Comprehensive network wizard, magic emperor.

Chapter 213 The Voice of Ancient Things
[The skill [Fire Sacrifice Divination Ritual] has encountered a critical bottleneck; the Knowledge Fragment will provide the answer.]

[Important Notice from the Website: "Evidence of the Dragon's Existence" has shed its scales, just as the world's outer layer has been removed, revealing the true nature of all things...]

The ancient notebook stares at humanity with open eyes. Copper-colored scales on the cover peel away and flutter, dispersing into shimmering light. The cover beneath is like a pool of gold, from which a luminous stream of wings rises. Its shape is almost indistinct, but it is clear that it is a four-legged dragon. Even though it is only half a meter long from head to tail, it carries a magnificent and speechless grace.

The dragon of books soared into the sky, gracefully circling and dancing before the Lighthouse Master.

It stared at Lin Bo with its emerald-like dragon eyes. Suddenly, its deep, dark, vertically elongated pupils expanded into circles, radiating a beautiful light that projected directly onto Lin Bo's retina.

A memory from the Book Dragon flowed into the mage's mental field.

Lin Bo was immersed in the ancient mysteries that needed to be carried by such a great life form.

He was thrown into a deep, dark ocean, half-submerged and half-floating in the still water, with no light overhead, as if the world had not yet been born.

Then, the ocean around Linbo spoke.

Slowly, a long, luminous glow appeared in the sea below. From horizon to horizon, there was a long, glowing spine. The eerie, icy blue light outlined the skeleton of a mighty creature. Its head, in the far distance, slowly rose and stretched towards the sky, like an icy blue sun leaping into the heavens.

The ocean's waters were originally the flesh and blood of a dragon. Now, it has awakened, and the sea surface ripples with billions of waves, each several hectares wide, transforming into the dragon's layered scales.

Lin Bo was like a speck of dust embedded in amber. He looked around and saw that the world under the sky was illuminated by the light of the vast dragon.

The distant dragon's head spoke solemn words, each word magnificent, the resulting sound waves transforming into hurricanes that whipped up mountain-like waves on the sea. The sound waves engulfed the mage's body; he could only hear a few fragmented pieces, but he could understand them.

The boundless ocean proclaimed that its power would give way to the earth, and from then on, the ancient throne of the dragon was split, with the sea and the land sharing the throne under the sky.

Immediately, from beneath the ocean, a fiery orange-red dragon gently arched its back, and part of its body emerged from the sea, transforming into boundless land, while its protruding spines became scattered islands.

Lin Bo was lifted up from the sea by the newly formed land. He heard countless thunderous dragon voices coming from the sky, as the dragons were congratulating the new king.

So, following the sound, they looked up and saw the thick, dark night sky begin to flap its wings, revealing the starry sky that had been obscured by the overlapping wings of dragons. Beams of clear light leaked through the gaps in the dragon wings, transforming into tiny, slender dragons, as fine as dust, murmuring in the atmosphere, telling tales of being the offspring of ancient, great beings.

The magnificent thing rose from the horizon, its scales radiating a scorching light like molten gold, stinging the dragons of the night sky, who scattered and fled, allowing daylight to appear.

The Lighthouse Mage watched all this unfold. He witnessed a verdant dragon crawl from the coast onto the land, shaking its body, its shattered scales falling to the ground and transforming into vegetation stretching for thousands of miles. He saw the earth dragon convulse in its sleep, causing a deafening tremor that raised mountains and sank islands.

"Evidence that Dragons Exist in the World" tells him that all ancient creatures in the world are of the dragon family.

Perhaps to other players who have deciphered this fragment, it is just one of countless strange tales in the multiverse, and nothing particularly remarkable.

But Master Zhenming understood the voices of these ancient things. Lin Bo once submerged in the sea in a submersible and vaguely sensed the silence of the ocean. It never spoke to the master, but if it were to speak, it would surely use the language of dragons.

They are indeed dragons, but not biological dragons; rather, they are spiritual dragons of the world.

By studying the fragments of knowledge, Lin Bo was able to experience a higher level of understanding from Master Zhenming.

[Temporary trait added. Please investigate the truth of the trait before the Knowledge Fragment is resealed.] The book dragon floating in front of Lin Bo gradually dissipated. The golden cover of the ancient notebook still shone brightly, but it had begun to regrow its copper scales.

The Lighthouse Mage detached himself from the Book Dragon's memories, blinked, and his originally brownish-yellow irises had turned emerald green, his pupils becoming elongated and vertical. Before the fragments of knowledge were resealed, he temporarily gained the sensory abilities of a dragon.

According to the product description, the Lv4 Fire Divination Ritual has a special feature called "Endless Ritual". Its actual effect is that it can enter a state of divine communication at any time, allowing one to observe mysterious revelations from the minutiae of daily life and thus quickly utter prophecies.

It's essentially about training the brain's hallucinogenic abilities to a high level, allowing one to remain in a state of confusion, half-awake and half-asleep for extended periods, much like the eccentric fortune tellers and witches in stories who overreact to the slightest unusual sign.

After mastering the Listener of All Things, Lin Bo was already able to hear the words of the things around him, so the Endless Ritual trait was nothing special.

The product description clearly states that to uncover the truth about its properties, one only needs to find clues in the smallest details and discover a few mysterious revelations.

The criteria for judging false prophecy are quite lenient. Even if the content is ambiguous, as long as it is related to the facts, it is considered a success.

Lin Bo, however, was in no hurry; he was immersed in the senses of the dragons.

The indoor lights changed, no longer remaining silent towards the sorcerer. Their hazy forms brushed against Lin Bo's skin, falling into his mutated eyes, transforming into distant whispers like the tolling of a valley bell, telling the story of their transformation from scorching electricity, how they crossed time and space, traversed every possibility, and reached every corner of the room.

Lin Bo looked out the window and saw the crescent moon rising higher over the sea, like a bright piece of white iron. Its cool, liquid-glass-like light shone down, illuminating the night watchman's face and outstretched hand.

The moonlight danced in the emerald eyes, turning into whispers, telling how it pierced through the desolate vacuum, fell upon the cold, rocky celestial bodies, and then refracted onto this land, illuminating the lighthouse, the nearby town, the distant city, the entire Sail Islands, and the vast array of life on half the planet, all bathed in this light.

The restless movement of the moonlight speaks to the changes in solar flares and sunspot activity.

The starlight scattered across the sky twinkles, telling stories that are far more distant and ancient.

Lin Bo listened carefully to more dragon language, memorizing their pronunciations, especially the dragon runes he collected from the [Field of Fallen Giants]. The pronunciations of these true ancient artifacts were far more complete than his own attempts to deduce them.

At one moment, the shimmering light on the sea surface formed a perfect pattern as the waves clashed. In Lin Bo's eyes, it appeared as a fragment of a dragon language rune. He was already quite familiar with the structure of this language, so he immediately became alert. Upon closer inspection, the waves had already changed, the starlight and moonlight were disordered, and the fragmented rune had disappeared and never reappeared.

Lin Bo was astonished. He was certain that what he saw was not an illusion. While there was still a lingering impression in his mind, he immediately took out a piece of Feather Scale Star Steel to record it. However, the runes were severely damaged and could not evoke any miraculous power.

This was the first time he had ever seen naturally occurring magical runes.

The fragments of knowledge were about to be sealed again. Lin Bo did not delay any longer and immediately followed the words of Night Wind and Moonlight, translating them into mortal language. This was the so-called "mysterious revelation," which was exactly the truth.

[Network notification: Successfully deciphered the knowledge fragment "Evidence of the Dragon's Existence"]

[Skill [Fire Divination Ritual] Level Limit Break: When training Arcane (True) related skills, base proficiency permanently +1]

The trait "Endless Ritual" is locked; upgrade your skill to unlock it.

As the fragments of knowledge shattered and turned to light, Lin Bo's mutated eyes gradually returned to normal, and Xingyue's magnificent voice began to fade away until it could no longer be heard.

(End of this chapter)