"Does the water jet produced by Delong Tower have any special effects?"
"It shouldn’t, right?"
Feng Yuan looked at Delong Tower floating nearby with some confusion, for the unusual gravity, Delong Tower couldn’t float too high, and after thinking for a moment, the Agunas apparition said,
"No, our ultimate moves and those used by ordinary Spirit Beasts are no different aside from strength."
Liu Wenli was somewhat disappointed, and Feng Yuan glanced at her before saying,
"What are you thinking?"
"If the ultimate move of Delong Tower made the water have some special effect, it wouldn’t be strange for the mechanism to be activated, but it seems not to be the case..."
"Can’t figure it out..."
Liu Wenli had a headache; here, her ability to glimpse the future was useless—at least she couldn’t see any possibilities.
"Why don’t you try spraying water around?"
Feng Yuan massaged his temples and said to Delong Tower, although he was sure that Delong Tower’s water cannon didn’t have any special attributes, Liu Wenli’s suggestion wasn’t impossible.
Hearing Feng Yuan’s words, Delong Tower waved its fins, and several water orbs appeared around it, spraying water in all directions. Fortunately, the White Wolf Deity had already set up numerous barriers, otherwise, the people on its back would have definitely been soaked by Delong Tower’s water jets.
"What’s... going on here?"
The water streams fell onto the light sphere and started by slowly collecting in the recesses on the edge, forming puddles, but gradually, Feng Yuan noticed the water began to seep down, and even tiny holes appeared on the surface of the light sphere.
"Why is there a Corrosion Effect?"
Feng Yuan muttered to himself, puzzled. Delong Tower’s water cannon moves, even if special, couldn’t possibly have a corrosive property—moves with Corrosion Effect were not made of water.
Liu Wenli was also surprised. She had only guessed earlier, but she too found this Corrosion Effect very mysterious. If the water was corrosive, why then did the cliff and the Ghost Fire Lamp, which were hit by the water cannon, show no signs of damage?
Feng Yuan said tentatively, and Delong Tower nodded, swaying its body while singing a strange tune that somehow caused torrential rain to fall inside the closed cave.
Soon, the water submerged the very center of the light sphere, and the White Wolf Deity kept raising its paws, seemingly dissatisfied with the rising water wetting its paws.
As the water increased, the sphere below grew dimmer. Noticing that it had been a while since rune chains had floated up, Liu Wenli whispered,
"It seems to be about the water, but why..."
"Energy conflict? The thing below isn’t simple at all."
By this time, Feng Yuan had guessed something and, seeing everyone’s puzzlement, he explained with a smile,
"The water cannon of Delong Tower indeed doesn’t have any special attributes, but one thing to note is that everyone’s ultimate moves inevitably contain a bit of their own essence."
"I guess it must be the Divine Beasts’ aura of Delong Tower that is conflicting with the energy of the light sphere, leading to the mutual annihilation of both."
"If that’s the case..."
The White Wolf Deity howled and a terrifying aura spread in all directions, Delong Tower taking the same action. Under the White Wolf Deity’s claws, the light sphere started flickering erratically like a failing flashlight.
The next moment, the light sphere disappeared, and the White Wolf Deity and Delong Tower were swept downwards by the accumulated water. Realizing they were dropping again, Mo Li tightly clutched Mo Ling with one hand and grabbed the long fur of the White Wolf Deity with the other, afraid that they would be thrown off.
After a heavy object fell onto metal, a lot of dust was stirred up, and it took a long time for the dust to dissipate slowly. Guo Huai poked his head out to look under the White Wolf Deity’s claws; the sound just now was off, as if the White Wolf Deity had stepped on and broken something, but the dust obscured his view.
As visibility improved somewhat, Guo Huai rubbed his eyes in disbelief and looked again before exclaiming in surprise,
"How could such a thing be here?!"
Feng Yuan let out his Divine Sense with some puzzlement and revealed a surprised expression,
"Why would that thing be here?"
The White Wolf Deity gently lifted its paws as if it were hopping down the stairs, allowing everyone to catch a glimpse of the huge metal object in the dust. Liu Wenli spoke with a strange expression,
"How can there be a complete one here?"
"There’s more than one of these?!"
The White Wolf Deity landed on the ground, shook its head, and looked up at the floating Nien Wheel in the sky but quickly lost interest. Delong Tower circled around the Nien Wheel a few times, ceaselessly scrutinizing the operational Nien Wheel.
All the Nien Wheels in the Starlit Sea were fragments; this was the first time it had seen a complete, operational Nien Wheel.
"Of course there’s more than one. If something is so useful, they would make as many as possible."
Feng Yuan said nonchalantly, while Guo Huai looked at him speechlessly and said,
"You make it sound as if it’s so cheap. Shouldn’t something that can control celestial phenomena be rare?"
Feng Yuan huffed and laughed coldly,
"In its era, it was nothing compared to now."
"But if you say it’s rare, that’s also true. I just didn’t expect there to be a complete one still operating here."
As Feng Yuan spoke, he looked at the floor beneath the paw of the White Wolf Deity. The entire ground was covered with hexagonal white tiles, and the surrounding straight walls shimmered with light blue energy patterns. The lines on those walls were all straight, and the corners were almost all right angles.
Guo Huai tugged on Feng Yuan’s sleeve and whispered in his ear,
"Why do I feel that something is off about this place? It’s a bit like a..."
"Research institute, right?"
Guo Huai turned his head to glance behind him. Mo Li and the others seemed to be distracted by the Nien Wheel and hadn’t noticed their small movements. Guo Huai lowered his voice even further and said,
"That’s normal, after all, it’s a relic from the Mythical Era."
The phantom of Agunas lowered its head and kept wagging its tail. Guo Huai, somewhat puzzled, said,
"Just what was the Mythical Era like? Why were there such bizarre things?"
"There’s no need to concern yourself with that. All you need to know is that we can’t go back to the Mythical Era."
"You mean even you can’t...?"
"I can’t either; the Mythical Era has been erased from the river of time. The concept of their existence persists only because of His sustenance."
As Feng Yuan spoke, he looked toward the Nien Wheel in the sky, the large hollow metal sphere floated in the air, pale blue light emanating from the center of the metallic orb, and discs revolving around it, carved with patterns that flowed with various colors.
"It seems this thing is still usable."
As Feng Yuan said this, he waved his hand, and a deep blue beam hit the center of the metal ball in the Nien Wheel. After a while, the light turned dark blue, and the runic chains that floated away from the Nien Wheel also changed to a dark blue color.
"What are you doing? Do you know how to use that thing?"
After glancing at the machinery below, Feng Yuan sighed and said,
"I know how to use it, but I’m not sure if the original control panel is still functional."
"These ancient machines can still be used without a control panel~"
Feng Yuan said with a smile, and Guo Huai rolled his eyes, too lazy to bother with Feng Yuan. Anyway, he had no idea how to use the device.
"But what did you do?"
Seeing only a change in the color of the light from the Nien Wheel, Guo Huai asked with some confusion. Feng Yuan smiled and said,
"I changed the weather~"
"Did you forget that all these important relics have guardians?"
The voice of Delong Tower suddenly echoed in everyone’s ears, taking them by surprise. Liu Wenli and Wei Dingwu pulled their Telekinetic Brown Bears to protect Mo Ling, realizing that among the group, only Mo Li and Mo Ling needed protection the most. As for Feng Yuan? If he couldn’t handle it with his power, it was pointless for them to step in.
Yao Yin looked at the two with surprise, smiled lightly, and pulled Mo Ling a little closer to herself, saying,
"She’ll be fine with me looking after her."
The sound of mechanical operation arose, and the hexagonal floor tiles below the Nien Wheel began to sink one by one into the ground. A damp breeze blew from the gradually forming large hole, and Feng Yuan gripped his staff tightly, alertly saying,
"Be careful, and don’t stray away from the back of the White Wolf Deity."
Having said that, Feng Yuan spread his black wings and flew into the air.