The villainous young master just wants to live a Buddhist-like life.

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　Looking around, you'll find that the "scales" pattern appears very frequently in this golden temple; it's almost everywhere you look.

　"Does this scale symbolize the Land of Gold, or the alchemist?" Darke pondered.

　But at that moment, a figure suddenly appeared beside him, entered the golden hall, and continued to walk forward step by step.

　Dak suddenly looked up, surprised.

　The figures on the left and right belonged to Malt and Alibaba. Their behavior was clearly abnormal, and it was obvious that they were being manipulated mentally.

　However, the flowers of "Shemi" still emit the fragrance of "aromatherapy", and theoretically, any abnormal condition will be relieved as soon as it appears.

　Unless, of course, the abnormal state exceeds the purifying power of "aromatherapy", or it does not belong to "abnormal state".

　Dark's mind was quick

　He quickly dismissed the above thoughts, then raised his hand and clapped his hands, saying, "Little Devimon, Devi Hypnosis."

　Regardless of what tricks Malt and Alibaba fell for, let's start with a hypnotic wave.

　"Little Devimon" took off in response, quickly circled around to the front of Malt and Alibaba, and then opened its mouth to unleash a hypnotic wave.

　The two people's eyes, wide open to their limit, slowly closed under hypnosis, then they stopped and fell straight down.

　"Little Devimon" quickly supported Malt's body, then watched helplessly as Alibaba fell to the ground.

　"boom!"

　It sounds painful.

　Dark opened his mouth, glancing at Emma with slight concern, only to find that Emma also seemed to be affected by something negative. However, her mental strength was strong, and she barely resisted the erosion of some kind of will.

　"What's going on?" Dark asked.

　Emma covered her forehead, her face slightly pale, and said, "Just now, I suddenly had an extremely strong urge to sit on the throne. Luckily, my willpower is strong enough, otherwise I would have been as embarrassed as those two."

　"Can you hold on?" Dak asked with concern.

　Emma lowered her hand and nodded, saying, "It's alright, barely."

　Dark said, "Those two, like you, probably harbored a desire to sit on the throne. What secrets lie hidden on that throne?"

　Emma said, "It can't be a good thing. Don't you feel anything?"

　Dark shook his head and said, "Although I don't know why, I really didn't feel anything at all."

　Emma smiled wryly, "Does that thing about feelings really discriminate between people?" Dark smiled and walked into the hall, saying, "We'll find out once we study it." He then headed straight for the throne.

　Besides Malt and Alibaba, Ash was also clearly affected, but she was pulled back in time by "Fantasy Beast: Goddess of the Mind's Eye" and locked in the carriage.

　Ashe's mental strength was not weak either, but Emma was able to barely resist, while Ashe had no chance to resist at all.

　Therefore, Emma's ability to hold on should not be solely due to her mental strength.

　Correspondingly, Dark and his magical spirits were unaffected, which was clearly not solely due to their mental strength.

　Dark understood this as soon as he took his first step. He was also certain that he wouldn't be affected. So he went straight to the throne and began to study it carefully.

　This golden throne is quite large, giving the impression that the "king" sitting on it is a size larger than an ordinary person.

　On the back of the throne, there is also a carving with a "scale" pattern as the central motif.

　But apart from that, there was nothing else noteworthy. Dark's attention quickly shifted to the pillars standing on either side of the throne.

　The two pillars were about the height of a person, with openings at the top, each holding a pair of scales.

　A golden bead rests on the left scale. A golden heart rests on the right scale.

　The two balances thus tilted towards the side with the heavy object.

　Dak stood on the left side of the balance for a while, then suddenly reached out and pressed down on the empty pan with a little force.

　The next second, a string of incantations flooded into his mind. He immediately memorized it and blurted out, "Nothing happened."

　Emma, ​​standing to the side, looked at him with a slightly puzzled expression.

　Dak blushed and explained, "A string of incantations just entered my mind, and I recited it subconsciously."

　Emma's attention immediately shifted to the scales, and she became restless.

　Dark advised, "It's best not to try it rashly."

　Emma clenched and unclenched her right hand several times before finally exhaling and saying, "Never mind."

　Curiosity killed the cat; some things really shouldn't be tried lightly. She knew she wasn't immune to that kind of mental interference like Darke, and that carelessly touching the scales could very well lead to trouble.

　Even if something went wrong, her main concern was that she didn't want to hold Dark back. She'd already become more of an accessory along the way, and she absolutely didn't want to become a burden.

　Seeing that she had given up on touching it, Dak walked to the balance scale on the right, placed his hand on the empty pan, and applied a little force. As he pressed down, the pan containing the heart rose. When the two pans were level, Dak suddenly felt his heart skip a beat, as if a frame had been abruptly cut off.

　But after that, my heartbeat returned to normal, as if nothing had happened.

　But he suddenly withdrew his hand, then extended his index finger and held it up in front of him. As magic flowed, the tip of that index finger slowly, slowly turned golden!

　Dak felt a jolt in his heart, and the layer of gold quickly faded, revealing the original shape of his index finger.

　"What did you gain this time?" Emma asked, her eyes wide. Dark frowned, pondered for a moment, and then said, "A very special power has appeared in my heart."

　Emma asked, "Alchemy, the art of turning lead into gold?"

　Dark hesitated, but still said, "That's somewhat true, but it doesn't seem quite right. But I have a feeling that if you tell me the principle of turning lead into gold now, I should be able to use it."

　Emma's heart skipped a beat, and she said, "A special power that can turn lead into gold... Could it be that the Golden King's ability to turn lead into gold was developed based on this special power, rather than being pure alchemy?"

　Dark shook his head and said, "The materials themselves are also part of alchemy; there is no such thing as pure or impure."

　The explanation is that without this power as a raw material, the alchemy of turning lead into gold might be impossible. Those gold elementals likely use a similar power. We can tentatively call it "Golden Power."

　After Emma understood, she said with considerable envy, "So, it seems that the ancient alchemy the Golden King spoke of was also based on this golden power, just like how we need magic power as a foundation to activate a transmutation circle."

　Dark pondered for a moment, then nodded and said, "That's possible."

　Emma then asked, "In that case, are there any other ways to obtain the power of gold?"

　Dark looked at the scales and gently tapped the golden heart on the other side. The seemingly intact golden heart suddenly turned into golden dust and scattered on the scale pan.

　The golden bead on the other side, though outwardly intact, had likely turned to powder inside, just like the golden heart.

　This shows that the incantation and the inheritance of the golden power are both unrepeatable. Darke's heart stirred, and he sensed the golden power in his heart, then recited the incantation again.

　After the incantation was recited, it indeed activated the power of gold. But still, nothing happened.

　"I already have the incantation and the power, so what's wrong?" Dark thought quickly, but couldn't find the answer.

　Emma, ​​on the other hand, suddenly looked surprised. Then she clutched her head and shook it violently. After a while, she suddenly said, "That feeling is gone."

　Dark looked up and asked, "What?"

　Emma said, "That urge to sit on the throne."

　As the golden orb and the golden heart turned to dust, the power that had stirred the heart and made it yearn to sit on the throne also vanished completely.

　Aisha was the first to regain consciousness and walk out of the carriage.

　Dak had her carry the malt and Alibaba into the carriage, and then continued to observe the entire temple.

　Now that the biggest destabilizing factor in this temple has been eliminated, theoretically it's time to reap the rewards.

　Everything in the hall could be called a "harvest." Dak and Emma immediately began photocopying and recording. A wealth of information could be gleaned from those patterns and murals, which would be extremely helpful for archaeological research.

　Of course, what Dark wanted even more was to find information about the transmutation circle that the Golden King had set up in the mural from this information.

　"Click."

　After the throne, as Dak was exploring the reliefs on the wall, he suddenly pressed one into the wall. Immediately afterward, the sound of mechanisms turning came from the wall, and a door leading to the next section was revealed.

　The door is also engraved with a large amount of text information.

　But Dark, who didn't understand the language of the Golden Kingdom, couldn't be sure if it was a puzzle. However, Emma, ​​having heard the sound, quickly determined that it was indeed the sixth puzzle wall.

　This puzzle wall also has a lot of information engraved on it.

　After a quick glance, Emma realized that the preceding text of this riddle also contained a great deal of basic knowledge related to ancient alchemy.

　Moreover, the difficulty of this problem has increased, and it will probably require a deeper understanding of ancient alchemy to solve the mystery.

　In short, she immediately began translating.

　Meanwhile, Dak continued to record the information inside the temple.

　In the blink of an eye, he suddenly saw "Little Devilmon" fly up to the ceiling and grab onto the gold ornaments hanging from the ceiling, making a series of wild guesses.

　"These lousy things are no match for what we'd rather dig out those glowing golden balls."

　Dark couldn't help but make a sarcastic remark, which became a royal decree from "Devimon".

　"Little Devimon" began to dig forcefully at the glowing sphere embedded in the ceiling.

　Some of the golden spheres were unearthed, damaging the hall's lighting system. [[Devimon]] ultimately only managed to retrieve a few golden spheres and carry them into the carriage, also taking some gold ornaments with it.

　After recording the faces of the soldiers and ministers, Dak returned to the puzzle wall, retrieved the translation results, and began to work together to solve the puzzle.

　This puzzle-solving took a little over an hour in total.

　While Dark was carefully verifying the basic knowledge of ancient alchemy, Emma solved the problem before he could.

　Write the answer on the puzzle wall, and the wall will emit golden light, and then it will begin to rise.

　This indicates that the answer is correct.

　Emma's lips curled into a smile, a sense of accomplishment rising within her of having defeated Dark. Dark, watching the slowly rising puzzle wall, also smiled slightly. This was the sixth puzzle wall, but what lay beyond it wasn't exactly a new level. After careful observation, Dark confirmed that the passage behind the wall was temporarily safe, and chose to continue his unfinished research.

　So they stayed in that hall for another half hour before setting off again without any rush.

　There were still no traps or mechanisms in the passage after that.

　Learning from his experience, Dak boarded the "Moon Chariot" and sped forward. Before long, he had completed the journey and arrived at the end of the road—where the seventh puzzle wall stood!

　But this seventh puzzle wall only has two or three lines of text engraved on it.

　Although Dak didn't understand, he couldn't help but feel sorry for him. Such a short text obviously couldn't contain too much knowledge. This time, the puzzle might just be a question.

　As expected, Emma quickly translated the more profound alchemical questions inscribed on the seventh puzzle wall.

　But after reading the translation, Dark suddenly looked up and couldn't help but look at Emma.

　Emma nodded slightly and said, "That's right."

　Dark was surprised: "In that case, let's try writing down the predetermined answer first."

　The question written on the seventh puzzle wall was none other than the alchemical principle they had actually learned in Professor Cazell's alchemy class.

　Although modern alchemy is not exactly the same as ancient alchemy, it reveals the same principle and seems to be applicable to both.

　Emma filled in the answer directly, and it proved to be correct! The seventh puzzle wall was thus solved.

　Dark recalled the questions and answers before continuing forward. The puzzle on the seventh puzzle wall was supposed to be extremely difficult, but they had the answers readily available and passed the level directly.

　The passage behind the wall remained safe, but its length suddenly shortened, and it came to an end in no time.

　What blocks the end of this passage is not a puzzle wall, but a huge golden door that is more than ten meters high!

　The door is a double door with a relief of a balance scale in the middle, and there is nothing particularly remarkable about it.

　After studying the relief sculpture for a long time without success, Dak suddenly had a flash of inspiration and used the power of gold to recite the incantation he had learned in the Golden Palace.

　As the incantation ended, the golden gate opened in response.

　A blinding golden light leaked out from the crack in the door, turning the pitch-black carriage a golden hue.

　Behind that enormous golden door stood countless golden coffins in the vast hall!

　Countless golden coffins stood upright, surrounding the center like birds paying homage to a phoenix or stars surrounding the moon. At that very center, only one coffin lay flat.

　It is also a golden coffin, but it is more luxurious and larger than the surrounding golden coffins.

　The golden coffin was engraved with a scale relief. It was the coffin of the Golden King! "Rumble..."

　The sudden tremor jolted Darke awake from his shock.

　All the golden coffins except for the Golden King's golden coffin trembled as the ground shook.

　A terrifying aura suddenly surged into the main hall.

Chapter 1104 The Blood Sacrifice and the Revival of Gold (4k)

　"Buzz!"