Chapter 378 You Can Keep Moving If You Dare (7000 Words, Seeking Monthly Tickets~)

Soon, the phone at the other end was picked up.

"Captain, are you serious?"

At this moment, Tang Yuan's voice had returned to calmness, he just asked in a slightly confused voice, "But why... This is the first time the Sanctuary Array has shown such a strong stress response. The last time the spiritual energy erupted in the South Sea two years ago, and so many evil demons descended, it didn't cause such a big reaction!"

"Why do you, Captain, cause such a strong reaction?"

"Why, I'm also looking for the answer—alright, it's nothing, just an accident."

Tang Yuan's confusion, on the contrary, cleared up Su Zhou's doubts. After hearing the term 'Sanctuary Array,' Su Zhou immediately understood. He nodded slightly, "Didn't you say that the emergency response team and the Holy Seats will be here soon? Tell them not to... no, let them come."

Changing his mind halfway, Su Zhou gave Tang Yuan a few more instructions, and then, holding his phone, fell into thought.

"So it's the Sanctuary Array?"

Su Zhou remembered very clearly that Earth was a planet shrouded in countless arrays and heroic souls. Wherever humans exist, the Sanctuary Array exists.

It is precisely because of its existence that the large number of evil demons and monsters that appeared due to the spiritual energy revival have not affected people's daily lives. At most, they appear in the suburbs and are eliminated one by one by the Security Bureau specialists responsible for this.

In theory, the Sanctuary Array does have the ability to induce thunder tribulations and bombard those evil demons who intrude haphazardly... But why did it suddenly identify me as an evil demon...?

"Could it be that when reshaping my true form, I used too much flesh and blood from the divine dragons of other worlds, which made it judge me as an evil demon?"

Su Zhou thought with some uncertainty. He couldn't help but look up at the window. At this time, the space-time fluctuations had intensified. Accompanied by a series of continuous transmissions, the emergency action team that rushed over, mixed with the aura of the two Holy Seats that Su Zhou was also very familiar with, had arrived. This extremely swift reaction speed, on the contrary, made the youth sigh, "It isn't. Because I was originally an 'evil demon'."

He was originally a member of Yala's retinue. Strictly speaking, he was no different from the Mu Centipede and the Twilight True Devil.

As for why he hadn't been judged as an evil demon before, it was likely because his physical alienation wasn't significant.

Whether it was using too much flesh and blood from the divine dragons of other worlds to reshape his true form, or witnessing the communication between two great existences in the void before, or even simply because he accidentally stayed in the void for too long, erasing some of the traces of being a native of Earth, it was possible that Su Zhou would be judged as an evil demon from another world.

But now, after being struck once, the Sanctuary Array stopped moving again, not intending to eliminate Su Zhou completely.

At this time, the sky was clear and the wind was light, without the slightest hint of dark clouds and chaotic thunder from a few minutes ago.

The previous thunder tribulation, compared to a firewall, was more like cleaning up the aura from the outside world, as if it were a sterilization program, washing away all the scents from the divine dragon world and the void that Su Zhou carried.

"But if it really is an anti-epidemic sterilization program, using thunder tribulation is too hardcore! If you aren't a Lord-level cultivator, you really could be directly struck to death!"

Even though he had doubts in his heart, when he saw two huge rune exoskeleton armors, along with the aura of a Lord-level cultivator and the light of transmission, appear in mid-air, Su Zhou took off again and greeted them, "Dao Saint, and Li Saint, you're here?"

Two rune exoskeleton armors, more than ten meters high, one with vermilion spiritual paint and densely packed runes flashing with lightning, and the other with a smooth minimalist style, with silver-white armor and circuits flickering with some transmission spiritual light, were the personal armaments of Dao Saint and Li Saint.

In addition, there were more than thirty fully armed exoskeleton armors. Looking at the emblems on them, most of them were 'White Emperor Guards' responsible for special close-quarters combat, and a small number were 'Red Emperor Guards' responsible for long-range heavy firepower.

"Professor Su, where's the evil demon!"

Hong Prefecture is the sphere of influence of the Dao Saint lineage, and also the location of the Zheng Yi Academy, so Dao Saint was the most nervous about a large-scale evil demon invasion—and Li Saint, as the director of the Dao Discipline Bureau, responsible for national large-scale transcendent projects such as transfer arrays, would naturally come with the main force to assist in the suppression and record the damage caused by the evil demon invasion when encountering such a thing.

However, unlike what the Dao Saint had expected with full vigilance, he had put on a full set of magical instruments (exoskeleton armor) as soon as possible and rushed to the scene. He didn't see the city in the chaotic state he had imagined. On the contrary, because the heavy rain had dissipated, many citizens were walking on the streets, pointing and taking pictures of the sky in amazement.

Li Saint also nodded slightly. Being a generation higher than Dao Saint and having extremely rich life experience, he was also a little confused about the current situation. The old man said kindly to Su Zhou, "Could it be that it has already escaped? Then we will go after it now. It shouldn't be difficult for three Lord-level cultivators to capture an evil demon—Professor Su, have you left any of that evil demon's aura behind?"

"This is a long story..."

To this, Su Zhou sighed slightly, repeating the same lines he had said to Tang Yuan, "What I'm about to say, don't be afraid."

After Su Zhou finished the handover with the two Holy Seats and the emergency action team who were full of doubts, it was already twenty minutes later.

"You mean to say that the anomaly just now was just that your true form broke through again, your bloodline underwent ancestral reversion, causing a sudden change in aura?"

Outside the urban area.

After listening to the explanation that Su Zhou had improvised on the spot, Dao Saint believed it eighty percent.

It wasn't that the old man had unwavering faith in Su Zhou, believing everything he said. It was mainly that Su Zhou's breakthroughs were too common. The reason why he had run from the Qin Hang Academy to his hometown before was because he said that he had a premonition that he was about to break through, so he took a leave of absence.

After all, he was the number one genius in the world, so it really wasn't a strange thing for his bloodline to undergo ancestral reversion, causing some celestial phenomena and inducing a thunder tribulation to strike.

On the other side, Li Saint also found information from the database and forcibly made a footnote to Su Zhou's encounter, "During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, someone once saw a Jiao dragon transforming into a dragon in the Great Wilderness. At that time, thunder fell for nine days, like a waterfall, to help it ascend to the sky... Just looking at this point, it's not impossible to explain."

"But why did the thunder tribulation just now dissipate so quickly? This is not the same as the records..."

--Because I blew it up.

Su Zhou shrugged, thinking, did he really have to let the thunder strike for nine days? Even if the thunder tribulation was harmless, if it kept bombarding like this, he would explode even if he were a power bank, "I didn't expect it to cause such a big commotion, I should have broken through in the academy."

At this time, the members of the emergency action team also returned one after another. They had not detected the slightest trace of evil demons—Hong City was so clean that it didn't seem like anything, except for a particularly large number of slimes and harmless little sprites, no threatening transcendent creatures were found.

After communicating with Su Zhou for so long, Dao Saint and Li Saint, after using many methods to test him overtly and covertly, also looked at each other through the screens in the exoskeleton armor, feeling that they might have made a mountain out of a molehill.

Su Zhou didn't show any signs of being possessed or mentally influenced. His tone and commonly used words were very normal, and the spiritual energy aura, which couldn't deceive people the most, was also the same as before, without any changes.

Everything was fine except that he had become stronger.

"It seems like it really was a false alarm."

However, it wasn't a loss. This operation was just an exercise to show the strategic transfer ability of Zheng Country to reach any battlefield within two minutes—presumably, after seeing the scene of dozens of exoskeleton armors falling from the sky with the transfer today, anyone with ulterior motives would weigh their own importance and then give up their secret plans.

"Professor Su, now that your bloodline has undergone ancestral reversion, do you know what kind of divine dragon your bloodline essentially is?"

Since there were no major issues, there was no need to be so serious. Dao Saint breathed a sigh of relief, and then smiled and said to the youth, "The Security Bureau has always wanted to promote you, but they have never been clear about what kind of divine dragon you are. There is no similar inheritance in the demon god bloodline library in the Kunlun Secret Realm."

"What is the essence..."

Su Zhou originally wanted to directly report a Zhuzhou back, but after all, Earth wasn't another world. As the origin of his information, this was the vacuum zone at the center of the information storm, and there was no legend of Zhuzhou.

If he really wanted to have his own information in the future, he might have to rely on information transfer from other worlds, exporting and then selling it domestically.

So, he didn't bother to waste words, but directly found an open space in the suburban area and displayed his true form.

Suddenly, accompanied by bursts of surging strong winds, a white giant dragon more than a hundred meters high appeared between heaven and earth, flapping its exoskeleton wings.

Looking at the smooth vector nozzles, the dense and solid white dragon scales, and the strong body that seemed to be integrated, one could know that this was a strong dragon among the gods.

Soon, Su Zhou put away his true form—the spiritual energy fluctuations were too great, even in the suburbs it could easily cause the spiritual energy in the nearby Hong City to become unbalanced, causing trouble.

"Oh! Not bad, your wings have grown out... and this form... is a divine dragon that has never been seen before!"

Li Saint, widening his eyes and using the camera on the exoskeleton armor to control the armor to circle Su Zhou several times, recording his true form, was quite happy. The old man from the Dao Discipline Bureau had always liked to collect this kind of information that had never been seen before, "Indeed... your bloodline has been restored very well."

After transmitting this information to Yan Saint, who would save it in the central database, Li Saint asked in succession, "Is this the complete form of your true form? And these wings... look a bit like the skeleton of Yinglong, but without the wing membrane. Could it be... some kind of variant of Yinglong from the Immortal God era?"

"It should be, but the name of this kind of divine dragon is 'Zhuzhou'."

Su Zhou didn't deny this. After all, the information about these wings was originally taken from Yinglong, and his bloodline source was indeed Yinglong.

"Well, Zhuzhou, although I haven't heard of this name, there were so many divine dragons and divine beasts in the mythical era that we can't count them all."

"At least this way, we can use it to promote you."

Dao Saint repeated the name in a low voice. Compared to Li Saint's joy, he was a little puzzled, "It's just that the shape of this divine dragon true form is too modern. Leaving aside everything else, this vector nozzle, the Immortal God era should not have had this kind of design."

"How should this be explained?"

I, Su Zhou, act in my life, why should I explain to others!

Su Zhou could say this, but there was no need.

Half an hour later, the emergency action team and the two Holy Seats left.

After all, even if the world was peaceful, there would still be various wild evil demons and spirit beasts appearing due to the spiritual energy revival in some uninhabited suburbs. As part of the Security Bureau's combat power, the emergency action team needed to be ready for battle at any time and couldn't be leisurely.

The two Holy Seats were not idle people either. After confirming the relevant information with Su Zhou and learning about the source of his bloodline, they had to return to their work positions.

"I didn't expect Zheng Country to react so quickly... It seems that next time, even if I travel through time, I have to choose a deserted place to travel to."

Su Zhou naturally returned to his home. He rubbed his hair in frustration, tying it into a messy bundle, "If every time I travel through time, it induces a thunder tribulation, how should I explain it? Bloodline ancestral reversion has already been used, could it be bloodline super-evolution next time?"

In the past, when traveling through time, he would hold the Celestial Scale and arrive in an instant, making it difficult to be contaminated with the aura of the void. But now, because of the Pioneers' actions, it was estimated that it would take a long time each time, and he would be contaminated with the aura of other worlds. It was estimated that every time he returned to Earth, he would be struck by lightning for cleansing.

However, after all, it was a matter for the future, so Su Zhou didn't bother to think so much, "Forget it, I might as well not hide it. I am just a thunder tribulation physique, anyway, it won't hurt me. I'll just treat it as charging."

When the youth habitually picked up his phone, preparing to go to the forum to see what was happening, he found that his personal phone had many missed calls and WeChat messages.

"What's going on?"

Opening WeChat with some curiosity, Su Zhou glanced at it and immediately understood.

It turned out that the information about the sudden appearance of thunderclouds and thunder tribulations in Hong City, and that it had been scattered by someone, had spread all over the internet.

Blurred photos of figures shrouded in dark clouds and lightning had already spread all over the country.

Although it was said that due to the exposure caused by frequent lightning, it was difficult for people to tell who the person who suffered the thunder tribulation was, but who could scatter thunderclouds with one punch these days? And it just happened to be in Hong City?

Therefore, Su Zhou's relatives and friends called one after another to ask about his condition.

"I'm fine, Mom, I'm doing well. It's just a thunder tribulation, it's like charging my phone to me. Dad? He already knows, I talked to him for a while when the Security Bureau and Hong City connected just now."

"Was the thunder tribulation enjoyable? Good sister, I'll take you to experience the tribulation next time, okay? It's definitely exciting, you'll never forget it after experiencing it once!"

"It's okay, the assessment won't be postponed. I'll return to the academy this afternoon, so you should prepare more. Hahaha, don't worry, I won't use thunder tribulation to strike you."

"Wait, this seems to be a good idea? Or, Jin Qiong, why don't you try it?"

【Thank you for the invitation, I'm in Hong City, I just finished the tribulation. It feels very average, the thunder tribulation is not as strong as rumored. Personally, I feel that it's about the same as soaking my feet in 40-degree hot water. I'm a little disappointed, I hope you can increase the intensity next time.】

Answering the various inquiries and greetings in succession, Su Zhou didn't feel annoyed. Even if it was just a question, it represented care and concern. He liked this feeling very much. On Weibo and a certain large story forum, he also kindly and friendly replied to the various inquiries and messages, "Su the benevolent has finally been condemned by the heavens? You wait, I've already found your IP address, and I'm going to give you a heavenly condemnation along the network cable!"

In this pleasant online banter, Su Zhou also saw Shao Qiming's call—it was true that good things don't go out, but bad things spread for thousands of miles. It had only been an hour, but it felt like the whole earth knew that he had been struck by lightning?

"How is it, A'Zhou?"

Opening the communication and connecting to the video, Su Zhou saw the somewhat tired face of his friend. The other party looked more worried than the others because he knew Su Zhou's current identity and was really an 'evil demon', "Is there a problem?"

"I'm fine, I'm doing well. This heavenly tribulation system has a problem, it should..." The youth knew very well that the other party meant 'was his identity as a covenantor of Yala exposed', so he directly answered, but halfway through, he stopped again, "That's right, thunder tribulation is ineffective against me, and fire tribulation is useless either, after all, my essence is fire attribute, and wind and water tribulations are like drizzle to me... This heavenly tribulation system seems to be wrong no matter what it uses to deal with me."

Thinking about it this way, the automated heavenly tribulation system was also in a difficult situation.

"Forget it, never mind these, how are you, Qiming?"

Too lazy to think about these problems, Su Zhou asked about Shao Qiming's condition instead.

"I'm fine. Aren't I accompanying the Forestry Bureau to do greening here in the Gobi Desert recently? Chen and I are in a group, and everything is going smoothly, just a little tired."

Shao Qiming on the other side of the video still looked gentle and refined, and he didn't even seem to be sweating. There was no dust on his clothes either.

Physically speaking, there were indeed no traces of fatigue, but Su Zhou could see from some details, such as the dim spiritual light in the other party's eyes and the curled, woody hair, that the spiritual power in Shao Qiming's body was indeed very low.

Some time ago, after Su Zhou's team returned from the East China Sea ruins, Shao Qiming applied to go to the West Gobi to accompany spiritual plant experts from the Forestry Bureau and the Agricultural Bureau to carry out large-scale greening and planting operations.

This was a large-scale ecological reshaping operation that had been planned for more than ten years, and the recent spiritual energy revival and the successful cultivation of related spiritual plant seedlings had filled in the last piece of the puzzle for this plan. For Shao Qiming, who intended to advance to the 'Divine Tree', participating in this kind of operation related to ecology and large-scale spiritual plant planting was also extremely beneficial to him.

"Take care of your body. There's no need to rush to rectify the ecology. It's not a project that one person can complete."

Seeing his friend working hard, Su Zhou couldn't help but feel happy for him.

To this, Shao Qiming also chuckled, "To be honest, this is the first time I've done such high-intensity exercise in so many years... It's a very novel experience. Unlike fighting, this is purely physical labor."

"Pure physical labor?" Hearing this, Su Zhou found it strange, "I remember there are specialized tree-planting engineering vehicles, digging holes in the front and filling seedlings in the back... Even if the more precious spiritual plants need to be planted by hand, it should only consume spiritual power, right?"

"What's tiring is not planting, but coordinating. Spiritual planting must ensure good 'feng shui'. Of course, in modern terms, it means ensuring smooth spiritual energy circulation—this is a solid skill, especially since this is the Gobi Desert. The natural conditions are very bad, and there's no way to borrow strength. Only we wood-attribute transcendent people can take the lead in connecting the spiritual energy circulation, and then plant trees to allow them to maintain a virtuous cycle."

Shao Qiming turned the phone lens to show Su Zhou the seedling forest behind him.

It could be seen that on the vast Gobi Desert, there were engineering vehicles driving back and forth, and the ground was full of spiritual plant seedlings, either small or in their initial form.

Now, the seedlings were bare and had few leaves, but tens of millions of seedlings stretched to the end of the horizon, and numerous transcendent people connected spiritual power around them, incorporating them into the great spiritual energy cycle of this world. This kind of scene also had a different kind of vigorous vitality.

"You know, my talent."

Speaking of this, Shao Qiming paused—he was ostensibly a Yang Flame Body with both light and wood attributes, but he was actually a Divine Tree Technique improved based on Zhou Buyi's cultivation method, "... I'm better at this kind of thing, so it's not that tiring to say—moreover, I have already broken through the Transcendent Stage, communicating and promoting each other with these trees can make me stronger."

This was also part of his cultivation, even faster and more solid than ordinary meditation.

"Little Shao, who are you talking to? Oh, it's Su Zhou!"

At this time, Su Zhou heard a familiar voice next to Shao Qiming. Soon, a middle-aged figure with a little man sitting on his shoulder appeared on the screen. It was Chen Zhicheng, the owner of the flower and fruit shop who sold Su Zhou the apple seedlings back then, which were now the Wisdom Tree.

On his shoulder, the flower fairy Xia Lan was fast asleep, with a custom-made handkerchief-like blanket covering her stomach.

Seeing Su Zhou on the screen, Chen Zhicheng wasn't surprised. He smiled and waved to Su Zhou, and Su Zhou also smiled and waved to these two acquaintances.

Chen Zhicheng turned his head and continued working, and Shao Qiming didn't say much either, smiling and saying goodbye to Su Zhou, and then continued his cultivation—he was originally a little worried about Su Zhou's condition. Since he knew everything was fine, there was no need to say more.

After hanging up the phone, Su Zhou couldn't help but feel some emotion, "Greening the Gobi... This kind of thing would have taken more than ten years to slowly achieve some results back then."

"But now, after the spiritual energy revival, various plants that can tolerate salt-alkali and drought have appeared one after another, and the Gobi Desert, because of direct sunlight, has never had low spiritual energy, but it meets the planting requirements."

Of course, Su Zhou was well aware that no matter how drought-resistant, plants needed water—but some time ago, the Zheng Country government mobilized a large number of water-attribute professional cultivators through the release of missions, transferring excess rain clouds from various places to the Gobi Desert for rainfall, and Su Zhou and True Dragon Jiu Ming were among them. Tens of thousands of transcendent people jointly carried out this major project.

The drastic changes in the world environment caused by the spiritual energy revival also had this kind of benefit. In ordinary years, rain clouds were actually a kind of resource. Transferring the rainwater from one place would cause a drought in another, but now there were many extreme weather conditions, and transferring some water vapor would actually coordinate the climate.

"The dragon kings back then were doing these things, right? Artificially coordinating the climate, so that there would be good weather and change the entire world."

For some reason, Su Zhou thought of the Divine Dragon World that he had just left. He thought of those Dragon Ball holders who intended to change the world.

Changing the world was not something that one person could accomplish... Well, as long as you were strong enough, one person could also do it.

However, the growth of the strong also required time and luck, while the joint efforts of everyone were something that could be done at any time.

If someone was willing to work together to change the world earlier and faster, then why not?

Thinking like this, Su Zhou gazed at the black phone screen and couldn't help but smile.

On Earth, he had countless comrades.

He didn't need to make a wish, nor did he need the blessings of the Ancestral Dragon, to accomplish all of this.

Humans didn't need the love of gods to realize their wishes, they only needed their own hands.

Of course, if he could make a wish, Su Zhou wouldn't refuse—he was a very practical person, and he didn't care much about public opinion. Bragging was one thing, and saving trouble was another.

Could it be that there was someone who wouldn't make a wish even if they could make a wish unconditionally? There was no such stupid thing, just like if alien friends came over to give them technology and materials, wouldn't that be great? Refusing wouldn't be called having backbone, it would be called having a problem with your brain.

Unfortunately, there were no wish-granting Dragon Balls on Earth, nor were there alien friends who came to deliver technology, it was truly a pity.

There was nothing else to say about the following matters.

Su Zhou originally planned to organize his personal space, see how the Wisdom Tree, which had obtained the Dragon God's blood, was doing now, then go to the Qin Hang Academy in Xi Jing to take the assessment, and then go to the base in the Northwest to register his Zhuzhou true form data. That would be the end of the day.

However, when he opened his personal space, the sight of a youth flashing with blades knew that plans couldn't keep up with changes.

At this moment, it could be seen that in Su Zhou's personal space, where the four elements were gathered, a golden-red blade shadow was flying everywhere, like a husky running wild, hacking here and slashing there, sometimes carving flowers on stones, and sometimes drawing its blade to cut water, causing the water to evaporate.

The Blade of Extinction didn't notice that the personal space had been opened at first. It was still flying around extremely excitedly, exuding its fire spiritual power that seemed to be overflowing, turning the Wisdom Tree's originally clean and tidy personal space into a mess.

Until suddenly, a slender and powerful hand grabbed the hilt, causing it to freeze instantly.

"What's wrong?"

A rather gentle, even tender voice sounded from behind the blade.

Placing the blade horizontally in front of him, Su Zhou stared at the Blade of Extinction, his tone carrying a meaningful kindness, "Move, keep moving."

I seemed to have a slight cold recently, which scared me. No wonder I started having headaches some time ago... I'm fine now.

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