Chapter 3062: The Past and Present of the Golden Dragon City District

Because the vast majority of those present were local acquaintances, and only Xia Duo was an outsider, the Gold Elf who called himself "Xintuosi" invited Xia Duo to visit his home after noticing Xia Duo's intention to communicate further.

Xia Duo had intended to explore the Golden Dragon City District anyway, and being able to exchange words with a local resident was the best possible outcome, so he agreed without hesitation.

Soon, the magic fruits were distributed, and the gathered crowd gradually dispersed; just as they had come with such readiness, they left with equal decisiveness.

Xia Duo had seen such phenomena many times in the Kingdom of Radiance (including the Daxia Divine Kingdom); the Reincarnators here had intense and pure emotions, coming when the mood struck and leaving when the mood passed. This might be rare in the Main Plane, but it was perfectly ordinary here.

He had never met anyone here who said one thing while meaning another; it would not be an exaggeration to call it a kingdom of Sages.

Perhaps such deceitful people would never reincarnate within the Endless Wilderness, let alone join the Kingdom of Radiance.

……

Golden Dragon City District.

On the spacious and level street, Xia Duo and Xintuosi walked side by side toward the other's residence, but halfway there, Xia Duo could not help but ask: "Are you not curious about your sudden appearance here?"

"Sudden appearance here? Haven't we always been here? It is you, guest, whom I am curious about; I had never heard of any outsiders in the Holy City before, and I am curious as to where you came from!"

Xintuosi's answer was somewhat beyond Xia Duo's expectations, as the Divine Envoy Kafa had clearly implied earlier that this Golden Dragon City District had long existed, only it had not merged into the Kingdom of Radiance.

Why, then, did Xintuosi say they had always been in the Holy City?

Could it be that as soon as this Golden Dragon City District merged into the Kingdom of Radiance, even its past origins were rewritten?

Xia Duo certainly would not have believed such a possibility existed in the past, but ever since learning that the Kingdom of Radiance simultaneously existed in the states of past, present, and future, what was impossible about the past of this Golden Dragon City District merging into the Kingdom of Radiance first?

And since the past determined the present, the Golden Dragon City District Xia Duo saw now had actually existed in the Holy City for a long time.

Thinking of this, Xia Duo gained a deeper understanding of the great power of the Lord of Radiance, and at the same time, he somewhat understood why contradictory claims circulated in the Main Plane, such as "The Lord of Radiance was born from a pact with the Netherese" and "The Lord of Radiance is an ancient deity."

If the Lord of Radiance could truly exist in both the past and the present, then such contradictions in the eyes of mortals were really not much of a problem for Him!

As for the future, Xia Duo never believed that anyone could simultaneously exist in the past, present, and future, not even the Lord of Radiance.

But there were no clear boundaries between past, present, and future; that was merely Xia Duo's own perspective. If the Lord of Radiance could truly exist in both the past and the present, then in fact, He could also exist in the future.

For the time being, Xia Duo attributed these difficult-to-understand phenomena to the inherent uniqueness of the Outer Planes; once in the Material Plane, they might be greatly discounted or simply cease to function.

From any perspective, a Lord of Radiance who truly transcended time and space was not a good thing for Xia Duo, even if the other's existence would never intentionally go against him; such an existence alone was enough to have a tremendous impact on this world.

Xia Duo preferred the Lord of Radiance to be a powerful yet not overly powerful object of communication and pursuit, rather than a transcender of time and space who would forever be out of reach.

……

Regarding the issue of the Holy City's existence, Xia Duo did not hide anything from Xintuosi; in fact, he intended to test the Holy City, so he told Xintuosi almost everything that the Divine Envoy Kafa had explicitly told him or implied, without reservation.

Kafa had not asked him to keep these details secret from others when informing him, which could be interpreted as permission to spread them; telling Xintuosi now was merely acting within the rules.

But regarding such a baffling state of existence as the Holy City, Xintuosi took it in stride: "In the history I know, the Lord of Radiance accepted us when we were most helpless. No matter what this history looks like in the eyes of outsiders, at least we have truly experienced it, and that is our most real history."

Xia Duo did not delve deeper into this issue, as saying more would be somewhat impolite; he quickly changed the subject: "By the way, you said before that the Holy City has never had outsiders, so do you see the Naise Chengqu not far from here?"

"I do not understand what Naise Chengqu you are talking about, but in the direction you are pointing, I truly do not see the kind of architecture you mentioned."

Xintuosi's words once again confirmed what Kafa had said earlier: things outside the scope of cognition do not exist for the individual, unless Xia Duo were to take Xintuosi to the Naise Chengqu he had named right now.

He actually had such an idea, but thinking that Kafa had also said "do not deliberately push for the fusion of city districts with different cognitive ranges, because this may not necessarily allow order to grow," he silently abandoned this thought.

In any case, there was plenty of time, and there would always be opportunities to see the fusion of different city districts in the future; at least he himself was already in a merged city district.

……

The topic of the Holy City was indeed easy to reach a dead end; there was little intersection in the cognition of both parties, and what was said was more like a chicken talking to a duck, so Xia Duo simply stopped asking and prepared to experience it personally in the future.

However, he still had many questions he wanted to ask about the Holy Golden Dragon Empire, but the two had already walked all the way to Xintuosi's home.

This was actually a tower that was incomparably magnificent to humans, with a doorway over twenty meters wide at the base, enough for a golden dragon to spread its wings and fly in horizontally.

Seeing such a home, how could Xia Duo not understand that this fellow who looked like a Gold Elf was actually a golden dragon! Along the way, he had seen the homes of small-bodied creatures like elves and humans in the Golden Dragon City District, which were indeed larger than those of their counterparts in the Main Plane.

But compared to a golden dragon's dwelling, it was completely dwarfed.

Of course, the golden dragon dwellings here in the Golden Dragon City District of the Kingdom of Radiance were also much larger than the Golden Dragon City Xia Duo had seen in Saville's memories, which showed that golden dragons were truly obsessed with "size."

"Xia Duo, I did not intend to hide it; it is just that I am more accustomed to using the elf form when playing with friends. I remember that before I became a golden dragon, I was actually an elf!"

Xintuosi did not hide his past, which made Xia Duo like him even more; if the Holy Golden Dragon Empire of the Material Plane were all dragons like this, how wonderful that would be!

"Do you still remember the world before you died?" Xia Duo asked curiously.

"I remember some, but not much, and these memories are like being covered by a thin mist; I can only roughly perceive a vague outline, and almost all the details are missing."

Speaking of this, a feeling of regret appeared on Xintuosi for the first time, but he quickly cheered up again: "Let the past be the past; the current me is named Xintuosi, a member of the Kingdom of Radiance, and I have a brand-new dragon life."