The Avalon Of Five Elements Chapter 385: A Small World

Chapter 385: A Small World

Translator: Cynthia Editor: TYZ/KLKL

There was no ending in learning.

Ai Hui rubbed his eyes. After reading for a long ti, he felt exhausted. But about one fourth of the books on this level were still left unread.

It seed that luck was not on his side this ti.

Now what worried him the most was that the reading note had disappeared. After all, so many years had passed, and anything could happen. Of course, during these days of reading, Ai Hui had gained a lot. The fantastic ideas, the wonderlands deep in the Wilderness and the disappearing legends and customs had largely broadened his horizon.

Well-written books could be read with pleasure, and ti flew very fast. But even if the books he fell on were the types that he didn’t really like, he would still force himself to finish them, because he didn’t want to miss anything.

When he was about to leave, Manager suddenly said, "Wait a minute. Here’s a letter for you."

A letter?

Ai Hui paused, and then asked with curiosity, "Where?"

A luminous ball appeared in Manager’s hand, in which there was a letter.

Ai Hui took the ball. As soon as he touched it, he knew who’d sent it: it was Prince. The luminous ball was created with elental energy and had Prince’s special mark.

In the Elental Era, it was easy to change one’s appearance or na, but there was one thing that could not be forged, which was elental energy. Each elentalist’s elental energy had unique features.

Just as there were no two identical leaves in the world, there were no two elentalists with the sa elental energy.

Even if there were two people who were of the sa attribute, and who practiced the sa inheritance, there would still be apparent differences between their elental energies. Its uniqueness enabled identity authentication through elental energy, which was a significant thod of identity verification in the Elental Era.

The luminous ball was Prince’s way of delivering letters. It was like the mud seal of a letter, which would no longer be intact when the letter was read. So the existence of the luminous ball indicated that no one had ever read the letter.

There were also luminous balls that had certain passwords. If anyone who didn’t know the password wanted to open it with force, the letter inside would explode or be devoured by fire.

Ai Hui reached out to the luminous ball, breaking the ball to get the letter. Then he began to read it carefully.

In the letter, Prince said he was inford of Hua Kui’s death, and knew Ai Hui must be very grieved. He also reminded Ai Hui that the Assembly of Patriarchs would recruit many new mbers as it was expanding, and the competition would be more fierce. If anything happened, Ai Hu could directly contact him or Jiu Gui. Besides that, he ntioned that there was a task in the Wilderness, and asked if Ai Hui was coming with them.

Having finished reading the letter, Ai Hui folded the letter and asked Manager, "How can I write back?"

Manager took out a brush and paper and said, "When you finish, seal it and give it to . I’ll deliver it to him."

Ai Hui nodded, and soon began to write, saying that everything was going well, and wished them good luck and a safe journey. He didn’t know what else to say.

Just like he hadn’t opened the things Hua Kui left him, he didn’t think he and Hua Kui were so close. But Hua Kui’s forr friends, Prince and Jiu Gui, did treat him very well.

Actually Ai Hui didn’t know how to face them.

Many new faces had appeared in the Assembly of Patriarchs, which indicated its rapid expansion. Ai Hui knew that the Assembly of Patriarchs was under the support of Madam Ye. Now it was a good ti for her, so she didn’t even need to lift a finger to help them. Besides, Madam Ye had deep connections to the Assembly of Patriarchs as both Heng Bingfeng and the old prisoner were the previous backbones of it. Ai Hui did suspect long ago that Heng Bingfeng was a relative of Madam Ye. Otherwise, why would Karakorum Savant call Madam Ye "aunt"?

Madam Ye also needed the help of Assembly of Patriarchs to step up.

Each side took what they needed.

Ai Hui was glad to see the smooth developnt of the Assembly of Patriarchs. Although the managent of the Assembly of Patriarchs was still a secret, one thing was for sure - the Assembly of Patriarchs and the Blood of God were sworn enemies. As the proverb goes, the enemy of one’s enemy is his friend. The more powerful the Assembly of Patriarchs was, the more troubles the Blood of God would face.

Ai Hui left the Grass Hall, and planned to get moving after a quick rest.

He had been making progress in elental energy level every day. Now that the two tal elental elixirs had been fully absorbed, his level was further improved. He had the feeling that he would be able to reach Second Elental Realm very soon.

These days his elental energy had been growing extrely fast, like a jetpack.

If the elental elixirs could be made into elental food by Lou Lan, it would be more fully usable. Besides, Lou Lan could remove the impurities of the elental elixirs to reduce its potential risks. The way Ai Hui used the elental elixirs could be counted as extravagant. Fortunately, the demonic god statue, which was called demonic god armor now, could also absorb the fiendish aura of the elental elixirs.

It would be great if there was one more elental elixir. If only he had elental elixirs, he would be confident that he’d be able to make it to the Third Elental Realm.

Then he shook his head and smiled. When did he beco a discontent person? Elental elixirs were priceless treasures that were hard to find. The fact that he had already taken three elental elixirs was a rare opportunity. He shouldn’t waste more ti on such wishful thinking.

He reminded himself not to indulge on improving his elental energy level depending on external stimuli only.

The process of training was boring and insipid, and the progress one could make every day was so little that it was almost unnoticeable. Therefore, training was also to hone one’s heart and spirit. A person who was not steadfast and tough, but had only strong elental energy could be defeated as easily as poking a soap bubble.

Ai Hui decided to leave the valley.

Having flown for five to six hours, a village appeared in the wood.

The village was small both in size and population, and looked destitute. There was only one inn with a few guests. The owner of the inn was taking a nap at the front desk.

Ai Hui woke up the owner.

The owner opened his eyes blankly, but imdiately beca sober when he saw there was a guest. He smiled and asked, "You want to check in?"

"Find a clean room for ." Ai Hui threw an elental energy bean to him.

The owner caught the bean and smiled even kinder. "I’ll get the best room for you."

Ai Hui waved his hand. "The room can be prepared later. Get sothing to eat first."

Having stayed in the mountains for such a long ti, he was missing having delicious food very much.

The elental energy beans were well spent. The owner soon got him dishes that filled the whole table. Ai Hui sat in the hall alone, glutting himself with the delicacies.

Having dined to satiety, Ai Hui chatted casually with the owner, "You don’t have much business here, do you?"

The owner sighed in despair, "This inn was started by my grandpa, and now it’s been passed to . I never thought that it would be closed by my hands. But there’s nothing I can do in such troubled tis. You see, there are hardly any people in the village."

Ai Hui asked in thought, "They’ve all gone to the Wilderness?"

"Yes." The owner was morose, "If I were younger, I would have gone with them. Before the blood catastrophe broke out, everything was fine. But the war lasted for several years, and business beca worse and worse. Our village does not have any specialties. So there’s no hope."

Ai Hui fell into silence.

The war could make small cities like Peace City flourish, but it brought more destruction and ruins. The life of the residents of many cities and towns beca hard. Without the Yellow Sand Corner, the Fire Prairie and the Jadeite Forest, they lost three material-producing places. This also implied that they lost three markets.

Most of the industries were shrinking, and most of the elentalists had nothing to do. Now the destitution of all walks of life could be seen anywhere in the Avalon of Five Elents.

The experience and progress he had achieved in these years had broadened Ai Hui’s horizon and strengthened his mind.

He stayed in the inn for only one night, and he was the only guest. There was a ssage tree in the inn, through which Ai Hui communicated with the Swordsman Training Hall and inford them of his current situation. He also told them that it would take him a while to get back.

Hearing the Iron L say that everyone was practicing hard, Ai Hui was relieved.

He left the village early the next morning.

Having flown hundreds of miles away from the village, Ai Hui suddenly changed his direction and rushed into a cloud. In the cloud, he took off his elental mask, and his Starry Gem Swordwings returned to black. Then, he changed from his Star Reaper Gloves to a different pair and switched his Silverfold Plum back for his Dragonspine.

When Ai Hui flew out of the clouds, his appearance had totally changed.

Although he had detected and confird that no one was around, he still remained cautious.

He decided to pay Senior Mingxiu a visit. He would be going to the Wilderness later, and didn’t know how long he would spend there. When he saw Li Wei, he couldn’t help thinking about Senior Mingxiu, and decided to pay her a visit.

When he thought of Senior Mingxiu, Ai Hui felt guilty.

Before Mistress had passed away, she told Ai Hui to take good care of Mingxiu, but Ai Hui failed to fulfill his promise. Ai Hui didn’t live close to Mingxiu. Many of the things he did were too dangerous, and he didn’t want her to be involved.

But he had been in contact with her.

Mingxiu didn’t go back to the Lu family, but was living in Asakusa City, a city that was not far away from the border of Jadeite Forest and Palette Cloud Village.

She was running an embroidery workshop there and the business was good. The Lu family was so powerful that Ai Hui didn’t worry about Mingxiu’s safety in the Jadeite Forest at all.

Stretching his Starry Gem Swordwings in full, Ai Hui flew to Asakusa City like a big bird.

On his way, he witnessed many destitute cities. The once flourishing streets were now empty. The prosperity of the past was now gone, like yesterday. The most striking impression on Ai Hui was the decrease in population. Now only the elderly and the children were left, and all the youngsters and adults had gone to the Wilderness.

They needed to create their holand in the Wilderness, which was a hard journey. In the process, many people would sacrifice their lives. They ca one after another, like tides that aid to wash the Wilderness and turn it into a fertile plain.

The issuance of the city expansion order ant that the managent had abandoned the idea of rebuilding Avalon of Five Elents, and that Silver Mist Sea and Palette Cloud Village were abandoned too.

In their eyes, the Wilderness was the only hope.

Were the civilians thinking the sa? No one knew.

They had no choice.

Well, he was not a hero anyway. He didn’t have the power to save anyone from their sufferings.

Suddenly he looked ahead, as he sensed a strong flow of elental energy. There was a fight!

Ai Hui wanted to avoid whoever was there, since he was not interested in poking his nose into other’s business. But suddenly his expression changed and he looked weird. It seed that they were flying toward him now.

Bad luck!

After a few breaths, two figures appeared in front of him.

The one who was running in the front was a young man. He was extrely panicky. And the one chasing after him looked fierce.

But the mont he saw the chaser clearly, Ai Hui laughed out loud.

It was indeed a small world.