Li Yao observed the flawless components carefully and scanned the spiritual stripes and runes on them.
After spending five years on Kunlun, he already had a basic understanding about the rune system of the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan. Although he could not completely distinguish the meaning of all the runes, he was quite clear about the subtle differences in their styles.
The runes of the Pangu Clan were exactly the same as their buildings. They were horizontal, vertical, and rigid to the point that they were almost rigid. Right angles and straight lines were mostly used to construct delicate geometries. Arcs and circles were barely used.
The runes of the Nuwa Clan, on the other hand, were zigzagging. Most of the time, they were even messy, as if they were filled with vitality that had nowhere to be vented.
The 'core' that Special Agent Long retrieved from her Cosmos Ring was carved with runes that were blossoming in waves. It was an obvious feature of the rune system of the Nuwa Clan.
It meant that, in the God-Sealing War hundreds of thousands of years ago, the Ancient Sages Sector hidden in the dark nebula did not escape the search of the coalition army of the Nuwa Clan and human beings. A great war had broken out in this place, too.
It did make sense. The so-called 'Twelve Gold Statues of Cloud Qin' were obviously the Colossi, the super magical equipment that the Nuwa Clan had crafted for human beings so that human beings could compete with the Pangu Clan.
If the place had never been discovered by the coalition army of the Nuwa Clan and human beings, it would have been impossible for the 'Twelve Gold Statues of Cloud Qin' to be here.
Pondering for a moment, Li Yao focused his attention and continued observing.
All the components were spread out on the ground. Among them, the components that were relatively primitive and crude adopted a lot of mortise and tenon structures. They had many arc-shaped and straight-line rails, on which all kinds of complicated rune arrays had been carved.
Those runes, on the other hand, were made by human beings in the future. Li Yao could more or less tell that they were used to decompress certain highly-condensed information. They were similar to the analysis rune arrays carved on the jade chips, except that they were a hundred times more complicated.
On one of her knees, Special Agent Long assembled most of the components in an orderly manner, gradually forming a circular rail about five meters in diameter. There were also four bizarre-shaped units around it that looked like toads that were opening their mouths to the sky. They must have been used to fill crystals.
As he expected, Special Agent Long retrieved four crimson crystals the size of fists from her Cosmos Ring and threw them into the mouths of the four metal toads that were open to the sky. Half of them were embedded in the mouths.
"Buzz!"
The circular track gently trembled for a moment and the runes on it lit up one after another. Not only did they flicker in the track, they even turned into shadows and slowly floated into the air, forming a semicircular light shield. The thousands of runes slowly rotated.
Special Agent Long pursed her lips solemnly, with a hint of expectation hidden deep inside her eyes. She loaded the delicate components onto the shuttle-shaped 'core' one after another, assembling them into an octagonal component that looked like a rhombus.
Han Yuantai and Qi Changsheng's representative both held their breath and stared at the rhombus in Special Agent Long's hands.
Wan Mingzhu had not been breathing in the first place, but two clusters of ghostly fire that were almost frozen were beaming out of her eyes. It was obvious that she was more anxious than ever, too.
It was needless to mention Li Yao. His teeth were biting hard into his lips.
Holding the rhombus with both hands, Special Agent Long slowly moved it to the center of the light shield of runes. She loosened her hands bit by bit, and the rhombus floated in midair.
Hiu! Hiu! Hiu!
Hiu! Hiu! Hiu! Dozens of silver rays darted out of the circular track and hit different sections of the rhombus.
After being refracted for a while deep inside the rhombus that was almost transparent, they turned into ripples of brightness and gradually turned into a 360-degree circular operation interface.
"Impressive!"
Li Yao secretly raised his thumb for the senior refiners of the Ancient Sages Sector in his heart.
He now knew what the rhombus crystal was exactly. The thing that Special Agent Long called a 'core' should be a storage unit on a certain mainframe crystal processor of the Nuwa civilization, like the storage chips of the crystal processors of human beings.
Although there was no telling how the storage unit ended up in the hands of human beings, it was obvious that the mainframe crystal processor and the operation interface had already been lost when it was discovered.
The circular tracks around were obviously the analysis and extraction magical equipment that the latecomers had crafted specifically for the storage unit. They had essentially rewritten a whole set of extraction and analysis spells and designed a simpler operating system that could be understood by human beings.
Of course, such an operating system could not be compared to the mainframe crystal processor that the storage unit originally came with. Perhaps, it could only trigger one percent of the information stored inside the storage unit.
However, for the ancient people who did not even know the first thing about 'crystal processors', it was already quite terrifying that they could achieve such a feat.
Special Agent Long stared at the operating system for a long time in a daze. Her hands froze in midair for a moment before she brushed the thousands of runes softly like running water.
Shua!
The halos around the rhombus crystal drowned the entire crystal palace like seawater. It gradually became clear and turned into an extremely delicate 3D map that was as complicated as a maze. It appeared to be the navigation map of a large military base.
It glanced at the faces of Wan Mingzhu, Han Yuantai, and Qi Changsheng's representative, as if it were taking away their souls.
However high their Cultivation was and however firm their belief was, they could not help but feel deeply shocked by the anomaly that was too much ahead of their time.
Special Agent Long was the only one who was more confused than shocked. She looked at the map in a particularly deep and weird way while she clicked on the operation interface softly without saying anything. Shua! Shua!
Shua! Shua!
The 3D map shrank, shrank, and shrank until it was reduced to a single point.
It was replaced by a continuous mountain range and a broken coastline. Then, it was the outline of an entire continent, the transparent lines of the entire planet, and even the relative position of the planet in the entire galaxy.
It was like the lens that was drawing a map was zoomed further and further away until it reached the depths of the universe.
Countless complicated data were floating in midair like a school of crazily jumping fish. They were the mathematical expressions of the basic overview of the Ancient Sages Sector, including the features of the stars of the Ancient Sages Sector, the number of planets and satellites that the Ancient Sages Sector boasted, the stable spaces in the universe that were suitable to be set as jump points, and so on.
"This is the Ancient Sages Sector!"
Han Yuantai exclaimed in a low voice.
For those in the Yuanying level, as long as they held their breath and flew upward on their flying swords, it would be possible for them to break through the atmosphere and observe the world that they were in from the universe.
Therefore, even the most ignorant world of ancient Cultivators barely adhered to the theory that the sky was round and the earth was round. Instead, they realized a long time ago that their people were living on super big balls of mud and surrounded by the boundless universe.
It was the same for the Ancient Sages Sector. The natives of the place had long known that the world was round. Also, they had drawn a lot of fairly detailed maps of the world through surveying in space.
Therefore, Han Yuantai and the rest of them recognized the world on the map very soon.
Special Agent Long smiled. Her movements on the operation menu were somewhat sluggish and rigid at first, as if she were trying to use it for the first time. But soon, she became more and more familiar with it, as if she had used it a long time ago. Her hands gradually turned into two clusters of gray mist, and more and more runes were connected into command strings and command sets by her. In the end, she smashed the command set made of almost a hundred runes heavily. After a bam, the global map of the Ancient Sages Sector broke apart abruptly, replaced by brand-new 3D structural designs that looked like dozens of enormous metal puppets of different structures.
Li Yao's eyes bulged out, and he almost shrieked.
They — they were the structural designs of dozens of different 'Colossi'.
Although they were all rough general designs, many of them were lackluster and incomplete, probably because the information was not completely retrieved.
However, the ingenious spiritual energy circulation structures and the whimsical way of carrying magical equipment all dumbfounded Li Yao. Hundreds of thunderbolts seemed to be exploding inside his brain at the same time.
That was not the end of it. Special Agent Long seemed to be trying to scare everybody on the spot and Mother White Lotus back to life by the way. She continued to trigger a series of different dynamic pictures.
In the pictures, tiny human beings crawled into the 'spiritual residence' of the Colossi and sat cross-legged, making gestures with their hands while mumbling spells. The circulation of spiritual energy around them was undergoing marvelous changes, too.
Li Yao thought quickly and immediately realized that it was a tutorial for the Colossi to teach the human soldiers how to use dozens of different Colossi.
"Everyone, what do you think?"
Special Agent Long asked casually while allowing the shadows of the dozens of Colossi to perform all kinds of unbelievable movements in midair.
Wan Mingzhu, Han Yuantai, and Qi Changsheng's representative were all greatly shocked.
It was not until half an hour later that Han Yuantai took a long breath and mumbled, "It's true. The legendary deities and devils do exist and boast such magnificent power.
"Such magical equipment, such approaches, and such techniques are indeed not something that the struggling Cultivators in the mortal world like us can grasp. This — this is the domain of the deities and devils.
"We originally thought that the so-called Yunqin Twelve Gold Men only had twelve in total, that after an entire hundred thousand years of battles, they would have long been destroyed one after another. Who would have thought that there would actually be several dozen of them!"
"So to speak, even if the original Twelve Gold Statues of Cloud Qin are no longer here, we still have a chance to find more intact giant gold statues."
Special Agent Long smiled. "Perhaps it is better than you think. According to the scattered information that Lord Wang collected from the notes of countless dynasties, the Divine Palace hidden in the land of eternal night in the northernmost part is definitely much more than just a bunch of Cloud Qin Gold Statues. It is even possible that it is the production base of the Cloud Qin Gold Statues."
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