The city of humans.
The yellow power of human destiny slowly condensed into Ji Ye's figure as he pushed open the door of the exclusive box prepared for Dragon City.
What appeared in the field of vision was not the familiar interior scene of Sanqian Restaurant but a rippling blue lake with orioles and swallows dancing on the shore and the fragrance of lotus flowers in the river.
In a pavilion in the middle of the lake, a middle-aged man wearing a yellow robe is holding a book in his hand and reading!
"Dear guest, the boss invites you."
The female shopkeeper Yulong, who was dressed in purple clothes and had a fairy-like temperament, stood aside. She first saluted Ji Ye and then made an invitation gesture.
“I don’t know the boss’s name!”
Ji Ye did not refuse but walked over without hesitation and said to the middle-aged man.
"Well, strictly speaking, we didn't have a first name at that time. We usually only had surnames."
"The tribe I belong to belongs to the Xiong clan and lives by Jishui."
The middle-aged man in yellow put down the book in his hand and smiled kindly.
"I've seen Emperor Xuanyuan!"
Ji Ye saluted with a solemn expression.
Previously, Ji Ye was able to face a legendary figure at the level of "Tang Zong Song Zu" without much fluctuation in his heart.
But even if he received a quasi-myth rating, he still couldn't show any disrespect to the person in front of him.
It's not because Huangdi Xuanyuan was a "myth"-level player in the previous round, but because in the eyes of any Dragon Kingdom person, Huangdi, one of the founders of the Dragon Kingdom civilization, is always worthy of respect!
Since ancient times, the tradition of the people of the Dragon Kingdom has been ancestor worship, rather than the worship of gods in many other countries.
What's more, Ji Ye's own surname came from Jishui, where the Yellow Emperor lived. It should be said that the person in front of him was really his ancestor.
"No need to be polite."
"To be able to reach the quasi-myth level in such a short period of time is truly terrifying. Please sit down!"
Xuanyuan Huangdi has a gentle temperament and does not have the majesty of the legendary emperor.
"You seem to have many questions?"
"Yes, I wonder if senior can help me clear up my doubts!"
"You are qualified to know everything by the quasi-myth assessment. What do you want to know?"
Huangdi nodded.
"I want to know, what is the super civilization that established the inheritance place? What is their real purpose! And what is the use of the power of luck?"
Ji Ye asked repeatedly.
Although some answers to these questions had been given before, Ji Ye had some doubts about the previous answers.
"You have a lot of questions, let me answer them one by one."
"Well, you can probably think of this super civilization as the 'Zerozer' civilization!"
Xuanyuan Huangdi thought for a while.
Then, he pointed to the book he had just placed on the stone table. The cover showed the vast starry sky, spaceships and stars, and the word "Three Body" was written on the cover.
"I didn't expect that you would also watch "The Three-Body Problem"..."
Ji Ye was quite surprised.
"You always need to keep pace with the times, and this book is very well written."
Huang Di smiled.
"Zero Civilization!"
Ji Ye seemed to have some understanding in his heart, but he missed the point.
"As for the power of luck, the core of the stronghold... you can understand it as a 'source of energy and fire'..."
"Without energy and fire source, even if you are located in the inheritance place, you will still enter the darkness, and the length of time it can sustain depends on the magnitude of the luck of a stronghold... Therefore, even if you enter the inheritance place, it is really When the 'Great Darkness' comes, low-level strongholds will perish first, and high-level strongholds will perish last..."
And Emperor Xuanyuan Huang continued to explain his doubts.
"The initial distribution method of the power of luck is to distribute it evenly based on comprehensive judgments such as the number of major strongholds and their level of civilization."
"But this distribution method is obviously not enough to ensure that everyone can survive the 'Great Darkness'. The greater probability is that all races will be annihilated. Therefore, the Zeroer civilization also allows all civilizations and races to compete to obtain the Qi of other races. The power of luck. Let the power of luck be distributed in a ladder-like manner. In this way, it should eventually be able to stably ensure that some civilizations are retained."
"According to inference, after the Great Darkness passes, the new world will most likely be based directly on the rules of the Heritage Land!"
Huangdi explained.
"I see."
Ji Ye understood completely in his heart.
In other words, the inheritance place is not just an "ark", but will also become the origin of the new world by then. This is also one of the reasons why a large number of civilizations are fighting each other.
The power of luck, the power of luck!
Now it seems that this term can be said to be very appropriate.
For all major civilized races, this is not only an opportunity for survival, but also an opportunity for the development of civilization after the Great Darkness.
"According to my judgment, the level of the stronghold should reach the myth level or above to be able to survive the Great Darkness."
Huang Di said again.
"Speaking of the mythical level, senior, I heard that the mythical level seems to have some special permissions?"
Ji Ye was a little confused.
According to the legendary myth previously obtained from the memory of Qingjiao, it seems that there are some special quotas that can send people to some "extraordinary planes" without participating in the "test".
But that was the last round. Is the myth of this round still useful
"Ordinary permissions actually don't mean much. After being promoted to 'Myth', the biggest benefit is probably that you can be qualified to join the Zero Returner civilization, and let them go to 'Transcendence' together..."
Huang Di picked up "The Three-Body Problem" on the table and turned to the chapter "The Returner". The above description caught Ji Ye's eyes.
"Also called restarters, they may be a group of intelligent individuals, or they may be a civilization, or several civilizations. We don't know, but their existence has been confirmed. Zeroers want to restart the universe and return to the pastoral era."
"Join a 'super civilization'? Will this civilization accept other important races?"
Ji Ye was very surprised.
"Of course I accept it."
"In fact, strictly speaking, when you reach the level of super civilization, there are no serious racial concepts in itself."
"For this civilization, those who can advance to the 'myth level' are definitely the most outstanding beings among various races, and are naturally qualified to become one of them."
"After all, what they pursue is detachment. If they succeed, they will also need a lot of outstanding talents..."
Huang Di said.
"Talent, isn't the land of inheritance capable of creating outstanding people?"
Ji Ye thought of something and was a little confused.
"These outstanding men who were created did not meet the conditions for transcendence."
Xuanyuan Huangdi shook his head.
"Speaking of which, the fact that the Heritage Land can reappear these outstanding figures from past generations is due to a mythical human being who solved some key problems, and you should be familiar with his name."
"Isn't it a legend that humans were created from clay?"
Ji Ye was thoughtful.
There are legends about the "creation of man" in the myths of all major countries with long histories.
Although the gods who created humans are different, Nuwa is the god of the Dragon Kingdom, Prometheus is the god of Greece, God is the god in the Bible, and Viraco is the South American Indian...
But these legends all have one thing in common, that is, clay was used to create humans!
Perhaps this is also the reason why the "Land of Inheritance" got its name
"Since this super civilization has the ability to establish a 'place of inheritance', bring together people from the entire universe, and even create life, can they not solve the source of the 'Great Darkness' and prevent it from happening? ?”
When it comes to "the right place to inherit", a question that Ji Ye had been thinking about before seemed to suddenly become clear.
He stood up suddenly and asked Huang Di.
"Did you really not think of that?"
After a rare two seconds of silence, Huang Di asked Ji Ye directly this time. The expression on his face remained the same, but the original smile was no longer in his eyes.
"what do you mean… "
Ji Ye's heart suddenly sank.
Immediately, his face lost its expression.
Yes, he guessed it. When Huangdi said the word "Returner", a somewhat vague idea emerged.
It became clear just now, and now it has been confirmed from Huang Di's rhetorical question.
"I see!"
A few seconds later, Ji Ye sat down again, his expression becoming calm.
"Then, sir, how will you choose, follow 'Detachment', or stay?"
Ji Ye looked into Xuanyuan Huangdi's eyes.
"I have descendants. Moreover, I personally don't have much interest in things like transcendence..."
Xuanyuan Huangdi just glanced at Yulong, the female shopkeeper in purple who was walking over not far away with a plate of tea made from the dew in the morning sun.
"It turns out that shopkeeper Yulong is yours..."
"daughter!"
"Female?"
"No, it's another daughter!"
Ji Ye suddenly realized.
Yes, it is said that the Yellow Emperor ascended to heaven with three thousand daughters. It is normal to have a bunch of daughters.
Ji Ye suddenly remembered that the last time he entered the inheritance place to select "mythical items", there was an option for "Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon", and the annotation below was quite interesting. It seemed that humans at a certain level of "mythology" used themselves The authority was deliberately joking with him.
It seems that these mythical level players are not as serious and aloof as ordinary people imagine.
Probably because of these reasons, they are unwilling to abandon their relatives and friends and join the team of "Returners" to transcend alone!
"What are you talking about?"
The shopkeeper Ziyi came over with tea in hand, a look of curiosity on his face.
"I'm saying that many of us in the Dragon Kingdom consider ourselves descendants of the Yan and Huang Dynasties!"
"Ah, then don't you need to call me aunt?"
"Yulong, don't be rude to your distinguished guests!"
In the pavilion, there were bursts of laughter and laughter.
After talking with Xuanyuan Huangdi, a former mythical player, he fully understood what he wanted to know.
Ji Ye did not choose to return to Dragon City, but directly entered the long-lost "Battlefield of Luck" alone.
This time, the background he encountered was a weakened version of "Journey to the West", and his identity was a "Learner"...
Ji Ye had a slight smile on his face.
"boom!"
On the first day, at the border of the Tang Dynasty, the Five-Finger Mountain formed by Tathagata with one of his own hands was deeply shattered by a golden dragon claw.
The monkey, who was not afraid of heaven and earth, was almost beaten to death when faced with this master who was dressed in "Grand Immortal Art", "Seventy-two Changes", and "Fire Eyes" and looked more authentic than himself!
Subsequently, during the Eighty-One Difficulties along the way, various people entered this optimized version of the background world of Journey to the West one after another. Even though the alien race who was the king of Zhanshan had the geographical advantage and numerical advantage, and they were at least legendary level, they were defeated one after another. They donated a large amount of civilization coins and food for barbecue on the fire.
Three years later (the time of the Battle of Luck), at the end of the Lingshan Mountain, Tathagata, who was beaten with bruises all over his head, gave away all the scriptures in his Scripture Pavilion with an expression of anger but no words.
Dragon City was able to harvest thousands of Buddhist skills, magical scriptures and hundreds of tokens of immortals and powerful men and heavenly soldiers and generals from "Journey to the West", as well as the power of luck to double the size of the stronghold again.
At the same time that Ji Ye entered the land of inheritance, many outstanding people also formed groups of close friends, or formed teams according to dynasties and entered the battlefield of destiny to compete with many foreign races.
In the first year of the inheritance land, the core of the Dragon City stronghold officially advanced to the eighth level of extraordinary, and ranked among the top 1,000 among all civilization and racial strongholds, obtaining the "quasi-mythical" level rating...
Two more years later, the core of the Dragon City stronghold reached the extraordinary ninth level.
The "War of the Gods" begins.
Millions of combatants from the entire Dragon City entered a destiny battlefield similar to the background of "The Romance of the Gods", transforming into the "Zhou Dynasty" and competing with the other legendary aliens "Eight Hundred Princes" to compete for the only place to advance to the mythical level.
In the end, after a full hundred years of management and battle (the time of the Luck Battlefield), the Zhou Dynasty, represented by the human race, came to dominate the world and overwhelmed the other heroes and broke into the "Royal Palace".
It has become the first and only mythical stronghold of mankind, and has entered the top 100 in the ranking of all racial strongholds!
At the same time, Ji Ye was officially promoted to the mythical level.
Immediately, like Emperor Xuanyuan, he gave up the opportunity to join the "Returner" civilization and retained his qualifications as a human race!
In the ninth year of the inheritance land, Dragon City ranked tenth among all strongholds.
At this moment, the Zero Returner civilization officially launched the "Transcendence Project", absorbing the energy of the entire universe, forcing the entire universe, including the extraordinary planes, to fall into a "great darkness" without any energy or life activity.
Only the cores of the strongholds in the inheritance land emit light, like lights in the darkness, converting energy to maintain the survival of life.
Afterwards, the entire inheritance land lasted in this semi-darkness for thousands of years!
One after another, the strongholds of races and civilizations were eventually extinguished because the power of fate could not sustain the burning, and they also fell into the endless cold darkness.
In the 4701st year of the Great Darkness, the destiny core of the eleventh-ranked "Machine Tribe" stronghold lost its light.
More than 10 billion mechanical creatures have lost their power and consciousness, and the power of destiny in human strongholds has been consumed by more than 90%.
Five thousand one hundred and thirty years into the Great Dark, less than one-twentieth of the power of destiny remains in the human stronghold.
Among the strongholds, there are already faint signs of the chaos of those who were not qualified on Earth before the Great Darkness came in the past.
On the altar that had been renamed "Dragon Capital", Ji Ye suddenly opened his closed eyes while holding two twin dragons of destiny that were dim and illusory and dying in his arms.
Raising his head, a pair of eyes transformed into golden vertical pupils, penetrating the cold darkness.
He saw that the sun in the sky was glowing again, the stars were also shining, the colors of the mountains in the distance became solid from almost unreal, and the river that had been stagnant for a long time began to become active.
All lives on the continent carry a sense of joy about surviving a disaster.
Immediately, golden light spots all over the sky fell like rain. This was the failure of the "transcendence" action of the Zero Returner civilization, and the remaining energy fell back!
The prototype of the new universe is being built based on the "Land of Inheritance".
It is different from the original earth universe.
"Snapped!"
A cloud of mist rose up from Ji Ye's feet, carrying him high into the sky. Many people in the entire Dragon City area made similar moves to him.
Meng Lao, Jiao Lao, Guo Wei, Su Nongying, Li Qing, Chu Yin, Chong Ge, An An, Qin Yueyu, Wu Qiao...
Uncle Jiu, Lu Zhishen, Wu Song, Nie Xiaoqian, Zhao Yun, Zhou Yu, Dian Wei, Li Chunfeng, Cao Cao, Yan Chixia...
Each player and outstanding person is full of strength and has infinite expectations in their eyes.
Now this new universe will have extraordinary power.
Humans, the remaining nine top races, and some subsidiary races that choose to surrender will write new civilizations and legends in this new world.
(Complete book)