CHAPTER 668: CHAPTER 125: MOON GODDESS TOWER

Before reaching the Moon Goddess Tower, Yue Jinghua originally thought that the Goddess Tower, able to resist the Dark Beasts, must have been equipped with numerous Dark Arrays.

Therefore, she wanted to go there with Qian Luo, but General Yalai clarified that the operational principle of the Goddess Tower was not based on Dark Arrays, and there were no Dark Power devices or anything of the like inside.

This surprised Yue Jinghua a lot, and at the same time, made her even more curious.

When she entered the lighthouse with Captain Yalai, she couldn’t help but be greatly shocked.

The people who came with her, including Shalman, were also smacking their lips in amazement, "It’s magical, these are Holy Runes? My god, this is the first time I’ve seen so many Holy Runes."

Even those from the Imperial City, like Long Rui, involuntarily held their breath and raised their heads, looking around.

The Moon Goddess Tower, from the outside, appears to be a high tower about a hundred meters tall. However, its interior is quite ordinary; it consists of thirteen floors, from the first to the twelfth floor, it’s just the most common stairs and window sills, with nothing special.

But on the thirteenth floor of the Goddess Tower, from the masts to the roof, everything is carved with Holy Runes.

After carefully identifying them, Yue Jinghua discovered that there are up to a thousand Holy Runes on just this thirteenth floor, and each one is unique.

What surprised Yue Jinghua was that many of the Holy Runes, she had not only never seen before but had also never even heard of.

Her expertise in rune craft, compared to her Alchemy Technique, was even scarcer; much of it indirectly learned from Yun Luo.

Another part was through secretly learning from the experiences of Sha Xi, but she had never truly studied systematically.

The cool, moist sea breeze faced her, and Yue Jinghua’s heart thumped wildly, as if she was seeing a huge treasure chest quietly opening before her.

"Look, there is a stele here," Shalman pointed out a stele at the top of the lighthouse.

The stele was already very old, appearing to be hundreds of years old, and its surface had also shown signs of weathering.

"That is the stele of the tower, left by the ancestors and sages who built the Moon Goddess Tower. However, for some reason, the text on it is very peculiar, and no one has been able to understand it. A while ago, when the Moon Goddess Tower suddenly lost its defense mechanism, we also had people thoroughly study it, but no one has been able to decipher it," Captain Yalai, who has been stationed in this area for a long time, is very knowledgeable about the situation in Fandi Port.

Yue Jinghua kept silent, bending down and touching the ancient text with her fingertips.

When her fingers touched the engravings, she suddenly felt a jolt in her heart.

"Captain Yalai, I must tell you, I am a Tattoo Master. I suspect that the real builders of this lighthouse were not any ancestors or sages, but several incredible Holy Pattern Masters. The sudden loss of the lighthouse’s defense function is also related to the Holy Runes here. So, if you trust me, please temporarily shut down the lighthouse. I would like to meditate here for a few days; perhaps I can find a way to repair the lighthouse," hearing that Yue Jinghua was both from the Southern Expedition Army and a Tattoo Master, Captain Yalai immediately treated her with great respect.

Yue Jinghua’s companions, apart from Chi Xi, Shalman, and Qian Luo, the rest were also astounded; they had never known that Yue Jinghua was also a Tattoo Master.

This youngster, isn’t he too extraordinary?

In fact, Captain Yalai had already racked his brains and used various methods, but none had found a way to get the lighthouse working again.

Although it’s unclear how confident Yue Jinghua is, under the current situation of the lighthouse, it could only be left to her to handle now.

In the following days, Chi Xi was responsible for bringing water and food, and for the rest of the time, Yue Jinghua stayed alone in the lighthouse.

After everyone had left, Yue Jinghua summoned the Gold Eater Worm and the Fiery Fire Stork.

"Could you two recognize the script on this? Is it written in Dragon Clan script?" Yue Jinghua caught a glimpse of the characters on the stele and felt they looked somewhat familiar.

After thinking carefully, she remembered that the characters resembled those in a letter previously brought from the Moon Plane by the Fiery Fire Stork.

Unfortunately, last time when she encountered the Five-Colored Jiao Dragon Ji Xuechen, it was during a tumultuous period, and she didn’t have the opportunity to inquire in detail about the Dragon Clan script.

After taking out the letter for comparison, Yue Jinghua became even more certain that the stele at the Moon Goddess Tower was written in Dragon Clan script.

Could it be that this lighthouse and the Holy Runes here were left by a Dragon Clan Tattoo Master?

Yue Jinghua was not sure in her heart, so she could only let the Gold Eater Worm and Fiery Fire Stork, who knew a bit about Dragon Clan script, compare and translate the limited Dragon Clan script they knew.

After a session of translation, although they did not fully understand, it generally confirmed Yue Jinghua’s conjecture.

This Moon Goddess Tower was indeed left by the ancestors of the Dragon Clan. For some reason, a few Dragon Clan sages happened to pass by this place and saw that the fishermen here were suffering from Sea Beast attacks, so they built the Goddess Tower here together and carved a large number of Holy Runes on the thirteenth floor of the tower.

It was precisely these more than a thousand Holy Runes that transformed Fandi Port from a fishing village plagued by Sea Beast attacks into the strongest sea port of the Empire.

The time indicated at the end of the stele showed that it has been over eight hundred years since these Dragon Clan Tattoo Masters built this tower.

"Over eight hundred years, merely with one thousand and eight Holy Runes, to have protected Fandi Port from Sea Beast attacks for over eight hundred years, this is simply incredible," Yue Jinghua barely read "understood" this stele.

Yue Jinghua couldn’t help but look up towards the Holy Runes located at the zenith of the lighthouse.

She gazed at those Holy Runes dazedly, until the sky gradually darkened, still remaining motionless as if petrified.

When Chi Xi came to deliver food, she saw Yue Jinghua still unmoving, standing like a statue. She worriedly waited by her side.

At that moment, Yue Jinghua moved slightly, but, disregarding decorum, she sat down, then sprawled out with her hands behind her head, lying directly on the ground.

"Auntie, you don’t need to wait for me. I’ll eat when I’m hungry, you should go back earlier," Yue Jinghua spoke, her eyes still fixed on the Holy Runes above, unmoving as if enchanted.

Seeing this, Chi Xi was both helpless and amused, and could only shake her head and leave.

Yue Jinghua lay there, and as night fell, the previously dim Holy Runes in the daylight lit up like candles, emitting a soft, gentle light.

That gentle light, just like moonlight, was not harsh to the eyes.

The lighthouse gradually brightened, and the gentle light formed by the collective Holy Runes shone like a bright moon over the sea, lighting up the lighthouse, with the light from the Holy Runes shining out along the way.

The dark sea surface turned bright due to the lighthouse.

Gradually, Yue Jinghua’s eyelids began to droop, and her eyes started to feel sore, but she still couldn’t bear to close them.

Those more than a thousand Holy Runes, like a sky full of stars, constantly twirled before her eyes.