Chapter 205: Baichuan Awakened with a Start

This day.

"Gulp~ gulp~ gulp~"

Accompanied by a string of bubbles rising from the scalding magma, a slender, massive shadow suddenly revealed a glimpse of itself from within the magma.

In a daze, an eye as luminous as a little sun beneath the sea lit up within the magma. The eye gazed at the surrounding sea of red with some puzzlement, then blinked with drowsiness before extinguishing once more and sinking back into the magma.

However, during this brief process, a peculiar substance — or perhaps energy — flew out from the creature's body.

The moment this substance appeared in the magma, it shattered and vanished under the surrounding high temperature.

Yet the shattering and vanishing of this substance began to slowly bring about a terrifying change in some distant place!

And this, naturally, was Baichuan, who was in slumber.

Since falling into slumber at some unknown time last, Baichuan had remained in a muddled, deep sleep for countless years, working for the ascension of the entire world.

However, on this day, he who was in slumber suddenly dreamed of a majestic dragon pierced through by a peculiar weapon, standing atop countless corpses and roaring at the sky.

Its voice carried deep despair. Looking closely, one could see scalding Dragon Blood ceaselessly flowing from the chest wound pierced through it.

At first, he in his muddled state did not understand what had happened, until a carefully guarded strange worm within his body died.

In an instant, he who had been somewhat lost before — even while in deep slumber — understood in his half-awake state: his Juanzhu, the Progenitor Dragon, had met with disaster!

This was not his imagination, nor was it his inability to distinguish dream from reality.

It was that the contingency he had left behind before entering slumber had been triggered!

As one who had been extremely cautious since his weak days, always leaving several preparations for every matter, he who knew full well he would enter slumber in the future was certainly not the kind of fool who would do nothing to prepare.

From how he had destroyed the corpse and erased all traces after killing his first human, Zhang Dadan, one could tell that he, Baichuan, had always been a cautious being who left no future troubles.

Therefore, even after he had created the Ancient Dragon Juanzhu and granted them the authority to manipulate the energies of heaven and earth in the new era, he still felt some unease.

Because he knew deeply that no creature in this world could remain forever on high. Even his powerful Juanzhu — the Ancient Dragons — who could manipulate the energies of heaven and earth and were to a certain extent undying and imperishable.

There would still come a day when they might be slain by a terrifying dragon beast rising from the bottom, or seized upon by those cunning humans who had secretly developed, or killed by powerful beings from the Xingkong or other worlds.

Therefore, to be safe, when he was analyzing all things in the world at that time, he decisively made use of a peculiar tracking worm's Characteristic he had obtained from Zhang Dadan during his weak days —

A worm that could sense the aura it had left behind no matter how great the distance, and thus he left a contingency on every Juanzhu — a contingency for moments when their lives were in danger.

The principle was roughly that this worm could sense the aura it had released. So once the Core containing that aura was shattered, the worm, unable to sense its own left-behind aura, would directly enter a state of death.

And at this time, the abnormal worm could naturally instantly tell him, who had always been closely monitoring the worm's life, that the arrangement he had left had been activated, and that the Juanzhu was very likely facing a fatal crisis.

After learning this news, by the same logic, since the worm could tell him of sudden accidents happening far away.

Then, reversing the principle, if he left another worm within the Juanzhu's body, this worm would be linked to the power he had originally left within the Juanzhu. As long as he destroyed the aura left behind by this worm linked to his power, he would naturally have a means of remote control!

This was mainly a contingency he had specifically left to solve the problem that the information carried by Light Points took too long to transmit, and by the time he learned of things, everything would already be too late.

Presumably the situation over there should have changed by now?

At this moment, after triggering the contingency he had left behind, Baichuan silently sighed.

Now he had done all he could. Whether it succeeded or not, everything would have to wait until he completed the great matter of ascension, and when he awakened, he would settle accounts one by one!

Progenitor Dragon, whether you can survive depends on your fortune.

With this thought, the flood dragon once again fell into slumber.

At the same time, the instant Baichuan awakened.

At this moment, a certain sea surface was completely divided into two clearly demarcated domains.

On one half of the sea, endless layers of ice stretched out, as if to freeze the entire ocean solid. In the sky, a great many fine, sharp ice crystals drifted down, and under the wrapping of tornadoes, these ice crystals madly eroded toward the other side.

On the other half, the entire sea surface was filled with surging giant waves, and these waves rolled violently as if to completely tear apart the ice layer above the sea.

Above these giant waves, a waterspout that seemed to pierce through sky and ocean likewise spun and ravaged.

Driven by some force, these two tornadoes would from time to time draw near and tear at each other.

Looking closely, one could seemingly see within the icy tornado in the sky a beautiful, crystalline ice dragon dancing about!

And within the ocean waterspout below, there likewise stood a slender dragon whose head was wreathed in a great many tentacles!

However, just then, the dragon wreathed in a great many tentacles below suddenly froze, a flash of joy and puzzlement crossing its eyes.

It then ceased to fight the ice dragon above, and as if showing weakness, abandoned more than half of the sea beasts it had been driving and plunged back into the sea, swimming toward a certain seabed.

This move naturally caused the beautiful ice dragon above to freeze as well, and it could not help muttering to itself: "That damned bad dragon, what is it up to now? Why has it suddenly given up on most of its prey today?"

Speaking of this, the beautiful ice dragon was also greatly troubled. It had originally thought that the ocean territory Father God had entrusted to it was the easiest.

Who would have known that at some unknown time, another bad dragon it had never seen before had appeared in the ocean, and this bad dragon, for some unknown reason, had been constantly driving a great many sea beasts toward a certain seabed.

Once or twice would have been fine, but it happened too frequently, and the number driven was so vast that it could not possibly eat them all.

Thus, as the manager of the ocean, it naturally could not ignore such behavior that destroyed the ecology.

From then on, the two dragons began their day-after-day confrontation. If it wanted to drive a great many sea beasts and destroy the ocean's ecological balance, then it, the Ice Sea Dragon, would specifically stop it.

But why had this bad dragon suddenly given up today?

At this moment, the beautiful Ice Sea Dragon did not understand either, but unfortunately it could not go to that bad dragon's lair to check.

Because in the deep sea, the other's power was even greater than its own, and the bad dragon, which usually gave way easily, would, once it noticed it approaching, launch a frantic, reckless attack to stop it regardless of itself.

Perhaps its lair hid some secret?

The Ice Sea Dragon could only think this way.

But it had also decided that the next time it saw Father God, it would definitely ask Him what on earth was going on with this bad dragon.

Yet it did not know that this dragon had sensed the aura of its Father God suddenly awakening, and only then gave up continuing its confrontation with it...

(End of this chapter)