Chapter 1 The Beginning

The story begins with a long-awaited reunion meal between three people.

Ever since the revitalization of spirit energy, Su Zhou's life had been very busy, fulfilling, and monotonous. Not to mention his work as a professor and his duties as the chief captain of the Security Bureau's Special Operations Brigade, even his hobby of randomly selecting criminals across the country for on-the-spot arrests was very time-consuming. Add to that official missions, his own cultivation, and adventures in other worlds, he didn't even have much time to play games.

Shao Qiming and Shao Shuangyue were naturally the same. Their daily lives, cultivation, and studies were already hard enough. Except for the latter, who had a little free time to play games, Shao Qiming had been running around trying to cultivate his Divine Wood bloodline recently, so he was probably even busier than Su Zhou.

Such a life was naturally unhealthy and unsustainable. Therefore, after discussing it for a while, the three of them made plans in late July to travel to the Kunlun Secret Realm together.

Nowadays, all the things in the Kunlun Secret Realm that could be considered confidential had been protected and collected by the authorities. Most of what remained were things with more cultural significance, such as the remains of demon gods and the ancient Kunlun Heavenly Palace. As long as one could pass the review, it was not strange to enter it for tourism. After all, the tourism development of the Beast God Realm had also begun to be planned, and the flow of people into these secret realms would definitely increase in the future.

There was no need to talk much about tourism. Whether it was admiring the mountains transformed from the corpses of many giant demon gods along the way, or entering the ancient palaces of immortals and gods to think about how they lived in the past, it was extremely interesting. In addition, Su Zhou knew this place very well, and Shao Qiming also knew a lot about it, so there was no need to hire a tour guide to travel here.

After playing around all day, in the afternoon in the secret realm, the trio came to their planned final attraction, the 'Jianmu Remains Pit', for dinner.

Although it was said to be a secret realm, there was still internet here. While eating the third-generation high-yield flat peaches that had become popular after being hybridized by the Ministry of Agriculture, Su Zhou and Shao Qiming began to talk about the relevant data of the Divine Tree Jianmu of the past. Su Zhou believed that this giant divine tree, with a trunk diameter of more than ten kilometers, was at least at the level of a Celestial Venerable. However, Shao Qiming, who had a deep understanding of Divine Wood, believed that there were several types of Divine Wood. One type was the bigger the stronger, like the Primordial Giant Tree, but another type was huge in size, but only a shell. Only when the entire Divine Wood gave birth to a 'Tree Spirit' could it be called powerful.

Of course, in addition to these two types, there were many more Divine Woods. For example, the Tree of Life of the Elf race took a different path, that is, the Divine Wood hatched life and became the mother tree of a race, and then its own strength was linked to the prosperity of the race... Like this, although Divine Wood seemed to be single in type, its internal differentiation was extremely complex.

On the side, Shao Shuangyue was having a great time playing with many local small animals in the Kunlun Secret Realm. She was surrounded by various cute and well-behaved spirit beasts, and was semi-forced to eat good fruits, while using her mobile phone to grind the mobile game event, which can be described as multitasking.

The sense of anomaly appeared at this time.

"Zhou-ge, Zhou-ge, in the Kunlun Secret Realm, are there any divine beasts like the Zhuzhou?"

At that time, Shao Shuangyue, who was probably just using the card 'Celestial Divine Dragon · Zhuzhou', and was playing Old Age Ark, raised her head and looked at the two older brothers who had already started listing formulas, writing deductions, and measuring the strength of Jianmu, and casually asked, "Didn't you say before that the Kunlun Secret Realm has the inheritance of almost all the pseudo-Dao demon gods? Then is there Zhuzhou?"

"Huh?"

Immediately, Su Zhou put down the paper and pen in his hand, turned his head to look at his little sister, and was slightly surprised in his heart: "Where did you know about Zhuzhou?"

"Yeah, how did you know?" Shao Qiming, who was also aware of Su Zhou's adventure experience in the Divine Dragon World, was also quite surprised, but he immediately thought of the information mapping that Su Zhou had encountered before: "Is it in which game?"

"Yeah, just Old Age Ark—ge, you may not know, but Zhou-ge, I remember you also play it, right?"

Saying this, Shao Shuangyue raised her mobile phone and waved it at the two of them. With Su Zhou's vision, he could clearly see the divine dragon form on the mobile phone screen in the distance, which was nine-tenths similar to the true form he showed in the Divine Dragon World. His expression became strange, and he thought to himself: "I was just thinking, even if my information mapping is transmitted back to the Earth world, it shouldn't be so fast—I only returned to Earth from the Divine Dragon World a month ago."

"In the end, I didn't expect it to be a mobile game card face... Then the speed being a little faster is not surprising."

Since he accidentally learned about this from Shao Shuangyue, the two no longer talked about Jianmu-related topics, but opened the Old Age Ark app to learn more about it.

Soon, Su Zhou let out an 'Oh ho'—he saw the Divine Dragon War event this time. Good fellow, besides himself, the other six Divine Dragons were also on it, and it really looked like it was something.

Just as Su Zhou decided to take some time in the next few days to go through the storyline of this mobile game, Shao Qiming, who was more mindful, frowned and showed Su Zhou the results of his search for the term 'Zhuzhou' using various search engines on his mobile phone.

The truly strange thing appeared before his eyes.

Naturally, the top of the search engine was the card information in the Old Age Ark, but in addition to this game information, xDu Encyclopedia and xBase Encyclopedia also had relevant legendary entries that seemed to be true.

In addition, in various strange games around the world, similar dragon-like demon beasts and monsters with Zhuzhou images had also vaguely appeared during this period of time.

There were more than a thousand such effective search results. Even if there were many duplicates among them, it was actually quite considerable.

Because Su Zhou's limelight from shooting down aliens had been too great recently, there were indeed quite a few games and literary works that simulated his true form, and even toy manufacturers had purchased relevant rights from Su Zhou and were preparing to manufacture his transformable model, so there were indeed many images similar to Su Zhou's divine dragon shell.

However, not everyone was clear that this divine dragon image should be called 'Zhuzhou'.

Some of them, Su Zhou himself knew, were paving the way for him by the official Zheng Guo—for example, some popular science books had information descriptions about the divine dragon Zhuzhou, and ancient divine dragon worship sites were excavated in some unmanned villages, and some officially invested mythological lectures...

Even, the officials also stated that they had dug out a part of the ancient Classic of Mountains and Seas lost from the ancient ruins... This was actually not strange. After all, the original version of the Classic of Mountains and Seas had thirty-two volumes, but only the corrected eighteen articles were passed down to later generations, and the remaining fourteen articles were good for making articles.

And the legend of Zhuzhou was directly 'rediscovered'.

【——In the Southern Wilderness there is a god, named Zhuzhou, with a dragon's head and white wings, able to discern people's hearts, who dwells in the wind and eats fire, dwells in the rain and eats thunder.】

Su Zhou was not surprised at all by these official paving and publicity, after all, someone had already greeted him. Last time, Dao Sage even asked him where he wanted to put his ruins, and Su Zhou said it was up to him, and then Dao Sage unceremoniously put the Zhuzhou ruins next to Dragon Tiger Mountain.

Tourist attractions are never too few, no matter what faction they are.

However, the situation in other games, where a large number of Zhuzhou suddenly appeared almost synchronously, made Su Zhou feel really incomprehensible.

"It shouldn't be, even if the information intersection of my previous adventures is reflected, it shouldn't cause so much diffraction..."

Thinking like this, Su Zhou felt like he had only set a basic one-shot setting, but when he looked back a few days later, netizens had even designed his two-shot, three-shot, relatives, friends, descendants, and descendants. He had a very strange feeling: "God, someone has already examined that I am a derivative of the Yinglong legend... Okay, he guessed it right, the answer is right, but the process is a complete mess!"

According to the current trend, the legend of Zhuzhou is probably going to become real and become a true and unfalse history!

"Wait, I remember, Yala once said... the orthodox history of this world has not been determined..."

Suddenly, Su Zhou's heart tightened. He remembered some information that the Snake Spirit had communicated with him, and he immediately felt that this seemingly ordinary sentence might have something to do with his current situation.

In addition, Krocell had told him some time ago that when he prayed to himself, he actually heard a god responding to his wishes... Seemingly ordinary events suddenly became complicated.

What is orthodox history...? Can history be changed? How is it determined, and what state can be considered undetermined?

And Yala and the Pioneer's plan, and this orthodox history, are they related?

Such things cannot be figured out simply by thinking—there is too much missing information, only a few scales and claws.

And Su Zhou only knows one Yala who is more familiar with this aspect.

But now, Yala is still sleeping...

In this way, Su Zhou will not be able to get intelligence support in these areas.

"Oh well, at least it's not a bad thing."

Although he had doubts in his heart, he couldn't continue to guess. Su Zhou decided to do a project with Shao Qiming at that time, so that his good friend could continue to collect information in this area and continuously observe this strange phenomenon.

In this way, he can also write a paper and get some credits... Speaking of which, can he also let other people in the team join the research? Although it feels a bit like a "world Go champion taking a Go course", but anyway, everyone in the team can easily get credits.

Thinking like this, time slowly passed.

August 9, 2017.

The Tree of Wisdom has awakened.