Master the Abyss, starting from an apprentice priest

Then, Oleil led the way and guided Luo Xiu and Pamier into the "Square Monument Courtyard".

Inside the Square Monument Courtyard, there are small stone houses with simple decorations.

They are hidden in the lush trees, revealing one side of the simple stone gate to the side of the road. The door full of vicissitudes is carved with exquisite reliefs, which are mostly patterns composed of standard geometric figures, giving people a neat beauty in the mathematical sense.

——That is the "Researcher's House" in the Square Monument Courtyard.

Each "Researcher's House" conducts research in at least one field, and in the wartime state, the scholars in it have become visibly busy.

A circular road paved with bluestone connects all the "Researcher's Houses" in the Square Monument Courtyard. Scholars are walking through it. They walk out of the door of a "Researcher's House" and soon disappear behind another door.

Luo Xiu looked around at the scene inside the "Fangbei Courtyard". The style here was completely different from the "Alchemy Courtyard" in Sina City, but it was more in line with his inherent impression of a college similar to "Ancient Scholars".

This was like the difference between a century-old prestigious school and a newly built school... But Fangbei Courtyard was obviously the newly built one... Luo Xiu was thinking about these things divergently, and he saw a dozen scholars walking towards him at the same time.

They all had deep faces, as if they were immersed in thinking about something, and when Luo Xiu passed by them, they seemed to have not heard anything.

"Please forgive me, respected guest."

Oleile explained to Luo Xiu in front, "They are not ignoring you, they are just wandering in the ocean of truth."

"I can understand." Luo Xiu smiled and responded, "It's better to say that this is the attitude of seeking knowledge that "scholars" should have."

The "high priest" of the church seemed to be gentler than expected, which surprised Oleile.

He nodded in agreement, a smile appeared on his face, and said:

"It's great that you think so. After all, even as scholars of the 'Fangbei Academy', we really feel that we lack some etiquette in entertaining guests."

Afterwards, Luo Xiu asked Oleile some questions about Fangbei Academy, such as why the architectural style of Fangbei Academy adopted the ancient system, what the focus of recent research is, and whether there are any outstanding research results. Oleile answered them one by one in detail.

From this, Luo Xiu learned that the "Fangbei Academy" was not a newly built academy using materials from the original site, but was directly moved from the main academy of the 'Tower of Sages' in Songyuan City. They were originally part of the "Alchemy Academy" of the main academy.

-It's like a certain college of a certain university, which has been independently established as a new university... Luo Xiu quickly understood it, and with the technical strength of the Tower of Sages, it is not difficult to move the buildings directly.

Luo Xiu and Oleile chatted and walked, and soon they came to the dome-shaped spire where the "acting dean" Elfan was.

"This is the 'Tower of General Knowledge', and Lord Erfan is in the tower, distinguished guests."

Oler bowed slightly to Luo Xiu and Pamier, and said, "After that, please go in by yourselves. Lord Erfan is on the third floor of the tower."

"Well, thank you for your hard work, Lord Oler." Luo Xiu nodded and responded to him.

After that, Oler turned and left, and Luo Xiu and Pamier did not stay for long, but walked straight into the dome-shaped tower in front of them.

...

Square Stele Courtyard, Tower of General Knowledge.

From the outside of the tower, it does not feel that there is a lot of space inside. But until he really entered the tower, Luo Xiu realized that the range of activities was much larger than he imagined.

At this time, in front of Luo Xiu, there was a space with a wide view and the interior decoration was purely designed by geometry.

It was enough to be compared to a small courtyard, and the interior decoration was also completely different from the overall 'Square Stele Courtyard'.

On the wall of the Tower of General Knowledge, there are round white-edged window panes hanging at a certain distance; under the window panes are long rectangular inner grooves, in which there are unfinished puppets.

In addition, some tables, chairs, and ornaments are also neatly arranged in a simple style. Luo Xiu looked around and recalled the scene of the "Alchemy Institute" in Sina City.

The decoration style here is quite similar to that of the Alchemy Institute in Sina City. Luo Xiu gradually went deeper into the inner side of the Tower of General Knowledge and came to the stairs leading to the upper level.

When he walked up the spiral stairs and was about to reach the second floor of the Tower of General Knowledge, Luo Xiu gradually smelled a strong smell of blood.

It came from behind the door of the second floor, and when Luo Xiu came to the door, the door suddenly flashed with a dark blue mottled luster, and the creaking sound of the mechanism turning came from both sides, and the door was slowly pulled open to both sides.

The scene that was completely different from the first floor of the tower immediately caught Luo Xiu's eyes.

——Those are all corpses! The bodies were the abyssal beasts "blood hyenas" that had emerged from the forest earlier!

The abdomens of these blood hyena corpses had been cut open, and their internal organs had been taken out. The remaining parts of the bodies were hung in front of the walls on both sides with special metal chains, and below them were blood jars that were large enough to hold an adult bull.

Drops of blood, deep red to black, flowed down from the cross-section of the blood hyena corpses, spread to the noses of their heads, and then dripped into the blood jars.

"..." Luo Xiu noticed that Pamier's armor behind him seemed to tremble slightly, and she didn't seem to be used to such a scene.

Although Pamier was used to judging heretics and the chaotic and bloody scenes on the battlefield, it was still difficult to accept the slaughterhouse-like scene in front of him... Luo Xiu thought to himself, he also had a similar feeling of nausea, but it was just Mild, not serious.

He and Pamier then entered the second floor, quickly walked to the end despite the smell of blood, and came to the door leading to the third floor.

"——Creak, creak..." Just like before, a long and dull sound came from both sides of the door, and the door was slowly opened to both sides.

The entrance to the hanging steps appeared in front of Luo Xiu again. He stepped onto the first step without hesitation and climbed to the third floor of the Tower of Knowledge.

…

The scene on the third floor is completely different from that on the first and second floors.

This place is more like a clean and tidy research room, with various alchemy and rune-related equipment placed in various eye-catching locations on the third floor.

Luo Xiu walked deeper, and the sounds of "Puff, Puff" came from time to time in his ears.

Just when he passed a corner, Luo Xiu suddenly saw an entire wall containing glassware.

On the three rows of display cabinets in the middle, there are transparent glass jars of different sizes.

Those glass jars were filled with dark green transparent liquid, and various organs were soaked in them - those were the organs dissected from the corpses of bloody hyenas. The labels affixed to the walls of the jars were very good. Proved this.

"Puff, puff," the rhythmic sound, as if made by squeezing the body, came from the room on the other side.

Luo Xiu stopped staying and walked towards that room.

He then saw the figure of Erfan, the "Acting Dean" and "Great Alchemist" of Fangbeiyuan.

He was currently bending over a long blue table. When he heard the footsteps of someone walking in, Irfan raised his head and glanced at his guest.

"Ah, you are here, Mr. Luo Xiu."

Alfan greeted Luo Xiu with a kind expression.

An apologetic expression appeared on his face immediately, and he said: "Sorry, I am still busy with the research on the previous hyena monsters, and I may not be able to receive you for a while."

"It's okay, I can wait." Luo Xiu responded calmly, looked around, and found a clean chair to sit down in front of.

After that, Erfan leaned down again, and the sound of "Puff, Puff" came from behind the long table again and reached Luo Xiu's ears.

The same smell of blood that he smelled on the second floor was now permeating the entire room, which made Luo Xiu couldn't help but have some suspicions.

But he did not stand up to observe, but waited calmly for Alfan to complete the work in his hands.

About three minutes passed, and Irfan suddenly straightened his back and said excitedly:

"I seem to have succeeded!"

Then he stood up and raised his hands.

Unlike his originally clean and tidy upper body, the clothes on Irfan's lower body and his hands were covered in blood!

He even held a short knife carved from crystalline stone in his hand, with fine minced meat stuck to the blade!

"..." Luo Xiu felt that Pamier behind him seemed to be shaking slightly again.

As if he noticed that the atmosphere at the scene was a bit strange, Irfan suddenly smiled and said:

"Ah, please don't worry, Sir Luo Xiu. I just completed an experiment."

"Now, it's time to test the results."

With that said, Irfan walked out from behind the long table and walked to the center of the room.

He raised the crystal knife in his hand at the same time. The crystal blade exuded a faint luster of pyroxene, and several light blue lines spread like blood vessels on it, and gradually spread to Irfan's arm. .

"——In the name of Diouf." Irfan chanted softly, "Obey my command."

"——Roar..." There was a low roar from behind the long table where Irfan was before.

Then, a two-headed corpse hyena covered in blood and without skin staggered out from behind the table.

Just at the position of its chest, a blue crystal was inlaid on it, and several blue bending lines spread outward from the crystal.

The azure crystal stone is flashing with mottled broken light, squeezing the inner flesh and making a "puff, plop" sound, just like a heart pumping blood.

"-Hoho..." The blood corpse hyena's throat rolled, and the scarlet luster in its eyes flickered on and off, and it was walking towards Irfan - to be precise, towards the spar knife in his hand.

"Look, Sir Luo Xiu, this is the experiment I am doing."

Irfan smiled and said: "The turquoise stone that has been finely tempered with alchemy techniques, and then supplemented with rune circuits, can replace the hearts of these monsters."

"I want to name it 'Lihuan False Heart'."

"The process of making it is not complicated, and the method of installing it on these blood hyenas is also very simple. In this way, if we encounter such monsters again, we may be able to control one of them..."

"--roar!!!"

Suddenly, the blood-corpse hyena that had been equipped with the "Fake Heart of the Slave Ring" let out a violent roar, and its dim eyes suddenly turned scarlet. It showed its claws in the direction of Irfan and pounced towards him.

"...Tsk."

Irfan frowned. He flicked the crystal dagger in his hand and drew two intersecting traces in the air. The mottled broken light stagnated in the air and slowly poured down like a stream of hemp.

And on the surface of the "Lihuan Fake Heart" in the chest of the blood corpse hyena, a "×" mark also appeared simultaneously.

The next moment, the color of the azure crystal quickly turned into deep red. A "sizzling" sound came out of it, and the crystal seemed to have become extremely hot, burning the flesh and blood of the blood corpse hyena.

——Boom!!!

When the color of the crystal completely turned into deep red, cracks spread out on the surface like spider silk, and then there was a violent explosion with a bang!

The roar of the blood corpse hyena was drowned out by the deafening explosion, and its flesh and blood were also shattered by the explosion, leaving no residue.

Elvan quickly opened a light blue shield barrier to protect himself, Luo Xiu, and Pamier. The aftermath of the crystal explosion hit the barrier, shaking out pieces of water-like light patterns.

It was not until the smoke and dust from the explosion dissipated that Erfan put away the shield barrier and said to Luo Xiu with some embarrassment:

"...It seems that the experiment failed, Mr. Luo Xiu. I'm so sorry to let you see my embarrassing side."

"Well, but this failure is not completely worthless. At least I have learned that the inner spirituality of the 'Lihuan Fake Heart' is not stable enough..."

"It needs to be improved. Well...You can try Tiansong Crystal Stone, or Dragon Spine Crystal Stone...And the engraved Toles rune ring can be replaced with Alando style...Ah, sorry, I started talking to myself again."

...In the short hour since he came to Fangbeiyuan to receive the puppet, Luo Xiu has witnessed two "failed experiments" one after another.

"It's okay, I understand." He looked at Erfan in front of him who was not discouraged, and just nodded with a smile.

"Let me change my clothes first, Lord Luo Xiu, this outfit is really not in line with etiquette."

As Alvan said this, he walked into the small room on the other side, and soon changed into a clean robe for the generalist.

"Then, Lord Luo Xiu, as I promised you before, I will give you a 'Madness-level' puppet as a gift."

Alvan clapped his hands, and the wall on one side of the room suddenly opened, and a tall and thin puppet walked out of it.

It has four arms, and its bionic palms are holding four pendants inlaid with different crystals.

--They are all "puppet pendants"! Luo Xiu, who had seen similar scenes before, soon knew what they were.

"These are all magic crystals that seal spirituality, and a third-level puppet is 'sleeping' in them."

Alvan said: "'Ghost Falcon', 'Mountain Giant', 'Oak Healer' and 'Vibrator', you can choose one to take away."

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