CIATB Chapter 885: Qiyana, Yuanchu Axiom!
Chapter 885: Qiyana, Yuanchu Axiom!
Chapter 885: Qiyana, Yuanchu Axiom!
With the changes and development of the times, every piece of land in Rune Continent is covered with human footprints. The Shurima continent, which once gave birth to the first and most powerful empire of mankind, welcomes countless explorers every day.
They come from all over the world, hoping to harvest ancient treasures and make a fortune here.
It stands to reason that after such exploration, there should be no secrets in Shurima. However, in the eastern part of Shurima, in the dense forest, there is still an isolated country hidden in the world, Ixtal!
They are famous for their mastery of elemental magic and were one of the first nations to join the Shurima Empire. Their history can be traced back even further, and is related to the first great migration of mankind to the west.
But now few people know about them.
Having experienced the Void War, the Darkin War, and the Rune War, they felt that other races were upstarts and pretenders, and isolated themselves with powerful magic.
Because the dense forest where they live is also rumored to be the location of the legendary dangerous Jielu Garden, no one would rashly go deep into it. Occasionally, a few daring guys would be eliminated. Over time, this place became a forbidden area.
Up to now, even the vast majority of the residents of Ixtal believe that this is the only country for human beings and they are unaware of the outside world.
Qiyana is different from them.
As the youngest daughter of the ruling family of the core city of Ixuokun, she has known more than ordinary people since she was a child, and has always been dissatisfied with her own situation and the order inherited from this closed country.
Since she started learning elemental magic at the age of seven, she has shown talents far beyond those of others. Her nine older sisters have been surpassed one by one by her, but her right of inheritance is still tenth in line!
She felt that this way of inheritance based only on seniority rather than talent was too old-fashioned and backward. Ixtal could only prosper under her rule. She wanted to become the Queen of Elements and lead Ixtal back into the spotlight and rule the world like the great Shurima!
Before that, she had to do something to let the foolish and corrupt elders know her talents and that they should let her become the queen.
In this way, she defeated her eldest sister, who was 12 years older than her, with great ease, and used practical actions to make her other sister realize her weakness. Her name became known to more people in Ixooken.
But this was not enough, and it could not change some people's inherent views. At this time, she discovered another incident that made her feel deeply ashamed.
Around the dense forest of Ixtal, a group of miners from Piltover arrived at some point. They cut down the forest, dug deep mines, and excavated precious metal gems from deep underground.
Because they didn't want Ixtal to come into contact with the outside world, the elders even ordered the relocation of two villages that might be discovered. This cowardly act made Qiana furious.
She decided to act.
She wanted to let those Piltover ladies know whose territory Ixtal really belonged to!
So one day, she openly controlled the wind element to descend on Lady Piltover's mine, and looked with satisfaction at the soldiers and miners who were shocked by her appearance.
She looked towards the central open space, where a young man with a different outfit and temperament was squatting on the ground, disassembling and explaining a huge metal arm. Qiyana knew that thing, it seemed to be the latest Hextech in Piltover, a mining glove that could increase mining efficiency, and it often made a huge noise during this period.
She snorted coldly and raised her head: "I am the great Queen of Elements, the ruler of Ixtal! You have entered my territory without permission, you deserve the death penalty!
Are you their leader? Remember the lesson I taught you, go back and tell the other Piltover people never to set foot here again! "
Powerful elemental forces enveloped her, and Qiana admired the expressions of astonishment on everyone's faces, which would soon turn into despair and fear.
At this time, an accident happened.
She saw the young man opposite her summon a silver-white staff out of thin air. The staff was so beautiful that she had never seen it before. Even in Ishtar's treasure house, there was no such thing!
She paused for a second.
Then the staff flashed and moved closer!
Boom!
Oh no, a sneak attack… She was hit hard on the back of her head and her consciousness sank into darkness.
……
"Fate is a complicated web, but I already have an instinctive sense, and with the magic of the cards, divination is like precognition."
As night falls, in the jungle, Ji Xing sits in front of a campfire and looks at the unconscious girl not far away.
A few days ago, after bidding farewell to Leblanc and heading towards Shurima, Ji Xing specially used the cards to calculate his fortune, and the result he got was "three days late".
The card instructed him to arrive three days late, so Ji Xing strolled around on the road for a while and landed in Shurima three days later, and found the miners of the Ferros family in Piltover.
It happened that a Hextech miner's glove malfunctioned, so Ji Xing helped to fix it. Just as he was accepting the miners' flattery and praise for Hextech technology and the universal capsule, he saw the "Queen of Elements" Qiyana falling from the sky and making an arrogant declaration.
I have to say, although she was knocked unconscious by my stick, the two moves Qiyana performed were extraordinary. In the Noxus Academy of Magic, she must be at level four or five. If I were not there, those soldiers in Piltover would have to be slaughtered by her even if they were equipped with Hextech weapons.
"Well, he looks only fifteen or sixteen years old."
The girl lying on the ground was wearing a magical armor woven with elemental magic. Her exposed skin was dark but dazzling, showing a healthy color kissed by the sun. She was full of vitality, and her short white hair was naturally curly and wild.
The moment Ji Xing looked at her, she actually woke up, but now she closed her eyes tightly, secretly checking her own situation, but her strong nose tip kept moving because of the fragrance floating in the air.
Some brains, but not much.
Jisung took a deep breath and let it out.
A fireball that suddenly appeared and bombarded him was annihilated like mist!
What?! Qiyana, who had turned over and sat up, was stunned and shocked.
My elemental fireball... was blown out?
Even if she was shattered, she wouldn't be so unbelievable, but blown out? Even the elemental dragons in the jungle wouldn't have such a breath!
That is a fireball I wove using the Sixth Axiom and the fire element's silk threads. Although it still looks like a fireball, the energy and toughness contained in it are enough to blow a big hole in anyone's chest!
Blown out by...
"Don't start fighting right after waking up." Ji Xing raised his head and said, "Sit down and chat. I am Sewell, one of the heads of the Philos family in Piltover and one of the rulers of Piltover.
According to the information we know, there are no humans living in this jungle. I'm sorry to bother you, but isn't it a bit too much for you to want to kill our miners and soldiers just because of this kind of thing?"
Qiana paused, and the elemental power in her body surged again: "The one in front of you is the wisest elemental queen in the history of Iseoken. Don't talk to me like a child, Lady Piltover!"
This time it's the wind element.
Feng Suosu arranged the fifth axiom's silk threads in front of her, forming a wind wall that pressed towards Ji Xing! This attack was not too damaging and destructive. Qiyana wanted to test and understand the weirdness of this guy named Sewell in front of her!
But she didn't understand.
She only saw the man opposite her waving his hand, and her wind wall collapsed, but the fluttering wind-cord silk threads did not return to nature, but instead formed a net in a way she could not understand, and covered her body in an instant!
The powerful restraining force made Qiyana sit down on the ground, and even her posture was strictly corrected by the net, making her sit in a posture that she would only have when she was a child listening to a teacher's lecture.
She struggled with her face flushed, and at the same time, everything she had learned and seen over the years was impacted.
Why? This magician from Ixtal doesn't even understand the 'Primordial Axiom', but he seems to be better than me in controlling the elements? !
Taking away the Wind Element usually only happens when Yuntar (a senior elementalist of Ixtar) faces his apprentice.
But I have already been Yuntar!
While struggling, Qiyana finally noticed the source of the fragrance out of the corner of her eye.
It was the thigh of some creature being roasted on the campfire. It looked to be as thick as her waist and as long as her height. Qiana searched through her knowledge and understanding and found only one creature that matched it.
Elemental Dragon?!
She stopped struggling.
Ji Xing then smiled at her, dispelling the suppression of the wind element: "Can we have a good chat now? Queen of Elements?"
Qiyana's narrow pupils barely maintained a arrogance and sharpness that was not befitting of her age.
"What do you want to say? You want Yu to admit that Mrs. Piltover's mining is legal? Don't dream. Even if you kill Yu with this weird spell, Yuntal will not surrender!"
Ji Xing smiled and said, “Piltover is a city of technology and progress. We have always adopted a friendly communication approach with every country and city-state, and never conquer or intimidate others by force, unless we are attacked and fight back in self-defense.
To be honest, the minerals found outside this jungle are very valuable. Piltover needs this resource very much, and those families are very likely not willing to give it up. We can have some exchanges of interests, material exchanges, and friendly diplomatic relations. "
If it were other Ishtar people or the elders, they would not even consider such a thing, but Qiyana was different.
She is not the Queen of Elements yet, but just the Queen's daughter who is still tenth in line to succession.
Ji Xing's "negotiation with the powerful" diluted her dissatisfaction with her captured situation. She thought seriously and decided to use her wisdom to defeat the strange wizard in front of her.
"I may consider this kind of thing." After thinking for a moment, she said, "But Piltover mage, I need to know first what trick you used to take my Suosus away."
After saying that, she tilted her face arrogantly and added, "Of course, if you are worried that Yu will figure out your trick and beat you up and make you run away, you can keep your secret."
A little girl who deserves a beating.
Ji Xing smiled and said, "There is no secret. You use elemental magic very well. It seems to follow some fixed formula for the best spellcasting compiled by predecessors. The power and effect have reached the peak of the magic power you can mobilize.
But there are good and bad sides. It’s because your formula is too tight. As long as I change one of the parameters and destroy the balance, the Susu silk in your mouth will naturally unravel.”
Qiyana was stunned, looking annoyed.
"You coward! If you don't dare to tell me the secret, just tell me directly. Don't tell me such lies! A wizard who has not even learned the 'Yuanchu Theorem' says that he can destroy the formula of the Yuanchu Theorem. This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard!"
"The Yuanchu Theorem?" Ji Xing murmured, flipping the roasted elemental dragon leg without much concern, and said, "If this is just the most ridiculous thing you have heard, what is the most ridiculous thing you have ever seen?"
It was just now...
Qiana's thoughts flashed through her mind, and she was stunned again.
"No... don't try to deceive me!"
Ji Xing smiled and said, "I am somewhat interested in the Yuanchu Theorem you mentioned. If you are not afraid that I will learn it secretly, would you dare to demonstrate it to me? Then I will show you the proof I just mentioned?"
"What is there for me to be afraid of?"
If the Yuanchu Theorem is something that can be mastered at a glance, then what is the value of the Ixtal people learning it from a young age?
That is the crystallization of the wisdom of elementalists over thousands of years. The Yuanchu Theorem has been enriched from the original seven to the current twenty, accompanied by the efforts of the Ixtal people for thousands of years!
Qiyana thought for a moment, and the elemental power became active, forming lines out of thin air above her head. Some of them were parallel, some intersected, forming intricate patterns, some were cutting into others, and some were cut off by chaos.
This seemed a bit strenuous. Qiyana held her breath for half a minute before she sorted it out. She hummed, "This is part of the third theorem. Why don't you try to change its parameters? Let me explain it briefly to the ignorant foreign wizard first..."
“The water element,” Ji Xing interrupted.
The intricate pattern appeared in his eyes and was arranged naturally and neatly. In Qiyana's unbelievable eyes, Ji Xing flicked his finger and a drop of water fell into a point of the pattern.
Like a fallen domino, the pattern that Qiyana had worked so hard to condense quickly disintegrated, and like the previous magic, it was destroyed from the foundation!
"No, this is impossible..." she murmured.
"Elements are free." Ji Xing said, "Bounding them to theorems is a shortcut for ordinary people to learn magic, but for a magician with outstanding talent like you, it will stifle your creativity and future. I think in the past few thousand years of Ixtal... there should never be a magician with the power to destroy a city or a town."
Success is due to the Yuanchu Theorem.
The failure is also due to the Yuanchu theorem.
Ji Xing could see through it at a glance. The existence of this thing could allow people with only weak talent, like apprentices at the Noxus Academy of Magic, to become mages, but if they learned it from a young age, it would be impossible to become a mage of Leblanc's level, let alone a mage of Ji Xing's level!
But Ji Xing was a little surprised at this time.
The Yuanchu Theorem is useless to him, but the idea of creating the Yuanchu Theorem is useful to him!
He smelled the power of the rune.
The ancestor of Ixutar who created the Primordial Theorem must have come into contact with the World Rune, and it should be the 'Witchcraft' rune among the five major runes!
I just came to Shurima, and I have already found a way to practice the second rune. That’s great.
It was a serious blow to the child.
He looked at the silly-looking Qiyana and smiled, "The Asian dragon leg is ready. You must be hungry too. Come and try my cooking."
(End of this chapter)