Chapter 317 A Century of Time (5800 words, second update, requesting monthly tickets~)

Now, 147 years have passed since Su Zhou left, also known as the New Calendar year 147.

The Casting Blade Museum was indeed an ancient site that the later Parliament of the Hundred Schools excavated from the volcanic ash when they rebuilt the government and promoted national nationalism. Then, it was established as a free national patriotic education museum.

It not only includes the Casting Blade Museum, which sings praises to heroes, but also the 'Museum of the Brutal Acts of the Demon Dynasty', located on the side, which is only accessible to legal guardians over the age of 16. Inside, there are descriptions and records of the past evil deeds of the Demon Dynasty’s soldiers eating people.

The current world situation is very peculiar, causing both Su Zhou and Shao Qiming to click their tongues in amazement after learning about it.

In the past, because the An Dynasty used the power of the Divine Tree to massacre ordinary people on a large scale, countless An Dynasty refugees spread in all directions and even around the world. At that time, this was indeed an act of leaving their homes, abandoning their homeland, and giving up their homeland. The Hundred Schools' Righteous Army at that time was very dissatisfied with this attitude, because it was equivalent to surrendering to the Demon Dynasty and giving up resistance.

However, more than a hundred years later, this behavior was highly praised by the official Tianzheng Alliance, who considered it an immigration wave that spread the Tianzheng cultural sphere. Its significance was not only that it brought advanced culture and True Qi inheritance to the surrounding barbaric areas, but it also provided sufficient reasons and claims for the expansion of the Baijia Yihui in the future and its development into the subsequent Tianzheng Alliance.

In the fifth year after Su Zhou left the Divine Tree World, the reorganized Parliament of the Hundred Schools basically recovered the entire territory of the former An Dynasty. In the thirtieth year, they found the An Dynasty refugees who had moved to Nanyang and established stable contact. In the sixtieth year, the Parliament of the Hundred Schools began to establish diplomatic relations with the An Dynasty refugees who had migrated to Fusang in Dongying, on the other side of the ocean.

After that, the Parliament of the Hundred Schools, which had recovered its vitality, began to attack in all directions after reorganizing the original sphere of influence of the An Dynasty, conquering—or rather, leading the former refugees back to the Tianzheng cultural sphere.

Today, most of the entire World Island is within the sphere of influence of the Tianzheng Alliance. The last conquest, or the return of the 'claim', has passed twenty-four years, and the entire world is very stable.

In this process, the True Qi machine, which was developed through the war with the Demon Dynasty, has naturally made great contributions—and the popularization of the True Qi machine also means the expansion of the warrior community. Perhaps the initial motivation was just like the factory owners who liberated the rural labor force, just to find more workers who could serve the True Qi machine, but the spread of martial arts inheritance is a fact.

Now, in the Tianzheng Alliance, one out of every three people is a cultivator, and the other two more or less practice a little internal force, but they do not make a living from it.

At this time, Su Zhou and Shao Qiming had already walked out of the museum, and the sky had begun to darken. Orange-red sunset glow appeared above the thinning snow clouds.

The young man stood at the edge of the mountain top platform. He looked into the distance and could see huge airships flying under the clouds through the snowflakes. In the distance, in the city at the foot of the mountain, majestic white steam soared into the clouds. The once desolate lands of Heizhou and Liaozhou are now full of prosperous cities and people.

Standing on this high mountain, overlooking the world.

In the past, he practiced martial arts here, defeated strong enemies, and finally comprehended thunder techniques to achieve his current power.

At that time, when he looked down at the world from the high mountain, he could only see the endless white snow and the lonely flowing river, and the desolate ruins of the city.

But now, more than a hundred years later, civilization has prospered to this point, and has even developed a True Qi civilization that is completely different from Earth.

Taking out the Extinction Blade and holding it in his hand, Su Zhou's pupils shrank slightly, as if focusing, scanning the distant scenery. He stared at all of this, and the corners of his mouth raised slightly, revealing a sincere smile.

"It's really good..." he muttered to himself.

And on the side, Shao Qiming saw this smile. He could see that this was a kind of heartfelt pride. And with this pride, the spiritual power fluctuations in Su Zhou's body became more and more pure, almost undisguised.

——This is the world he saved in the past.

And his name and his image are being passed down in this world for a long time.

Thinking of this, Shao Qiming seemed to understand something. He understood a little why Su Zhou wanted to come back and take a look.

Because in a sense, everything in this world today is the 'good fruit' produced by Su Zhou's past actions—the resources required by the Gluttonous Demon Lord divine power may be this kind of thing.

Whether it is the act of devouring evil or the good fruit created by implementing goodwill, these things that will be passed down... are the help for Su Zhou's path.

And on the side, other people also noticed Su Zhou. Some people praised Su Zhou's appearance, and some people noticed the strangeness of Su Zhou's pupils and eyes. They all saw that the other party's strength was extraordinary, so they did not intend to approach and disturb him.

But soon, Su Zhou broke away from this state, and he raised the Extinction Blade in his hand, stroking the blade.

Just now, he noticed that his divine power, which had been strengthened by the True Soul, sensed an invisible and intangible force pouring towards him—it was wish power mixed with a lot of impurities.

Of course, this kind of wish power cannot be used directly, so Su Zhou took out the Extinction Blade to absorb the wish power in its place. After all, compared to his name, the Divine Blade itself is a totem, a kind of imprint, which can completely bear the benefits for him, and can also avoid some restrictions for him.

By purifying and refining the wish power in the Divine Blade, Su Zhou felt that his power had also improved to a certain extent—this was all within his expectations.

"Well, as long as I stay in this world for a while longer, the wish power in the Extinction Blade is estimated to be able to break through that limit point and sublimate it into a commander-level divine weapon."

"Moreover, once sublimated, it will not only be at the initial stage of the commander level. As long as I collect some high-level spiritual materials in Zheng country, or even in this world, it will not be difficult for it to reach the sky in one step."

After confirming that the Extinction Blade would continuously absorb the wish power in the Divine Tree World to grow on its own, Su Zhou, who had solved one of his major purposes for coming to the Divine Tree World, nodded. He turned around and looked at the 'Taibai Volcano' behind the Casting Blade Museum.

In the past, the Grand Craftsman and others used the power of the Taibai Volcano's leyline to forge divine weapons, but they also triggered the earth's Qi resonance, causing the volcano to erupt. As a result, Taibai Mountain has been dormant for more than a hundred years.

However, now Su Zhou used his Dragon Eyes to scan the leyline, but he noticed that the Taibai Volcano was still a dormant volcano in the end. Its dormancy period has passed, and it is now gradually turning into activity—in about thirty years, it will erupt again.

"Although I guess they should be able to discover it in advance, they definitely won't be as early as me." Smiling, Su Zhou said: "Fortunately I came, I'll go down the mountain later and remind the local officials to prepare early—as long as they use a large formation, they may not be able to make the volcano dormant. If that doesn't work, in thirty years, I should be able to suppress the volcano."

Speaking of this, Su Zhou sighed. He looked into the distance, his eyes long: "Although the lifespan of warriors is long, I don't know if my old friends and acquaintances from the past are still alive after more than a hundred years."

"As long as they cultivate into Transcendence, that is, the Innate Realm, they shouldn't die of old age, or at least, they should only be middle-aged."

After being silent for a while, Su Zhou turned his head and said to Shao Qiming, "Let's go, let's go down the mountain and into the city."

"Let's go then."

Controlling the drone back into his hand, Shao Qiming filled it with a new high-performance battery—it is snowing now, so solar energy cannot be used. He turned his head and looked at the 'True Qi Backpack' carried on the back of a child on a mountain road on the side, and said thoughtfully: "The technology of this world is really interesting, just like this True Qi Backpack, if you adjust it, it will definitely be of great use if you put it back into the Earth world."

This kind of simple and portable equipment that can store spiritual power with you does exist on Earth, but there is no mature civilian design, which is also because the spiritual energy has not been restored for long and there is not much time to accumulate.

"Yes." Su Zhou also nodded to this: "So I also brought some materials and classics that can be used to exchange information—don't worry, it has nothing to do with the secrets of the Zheng country, it's all my own stuff."

"Mutual exchanges between the two worlds will naturally bring about rapid progress."

As he spoke, the two tried to take the cable car down the mountain.

The cable car also uses True Qi power. A True Qi furnace about the height of a person is running next to the cable, spewing out a lot of pure white water vapor—this is probably the source of power that replaced the engine in the Divine Tree World. Su Zhou observed it in detail and found that its specific structure is somewhat similar to the spiritual power drive engine of the Zheng country's exoskeleton armor, but the design details are slightly behind and primitive.

Soon, they arrived at the city at the foot of the mountain.

At the foot of Taibai Mountain is a rather prosperous small tourist city, with a large number of hot spring hotels. Most of the tourists in the previous sightseeing museums are actually people who come here for hot spring vacations. Some hot spring hotels even have dedicated cable car branch lines for pick-up and drop-off, which is considered one of the local special tourism services.

Su Zhou and Shao Qiming walked into the street in a relatively low-key manner, following the tourist crowd. They could see that there were no cars on the street, but instead, there were various 'True Qi Scooters'.

The True Qi Scooter, the more basic one, is for children to use, and is only used to strengthen physical strength and assist walking, but the more advanced ones can allow people who have not practiced lightness skills to use various lightness skills techniques, and the operation is simple and easy to understand, just like a bicycle, and the speed is not bad at all.

Through the drone's high-altitude reconnaissance, Shao Qiming saw that outside the city's traffic arteries, there was a 'Warrior Lightness Skill Exclusive Road' that was almost like a highway. This is not to distinguish between warriors and ordinary people, mainly because on the dedicated road, there are warriors flying around using scooters or lightness skills everywhere, and it is indeed difficult for ordinary people to keep up.

"I guess so, after all, scooters can also exercise spiritual power cultivation, and cars, unless people directly supply power to the engine, otherwise it does not meet the needs of a warrior civilization in this regard... and why not use a simple and convenient scooter to design a car for warriors to supply power to?"

After understanding this, Su Zhou couldn't help but click his tongue in amazement. At the same time, he also discovered that this world also has generators, but they are also powered by True Qi furnaces, which also leads to no shortage of street lights, and every household has white lights at night.

"Strange, with True Qi furnaces, generators shouldn't exist..." Shao Qiming was quite puzzled by this. He knew very well that two creations with similar functions could never coexist, at least in one country, because technical strength is not unlimited. If you want to develop, you must invest in one side.

Back then on Earth, it was because the spiritual energy was cut off, so they could only use generators. Otherwise, the spiritual power civilization in the past was so developed, why did they have to develop new power sources again?

"This may be because of me..."

Regarding Shao Qiming's doubts, Su Zhou had a guess. He told the other party about how he seemed to have brought a hand-cranked generator to Mo Ganxiu, a member involved in forging the divine blade, to charge the divine blade's lightning-struck wood: "It is very likely that they noticed that the True Qi furnace can generate electricity and charge this rare lightning-type spiritual material, they lit up the technology tree in this area..."

"I can't be so careless next time! Time, who knows what kind of creations it will catalyze."

To this, Shao Qiming could only warn Su Zhou: "A hand-cranked generator is okay, but if you accidentally leave a mobile phone or something, who knows if this world will now become a True Qi cyberpunk style... or even become a Super Robot War!"

Su Zhou: "I was wrong, definitely next time, definitely next time."

Originally, Su Zhou and Shao Qiming planned to continue to stroll around the city and see the various aspects of life—this can also be regarded as a kind of cultivation, after all, observing the civilized creations of different worlds is very useful for improving one's horizons and breadth of thinking.

But soon, because they were wandering around in the middle of winter without wearing cotton-padded jackets and without scooters, the two suspicious people were quickly noticed and focused on by the local police.

Ten minutes later, Su Zhou, who was commenting on the skills of a barber shop that used wind-type martial arts to shave customers, and Shao Qiming, who was observing what the locals liked to eat and whether there were any differences from the Earth side, were stopped by several police officers using special police scooters.

The police scooter is actually similar to an exoskeleton armor. It presents a huge L-shape, with towering protective walls blocking the sides of the police officers, and the front also has a translucent plastic shield to defend against impacts, which looks very safe and solid.

Facing the two who obviously had the strength of the Innate realm, the leading police officer was very polite.

"Gentlemen, we have not received any records of Martial Saints entering the country... You also know that Innate Martial Saints need to report to the local authorities when they travel."

Although the number of Innate warriors is not as rare as it used to be, they are called Martial Saints, but the official term still uses Martial Saint as a title, so in the Tianzheng civilian population, there is often a joking saying that 'Masters are not as good as dogs, and Martial Saints are everywhere'. However, most people, when they really face an Innate level, can clearly feel that the other party and themselves are higher beings with absolute differences in life forms.

"Can you... show us your 'Warrior Certificate'?"

Facing the police officers' rather careful questioning, Su Zhou and Shao Qiming looked at each other.

——Didn't you prepare the tools to forge certificates?

——I prepared them, but I haven't seen the real thing yet. To imitate you, you have to give me the prototype.

"I didn't expect the identity system in this world to be quite complete? You know, on Earth, next door to Fusang, it's almost 2017, and the personal ID card system hasn't been completed yet."

Since things have come to this, Su Zhou had no intention of hiding it. He stretched out a hand, stopped Shao Qiming's words of advice, and said bluntly: "I'm sorry, I'm not a local, I don't have a Warrior Certificate. Don't worry, I'm not here to cause trouble."

To the police officers who were obviously on guard and even had their hands on the weapons on their sides, and the civilians who had evacuated on their own and looked very skilled, as if they often encountered warrior battles, Su Zhou smiled brightly and kindly: "However, I would like to ask, how do you usually treat warriors without a Warrior Certificate? Do you suppress them or take them back to inquire about the situation?"

"Uh, because people without a Warrior Certificate are usually separatist lunatics, or remnants of the Undead Cult, so we will immediately call for support and suppress them on the spot."

The police captain, who had retreated dozens of meters away and set up a formation with other police officers, was extremely wary. Seeing Su Zhou's kind smile, he was a little shaken. He thought for a while, and then frowned and answered seriously: "But if you are really willing to go back with us to accept the investigation, then naturally you can not take action and negotiate peacefully..."

To be honest, the police officers naturally did not want to take action. The combat power of the Innate level was impossible for a few police squads to block. If they had to face them head-on, without talking about reinforcements, at least they on the scene would definitely die.

And who would want to die?

Separatists and the Undead Cult? He got new information again. Su Zhou nodded slightly. He prepared to ask a few more questions, get some information, and then fly away.

But soon, a police officer seemed to have received some notification. He took out a mirror-like magic weapon from his arms and stared at the changing light and shadow on it for a while.

After reading the information on it, he was first surprised, and then nodded to the mirror with great respect, obviously receiving instructions from the upper levels.

Then, he handed the mirror to the captain.

"It's actually like this?!"

After reading the instructions on the mirror for a while, the captain was also surprised. He raised his head, looked at Su Zhou and Shao Qiming, whose faces were kind, with suspicion, and then raised his hand to signal the officers to withdraw the formation.

Then, he stepped forward and said somewhat suspiciously: "Gentlemen, everything is fine now... A 'Demon Subduing Bureau' action team will come to pick you up later... I'm sorry for disturbing your vacation! But we are also considering the safety situation."

And these words immediately aroused whispers from the surrounding onlookers who thought they could see a warrior duel.

"Demon Subduing Bureau? Is that the one that is said to have suppressed all the remnants of the Demon Dynasty in the past, and also destroyed all subsequent attempts to use the power of immortality?"

"Isn't it a fictional movie and TV series? The Demon Subduing Bureau really exists?" This was a slightly younger voice.

"Of course it's true, and the people from the Demon Subduing Bureau went to the Ten Thousand Mountains and Dongying to eliminate so many demons and evil spirits... It's just that in recent years, the world has been peaceful, and the Demon Subduing Bureau hasn't been dispatched for a long time." This was an older voice.

"These two people are from the Demon Subduing Bureau? They're too young..."

"Didn't you hear that they are Innate masters? They must be rejuvenating... It's just that they all say that those rejuvenating masters are all crane-haired and child-like, white-haired beautiful boys and girls..."

"It's okay, we don't mind."

Su Zhou and Shao Qiming were both slightly stunned. The two looked at each other, obviously not understanding when they became people from the Demon Subduing Bureau.

But soon, they reacted to what was going on.

"I didn't expect my acquaintances to react so quickly. It seems that some people are still alive."

Understanding the meaning behind this, Su Zhou couldn't help but smile slightly: "I don't know how many are still alive, but Zhou Buyi should still be alive."

But Shao Qiming shook his head, sensing the anti-reconnaissance system in the drone quite strangely: "Strange, I obviously didn't find any surveillance, and there are no surveillance cameras here."

"Look at that mirror, it should be using mirror spirit communication. The technology in this world is completely different from our Earth, and the way of reconnaissance is probably different. There should also be situations like divination and prophecy." Su Zhou was knowledgeable and knew more, so he wasn't surprised.

Soon, one minute and forty seconds later. The two who were waiting noticed the abnormality.

Whoosh, with the sound of the wind, a small airship that was snow-white and had no markings, just descended from the sky, as if accompanying the falling snow, bringing gusts of breeze, landing in front of Su Zhou and Shao Qiming.

And five fully armed Demon Subduing Bureau specialists, covered in snow-white masks and uniforms, strode out of it.

All five Demon Subduing Bureau specialists had the strength of the Awakening Peak, and the leader among them seemed to distinguish for a while, and then bowed respectfully to Su Zhou, even extending his hand, making a gesture of guidance.

"Lord Su, please come in."

His tone carried heartfelt respect: "One of your old friends asked me to bring you a message: A century of time, why did you suddenly leave without saying goodbye today?"

"He is very happy and is waiting for you now."

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