Chapter 1 Going into the Ruins

Although it's a truism, the program *Going into the Ruins* is indeed broadcast live globally, and as the host, the Zheng Nation is naturally no exception.

Now, it is 8:14 PM on December 22, 2015.

Su's father, Su Beiluo, and Su's mother, Ning Shiyu, have both taken leave to stay at home and watch this special episode led by their son in real-time.

"Look at the good son you bore! (With appreciation)"

"Who raised this child? (With appreciation)"

One could see that the table in the living room was filled with edamame and cheap candy. The couple each held a glass of brandy, drinking with the cheap candy and eating edamame while watching the live broadcast. It was truly a rare moment of leisure and comfort.

Recently, the national situation has become more and more stable. This is mainly because, with the gradual effectiveness of national cultivation, many low-end criminals who attempted to use their awakened abilities to commit crimes have lost the foundation of 'not being detected'. Moreover, the strength of most people is also comparable to that of criminals. Even if they can't defeat the other party, they can at least stall them until the cultivator constables on standby arrive.

The numerous ferocious beasts from the Kunlun Secret Realm have also been roughly analyzed. The next work is inclined to 'imitative transformation' of Earth creatures based on the data of those transformed ferocious beasts. This project has just been drafted, and it will have to wait until after the Spring Festival for approval. So, Ning Shiyu is taking a break at home during this time.

"Alas, I didn't expect that your old Su family actually had such powerful dragon blood in their ancestry."

Watching Su Zhou surrounded by hundreds and thousands of sea beasts and communicating with a hundred-meter-long whale, Ning Shiyu clinked glasses with Su Beiluo and took a sip, sighing with a bit of tipsiness, "Why didn't you awaken one?"

"Hey, if it wasn't for our filial son's awakening, the authorities would have researched my ancestors for three generations, and I wouldn't have known that my family actually had this hidden bloodline. Theoretically, all the people in the country have this level of hidden bloodline. Heaven knows why our son can have a reversion to an ancestor... This is probably luck."

Su's father chuckled and leaned closer, "As for me awakening... I'm getting old, so forget it. It's better to respond to the official policy and strive for another one!"

At the same time, in his separately rented apartment in Xijing Qinqin Academy, Shao Qiming, who was watching the live broadcast, was typing on the keyboard and sending bullet comments: "I'm shocked, good brother, how did you break through again? Who can catch up with this!"

What was being played at this time was exactly the scene of Su Zhou watching the remains of the Dragon King and breaking through on the spot, spiritualizing his muscles. Shao Qiming, who originally only planned to watch quietly, couldn't help it. He shook his head at the screen, "I originally thought that after eating the second Wisdom Fruit, my cultivation speed should be a little faster... But A Zhou's speed is even faster."

After eating the second Wisdom Fruit, Shao Qiming felt that his talent had been improved again, and his thinking speed was clearer. Even, there was a feeling that he could vaguely foresee the enemy's movements, and even what kind of consequences his spiritual power cultivation would cause. This further strengthened his actual combat level and cultivation speed. The speed of improvement was so obvious that even Guan Wanjing, who practiced with him, was amazed, calling Shao Qiming a rare 'natural martial artist' with unusually sharp martial arts intuition.

But Shao Qiming knew that this so-called 'martial arts intuition' was just something that Su Zhou had when he was a teenager.

At that time, although Su Zhou's academic performance was not very good, he was simply divinely blessed in sports. No matter what game or sport it was, he could always win first place. Even in fights with hooligans, he was helped by gods. He could punch and dodge based solely on instinct, and one person could beat up dozens of people.

And now, after two Wisdom Fruit boosts, what level Su Zhou's combat intuition can reach is already beyond his conjecture.

"It's a pity... I don't have the fate."

Thinking like this, Shao Qiming couldn't help but sigh... He had also planned to discuss with Yala in order to catch up with Su Zhou, to see if he could sign a contract as well. Su Zhou naturally didn't care, but Yala shook her head and said, "My compatibility with you is not good. Although you are also an interesting person, you are not the same as me and Su Zhou... However, you don't need to worry about not being able to catch up."

Saying so, Yala laughed. She was very optimistic about this human individual who unhesitatingly chanted her hymn, fixing her from the other side of the seal to the present world, and connecting with Su Zhou: "In this world, things that can be done side by side are not just fighting, and friends are not only needed to support each other when fighting."

"I hope I can at least be worthy of those two Wisdom Fruits."

After thinking for a long time, Shao Qiming sighed slightly, then smiled, "Since I can't become the number one genius, then I'll just become the second genius... I still have this confidence."

Inside the Qinqin Academy, Guan Wanjing, who was eating dinner with three dormitory teammates in the cafeteria, was watching the program live on his mobile phone.

"A twenty-meter sea Jiao, should be just in its youth, estimated to be only ten years old or so."

This fitness enthusiast, though physically strong but with a delicate mind, was slightly stunned when he saw the Jiao Dragon: "But it's actually in the Extraordinary Stage in its youth? If it's not also a genius among spirit beasts, then it must be an extremely diligent and hardworking individual."

Guan Wanjing broke through to the peak of Awakening some time ago, and is now preparing to go to the Ruian Martial Arts Hall in Tiandu to receive the spiritual martial arts inheritance of their 'Only Martial' lineage, and find a path suitable for his Extraordinary Stage. He considers himself to be one of the top young generation cultivators in the world, except for Su Zhou.

Comparing spiritual power cultivation talent with Su Zhou is a meaningless thing, just like humans being jealous of tigers, jealous of giant bears, jealous of rhinos, jealous of giant elephants—what's the point of being jealous of those creatures? Su Zhou's name itself symbolizes the biggest anomaly that the spiritual qi revival will bring.

But apart from Su Zhou, Guan Wanjing is still very confident—but unexpectedly, this time he was actually surpassed by a spirit beast, which immediately aroused his antagonism: "It's fine if I lose to a monster, but why can't I even compare to you, a Jiao Dragon!"

Thinking like this, the strong young man couldn't help but raise his head and look at the three teammates who seemed to be watching the live broadcast as well.

Li Hanshan was silent, Li Yeyu was silent, and Jialouluo was also silent. The silent atmosphere of the three people seemed to be materializing, and the pressure even drove away other normal students around, making Guan Wanjing, the only truly normal person in the team, feel very painful: "Ahhh, what kind of people are in this team, only Brother Qiming is a little more normal... But not very normal!"

In the Shao family mansion, Shao Shuangyue, who had already been admitted to a key high school and had already started spiritual qi class content, was cultivating while watching the live broadcast.

When she saw Su Zhou casually breaking through when he saw the remains of the Dragon King, the beautiful girl who had only opened her spiritual channels not long ago almost went astray on the spot. Fortunately, even if there was an error in the *Zhengben Ningyuan Breathing Method*, there would be no major problem. Shao Shuangyue only took a few deep breaths to recover, and then rushed to the keyboard and frantically typed: "Extraordinary Stage? Break through as soon as you say you'll break through? I also looked at the remains of the Dragon King, I was also shocked, why didn't I break through?!"

I just opened my spiritual channels!

But what Shao Shuangyue didn't know was that if it is said that other ranks have the possibility of accumulating strength and then suddenly breaking through in one fell swoop, then the spiritual channel opening stage is a solid foundation stage of accumulating spiritual power and transporting Qi throughout the body. It is absolutely impossible to break through with one enlightenment.

It's not just them.

There are many other people watching this episode of the program led by Su Zhou.

In Tiandu, in the dormitory of the National Rare Plant Breeding Center, a middle-aged man, accompanied by the flower fairy Xia Lan, was amazed as he stared at the screen.

At Hongcheng Academy, an ordinary student who was working hard to cultivate was running. He was wearing headphones, not watching, but simply listening to the live broadcast.

In Yangcheng, in the official community for people with disabilities, a little girl with bright eyes was riding on the shoulders of a pale-skinned young man. Both of them were spiritualized at this time, watching the TV live broadcast on the screen in the hall with smiles under the kind gaze of an old grandmother.

Under the secret promotion of the official authorities of all countries in the world, this special episode of *Going into the Ruins* set a record for the number of people watching online simultaneously in Earth's history.

Su Zhou, who deeply knew the meaning of all this, guided the five submersibles, together with the Jiao Dragon, to the skull of the Dragon King amidst such expectations.

Passing through the huge Dragon Eye cavity, the interior of the Dragon King's skull, which was used as a nest by the Jiao Dragon, has a complex bone structure. It is not an empty space. Those fine bone structures seem to be extraordinary organs left behind to protect the brain and amplify spiritual power. They have layers of dense runes, which are being scanned by various spells and high-definition camera lenses.

During this process, the Jiao Dragon also told Su Zhou its name—thanks to the inheritance of the Tianchi Dragon King, it had a human name ‘Jiu Ming’ early on.

This is an alias of a sea abyss, the old land of the Tianchi Dragon King, in the 'Tianchi Realm', which once connected to Earth. If it also becomes a demon god Dragon King in the future, then its territory will also be called the Jiu Ming Sea.

[That is the Dragon Ball.]

Jiu Ming said so. After thinking it through, its reason suppressed its beastly instincts, and it cooperated with Su Zhou and his group as much as possible. The long Jiao Dragon's body vibrated the surrounding water flow, infusing spiritual power, unlocking the seals of the formations, and opening the road to the deepest part of the dragon bone.

The formations composed of water flow are spiritual methods learned by Jiu Ming through inheritance, used to protect his lair. Just as the water waves rippled and the formations were lifted, Su Zhou saw that there was a round and satisfactory, huge treasure pearl releasing a deep blue spiritual light, floating in the deepest part of the Dragon King's skull, surrounded by spherical spiritual light fluctuations emanating from the inside out.

The rich aquatic spiritual power, enough to suffocate ordinary cultivators, was constrained around it, forming a strange cycle. Its interior contained a terrifying spiritual power. If this power were released, it would probably be enough to stir up a sea of water and create a huge tsunami affecting half a continent.

[The inheritance of the Tianchi Dragon Ancestor is inside.]

Jiu Ming slowly approached the Dragon Ball. Its body could not even encircle the Dragon Ball. It could only approach it, feeling the powerful fluctuations of the water-based spiritual power within: [You can start, Su Zhou.]

This is the inheritance of the Tianchi Dragon King, the Dragon Ball of a demon god.

The huge deep blue treasure pearl has a diameter of a full twenty-four meters. This size is certainly large, but compared to the Dragon King, whose body length is measured in hundreds of kilometers, it seems very exquisite and petite. Presumably, thousands of years of time have eroded it, causing its spiritual energy to gradually decline and slowly shrink to this point.

Needless to say, Su Zhou knew that the production team was definitely praising and introducing the magnificence and wonder of the Dragon Ball now, and all the viewers around the world, when they saw this one of the most powerful extraordinary organs, would definitely have feelings of emotion in their hearts.

But he knew that now was not the time to be emotional.

"I'm going to start copying."

Saying so, Su Zhou took out a seemingly ordinary jade slip from the specially made package around his waist.

This jade slip looked incomparably ancient, as if it came from an extremely ancient era, and the fact was indeed so. On this jade slip, which had been passed down for thousands of years, were engraved six ancient Seal Script characters.

Tianchi Dragon King - Cen Yun.

Cen Yun, this is the name of the Dragon King.

Sensing the aura in this jade slip, which was exactly the same as that of the Dragon Ball, the Jiao Dragon Jiu Ming couldn't help but glance sideways at it. Wonder flashed in his dragon eyes. He suddenly understood that if it came to authenticity, he was probably just a lucky accidental inheritor—you know, he didn't know the name of the Dragon King who granted him the inheritance.

The Zheng Nation's official authorities possess thirty-nine complete inheritances of immortals and gods, but how could there only be thirty-nine ancient immortals and gods? In the cruel changes of dynasties, the inheritances that were preserved were damaged to some extent, especially the pseudo-Dao inheritances that were continued through bloodlines, most of which were lost.

On the 'Tong Shen Tai', the inheritance tool from the former Central Divine Court and now possessed by the Zheng Nation, are enshrined jade slips of almost all known immortals and gods, from the Ancient Era to the Prehistoric Era, and even the Near Ancient Era when spiritual qi truly began to cut off. All the immortals and gods of past generations stored their inheritances in jade slips, leaving them for later generations—it's just that most demon gods have bloodline inheritances, and other people don't have the relevant bloodlines. Taking their cultivation methods to cultivate will be very slow, so except for a name, they did not leave a real inheritance.

However, they all left a trace of their aura to prove their identity.

And now, those jade slips with a trace of their aura can finally play the role they were originally designed for.

"According to what Dao Sheng and the others said, as long as you touch the Dragon Ball with the jade slip, this aura can guide the Dragon King's remaining instinct in the Dragon Ball, so that his legacy will pour into it—speaking of which, it's like drinking soup, but I hope reality will be as smooth as they say."

Thinking so, Su Zhou held the jade slip and slowly approached the Dragon Ball.

Sensing the information in the jade slip, the Dragon Ball also began to vibrate slowly. The spiritual qi cycle around the huge circular treasure pearl suddenly changed its pattern, and a spiritual qi of deep blue color, as if materialized, overflowed from it, turning into a vaguely dragon-shaped form.

It slowly extended out from the Dragon Ball, seemingly wanting to touch the jade slip in Su Zhou's hand.

And Su Zhou proactively reached out and handed over the jade slip.

Then, at the moment when the dragon-shaped spiritual power touched the jade slip.

Everyone present heard a long dragon's roar that seemed to have crossed a long time, and saw the Dragon King's remains around them suddenly begin to glow.

Buzzing——

With a slight proof, this huge Dragon King's skeleton buried at the bottom of the sea suddenly burst out with unprecedented spiritual light, and spiritual power of a deep blue color close to ink began to overflow from the Dragon King's bone, and then a series of fragmented remnants of souls emerged from it—with almost no pause, these fragmented remnants of souls began to rapidly condense, like light particles, gathering from all directions and submerging into the Dragon Ball.

"This posture, is it going to be resurrected?"

Like the five submersibles that were a little flustered and seemed to be planning to retreat, Su Zhou saw this scene, and the same guess couldn't help but pop out in his heart—but he quickly denied this guess, because this burst of visions only lasted for a moment, and then all the dragon bones stopped vibrating and glowing, returning to the same silence as usual.

If it was to be resurrected, it would never be so short... but things were not over.

Because Su Zhou, and even the five submersibles, and all the camera lenses could see it.

Before that Dragon Ball, a tall and tired, expressionless black-haired man's phantom vaguely appeared.

This man's face was not handsome, only considered to be resolute, but he had deep blue dragon eyes as sharp as a hunter, and the temperament of his whole body was like a silent sea abyss, deep, dark, but also silent.

At the beginning, this phantom seemed to be just a dead object, but soon, his eyes became agile and regained some wisdom.

He raised his head and looked at Su Zhou and everyone in the submersible.

At the same time, the huge spiritual power vibrated the water waves and the soul, and at the same time issued a 'sound' that sounded in both the spiritual world and the material world.

[Have you finally come, cultivator of later generations.]

This was a voice that was tired beyond measure, but still calm and indifferent.

[I have been waiting for you for a long time.]