Mage Manual

The Lake Light Angel specifically recorded that she was hunted by the Ancient Elf Sanctuary!

Reading the "Lake Light Manual" after the "Time Manual" gives quite a humorous feeling.

Because the King of Time was an ancient elf!

However, in the era of the King of Time, the Ancient Elf Kingdom had already significantly declined, with almost all external cities lost. They could only hold onto the "Undying Sunset" Eternal City.

In the "Time Manual," he explicitly pointed out the reason for the decline of the Ancient Elves—the Divine Lords like Blood Moon and Dazzling Star used despicable means to kill the high-ranking ancient elves and continuously suppressed the Ancient Elf Kingdom!

The descriptions of the Seven-colored Tail by the Lake Light Angel and the King of Time are almost identical; both describe finding the seven colors to capture the Seven-colored Tail. Clearly, in their era, these seven colors could still be found.

By the time of the Ghost Prophet, only three colors remained.

In modern times, there's only the Flowing Gold River left.

Regarding the Distant Realm and the Faded Dream, in the time of the Lake Light Angel, the Dream Kingdom could be entered at will, and materials like Wind, Flower, Snow, Moon could be found;

By the King of Time's era, the material "Wind's Scar" was missing, but could be substituted by Miracle;

In the era of the Ghost Prophet, the missing materials not only couldn't be substituted but even the Dream Kingdom was occupied by the Nightmare Angel.

In modern times, not only are the four materials missing, but even the Dream Kingdom is shattered.

Overall, although the three angels all embarked on the Path of Origin to reach Ruby Mountain, the Lake Light Angel had a clear goal along the way, never losing her way despite many challenges; the King of Time faced more difficulties, having to fill in several gaps himself; whereas, in the time of the Ghost Prophet, the Path of Origin was theoretically already cut off, and but for being a "Second Cycle Mage," he might have been unable to traverse it.

Comparing the contents of these three Angel Manuals, the sense of times changing is almost palpable from the pages.

Yet among the legacies of the Eternal City, Lake Light Inheritance, and Ghost Inheritance, the most valuable is unexpectedly not the Ghost Inheritance of the Distant Realm, nor the oldest Lake Light Inheritance.

It is the Eternal City Inheritance!

Because Lake Light and Ghost are at best an angel's inheritance, whereas the Eternal City is the heritage of an entire civilization!

The Eternal City contains countless ordinary inheritances; if a mage can obtain just one, they will gain the rights to a resource point on the Time Continent for a year. As long as the mage is in the Void Realm, they can receive the resources produced there at any time!

For a Two-winged Mage, this already amounts to considerable wealth, not to mention the additional rewards within the ordinary inheritances. What's most coveted is that if one can become the successor of the King of Time, it equates to becoming the Master of the Eternal City!

That's the civilization heritage of the ancient elves, the Eternal City recognized by the Void Realm!

The value within is simply unimaginable—even the most insanely greedy mages never dared dream of claiming their own domain in the Void Realm!

Ash heard the Sword Maiden say that the Two-winged Mages over at Dazzling Star were almost going mad with study and research, and the Dazzling Star Royal Family even offered real-world rewards for the King of Time Inheritance: a Duke position!

After all, inheriting the Lake Light Inheritance or Ghost Inheritance benefits only oneself, but if you become the City Lord of the Eternal City, you can shelter other Two-winged Mages in the Void Realm, enhancing the entire kingdom's heritage!

However, compared to seizing the inheritance, more mages lament the loss of the Path of Origin, sighing that if only they could return to ancient times, they could easily reach Ruby Mountain and so on.

Like Qikara shouted for days, loudly accusing the predecessors of mages for not being environmentally friendly, not even leaving scraps for later generations, forcing everyone to strive hard and struggle...

Only Ash vaguely understood that the risks of embarking on the Path of Origin likely far exceed the normal realm advancement.

Because of Secret Poison!

Embarking on the Path of Origin means getting infected with various Secret Poisons along the way!

In the era of the Lake Light Angel, even if the Silver Scale test and the Seven-colored Synthesis had a success rate of only one in ten thousand, the cumulative number of people passing could number in the hundreds, and undoubtedly, the Secret Poison would transform into a deadly poison!

Initially, Ash thought there were no Secret Poisons in the past, but upon careful inspection, the essence of things like the golden fish, Seven-colored Tail, and Faded Dream were not written in any of the three manuals. Clearly, the angels had subconsciously withheld some crucial details, choosing to just describe the specific process while obscuring the results.

These angels were obviously not fools; the fool could only be Ash himself. Surely, Secret Poisons have effects he still doesn't understand, which is why the angels kept treading the Path of Origin.

Precisely because they didn't write down the results, Ash still can't conjecture the true nature of the Faded Dream.

Common mages generally assume the "golden fish" and "Seven-colored Tail" refer to some specific things, but only someone like Ash, who has treaded the Path of Origin, knows that the golden fish and Seven-colored Tail are rhetorical devices. The golden fish refers to the rippling fish scale waves of the golden ocean in the sky, while the Seven-colored Tail is the spectacle formed by the Flowing Gold River converging six colors.

So what does the Faded Dream metaphorically represent?

"Sure enough, there's no information about the blank concept…" Igula murmured.

"It would be weird if there was; so far only the Thousand Wishes Illusionist has mentioned the blank concept once, that was in the Divine Lord legacy at Ruby Mountain." Ash said with an unsurprised expression, "Senluo only has three Legendary Mages. If there were information about the blank concept here, it would mean the three legends deserted the frontline just to come to this icehouse for a hefty feast—how could that be possible!"