"Really, you have to go?!"

"Can't I stay? I really can't bear to leave you."

"Zhu Long, don't go!"

"What am I going to do without you?!"

Museum Head Wei's tone was absolutely sincere.

In this lucid dream, there's not a brain to be found.

Upon learning of Zhujiuyin's plans, Wei Yuan was scared into a cold sweat. Fortunately, the gray-robed man hadn't yet taken steps to leave and was stopped by Wei Yuan in time. Following Zhujiuyin's advice to stay behind the scenes and not be so reckless, Wei Yuan had turned around and played Zhujiuyin for a fool.

He had the three old ancestors stop the Candle Dragon.

Then he turned around and ran off to play the reckless vanguard himself.

Now, the Candle Dragon seemed angered.

In the lucid dream, Xuanyuan, Xing Tian, and Chi You sat in a row, watching from afar, barely daring to breathe.

The gray-robed man's eyes were indifferent. His face was always covered by a fog-like substance, making it impossible to see clearly. His tone was calm and distant: "Museum Head Wei jests. With your remarkable talent and courage, what difference does it make whether Zhu Long is here or not?"

Hiss… Museum Head Wei?

That title.

Xuanyuan, Xing Tian, and Chi You all gasped.

They exchanged glances.

And then, with a speed almost imperceptible to the naked eye, they shifted further back.

Wei Yuan's scalp went numb, and he chuckled dryly: "Ah, yes, I was just being reckless. I've always been a bit of an airhead, so I worried you. My bad, my bad."

"Worried? I have never worried about you."

The Candle Dragon's tone was calm: "I merely realized that since Museum Head Wei is capable of scheming against me, you can naturally handle this great tribulation on your own."

"I also long for the scenery of the Nine Netherworlds."

"It's been a long time, and it's time for me to return."

"No, no, don't go."

Wei Yuan desperately grabbed the right sleeve of Zhujiuyin. The Candle Dragon tugged at the sleeve.

It wouldn't budge.

Zhujiuyin's lips twitched.

"Let go."

"I won't!"

What is the composure of a God of War?

In fact, if not for certain reasons, Museum Head Wei would have directly carried Zhujiuyin away.

Going straight for an unbreakable seven-day lock.

Wei Yuan was proficient in human grappling techniques, although he would most likely be knocked unconscious by a backhanded punch from the Candle Dragon.

"I promise to listen to you from now on, Zhujiuyin, don't go."

"If you leave..."

We'll really have no brains here.

The gray-robed man's ancient eyes stared at him and said, "Is that really so?"

Museum Head Wei quickly pointed to the sky with two fingers: "I swear."

The Candle Dragon's eyes were distant, as if pondering something. Finally, he slowly nodded: "For the sake of this great tribulation, it might be acceptable..." The three great brutes in the back all breathed a sigh of relief. The gray-robed man's tone was leisurely, and then he stared at Wei Yuan, saying:

"Then, if my strategies conflict with that of the Marquis Wu."

"Whose will you heed?"

Xuanyuan, Chi You, Xing Tian: "............"

Everyone moved in perfect unison, rising and stepping forward, then transforming into a tacit retreat.

The atmosphere became heavy again.

Wei Yuan's face was stiff.

He really wanted to say something like those classic movie characters, 'Don't fight, you're both my wings!' but he'd probably be beaten half to death and dragged out to have his body dumped. His eyes shifted stiffly, seeing that Da Yi had already slipped away, leaving only an emoji on the wooden sign.

The three great brutes sat in a row, as far away as possible.

When they saw the younger generation's pleading gaze.

Xing Tian's face was apologetic.

He looked to the left and saw Xuanyuan wearing a smile, giving a thumbs-up, and nodding in encouragement.

Xing Tian whispered, "Do you know what to do?"

"No..."

Xuanyuan maintained his smiling emoji, squeezing the words out from between his teeth:

"But as long as you do this, A'Yuan will know."

"This is my experience as the Human Emperor for decades!"

Xing Tian suddenly understood.

Xing Tian gave Wei Yuan a thumbs-up with an encouraging expression.

Chi You was a little aggrieved.

Isn't this just a bum?

What exactly did I lose to back then?

Chi You glared at Xuanyuan, then gave a thumbs-up, showing a smiling, encouraging expression to Museum Head Wei.

Under the moonlight, the three brutes gave him the thumbs-up. Wei Yuan felt his death star becoming brighter than ever before in the sky. He turned his head to look at Zhujiuyin, his brain racing. He had to get through this difficult situation, no matter what. He took a deep breath and said, "I'll listen to you, I'll listen to you."

The gray-robed man slightly clenched his fingers.

He directly cut off the afterimage of that moment in time, turning it into a scene that would not dissipate even if it were exiled into the time rift, and calmly placed it into his sleeve, saying, "Good, I have no more questions."

Wei Yuan: "............"

Leaving a mark on time? Is it really okay to be this extravagant?!

Are you a fox?!

Zhujiuyin took a sip of tea, his expression indifferent, and snorted coldly.

It's not like only the Tu Shan clan knows how to do this.

The Candle Dragon's tone was calm and playful: "Do not rejoice at things that should not be rejoiced, do not be angry at things that should not be angered. Marquis Wu's art of war is also useful."

Wei Yuan reacted and gritted his teeth, "Candle Dragon, were you just pretending to be angry on purpose?"

And then in order to get a recording of my oath.

The gray-robed man's tone was leisurely and casual:

"What do you think?"

Wei Yuan: "............"

Dragon Who Illumines the Nine Netherworlds, you are really despicable now!

Zhujiuyin calmly said:

"Tell me, what are your thoughts on the information you've obtained?"

Mentioning serious matters, Wei Yuan had no choice but to restrain his thoughts and distractions, recalling the secret talks of those generals he had overheard earlier. His expression became serious and said: "I didn't expect that nuclear weapons had already been deciphered by the gods. Although I don't agree with what those people said, there is one point I have to acknowledge."

His lips twitched:

"Under no circumstances can we allow that kind of super weapon mixed with divine power to explode in the human world."

Zhujiuyin nodded and said, "A basic judgment."

Wei Yuan said, "So, I plan to get the approximate marching route from these True Spirits, and strike them mid-river, trying to snatch the thing in Zaochi's hands, or at the very least, detonate it remotely with an arrow."

"This thing is too dangerous."

The gray-robed man curled his lips: "What you just said is exactly the same as what you said when you got the Hetu Luoshu, and what Fuxi said when he dismantled them."

Wei Yuan said, "I thought you'd say I was being reckless again."

The gray-robed man calmly said: "The best strategy is to subdue the enemy without fighting. But in the face of this kind of situation where a life-or-death battle is inevitable, all that strategy can do is to seize the initiative, and fight the opponent at the time and place of your choosing."

Wei Yuan clenched his right fist and slammed it into his left palm, feigning enlightenment: "I understand. The supreme strategy is to feed the opponent a kilogram of purgative croton, and then drag him to fight in the city center square when the medicine takes effect. The timing, location, and people are all in my favor, so victory is assured!"

Zhujiuyin: "............"

Museum Head Wei, a gifted skill, bringing high-end things down to earth to the point of smelling like dirt.

Zhujiuyin was silent for a moment, then asked:

"What about the True Spirits?"

Wei Yuan swept his sleeve and released the Great Wilderness generals' True Spirits that he had just collected.

Those True Spirits were still in the state they were in before they were killed, subconsciously avoiding Wei Yuan and keeping away from him, their faces full of vigilance. As a result, they felt a pain in their backs and bumped into something like a mountain rock, which even the True Spirits felt painful.

Turning their heads, they saw a muscular strongman.

They saw that the strongman's head had also fallen off.

Subconsciously, they felt that he was on their side, and they were both frightened and angry, gnashing their teeth and saying, "You were beheaded too?! Damn it, who is this guy? Why does he have that axe?!"

"Surely, the God of War is just a legend?! Isn't he just something that humans made up? How could it be!"

"Is it possible that we are already legends?"

A muffled voice came, startling the Great Wilderness general, because the voice came from below. Turning around, he saw that there was actually a face on the abdomen of the tall strongman. This face's eyes suddenly opened, filled with unwillingness and resentment, roaring:

"That's my axe!!!"

"It's mine!"

At the same time, the man's right hand grabbed his head, holding it in his arms, his left hand stroking his chin, his face full of doubt:

"That's strange, I remember that our human civil officials are all realistic."

"For example, axe correction means to use an axe to cut and make it meet the standard."

"How could we be legends?"

The Great Wilderness dragon general's face was pale.

Words appeared in his mind—wielding a shield and an axe, Xing Tian?!

Xing Tian pondered in confusion for a long time, and said: "Also."

"My head wasn't cut off by an axe."

"It was cut off by that kid who's supporting you."

"Eh?!"

The dragon general turned his head and saw the sunny youth who was very enthusiastically supporting him. This man with an extremely convincing appearance smiled and nodded:

"My name is Ji Xuanyuan."

"!!!"

The dragon general jumped up as if electrocuted, retreating again and again, reacting more violently than when he saw Xing Tian. In the vast years, countless strong people have been born, but only this one person has given each word of his name an incomparably profound feeling.

You, Tian, these have all been used as names.

But after this person, no one dared to use the two words Xuanyuan as a name again.

Retreating in panic, he accidentally stepped on a liquid crystal display.

On it was playing some kind of black and white, soft beast. The dragon general lowered his head and saw that his right foot had directly shattered it. Half of the display was broken, as if he had stepped on the iron-eating beast's head.

A trace of relief even appeared in the dragon general's heart.

Fortunately, fortunately, it's just a strange film recording, it shouldn't be anyth...

A chill suddenly erupted.

As if heaven and earth turned dark, this was the momentum oppressing the soul, losing the sense of perception. In a dark space with extreme pressure, two scarlet rays of light suddenly lit up.

Those were a pair of eyes.

A huge palm stretched out from the darkness, directly pressing on the dragon general's head.

Picking him up directly, a burly man's face was ferocious. His left hand grabbed the dragon, and his right hand clenched his fist. Dark energy seemed to be emanating from the fist as big as a casserole. The Jiuli demon god tattoos on his body twisted, and terrifying strangers seemed to appear behind him.

"You f***ing..."

"You stepped on my cat?!!!"

"That's a bear, a bear..."

The strong man roared angrily, and said angrily: "Nonsense, if I say it's a cat, then it's a cat!"

"Since I can rub ten of them with one hand, then it's a cat!"

"I'm going to grind you to ashes!"

"Grind you to dust!"

"I will make you never be reincarnated!"

"Calm down, calm down, this is just a dream video."

"Damn it, Chi You, calm down, don't really turn him into dust..."

"No, no, look, Hua Hua, the giant panda Hua Hua is here."

Seeing that Chi You really intended to take out the Chi You Ten Demon Soldiers to directly grind the guy's True Spirit into powder, Xing Tian, Wei Yuan, and Xuanyuan broke out in cold sweats. One hugged his waist, one grabbed his left hand, and one snatched the weapon from his right hand, desperately controlling this God of War Chi You who had entered berserk mode.

The dragon general only felt that he had entered a nightmare from which he would never wake up.

In panic and fear, he saw the gray-robed man over there, and was slightly startled. Memories of several portraits in his family emerged. As the true legend standing at the top of the dragon race, the Dragon Who Illumines the Nine Netherworlds, the dragon race was overjoyed, almost crying with joy: "Ancestor, save me!"

When he was about to pounce over, he saw Wei Yuan, who was pulling on Chi You, turned his head in confusion and said:

"Zhulong, besides learning from Nuwa to make a drum, you actually have descendants?"

"Aren't you strictly speaking, asexual..."

Museum Head Wei was slapped away.

And witnessing the relationship between the legend standing at the top of the dragon race and the young man, this dragon general from the Great Wilderness Thunder Marsh had his thoughts frozen. Under the pressure of a group of monsters' gazes, his mentality finally collapsed.

Didn't they say that the God of War was just a legend?!

Didn't they say that the God of War was just something that the human race made up to boost morale?!

Then what is this? What is this?

A human God of War wholesale department?

In the end, the unruly dragon general, under the friendly and kind gazes of this row of big brothers, honestly retold everything again.

"The evil general Zaochi..."

Xuanyuan frowned: "He is indeed a tricky opponent."

"If we must carry out a beheading assassination of him... even if I or Chi You were to fight him alone, we might not..."

A soft and beautiful voice sounded.

"This time, let me take action."

It became quiet for a moment.

Wei Yuan subconsciously turned his head, and the peak human single-soldier combat power named Da Yi's voice was gentle, saying:

"Since he said he has surpassed me."

"Then, I also want to try."

He smiled shyly and said: "Maybe, he really has surpassed me, who knows."

PS: Today's first update... I wish you all a Happy Year of the Tiger, a prosperous and successful year~