Chapter 3064

Li Ruanyu explained: "A complete divine artifact can do many things, but generally speaking, the Eastern Emperor Bell does enhance defense. The Haotian Tower is for binding. Our formation doesn't use the Eastern Emperor Bell, but it does have the Haotian Tower. Being able to imprison enemies after the formation is activated is the Haotian Tower's ability."

Zhao Chi nodded silently.

So the formation's ability to imprison enemies relied on the Haotian Tower.

He couldn't help but ask: "Are fragments of the Haotian Tower and Eastern Emperor Bell very rare? Why have I never seen them on the market?"

Li Ruanyu nodded: "Yes, very rare. You can only come across them by chance."

Zhuang Ya asked: "The formation's main function is the Haotian Tower's effect, so what do the other divine artifacts do? Is the Nüwa Stone used to repair damage to the formation? Is the Taiyi Wheel used to speed up the formation's energy recovery?"

Li Ruanyu laughed: "As expected of Zhuang Ya, you guessed everything correctly. The general functions are exactly that."

"That's easy to guess."

Zhuang Ya also smiled.

Zhao Chi asked: "Then can the three types of divine artifacts beneath our city still be dug out and used?"

Shangguan Ting laughed and shook her head: "How could that be? They've already been made into a formation, and even if they could be used, no one would dig them out—unless they wanted the city destroyed."

Fuyao asked: "How was the formation made? Are there any records about it?"

Li Ruanyu shook her head: "That's the dragon race's internal technology; other races have no idea at all. Right now we only know that divine artifacts related to the Nüwa Stone can repair a damaged formation. As for crafting a new one, it's almost impossible."

Zhao Chi sighed with emotion: "Hard to imagine there were so many divine artifacts hundreds of years ago. Collecting even one now is really difficult."

Gu Qing asked: "Since there were so many divine artifacts back then, and plenty of ancient ones too, why didn't they repair the World Wall at that time? The rebels should have had a large number of divine artifacts as well, right? Shouldn't they have been the ones most eager to repair the World Wall? After all, if the magical beasts were suppressed, the world would be theirs."

Shangguan Ting said: "There's no way. The Dragon Emperor used the ancient Pangu Axe too many times—cracks are everywhere. They couldn't all be repaired."

"Holy shit! There's more than one crack?"

Zhao Chi was truly shocked.

Gu Qing, Fuyao, and the others were equally stunned as they looked at Shangguan Ting.

Shangguan Ting said: "Why are you all so surprised? What else did you expect? If there were only one crack, could it really be called world destruction?"

……That actually makes perfect damn sense.

Zhao Chi couldn't refute it.

Zhuang Ya said in shock: "It seems that sinful Dragon Emperor really wanted to perish together with everyone…"

Li Ruanyu said: "The mainstream view now is exactly that, but a minority theory is that there were simply too many rebels everywhere, so the Dragon Emperor cleaved open many places across the land."

Shangguan Ting added: "And the magical beasts that poured in back then were extremely numerous, which indeed dealt a devastating blow to the rebels. To survive, the rebels had to use divine artifacts to fight the beasts. So afterward, there simply weren't enough divine artifacts left to repair the World Wall."

Gu Qing nodded: "I see, that makes sense now."

Zhao Chi also recalled Zhao Quan's words.

Zhao Quan said yesterday, 【At the very least, we must repair the wall near Snowfield City, so that Snowfield City can gain a bit of peace.】

Yesterday, it had felt a little strange.

Only today did he learn that the cracks in the World Wall were not limited to one place.

No wonder…

Fuyao asked: "The nobles of our Snowfield City also want to repair the nearby wall cracks. How many resources have they collected so far?"

Li Ruanyu shook her head: "Not sure. But based on the information we obtained earlier, the resources are few—still a long way from repairing the wall. That's why they invited the werewolves in. They originally wanted to rely on the werewolves's strength, but the result… well, you can see how it turned out. It was purely letting the wolf into the house."

Zhuang Ya asked: "So the matter of noble elites going out to maintain the wall cracks is also true, right?"

Shangguan Ting said: "It is indeed true, but it's also a measure born of helplessness—treating the symptoms, not the root cause. It's just a slow death."

Gu Qing asked in confusion: "Since the magical beasts outside are growing more numerous and the situation is getting worse, why have the lords stopped distributing the magical beast quotas recently?"

Shangguan Ting laughed: "Well, of course it's because the nobles and werewolves in the central district are imitating what the Dragon Emperor did back then~"

"Huh?" Gu Qing didn't understand.

Li Ruanyu explained: "The central district can control the magical beast distribution for the entire city. The nobles occupy the most core Districts 1 and 8 and 9, while the werewolves hold the more numerous Districts 2 through 7. They each control a portion of the magical beast distribution and have already distributed enough beasts to each other—just like how the Dragon Emperor once tried to use the beasts to wipe out his opponents."

Gu Qing nodded: "So the fighting in the central district is very intense right now?"

Shangguan Ting said: "The outer districts are okay. The main fighting is in District 1, which has completely become the primary battlefield. Although the nobles and werewolves are at a stalemate, they're actually fighting the magical beasts every day. Their losses aren't small, and casualties continue."

Zhao Chi asked: "Since the magical beasts are getting worse, why are the nobles of District 1 still hoarding the World Stones? If they distributed more to the commoners and created more lords, wouldn't that give them more fighting power?"

Shangguan Ting laughed: "The reasoning isn't wrong, and the logic holds, but now there's no time."

Zhao Chi sighed: "Of course there's no time now. If they had distributed them widely before, how could humans have been beaten into this state by the werewolves?"

Shangguan Ting shook her head: "How could that be possible? The nobles strictly control the number of commoner lords. Although some World Stones do leak out through the black market, the overall quantity is still tightly controlled."

Zhao Chi asked: "Afraid the commoners will overthrow them?"

"Partly, but not entirely."

"Huh?"