Chapter 2692 - 2693: Challenging Design

The artifacts in the exhibition room at Li Mountain Village differ from those in regular classification storage rooms, resembling more of a museum, preserving items delivered from various periods, deemed by the villages as possessing era commemorative value.

For convenience, the entire exhibition room at Li Mountain Village is arranged and displayed chronologically, which results in a complex variety of artifacts in each exhibition room.

Moreover, the entire artifact area was slowly established over time and wasn’t reorganized or sorted later, making the chronological order of the exhibition rooms rather unusual.

Like a museum, one typically follows a tour route along the timeline, whereas the artifact area at Li Mountain Village starts at the center of the village, moving eastward to the oldest era in a small wooden building.

The southern part follows the era of the wooden building, yet continuing chronologically leads to the oldest wooden building’s north, even having a phase in between where the wooden building locations are entirely unordered.

This brings quite a hassle to simple sightseeing, but Feng Yuan doesn’t mind since there is a map on the wall; although each time switching buildings requires looking at the map, it isn’t particularly troublesome.

"Hmm, these items might not be suitable, too ancient."

Feng Yuan rubbed his chin as he looked at the artifacts and muttered, choosing to start from the exhibition room furthest from modern times, as it holds records of Cha Mu Town Area’s cultural prototype.

As expected, these items, though full of ancient flavor, also seem quite primitive and rough. Not that they’re bad, but they’re difficult to directly apply to Spirit Beast Decorations, as such things require cultural reflections not confined to a single era.

Though these conditions are somewhat stringent, Feng Yuan is curious about what the final product will look like—not in appearance, because the appearance of Spirit Beast Decorations changes entirely with the creator’s ideas. Feng Yuan is curious about the ultimate move accompanied by so many restrictions.

Normally, the more constraints, the higher the cost of the ultimate move, and the more wondrous its effect. Feng Yuan doesn’t doubt the strength; his only concern is the applicability of the ultimate move.

Besides combat, many ultimate moves are more used in production and daily life; if it’s the latter, regardless of strength, it holds little significance for Feng Yuan and Xiao Ji.

Xiao Ji will never engage in such tasks, and the inherent difficulty of creating this special Spirit Beast Decoration means Feng Yuan doesn’t plan to talk about it.

This leads to the possibility that if it’s non-combat usage, the accompanying ultimate move becomes truly redundant, as Feng Yuan and Xiao Ji won’t use it, nor will others be aware of its existence, even the Qi Realm Timeline lacks this item.

After all, this requires too many coincidences: specializing in ancient culture while also knowing how to create Spirit Beast Decorations, incorporating at least a century’s features of ancient culture into the decoration during creation, and the ancient culture’s duration must not be less than three hundred years.

The various condition restrictions have led to no one discovering this special Spirit Beast Decoration in the Qi Realm Timeline until now.

The Main World doesn’t even require mentioning since they haven’t even mastered Spirit Beast Decoration creation, let alone other conditions.

"Hmm, what about extracting the main features and integrating them into the patterns?"

Veronia looked at Feng Yuan and asked, which is also a common method. Feng Yuan thought for a moment and shook his head, saying

"Not very suitable, while Cha Mu Town Area’s culture hasn’t been extensively studied, the modern characteristics focus on patterns. If done like this... mixing patterns from different periods may not look good."

Despite being interested in the attached ultimate move, it fundamentally remains a decoration; Feng Yuan doesn’t wish to create something weird just for the ultimate move.

Aesthetics remain the primary goal, with the ultimate move as an additional effect. If unfeasible, Feng Yuan would rather satisfy his curiosity than create such a peculiar strength-aesthetic product.

"Kind of, if it were humanoid, it’d be acceptable as your decoration could be an era architectural group."

Veronia pondered and couldn’t resist teasing, saying compared to the eagle-shaped spirit beast Xiao Ji, designing humanoid decorations is much simpler as they can directly imitate human fashion design processes, which evidently can’t be done for eagle-shaped forms.

"Era architectural group... the Spirit Beast Decoration of Ah Mu could be designed like that, but it’s entirely impossible with your humanoid form."

Feng Yuan said speechlessly to Veronia, that’s still considering kindly, as Veronia is often a humanoid doll in appearance, but if making an architectural group, Feng Yuan believes no matter the design; the item will be far larger than Veronia herself.

No doubt, could the decoration effect become Veronia sitting atop a floating massive architectural group? That would truly be an overly beautiful scene...

Veronia hadn’t realized this before; Feng Yuan’s remark made it aware it seemingly overlooked the size issue, about miniature sculptures?

Spirit Beast Decoration is a method condensing energy into pseudo-body tissue of spirit beasts, meaning there are limitations concerning proportion of detail and size.

At least, naturally occurring micro-sculptures as an art form don’t exist in the spirit beast body tissue, hence Spirit Beast Decoration can’t do that.

So, according to Veronia’s suggestion, the architectural group must be large due to the quantity requirements, and only someone like Ah Mu with a huge body size can handle such.

"So how do you plan to design?"

Curious, Veronia asked, recalling something, eagle-shaped Spirit Beast Decorations aren’t particularly extensive, given the size and structure; Spirit Beast Decorations are not an illusory existence, randomly done might hinder smooth wing extension.

"Hmm, what about a feather cape? Adding an extra layer similar to a cape on feathers, forming based on the feather structure, also avoiding impact on Xiao Ji’s flight posture."

Looking at Veronia then Xiao Ji, Feng Yuan spoke, actually there are not many places to utilize; too complex... that’s facilitating the enemy like adding long streamers. Apart from the possibility of flight issues wrapping Xiao Ji, isn’t that making it easy for the enemy to grab the streamers and pull Xiao Ji?

Similarly, many shapes are unsuitable; even things like vests seem somewhat inappropriate to Feng Yuan. The flexibility of flying spirit beasts is crucial, or rather most flying spirit beasts require sufficient agility.

Physical embodiment of Spirit Beast Decorations is also the easiest element impacting flexibility.

Xiao Ji looked at Feng Yuan and happily chirped; it didn’t know exactly what Feng Yuan intended to create; as long as he put effort into gifting it, Xiao Ji liked it.

Veronia pondered for a while before looking at Feng Yuan, saying

"Seems decent, just not surprising enough."

Rolling his eyes, Feng Yuan replied exasperatedly

"What surprise needed? As long as it looks good and is practical, otherwise it’ll be like those past souvenirs that can only be stored in a box, unused."

Upon Feng Yuan’s words, Veronia couldn’t help but laugh; whenever Feng Yuan took Xiao Ji out, he would buy souvenirs, resulting in almost no place left for them now.

Of course, referring to Xiao Ji’s souvenirs, Big Cat and others still have room to store, as Kong Qing and Big Cat have their storage methods; Veronia wonders if Feng Yuan continues buying souvenirs without room will Xiao Ji create a storage method in anxiousness?

This is merely Veronia’s whim; after realizing no space left, Feng Yuan has restrained much, unless extraordinarily meaningful, he won’t casually collect like before.

"Forget it, better look for any more references."

Glancing at Veronia who suppressed laughter, Feng Yuan sighed and continued examining the ancient artifacts collected by Li Mountain Village, all bearing distinctive features of their respective periods.

But this doesn’t mean Feng Yuan can skip checking the archives since the special Spirit Beast Decoration isn’t made simply by amalgamating unique patterns from different periods.

At least, combining them without cultural understanding yields no result.