Chapter 1 Gods Vanish on a Cloudy Day

With a dragon's roar, answering Su Zhou's words, waves of pressure spread, affecting the sea area within a few thousand meters.

In Su Zhou's hand, the gray-black, long, strip-shaped creature, stimulated at close range, immediately contracted rapidly, ejecting its internal organs.

"Sorry, I disturbed you."

Su Zhou felt quite guilty for disturbing this sea cucumber's quiet seabed dwelling and inputted a little spiritual power, returning it to an area with a dense concentration of spiritual energy as compensation.

Turning back, he once again sized up the Flood Dragon before him, and a phantom image of a super-large sea cucumber immediately appeared in his mind—instantly, all sense of ferocity vanished, leaving only a wave of comicality.

It really is… a sea cucumber?

When did sea cucumbers become dragons?!

Fate is truly wondrous!

To be honest, Su Zhou was rarely so shocked. He hadn't even reacted much when he saw the Peacock Divine Bird use its Five-Colored Divine Light. Su Zhou immediately complained in his heart, "Damn, it's a good thing this part wasn't filmed by the production team, and I can't hear the soul transmissions, or who knows how much the audience would be spamming with comments if they saw and heard that, and the dignity of the true dragon would completely plummet!"

"Pfft." "Tsk tsk."

But ordinary viewers couldn't hear it, but the Holy Sages who were linked to him by the communication array could—immediately, Dao Sage and Military Sage exchanged glances. The former gestured a dragon, and the latter gestured a sea cucumber. The two old men smiled at each other with childlike amusement. Although none of them actually laughed out loud, the conference hall was still filled with a joyful atmosphere.

"I say, Yala, are dragons so casual?"

In the soul space, Su Zhou looked at Yala, his eyes full of curious exploration.

Yala said angrily, "Don't look at me, 'Is it just anything long and thin?'—Yes, I know that's what you want to say. And my answer is, 'Yes, that's right!', anything long and thin will do! In fact, even kelp will do!"

"What about chopsticks?" Su Zhou asked curiously.

"What's so difficult about chopsticks becoming refined and then switching to the Dragon Transformation path?" Yala looked at Su Zhou with the eyes of someone looking at a curious baby. "Even ink can become a dragon, cats can become dragons, chickens, cows, pigs can all do it, you, a living person, can do it too, let alone chopsticks—do you think dragons are noble? What's noble is strength, not bloodline!"

"That's true."

Su Zhou thought about it carefully, and it was indeed so. In the historical and ancient records, there are indeed many strange things that have become dragons in various legends. It can only be said that the Dragon Transformation path is truly uninhibited, and the Mimicry Dao can really mimic anything.

At this time, five submersibles, like five strong and sturdy heroes rummaging through a villager's house, were scanning around the dragon bones. The Flood Dragon was a little restless, but it couldn't drive away the submersibles like it usually did with approaching creatures, and was very anxious.

So Su Zhou chatted with the Flood Dragon, asking for information little by little.

This Flood Dragon has a very strong sense of territory and often drives away sea beasts that approach this sea area, regardless of their intentions. For example, the giant whale that looked like a Kunpeng that he encountered before probably just came over to say hello out of curiosity, but the Flood Dragon insisted on fighting it, making the usually good-tempered giant whale unhappy. After learning of Su Zhou and others' goal, it was even gleeful.

However, its nature is indeed like a sea cucumber. If no other sea beasts approach, it usually sleeps and cultivates around the dragon bones, and it is indeed single-minded, diligent and focused… So, if a sea cucumber has a soul and intelligence, is it a cultivation genius?

[I am the first to encounter creatures like you.]

This Flood Dragon had never hurt anyone, or even seen anyone. After realizing that Su Zhou really didn't have any ill intentions, it relaxed, and after losing its hostile attitude towards Su Zhou, it also vaguely felt that the aura emanating from Su Zhou seemed even more ethereal and profound than the Dragon King's inheritance.

This meant that Su Zhou had a more profound inheritance than it, and judging from his attitude, Su Zhou and the forces behind him didn't seem to be here to covet his inheritance.

After knowing this, Su Zhou's next words were easier for it to accept.

"Although staying in the deep sea is indeed quiet and leisurely, allowing you to live like a plant, this world is destined to be restless."

Su Zhou's words carried no emotional color. As requested by the Holy Sages, he extended an olive branch of cooperation to the Flood Dragon: "In the future, spatial channels leading to other worlds will appear in Earth's oceans… What is Earth? It is the Central Immortal Realm in your inheritance, the world we are in. In short, the paths to other oceanic secret realms will open, whether we go to the other side or creatures from the other side come here, the ocean will not be peaceful."

"Flood Dragon, are you interested in cooperating with us? We are willing to provide some resources and other inheritance techniques, and acknowledge your territory in the ocean. All you need to do is monitor the abnormal situations in the ocean and report to us as soon as possible."

[…So, you want to reorganize the Central Divine Court? And you need me to help you observe the situation in the sea?]

The Flood Dragon didn't understand the organizational structure of modern humans, but it had the memories of the Dragon King of Tianchi in its inheritance memory, and it wasn't stupid. So, it chose the closest way to put it: [In other words, you are inviting me to join you and guard the sea for you?]

It wasn't surprised by this at all. Obviously, for the Dragon King's inheritance in the Flood Dragon's bloodline, the Central Divine Court of the past should have acted in this style.

"That's right."

Su Zhou nodded. He continued: "But before that, we want to copy the Dragon King of Tianchi's Dragon Pearl inheritance. This is not plunder, but a copy for preservation. If you feel that it is damaging, we can also provide you with other Dragon God and Dragon King inheritances according to your needs—but the inheritance of the sages must be recovered, strictly protected, and provided to all qualified people to learn, rather than being kept as a private collection, which is non-negotiable."

To continue the lost knowledge of the past sages is one of the most important things in the eyes of the Holy Sages of Zheng Guo, who claim to be the inheritors of all the extraordinary lineages of Shenzhou. Inheritance is the trace of a civilization, the source of a cultural sphere. Every recovery of a lost path of the sages is a solid foundation, which is the fundamental national policy of Zheng Guo in the era of spiritual energy revival.

[…My instincts are very repulsed by this. I am very selfish, I don't want my inheritance to be known or held by others, it's best if only I know.]

Hearing Su Zhou's request, the Flood Dragon hesitated and groaned, but it didn't lie, but told the truth: [But my inherited memory tells me that 'acceptance' is the best choice. The memory of the Dragon Ancestor of Tianchi makes me understand that I have no reason or strength to refuse now.]

[What's more, I haven't actually lost anything, I can even get other inheritances. Both sides benefit, maybe you benefit more, but it's all good for me… This feeling that is completely opposite to my instincts and the current situation is very wonderful.]

The Flood Dragon, which rarely used this kind of wisdom, couldn't help but sigh: [Is this… human… thinking? A wonderful feeling!]

"It's normal, the Moral Celestial Lord also said, 'True words seem paradoxical', you agreed, so it's a good thing."

Su Zhou could hear that the Flood Dragon had agreed, and it didn't mind accepting Zheng Guo's invitation.

Or rather, it felt that if it firmly rejected this invitation, then what would happen next would probably be a bit bloody and not suitable for children.

To be honest, Su Zhou didn't want things to develop to that point. After all, this Flood Dragon had done nothing wrong, and he didn't want to take action. Because the Devourer of Evil is a power that is freely judged, he can use a pure, self-righteous view of good and evil to look at the world.

It was also fortunate that Su Zhou's diligent training of strength played its role in this matter, making the Flood Dragon, which originally looked a bit irritable, become docile and communicative.

[I agree.]

"That's good, without further delay, let's start now."

Without hesitation, Su Zhou took the Flood Dragon, which was no longer resisting, back to the view of the five submersibles.

At this time, Su Zhou notified everyone through the communication array, saying that he had persuaded this Flood Dragon, and the exploration teams, who had also roughly scanned the dragon bones from beginning to end, gathered around Su Zhou.

"It seems that this Flood Dragon has been completely persuaded."

"Persuaded (physically)."

"It's good that there was no fight this time, I don't want a dragon to be killed, after all, it's also a totem."

"If you were a dragon, that would be good too."

Seeing the return of the two, the netizens' comments also followed.

"Next, we will enter the skull of the Dragon King of Tianchi and touch the Dragon Pearl."

Naturally, Su Zhou didn't know the netizens' opinions. He spoke publicly in the team communication channel. As the leader of this exploration, his declaration represented one thing.

That is, soon, the last step of this Dragon King's remains exploration is about to begin.

They will reveal the essence of the Mimicry Dao by showing the inheritance within the Dragon King's Dragon Pearl in front of all the viewers in the world.