect was that Mr. Luo Zhen and Alice were invited to visit the Palace of Versailles these two days. So when Mr. Luo Zhen's little puppets heard that Ryan was going to take Rose Crystal to see the most prosperous place in the Celestial Magic World, they also ran out.

So now, besides the three of them, there are eight puppets who look very happy standing outside the Chang'an Fountain.

"I see that you are quite good at making mechanical figures." Uncle Grandpa stroked his beard and smiled as he looked at the puppets that were curiously watching the chirping around the well in the compartment. "I think I can introduce you to Professor Yan Yun later. She is a descendant of Yanshi. After seeing these puppets, she will definitely be happy to take out something substantial to communicate with you."

After calling these lively little guys over, they walked out of the compartment. Then they walked out along a brick road. There was a well in each compartment. When walking out, you could see wizards turning into white mist and dipping into the water or white mist emerging from the water and turning into wizards. In short, this place was as busy as the pile of fireplaces in the lobby of the Ministry of Magic during work hours. There was no idle time.

Walking out of the courtyard that served as the transportation hub of Chang'an, an ancient city appeared in front of them. The city was located in a huge valley, surrounded by mountains. High walls surrounded the city, and rows of simple-style houses filled their sight.

"This is the heart of the oriental alchemists," said my uncle proudly. "It has a permanent population of 18 people and is one of the few cities in the world that belongs to magicians. The city is divided into 1000 districts. If you are familiar with history, you can think of this as a miniature version of Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty. Since the expansion more than years ago, the overall layout of this city has basically not changed."

"Miracle." Ryan looked at the city in shock for a long time, and finally used the word miracle to express his inner feelings. Led by his uncle, they walked along Suzaku Street. On both sides of the road were various shops, workshops, hotels and residences. However, Ryan also found that this place was still full of traces of the times, such as the street lamps on both sides of the road, and some shops modified their own electric speakers driven by magic.

There were quite a few people coming and going on the street, and it could be seen that many of them came from other places to go shopping. After carefully observing these Chinese wizards, Ryan combined his impressions from the past few days and asked his own question: "Why do most of the wizards I saw in the UK wear wizard robes, while the Taoist priests in the Chinese are wearing almost the same robes as ordinary people outside?"

"This is because of a reform more than a hundred years ago." Uncle said, "At that time, the alchemist community in the Celestial Empire decided to develop itself after a long war with the dead that lasted for hundreds of years. However, at that time, except for the three modern alchemist academies, everything else was still ancient. After carefully observing the world of ordinary people outside, the alchemist leaders decided to learn from ordinary people. So we secretly sent an investigation team to the most advanced place in the world a hundred years ago - Europe."

Looking at the two young men who were listening attentively, the great uncle continued, "After arriving in Britain, the delegation was attracted by a completely different world. The roaring machines made them feel that a power that was no less powerful than magic was bursting out. Not to mention that they saw trains, newspapers, electric lights, flush toilets and a series of other things in the British magic world at that time. Compared with them, we seemed to be barbarians. When the delegation came back, the alchemists of the Celestial Empire believed that it was because the British magic world was good at learning the knowledge of ordinary people that the British magic world was the best in Europe. Since then, we have also started a revolution called civilization and enlightenment, taking magic as the core to fully absorb the knowledge of the ordinary people's world."

After hearing these words, Hermione leaned over to Ryan and whispered, "The British wizarding world in the eyes of Chinese wizards is completely different from the real British wizarding world. It's obvious that they have a distorted understanding."

"But I think these deviations are good." Ryan said this as he saw a magically modified three-wheeled vehicle loaded with high cargo passing by the motorway in the middle of the road. "It would be too stupid to simply pretend not to see the progress of the ordinary world. Of course, Grindelwald's method of provoking war among ordinary people to prevent their development seems even more stupid now, because war is the catalyst for technological development."

"Okay, we're here." Uncle Grandpa's words interrupted the two people's whispers. Now in front of him was an antique gate. On the blue plaque with gold borders, it was written in gold letters: "Tianchao Alchemist Academy."

"It may be different from your school system in the UK. After students in the Celestial Empire graduate from Jiuli, Penglai or Kunlun after seven years of study, those alchemists who are interested in further research on magic can pass the exam and come here to complete their further studies within three years. And it is different from the traditional family model of knowledge inheritance a hundred years ago. As long as you can pass the college's exams and make enough contributions to the alchemist college and the magic world, you can obtain the most advanced magic knowledge in the entire Far East. The reason why we have more than 60% of great alchemists born from ordinary people in the past hundred years is because we have liberated knowledge, which has greatly accelerated our research on magic in the past hundred years." The uncle who led them in said, "I am here as a professor of extraordinary plants. Look, my laboratory and teaching greenhouse are in front."

"This is really big." Ryan saw that the greenhouse in front of him was several times bigger than that of Hogwarts. "The greenhouses of the whole school where I go to school now are not as big as this one."

"Uh..." Granduncle stood there awkwardly for a moment. "What I mean is that I work here. The greenhouse here belongs to the school, and only the small greenhouse next to it is for my exclusive use."

"That's not bad treatment. I remember that if we in the Sprout sect want to research something, we have to work hard on our own." Hermione looked at the small greenhouse of about 100 square meters used by Uncle Ryan with some envy.

"I'm going to do some research now. You two can walk around. If you want to enter the academy, you need to pass an exam, but a lot of knowledge here is open to the public. If you want to study here, you can use the knowledge you have mastered, materials, and even labor to exchange for points at school. With these points, you can go to the library to exchange for the knowledge you want, and even ask a professor who is free to explain it to you."

The uncle led them to the school's traveler reception desk and gave them instructions for a long time before leaving. The little dolls followed him around the campus. Each person needs a gold coin to apply for an audit card. However, the points in it must be exchanged for knowledge or valuable magic items. At the same time, no matter how many points an outsider has, he still needs approval to see certain knowledge. And all books can only be read in the library and are not allowed to be taken away.

But even so, Hermione still envied the academic atmosphere here, especially after she saw the list of materials that could be exchanged. "Think about Hogwarts. There are simply not enough valuable books in the general area of ​​the library, and the restricted area is guarded extremely strictly. Every pure-blood family holds their secrets tightly, and there is no spirit of sharing at all."

"It's hard to say anything else, but at least the Celestial Empire's way of treating knowledge can avoid a lot of meaningless duplication of research, and it is also very beneficial to promoting magic research."

"That's why I said everything starts with education." Ryan smiled. "Okay, now let's go exchange points."

Ryan used to exchange points for a lot of seeds he got from the Plants vs. Zombies world and some forging techniques from the elves in the Lord of the Rings world. These things were enough for him to exchange for more than 1000 points and get all the knowledge they wanted.

"Basics of Runes", "Classic of Mountains and Seas 174th Edition", "Bai Ze Tu 96th Edition", "Basics of Magic"... Carrying a large pile of books, Ryan and Hermione began to read in the reading room of the library.

(End of this chapter)