"I don’t know, but I can slowly unearth it," Xiao Jie said confidently.
An excellent game player can deduce the hidden background stories and even deep secrets of the game from fragmented bits of information and the NPC’s words.
Unearthing hidden game information requires a strong logical reasoning ability and the ability to organize fragmented information.
The answer is often hidden in the details.
In this regard, Xiao Jie has considerable experience.
Although Xiao Jie mainly focuses on online games, he is also interested in single-player games, particularly soul system games, which often don’t make the game’s background story clear to players, and the main quest is often shrouded in mystery, with various pieces of information scattered in every corner of the game, requiring players to gather and organize them themselves.
Many players, even after completing the game, are still in the dark about the story the entire game is telling.
However, Xiao Jie is quite interested in these types of games, especially in deducing the truth of the game’s story through snippets in the game.
If he hadn’t started a game studio back then, he might have become an UP master analyzing game backgrounds.
At this moment, Xiao Jie put his past experience into play.
Throughout Xiao Jie’s gaming history, he has heard about the matters of the Lonely Cloud Continent multiple times.
But without exception, none of them mentioned the specific location of the Lonely Cloud Continent.
However, there was some other content.
According to the NPC, before the Immortal Road was cut off, there was interaction between the Lonely Cloud Continent and the Mortal World.
In other words, there must be records of how mortals traveled to the Lonely Cloud Continent, which can be found in the Guardian Room.
Besides, there is another keyword, [Lonely Cloud Continent Broken].
The description of the Life-extending Pill mentions, [This item can extend the lifespan of mortals, and in ancient times was a treasure bestowed upon mortal heroes by the Lonely Cloud Continent. With the breaking of the Lonely Cloud Continent, the group of immortals has hidden, and such elixirs are rarely seen in the world.]
The description of the Divine Tiger Inner Core also mentions the breaking of the Lonely Cloud Continent — [However, with the breaking of the Lonely Cloud Continent, the Immortal Road was severed].
Obviously, the breaking of the Lonely Cloud Continent, the severing of the Immortal Road, and the hiding of the immortals all happened at the same time, and even had some causal relationship, because the Lonely Cloud Continent broke, the Immortal Road was severed.
So the question arises.
Why did the Lonely Cloud Continent break? The immortals’ strength is so powerful, they can be considered invincible in this world. There is only one answer — the force that caused all this came from outside the world.
Xiao Jie instantly thought of the three Legendary calamities.
Master Xiao Yue once mentioned that at that time, the group of immortals gathered, calculated through the ages, performed a great derivation, and after forty-nine days of calculations, concluded that there were four calamities in the world.
The first calamity is called Calamity of Demons, which is when the sky has cracks and Outer Heaven Demons invade.
The second calamity is called Yin Sha Tribulation, which is when the Ghost Gate opens and Netherworld Ghost Soldiers invade.
The third calamity is called Calamity of Demons, which is when the Demon Star descends and causes disasters of myriad demons.
The fourth calamity has not been explained and is unknown.
The first three calamities have already occurred successively.
Their causes all originate from forces outside the world acting up.
Xiao Jie speculated that the breaking of the Lonely Cloud Continent is probably related to these three calamities.
The Yin Sha Tribulation is unlikely since the Netherworld Rift opens on the ground, so it should not have affected the Lonely Cloud Continent.
Both the Outer Heaven Demon invasion and the Demon Star descending are possible.
However, the Outer Heaven Demon invasion happened ten thousand years ago, while the breaking of the Lonely Cloud Continent and the severing of the Immortal Road happened three thousand years ago, so it should be the Demon Star descending.
Demon Star Descends — Lonely Cloud Continent Broken!
Xiao Jie suddenly remembered a game he played before — Elden Ring, where there is a broken Sky City in the game, which was destroyed by a meteorite that descended from the sky.
And this meteorite transformed into a monster in the end.
This is indeed quite similar to the Demon Star descending.
This is the benefit of playing many games, you can always find similar cases.
Could it be that the Lonely Cloud Continent was shattered when the Demon Star descended? The source of thɪs content is novel·fire.net
If this is the case — a spiritual light flashed in Xiao Jie’s mind, and he suddenly thought of a way to find the location of the Lonely Cloud Continent.
If his speculation is correct and the Lonely Cloud Continent was indeed smashed by the Demon Star, then the location of the Lonely Cloud Continent must be on the trajectory of the Demon Star’s fall. If you can calculate the trajectory of the Demon Star’s fall, you can find the approximate location of the Lonely Cloud Continent.
And the method of calculation is very simple, this world has Astronomical Officials, and back then the Longhua Empire had observatories set up everywhere to observe the stars, divine, and predict good or bad fortune.
An event as significant as the Demon Star descending must have records, just go to the Guardian Room to check the records of that year.
Xiao Jie wasted no time and immediately transformed into a Storm Thunder Eagle, flying toward Xiaofeng City.
By nightfall, Xiao Jie finally landed in Xiaofeng City and headed straight for the Guardian Room.
At this time, it was lighting time at the Guardian Room, with bright candlelight outside, but it was pitch black inside, because candle flames were prone to fire hazards, so they were not allowed to be used inside.
The Chief Official of the Guardian Room, Yuan Tianke, was reading a book outside, and upon seeing Xiao Jie walking into the outer chamber, he immediately smiled and said, "I just had a feeling, casually divined, and calculated that an old friend would visit.
Unexpectedly, it was you, little brother. What brings you to the Guardian Room this late? Could it be that you missed this old man?"
Xiao Jie was speechless; this old man indeed enjoyed making jokes.
He had no time to engage in idle talk with the other party and said seriously, "I have an important matter that requires reviewing some documents. May I ask Mr. Yuan if you know anything about the Lonely Cloud Continent?"