The Imperial White Tower.

As the empire's largest and most iconic mages' organization, the White Tower represented the highest honor of the Mage Association.

The White Tower, towering at one hundred and thirty-nine stories, housed the one hundred and thirty-nine most powerful mages in the entire empire.

They were collectively known as the White Tower Mages.

And just as the two mages were completely killed by Li Cheng Yi in the snowy forest in the east.

Inside the White Tower, an old mage on the thirteenth floor suddenly opened his eyes.

He glanced at a dim yellow oil lamp hanging on the wall. The lamp stand had six branches, each with a flame burning above it.

At this moment, two of the flames were completely extinguished.

"Tige and the others…are dead??" The old mage's expression immediately sank.

Although Tige and the others were not very outstanding disciples under him, they had been diligent and dedicated to serving him for many years. They were handy assistants he had painstakingly cultivated for many years.

But now that they were dead, he would have to train new assistants again. The difference in losses caused by this back and forth would be an extremely unpleasant number for him.

"Brian." The old mage pondered for a moment, then called out softly.

Poof!

Suddenly, a snow-white owl swooped down from the window of the room.

The owl stood steadily on the windowsill, its large, round eyes looking at the old mage.

"Lord Mida, what are your orders?" it asked in a low voice, speaking in human language.

"Tige and the others are dead, they died in the east. Take people to investigate and find out the specific details, find the murderer," the old mage said in a deep voice.

"Do you need to take action?"

"If the opportunity allows, you may," the old mage nodded.

Poof.

The owl flapped its wings and flew away in an instant, disappearing quickly into the swirling snow.

For mages, even the most powerful White Tower mages, rely heavily on magical pets as combat support.

Therefore, the more powerful the mage, the more powerful magical pets they keep.

The so-called magical pets are special magical creatures that they cultivate and transform through various special means.

'The cultivation of magical pets requires seventy-two procedures, which are gradually transformed. Transforming an ordinary creature into a magical creature is a project that requires a long period of exploration and experimentation.

In this regard, the Thunder Beast project of the Mora family is the main example. After a century of repeated exploration, they eventually transformed countless kinds of animals, but the result ended in failure.'

'The transformation of magical pets is the crystallization of countless wisdom and good fortune, and cannot be accomplished overnight. It requires a large number of mages to work together to tackle the problem. The nine magical pet projects currently mastered by the Imperial White Tower, the three most commonly used ones, were conquered by the White Tower itself in conjunction with mages.'

Eastern O'Kela Territory, Black Fort.

Li Cheng Yi gently closed the last page of the book and fell into thought.

The cover of the book in his hand clearly read: Introduction to Magical Pet Keeping.

This was the loot he had searched from the bodies of the two dead mages. There was no introduction to meditation, no magic-related content, only this simple book full of knowledge about magical pet keeping.

"White Tower…" He put down the book, lost in thought.

The mages of this Sola Empire were completely different from the mages he knew.

They seemed to rely more on magical pets as combat supplements.

In addition, among the other things searched from the two mages, most of them were bottles and jars, even seven or eight of them, containing various unidentifiable materials.

Perhaps they were some spell research materials, Li Cheng Yi didn't know. The key was that these things were useless to him.

"Next, the next one."

Putting the book into the drawer and locking it, he picked up a dark blue, irregular-shaped stone the size of a fist.

The stone was taken from the griffon's body. It was the only thing in the griffon's body that was constantly flashing tiny electric arcs at the time.

He could tell its extraordinary nature at a glance, so he dug it out and took it away directly.

Now was the time to study it carefully.

Stroking the surface of the stone with his hand, the rough texture gave him a strange feeling of numbness.

It was like being shocked by an electric current.

Raising his hand, Li Cheng Yi looked at the surface of the skin on his arm, where the hairs were standing on end, like thorns.

'Just stroking it can generate electricity? This thing doesn't seem very stable.' He frowned.

Taking out a set of metal tools from a drawer, he took out a sharp small knife, pressed it against the stone, and began to cut.

But it was very difficult. As long as there was slight friction, tiny electric arcs would be generated.

The generation of this electric arc seemed to be an enhanced version of triboelectricity.

Li Cheng Yi then began to try using other materials to test, he wanted to find a material that would not generate static electricity through friction, so that he could divide this stone.

After an afternoon of experimentation, finally, a little bit of fine powder was cut off from this thing he named Griffon Stone.

These powders were used to store in a delicate crystal bottle.

Li Cheng Yi didn't have many research methods. Limited by instruments, it was impossible for him to analyze its characteristics in detail.

For the cultivators of Tian Ju Ge, the most convenient and direct research method was burning.

Gulu.

In the study, Li Cheng Yi swallowed the powder mixed with water.

Inside his body, part of the powder was fully covered by the power of the Yuanshen Sword Palace, and then absorbed, turning into a wisp of dust and smoke, and flew into the huge sword furnace suspended in the Sword Palace.

The Seven Emotions Sacred Spirit Art, one of the Twelve Flower Languages, played a decisive bridging role in this process.

Because of its extremely high level, even in this world, the Flower Language would not be completely restricted, so it could use the Wisdom Sword and Love Silk of the Seven Emotions Sacred Spirit Art to wrap the powder and bring it into the Sword Palace.

Inside the gorgeous Yuanshen Sword Palace, it was already much more exquisite and complex than before.

On the walls and ceiling, there were records of character biographies of Yuanshen Swords with human faces everywhere.

A large number of Yuan Imprints produced by the characters were thrown into the sword furnace by Li Cheng Yi for burning, thereby strengthening the sword furnace itself.

This was also one of the reasons why his cultivation could reach the peak of Qi Fire so quickly.

At this time, the powder of the Griffon Stone flew into the sword furnace. In an instant, a blue flame with a blue electric arc suddenly窜up.

Kacha.

The blue electric arc formed a large net, instantly completely covering the entire sword furnace.

Before long, the electric arc dissipated, and all the related characteristics were quickly fed back from the sword furnace into Li Cheng Yi's consciousness.

This was the power of Yin Scripture. Why can the Furnace of Creation burn everything? Why do the Taoists of Tian Ju Ge become stronger and stronger as they burn? This was the reason.

In reality, Li Cheng Yi sat in the study, closed his eyes and meditated, experiencing the various characteristics of the Griffon Stone that were fed back.

During the burning process, a subtle force further enhanced the entire sword furnace.

This Griffon Stone, which seemed not very strong, just that little bit of powder, was actually equivalent to one-tenth of the harvest he had when he burned an entire Astral Spirit!

This discovery made him feel a little shocked in his heart.

'In other words, if I burn the entire Griffon Stone, then the growth I will harvest will even be similar to burning more than a dozen Astral Spirits.'

'What kind of place is this?' Thinking of this, Li Cheng Yi's heart became more and more solemn.

If it weren't for the fact that what he was lacking in his promotion now was not burning, but a large amount of knowledge about the structure of the world, perhaps burning the Griffon Stone completely in one go would be the most correct approach.

Dong dong dong...

Suddenly, there was a gentle knock on the study door.

"Who is it?"

"It's me, Buck." The voice of the butler of Black Fort, Old Buck, came from outside the door.

"Please come in, Uncle Buck." Li Cheng Yi put away his things and stood up.

With a click, the door opened.

Old Buck, dressed in a neat and exquisite black silver-trimmed礼服, quietly entered the door.

He first bowed, then straightened up.

"An envoy from Mage City has come to inquire about the two mages who went missing in the forest some time ago."

"An envoy from Mage City? Bring them in." Li Cheng Yi thought about the feedback from the powder, while thinking about how to use this special material.

He observed that this material itself only needed simple friction to generate a large amount of current, so if a constantly sliding device could be fixed to repeatedly rub it, could it continuously generate a steady stream of current for use?

What was the principle behind this?

Triboelectricity in modern science is essentially the transfer of charge, and the fact that so much current can be generated here, does it mean that the charge bound within the atoms of the substances here is much more than in the previous world?

So after the charge is transferred, the electric field generated is also much stronger?

Thinking of this, Li Cheng Yi noted down this thought.

'Then, are the charges bound by other substances also so many?' This requires experimentation.

Soon, when he came back to his senses, Old Buck had already led a middle-aged female mage wearing a blue robe with a hexagram pattern into the study.

The female mage had a cold face, and her brown eyes revealed a faint sense of distance.

She first bowed slightly to Li Cheng Yi.

"Baron O'Kela, please allow me to introduce myself. I am Dulvey, an envoy from the White Tower. I am here specifically to investigate the case of Mage Tig's disappearance. After inquiry, I learned that you had previously entered the Snow Forest with Mage Tig to search for griffons, so I am here to ask you about the relevant details of the disappearance case."

"I don't know them, and I haven't seen them in the forest. Is there anything else?" Li Cheng Yi said simply.

"Then may I ask if you have found any traces of griffons in the forest?"

"No," Li Cheng Yi said.

"Have you heard the roar of a griffon?"

"Yes, I heard it, but by the time I got there, everything had completely disappeared. Seeing that I had gained nothing, I left on my own," Li Cheng Yi replied.

"Regarding Babbitt, have you ever seen him at the Viscount's salon before?"

This female mage was starting to ask some irrelevant questions.

Li Cheng Yi also answered each one seriously.

The two asked and answered for a while before it ended.

The female mage礼行, bid farewell, and walked out of the study.

Leaving Li Cheng Yi to sit down in his seat, thinking slightly.

He had just asked the other party if he could obtain the qualification to purchase mage books if he could find the whereabouts of Mage Tig.

But he was sternly rejected.

This made him very unhappy.

'It seems that there is no way to get in through the mages. I have to change my way of thinking. If the formal channels don't work, perhaps I should think about new channels.'

After the female mage who asked the questions left, Li Cheng Yi immersed himself in research again. The various characteristics of the Griffon Stone made him more and more fascinated.

After further research, he discovered that the source of charge in the Griffon Stone did not all come from frictional charge transfer. A large part of it was generated out of thin air.

When the Griffon Stone was rubbed, a large amount of some kind of intermediate product was faintly and temporarily generated inside. This product existed for a very short time, at most only a few microseconds.

If Li Cheng Yi hadn't had the Sword Furnace to assist in combustion analysis, he probably wouldn't have been able to accurately discover it.

He named this substance Griffon Heart, meaning the core of the griffon's power generation ability.

After studying the Griffon Heart for more than ten days, Li Cheng Yi discovered the key reason for its generation of additional charge.

(End of this chapter)