Chapter 49 Hey!

“Hey!”

The moment Su Zhou finished speaking, Yala immediately became angry.

The snake spirit’s body stood up, holding up the hat, causing Shao Shuangyue, who was hiding behind Su Zhou, to look strangely at the top of the young man’s head. “Of course nothing will happen! You are my contractor, the Harbinger doesn’t have the power to cross endless worlds and pull you over!”

“But that’s not the important thing. What are you planning to do?”

“Don’t worry, Yala, I won’t become a Harbinger’s vassal. I just want to try it out, but not for real.”

“After all, if this is how the Harbinger chooses their vassals, there’s no harm in learning more.”

So saying, Su Zhou clicked his tongue and then reached out to touch the mouse, moving the arrow towards the ‘Yes’ on the pop-up window.

His movements were so swift and decisive that even Shao Shuangyue didn’t have time to turn her head to look at her computer screen.

However, surprisingly, the moment Su Zhou’s hand touched the mouse and the arrow overlapped with the pop-up window, the pop-up window disappeared.

It was that simple and direct – completely vanished without a trace.

Like ice touching fire, facing Su Zhou’s power, although it originated from the Harbinger, the strange power that had been scattered too much instantly dissipated into nothingness, retreating from the computer as if it had never existed.

“Ha, as expected.”

After confirming that the pop-up window had completely disappeared, Su Zhou raised his hand again, but the wide mouth didn't return. He chuckled and then poured his spiritual power into the computer, casting a small-scale exorcism array, and then frowned slightly.

The young man turned his head to look at Shao Shuangyue, who was still unsure of what had happened, his eyes thoughtful.

—The Harbinger’s selection never makes mistakes. At least the Great Existences definitely don’t make mistakes in this regard. They can always see clearly which person has a better affinity with them.

Even destiny hadn’t been wrong. Su Zhou admitted that his previous assumptions about the heavenly tribulation would indeed lead to the birth of a cycle of destiny… but he wasn’t a stagnant guy. Constantly improving and modifying his ideas was the norm for intelligent life.

“My little sister actually yearns for exploration and adventure deep down… That’s right, she just doesn’t like going out, but there’s no reason to say that only people who like going out like to explore the distance.”

“She’s just a simple salted fish who doesn’t like to move—but if there’s really a compelling force to take her out, she’d be quite happy.”

Su Zhou still remembered the last time he and Shao Qiming took Shao Shuangyue to the Kunlun Secret Realm for tourism. Shao Shuangyue was indeed reluctant at first, but in the end, she played very happily with the spirit beasts of the Kunlun Secret Realm and actively went to see every special scene in the Secret Realm.

“Yala, I actually don’t know if this is right.”

Although his eyes were fixed on Shao Shuangyue, who was a little dazed but cheered when she realized that her computer had returned to normal, Su Zhou sighed in his heart and talked with the snake spirit: “Everyone has the right to explore and become stronger… Maybe Shuangyue she… is really more suitable for the Harbinger?”

“What I mean is, of course, I can protect her together with Qiming. We can protect our parents, protect our relatives… but I can’t stay on Earth forever, just like this time, I stayed in the Qingqiu Secret Realm for half a year. During these six months, my friends and family worried about me, but how could I not worry about my friends and family?”

As he said this, Su Zhou couldn’t help but raise his head. He looked around Shao Shuangyue’s room—it was completely different from ordinary girls’ rooms, filled with various hardcore multi-complex figurines and game peripherals. Tabletop role-playing game rulebooks and various board game templates filled an entire cabinet, and various game model weapons were piled up everywhere.

If she didn’t really like it, no one would turn their living space into this.

If the Harbinger could let people see more unknown and novel things, it might not be a bad thing for the girl.

If Shao Shuangyue really had the potential to be a Harbinger’s vassal, would it be too arrogant and overprotective for him to unilaterally reject this possibility for her?

Su Zhou himself became Yala’s contractor, and he actually didn’t have the position to reject invitations from other Great Existences for others… but when it really concerned the people around him, he would also do things like ‘for the sake of so-and-so’ and reject something for the other party.

This even made Su Zhou a little self-disgusted, because he hated such people the most, although he didn’t expect the Harbinger’s pop-up window to disappear on its own. Su Zhou originally just wanted to see what kind of reaction the Harbinger would have.

In the end, he rejected it for Shao Shuangyue.

“It’s really fixed, thanks, Brother Zhou!”

At this time, after checking for a long time and confirming that there was indeed nothing wrong with the computer, Shao Shuangyue immediately stood up excitedly and cheered, high-fiving Su Zhou with a smile.

Su Zhou said with a smile: “It’s nothing, just pay attention in the future. If you encounter this kind of thing, just call me again—I won’t disturb you anymore. Study hard and don’t play on the computer before the Holy Ascension Selection Exam.”

“Yes, yes… why do you talk like my mom…”

Shao Shuangyue reluctantly closed the computer and then took out a practice paper from her schoolbag—she could still tell what was more important: “Are you leaving now? If you stay, I might have some cultivation questions to ask you later because the teacher said your answer last time was wrong.”

“Then your teacher must be wrong. As for me, I’ll wait a little longer. I have something to talk to your brother about later.”

So saying, Su Zhou walked towards the door of the room: “Just call me if you have any questions. I’ll be in your brother’s room.”

Walking out of the door and entering Shao Qiming’s room, the young man sat on the chair he usually sat on and asked the snake spirit with some confusion: “Speaking of which, Yala, your and the Harbinger’s ideas feel a bit similar—the Harbinger wants to explore the unknown, and you also want more possibilities. I don’t think they conflict at all.”

“Perhaps. I do have a not-bad relationship with the Harbinger. He doesn’t like me very much, and I’m not very happy with him either, but compared to destiny, it’s indeed much better.”

Yala slid out of Su Zhou’s hat and came to the table. He coiled up his body and shook his head: “But no matter what, he is now our competitor, our enemy—he intends to gradually explore the entire multiverse by selecting vassals in the myriad worlds, thereby awakening other Great Existences, and we have to do the opposite.”

“That’s the problem.”

Su Zhou frowned, he put his arms around his chest and fell into deep thought, and his hair, as if it had life, took off the black Chongming feather hat on his head and placed it next to Yala: “I don’t know how many vassals the Harbinger has… but Yala, it seems like you only have me as a contractor, right? No matter what, their numbers must be more than ours, and their efficiency must be higher!”

“And I’ve never seen your other vassals. In so many worlds, I don’t even have an ally!”

This was indeed an undeniable fact—it wasn’t that Su Zhou was afraid, anyway, killing one enemy was the same as killing ten, right? But the huge difference in numbers was always a depressing thing.

After all, who doesn’t want to drown the enemy with a sea of people?

You want to, I want to, everyone wants to—

But obviously, Yala didn’t agree with Su Zhou’s point of view.

“Su Zhou, you have the Celestial God Scale. That Harbinger guy needs to explore and scan the worlds within the scope of other Great Existences’ domains one by one, while you can find the key and travel directly there—that’s the generation difference in efficiency. They may send all their vassals together and still not be able to find the right location after half a year.”

So saying, the snake spirit shook his head unhappily. He patted the table with his tail, making ‘pa pa pa’ sounds: “Besides, do you think that the benefits of contracting with me are only undying blood?”

“Oh?” Hearing Yala’s suggestive words, Su Zhou couldn’t help but put his hands down from his chest. He touched his chin, looking surprised: “Are you saying that I actually have some kind of cheat that hasn’t been activated yet?!”

“That’s not it—it’s just that your previous strength was low, so it wasn’t obvious.”

So saying, Yala looked at Su Zhou, the red snake spirit coiling his body, his tone intriguing: “Remember the legends in the Divine Dragon World that were spread about you in other worlds? The name of the Candle Sun Dragon has begun to be spread in multiple worlds, as if since ancient times.”

“From the very beginning, when you contracted with me and passed through the Great Seal to go to other worlds, you were no longer just an ordinary Leng Lie, but the source of some kind of ‘mythological legend’.”

Hearing this, Su Zhou had already frowned and fallen into deep thought, while Yala continued to laugh softly: “Just like I have derivatives like the Progenitor Dragon… Su Zhou, do you think there is only one being split from you?”

“And their, their, and His actions, on the level of endless time and space, the impact caused, compared with the Harbinger’s seemingly numerous vassals, who is bigger and who is smaller?”

At the same time.

Independent of many time and space, almost located in a certain void at the highest point of the Ice凝Void.

A huge, infinite symmetrical radiation line originating from a source point is shining in the dark void.

Infinite radiation lines are projecting towards the endless distance, and each dazzling radiation line has opened up an independent space.

On the metallic earth filled with bright silver light, a light sphere that is extending countless radiation lines in all directions is located high in the center of the sky. Its light is projected towards the endless distance, and no matter how far you look, you can’t see the end. It is the eternal and endless ‘horizon’.

And in this brilliant light, a huge dragon shadow covered in scars suddenly emerged from the light, lying prostrate on the earth.

[Exploration completed, returning to the ‘Harbinger’s Space’]

The true dragon, Jiu Ming, who had fought bitterly until the last moment, almost lost his self-awareness when he finally managed to return. At the last moment, he felt as if his body was being drawn into a huge vortex. It was just that the feeling of swaying only lasted for a moment, and then he came into contact with the cold and hard steel ground.

As if only for a moment, he broke free from that extremely dangerous world.

[Welcome to the Harbinger’s Space, Jiu Ming. According to the first mission test, it is determined that you have officially become an ‘Adventurer’. The corresponding service with permissions will be opened for you immediately.]

[Your injuries are very serious. Do you want to repair them? If you don’t choose, then the repair will be defaulted.]

“Is there even a need to ask? Hurry, I’m about to die…”

Even though his consciousness was chaotic and he couldn’t think at all, under the stimulation of the inorganic sound that suddenly sounded in his mind, the heavily injured Jiu Ming immediately said weakly: “Repair, repair immediately!”

[Full body repair will deduct 927 exploration points from you]

Another voice flashed, and suddenly, a bright silver light descended from the sky, enveloping Jiu Ming’s tens of meters long true dragon body, and an invisible force caused him to float up.

Soon, the large and small wounds on the dragon body were quickly repaired, and not only that, as a ray of light flashed, Jiu Ming’s dragon body turned into a petite and delicate human youth body, and this body also had a huge wound that pierced through the chest and abdomen, a gunshot wound.

In just a few seconds, Jiu Ming, who was originally on the verge of shock and coma, was shocked to find that his body and spirit had completely recovered to their peak, and when the light disappeared and the invisible force slowly lowered him to the ground, the true dragon youth was still touching his tender white abdomen in shock, seemingly unable to believe that the wound on it had completely healed.

“What, what kind of technology is this! Even the dragon blood self-healing of an Earth Immortal True Dragon is impossible to be so fast and so perfect!”

Exclaiming incredulously, Jiu Ming realized that all the subtle wounds on his body, the shattered bones, the injuries to his internal organs, and the countless overloaded injuries throughout his body that were close to cutting off his path of cultivation, had now been completely healed.

Gradually walking out of this shock, he couldn’t help but raise his head and look at the radiation line light sphere above his head.

—Harbinger’s Space.

Since a few days ago, after Jiu Ming clicked on the option that appeared in the water waves, he appeared in another world, and a lot of information related to this Harbinger’s Space was instilled into his mind.

That information was very long and complicated. In short, the Harbinger’s Space was created by a powerful existence that was difficult to imagine in order to allow successors to continue to explore the unknown. He crossed countless time and space to select individuals who were in line with his mind and let them enter this space, constantly exploring the unknown world, constantly becoming stronger, until finally becoming a great Harbinger like him, proving the essence of ‘correctness’.

In fact, it was easy to understand. Jiu Ming personally believed that this was the inheritance land of a super-powerful being beyond the level of immortals and gods to cultivate his own successors (unlimited in number), and the tasks of exploring unknown spaces were essentially tests for the successors.

“But this is too sudden, isn’t it?!”

So muttering in a low voice, Jiu Ming didn’t dare to speak loudly, after all, who knew if this great power had a good temper? It was always right to be cautious: “Although I’m very happy to be selected, no one said the mission was so dangerous!”

“What if I die? I dare say that many people would not choose ‘yes’ if they knew they would die!”

To Jiu Ming’s surprise, the inorganic voice in his mind actually responded to his low muttering.

[If you die in the first mission, then you die. But if you survive, the space will give you a right to return to your normal life. Exploring the unknown requires wholehearted dedication, and those who are attached to what is behind them are not suitable for adventure and exploration.]

[Do you want to return to your original time and space?]

Being asked this, Jiu Ming hesitated for a long time and then gritted his teeth: “Then, then first tell me, what services does the Harbinger’s Space have!”

[You can exchange for abilities, items, etc. through ‘exploration points’ and ‘opening permissions’ to constantly become stronger when exploring the unknown.]

So saying, a row of light screens appeared in front of the true dragon youth.

[Prevented the Third Prince of the East Sea Dragon King from being killed by Lingzhuzi, high completion, obtained 2000 exploration points, one D-level opening permission.]

[Prevented the East Sea Dragon Palace from flooding Chentang Pass, medium completion, obtained 1750 exploration points, one D-level opening permission.]

[Explored the background of the ‘Investiture of the Gods War’, extremely low completion, obtained 569 exploration points.]

“Oh, so many?”

Although Jiu Ming didn’t understand what these points and permissions were used for, he felt that it was normal to spend all the points to cure his life. Now that he found that there was more than enough, he naturally thought it was interesting: “I see, I really didn’t completely prevent the East Sea Dragon Palace from retaliating against Chentang Pass in the end, so the evaluation isn’t complete.”

In this mission, Jiu Ming initially traveled to a sea area, and the sea area was full of sea beasts that had awakened their spiritual intelligence and were different from those on Earth.

After asking many sea beasts who had awakened their spiritual intelligence about the situation, Jiu Ming gradually understood that he had probably come to another world that was very similar to the ‘Lingzhuzi Wreaking Havoc in the Sea’ incident in ancient myths and legends, and at this time, Lingzhuzi had not yet taken action to stir up trouble in the East Sea, and the East Sea was still peaceful.

Whether as a dragon or a human, you have to look at your butt, and Jiu Ming is ultimately a true dragon, so naturally he doesn’t think it’s a good thing that Lingzhuzi randomly disturbs people’s peace and kills dragons—there’s no reasoning in this matter, why is he a dragon? And because of the notification from the shrimp soldiers and crab generals, Jiu Ming, a true dragon who obviously possessed an orthodox immortal god inheritance, was invited by the East Sea Dragon Palace to be a guest.

The subsequent process doesn’t need to be discussed in detail, it’s nothing more than Jiu Ming preventing the Third Prince of the Dragon Palace from being killed, but still failing to prevent Lingzhuzi from wreaking havoc in the East Sea, causing many casualties, and the conflict still standing.

And the East Sea Dragon Palace, which had lost face, was also a force, so they prepared to send down torrential rains and sea tides to attack Chentang Pass, and Jiu Ming really couldn’t bear to watch the common people suffer, so he rebelled against the Dragon Palace again and guarded Chentang Pass, and as a result, he was beaten up by both Lingzhuzi and the Dragon Palace. A hole was poked in his human body by the fire-tipped spear, and his dragon body was also seriously injured. He barely held his breath to return to the Harbinger’s Space.

Undoubtedly, this was the stupidest choice, offending both camps, but Jiu Ming felt that he had a clear conscience, so to hell with camp interests.

You say what’s right is right? Based on what? Who do you think you are?

This is probably the nature of dragons and snakes.

“Damn it, a child who is at most a few years old has the power of an almost commander level. If I didn’t know a little about myths and legends, I really don’t know what to do…”

At this time, Jiu Ming was also glad that he had received cultural education from Earth, otherwise he would have been completely in the dark and wouldn’t know how to be worthy of his conscience: “But ‘Investiture of the Gods War’? What is that? There’s no record of this thing on Earth…”

In fact, there were many things that Jiu Ming was confused about.

For example, in this mission world, he roughly knew that he was located in an ancient era in the Righteous Country, where the two countries were fighting each other. He understood this somewhat—the battle between Lingzhuzi and the Dragon Palace was just the marginal epitome of this stage of the era.

But strangely, unlike the history of Earth, according to some people in Chentang Pass, behind Di Xin in this world, in addition to the Sky Fox of the You Su Clan in Qingqiu, there was actually a divine dragon supporting him.

And that dragon was said to be the guardian dragon of Qingqiu.

This was very strange, very inexplicable!

Qingqiu was fine, after all, no matter how you trace back the Sky Fox, you can only trace it back to Qingqiu in the end… Tushan is a part of Qingqiu and also one of the Qingqiu royal families, at least that’s how it is on the Earth he’s from.

But the dragon…

Why would the Sky Fox be related to the dragon?

Although, according to historical records, after the Initial Emperor fought with the Wargod, Yinglong did not return to the Divine Court, but stayed in the south of heaven and earth, and Qingqiu was indeed located in the Southern Ridge… but forcibly grafting it on like this, isn’t it a little too weird?

“Most importantly, that dragon is actually called Candle Sun—isn’t that the ancestral bloodline of that guy Su Zhou?”

So muttering to himself, Jiu Ming didn’t get an answer after worrying for a long time, so he stopped thinking about it and raised his head again: “Then, what can these points do?”

[You can exchange for inheritance, magic weapons, strengthen bloodlines, and cultivation.]

The inorganic voice calmly replied: [List expanded]

In an instant, Jiu Ming’s eyes were filled with rows of lists—because they were too rich and dazzling, he could only temporarily close the exchanges for magic weapons and items, etc., and instead focused on strengthening inheritance and bloodlines—and there were indeed many things that made him extremely excited.

“Candle Dragon? Yinglong? Oh my god, there are even cultivation inheritance and bloodline inheritance that directly lead to the Heavenly Venerable level?! It’s just too expensive…”

“Oh, the Ming涬Transforming Dragon Art is also here? Let me see… the evaluation is actually quite high! The creator has a solid foundation and has the potential to directly reach the Heavenly Immortal… alas, if the spiritual energy wasn’t cut off, the teacher would definitely be able to become a Heavenly Immortal.”

“Um… wait a minute!”

When scanning the exchange list with his blue dragon pupils, suddenly, Jiu Ming saw a familiar name again: “Candle Sun True Body! This can actually be exchanged for too?!”

“Full inheritance exchange, the provisional price is A-level opening permission, 35,000 exploration points… Strange, why is it provisional? Other inheritances don’t have this saying…”

The true dragon youth clicked on this inheritance with some confusion and watched in detail—because it was related to Su Zhou, an acquaintance, he was quite curious: “Let me see, what exactly is Su Zhou’s foundation…”

“In the Southern Wilderness, there is a god named Candle Sun, with a dragon head and white wings, who can discern people’s hearts…”

He just saw it to the end like this.

Then, he saw the last line of words in this inheritance.

[…So, strictly speaking, the Candle Sun True Body is not a dragon transformation inheritance, because the Candle Sun is not a dragon, it is just a divine beast that looks very similar to a dragon.]

—Not a dragon—

Shock!ing!Jiu!Ming!

“Candle Sun is actually not a dragon?!”

At this moment, Jiu Ming even felt a thunderbolt pass over his head, he exclaimed in shock: “No, what’s going on?! How can Candle Sun not be a dragon?!”

[It’s really not a dragon, it just happens to have a dragon shape.]

[Although, some legendary Candle Suns do originate from Yinglong, but in multiple worlds, there are also many Yinglong who deny this—They believe that the Candle Sun only copied part of Yinglong’s power and stole their glory, but there are also some Yinglong who believe that the Candle Sun is someone who surpasses them and is better than them.]

[But no matter what, all Yinglong deny that the Candle Sun is a type of true dragon. It can only be regarded as belonging to the general category of dragons and snakes.]

Let’s not talk about Jiu Ming, who was shocked in the Harbinger’s Space.

Su Zhou, who didn’t know that he had been removed from the dragon register, had also just finished his call with Shao Qiming.

“Um, I understand. I have time anytime. Just have that guy contact me.”

“By the way, Qiming, I need to talk to you about Shuangyue… Look at what you’re saying, Shuangyue is closer to me than you are, her own brother, so of course she’ll talk to me if she has something to talk about! We’ll talk in detail when we meet next time. It’s not convenient to talk on the phone.”

“See you, see you!”

Hanging up the phone, Su Zhou still didn’t quite understand what Yala meant by saying that he was already ‘a part of mythology’.

But no matter what, Su Zhou, who already knew about the recent anomalies in the Confraternity of Prayer, did plan to find time to meet with Crocell.

“When praying, I inexplicably hear a voice? It calls itself the response of the Immortal Dragon…”

Putting the phone back in his pocket, Su Zhou tapped the table with his finger and muttered to himself: “The Immortal Dragon—isn’t that my pseudonym in the Reincarnation World?”

“When the residents of Nesser City worshipped me, they used this name. Could it be related to the Reincarnation World?”

“It seems that it’s time to go back to the Reincarnation World and take a look.”

So determined, Su Zhou picked up the hat from the table and put Yala, who was lazily sleeping, and the hat on his head together. The young man prepared to start the preparations for returning to the Reincarnation World and the planning for meeting with Crocell.

However, plans can’t keep up with changes.

Just as Su Zhou was preparing to leave the Shao family’s mansion and contact Crocell in his fan group, he received a call from Tiandu.

“What? Are you saying that Jiu Ming is missing?!”

Even Su Zhou was shocked by this news—how could Jiu Ming, a true dragon at the peak of the transcedent, just disappear? He was only one step away from the Commander level. The Dragon Ball of the Tianchi Dragon King supported him, allowing his strength to progress much faster than that of an ordinary genius.

[Yes, all our formation detections don’t have any movement. Jiu Ming just suddenly disappeared, and there are no traces in either the Tianchi Realm or the Earth Sea.]

Yan Sheng’s voice came from the phone, his tone solemn: [Even the Dao Yi Central Heavenly Machine Computing Hub cannot deduce Jiu Ming’s current location… We only know that he encountered a crisis some time ago, and now he has turned the danger into safety.]

“Okay, I roughly understand…”

After listening to Yan Sheng’s detailed description, Su Zhou couldn’t help but look strangely in the direction of Shao Shuangyue’s room.

—It seems that Jiu Ming is also a member selected by the Harbinger… Good fellow, he really didn’t expect that there would be two vassals of Great Existences around him.

“Okay, then I understand.”

After thinking for a while, as the only overlord Earth Immortal in the world, the strongest human, Su Zhou said loudly: “I’ll go over and see the situation immediately to see if I can find any clues.”

After speaking, he walked out of the room and met Shao Shuangyue, who had also heard the sound and opened the door to see what was going on.

“Are you leaving? Have a good trip, and good luck with your work!”

The black-haired beauty waved her hand casually, and Su Zhou also said with a smile: “After all, I have to make a living. You too, study hard so that you can be like your Brother Zhou in the future, and you can live happily every day just by slacking off!”

“Tsk! You’re still slacking off? I feel like you’re busy!”

Making a face, Shao Shuangyue said goodbye to Su Zhou, and the young man was too lazy to walk through the door, so he went directly to the balcony on the second floor of the Shao family’s mansion, soaring into the sky and flying to a high altitude.

“Let’s go, Yala, we are always busy.”

So saying, Su Zhou didn’t know when he swiped a bag of chocolate that was either Shao Shuangyue’s or Aunt Wen’s. He took one out of it and put it in his mouth to chew.

The slightly sweet fragrance that filled his mouth made the young man smile with satisfaction: “But you have to learn to enjoy life—being needed and being prayed for is also a way of life.”

After chewing for a while, Su Zhou took out another one and handed it to Yala, who was poking his head out—the red snake spirit hesitated for a moment but also bit it: “This counts as your offering to me, but blood offerings will not be less.”

“Haha, look at what you’re saying, am I that stingy?”

Laughter flashed across the sky, and the blue-purple spiritual light instantly passed through the sky, like a shooting star, falling towards the distant South Sea.

—In this transcendent world, life is like this.

This is the way of life for transcendents.