Arcane Lord

The good news was not that good, but the bad news came one after another. Even though Xia Duo had expected it, he could not help but feel a little pessimistic at this moment.

The situation was already so bad, if he could not even feel a little negative emotion, it would be too cruel. Xia Duo was a little sad, and then adjusted his mood to deal with the next bigger challenge.

...

Yongle City.

Xia Duo looked at the Starry Badge that was sent with the entry permit, and his mood became better again. It seemed that Osmantus did some practical work after returning to his country, not nothing.

And judging from the current chaotic and treacherous situation in Yeerlan, Osmantus must have spent a lot of effort to find him the senior authority of the Starry Library.

Of course, it could also be that the Yeerlan Crown King provided it personally, or that Philipfa helped. Osmantus did not say it, and Xia Duo could guess some possibilities, but no matter what, he still recognized Osmantus's favor.

Logically speaking, he has now obtained the entry permit, and the next step is to summon the envoy to Yeerlan, or go to Yeerlan first and then summon the envoy.

However, because of the things that the Illuminati exposed one after another, Xia Duo felt uneasy, and the judgment made after in-depth research on the excited state artifacts was that without full preparation, the Illuminati should not be over-forced to avoid mutual destruction.

So, after careful consideration, he decided to make a prophecy first to see the possibilities of the future, so as to provide more support for his next actions.

…

In the exploration room, the spiritual light shone.

"After all, it's still a little bit worse!"

Although the later built Yongle City itself is more advanced than Chang'an City, in terms of the infrastructure in the floating city, Chang'an City is still more complete, including the secret room specially built for the prophecy ceremony.

Now Xia Duo can only use the ordinary exploration room to make predictions. Fortunately, there are still quite a lot of similarities between the exploration room and the secret room specially built for the prophecy ceremony.

And the most important thing is that the environment only provides protection, avoids detection, enhances perception, etc. Xia Duo always carries the things needed for the actual prophecy ceremony!

Standing in the center of the magic circle, he took a deep breath, his expression became firm little by little, and then he took out an altar about one meter wide with a base of gold and refined gold from his personal space.

The surface of the altar is engraved with a large number of complicated but orderly fine grooves, filled with high-purity mithril, used as energy-conducting materials, which is a necessary measure for the prophecy ceremony to anchor the present world.

Originally in the projection plane, the Red Heart Alliance can directly call the specific components of the Alliance Mystic Lock, but in the main plane, there is no Red Heart Alliance, let alone a ready-made Alliance Mystic Lock, so Xia Duo needs to prepare these himself.

When he came back from the Red Heart Alliance, the first thing he was busy with was almost to build the altar of the present anchor point for the prophecy ceremony, of course, including the design and planning of the Yongle City where he is now.

In the center of the array, Xia Duo carefully placed the altar of the anchor point in the present world, and then checked it briefly. After confirming that there was no problem, he activated it directly.

In a sense, the reception array used by the eternal holy spirit in the astral world of the anchor point altar in the present world to descend to the material plane is actually the same thing!

(The eternal holy spirit is a way for arcane masters to advance. They have eternal life and need to stay in the astral world most of the time. They exist in the present and the future at the same time. They need a reception array to determine the time. Once they accept the future call, they can't return to the material plane in the past. But no matter what choice is made, as long as all the reception arrays in the present and the future stop, the eternal holy spirit will most likely be causally isolated from the material plane of origin forever, similar to what is said on Earth as being outside the light cone. Therefore, no matter which material plane the eternal holy spirit goes to, it will leave a summoning spell or array information to maintain contact with the material plane, even if it is a connection in the distant future.)

And the prophecy spell, in the words of the Red Heart Alliance, is a typical case of applying the "uncertainty principle of timeline", either to determine the state of the timeline, in layman's terms, the past, present or future.

Either the historical details of a certain moment are determined, but it is impossible to determine whether this moment belongs to the past, present or future.

This is for the same prophecy. An effective prophecy includes multiple specific prophetic behaviors, or multiple specific perception timeline behaviors.

You can first determine the past, present or future. The present anchoring is born for this purpose, and then perceive the timeline details of the limited moment. For the past, of course, it is history.

For the future, it is the infinite possibilities of the future.

There is no current moment. The current moment has been anchored. It belongs to the concept of existence and can only go forward or backward.

For the prophecy or exploration of the past, Xia Duo does not need to do it in this way, because there are many specific exploration spells that can do this.

The prophecy spell really faces the infinite future, which is something that conventional exploration spells can never do.

…

All preparations are ready. Xia Duo takes a deep breath again, adjusts his emotions to avoid all interference. As the spell proceeds, his perception also penetrates the barrier of the material plane through the present anchoring altar and enters a silver void.

This way of entering the astral realm was completely different from the usual feeling of traveling to the astral realm. At this moment, he seemed like a complete outsider.

Even the occasional astral wind could not cause any fluctuations in his spiritual consciousness that should have formed an entity in this special world.

For him at this moment, the spiritual storm with countless mixed thoughts was as illusory as a mirror flower and water moon. In fact, it was just a projection of perception and maintained a special state of perception.

Then, Xia Duo began to trace back to the source of his consciousness. The source point projected through the anchoring altar in the present world became extremely clear at this moment.

In the pure consciousness perception without any assistance, that source point was like a spring eye that continuously gushed out spring water.

Every drop of water is a possibility of the future, and that possibility continues to differentiate into countless possibilities, thus converging into a water surface that continues to spread outward.

If there is no prophecy inheritance, this step is the limit of what most spellcasters can do. Perhaps some people with outstanding perception can perceive the vague direction of time passing from it.

This is how Xia Duo perceived it before he obtained the prophecy inheritance, but after obtaining the prophecy inheritance, he already knew how to observe more carefully and see more details.

At this moment, his consciousness—or attention, perception—was divided into two parts. One part was in the astral world, in a special state of observation of nothingness, and the other part was in the main plane, continuing the ritual.

As the ritual progressed, the part of Xia Duo's perception projected into the astral world was rapidly modulated. The next moment, the water-like timeline that he could just perceive collapsed instantly, and then countless broken images flooded into his perception.