Chapter 287 - The Passage Of Time (1/2)
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
The truth was revealed bit by bit. What had happened back then was finally revealed slowly. Wei Huo said, “After I parted ways with you, I returned to the Northern Continent. Time did not recover after 300 years. I waited for a year, but nothing happened.”
Upon hearing this, Lu Qiqi suddenly turned around and looked at the bushes on the side. She then said, “After I parted ways with you, I returned to the Gate of God, where the artificial intelligence resided. My injuries were completely healed. When the second test began, countless artificial beings and I appeared in the Western Continent. Then, I found the heritage before my lifespan was completely exhausted and successfully extended my lifespan before I headed to the Northern Continent.”
Lu Qiqi had indeed had less than a year left to live when she had disappeared. Wei Huo had not expected her to find the inheritance in such a short time. He said, “I should have gone to the Divine Realm then and learned the truth about this world. The gods of the Demon Realm were the ones who halted time, but the world was modified by a few people who had the right to manage it.”
Lu Qiqi nodded and said, “I encountered the Naga in the Northern Continent and found a human corpse. Then, I slaughtered the Naga and found a bronze cauldron before returning to the Western Continent.”
Wei Huo glanced at Lu Qiqi in surprise. However, Lu Qiqi kept looking at the scenery on the other side. He said, “This world is much more complicated than I imagined. When I remembered the time halt, I realized that it happened a few days after the Ghost Festival. The people in the Divine Realm remained souls after they died. It was as if they were living in a dream, and the flow of time there was different from reality.”
Lu Qiqi started thinking. In the end, she said, “After I returned to the Western Continent, I started searching for legacies everywhere. The Tomb of the Knight Monarch, the Tomb of Merlin, Stonehenge… I once arrived at Mount Olympus and went to the World of the Dead. In the end, I encountered a vegetarian Black Dragon under the World Tree.”
Wei Huo was confused.
A vegetarian Black Dragon?
Although Lu Qiqi had regained part of her memories, she was still an Easterner from ancient times. That was why she did not know much about Western myths. One could imagine how weird she had felt when she’d seen the extremely ferocious Black Dragon chewing on tree roots.
“It was probably because it had been a vegetarian for a long time, but the Black Dragon was very weak. However, it was still a Mythical creature. It controlled the Rules of Death, and the World Tree contained endless life force. It was just courting death by constantly chewing on it. I once asked it why it kept chewing on tree roots. At first, I thought that the tree roots tasted very sweet, but after I tried them, I realized that other than the powerful life force and World Force contained in them, there was no taste at all.”
Wei Huo was speechless.
You actually tried them yourself?
Lu Qiqi added, “The Black Dragon really couldn’t hold on any longer. Something was also very weird about its behavior. It didn’t know why a Mythical creature who had comprehended the Rules of Death would go there to eat the World Tree. However, in the end, it still submitted to fate. After discovering me, it suddenly realized that it needed a successor. A successor who could continue chewing on the World Tree after it died.”
Wei Huo did not speak. His experiences were like children’s books in contrast to a long epic compared to Lu Qiqi’s. There was nothing spectacular about his stories. On the contrary, Lu Qiqi’s life was filled with ups and downs, which was weird.
Wei Huo said, “Perhaps the Black Dragon thought you could take on a heavy responsibility because you had tasted the roots?”