Chapter 16 Ancient Master
A large amount of elemental energy entered the rune array, and the surrounding space was distorted. The surrounding forest was folded up like a photo. A few wrinkles suddenly appeared on the originally flat space, but they were quickly smoothed out under the effect of the elemental energy.

The magic aura dissipated, and the surrounding terrain had changed dramatically. The forest near the manor and the land disappeared by about thirty acres. The forest thirty acres away began to border the manor, as if it had always been like this.

Richard breathed a sigh of relief, and the originally rich elemental energy around him became extremely thin, almost indistinguishable from the elemental energy in the low-magic world outside.

Originally, he was not able to perform the space folding technique at his level, but this time he succeeded with the help of the rune formation arranged in the elemental land.

The space folding array was successfully established, and Richard's manor villa increased by thirty times. In the folded space, Richard had arranged a large number of rune arrays. He planned to build a small botanical garden here to cultivate magic plants.

Almost all wizards and arcanists will build their own botanical gardens. Those who are not strong enough, like Richard, will build a small garden, while those who are strong enough will build a secret ecological park with a radius of hundreds of kilometers. Those who are even stronger will create a demiplane.

A botanical garden can only cultivate some magical plants, but an ecological park can form a relatively complete ecosystem, which can cultivate magical beasts and plants, and transform magical minerals. A demiplane is equivalent to a small world.

The Supreme Arcane Council Alliance where Richard was originally located, the demiplane built by the Arcane Alliance has a scale of at least tens of millions of square kilometers, including oceans, land, glaciers, deserts and other environments, and millions of people live in it. Every year, a large amount of supplies are provided to the Supreme Arcane Council Alliance.

The Supreme Arcane Council has five demiplanes of this level, and each great arcanist also has his own private demiplane. This is also one of the assets that the Supreme Arcane Council can compete with the gods of faith in Motera.

Richard began to transform his back garden, infusing elemental power into the garden, changing the environment in the garden, and then carefully selected a large number of plants to begin magical induction cultivation.

Arcanists have conducted extensive research on magical plants and animals and found that the vast majority of magical plants are mutated from ordinary plants.

The reasons for the mutation are caused by the environment, elemental energy concentration, lighting conditions and other factors. The arcanists induce these plants by imitating these environmental conditions, and eventually, after generations of cultivation, they mutate ordinary plants into magical plants.

Richard is now using this method to cultivate various magical plants.

Because of his extensive experience in the Arcane Parliament Alliance, Richard had also cultivated a large number of magical plants before, so it was not difficult for him to cultivate them again. It didn't take much effort for Richard to cultivate a lot of magical plants.

In the Himalayas, at the Kamar-Taj Temple, a group of mage apprentices were turning grinding wheels. Sparks were flying in the air. From time to time, some images flashed in the air, but they quickly disappeared.

These mages are practicing portals.

High in the temple, a tall and thin figure was looking into the distance, and in front of him, another gem was emitting a bright light. Time kept changing around him, and time seemed to be controlled by him at this moment. After a while, the light of the time gem slowly converged, and Master Ancient One opened his eyes. During this period of time, he suddenly found that there were some changes in the timeline, and the future had changed, so he used the power of the time gem to start looking for the reason for the change in the timeline. At the same time, he went to see what changes would happen in the future.

But what surprised her was that after searching through more than 10 million timelines, she still couldn't find out what person or time had changed the timeline.

So he traveled through time and went back to the past to search. His efforts paid off and he finally discovered a change in the timeline and even found the reason for the change. However, when he wanted to observe, he found that the area was obscured by fog and he could not see who caused the change.

Ancient One was very surprised. You know, this situation has never happened since she got the Time Stone. Even Odin, the God King of Asgard, couldn't block his own figure in the long river of time.

The Ancient One used the Time Stone to travel to the future for observation, and found that more changes had occurred in the future, but these changes were also shrouded in fog and could not be observed. However, the timeline was not destroyed, which made the Ancient One very curious.

At the same time, Master Ancient One also tried to use the Time Stone to forcibly clear the fog, but as soon as she had this idea, she felt a huge eye appear in the long river of time and space. An invisible fear appeared in her heart, as if if she really did this, something terrible would happen.

Master Ancient One didn't do it in the end.

Just now, she came out of the long river of time again. Although she did not find the answer, she did not gain nothing. The changes in the future world are much better than the original timeline.

Since the timeline did not collapse and became better, Gu Yi did not pursue the reason. Of course, she planned to go out and see it with her own eyes. Although she could not find that person from the timeline, the real world was not blocked by fog, so she could see it after all.

Richard didn't know that the Ancient One was trying to find his past and future through the Time Stone. Of course, even if he knew, he wouldn't care. After he was promoted to the Grand Archmage, he began to hide his past and future. At the same time, he also extracted the divine power of the evil gods, integrated it into himself, and used the divine power to seal his past and future.

Richard is also a master of the prophecy school. He is proficient in prophecy and knows the flaws of prophecy. Therefore, he has carried out various countermeasures against prophecy. In fact, prophecy is not as magical as imagined. It just shows you various possible futures. What you see may not happen.

Divine power has the ability to block prophecy, and coupled with the layer upon layer of seals imposed on Richard during his heyday, not only on his present self, but also on his future self, his figure in the long river of time and space is shrouded in a layer of mist. It is almost impossible for Master Ancient One to "see" him in the long river of time through prophecy.

Fortunately, Master Ancient One used the Time Stone to investigate, and did not use the prophecy on Richard directly, so he would not be backlashed. If others used the prophecy on him, they would be backlashed immediately. As for the severity of the backlash, it depends on the strength of the prophecy used.

(End of this chapter)