Feng Chou spent more than a month patrolling this huge archipelago using teleportation.
He found that there were humans in this archipelago. Not only were there humans, but there were quite a lot of them.
On the few large islands in the northwest, there were even countries.
However, the human civilization here was still in a rather primitive state.
There were blood sacrifices and headhunting everywhere. Agriculture was still in the slash-and-burn stage. Hunting and fishing still took up a large share of the local food.
In terms of industry, the shamans here could use earth element magic to extract small amounts of precious metals from minerals and forge high-quality knives. However, ordinary people still mainly used magic wood, magic ore, and animal bones.
The civilization here belonged to the alternating stage between shaman civilization and mythical civilization.
In the southeast of the archipelago, most of the humans on the small islands were still in shaman civilization.
However, on the large islands in the northwest, some countries had already established temples and religions.
Arcanists' research showed that in the early days of human civilization, the shaman civilization was the first to be born. The shamans discovered the existence of the power of faith from the primitive totem worship of the tribes and learned to use this power to form shamanism.
However, with the deepening of human religious behavior and the increase of the population, the accumulation of the power of faith accelerated. Primitive divine creatures began to be born from the accumulated power of faith.
Once a divine creature was successfully born, it would kill the shaman who stole their power or occupy the shaman's body to become the tribe's totem god.
At this time, the totem god was just a divine creature and was still far from being a true god.
With the accumulation of divinity, the divine creature would eventually transform into a butterfly.
However, in fact, the ancient divine creatures that could truly transform into butterflies were very rare.
Because there were countless traps between the totem god and the true god. As long as a totem god stepped into any one of them, it would be a dead end.
For example, blood sacrifice could indeed enhance the power of the totem god, but it would also pollute the spirit of the totem god and cause them to fall into madness.
For example, in the multi-god domain, people's desires were endless. They hoped that their totem god could satisfy them in all aspects. Therefore, many totem gods would slowly be shaped by the faith of their believers into multi-god domain gods, or even omnipotent gods.
For example, when a seedling was struggling to grow, a lousy farmer grafted many branches that needed a lot of nutrients, hoping that it would grow into an omnipotent tree. As a result, the seedling would naturally die of malnutrition.
The third trap was devouring. If there were multiple totem gods in one area, then fighting and devouring each other would be inevitable.
In fact, if you ate a totem god that was in the same area as you, it would be good for your growth. But if you ate a totem god that was in a completely different area, it would make you go crazy. The xenogeneic divinity you ate would be like a virus or cancer. It would make you die.
In short, according to the research of the Arcanists, the growth of a Totem God into a True God could only be considered a small probability event that happened during the long Ancient Era. Madness and death were the normal endings of a Totem God.
What was happening on this island was proof of the arcanists' theory.
This land was filled with the practice of hunting humans and blood sacrifices. It was filled with war. The gods in the temples on the large islands all had a long list of names.
Feng Chou left a spatial beacon on an island covered in dense forest in the middle of the archipelago, and then teleported back to Green Dragon Island.
This archipelago was too far away from the civilized world. According to Qiankun Pagoda's estimates, this place was at least a million kilometers away from the Green Southern Continent. It was already beyond the safe range of Greater Teleportation.
Greater Teleportation claimed to be able to teleport to any place in the world, but in reality, it wasn't unlimited.
Restricted by a mage's casting level and spiritual force, ordinary Great Mages could only teleport to a safe distance of a hundred thousand kilometers. Even Legendary Mages could only teleport to a safe distance of three hundred thousand kilometers. Beyond this safe distance, the accuracy of Greater Teleportation would be greatly reduced, making it easy for accidents to occur.
If a mage wanted to teleport beyond the safe distance of Greater Teleportation, the only way was to leave a teleportation beacon at the destination.
This was also why Feng Chou wanted to destroy the teleportation beacon at Bloodsail Town.
Even a Legendary Mage couldn't teleport to a distance of more than a million kilometers without relying on a teleportation beacon. A Great Mage couldn't even find the right direction.
In other words, if a Legendary Mage hadn't come to Bloodsail Town, and the beacon left behind by a Great Mage was destroyed, then unless Feng Chou's spatial lock array failed, it would be very difficult for the Bloodsail Pirates to find this place.
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When Feng Chou teleported to Green Dragon Island, he wasn't in the harbor town, nor was he in the dragon's den. Instead, he was in a barren valley at the northeastern end of the island.
This wasn't because Feng Chou's teleportation had made a mistake. Teleportation with the beacon's location would never have made a mistake.
The reason he was teleported here was because he had set the beacon here in the first place.
The reason why Feng Chou had set up the spatial beacon here was mainly because of his cautious nature. He had placed the spatial beacon in the middle of nowhere. On one hand, it was to prevent the beacon from being easily found and destroyed, or to prevent others from waiting for him near the beacon.
In reality, Feng Chou had set up many permanent teleportation beacons in secluded places in the Northern and Southern Continents.
After more than two years of construction, Green Dragon Island's current appearance had already realized Feng Chou's original vision.
A brand-new town stood at the end of a triangular bay with its back against the mountain range. A small stream flowed along the foot of the mountain into the moat outside the town, circling around the city before flowing into the bay.
On the hill north of the town stood a sturdy mid-sized castle.
The school that was originally located at the northeastern corner of the town had expanded significantly. The school that was originally one was now divided into two parts. The larger part of the campus had many tower-like buildings erected. Most of these tower-like buildings were elementary magic laboratories, with a small portion being intermediate magic laboratories. In the middle of the buildings, there was even an advanced magic laboratory.
When Feng Chou abducted people from the Eastern Isles and Tailun City, he had abducted a few rogue magicians.
These rogue magicians were not loved by anyone in Alvendell. If they weren't high-class nobles, nobody would care even if they went missing.
Therefore, Feng Chou had boldly abducted a few rogue magicians with decent talent or special abilities. Among them were a few magic architects.
There were magic architects, ordinary architects, stonemasons, carpenters and other craftsmen. It wasn't difficult to form a few magic construction teams.
Among the rogue magicians abducted by Feng Chou, there was a very old advanced magic architect.
In order to convince this old magic architect to serve him wholeheartedly, Feng Chou didn't even hesitate to use a portion of black dragon blood essence to conduct a black dragon bloodline ceremony for him, granting him 200 years of lifespan. Of course, the prerequisite was that the old magic architect and Feng Chou had to sign a 100 year labor contract.
As for the other rogue magicians, after Feng Chou signed a contract with them to exchange contribution points for magical knowledge, they obediently stayed behind.
The magic laboratories in the school were naturally the masterpieces of these magic construction teams.