Chapter 246: A Steadfast Heart, Descendants of Acquaintances

After coming to a clear understanding of the entire situation, Baichuan suddenly recalled a blind spot he had noticed when he first arrived in this world.

At that time, it seemed the Da Zhou Dynasty was also searching for a true dragon?

Back then, after learning the information that came later, he had assumed that the First Emperor of the Da Zhou Dynasty had mistakenly taken a Western dragon for a true dragon.

Now that he thought about it, perhaps they had been pursuing a true dragon from the very start!

No wonder, no wonder the civilization on this Yuanshi Dalu back then resembled the Eastern civilization of his previous life.

Clearly, based on the information about the otherworld he had learned, it was a Western world — these two were simply not on the same wavelength.

Now he had thoroughly figured it out!

This otherworld actually contained two regions, one East and one West!

In the era when the Zhou Dynasty was born, the one who crossed over to this world must have been some tribe from the deep mountains of the Dongfang Quyu.

That was how a civilization resembling the Dongfang Quyu developed in this world, along with the pursuit of true dragons!

Moreover, the power system of that dynasty was, to a certain extent, simulating the Conferring Gods system of that other world.

Sigh, so all the clues had actually been laid out before him from the very beginning!

At this moment, after stringing all the clues together, Baichuan once again deeply realized that he truly was not cut out to be a sage.

No matter how powerful his computational ability was, he still could not deduce the specific situation of the otherworld from just a word or two.

He didn't even have the right mindset for it — his talent was still too ordinary and plain.

Fortunately, this ordinary him still had a powerful panel ability by his side.

But since he had once again deeply recognized that his wisdom and talent were insufficient, if he wanted to successfully transform into a dragon in the future, he would need to focus even more single-mindedly on that one point.

Focus on transforming into a dragon!

Focus on transforming into a dragon!!

Don't be distracted by other things!!!

Everything that stood in the way of his evolution was to be swept aside.

Having deeply realized his own ordinariness, Baichuan once again silently recited his original goal, his original heart.

On this long road of evolution, as long as he persevered, he with his panel would surely reach the end of this path; what he feared most was forgetting his original heart and losing his way along the journey.

Hoo—

Slowly exhaling a breath of stale air, Baichuan reopened his brilliant azure eyes.

At this moment, the refined man in long robes who had been standing not far from the true dragon, watching it, also suddenly felt a twinge of doubt.

Why did he always feel that this powerful and mysterious true dragon before him seemed to have changed in this brief instant, yet if asked to say how it had changed, he could not put it into words?

Because this was merely a formless intuition of his — surely this true dragon couldn't have grown even stronger in just these few seconds, could it?

Smiling wryly and shaking his head, the refined man in long robes suppressed the strange feeling in his heart and quietly awaited this true dragon's disposition.

"Very well, since you have no intention of harming this world, then from now on everything continues as before — do as you please."

After one last glance at this harmless otherworld demigod, Baichuan vanished once more into the air.

It was that he had re-entered the void and departed.

Baichuan, who had obtained so much useful information from him, had never intended to do anything to him in the first place.

Rather, these demigods who possessed vast otherworldly knowledge and had turned from darkness to light — if they had instead encountered a world master or planet lord with even a shred of responsibility who wanted to develop the world, that person would probably have vigorously recruited these otherworld demigods to enrich their own world that lacked sufficient foundation.

Unfortunately, the one they encountered was Baichuan.

Regarding this, he only wanted to say: let everything follow its fate and develop naturally.

He only wanted to quickly finish dealing with the matters of his Juanzhu and those imprisoned deities, so he could impatiently invade and plunder the rich fruits from the otherworld.

For him to bother with these trivial matters of world development, his power growth would have to hit a new bottleneck.

……

Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye another two days had passed.

This day, Haizhidu.

A bustling dock.

Wooo— wooo—

A long ship's horn sounded from far out at sea.

Then a massive steam-powered ship laden with all manner of cargo slowly steamed into the edge of the dock.

"Das, have we arrived at the famous Haizhidu?"

In the cabin, a beautiful young woman draped in a luxurious felt overcoat stepped out slowly. Her face beaming with excitement, she kept looking around the ship at the bustling, unfamiliar dock, taking in the buildings around her that were utterly different from those of her own country.

"Yes, Prin… Miss. This here is Haizhidu."

Shortly after, an elderly man dressed properly and bearing elegant deportment also stepped out in quick succession.

"Then can we meet that most mysterious City Lord Zhou? I heard that City Lord can even procure legendary ancient dragons and deities?"

"Er…" Hearing the pretty young woman beside him speak so wildly, the old man's expression stiffened. After a quick glance at the surroundings, he carefully leaned in and whispered: "Princess, what you said that City Lord Zhou can indeed produce, but with our current identities we cannot meet that City Lord, unless your father the King steps forward."

"Wuu~~" Hearing this, the pretty young woman puffed out her cheeks in displeasure. Then her bright big eyes darted cleverly, and she directly hugged the old man's arm, shaking it coquettishly: "Fine, but next time Butler Grandpa you must put in a few good words for me in front of my father… my parent, I want an ancient dragon as a companion after my coming-of-age ceremony too."

Being coquettishly pleaded with by the young woman he had watched grow up and could almost regard as a granddaughter, the elegantly deportmented old man could not help but agree again and again.

"Is this the place?"

In the void above the heavens, a murmur sounded.

A pair of dragon eyes gleaming with divine light gazed down at this incomparably bustling great city below.

At this moment, he could sense several familiar auras from within it.

Among these auras were those of his Juanzhu the First Dragon, those of his own bloodline, those of the descendants of the humans he had once controlled when learning the Da Zhou script, those of the descendants of the dynasty that had once worshipped him as a totem, and those of the descendant of the one on Diguo Dalu who had worshipped him as a deity…

He had to admit, such a small city actually held so many descendants of familiar existences.

Unconsciously, has time really already passed this long?

At this moment, Baichuan sensed the various auras below, and for a while his mind drifted in a daze.

Once again he truly felt the charm of Time — for him it had been no more than a single nap, yet unexpectedly, those he met again were the descendants of those familiar people.

He wondered whether they had already died by now, or were still alive.

Shaking his head and casting off the inexplicable wave of melancholy that had crept into his heart, Baichuan slowly revealed himself from the void and descended toward the place where his Juanzhu's aura was thickest.

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(End of this chapter)