Chapter 1332: Spiritual Civilization Construction and Influence Infiltration

Yatewude voiced his doubts to Xia Duo, and to this, Xia Duo's response was—

"Do not worry about there being no Druid seeds in the future. In fact, I am also preparing to open courses corresponding to the 'New Natural Philosophy' within the Tower of Time.

"Actually, the third thing I want you to do is related to this. I will select a group of Official Mages from the Tower of Time who are registered as Teachers and hand them over to you to assist you in providing magic enlightenment to the children in the Territory.

"But at the same time, you also need to teach them the content of the 'New Natural Philosophy', and then you will work together to compile a brand-new 'Enlightenment Book'!"

In fact, there is a considerable overlap between the New Natural Philosophy and the magic enlightenment of the Tower of Time.

Magic enlightenment does not teach how to use magic, but rather introduces the worldview from a Mage's perspective, including simple concepts like the Magic Net, elements, and Planes, as well as the life stories of famous Mages, and even the history and geography of Netheril, and so on.

Only after the enlightenment is finished will they enter the formal stage of magic learning.

Combining magic enlightenment with the New Natural Philosophy, besides completing a worldview more in line with Xia Duo's cognition, the most important thing is to increase the positive cultivation of life views and values based on this worldview.

If the various preparations Xia Duo made for magic civilization before could be seen as material civilization construction, then now, he is doing spiritual civilization construction.

Material civilization construction must be grasped tightly, and spiritual civilization construction cannot be relaxed either; grasp both, and both must be firm!

……

After finishing the three things closely related to Yatewude, it was then Xia Duo's turn—

"To prevent your existence from being exposed to the Elves' vision, I will craft an Avoidance of Detection Magic Item for you later, and have someone send it to you tomorrow. As for now, I will trouble Elder Yatewude to share the perception of Natural Will with me."

Avoidance of Detection is not that urgent; if the Elves had already discovered it, they probably would have killed their way over long ago. Since they haven't, it is highly likely they haven't discovered it, so a little later is also of no consequence.

Following that, Xia Duo cast 【Mind Link】, and at his signal, Yatewude also quickly entered the state of perceiving Nature.

And the moment Yatewude perceived the Natural Will, Xia Duo also synchronously perceived the vastness of Nature from Yatewude's perspective.

Different from the past, this time his feeling was more real; just this momentary perception made him unable to help but shed tears of excitement.

Even from a bystander's, indirect perspective, the impact on Xia Duo's soul was no less than the effect of a 5th-Circle Mind Shock spell.

At the same time, a large amount of Subconscious Information based on Yatewude's cognition flooded into Xia Duo's consciousness through the 【Mind Link】, and Xia Duo instantly sobered up.

He realized that he might have just been influenced by the so-called "Natural Will." Fortunately, he still had the 【Mind Link】 active, otherwise, he might have needed an emergency rollback of his backup Personality.

Nature itself is of course very difficult to influence his Personality, but sharing perception gave Yatewude the opportunity to pollute his Personality with the help of Nature's feedback.

It was just like the immersive experience of the projection body's memories in the Projection Plane before.

Although this situation was not controlled by Yatewude himself, it still truly and concretely affected Xia Duo.

Secretly thinking "that was close," he immediately disconnected the Mind Link with Yatewude.

Although Yatewude could also perceive Holy Power before, the feedback of "Natural Will" was not complete; it was not just the incompleteness of the Holy Power, but more so the incompleteness of the feedback information during the perception process.

Xia Duo had shared perception with Yatewude many times, but only this time was the natural feedback the most intense; in that instant just now, Xia Duo almost thought he had embraced this Universe.

But in reality, it was still an illusion.

Besides the fact that the natural feedback this time contained particularly large amounts of information, the progress of Xia Duo's own Soul State was also a factor that could not be ignored.

If it were anyone else, because they would be unable to interpret the Subconscious Information at all, they would not receive any relatively meditative impact.

It was precisely because Xia Duo had this ability to interpret, yet his own Conscious Mind could not fully control the functions of the subconscious, that he felt an unprecedented Mind Blast in that instant.

……

After calming his thoughts slightly, Xia Duo woke Yatewude up. Of course, he did not tell Yatewude about his experience just now, but instead let the other party go back and prepare well to receive the Mage assistants from the Tower of Time.

"By the way, the Mage assistants assigned to you are all the best among their peers. Perhaps in terms of magic, they do not need your guidance, but they need you to impart much Wisdom in handling worldly affairs.

"Also, don't just let them go teach children. If there is anything usually, feel free to arrange for them to do it. For example, that Villager Mutual Aid Association you set up in the north, you can let them go do it!

"I will specifically pick a few for you who come from the Savile Territory to facilitate your contact with the Savile Territory side. The Mutual Aid Association must not only help vulnerable villagers avoid the malicious exploitation of petty officials but also organize all the Pioneers there to improve work efficiency and advance the construction progress of the 【Daxia-Saville Passage】 faster."

Yatewude was old and shrewd; in the past, his thinking just hadn't been opened up, but now that Xia Duo had almost explicitly stated it, he understood as soon as he heard it.

Besides the obvious improvement in work efficiency, it was even more about letting him increase the influence of Daxia Order in the Savile Territory.

Just like the legal education work he had been doing before, it would enable the two places to merge into one relatively smoothly in the future.

……

After Yatewude left, Xia Duo stayed in the Study for a while longer, reading through all the unread Territory Documents he had accumulated before.

Only then did he return to the Tower of Time to prepare the Avoidance of Detection Magic Item for Yatewude.

At the same time, far away in Cormanthor.

Faluo and a group of High Mages from different Elven Kingdoms gathered at the Elven Court once again, starting a less-than-formal, temporary exchange.

"Xierdalanna, Aomosi hasn't arrived yet; you tell everyone present about the situation you understand first!"

As soon as the other Elves heard that Xierdalanna might have new findings again, they immediately gathered around, pricking up their ears and watching every move of Xierdalanna.

Xierdalanna seemed to have long been accustomed to such scenes; she smiled charmingly and then said softly: "Just yesterday, I met that Lord Xia Duo in the southern border of Netheril.

"He is an Easterner who suddenly appeared in the Savile Territory four years ago. At that time, he was just an ordinary person, but only four years have passed, and he has become a Senior Arcanist with power approaching our own.

"Although he is just a young man whose age is not even a fraction of ours, he is deep in thought and does not easily reveal his inner thoughts.

"After several probes, I can only confirm that he has no malice toward the Elves, but he also has no extra goodwill. If he becomes a high-level official in Netheril in the future, I believe he will definitely become an existence that gives us quite a headache."

Clearly, Xierdalanna was Tuofu, the Cormanthor investigator who appeared in the Savile Territory not long ago. Regarding Xia Duo, she provided a lot of information, not limited to the conversation between the one person and one Elf back then.

It is just that for some reason, she did not mention a single word about the spice smuggling problem that she had clearly already learned about.