Chapter 18: Gathering of the Seven Archons! An invitation from the Anemo Archon!

At the same moment, the portion of golden seal characters floating in the sky seemed like magnets drawn to an attraction, scrambling to collide with the jade dragon's body.

Dense seal characters covered the scales, and at this moment, an omen appeared in the sky.

A beam of light from the Star Sea broke through the clouds, shining along a mysterious and inexplicable path onto the base of Mount Yougou, falling upon the jade dragon.

Even the ley lines were unwilling to be left out, having brewed for a long time before finally surging out from beneath the astrolabe.

One could vaguely see segments of silver-white tree branches traveling from underground, the immense power they brought filling the entire space with mysterious substances, even the act of breathing carrying light.

As the most fundamental source of power in this world, the ley lines carry all historical fragments from ancient times to the present; the unparalleled amount of information is enough to instantly shock a person into a fool.

Hearing Luo Li's expression did not waver in the slightest, letting the power of the ley lines impact the astrolabe.

Under his guidance, the astrolabe acted like a flood-releasing dam, dividing the ley line power into streams that scattered outward.

One of these streams was injected into the jade dragon.

Suddenly, the dragon body, which had expanded under the starlight, began to shrink rapidly, its several-zhang-long body condensing to barely an inch, finally returning to its position in the northwest above the astrolabe.

Such a miraculous scene did not attract much attention from Hearing Luo Li, who instead cast his gaze toward the second piece of jade marrow.

This step would have to be repeated eleven more times until the Twelve Divine Generals were completely formed.

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Inazuma City!

Tenshukaku!

In this most noble place under heaven, the Almighty Shogun, revered by all in Inazuma, was leaning over her desk browsing through memorials.

While gently stroking the pink-white fox napping in her arms, she was approving the advice submitted by her subordinates.

The noble and gentle General would sometimes knit her brows, sometimes smooth them out, always deliberating repeatedly when it involved important matters.

Until a certain moment, she seemed to sense something and suddenly raised her eyes to look through the thunder-patterned screen toward the sky.

There, an invisible beam of light was shooting straight down from the Star Sea.

"That position is... Mount Yougou?"

Raiden Makoto's movement of rising startled the little fox, which looked blankly at the Princess as she walked to the window to gaze into the distance.

"Is Hearing Luo Li doing something again?"

As the thought crossed her mind, considering that the fellow had already arrived at the Grand Narumaki Shrine, Makoto did not feel alarm at first; she did not detect a dangerous aura from the anomaly.

However, she couldn't just leave it alone; she had to understand the reason to be at ease.

Just as she was about to order the O-tsume-ban stationed at her side to come forward, a paper kite suddenly flew in from outside the window.

Makoto felt something in her heart and extended her fair hand to let it land.

However, as soon as she touched it, the kite turned into a slip of paper glowing with fluorescence, with only two short lines of text above.

【No need to pay attention to the anomaly at Mount Yougou】

【... Hearing Luo Li】

"Really, he didn't even say anything in advance, making people worry for nothing."

Makoto complained helplessly, a gentle and serene smile appearing on her face.

At this very moment.

A respectful report came from the guards outside the palace.

"General, there is a letter for you."

"A letter for me?" Makoto was quite puzzled.

Subordinates usually distinguish the importance of memorials, and who would dare write a letter to the General? Any normal person would not do such a thing, let alone after it had been screened by those below.

A member of the O-tsume-ban did not dare to say more, respectfully handing the letter to Makoto before retreating along the same path, keeping his head bowed the entire time, not daring to take a single look at the General.

Glancing at the letter with the dandelion seal, Makoto suddenly recalled the origin of this letter and was enlightened.

"So it has reached this time again."

Tearing open the wax seal representing the Anemo Archon's mark, she took out the letter and glanced at it roughly, finding the content to be exactly as she had thought.

The sender was none other than one of the Seven, the Anemo Archon, Barbatos.

The content was an invitation for the Electro Archon of Inazuma to go to Liyue to attend this gathering of the Seven.

Ever since the Anemo Archon took good wine to Liyue to visit the Geo Archon one year, the Seven would gather every once in a while to appreciate flowers, birds, wind, and moon, and discuss the past and present.

Such a habit had continued many times; it was just that Makoto hadn't reacted in time just now.

Putting the letter away, Makoto smiled slightly.

"Let Ei tell Hearing Luo Li this news; I presume he would also like to see his old friends from before."

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Base of Mount Yougou!

The enclosed space was filled with terrifying ley line power, and the plants living there were miserably trampled.

First frozen, then scorched by high temperatures, followed by the aura of slaughter, and ethereal virulent poison... it could be said to be ill-fated.

"After working for so long, it is finally about to be completed."

Hearing Luo Li, located beneath the central astrolabe, breathed a sigh of relief.

The twelve jade marrow crystals originally placed in front of him had disappeared, replaced by twelve distinct inch-sized jade statues perched above the astrolabe.

"Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise, Heavenly Unity, Sky, Heaven's Queen, Taiyin, Taichang, Gouzhen, Tengshe, and Liuhe."

As Hearing Luo Li spat out the names one by one, the jade statues hovering on the astrolabe glowed in turn, settling onto the formation disk in order.

The moment they completely merged, the outlined grand formation burst forth with blinding golden light.

Accompanied by the roar of dragons and tigers, the cry of birds, and human voices, the astrolabe plunged fiercely into the ground.

The twelve jade statues turned into streams of light, piercing through the ground and, with Mount Yougou as the center, taking root in twelve directions of Narukami Island.

During this, the immense pressure was revealed for only a second before dissipating into the invisible.

Mortals knew nothing of this.

But in the eyes of those who knew, one would discover that the entire Narukami Island had been subjected to an astonishingly massive barrier.

Using the stars as a guide and the ley lines as roots, invisible threads completely enveloped the island.

Looking across all of Inazuma, I fear only Hearing Luo Li has this ability.

PS: Seeking flowers! Seeking evaluation! Seeking comments! Seek, seek, seek! ===== CHAPTER 20 =====