Two months later, Lin Luoran comes out of the basement, holding a porcelain bottle and feels satisfied.
She thinks it won't hurt to make more preparations since they are going to explore the interstellar transmission circle and find the ancient book of the monsters of wood.
Yang Lisha has been waiting for her for too long. She doesn't yell at her only because she finally finds Lin Luoran ready to go.
Lin Luoran has only planned to take Yuan Ye and Goldie with her, but Mr. Lin volunteers to go together. The cyan little fox grabs Lin Luoran's trouser legs tightly before they leave. Li Xi'er has to stay at home and look after Yang Lisha's precious Acacia tree. As for Zeng Tian, he still needs to practice Spells of the Five Elements. He stays because his abilities are too limited to join the adventure.
Huang Weijian wants to go, but he gives up after Lin Luoran tells him he is going to take the entrance examination for senior
"The Babel Tower was first built by the Neo-Babylonian Empire. The city of Babylon was the most prosperous and magnificent one in the region of the Two Rivers. The most spectacular buildings in the city were the Nebuchadnezzar Palace, the famous Hanging Gardens, and the Babel Tower that was said to enrage God. The Babel Tower was built in 600 BC when Huaxia was in the Spring and Autumn Period of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. If the Babel Tower really exists and is the interstellar transmission circle that can only be used by cultivators, what are the Hanging Gardens?" The Tower of Heaven in the legends appears in front of Lin Luoran. Historical records show that it was never completed. The reign of the Neo-Babylonian Empire only lasted for hundreds of years. It was too short to complete the Tower. At the same time, Huaxia entered the Spring and Autumn Period, and the wars of the Warring States Period were just around the corner. Why did wars break out in tw
Thousands of years ago, there was no industrial pollution. When night fell, stars in the sky were like gems set on black cloth. Lin Luoran is in a relatively clean and tidy room in a group of low houses made of mud. She looks outside the window and sees an oasis in the earth-yellow city with so many mud houses under the stars. A higher wall encircles a higher land in the city. That is the palace of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. "Do you mean that the test behind the gate we entered is a restoration of real scenes in the Neo-Babylonian Empire, 600 BC?" Lin Luoran caresses the asleep cyan little fox. Stars are shining. Goldie stands at the window and looks into the distance with a lot of confusion in his eyes. Yang Lisha paces in the room, "We are brought back to the Neo-Babylonian Empire around 600 BC by the Tower of Heaven. In a more popular term of human beings, we passed through time to the past." Lin Luoran re
People are standing in orderly ranks. The yard is lit by the fire. The shadow of a date palm is reflected on the mud wall. To Lin Luoran and Yang Lisha's surprise, they are not slaves of the Agebels. The bearded Babylonian man they saw in the afternoon is hiding in the crowd and pointing disdainfully to them. Those people clearly are soldiers because they are holding spear-like weapons and shields. Are they soldiers of the Neo-Babylonian Empire? Maybe they are patrolling the city wearing short leather armors that look like skirts. If they weren't coming to catch them, Lin Luoran would be very interested in these soldiers who live more than two thousand years ago. "You know how to get out, right?" Although Lin Luoran loses her Reiki, she can still do Tai Chi. It's not difficult to run away from a team of poorly armed Babylonian soldiers. Yang Lisha nods, "Don't kill them. I can feel that there are powerful cultivators in this city!"
“How did I fall asleep?” Lin Luoran touches the cold stone bed and sits up immediately. She is in a palace decorated with a lot of gold foil. It is as bright as daytime inside. The Babylonian architectural features make Lin Luoran realizes that she is in the palace and does not wake up after passing the test of the Tower of Babel and get back to the twenty-first century. However, she clearly remembers that she sneaked into a group of maids and went somewhere similar to the side hall of a palace. Why does she sleep on a bed here? Most of the ordinary people in Babylon wear linen clothes while what is put on the stone bed is authentic silk. “What did the textbook say when I was in school?” Lin Luoran thinks. Didn't the Silk Road arise in the Western Han Dynasty? Why are there silk sheets here? Lin Luoran is resentful, but she then feels that she is too childish and hilarious. The original history of this world shatters little by little afte
Amytis was Nebuchadnezzar II's wife who came from mountain areas of Media. Nebuchadnezzar II built the Hanging Gardens because Amytis missed the scenery in the mountains of her hometown. The Hanging Gardens puzzles many historians and no one knows whether it really existed. If Lin Luoran didn't return to the Neo-Babylonian Empire, she would probably be moved by such stories written in historical documents. However, she never forgets the Median princess is also a cultivator of Huaxia although the princess in front of her blushed when she mentioned Nebuchadnezzar II. The surname of the woman in Shenyi is Ji. Amytis doesn’t know the meaning of it, but Lin Luoran who comes from Huaxia cannot ignore it. In this era, the Zhou Dynasty is about to fall. The Spring and Autumn period has begun, but the royal family of Zhou is still the rightful ruler. Every one from Huaxia is familiar with names such as Ji Chang and Ji Fa. Their stories are written in The Legend
Marduk is the god of Babylon. The Babylonians believe the king’s power is granted by Marduk, and the monks are the god’s servants. People in Babylon must get protected by the god, so they try to please him as hard as they can, hoping to obtain his grace to protect their city and country.The Temple, as a place where Marduk comes down to stop temporarily, is a sacred place that only the king and monks are allowed to have access to it. Only on special days can the king go into the temple with his wife—in this case—Amytis, the princess of Medes to get Marduk’s blessings.The ritual is long. Lin Luoran has nothing to do, but to pretend to be faithful, and wait outside the Temple like others.Besides the Temple stands a stone tower. It is about fifteen or sixteen meters tall, only a head taller than the towering and solid inner city wall. It is not conspicuous, and even looks a little shabby compared with the majestic Temple.All the co
“My priest, this is just part of the stars above us. Is there any problem calling it the star atlas?” Lin Luoran blinks her eyes, pretending to be innocent.The priest stares at her with his experienced eyes. Lin Luoran knows it comes to the vital point, so she just stares back at his wrinkled eyes innocently. This is a battle of stamina and calmness, and she cannot afford to reveal the secret of the jade stairs, nor the fact that she is a woman coming from the future. So, the only solution is to keep pretending.Huaxia people’s facial organs are flatter than the Babylonians and Lin Luoran looks like in her twenties with low personal ability. The priest stares for a long time and chooses to believe her words. It is not because of Lin Luoran’s behavior is so excellent that he is fooled, but deep in his heart he doesn’t believe an eastern girl like her with low personal ability have any connection with the abstract star atlas.However, Lin Luoran
Where do I come from?The fake saintess doesn’t know how to respond. Time flies and she has a quiet, wonderful time. She stays on Earth for a long time, even longer than the time she has spent on her mother planet. It’s normal she cannot think of the name of her mother planet in a minute.“Open the Tower of Babel, priest. I don’t have time to play with you.”Lin Luoran is smiling though there are still tears on her face. This expression stings the fake saintess and she grabs Lin Luoran from the floor.She gnashes her teeth and whispers beside Lin Luoran, “No matter what planet you belong to, what is the point if your host is too feeble?” Of course, she uses the standard interstellar language so that other people cannot understand.The “saintess”, or the “honored oracle” with whom others acquaint, is always cold and elegant. She has never been so hysterical before, so people may wonder what Lin Luoran says to her to mak