Chapter 436 Candlelight Is Not Actually a Dragon (7600, Seeking Monthly Tickets~)

"Hey!"

The moment Su Zhou finished speaking, Yala got angry.

The serpent spirit's body stood up, lifting the hat, causing Shao Shuangyue, who was hiding behind Su Zhou, to look strangely at the youth's swaying head. "Of course nothing will happen! You are my contractor. The Harbinger doesn't have the power to pull you across endless worlds!"

"But that's not the point—what are you planning to do? Change allegiance?!"

"Don't worry, Yala, I won't become a member of the Harbinger's clan. I just want to try, not for real."

"After all, if this is the Harbinger's method of choosing clan members, then learning more will definitely be useful."

Saying this, Su Zhou clicked his tongue, then reached out and touched the mouse, moving the arrow toward the 'Yes' on the pop-up window.

His movements were so swift and decisive that even Shao Shuangyue didn't have time to turn her head to look at her computer screen.

However, surprisingly, just as Su Zhou's hand touched the mouse and the arrow overlapped with the pop-up window, the pop-up disappeared, vanishing like an illusion.

It was that simple and direct—it completely disappeared without a trace.

Like a block of ice touching a flame, facing Su Zhou's power, although derived from the Harbinger, the peculiar selection power, which had been diluted too much, dissipated into nothingness in an instant. It retreated from the computer, as if it had never existed.

"Ha, as expected."

Not beyond expectations, after confirming that the pop-up had completely disappeared, Su Zhou raised his hand again, but the window did not return. He laughed, then infused his spiritual power into the computer, setting up a small-scale exorcism formation within it.

After doing all this, the youth turned his head, looked at Shao Shuangyue beside him who hadn't figured out what was going on, his eyes thoughtful, his brow slightly furrowed.

—The Harbinger's selection cannot be wrong. At least the Great Existences would never be wrong in this regard; they could always see clearly which people had better compatibility with them.

Even destiny was not wrong. Su Zhou admitted that his previous idea regarding the Heavenly Tribulation would indeed strengthen the stability of destiny and reincarnation… but he was not a stagnant person after all. Constantly progressing and modifying one's ideas was the norm for intelligent life.

"Deep down, Shuangyue actually yearns for exploration and adventure… that's right, she just doesn't like going out; there's never been a reason to say that only people who like going out like exploring distant places."

"She's just a simple salted fish who doesn't like to move, but if there's really a force compelling her to go out, she's actually quite happy."

Su Zhou still remembered the situation when he and Shao Qiming took Shao Shuangyue to the Kunlun Secret Realm for a trip last time. At first, Shao Shuangyue was indeed reluctant in every way, but in the end, didn't she have a great time playing with the spiritual beasts of the Kunlun Secret Realm, and very actively visited every special scenic spot in the secret realm?

"Yala, actually I don't know if this is right."

Although his eyes were fixed on Shao Shuangyue, who was somewhat bewildered but cheering because she had sensed that her computer had returned to normal, Su Zhou sighed in his heart and conversed with the serpent spirit: "Everyone has the right to explore and become stronger… perhaps Shuangyue… is really more suitable for the Harbinger?"

"What I mean is, of course I can protect her together with Qiming. We can protect our parents, protect our relatives… but I can't stay on Earth forever, just like this time, I stayed in the Qingqiu Secret Realm for half a year. During these six months, my friends and family were worried about me, but how could I not worry about my friends and family?"

Saying this, Su Zhou couldn't help but raise his head. He looked around Shao Shuangyue's room—it was completely different from the average girl's room, filled with a hardcore atmosphere, with various multi-composite figurines and game models piled everywhere. One could see that tabletop role-playing game rulebooks and various board game templates filled an entire cabinet, and various game model weapons were carefully placed in every location.

If one didn't truly love it, no one would turn their living space into this.

If the Harbinger could allow one to see more unknown and novel things, for Shao Shuangyue, that might not be a bad thing.

In other words, if Shao Shuangyue really had the potential to be a member of the Harbinger's clan, then was it a bit too arrogant and overprotective of him to unilaterally reject this possibility for her?

Su Zhou himself had become Yala's contractor; he actually had no position to reject invitations from other Great Existences for others… but when it really concerned the people around him, he would also make decisions such as 'for someone's own good', so he would reject something on behalf of the other party.

This even made Su Zhou feel a bit self-disgusted, because he hated such people the most—although he didn't expect the Harbinger's pop-up to disappear on its own, Su Zhou originally just wanted to see what kind of reaction the Harbinger would have, but he didn't expect it to be so direct.

But he ultimately rejected this on behalf of Shao Shuangyue.

"It's really fixed, thanks Brother Zhou!"

At this time, after checking for a long time and confirming that there was indeed nothing wrong with the computer, Shao Shuangyue excitedly got up and cheered, giving Su Zhou a smiling high-five.

Dispelling some of the gloom in his heart, Su Zhou smiled at her and said, "It's just a small matter; in the future, pay attention, and if you encounter this kind of thing, just call me again—I won't disturb you. Study hard, don't play too much on the computer before the Holy Ascension Selection Test, and ensure a healthy routine."

"Yes, yes… why do you talk just like my mom…"

Shao Shuangyue reluctantly turned off the computer, then took out an exercise sheet from her bag—she could still distinguish priorities: "Are you leaving now? If you stay, I might have some cultivation questions to ask you later, because the answer you told me last time was said to be wrong by the teacher, super weird."

"That must be your teacher's mistake. As for me, I'll wait a little longer; I have something to talk about with your brother later."

Saying this, Su Zhou walked toward the door of the room: "Just call me if you have any questions; I'll be in your brother's room."

Afterward, he walked out of the room and entered Shao Qiming's room. The youth sat in his usual chair, somewhat puzzled, and asked the serpent spirit, "Speaking of which, Yala, your and the Harbinger's ideas feel a bit similar—the Harbinger wants to explore the unknown, and you also want more possibilities. I don't think these conflict at all."

"Perhaps, I indeed don't have a bad relationship with the Harbinger. He doesn't like me too much, and I'm not too happy with him either, but compared to destiny, it's indeed much better."

Yala slid out of Su Zhou's hat and came to the table. He coiled up his body and shook his head, saying, "But no matter what, he is now our competitor, our enemy—he intends to gradually explore the entire multiverse by selecting clan members in the myriad worlds, awakening other Great Existences, and we have to do the opposite."

"That's the problem."

Su Zhou frowned tightly; he folded his arms in front of his chest, sinking into thought, and his hair, as if it had life, took off the black Chongming feather hat from his head and placed it beside Yala: "I'm not too clear about how many clan members the Harbinger has… but Yala, you seem to only have me as a contractor, right? No matter what, their numbers must be more than ours, and their efficiency must be higher than ours!"

"And your other clan members, I've never seen them. In so many worlds, I don't even have a single ally!"

This was indeed an indisputable fact—Su Zhou wasn't saying that he was afraid, anyway, killing one enemy was the same as killing ten, right? But the vast difference in numbers was always a depressing thing.

After all, who wouldn't want to use human wave tactics to drown the enemy?

You want to, I want to, everyone wants to—

But obviously, Yala didn't agree with Su Zhou's point of view.

"Su Zhou, you have the Heavenly God Scale. That guy, the Harbinger, needs to explore and scan one by one to find worlds within the range of other Great Existences' domains, while you can find the key and directly cross over—this is a generation difference in efficiency. It is very likely that all their clan members will go together, and they won't be able to pinpoint the location even after half a year."

Saying this, the serpent spirit shook his head unhappily. He patted the table with his tail, making a 'pa pa pa' sound: "Moreover, do you think that the benefits of contracting with me are only immortal blood?"

"Oh?" Hearing Yala's suggestive words, Su Zhou couldn't help but put his hands down from his chest. He touched his chin and said with a look of surprise: "Are you saying that I actually have some kind of cheat that hasn't been activated yet?!"

"That's not the case—it's just that your previous strength was weak, so the performance wasn't obvious."

Saying this, Yala looked at Su Zhou, the red serpent spirit coiling up his body, his tone intriguing: "Do you still remember the legends that were spread about you in other worlds in the Divine Dragon World? The name of the Candlelight Dragon has begun to spread in multiple worlds, as if since ancient times."

"As early as the very beginning, from the time you contracted with me and passed through the Great Seal to go to other worlds, you were no longer just an ordinary human, but the source of some kind of 'mythological legend'."

Hearing this, Su Zhou had already frowned and fallen into deep thought, while Yala still smiled lightly and continued: "Just like I have derivatives like the Ancestral Dragon… Su Zhou, do you think that there is only one existence split from you?"

"And their, their and His actions, in terms of the level of endless time and space, the impact they have, compared with the Harbinger's seemingly numerous clan members, who is bigger and who is smaller?"

At the same time.

Independent of many timelines, almost located in a void at the highest point of the Icy凝 Void.

A huge, infinite symmetrical radiation line originating from one source point is shining in the dark void.

The infinite radiation lines are projecting toward the endless distance, and each dazzling radiation line opens up an independent space.

Above the metal earth filled with bright silver brilliance, a ball of light extending countless radiation lines in all directions is located high in the center of the sky. Its light is projected toward the endless distance, and no matter how you look into the distance, you can't see the end. It is the eternal and endless 'horizon'.

And in this brilliant light, a huge dragon shadow covered in wounds suddenly emerged from the light, lying prostrate on the earth.

[Exploration completed, returning to 'Harbinger Space']

Zhenlong Jiuming, who had fought hard until the last moment, almost lost his self-awareness when he finally supported his return. In the last moment, he felt as if his body was being drawn into a huge vortex, but that unsteady feeling only lasted for a moment, and then he came into contact with the cold and solid steel ground.

As if it was just an instant, he escaped from that extremely dangerous world.

[Welcome to the Harbinger Space, Jiuming. According to the first mission test, you are officially judged to be an 'Adventurer'. The corresponding permissions and services will be opened for you immediately.]

[Your injuries are very serious. Do you want to repair them? If you don't choose, then repair will be the default.]

"Did you even need to say that? I'm about to die…"

Even though his consciousness was chaotic and he couldn't think at all, under the stimulation of the inorganic voice that suddenly sounded in his mind, the severely injured Jiuming immediately said weakly: "Repair, repair immediately!"

[Full body repair deducts 927 exploration points]

Another voice flashed, and suddenly, a bright silver light descended from the sky, covering Jiuming's tens of meters long Zhenlong body. An invisible force made him float up.

Soon, the large and small wounds on the dragon's body were quickly repaired, and not only that, as a ray of light flashed, Jiuming's dragon body turned into a petite and delicate human boy's body, and this body also had a huge wound piercing his chest and abdomen, a clear gunshot wound.

In just a few seconds, Jiuming, who was originally on the verge of shock and coma, was shocked to find that his body and spirit had completely recovered to their peak, and when the light disappeared and the invisible force slowly lowered him to the ground, the Zhenlong boy was still touching his tender white abdomen in shock, seemingly unable to believe that the wound above had completely returned to its original state.

"What, what kind of technology is this! Even the dragon blood self-healing of a terrestrial immortal Zhenlong is impossible to be so fast and so perfect!"

Exclaiming incredulously, Jiuming realized that all the subtle wounds, shattered bones, internal organ injuries, and the countless super-load injuries in the meridians all over his body, which were almost completely cut off the path of cultivation, had now all been completely recovered.

Gradually walking out of this shock, he couldn't help but raise his head and look at the radiation line light ball above his head.

——Harbinger Space.

Since a few days ago, after Jiuming clicked on the option that appeared in the water waves, he appeared in another world, and then a lot of information related to this Harbinger Space was instilled in his mind.

The information was very long and complicated. In short, the Harbinger Space was created by an existence so powerful that it was difficult to imagine, in order to allow successors to continue exploring the unknown. He crossed countless time and space to select individuals who were in line with his heart, so that they could enter this space, constantly explore the unknown world, constantly become stronger, until they finally became great Harbingers like him, proving the essence of 'correctness'.

It was actually easy to understand. Jiuming personally believed that this was a place of inheritance where some super powerful figure beyond the level of immortals and gods was cultivating his successors (unlimited in number), and the tasks of exploring unknown spaces were essentially tests for the inheritors.

"But this is too sudden?!"

Whispering so softly, Jiuming didn't dare to speak loudly, after all, who knew if this powerful figure had a good temper? It's always right to be cautious: "Although I'm very happy to be selected, no one said the mission was so dangerous!"

"What if I die? I dare say that many people wouldn't choose 'yes' if they knew they would die!"

To Jiuming's surprise, the inorganic voice in his mind actually responded to his soft whispering.

[If you die in the first mission, then you die. But if you survive, the space will give you the right to return to a normal life once. Exploring the unknown requires wholehearted dedication. Those who are attached to things behind them are not suitable for adventurous exploration.]

[Do you want to return to your original time and space?]

Being asked this, Jiuming hesitated for a long time, then gritted his teeth: "Then, then tell me first, what services does the Harbinger Space have!"

[You can exchange for abilities and props through 'exploration points' and 'opening permissions', so that you can constantly become stronger when exploring the unknown.]

Saying this, a row of light curtains appeared in front of the Zhenlong boy.

[Preventing the Third Prince of the East Sea Dragon King from being killed by Ling Zhuzi, high completion, obtaining 2000 exploration points, one D-level opening permission.]

[Preventing the East Sea Dragon Palace from flooding Chentangguan, medium completion, obtaining 1750 exploration points, one D-level opening permission.]

[Ascertaining the background of the 'Investiture of the Gods War', extremely low completion, obtaining 569 exploration points.]

"Oh, so many?"

Although Jiuming didn't understand what these points and permissions were used for at all, he thought it was normal to spend all the points to heal his life, and when he found that there was more than enough now, he naturally felt that the reward was very generous and interesting: "So that's how it is. I indeed failed to completely prevent the East Sea Dragon Palace from retaliating against Chentangguan in the end, so the evaluation is not complete."

In this mission, Jiuming initially crossed over to a sea area, and the sea area was full of spirit-awakened sea beasts different from those on Earth.

After asking many spirit-awakened sea beasts about the situation, Jiuming gradually understood that he had probably come to another world that was very similar to the 'Ling Zhuzi Disturbing the Sea' incident in ancient mythology, and at this time, Ling Zhuzi had not yet stirred up trouble in the East Sea, and the East Sea was still peaceful.

Whether you are a dragon or a human, you have to look at your ass. Jiuming is essentially a Zhenlong, so he naturally doesn't think it's a good thing for Ling Zhuzi to mess up the dragon's peace and kill dragons indiscriminately—there's no point in reasoning about this matter, who told him to be a dragon? And because of the shrimp soldiers and crab generals' notice, Jiuming, a Zhenlong who obviously had an orthodox immortal god inheritance, was invited to be a guest by the East Sea Dragon Palace.

The process after that doesn't need to be discussed in detail. It's nothing more than Jiuming preventing the Dragon Palace's Third Prince from being killed, but still failing to prevent Ling Zhuzi from making a big mess in the East Sea. The Dragon Palace still suffered many casualties, and the conflict was established.

And the East Sea Dragon Palace, which had lost face, was also a force, so it prepared to send down torrential rain and tides to attack Chentangguan, and Jiuming really couldn't bear to see the people suffer, so he rebelled against the Dragon Palace again to protect Chentangguan. As a result, he was beaten violently by both Ling Zhuzi and the Dragon Palace. His human body was pierced by the Fire-Tipped Spear, and his dragon body was also severely injured by a group of shrimp soldiers and crab generals cooperating with yakshas. In the end, he barely supported himself back to the Harbinger Space.

There is no doubt that this was the most stupid choice, offending both camps, but Jiuming felt that he was worthy of his heart, screw the camp interests.

You say it's right, so it's right? Based on what? Who are you?

This is probably the nature of dragons and snakes, even if it was just a ginseng at the beginning.

"Hey, Heavenly Venerable is above, a child who is only a few years old at most has the power of a near-ruler level. If I didn't know something about myths and legends, I really wouldn't know what to do…"

At this time, Jiuming can be regarded as grateful that he accepted the cultural education from Earth, otherwise, he would be completely ignorant and not know what to do to be worthy of his heart: "But the 'Investiture of the Gods War'? What is that? There's no record of this on Earth…"

In fact, there were still many things that confused Jiuming.

Just like this mission world, he roughly knew that he was located in ancient Zheng Kingdom, an ancient era of two countries fighting each other. He was still somewhat familiar with this—the battle between Ling Zhuzi and the Dragon Palace was just a marginal microcosm of this stage of the era.

But strangely, unlike the history of Earth, according to some people in Chentangguan, behind Di Xin in this world, in addition to the Heavenly Fox of the Qingqiu You Su Clan, there was actually a divine dragon supporting him.

And that dragon was said to be the guardian dragon of Qingqiu.

This was very strange, very inexplicable!

Qingqiu was fine, after all, no matter how you trace the Heavenly Fox, you can only trace it back to Qingqiu in the end… Tushan is a part of Qingqiu and also one of the Qingqiu royal families, at least that's the case on the Earth he was on.

But dragon…

Why would Heavenly Fox have anything to do with dragons?

Although, according to historical records, after the First Emperor fought with the Lord of Soldiers, Yinglong did not return to the Divine Court, but stayed in the south of heaven and earth, and Qingqiu was indeed located in the Southern Ridge… but is it too strange to forcibly apply it like this?

"The most important thing is that the dragon is actually called Candlelight—isn't that the ancestor's bloodline of that guy Su Zhou?"

Muttering to himself like this, Jiuming didn't get an answer after worrying for a long time, so he stopped thinking about it and raised his head again: "Then, what can these points do?"

[You can exchange for inheritance, magic weapons, strengthen bloodlines, and cultivation.]

The inorganic voice replied calmly: [List unfolding]

In an instant, Jiuming's eyes were filled with rows of lists—because it was too rich and dazzling, he could only temporarily close the exchange of magic weapons and props, etc., and instead focus on inheritance and bloodline strengthening—and there were indeed many things in it that made him extremely excited.

"Candle Dragon? Yinglong? My God, there are even inheritance and bloodline inheritances that directly lead to the Heavenly Venerable level?! It's just so expensive…"

"Oh, there's also the Ming涬 Transforming Dragon Art? Let me see… the evaluation is actually quite high! The creator has a solid foundation and has the potential to directly reach the Heavenly Immortal… Alas, if it weren't for the exhaustion of spiritual energy, the teacher would probably be able to become a Heavenly Immortal as well."

"Um… wait!"

When the blue dragon eyes swept across the exchange list, suddenly, Jiuming saw a familiar name again: "Candlelight True Body! There's actually an exchange for this too?!"

"Complete inheritance exchange, the provisional price is A-level opening permission, 2000 exploration points… Strange, why is it provisional? None of the other inheritances have this statement…"

The Zhenlong boy clicked on this inheritance with some confusion and watched it in detail—because it was related to an acquaintance like Su Zhou, he was quite curious: "Let me see, what is Su Zhou's foundation…"

"In the Southern Wilderness, there is a god named Candlelight, with a dragon's head and white wings, who can discern people's hearts…"

He just saw it to the end like this.

Immediately afterward, the Zhenlong boy saw the last line of this inheritance.

[…So, strictly speaking, the Candlelight True Body is not a dragon transformation inheritance, because Candlelight is not a dragon. It is just a divine beast that looks very similar to a dragon.]

——Not a dragon——

Shock! Hit! Jiuming!

"Candlelight is actually not a dragon?!"

At this moment, Jiuming even felt a lightning strike on his head. He exclaimed in shock: "No, what's going on?! How can Candlelight not be a dragon?!"

[It is indeed not a dragon, it just happens to have a dragon shape.]

[Although, some legendary Candlelights do originate from Yinglong, but in multiple worlds, there are also many Yinglong who deny this—they believe that Candlelight just copied some of Yinglong's power and stole their glory. But similarly, some Yinglong believe that Candlelight is a being that surpasses them.]

[However, no matter what, all Yinglong deny that Candlelight is a type of Zhenlong. It can only be regarded as a broad dragon and snake.]

Let's not talk about Jiuming, who was shocked in the Harbinger Space.

Su Zhou, who didn't know that he had been expelled from the dragon clan, had also just finished talking with Shao Qiming.

"Um, I understand. I have time anytime. Just have that guy contact me."

"By the way, Qiming, I need to talk to you about Shuangyue… Look at what you're saying, Shuangyue is closer to me than you, her own brother. Naturally, she'll talk to me if she has something to say! We'll talk in detail when we meet next time. It's not convenient to talk on the phone."

"See you, see you!"

After hanging up the phone, Su Zhou still didn't quite understand what Yala himself meant by saying that he was already 'part of mythology'.

But no matter what, Su Zhou, who already knew about the recent anomalies of the Litany Society, did plan to find some time to meet with Crocell.

"When praying, a voice you can hear for no reason? The response from the self-proclaimed Immortal Dragon…"

Putting his phone back in his pocket, Su Zhou tapped the table with his finger and muttered to himself in a low voice, "Immortal Dragon—isn't that my alias in the Reincarnation World?"

"The residents of Nesser City used this name when they worshiped me. Could it be that this has something to do with the Reincarnation World?"

"It seems it's time to go back to the Reincarnation World to take a look."

Having made up his mind like this, Su Zhou picked up the hat from the table, placed the Yala who was lazily hibernating and the hat on his head, and the youth prepared to start making preparations for returning to the Reincarnation World, as well as planning to meet with Crocell.

However, plans can't keep up with changes.

Just as Su Zhou was preparing to leave the Shao family mansion to contact Crocell in his fan group, he received a call from Tiandu.

"What? Are you saying that Jiuming is missing?!"

Even Su Zhou was shocked by this news—how could Jiuming, a well-behaved Zhenlong at the peak of transcendence, be missing? He was only one step away from the ruler level. The Heavenly Pond Dragon King's dragon pearl was supporting him, allowing his strength to progress much faster than normal geniuses… How could he be missing?!

[Yes, all of our formation detections have no movement at all. Jiuming just suddenly disappeared, and there is no trace of him in either the Heavenly Pond Realm or the Earth's sea area.]

Yan Sheng's voice came from the phone, his tone solemn: [Even the Dao One Central Tianji Calculation Hub cannot determine Jiuming's current location… We only know that he encountered a crisis some time ago, and now it has turned into a blessing.]

"Okay, I roughly understand…"

After listening to Yan Sheng's detailed narration, Su Zhou couldn't help but look in the direction of Shao Shuangyue's room with a strange expression.

Abrupt disappearance, encountering tribulations—it seems that Jiuming was also selected by the Harbinger… Good fellow, he really didn't expect that there would be two people around him who were members of the Great Existences.

"Okay, then I understand."

After thinking for a while, as the only overlord terrestrial immortal of the current world and the strongest human, Su Zhou promised in a loud voice: "I'll go over immediately to see what's going on and see if I can find any clues."

After saying that, he walked out of the room and met Shao Shuangyue, who had also heard the voice and opened the door to see what was going on.

"Are you leaving? Have a smooth journey and good luck with your work!"

The black-haired straight beauty waved her hand carelessly, and Su Zhou also smiled and said, "After all, I have to make a living. You too, study hard, so that you can be like your Brother Zhou in the future, and you can live happily by just touching fish every day!"

"Blech! You're still touching fish? I feel like you're busy to death!"

Making a face, Shao Shuangyue said goodbye to Su Zhou, and the youth was too lazy to go through the door, so he went directly to the balcony on the second floor of the Shao family mansion, ascended into the air, and flew straight into the clouds.

"Let's go, Yala, we are always busy."

Saying this, Su Zhou didn't know when he had taken a bag of chocolate that was either Shao Shuangyue's or Aunt Wen's. He took out one from it and put it in his mouth to chew.

The slightly sweet fragrance filling his mouth made the youth smile contentedly: "But we must learn to enjoy life—being needed and being prayed for is also a way of life."

After swallowing the chocolate, Su Zhou took out another one and handed it to Yala, who was sticking out his head—the red serpent spirit hesitated for a moment, but also took a bite: "This will be regarded as your offering to me, but blood offerings will not be less."

"Haha, look at what you're saying, am I that stingy?"

Laughter flashed in the long sky, and the green-purple spiritual light passed through the sky in an instant, like a meteor, falling toward the distant South Sea.

——In this transcendent world, life is like this.

This is the lifestyle of the transcendent.