Longzang

Chapter 902 Return to Silence
The history of the Desolate Realm is inevitably intertwined with the Flame Demon, who appeared alongside the Heavenly Pillar.

At the other end of the distant wilderness, three indescribable pillars of heaven stand, which only the Heavenly Witch has ever approached.

According to records, the Heavenly Pillar spans a thousand miles in circumference, and its height is unknown. Countless fire demons emerge from the Heavenly Pillar, transforming into a vast army that continuously attacks the territory of the Witch Clan.

The Flame Demons are far more adaptable to the desolate realm than the Witch Clan, and they have built enormous and magnificent cities, crafting and nurturing countless war beasts. Various kinds of avian dragons, wild insects, and war beasts serve as the Flame Demons' warhorses and chariots.

According to historical records, every hundred years or so there is a period of turmoil in the Heavenly Pillar, during which the number of Flame Demons increases dramatically, and their attacks are like a tidal wave. Every three thousand years there will be a great upheaval, which is a catastrophe for the entire Witch Clan. The Power Witch alone cannot stop it, and it must rely on the support of other Witch Clans.

In recent years, the main force providing support has been the Holy Witch, followed by the Spirit Witch. The Ghost Witch rarely appears in the Desolate Realm because she is countered by the Desolate Realm and the Flame Demon.

Next came the information on various fiery demon beasts. After reading it, Wei Yuan put down the book and began a periodic review and reflection.

Historical records indicate that the Flame Demons possessed extremely high spirituality; according to the outer world, they established a civilization of considerable advanced nature.

However, judging from the records, the Power Witches seem to have little interest in civilization. They have recorded the weaknesses of the Flame Demons' various supernatural powers in great detail, but there are very few records about their language, art, architecture, and manufacturing. Especially regarding their language, there are only two books, which analyze a total of more than two hundred words.

The Power Witch and the Flame Demon have fought for hundreds of thousands of years, yet they've only deciphered this little bit of language; it's truly inadequate. Even if the claim that the Power Witch is brainless is true, Wei Yuan doesn't believe the Desolate Witch and Heavenly Witch would be so foolish as to not think of deciphering the enemy's language.

The Great Tang imperial palace contained seventeen palaces, each dedicated to recording the languages, scripts, paintings, sculptures, and histories of various foreign tribes. A new palace was built for each major foreign tribe that emerged.

Every abnormality must have a reason. Wei Yuan noted this down, preparing to slowly explore the answer in the future.

The Flame Demons have built several nests near the edge of the mountain, each containing tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of Flame Demons. The Flame Demons have a mysterious way of communicating with each other. They often set out from multiple nests that are hundreds of thousands of miles apart, and finally arrive at a certain point at the same time, miraculously forming a million-strong army to attack the great fortress of the Witch Clan.

The Flame Demons' main force is concentrated on the great fortress, and each large-scale attack deploys a massive number of troops into the fortress. The entire fortress becomes a battlefield, and both sides suffer heavy casualties after the battles.

The war against the Flame Demons has been relentlessly draining the strength of the sorcerers, with countless talented sorcerers perishing prematurely over the years. In contrast, the situation in the Netherworld is much more relaxed. As long as the Netherworld sorcerers don't provoke them, the extraterrestrial monsters roaming within the realm generally don't bother with the Netherworld sorcerers' kingdom.

After Wei Yuan took control of a kingdom in the Netherworld, he dispatched a large group to comprehensively observe and collect relevant data. They discovered that the extraterrestrial monsters did not seem to be wandering aimlessly, but rather appeared to be busy with something. However, what these colossal beings, each tens of thousands of feet tall, were actually doing was beyond the comprehension of humans, who were smaller than ants.

After reviewing the information on the Flame Demon, Wei Yuan began to study the history of the Edge of Brilliance.

The history of this fortress is recorded in exceptional detail and is surprisingly clear and organized. It elaborates on various aspects, including strategic positioning, fortress location, defense system, power spell combinations, combat tactics, and logistics. Several books are dedicated to describing the different training paths of an ordinary power spell spell spell spell spell from recruit to top-tier wild spell spell spell spell.

There are six general training paths, each focusing on different aspects. Some emphasize defense, some melee combat, some support, and some combine speed and lethality. Each path has a fairly complete and detailed plan and explanation.

These hundreds of books are less a history of Fengmang's development and more a development strategy devised by Ronglong itself.

Even in Wei Yuan's eyes, this was an extremely ambitious development plan, aiming to transform ordinary, newly promoted power sorcerers into powerful warriors with distinct strengths, seamless teamwork, and the ability to stand alone.

These paths can all be cultivated to the point of perfect Dharma Aspect. Whether one can break through to the Desolate Witch depends on luck and talent, but the Molten Dragon has already planned the Desolate Witch path ahead.

By this point, Wei Yuan had seen through the Molten Dragon's plan. He was using the Desolate Realm as an anvil and the Flame Demon as a forging hammer, intending to continuously forge each raw Power Witch into a fully-fledged warrior, thus increasing the strength of the Blade Warrior accordingly.

From its initial stage to its peak, even in extreme environments like the Edge of Brilliance, it often takes anywhere from fifty to two hundred years for a Power Wizard to reach perfection. But the Molten Dragon is clearly extremely patient and determined, moving forward slowly and steadily, step by step. Once it takes a step, no one can make it retreat.

Wei Yuan was also impressed; such a strategy could be described as "as slow as a forest."

If the Molten Dragon were given a few hundred more years, the ranks of the Vanguard would likely not be limited to a thousand or so Power Wizards, but rather a thousand or so Perfected Power Wizards! This legion's loyalty to the Molten Dragon would be unwavering, and it would become a force capable of influencing the entire Power Wizard community. In the future, when the path to power is validated, the system perfected, and supplies plentiful, the number of Power Wizards trained would not be dozens or hundreds, but tens of thousands! At that time, the Vanguard would be like an enormous machine, constantly swallowing novice Power Wizards and spitting out terrifyingly powerful Perfected warriors.

At that moment, the doors of the library opened, and Ronglong walked in. He glanced at Wei Yuan, then at the sheets of jade paper spread out in front of Wei Yuan, casually picked one up, looked at it, and put it down again, saying, "Yanhu said you wanted to see some information. I thought you just wanted to check the weaknesses of the Yan Yao's body. I didn't expect you to look at such trivial things. You're quite different from other power sorcerers!"

Wei Yuan felt a chill run down his spine, but his expression remained unchanged. He said, "I was never the same as them."

Ronglong picked up a stone box in front of Wei Yuan, took out a piece of jade paper from his bosom, put it inside, and said, "This is a book I just finished writing. It should be placed here. Don't mess it up. Take a look at it first. If you have any questions, you can come to me anytime."

Wei Yuan said, "You wrote the history of the fortress, didn't you? You're quite different from other power sorcerers!"

The dragon's lips twitched, and he smiled slightly. He said, "There's nothing to do here except fight, so I jot down some notes and record what happens when I'm free. Maybe one day, when my sharp edge is gone, these historical records will be preserved so that future generations will know that there was once such a small fortress in the Desolate Realm, and such a group of inconspicuous shamans who resisted the extraterrestrial monsters that wanted to invade this realm for hundreds of years."

"How could its edge possibly be gone?"

Wei Yuan originally intended to take this opportunity to praise Ronglong's foresight, but before he could continue, Ronglong interrupted him, saying, "Back then, more than one Heavenly Witch fell. Our little fortress could naturally be wiped out as well. For thousands of years, the Flame Demon's offensive tactics have remained unchanged, which has allowed us to adapt to the patterns, set up new fortresses, and successfully defend them for hundreds of years. But what if the Flame Demon changes?"

Wei Yuan felt a chill run down his spine.

Without saying much, Ronglong left the library.

Wei Yuan picked up the book he had just put down and began to read it carefully. The book discussed commonly used and effective equipment for fighting the Flame Demon. It not only listed dozens of different pieces of equipment but also summarized some commonalities among them and explored the issues of production difficulty and crafting cost.

The last part was rather vague, only tentatively proposing some ideas and pointing out the general direction for reducing difficulty and cost. However, it only offered vague conclusions on how to reduce these costs, and even contained some errors. Clearly, the author, Molten Dragon, didn't know much about weapon crafting.

Wei Yuan put down the newly written article and continued reading. During this time, Yan Hu came in again, but seeing that Wei Yuan was still engrossed in his book, he didn't disturb him and quietly left.

Within Wei Yuan's sea of ​​consciousness, countless fragments of images pieced together, slowly outlining the changes in the Desolate Realm over millions of years. However, this magnificent historical panorama was still missing many crucial elements. For example, where did the Flame Demons originate? What was the relationship between the Desolate Realm and this Realm? And most importantly, were the Flame Demons a race or a civilization?
The living beings in a particular world are, in fact, a microcosm of the great Dao of Heaven and Earth. Especially sentient beings are able to glimpse the profound Dao of Heaven and Earth hidden within them.

As Wei Yuan flipped through the data of different wild beasts and fire demons, he saw the essence of the Wilderness Realm. His understanding of this world deepened, and he became aware of some problems with the existence of human life.

At this juncture, the grandeur of human life is insufficient to provide the necessary power; the greatest source of power is the force of fire.

If all the fire elemental power were removed, the entire world would fall into coldness and silence, a state known as "return to stillness." However, if the fire elemental power were too abundant, it would become increasingly unstable, like the current desolate realm. In the end, all sentient and tangible things would disintegrate, no more spirituality would be born, and tangible things would recombine until finally ceasing to change, becoming a lifeless and desolate world.

Tinghai Xianjun once wrote an article, combining celestial deductions, believing that one day when both immortals and heaven are destroyed, only iron will remain in the world.

That article was one of the ones Wei Yuan found hardest to understand. He couldn't decipher a single sentence from beginning to end. In particular, to prove his conclusion, Tinghai Xianjun had invented dozens of new symbols, each with a different function, and then noted that the meaning and function of these symbols would be explained in detail later.

However, before this explanation could be released, the Immortal Lord of the Sea had already passed away, and these articles became incomprehensible celestial books.

Wei Yuan once took one of the articles to ask Yan Shi for advice, only to find that he didn't know where to begin, and Yan Shi didn't know where to start explaining either, so the matter was dropped.

Time seemed to stand still in the basement; no one knew how much time had passed when the ground suddenly trembled slightly, and the Flame Demon attacked once more.

(End of this chapter)