Chapter 288 Demolishing a house is something that happens to someone who is currently on display...
Removing the floor of a museum during an exhibition is a very troublesome task.
Even with directives from the capital city government, the local museum director refused several times.
"Absolutely not!" The curator of the Shacheng Museum stared intently at Ai Lei, who was making the connection.
Ayre was a little embarrassed. He touched his nose before saying to the curator of the Sand City Museum, "It was really something very important that we did this. We will definitely restore things to normal after this is over."
"Ha!" The curator chuckled mockingly, gesturing for him to look around.
Ai Lei looked around blankly, not understanding what the curator meant.
The curator rolled his eyes at him: "These are national treasures, don't you understand? Can you take responsibility for even the slightest damage?"
Ailey raised his hand and opened his mouth.
After a long while, amidst the curator's scolding, she said softly, "Isn't this to solve the problem of people with speech impairments?"
"You young people... what?" The curator's tirade suddenly stopped. He looked at Ai Lei, his brows furrowed. "What did you say?"
Ai Lei sighed helplessly before briefly explaining his purpose for coming.
Anyway, everything will be resolved later, so telling the curator now shouldn't be considered a leak.
Thinking this through, he quickly took out his magic device and sent a message to his superior.
The curator suddenly turned his head to look at Sang Zhitao and the others not far away.
His eyes were filled with eagerness and excitement. He took a few steps toward this side, but then stopped himself.
After taking several deep breaths, the curator said to Ai Lei, "I understand."
Hearing his solemn tone, Ailey didn't react for a moment.
The curator, however, had already turned around and used the magic device to notify people to move to a different location.
With the curator's approval, the whole thing went much more smoothly.
The staff of the Shacheng Museum brought scrolls to the jewelry exhibition hall.
They unfurled the scroll and gently placed their hands on the magic array on the protective shield; the antique jewelry was instantly sucked into the scroll.
Soon, only empty display cases remained on site.
Then several more people in work clothes came over.
They also took out several scrolls from their waists and tore them off at the places Sang Zhitao pointed to.
The floor at the center point seemed to be lifted up by some mysterious force, and soon a large hole about one and a half meters in diameter was revealed in the ground.
The floorboards and dirt that had been picked up were collected into a scroll in the engineer's hands.
Looking at the various scrolls hanging from their waists, Sang Zhitao couldn't help but exclaim, "This is so convenient!"
It's much more convenient than using large machinery to build bridges and roads on Earth.
However, she quickly realized that because of her, the technology in the Eastern Kingdom was already different from what it used to be, not to mention the help from those with superpowers and cultivators.
In this respect, it's not much more troublesome than the engineers in the magical world.
After a few minutes, the engineers left with the scroll.
The curator didn't leave; instead, he stood not far away, waiting with great interest.
Ai Lei glanced at him before walking up to Sang Zhitao and asking in a low voice, "Should we make him leave?"
Sang Zhitao shook her head: "It's okay."
Hearing her say that, Ai Lei said nothing more and followed Aria and the other two to their designated positions to guard Sang Zhi Tao.
Sang Zhitao jumped into the pit, looked at the still damp soil, hesitated for a moment, and then sat down cross-legged.
Soon, a scene resembling the Sky Continent appeared before Sang Zhitao, with the fragments of the Heavenly Dao, resembling a bowl of porridge, slowly piecing themselves together.
In a school in the capital, a girl, embraced by her parents, looks at her teacher with tears in her eyes.
Her homeroom teacher looked at the student who had once made her incredibly proud and sighed softly: "Don't be afraid, child. Look at many people who have lost their abilities but can still live very well. You must believe in yourself."
"Thank you for your help." Her mother nodded slightly to the homeroom teacher while holding the withdrawal documents.
“I have a friend who runs a small school for children without magical abilities. I’ve already submitted Sisi’s information to them, and they would love for her to attend.” The homeroom teacher thought for a moment, then took out a document from her drawer and handed it to the child’s father.
After thanking the teacher repeatedly, the girl's father patted his daughter's head, put his large hand on her shoulder, and gently pulled her out.
"Keep up the good work," the teacher said, offering her final words of advice to her students.
"...Teacher..." Unexpectedly, the girl, with tears in her eyes, mumbled two words to her homeroom teacher.
"You..." The documents in her parents' hands fell to the ground.
Even the homeroom teacher was shocked to see the child, who should have never been able to speak in his entire life, suddenly begin to speak...
"Welcome to the midday news. Starting today, the mute will become a part of the history of the magical continent..." The news broadcast's voice came from the television...
About half an hour later, Sang Zhitao opened her eyes.
She tried to climb up, but the pit was nearly a meter deep, making it impossible for her to climb out immediately.
"Please help me out, thank you!"
Hearing her shout, Aria rushed over and pulled her out.
"So fast?" Aria asked in a low voice as she brushed the dirt off her clothes.
Sang Zhitao nodded: "Practice makes perfect."
"Is it resolved?" Ellie asked as he walked over.
Sang Zhitao asked in confusion, "It's done? Didn't you see any unusual phenomena?"
Lin Xiao, who had come with them, said, "Nothing happened."
Sang Zhitao frowned: "That's not right, why isn't it there?"
"Could it be because it was the second time?" Aria said softly.
Sang Zhitao felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't quite put her finger on it.
She subconsciously counted on her fingers and then asked the heavens.
Unfortunately, the Heavenly Dao was severely damaged in the ten cycles of reincarnation, so much so that even though it had repaired the two continents, it still couldn't recover much of its consciousness.
"Help...help..." The faint cries for help kept reaching Sang Zhitao's ears.
Left with no other choice, she had to sever her connection with the Heavenly Dao.
"Then we'll head to the Soul Spirit Continent?" Aria asked.
Sang Zhitao nodded before turning to Ying and saying, "There shouldn't be a teleportation array between the two continents leading to the Soul Spirit Continent. We need to use the path you took back then."
Ying's expression was somewhat grim: "We've been out for too long, and we don't even know if that road is still usable."
Sang Zhitao frowned slightly: "That will be troublesome."
She pointed to the Heavenly Dao: "Originally, the three continents belonged to three different Heavenly Daos, but you happened to meet in the same space, and your Heavenly Daos merged into one."
"Under such circumstances, I must complete the restoration of the rules of the three continents, otherwise they will still collapse."
Ying nodded slowly: "I understand, but I was unconscious at the time, so we need to find the landing site."
Sang Zhitao turned to look at Ai Lei: "If I remember correctly, the people from the Soul Spirit Continent arrived at your Magic Continent first. You should know where they landed, right?"
Ailey quickly opened the magic device in his hand: "Let me ask."
Soon, Ailey returned and said to the group, "This happened many years ago, and they have already gone to look for it."
In the original book, Sang Zhitao did not specify when the people of the Soul Spirit Continent escaped; she only briefly mentioned that it was three hundred years ago.
The only person she knows from the Soul Spirit Continent is Shadow, and in the original book, Shadow was also one of the last to leave the Soul Spirit Continent.
Sang Zhitao and the others did not intend to wait in Shacheng. Instead, they took a car back to the capital.
After they got off the bus, Ai Lei received the exact location.
"Shall we set off now?" He glanced at the sky and frowned slightly.
They hadn't spent much time in Shacheng, but considering the travel time, it was already evening.
"Tomorrow, I'm exhausted from today." Sang Zhitao waved her hand repeatedly; she wasn't the type to work herself to the bone.
After all, there's no rush to repair it.
It wasn't until the next day that she and Aria and the other two got into the car that Ere had prepared and headed to the location where Shadow and the others had landed.
This place wasn't far from the capital; they drove for about two hours to reach their destination.
Sang Zhitao looked at a pool of water with a diameter of only about three meters at the edge of the forest.
"Huh?" She tilted her head, looking at Ailey in disbelief. "You're not saying they crawled out of the pool, are you?"
“This pool of water…” Aria looked at Elle with surprise.
She tentatively picked up a stone from the ground and threw it in.
Water splashed in the pool, and a small, pointed rock, about the size of a palm, peeked out from the surface.
Sang Zhitao couldn't help but twitch her lips, then turned to look at Ying: "Is this really the place?"
Ying looked around, then took a dozen steps in one direction and carefully searched through the grass.
Before Sang Zhitao could step forward to ask any questions, Ying had already come over, holding something covered in mud.
“This is the right place.” He handed the things in his hand to Sang Zhitao.
Sang Zhitao took it and wiped it with a handkerchief, discovering that it was an exquisite hair accessory.
She looked at Ying in surprise: "How did you know this was here?"
Ying lowered her eyes, a hint of nostalgia flashing in them: "I buried this."
"You?!" Sang Zhitao was somewhat surprised.
Ying responded softly, "Mm."
He didn't explain why he had buried a hair accessory that was clearly something a woman would wear. He let out a soft breath, took the accessory back from Sang Zhitao's hand, and carefully put it in the pocket inside his clothes.
Sang Zhitao raised an eyebrow, surprised that Ying valued the hair ornament so much.
Ailiya and Lin Xiao lowered their eyes, seemingly lost in thought, but they did not ask about the origin of the Shadow Jewelry.
After all, they're not stupid; they can understand the significance of jewelry to the shadow.
"So how do we leave now?" Sang Zhitao pointed to the shallow pool of water. "It doesn't look like there's a passage underneath at all."
The shadow silently walked towards the center of the pool.
Before Sang Zhitao and the others could react, he unwrapped the bandage on his right hand, then pulled out a small knife the size of a palm from his pocket and slashed his palm hard.
"Shadow!" Not to mention Aria, even Lin Xiao, who was much more cheerful but still rather aloof, couldn't help but let out a soft exclamation.
Ying didn't look up at them; instead, she lowered her eyes and looked intently at the pool.
Drops of blood from his palm fell into the pool.
It quickly spread in the pool, becoming wisps of red silk moving in the transparent water.
A few minutes later, the pool had turned pink. Ying silently chanted two spells, her left hand pointing to her palm.
The wound on his palm healed quickly.
Seemingly surprised by his abilities, Aria couldn't help but ask, "You also have healing powers?"
"Why haven't I seen you use it?"
Ying didn't care about her questioning, but she didn't intend to go into details either. After glancing at Sang Zhitao, she said, "Well, I'm not very skilled at it, so I don't use it often."
“But…” Aria wanted to say something more, but was interrupted by the changes in the pool.
The pink pool of water slowly began to rotate, and a distinct whirlpool appeared in the center.
As the vortex appeared, a white light appeared on the surface of the pool, and the shadow's figure slowly descended as the light appeared.
"The passage is open!" Sang Zhitao shouted and ran straight into the pool.
Ailiya and Lin Xiao also realized what was happening and quickly ran into the pool.
The pool wasn't very big; it was just right for the four of them to stand in.
Left behind, Ere could only look at Aria with worry in her eyes, and after a long while, she said, "I'll wait for you to come back."
Arya nodded to him, and the group disappeared from Ere's sight.
A gust of wind swept by, creating ripples on the pond. The pink hue faded as the eddy disappeared, and everything returned to its original state, as if nothing had ever happened.
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