My health recovery is incredibly fast.

Let's take two overlapping circles as an example.

Although two perfect circles are different sizes, when a straight line is drawn from the center of the circle to the edge of the two circles, the straight line will necessarily intersect with both circles.

Any spatial coordinate in a sub-plane corresponds to a spatial coordinate in nature.

This is the characteristic of a one-to-one correspondence of spatial coordinates in the sub-plane.

Combining these two characteristics, one can achieve the effect of teleporting over a thousand meters in nature by moving 1 meter in a sub-plane.

Xia Zuo learned this knowledge about sub-dimensions from Beatrice when he first became a formal mage.

So when Rexor reminded him, Shaza immediately felt that the bald man's explanation made some sense.

Rexor glanced at the red-lined text in front of him again and asked, "You've explored all the bottom floors of the church headquarters?"

“Yes.” Xia Zuo nodded and responded by manipulating the red thread, “Except for those doors that can’t be opened, I have basically recorded the layout of the rooms on the first and second floors above the flesh wall.”

"Didn't you encounter any Otherworldly Demons?" Rexor asked, puzzled. "Kadum said that Shadow Fiends would be lurking in every corner of the Church headquarters. You didn't see a single one?"

“That’s right,” Xia Zuo replied.

“This is absolutely bizarre.” Rexol thought for a moment and asked, “Did you hear anything? A slight vibration, footsteps, or the sound of something being moved?”

“No, there was nothing either.” Xia Zuo glanced at the perspective of the Blood Element servants, then said to the bald man, “There was no sound except for the singing praising Vasaksat.”

"The singing..." Rexor pondered for a few seconds, "Wait, I think I overlooked something..."

He stopped his mountain bike, rubbed his head in thought for almost a minute, then clapped his hands and said:

“I remember now! This singing wasn’t a recording from the alchemy device, but rather the chanting of church members during prayer. It traveled through pipes in the walls and speakers on the walls to the corridors and rooms of the church headquarters. In Kadum’s memory, I’ve seen him complain more than once that the chanting disturbed his afternoon nap.”

Xia Zuo manipulated his blood-element servant to approach the wall and peered at the horn-shaped opening. He heard a faint sound of wind within the singing.

"So what do I do now?" Xia Zuo asked. "Do you want the Blood Element servants to crawl into the loudspeaker and follow the pipes to find the singing church members?"

“No.” Rexol shook his head. “I think you can use these pipes and loudspeakers to quickly reach each room and search those rooms with closed doors that seem to contain important information. The only thing to worry about is if there are demons lurking in the loudspeakers… then your blood element servants might have nowhere to escape.”

“That’s right…” Xia Zuo slapped his palm, “I can definitely do that.”

Chapter 63 Deciphering

My health is recovering incredibly fast.

Despite the risks of crawling inside the speaker, Xia Zuo decided to give it a try.

After Rexor set off again, Shazo controlled his Blood Element servant to fly into the loudspeaker and groped his way forward through the pitch-black pipes.

When in the headquarters of the Church of the Otherworldly Demons, in complete darkness, most mages would be completely lost, as they cannot cast Light spells to illuminate the environment around their blood elemental servants. Without any landmarks, they would have no way of knowing whether their servants are moving forward.

Xia Zuo then came up with a solution.

He activated [Time Sand Vision], using the regularly distributed sands of time to locate the current position of the Blood Elemental Servant.

The golden light of the Sands of Time cannot illuminate the environment.

But it's okay.

By constantly monitoring the changes in spatial coordinates on the Sands of Time, one can determine whether there are any pipes blocking the path of the Blood Elemental Servant and whether it is continuing to move forward.

Xia Zuo, referring to the hand-drawn map in front of him, controlled the Blood Element servant to go to the next room, which was probably the data room of the breeding area.

A faint glimmer of light appeared not far in front of the Blood Element servants.

The Blood Element servant flew over quickly, passing through the round, trumpet-shaped opening and entering a room with a tightly closed door, filled with various fabrics, wood, and other miscellaneous items.

"It wasn't the archives room after all... I was wrong." Xia Zuo picked up his pen and wrote "storage warehouse" on the corresponding room on the hand-drawn map.

Rexor's idea was feasible; Blood Elementals could indeed enter closed rooms via loudspeakers and pipes.

Xia Zuo controlled his Blood Element servant to fly back to the prison area and entered the horn-shaped opening next to the obelisk.

The Blood Element servants successfully entered the prison.

The place remains completely deserted.

The cages behind the iron bars were empty, as were the other rooms.

Fortunately, it wasn't a complete loss.

In a room that resembled an archive, Xia Zuo saw scrolls displayed on a bone shelf.

Unfortunately, the text on the scroll was unfamiliar, and Xia Zuo could not understand it.

Considering the time constraints, Xia Zuo had no choice but to abandon the search for files related to "Lone Peak".

The Blood Element servants followed the corridor and stairs to the third floor above the flesh wall.

This floor seems to be the dormitory.

Xia Zuo saw many bone furniture pieces that resembled beds.

One floor up, hmm... seems to be where classes are held?

Xia Zuo cannot be certain.

Here he found a room with a series of small round pits, and in front of these small round pits was a much larger round pit, with the two spaces resembling classroom chairs and a podium.

Go up one more floor and you'll reach the fifth floor above the fleshy wall.

The sound from the loudspeaker was a bit louder.

As the Blood Element servants flew through the pipes, they could already feel the vibrations in the pipe walls caused by the song.

This floor became the focus of Xia Zuo's search.

Because in a large, spacious room resembling a conference hall, he saw an alchemical sand table and a three-dimensional map.

Xia Zuo thought he had found a crucial department like the General Staff or the Operations Command.

But when he entered another room of the same size and layout, Xia Zuo realized he had guessed wrong.

This floor is more like a classroom, a place to impart combat knowledge.

What's the fourth floor for?

I don't understand...

Xia Zuo felt like someone who had been unexpectedly stranded in a foreign land; everything around him was completely unfamiliar, and he could only make inferences based on his past experiences.

He relayed everything he had seen to Rexol.

The bald man was a bit confused, just like him.

Shazo suggested, "Why don't we get Kadum to help me? I'll write down the text I see, and Kadum will translate it into the Temple's common language."

Rexol slowed his motorcycle down, dodging tree branches and potholes, and said thoughtfully:

"Have you examined the scrolls? Are there any strange spells or hidden mechanisms on them?"

“There shouldn’t be any…” Xia Zuo carefully observed the perspective of the Blood Element servants. “They look similar to ordinary parchment scrolls, but the material is strange. It doesn’t look like parchment; it should be the skin of some kind of monster.”

Rexor hesitated for a moment, "First, write down all the text you can see in the most ordinary ink and give it to Christor. Then, have someone run an errand to the Decipherers' Hall and have Kadum decipher it as soon as possible."

"Okay." Xia Zuo nodded, found a blank notebook, and wrote a few pages with his silver sand palm.

He also wrote down the doorplate patterns he saw on other floors.

After handing the notebook to Christo, Shazzo continued exploring the church headquarters.

About half an hour later, Christo returned.

She entered Xia Zuo's alchemy room, placed the notebook on the desk, and said solemnly:

"Kadum has translated the Church's text. You guessed it, those rooms with alchemy sandboxes and maps are classrooms in the Church of the Otherworlders. They are teaching about infiltrating the Temple's territory, how the Otherworlders find people with specific bloodlines, how to administer bloodline-enhancing drugs to their targets, and how to fight against the Temple's guards."

Christo opened her notebook and tapped her finger on a page. "Kadum said these rooms with small round pits are the Otherworldly incubation rooms of the Church of Otherworldly Demons. The patterns on the doorplates represent the types of Otherworldly demons being incubated. Which pattern did you see more of?"

Xia Zuo glanced at the translation on the page. "There are more hybrid mage patterns. I haven't seen any other demon patterns along the way. And most of the incubation rooms seem to be newly built, with very new facilities and no signs of use."

“This matches exactly what you saw in the scroll in the classroom.” Christo turned the pages. “The lesson plan in the classroom said that the Church of the Otherworldly Demons was planning to hatch hybrid mages on an unprecedented scale and send them to the front lines. The ‘unprecedented scale’ here should be related to those 112 million bone sacs, and the word ‘front lines’ I speculate is not the front lines for infiltrating the temple territory, but the front lines for all-out war. To find out the specifics, you’ll need to record more of the text.”

"Okay, I'll take care of it."

Xia Zuo closed his eyes and focused his attention on the perspective of the Blood Element servant.

The Blood Servant extended a slender red thread, gently lifted a scroll, placed it on the open ground beside him, and unfolded it with the softest force.

At the same time, Xia Zuo kept his eyes closed and manipulated the silver sand hand beside him to quickly write lines of otherworldly demonic characters on the notebook.

No demons interrupted the quietly progressing decoding work.

In absolute silence, the Blood Element servant opened dozens of parchment scrolls and presented their contents to his master.

Krestor shuttled between the secret chamber and the Hall of Decipherers, delivering notebooks filled with otherworldly script to Kadum.

Most of the day passed in this way, and all of Kadum's translations were piled up on Xia Zuo's desk.

The translated content left Xia Zuo both conflicted and shocked, while Christo looked utterly distressed.

Chapter 64 Candied Fruit Poison Pill

The people of the Temple have been in a misconception.

Everyone, including Xia Zuo, subconsciously believed that a demon whose name they had never heard of must have originated from the stars.

But there is clearly another possibility.

That means this demon has existed for a very, very long time, but for some reason, it has never appeared in the temple's sight in its true form.

The full name of this Otherworldly being is Sodike Blackflag.

What kind of demon it is remains unknown, but the legends associated with it are already familiar to all members of the temple.

The first pure-blood mage, Winston Bergust, the shamanic progenitor who founded the totem and spirit schools, Quaplos of the Scarlet Dawn Legion, the founder of the Temple Inquisition, and other historical figures who left their mark on history, once standing at the pinnacle of bloodline and elemental power, yet suddenly died, disappeared, or were sent to the execution ground by their own people, were all victims of Sodike Blackflag's blade.

That's right, all of the famous figures mentioned above died at the hands of the Black Flag.

So how did they manage to get the black flag?

The answer is to become an inside agent, to seduce and corrupt, and to incite hatred.