High Above

All illusions and memories dissipated, everything happened in just a moment.

Ian jumped from the top of the Steel Dragon's Nest, followed the Cloud Gate directly into the inside of the Steel Dragon's Nest, and landed firmly on the ground.

This is deep underground, a huge dragon's nest built of steel and stone.

If the entire Steel Dragon's Nest looks like a huge crater from the outside, then from the inside, it looks like a very regular vertical egg space.

The bottom layer of the egg is the dragon's nest itself, where Qiang Steel Dragon probably healed his wounds. The ground looks hard, but in fact it feels strangely pliable to the touch. On the four sides of the egg space, there are patches of swaying metallic fluorescence. Bringing quite bright light to the entire Steel Dragon Lair.

Ian raised his head, looked around the inside of the Steel Dragon's Nest, and then opened his eyes slightly - there were thousands of various inscription formations, made of hundreds of different sublimated materials, which combined the entire Steel Dragon's nest. The nest is tightly protected from the inside out.

This is Longyou Mystic Lock... the inscription technology of the true dragon!

No wonder neither the empire nor other true dragons have thought of using violent means to open it... With this level of rigor, if the procedures are not followed, all the wealth inside can be self-destructed - whether it is for humans or true dragons, This is all unacceptable.

The light of the inscription came from all directions, causing Ian to lose his shadow standing in the center of the dragon's nest. He moved his eyes away from the four walls and looked at the 'thing' in front of him that was shining with a faint silver light.

It is a 'fire' wrapped in silver crystal. It is embedded in the center of the dragon's nest, releasing extremely clear light outwards. When it shines on people, it gives a special kind of warmth, as if they are in a vast and vast world. The crowd was surrounded by countless people staring at it.

There is no doubt that that is the 'fire' left by Qiang Ganglong.

[Sterner Civilization Fire]

[Incalculable·Important protective items·Inedible]

[The last fire emitted by the Stena civilization located at the end of the fifth cantilever of the Great Tianxin Galaxy before its demise. Contains all the technology, biology and cultural data of the civilization. Using the information in it as nutrients, the steel dragon Solstner was catalyzed]

[Tinder integrity: 99.82%]

【……】

The information given by the silver chip also proved this, and Ian realized that the fire in front of him was the center of the entire Steel Dragon's Lair. It was not a simple information carrier, but was designed by the real dragon to be the control hub of his own lair.

The special Qiangsteel ecosystem created with the Steel Dragon's Nest as the center may be the result of this Sterna civilization fire.

Ian slowly walked up to the silver fire, squatted down and touched the light.

Soft and warm light. There was a faint repulsive force that pushed the young man's hand away.

"Sure enough, it feels the same as a real dragon...the essence is exactly the same!"

Closing his eyes and talking slowly to himself, Ian suddenly realized: "The real dragon is actually the kind of fire..."

At this moment, Ian has integrated all the memories he got from the Qiang Steel Dragon inheritance and fully understood it.

Looking at it now, if the mountain people inherit the legacy of Qiang Steel Dragon and become the messengers of the Dragon God, their first stop is probably to come to the Steel Dragon's Nest.

According to the dragon blood in the body, that is, the blood concentration of the 'Dragon People' transformed by Solstner, it determines how much knowledge of the 'Sterner Civilization Fire' the successor can obtain.

It is precisely because of this that the Dragon God envoys of the past dynasties can have extremely erudite knowledge, because it is part of the essence of a civilization.

But no one can compare with Ian. Only Ian has completely obtained the inheritance of the Qiang Steel Dragon and knows the nature and ancient secrets of the true dragon.

After the Steel Dragon's Nest, the second stop should be the Holy Mountain of Qiang Steel... There, the Dragon God Envoy will decrypt the part of the fire knowledge he holds through the Shimmer Cradle System, and fully understand the origin of Qiang Steel Dragon's life. and end.

Finally, one should go to Xiahui Lake to learn the secrets of the mountain people’s largest resource source, obtain the knowledge needed by the mountain people’s priests, master the Book of Silver Glory, and become the dual leader of the mountain people’s faith and world.

But Ian was lucky - he was the opposite of everything.

He first obtained the Book of Silver Glory, then went to Xiahui Lake to become the Dragon God's Messenger (self-proclaimed), then went to Qiangang Holy Mountain, and finally came to the Steel Dragon's Nest and obtained the Dragon God's Messenger Mark (true).

All I can say is that the world is so wonderful. It turns out that with the key prop of the silver chip, even the plot flow can be reversed!

but……

"There are too many marks, right?"

Ian stood up. He looked at the dragon head and crown of thorns emblem on the back of his right hand, and couldn't help but complain: "The left hand is the ether crystal, the heart of the ancient dragon is in the chest, the right hand is the seal of the messenger, and the forehead is the spiritual god... Then I What tattoo should I have on my back? Serving the country with loyalty or being a knight?"

"Stomach...well, you can't get tattoos on your belly. Hey, that's pretty much it. Is it possible that I'll be covered in tattoos in the future? That would be too unhealthy."

Shaking his head vigorously, Ian threw away the images of himself that were imprinted in his mind.

There is no need to take away the silver fire in front of you for the time being. It is the center of the Steel Dragon's Nest. Without it, there may be some problems.

After all, the Dragon God Messenger inheritance that Ian received is essentially a small fire. He can just go to the Shimmer Cradle to analyze himself when the time comes.

Even this matter is not in a hurry. Anyway, after taking the information, there is no laboratory reproduction.

And the entire Steel Dragon's Nest...

Ian observed it and found that this was probably the 'medical area' where Qiang Ganglong used to conduct experiments and hibernate.

If Ian is injured one day and the sacrificial fire on the Holy Mountain does not have enough energy to heal, then he can come to the Steel Dragon's Nest and learn a secret method of regeneration from the real dragon to heal his injuries through dormancy!

Now Ian has no need to use it, but the defense of Steel Dragon's Nest is indeed very strong. He feels that he can transfer some more sensitive and precious materials here.

With the protection of the Dragon Blessing Mystery Lock, ordinary fourth-level people cannot cause damage to the Steel Dragon's nest, nor can they sneak into it.

"In this safe place with no other people... I can calm down and think about some important issues."

There was no one there anyway, so Ian simply sat down, lying on the bottom floor of the Steel Dragon's Nest, looking up at the Cloud Gate as the entrance, the slowly rotating dark gray vortex.

The young man murmured to himself: "The real dragons... it is now completely confirmed that they have a great connection with the sky-falling spaceship."

"Besides, Terra is special."

As Ian guessed, a planet like Terra, where God knows how many civilizations have gathered together, is not a 'normal standard' at all - and according to the conversation between Qiang Ganglong and his mentor, there are actually more than a thousand people on Terra. A kindling?

A thousand! ?

Thinking of this, Ian suspected that Qiang Ganglong was actually referring to words like "thousands" and "thousands"... But Dragon Language is a very strict language, and he said more than a thousand.

Then here comes the problem.

What kind of disaster could cause more than a thousand star-level civilizations to desperately launch fire, be collected by the real dragons and the 'creators' behind them, and then gather on Terra?

No, no, no... I should change the question.

The true dragons and their creators... gathered more than a thousand or more fire seeds and came to the Terra Star Territory. What exactly did they plan to do?

According to True Dragon’s dialogue, the creator has a ‘big plan’.

But to be honest, even with Ian's reading of science fiction novels more than Terra's and his imagination of seeing the starry sky in his last life, he couldn't figure out what this plan was going to do.

That is a thousand fire seeds. In other words, it is the essence of a thousand interstellar civilizations...

And this grand plan came to a tragic end when the Creator's spaceship was attacked and eventually hit the Moon of Gaze and fell on Terra.

Apparently, the Creator has enemies in the outer universe.

Thinking of this, Ian began to feel that things were getting complicated... But after calming down, he discovered that these things were actually very simple.

To put it bluntly, this is all related to the ‘Prison Prison’.

True dragons and creators are obviously true cosmic civilizations that will not be stopped by the Star Prison.

First of all, it is the ancestor true dragon.

The Archosaur Dragon Eltolimu, also known as the [Primordial Ark] - the ancestral true dragon that looks like a super science fiction battleship, is obviously some kind of ark mothership.

As the name suggests, its function is probably to serve as a large-scale 'initial base'.

Therefore, after the Broken Star War, the victor Shishu Dragon could quickly build strongholds one by one, and together with the accompanying second-generation true dragons, create an experimental base capable of transforming fire and creating a third-generation true dragon.

Secondly, it is common sense: there are very few lives in the universe, and even fewer of them have intelligence and self-awareness. They can also create civilizations, and civilizations that reach the interstellar age without killing themselves...are simply the stars of the universe. Treasure.

It is hard to say whether there can be a hundred interstellar civilizations in a galaxy.

Rather, it would be great to be able to gather a hundred intelligent civilizations!

The creators are obviously super civilizations that can move across river systems. This is the bottom line, otherwise they would not be able to collect more than a thousand fire seeds.

As for true dragons, at least the first-generation true dragons must have some technologies that can catch up with the speed of their creators. Otherwise, they would not be able to carry so much fire to create the third-generation true dragons.

It's hard to figure out how high their technology is, and the other civilization they fight must also be incredibly powerful - the Star Prison was definitely created by one of the two of them.

Otherwise, with the power of the Ancestral True Dragons, they would not leave this place even if there are cracks in the Prison Star Prison, but would continue to stay in the Terra Star Territory... Are they afraid of the existence outside the Prison Star Prison? Or are there other possibilities...

These are unknowns.

But no matter what, behind their relevant clues, there must be information related to the Star Prison.

Ian put his thoughts back.

He turned his head and looked at the silver crystal fire beside him.

The true dragon is indeed similar to Ian's guess based on the 'Crystal Dragon' - the crystal dragon transforms itself into a shape suitable for the local ecology, while the true dragon transforms the local ecology into its own shape. The former is obviously a beggar version that lacks enough energy and resources. A true dragon, a super life with an innate ether heart, can of course go against nature and win.

But he didn't expect that the essence of the real dragon was actually 'fire'!

They are the ‘guardians’ or ‘monitors’ used by the creator civilization to observe each civilization.

Although Qiang Ganglong himself guessed that the true dragon's duty is to guide civilization, Ian did not dare to completely believe it.

Yes, the ‘Fire Civilization Protection Agreement’ in the silver chip can also show that the creator civilization is a very gentle existence that has the responsibility to protect all kinds of civilizations...

But a true dragon, a being that can possess the entire civilization's force in one body, will be released to every observed civilization... which means that the true dragon itself has some responsibilities that require the use of 'force'.

Is this duty to represent local civilization against alien invaders, or to act as alien invaders to suppress some 'wrong' civilizations, such as the insect swarm marked as 'savage and bloody' and the 'pest' void in the silver chip? Breeding evil... these are not very clear yet.

But in Terra, these 'responsibilities' may not be possible.

Theoretically speaking, a fifth-level true dragon can indeed do this. Even most civilizations that have not truly stepped into the starry sky may not be able to fight against a fifth-level true dragon.

But Terra is so special... Not to mention the number of fifth energy levels, there are also a terrifying amount of fire types.

Therefore, the True Dragon's camp "Dragon Island" probably doesn't know what to do. It doesn't know where to start if it wants to recycle it. It can only sign an agreement with the various countries of Terra, and then...

Then just hang out like this.

Only a small number of true dragons are still walking on the earth due to their own reasons - but they have gradually forgotten the responsibilities of previous generations of true dragons and gradually become a member of this land.

As for the ‘Sleeping Dragon’s Nest’ base located on the edge of Terra, where the Qiang Steel Dragon was born…

If there are conditions, and with the strength of the fourth and fifth levels, Ian will definitely want to go. There is definitely a lot of information out there about the true dragons and their creators.

"I'm getting closer to the truth."

Sitting up, Ian lowered his head and stared at the mark on the back of his right hand: "The disaster of falling from the sky, the falling spaceship, the true dragon and the creator civilization, and the prison star prison - in addition to the current predicament of the Terra civilization, there are also There is a cause for all this disaster."

"If we don't understand the cause, even if they lead everyone to the stars again, they can beat us back to the ground if they want to."

"Just like...pre-era civilization."

The gains from Steel Dragon's Lair are huge.

Standing up, Ian prepared to leave the Steel Dragon's nest.

There are many things to do next. After sorting out the clues in Solstner's memory, he will prepare to return to the Xiahui Territory to prepare for this 'Mountain Rebellion'... or in other words, the 'Qiangang Mountain Blockade Battle' 'Make a finishing touch.

Exhaling a breath, Ian turned around and looked at the quietly burning fire behind him.

Everything about Stena's civilization is there.

It was sent out by a civilization in despair and wandered in the starry sky. Then it was found by the real dragons and stored in the cradle, waiting for sleep and resurrection.

Then, after a huge change, it became the cornerstone for the birth of a true dragon.

Now, it is still quietly placed in the dragon's nest, waiting for recovery and complete silence.

This tombstone...maybe the spark of rebirth. For a long time, it waited for its final outcome.

That's not what's happening now.

Ian no longer looks at the 'past'. He flew up and left the Steel Dragon's nest.

Outside the Dragon's Nest.

Elder Manya saw a white figure fly out of the Cloud Gate, draw an arc, and come to his side.

"How was it?" he asked.

The young man raised his right hand, showing the crown mark that had gradually faded, but could reappear at any time if needed.

The old man laughed.

A few minutes later, a dragon shadow fell from the sky, and another even larger dragon shadow followed.

Xio and the King of the Mountain are coming.

Ian sat on Xiou's back. The Mountain King and Elder Manya looked at each other, each nodded slightly, and then led Ian away toward Chao Xiahui.

[There will be opportunities in the future]

Before taking off, the Mountain King turned to Ian and said: [You have to find time to go to Dragon Island - now that you are the orthodox heir of the Steel Dragon Solstner, you have to go through the relevant procedures]

"No problem." Ian nodded: "Just right...I'm also quite curious about Dragon Island."

The dragon's shadow cuts across the sky, cutting through layers of clouds like scissors.

——The mouth of Guyanfeng Gorge.

Roland was taking several of his dwarf brothers to survey the terrain of the future alchemy park at Xiakou Flat. But suddenly, he felt something in his heart and raised his head to look at the sky.

He saw the shadow of the real dragon passing over the top of the mountains, and a stream of light visible to the naked eye spanned the sky among the floating lights.

"Wow."

He sighed. This mechanical engineer knew the shadow left by Xiou, and naturally knew that the larger dragon shadow was the King of the Mountain, his lord's ally.

According to the recent news, he knew very well that the arrival of the Mountain King and Xio only meant one thing.

That is the lord who has solved all the problems and will return to his territory!

Looking up at Long Ying, Roland said with envy: "I don't know when I will be able to fly so fast..."

"It's not difficult to build an airplane." The dwarf brother on the side muttered, and his tone was quite satisfactory: "But riding a dragon is a rare thing - little Roland, you lord is quite powerful. It seems that you are not fooling us."

"Of course!" Roland patted his chest and said proudly: "When have I ever deceived my own people? This is definitely a good place. We can get rid of the rules of teachers and others and have a great time!"

"Come on, let's continue! We will try to plan and sort out all the terrain in the gorge before next summer!"

——Xia Hui Ling.

Scott is discussing the next allocation of funds with Old Farr at the city hall. Recently, there have been too many places where money has been spent in the territory, whether it is the budget of various new buildings or the overall urban infrastructure and subsequent expansion. The budget needs to be planned in advance, and during the food disaster, external food imports cannot be reduced.

Most of the planting land in Xiahui Ling is a variety of cash crops, and the farmland is scattered scattered. Food self-sufficiency cannot be expected in this terrain. However, if we include the river plains in the Midela Autonomous Region, we can look forward to the future. .

But looking to the future also requires money. The two are discussing whether to separate an inspection team and go to the Midela Autonomous Region to demarcate a piece of land... This kind of thing must wait for the lord to decide.

Coincidentally, at this moment, both of them felt a faint sense of oppression.

They walked out of the city hall, looked at the sky, and then saw two dragon shadows, one large and one small, falling from the sky and landing on the edge of the city on the edge of the sea of ​​flowers.

"It seems that the adults are back."

Scott smiled. In the recent period, due to the great victory of the imperial mountain people and the various achievements of his lord as the Dragon God's messenger, the atmosphere in the entire Xiahui Territory has become a lot more heated. Although many people know that their lord is very Strong, but I didn't expect it to be so strong.

In Terra, there is a powerful lord, which is a good thing that everyone hopes for. Scott also saves a lot of things because of the news of victory one after another. Many chambers of commerce that trade with the territory even take the initiative to give discounts. We are willing to carry out long-term bulk cooperation with Xiahuiling.

Compared to Scott's simple mood, Old Farr on the side just stared silently at the white shadow that separated from the dragon shadow and fell alone.

If we say that everyone else is just happy and looking forward to having a powerful and talented lord.

What the old man felt in his heart was pure hope.

A kind of surprise that was ‘unimaginable’, turned out to be a reality.

True dragons, mountain people, and the background of the empire... The problems that had entangled the entire Lian Territory for countless generations of lords in the past were completely solved by this young White People lord in just a few months.

Now, with the support of Marquis Barton and an imperial background, Ian has gained the supreme power of the Dragon Worship Cult and the mountain people.

There will no longer be anything holding him back and he can do whatever he wants.

The prosperity of Xiahui Territory is a foregone conclusion - this place will become a big city, a big enough city to be famous in Nanling and even the empire!

And in the future...

"Perhaps... I can know the truth behind the disappearance of the stars here."

Staring at the falling dragon shadow, the old man murmured to himself: "Perhaps, my long-term persistence and so many years of patience..."

"My persistence for a long time... just to wait for him."

"Just to wait for this hope..."

Hope...luxury word. But it's not something untouchable.

January 1, Terra 774.

The first day of a new year.

The Lord of Xia Hui, Ian Silver Peak, returned to his territory.

This ancient land is about to open a new chapter.