"What an intoxicating fragrance!" Fang Zhou thought to himself.

Instructor Su Xinyan's gaze met his.

Like a lazy cat, she gently raised her arm and beckoned him closer.

Fang Zhou stepped forward and asked with a smile, "Instructor, it's rare to see you drinking. What's the story behind this wine?"

Instructor Su Xinyan slowly lifted the wine glass, her rosy lips gently touching the rim.

"This is 'Enchanting Demon's Blood.' It is a rare vintage my father obtained with great difficulty from his comrade-in-arms. Its base is the heartblood of a high-tier Enchanting Demon, refined through a series of complex and exquisite magical techniques. For high-tier Casters and Supporters, it is nothing less than a gift from the heavens."

Fang Zhou gazed at Su Xinyan with burning eyes, his face full of anticipation.

Rich lady, I'm hungry! Feed me!

Facing Fang Zhou's eyes filled with longing, Su Xinyan gently wrinkled her delicate nose.

"The preciousness and rarity of this 'Enchanting Demon's Blood' are self-evident, but that's not the main point. The truly tricky part is that digesting it requires an extremely powerful Spiritual Power. Otherwise, its Charming Power will become an abyssal whirlpool, completely devouring a person and transforming them into one of those twisted, mindless maggots of the Abyss."

Her words were like a cold wind, sending a chill through Fang Zhou's heart.

"Fang Zhou, your current realm of strength is far from the level needed to handle this gift," Su Xinyan's voice carried a note of regret. "But this fine wine... one day, you will be worthy of tasting it."

A trace of regret flashed across Fang Zhou's face, but he also understood that this was not something that could be forced. He then smiled, gently steering the conversation elsewhere.

The atmosphere between them became warm and harmonious once again.

After a few more minutes of affectionate banter with Instructor Su Xinyan, Fang Zhou finally remembered he had business to attend to.

He took a brocade box containing the black Magic Bottle from his Space Storage Capsule and handed it to Su Xinyan.

Inside the brocade box, the black Magic Bottle lay quietly, exuding a heart-stirring, mysterious allure.

Instructor Su Xinyan put down the glass of 'Enchanting Demon's Blood', picked up the Magic Bottle, and walked with light steps toward the center of the laboratory.

Under the microscope, the inscriptions and patterns on the Magic Bottle were magnified to their extreme, every detail clearly displayed.

After a long time, she looked up, the light in her eyes brighter than ever before.

"Fang Zhou, I can tell you with absolute certainty that this black Magic Bottle is the handiwork of the Naraku Civilization."

"The Naraku Civilization?" Fang Zhou repeated the name, a surge of curiosity rising in his heart.

"Fang Zhou, you have undergone three months of systematic study at Sea City Military Academy. You should understand just how ferocious and powerful the Abyssal Demons we face are. We humans on Blue Star have, to date, only resisted a small fraction of the Abyssal Demons' power. Yet, we have already spent decades and paid the price of billions of lives just to barely maintain the current situation.

"Through years of verification and research, we have discovered that the Abyssal Demon race also left a deep and significant mark in the Mythical World. They are the incarnation of war, the harbingers of destruction. In the chronicles of the Mythical World, countless powerful civilizations and races were ground to dust beneath their iron hooves. These civilizations were like meteors in the night sky—brief, yet incomparably brilliant.

"And the Naraku Civilization," Instructor Su Xinyan's voice carried a hint of wistfulness, "was precisely one such civilization destroyed by the Abyssal Demons. According to the archaeological materials we've unearthed from the Mythical World and Spatial Fragments, the Naraku Civilization was an extremely rare entity. They constructed a unique combat system centered on the power of the Undead Attribute. Their research into the power of the Undead Attribute reached an astonishing height that was almost peerless. It's said that one of the most powerful Undead Mages on Blue Star, Sandro, opened the door to his peak by inadvertently acquiring part of the Naraku Civilization's legacy."

Instructor Su Xinyan turned and briefly explained the origins and history of the Naraku Civilization to Fang Zhou.

This was Fang Zhou's first detailed encounter with a civilization from the Mythical World other than Blue Star's own.

In Instructor Su Xinyan's account, the Naraku Civilization's core combat strength was based on the Undead Attribute. The Mages of Naraku could summon the undead, communicate with the dead, and even create Undead Legions to protect their lands and secrets.

However, this power also attracted the attention of the Abyssal Demons. This group of evil beings from the depths of darkness had long coveted the knowledge and technology mastered by the Naraku Civilization. They envied Naraku's ability to control death, seeing it as an infringement upon their own domain.

Thus, an Abyss Demon God decided to launch a war of conquest, intending to seize the secrets of the Naraku Civilization's Undead Magic.

The war was brutal and relentless. The defenders of Naraku bravely resisted, using their Undead Legions and magic to fend off the invaders. But the Abyssal Demons were too powerful and numerous, and they gradually wore down the Naraku Civilization's Undead Defense Line.

At a critical moment in the war, the Abyssal Demons performed a forbidden ritual, opening a rift into Naraku's core region. The rift released endless Dark Energy, which swallowed the Naraku Civilization's heartland. Although the Naraku Mages tried to close the rift with all their might, they ultimately could not stop the Abyssal Demon invasion.

In despair, the leader of the Naraku mages made the ultimate sacrifice, using their civilization's most powerful magic in an attempt to banish the Abyssal Demons back to the Abyss. However, this act, while heavily injuring the Abyssal Demons, also led to the complete collapse of the Naraku Civilization. Cities turned to ruins, the people either perished or fled, and the civilization's glory vanished in an instant.

In the embers of the war, the relics of the Naraku Civilization were scattered across the cursed land, serving as a warning to future generations not to tread lightly into the realm of death. The surviving Naraku mages could only flee with their knowledge, sowing the seeds of Undead Magic to the various corners of the Mythical World.

During the few decades since the Era of Myth began and Blue Star started merging with the Mythical World, a very small portion of the Naraku Civilization's legacy entered Blue Star through Spatial Fragments.

Golden Tier Undead Mage Sandro was one of the lucky few who inherited part of the Naraku Civilization's legacy, continuing to explore the mysteries of life and death on the edge of darkness and light.

Blue Star humanity's archaeological findings on the Naraku Civilization not only chronicled its tragic epic from glory to decline, but the story also became a cautionary tale for later generations.

After pondering for a moment, Fang Zhou asked curiously, "Instructor Xinyan, why do you know so much about the history of the Naraku Civilization?"

Instructor Su Xinyan replied, "For that, we naturally have Mage Sandro's generosity and selflessness to thank. He shared technical data from the Naraku Civilization and its ancient, mysterious knowledge with us, the younger generation of Undead Mages. He also generously provided several relics of the Naraku Civilization that he had acquired. It is through this sharing that we have come to understand so much about this long-lost civilization. In fact, a large part of the Undead Mage profession's lineage on Blue Star today is founded upon the legacy of the Naraku Civilization."

At this point, Instructor Su Xinyan's gaze locked onto the black Magic Bottle.

"These markings... they mean 'Fog.' Perhaps the effect of this black Magic Bottle is also closely related to 'Fog.'"

Fang Zhou's heart skipped a beat as he recalled the words of his third-year senior, Yue Pengfei.

When the black Magic Bottle was discovered, it released a gray smoke suffused with Undead Attribute energy.

After telling Instructor Su Xinyan what his senior, Yue Pengfei, had told him, Fang Zhou stared at her intently.

"This gray smoke... what kind of power does it truly hide?"

With a light flick of her finger, Instructor Su Xinyan smiled. "The answer is actually in your hands, Fang Zhou. Haven't you already found a preliminary way to activate the black Magic Bottle?"

Fang Zhou nodded, took a deep breath, and once again activated his [Soul Realm] skill.

As his Spiritual Power flowed into it, the patterns on the Magic Bottle's surface began to glow faintly.

"Here, let me try."

Su Xinyan observed for a moment, then closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She imitated the frequency of Fang Zhou's Spiritual Power, attempting to establish a connection with the external Undead Attribute energy.

Fang Zhou had tried countless times to activate it but had never been able to unlock its core secret. Now, under Su Xinyan's guidance, the black Magic Bottle was like a shy maiden finally unveiling her mysterious veil, revealing the true mystery it contained.

A thick, gray smoke slowly rose from the bottle's mouth.

With astonishing mana control, Su Xinyan tightly confined the gray smoke to a range no more than five centimeters from the bottle's mouth.

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