When he saw the second Golden Crow divine bird, although Ji Yuan was shocked in his heart, his expression was as exaggeratedly surprised as the two dragons. Hearing Qing You's words, Ji Yuan rubbed his forehead and whispered.
"The two Suns will not fly together, they just rotate their positions..."
Seeing the second Golden Crow, Ji Yuan couldn't help but think more, wondering if there would be a third one...
The current situation has completely exceeded the cognition and even imagination of Lao Long Yinghong and Qing You, so it basically depends on Ji Yuan's opinion.
"Mr. Ji, do you have any doubts?"
Not to mention Lao Long who knew Ji Yuan very well, even Qing You could clearly see that Ji Yuan was very worried at this moment. Ji Yuan looked at the two of them and said bluntly.
"I am not sure how many Golden Crows there are. We need to observe for a while."
The three of them suppressed their shock, and after watching the scene for half the night, they left.
In the following three months, the four true dragons all came to the underwater mountain range with Ji Yuan many times to witness the Golden Crow residing in Fusang. Ji Yuan went there every day, but after the five of them discussed it, no other dragon was allowed to come to see it. It was not because of the danger, but for other considerations.
During these three months, the five people saw the same two Golden Crows as before, and the two Golden Crows were almost never on the Fusang tree at the same time, but basically took turns falling every night.
After the initial palpitations and vibrations gradually subsided, Ji Yuan and others even cautiously tried to approach the Fusang Sacred Tree during the day, but they discovered another thing. The Fusang Sacred Tree was indeed much clearer during the day, but although it seemed visible, no matter how they approached, they could only have the illusion of being close, but could not actually touch the Fusang Sacred Tree, let alone at night.
It has been almost two years since they left the Desolate Sea. At the end of the third month, that night, Ji Yuan and the four Dragon Kings gathered outside the mountains again. They looked in silence at the Golden Crow resting on the branches of the Fusang tree in the distance.
"Tonight is New Year's Eve again, the world must be very lively!"
Old Dragon Yinghong stroked his beard and said this, looking at the Fusang sacred tree and the Golden Crow sacred bird in the distance, but his peripheral vision was looking at Ji Yuan. He knew that his good friend was very concerned about such important festivals in the human world, especially at the turn of the year.
"Yes, after tonight, we can go back."
At this time, five people were standing on an ice platform. This ice platform was a treasure of Qing Youlong Jun, made of ten thousand years of cold ice. Although everyone was not afraid of the heat here, it would definitely be much more comfortable to stand on this ice platform.
Qing You looks the youngest among the four Dragon Kings, and is the only one who does not grow a beard in his human form. At this moment, he stands with his hands behind his back, looking at the Golden Crow in the distance and sighs.
"I didn't expect that I didn't find the evil insects during this voyage, but I was fortunate enough to see such a shocking secret."
"Yes, I never thought that the sun is alive and is actually the Golden Crow divine bird!"
Gongrong also nodded in agreement, but Ji Yuan frowned slightly when he heard it, but did not express any opinion. In fact, in Ji Yuan's heart, he recognized that Jinwu was the spirit of the sun, but he also had a guess that Jinwu might not necessarily be a complete sun. Perhaps Jinwu would rely on the stars, and the combination of the two would be the real sun, but there was no need to tell this to the real dragons.
These days, Ji Yuan thought a lot and took this opportunity to ponder some things that he had neglected before. For example, he used to believe that the sky is round and the earth is flat. This may be correct in a broad sense, but it is not necessarily accurate, because there is actually a certain time difference on the earth. That is, in places far apart, it may be dawn in one place while it is still dark in another.
He realized these things only after seeing the "sun", but it does not mean that the earth may be arched. It is also possible that it has regional undulations as he had previously guessed, but the undulations are much larger and more exaggerated than he imagined.
As for whether the earth is spherical, there is no need to think about it too much. Not only from the perspective of perception, but also because no one has ever heard of anyone being able to go straight in one direction and return to the origin. Just as the records left by a bored dragon in the dragon clan said, after leaving the desolate sea, flying and swimming towards one side for a long time can reach the so-called "end of the earth" with extremely harsh environment.
However, Ji Yuan would soon overturn this hypothesis again, because he suddenly realized that this slight "time difference" had no definite pattern. There might be areas with slight time differences on a line, or areas with almost the same time in the distance. This showed that the main reason was still the regional topography, such as the slowly sinking huge basins and the huge mountains that blocked the sunlight.
Ying Hong stroked his beard, looked at the sacred Fusang tree in the distance, and whispered a reminder to the other four people.
"It's almost midnight, everyone please concentrate."
They all looked carefully in the direction of the Fusang tree. Ji Yuan was silently calculating the passage of time in his heart. Even though he was in this remote corner of the world, Ji Yuan could still feel that the turbid air that had accumulated for a year and the clear air that was ready to go were gradually accumulating and dividing, and a new curtain would be opened at midnight for the new year for the world.
But it was not yet midnight, and the Golden Crow on the Fusang tree also cried out at this moment.
“Ahh—”
As Ji Yuan and the others waited nervously, the golden-red light that seemed out of reach in the distance was gradually weakening, and in the end it was so weak that only a glowing red glow remained.
“Boom… Boom… Boom… Boom… Boom…”
On the other side of the Fusang tree, the heart-pounding drum sound suddenly rang out, causing the four Dragon Kings to reflexively want to retreat, because they had known for some time that there would be drum sounds at sunrise and sunset, and they would feel a sense of danger when they heard the drum sounds.
But they were real dragons after all, and they still had some self-control. Seeing that Ji Yuan stood still, the four dragons did not move, and did not even ask any questions.
Indistinctly, a blurry carriage with a red glow rose up and went away from the sacred Fusang tree. The sound of drums also became farther and farther away and gradually disappeared from the ears.
This was the only time during this period of time that Ji Yuan and the Four Dragons saw that there was no Golden Crow on the Fusang tree at night. Ji Yuan remained motionless, and the Four Dragons still stood on the ice platform with him.
It was not until a moment later when midnight actually arrived and the turbid air between heaven and earth sank and the fresh air rose that Ji Yuan slowly exhaled.
"As expected..."
Sure enough, the drum sounds he heard on the sea and the red glow in the sky that he could never reach were exactly the Golden Crow's chariot.
"Mr. Ji, is it really so?"
Qing You asked curiously. The person who had talked with Ji Yuan the most during this period was not his good friend Ying Hong, nor the old Huanglong, and even less likely Tong Rong, but this Qinglong.
"What Ji meant is that it is just as I thought. At least at this time of transition between the old and the new, Jinwu will go out for a trip. I just don't know if he does this just to see the new year, or if he has other purposes."
Ji Yuan's frowning and thoughtful look easily made others make many associations, thinking that Ji Yuan seemed to be guessing or even calculating all kinds of things about Jin Wu.
To this day, the four dragons are still not completely recovered from the shock of seeing the Golden Crow. Ji Yuan not only makes the Fusang sacred tree and the Golden Crow seem to have some plan for this, the four dragons can't help but think too much. Among them, the old dragon Ying Hong is even more far-sighted. On the one hand, he feels that his guess, which he had long ago, is correct, but at the same time, he feels that his guess is not bold enough.
Ji Yuan didn't know that the four dragons were all thinking about him, and thought that they were silent because they had their own thoughts. After waiting for a while, Ji Yuan spoke to break the silence.
"Let's go. We probably don't need to come here for the time being. I've been out at sea for two years, and it might take another year to get back."
As he spoke, Ji Yuan looked at the four Dragon Kings solemnly with his dark eyes.
"Dear Dragon Lords, if there is no need, it is better not to spread what we have seen. Of course, I am not asking you to do so, but just giving you a reminder."
"Don't worry, Mr. Ji. We have it in mind."
"Yes, we are not talkative people." "That's right."
The other three Dragon Kings responded, while the old dragon just nodded slightly. There was no need to say much about his friendship with Ji Yuan.
Ji Yuan smiled when he heard that, knowing in his heart that the so-called "promise not to tell" was not reliable, and the promise was relatively loose. What's more, the person in front of him was a real dragon cultivator. However, he still bowed slightly to the four dragons, and the latter four immediately returned the greeting. Afterwards, Qing You put away the ice platform, and the five of them flew back on the water together, leaving this mountain range in the sea.
More than 300 dragons had already left that strange and desolate sea area and were waiting in the relatively safe periphery. Huang Yuzhong's crystal palace was also set up on the seabed here for the dragons to rest.
As the waiting time went by, the dragons couldn't help feeling a little anxious. Although a few months was nothing to the dragon clan, the current situation was special after all.
Among these dragons, more than one hundred of them were the ones who initially vaguely saw the sacred Fusang tree, and also experienced the escape from the "Danger of Sunset" together, while the other two hundred dragons did not. In addition, the other three hundred dragons never went to that dangerous place afterwards, nor did they see the Golden Crow.
"Ruoli, Dad and Uncle Ji have been gone for almost four months. When do you think they will come back? What did they see?"
On a rooftop somewhere in the Crystal Palace, Ying Feng and Ying Ruoli were sitting in front of a crystal table, with a few other dragons beside them, all of whom were under the command of the old dragon. Like the other dragons, they were all a little restless. Although Ying Ruoli's heart was not as calm as still water, she was at least calmer than most dragons.
"Brother, since Uncle Ji and the other Dragon Lords did not allow us to follow them, there must be a reason. They have high cultivation levels, so they will definitely be fine. We just need to wait patiently."
There was also a dragon beside him who was thinking.
"I think it must be a great secret, and very dangerous."
This was just nonsense. Ying Feng had heard a lot of similar talk. Just as he was about to say something, he suddenly had an idea. The dragons nearby also stood up and looked into the distance, where a dragon roar was heard.
Not long after, the Crystal Palace was taken away by Huang Yuzhong, and the three hundred dragons set off to return. During the whole process, neither Ji Yuan nor the four Dragon Kings said much to the other dragons, which made the dragons feel like they were being pawed by a cat, but they did not dare to disobey the orders of the Dragon King.