Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 1772 Repairing the Restriction
Meanwhile, in the Barton Islands, an unsettling peace prevailed. Zhou Xu arrived in the Barton Islands a month later.

Just like last time, he kept a low profile throughout, dressed in casual clothes and accompanied by a few bodyguards as he disembarked.

"Lieutenant Kara of the Barton Islands Garrison greets Your Majesty!"

At the port, Kara, dressed in a crisp military uniform, was already waiting there. As soon as Zhou Xu disembarked, he immediately went to greet him and gave a standard military salute.

Given Zhou Xu's current strength, even without activating his Eye of Insight, he can already make a relatively accurate judgment on the strength of some martial artists and mages who are weaker than him simply by relying on his own perception.

Zhou Xu had already grasped Kara's strength after just one meeting.

"Not bad, you've reached the peak of the Hundred Refinements Realm."

"Thank you for the compliment, Your Majesty!"

Kara, who had received praise, was now in a rather excited mood.

Since their last meeting, when she was so frightened by Zhou Xu that her legs went weak, Kara has now become a devoted fanatic of Zhou Xu.

She was also a formal member of the state church, and every week she would spend one day going to church to pray. She also frequently participated in local missionary activities, which was truly going to the other extreme.

"Strive to break through to the Vajra Realm as soon as possible. I have high hopes for you, Lieutenant Kara."

"Guaranteed to complete the mission!"

Kara, now excited, took this as a mission and spoke with absolute certainty, almost as if she were making a pledge in front of Zhou Xu. In Kara's view, she was certain that she could break through to the Vajra Realm; she was that confident.

And she certainly has the right to be confident.

When she first submitted to the sect, she was only at the first level of the Bronze Realm in the Hundred Refinements Realm, but now she is at the fifth level of the Bronze Realm in the Hundred Refinements Realm, having reached the peak.

We're in a state where it wouldn't be surprising if we broke through at any time.

Thinking of this, Zhou Xu encouraged the other party a few more times before getting into the carriage.

Next, he needed to go to the naval fortress to find out more about the situation from Bai Tu.

A lot has happened during the time he was on his way here.

From Bai Tu, Zhou Xu learned that the sea tribe forces led by Dragon Prince Ao Ze had already clashed with the water mage group led by Jabar.

The result was that the sea creature forces were repelled, but Jabar failed to capture them, allowing Aoze to escape.

This result can be considered as within Zhou Xu's expectations.

As the first person in the Great Zhou Dynasty to develop and use the 'Water Serpent Dance' move, Zhou Xu was very familiar with its advantages and disadvantages, and he had pondered it a lot along the way.

In battles of the same level, this move itself lacks the ability to kill, and against the Shanghai Clan, even the method of strangling the opponent with snake binding to suffocate them to death is useless.

Under these circumstances, it would be extremely difficult to keep the other party.

After that defeat, the sea tribe forces led by Ao Ze never appeared again.

The awkward part is that this result directly led to him missing out.

Just as Bai Tu said before, he couldn't stay here forever.

But if Ao Ze returns with reinforcements right after he leaves, things will be even more difficult.

Faced with this situation, Zhou Xu was also at a loss. [Forget it, I'd better go check the Dragon King Temple's protective barriers first.]

On his way there, he had considered the possibility that he might come to nothing.

I even considered it before setting off.

If he comes to nothing, he can at least consider it as coming to study the restrictions, and at least he won't have made a wasted trip.

To avoid any trouble along the way, Bai Tu arranged for Kara to accompany them, and the group arrived smoothly at the ancient battlefield ruins where the Dragon King Temple was located.

As per Zhou Xu's original request, this area was sealed off after he left, and no one has been able to enter it since.

Although he is still in the Nascent Soul stage, he is now completely different from before.

How should this restriction be implemented?

Where is the core of the restriction usually placed?
Thanks to the knowledge he gained from 'inherited wisdom', he now has a relatively clear understanding of these issues and will no longer try his luck like a novice.

[It was here after all.]

Having identified the key location, Zhou Xu didn't waste any time and immediately immersed himself in the research.

To be honest, the old Dragon King's restriction is indeed quite sophisticated. At least for Zhou Xu at this stage, he couldn't set it up if asked to.

Under these circumstances, it is fortunate that the restriction was not seriously breached.

After all, when I first stepped into this restricted area, it was still functioning normally.

You can think of this restriction as a sophisticated robot that has now malfunctioned and is no longer working properly.

If you ask Zhou Xu to build an exact replica of the robot, he can't; he doesn't have the technology or ability. But if you just ask him to fix this minor malfunction and get the robot running again, then the problem isn't so big.

The core of this restriction, besides the incarnation of the old dragon king, is the true words and divine power of 'Black Fiend Wind' and the true words and spells of 'Cloud and Rain Manipulation'.

Both the 'Black Fiend Mystic Wind' and 'Cloud and Rain Manipulation' are now within Zhou Xu, which, in essence, is equivalent to mastering their core technologies, allowing Zhou Xu's research to proceed very smoothly.

Even so, it couldn't change the fact that it was a huge project, which took him almost a month and a half from start to finish.

Of course, in the past month and a half, Zhou Xu did more than just restore the restriction to its previous state.

That alone wouldn't meet his needs.

His idea was to extend this restriction to cover the entire Barton Islands and even the surrounding waters!
If any external enemies invade in the future, the restrictions can be activated directly to repel them!
This step may sound difficult, but it is much simpler than deploying the restriction itself.

The original restrictions are still likened to robots. What Zhou Xu needs to do now is to install external power sources for the robots on the various islands of the Barton Islands.

This allows robots to directly access the energy reserves of an entire archipelago when needed, and grants them the authority to perform tasks within that range.

Fortunately, every island in the Barton Islands now has its own state cathedral, and inside each cathedral stands a statue of the emperor, used to absorb the faith of the people in their daily lives.

Now that everything is connected, in addition to drawing on the natural energy within the area to operate, the restriction can also draw on the faith power within the Emperor's statue to power itself when necessary.

The operation itself is not difficult, but the workload is enormous. It requires massive calculations, and if any calculation is wrong, the external restriction will not function properly, and may even affect the original restriction.

Zhou Xuguang spent almost a month calculating this before finally finishing!

(End of this chapter)