Chapter 287: The Passage Of Time

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?”

Black Dragon Monarch Nidhogg was not wrong. Wei Huo had understood the meaning of death after comprehending the aura of nirvanic extermination. Nothing in the world could escape death.

If there was new life, there would definitely be death. This was the law of nature and reincarnation. It was the way things developed.

The Black Dragon had comprehended the Rules of Death. It was naturally responsible for bringing death to all living things in the world. That was its path. If it succeeded, its strength might improve!

That was why the Black Dragon Monarch had not done anything wrong.

Lu Qiqi said, “This is the Black Dragon Monarch’s heritage that I obtained.”

A pair of Black Dragon wings appeared on her back. The wings emitted the aura of death, which came from the same source as Wei Huo’s Death Book. It was a Mythical weapon called the Wings of Death!

However, although Lu Qiqi had obtained equipment that could carry the Rules of Death, she did not walk the path of death herself. Her current strength was at the middle stage of the Legendary stage, like Wei Huo’s, but her domain emitted an aura that was like a spring breeze. This aura was as gentle and warm as sunlight or a breeze.

She was Lu Qiqi, as well as a trace of Sister Chen Xuanyue’s avatar. She had been born in the Mystic Yin Tribe, but her mother had married an ordinary person. She had always appeared ordinary ever since her birth, but for some reason, she had suddenly erupted with endless potential and grown into a half-step Mythical being. She had also comprehended the incomplete rule Near Big, Far Small.

Although Wei Huo had not experienced that period, he had learned from Chen Xuanyue that she should be a gentle and kind sister. She should be an ordinary honest person, but honest people would also get angry. That anger had caused her to erupt with endless potential and become a half-step Rule-level existence.

The past was fleeting, and stories of the past disappeared with the wind. Wei Huo said, “I met Chen Xuanyue. She sealed herself in ice and split to create an avatar. I brought her to Kunlun Mountain. I wonder if she obtained the Dao Scripture. Did she extend her lifespan?”

Lu Qiqi said, “I’m no longer a member of the Mystic Yin Tribe. My original self has died, and my split self has lived a second life. I obtained the Black Dragon’s heritage, the Wings of Death, and the mission to destroy the Western Continent.”

That was one of the downsides of obtaining the Wings of Death.

However, the Black Dragon Monarch only knew that destroying the world was her mission. She did not know that this was just a game setting. In ancient times, there might have been Gods, a World Tree, and a Black Dragon Monarch. However, they had all disappeared with the passage of time. The World Tree and the inheritance of the Gods were just replicas.

The same applied to Kunlun Mountain and the other continents. These were things that had long been hidden in the dust of history. They no longer existed, but because the world had been turned into a game, everything had been replicated.

The Divine Realm, the Underworld, Kunlun Mountain, Mount Olympus, and the Mayan Pyramids had all been replicated. However, people like Lu Qiqi and Chen Xuanyue, who had sealed themselves or split to create an avatar to live again, had indeed survived since ancient times. They were the last witnesses of the ancient era. If they died along with time, history would really be hidden under the dust.