Elven cultivators

"What about the Holy Dragon Mountains?" Anton then asked.

Eleanor shook her head: "The five major powers have sealed off all passages around the Holy Dragon Mountains. Our spies on the periphery cannot get close at all, and there is no news coming out yet."

Upon hearing this, Anton did not ask any further questions.

Judging from Ignar's ambiguous response last time, the five major powers are most likely on the verge of internal strife.

Those negotiations that are still going on in the guise of taking place are probably just a fig leaf to maintain appearances.

The true distribution of benefits can never be agreed upon simply by sitting down at the table.

It is estimated that it will not be long before the five major forces begin to compete for ownership of the Holy Dragon Mountain Range.

However, the situation developed more rapidly than Anton had anticipated.

Just over a month later, the situation in the Holy Dragon Mountains changed again.

The year 9404 of the Dawn Calendar, the second year after the destruction of the Dragon Clan.

The peace and tranquility that many had envisioned did not arrive; instead, new turmoil followed.

The five major powers launched a war over the ownership of the Holy Dragon Mountains, attacking each other.

In an instant, the Holy Dragon Mountain Range was once again engulfed in blood and fire.

The news sent shockwaves throughout the entire Dawn Continent.

Many people did not expect that the five major forces would break off relations and fight each other so soon after the Dragon Clan was destroyed.

The continent, which had just calmed down, quickly became turbulent again.

The only saving grace is that the five major powers have maintained a certain degree of restraint.

Perhaps due to the considerable resources depleted in the previous dragon-slaying war, or perhaps because the conflict had not yet reached the point of annihilation, the five major powers kept the scale of the war within a certain range, refraining from going all out to fight to the death.

The best proof is that neither the allied nor vassal races of the five major powers participated in the war.

The battlefield was confined to the area around the Holy Dragon Mountains and did not extend outwards.

Even so, this war still had a significant impact across the continent.

While the five major powers were focused on the Holy Dragon Mountains and had no time to spare, they all set their sights on resource points in various places.

They no longer had any reservations and unanimously revealed their ferocious fangs.

In just two or three months, news of war breaking out came from all over the mainland.

Conflicts, large and small, spread rapidly like wildfire.

But everyone understands one fact—the brief peace after the destruction of the dragon race has ended, and an even greater storm is on its way.

After the news reached the Primordial Spirit Realm, the high-ranking members of the Silver Moon Clan admired and worshipped Anton even more.

As it turned out, the patriarch's judgment was correct once again.

Upon hearing the news, Anton merely sighed and then threw himself back into his busy work.

……

North of the City of the Beginning, beneath the Tree of Eternity.

Near the central tree trunk, an area was isolated by an array.

Outsiders cannot enter or see what's inside.

Furthermore, no trace of anything could be detected inside.

In the center of the area covered by the formation, a tall tower rose up from the ground at some unknown time.

The tower is entirely light blue, constructed from whole pieces of spirit jade. The jade is warm and lustrous, with fine runes flowing across its surface.

The tower is nine zhang tall and has three stories.

The base is square, with a jade pillar standing at each of the four corners. The pillars are carved with wind patterns, which are like flowing clouds, conveying an indescribable charm.

The middle layer converges into an octagon, with a fist-sized wind element core embedded in each wall.

The most exquisite part is the top floor, which is a hexagonal pavilion.

A crystal of wind elemental origin, the size of a pigeon's egg, hangs in the center of the pavilion. It is held by six silver chains as thin as hair and slowly rotates in mid-air.

The crystals shone with a soft, moon-like radiance, yet possessed an indescribable dynamism.

The entire tower was shrouded in a very faint blue light, almost imperceptible unless you looked closely.

This is the Elemental Resonance Tower.

From acquiring the technology for the Heart of the Mountains to now, it has taken Anton more than three months to finally complete the tower.

Standing in front of the tower, looking up at the building that had consumed so much of his effort, Anton smiled with satisfaction.

Next, we need to set up the element guiding array and the element anchoring array.

The setup of these two magic arrays is much easier than that of the Elemental Resonance Tower.

After all, he had the foundation to set up a mountain-protecting array, so the array field was no longer an obstacle for him.

Even so, more than three months passed before the two formations were fully completed.

Standing beneath the Tree of Eternity, Anton gave a final check of all the array patterns and rune loops.

Everything is ready.

He took a deep breath, raised his hand and pressed it lightly on the core array eye at the bottom of the Resonance Tower, continuously pouring his magic power into it.

hum!

The tower trembled slightly.

The wind element cores embedded in the middle layer of the wall lit up simultaneously, and pale blue light flowed out from the cores like water, climbing upwards along the patterns on the tower.

The moment the light touched the wind element crystal at the top, the entire tower suddenly became several times brighter.

A blue light shot up from the top of the tower, like a pillar reaching into the sky.

Strangely, the top of the beam of light suddenly disappeared in the void about two hundred meters above the ground, as if it had vanished into an invisible, intangible space.

The surrounding air began to surge violently, the wind howled, and the leaves rustled.

However, all the unusual phenomena were firmly locked within this area of ​​one thousand meters in radius, without any leakage outwards.

Anton stared intently at the top of the tower.

In the void, at the top of the pillar of light, a black crack as thin as a hair was slowly emerging.

At first, it was just a very faint trace, almost imperceptible unless you looked closely.

However, under the continuous impact of the elemental resonance tower, the crack is expanding at a visible rate.

From hair to fingertips, from fingertips to arms, from arms to waist...

When the crack expanded to about three meters long and a meter wide, Anton raised his hand and gently touched the array plate.

The element guidance array is activated.

The energy that was originally flowing erratically began to converge towards the rift under the guidance of the array, like an invisible hand that stretched and fixed the edge of the rift outward.

The cracks stopped trembling irregularly and gradually stabilized, with the edges becoming clear and smooth.

Immediately afterwards, the element anchoring array was activated.

A pale golden halo emerged from the array patterns, like a thin membrane covering the surface of the cracks.

The halo permeated every inch of space at the edge of the crack, anchoring it firmly in the void.

The cracks finally stabilized completely.

Anton immediately fixed his gaze on it.

Through that crack, he finally glimpsed a corner of the wind element's primordial plane.

It was an endless expanse of blue sky.

There is no earth, no ocean, no mountains or rivers, only the void stretching from your feet to the horizon.

A fierce wind raged across the sky, whipping up countless streams of azure light, like giant dragons stretching across the heavens, churning and colliding in the void.

With each collision, tiny fragments of wind element crystals were ripped from the sky and carried away by the gale into the distance.

The crystals shimmered with tiny lights in the wind, like stardust dancing in the sky, exceptionally beautiful.

Just by looking at it, one can feel the power of the laws of the wind element's origin plane, which has become so intense that it is heart-palpitating.

It's like standing on the edge of a bottomless abyss, looking down and seeing the churning lava below.

"As expected of the original plane of elements."

Anton sighed inwardly.

Beings below the legendary rank would likely be assimilated by the dense power of laws within the elemental origin plane the moment they stepped into it, becoming part of the elemental power.

Years later, it may be reborn as an elemental spirit.

Of course, they wouldn't have their original consciousness and memories back then.

After a moment of reflection, Anton gathered his thoughts, and in a flash, he arrived at the hexagonal pavilion. He sat cross-legged below the crevice, closed his eyes, and began to circulate his internal energy.

Wisps of pale blue mist escaped from the cracks, silently merging into the surrounding air.

That is the power of the laws overflowing from the origin plane of the wind element.

It is invisible, colorless, and tasteless.

Ordinary creatures cannot perceive their existence at all; they can only be affected by them subtly.

However, Anton was able to use his divine sense to capture these wandering laws and draw them around him, and then begin to comprehend them.

The Wood element law and the Wind element law share the same origin and root.

Both originate from the meaning of "growth," but they are expressed in different ways.

Wind governs movement, and wood governs growth.

Movement and stillness, change and constancy, may seem to be opposites, but they are actually one.

Through the power of the laws of the wind element's primordial plane, Anton's understanding of the wood element's laws is deepening at an unprecedented rate.

His consciousness sank into the seal pool inside the golden core, where a brand new pattern was emerging on the slowly forming true seal embryo.

It was a texture different from the Earth element principles.

It is not as solid and heavy as the veins of the earth, but more dynamic and graceful.

Like the first new bud sprouting from a withered branch in spring, or like the mist that permeates the mountains and forests after the rain.

It exudes a vibrant, ever-growing vitality.

The patterns spread slowly in the inkwell, like the roots of a plant sinking into the soil. With each inch they extended, Anton's understanding of the laws of wood deepened.

Anton was so absorbed in this realization that he was completely unaware of the passage of time.

A month later, when he awoke from his meditation, he had completed a small portion of the integration of the Wood Element Law.

Seeing this, Anton's lips curled into a joyful smile.

At this rate, he should be able to fully integrate the Wood Element Law into the initial True Seal embryo in at most another year.

"Indeed, comprehending the laws through the elemental origin plane is the fastest shortcut."