The Southern Region, one of the five regions of the wizarding world, is home to towering mountains and rolling seas of clouds, and the Southern Region Wizard Council branch stands in that legendary mountain city.
The clouds and mist rolled like a receding tide, revealing the extremely majestic and towering peak in front of Lin En.
Even with Morning Star Wizard's knowledge, he was still deeply shocked by this scene.
The mountain is so high that it looks like a giant sword forged by the earth and tempered by starlight, piercing through the sky and reaching the top of the clouds.
Its height far surpassed all the mountains Lin En had ever seen, whether it was the precipitous divine peaks in the endless plane or the crystal wall mountains outside the sky, they were difficult to match.
However, this was just the beginning of the shock.
On top of that towering peak, there stands a city that is so magnificent that it almost defies common sense, the City of Mountains.
The mountain city is like a miracle descending from heaven to earth. Its outline winds up along the mountain ridge, and the layers of buildings seem to grow between the stone bones.
High in the sky, suspended wizard towers floated unsteadily, like still meteors. The towers were engraved with ancient rune arrays, releasing flowing arcane light.
Beams of light passed through the mountain city, like silver veins running through the entire city. Occasionally, a floating ship would cut through the light band, leaving a brief ripple.
But what truly shocked Lynn was not just the grandeur and prosperity.
After all, he had walked in endless planes and witnessed wonders more vast than the sea of stars. He had personally visited the "Great Wall of Hercules Corona Borealis" and witnessed countless planes connected like long chains, spanning the abyss of the universe.
The real shock of the Mountain City is that it has the same origin as those legendary scenes and is even more magnificent.
The entire mountain rises straight up from the ground like a pillar of heaven, and along its spine, there are rainbow-like slender bridges running from bottom to top.
These bridges do not lead into the interior of the mountain, but extend high into the sky, connecting with a huge whirlpool hanging in the sky.
It was not a single vortex, but hundreds of space vortices with diameters of hundreds of miles, flashing with strange light, densely packed and suspended above the dome.
They are like countless eyes in the sky that lead to other worlds, each of them exuding an aura that is incompatible with the wizarding world:
Some carry the laws of blazing fire, some are shrouded in the deadly coldness of a frozen universe, and others flow with hazy ripples of dreams and illusions.
From those whirlpools, Lin En saw all kinds of creatures, giants wearing rune armor, celestial beings with flowing wings on their backs, and alchemists controlling star ships.
They traveled back and forth along the Rainbow Bridge, crossing dimensions, as if they were attending a grand event spanning endless worlds.
At this moment, Lin En seemed to be standing at the heart of the intersection of all realms, and could feel the breath of countless worlds converging, colliding, and interweaving here.
"Those...are creatures from other dimensions?!"
Lin En finally couldn't help but speak, his voice was low and carried a hint of shock that was hard to conceal.
The Night Shadow Wizard and the White Heart Tower Master beside him had calm expressions, as if this scene was just an ordinary one to them.
After all, this was not the first time they had stepped into the Southern Territory Wizard Council branch, and these bizarre scenes no longer surprised them.
The White Heart Tower Master smiled slightly, a calm arc appeared at the corner of his lips, and he let out a low laugh:
"The world of endless planes is a boundless ocean, with billions of planes floating within it like the sands of the infinite. Our wizard civilization is undoubtedly powerful, but we are not the only behemoths in this boundless sea of planes."
His gaze slowly raised and pointed towards the sky.
There, the sky seemed to be torn apart by a huge force, and whirlpools like solidified storms hung on the top of the sea of clouds.
Each vortex is as deep as the sea of stars, and it seems that if you look at it for a moment, you will be swallowed up by it.
"Those vortices you see are portals to other powerful civilizations."
The voice of the White Heart Tower Master was steady and distant, as if he was narrating a truth that had lasted through the ages.
"They maintain friendly relations with us... Of course, 'friendly' is not unconditional. The weak are not qualified to talk on an equal footing with wizard civilization, let alone step into our territory."
He paused, and raised the corners of his lips slightly:
"Each of these vortexes is connected to a plane of intermediate civilization. Moreover, this is not an ordinary intermediate civilization. There are at least several beings at the level of Huiyue in charge there."
Lynn listened quietly, his mind fluctuating with the words.
The intermediate civilization plane has a clear definition in the endless plane world:
Only by giving birth to level seven creatures, that is, beings at the level of Huiyue, can one be qualified to be promoted from primary civilization to intermediate civilization.
The sea of planes is vast and boundless, but the levels of the planes in it decrease step by step like a pyramid.
The number of resource planes is almost infinite, scattered like stardust in the vast ocean.
Although the number of primary civilization planes is still huge, it is far less than that of resource planes. The exact number is unknown, perhaps hundreds of thousands, millions, or even tens of millions.
But even so, wizarding civilization has only discovered less than one million of them so far.
And the intermediate civilization plane... is even rarer.
Even in the depths of the endless plane, there may still be countless unknown intermediate civilizations hidden, but in the areas that have been explored by the wizard civilization, their number is only about three thousand.
As for those more advanced planes of advanced civilization, the wizard civilization has indeed intersected with many existences since its birth.
Over countless years, even after experiencing countless catastrophes and expeditions, there are only a mere twenty or thirty of them in total, and the wizard civilization is just one of them.
Similarly, the "Civilization of Gods", which has now become the mortal enemy of the wizard civilization, is also among these few dozen.
And that completely insane, decadent civilization sinking into the abyss... is also among them.
Of course, all these figures are merely the results that the wizarding civilization can count within the range of its power.
All Morning Star wizards are well aware that although the wizard civilization is powerful, it is far from being able to explore the endless and unfathomable plane sea.
Perhaps in the deeper and more distant worlds, there are still more planes of primary civilization and more planes of intermediate civilization hidden...
It is even unknown whether there are more powerful and ancient advanced civilizations than the wizard civilization.
Lin En shook his head slightly and suppressed these complicated speculations in his heart.
He turned his gaze to the sky, and what came into view was a scene so shocking that it took his breath away.
The mountain city rises from the ground and reaches the sky, like a giant growing out of the earth.
Its peak is shrouded in clouds and mist, and one after another glittering rainbow bridges span the void like a miracle, connecting this giant wizard city with one intermediate civilization plane after another.
On every bridge, runes of space magic arrays flashed, and there seemed to be invisible pulses flowing through them.
It's not that Lin En hasn't seen the plane world before. Whether it's the plane expeditions he personally participated in, or the planes he completely conquered under his leadership, they are enough to make ordinary wizards far behind in their lifetime.
Therefore, the word "plane" itself is no longer a strange thing to him.
What really made him curious was that these intermediate civilization planes were able to establish a seemingly friendly relationship with the wizard civilization and even opened up a two-way transmission channel.
You know, as a member of the wizarding world, Lynn knows the nature of his own civilization very well.
The wizard civilization may not be as crazy as the gods civilization:
When the latter sees a plane, they will inevitably conquer, assimilate, and incorporate it into the pantheon; but the methods of the wizard civilization are not much better.
They will also conquer, but after obtaining resources, population, and heritage, they often abandon the plane itself and let it fend for itself.
In this sense, the wizard civilization and the gods civilization are just the same.
In the structure of the Endless Plane Sea, they are all regarded as a force with strict order but evil in nature, the banner of lawful evil.
However, these intermediate civilization planes were not annexed. Instead, they chose to exchange what they had with the wizard civilization and form an alliance.
Isn't this puzzling? Aren't they worried that one day the wizarding civilization will attack them?
"...Or am I judging others by my own standards?" Lin En narrowed his eyes, another speculation flashing through his mind.
Perhaps, the wizard civilization is not suddenly kind, but out of greater considerations.
Under the threat of the gods' civilization, they were forced to change their strategy and unite with sufficiently powerful civilizations in the endless sea of planes, forming a coalition army spanning countless worlds to jointly fight against the group of high-ranking and covetous gods...
If this is true, then the headquarters of the Wizard Councils in the other four of the "Five Realms" of the Wizarding World may also hide similar wonders.
As for the true core of the Wizard Council, the starry city suspended above the endless void, as described by the White Heart Tower Master, might be intertwined with even more planes of civilization, far beyond what we see now...
Who knows what kind of miraculous scenes will emerge there?
"Let's go, it's time to go up."
The Lord of White Heart Tower and the Night Shadow Wizard looked at each other, and the corners of their lips rose slightly, as if they had guessed the shock and curiosity in Lin En's heart at the moment.
There was a meaningful smile in their expressions, an expression that only those who had experienced it could have.
After all, every Morning Star Wizard who steps into this place will be shocked by the magnificent sight and will stop for a long time, unable to recover.
When they first came here, their reaction was almost identical to Lynn's.
My eyes couldn't be taken away from this magical space, as if even my mind was sucked into it.
"Now that we're at the parliament, there's no need to rush straight to the meeting place."
The Night Shadow Wizard chuckled, with a hint of deliberate intimacy.
"Qinglin Wizard is here for the first time. Why don't you follow us as we go through each floor? I'll help answer some of your questions."
His gaze lingered on Lin En for a moment, and his smile was filled with a touch of flattery and ingratiation.
Ever since he learned about Lynn's talent, his attitude has changed dramatically. The sarcasm and ridicule he once had were replaced by cautious attempts to win him over.
"Then I'll have to trouble you two."
Lin En smiled slightly, with a hint of helplessness in his eyes.
He understood that this "enthusiasm" was not entirely out of courtesy, but came from their speculation and interest in his talent.
In fact, he didn't deliberately hide anything.
Now that he is a Morning Star Wizard, he is destined to no longer be able to act low-key like in the past. It is inevitable that he will have to deal with other Morning Star Wizards and appear on a higher level stage.
The identity and strength he displayed, though astonishing, were still within the acceptable range of the world:
A third-level wizard who has practiced for two or three hundred years and was promoted under the training of a spiritual wizard finally became a morning star.
But if people knew his true past...
That would cause a stir that would shake the entire wizarding world.
In just a hundred years, he leaped from being a mortal, broke through layers of shackles, and entered the realm of Morning Star.
Such a speed is not only astonishing, but also almost impossible.
Once word spreads, not only ordinary wizards, but even those reclusive sixth-level Morning Star wizards will become extremely interested in him...
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In this way, Lin En, the Lord of the White Heart Tower and the Night Shadow Wizard walked side by side, slowly climbing up the Tongtian Peak.
The "layer" here does not mean a floor in the ordinary sense.
The Tongtian Peak rises from the foot of the mountain and reaches the sky. If you really calculate it by height, there are probably hundreds of thousands of layers. Even the Morning Star Wizard does not have the leisure to visit them one by one.
The "layers" they refer to are the rainbow bridges formed by colorful light and embedded at different heights in the mountains.
Each rainbow bridge is a portal across the void, connecting to a plane of intermediate civilization that has signed an agreement with the Southern Territory Wizard Council branch.
The so-called visit is nothing more than following the bridge and stepping into these planes to see the scenery.
At this moment, the Southern Territory Wizard Council branch is in the midst of a grand event, the Morning Star Wizard Conference.
Morning Star wizards from all directions gathered here, making the entire Tongtian Peak unprecedentedly lively.
Even though the peak was as large as a continent, the scattered presence of these foreign Morning Star wizards made every floor bustling with people and a turbulent atmosphere, far more lively than usual.
Along the way, Lin En's eyes lingered on the scenes of different civilizations, and he could not hide his curiosity.
The fact that an intermediate civilization can give birth to a being at the Huiyue level is itself a proof of its strength and potential.
As Morning Star wizards, they have a natural desire to explore external civilizations, and the indigenous creatures of these civilizations are mostly gentle and friendly, which makes it easier for visitors to open their hearts.
During the conversations, strange ideas and magical knowledge would occasionally collide and spark, which was very beneficial.
Lynn had seen the fishmen living in translucent bubbles of water that floated in the air like stars carrying small oceans;
I also talked to the "cloud spirit" that was made entirely of clouds and mist. It felt like I was having a heart-to-heart with a warm mist.
What interested him most was a group of metal people who were chatting and chewing metal parts as snacks.
As a former mechanical wizard, Lin En's fingers were itching for a while, and he almost couldn't help but take apart one of the metal clan members to see what the internal structure was like.
But he took a deep breath, suppressed the impulse, and just observed with interest, continuing to climb to higher levels with the team.
Under the colorful bridge, the mountain wind is blowing, the sea of clouds is surging, and there are wonders all along the way that are dazzling.
During this tour, Lin En saw many civilizations that interested him very much... (End of this chapter)
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