Great Achievement! Northern Expedition Against the Jiang Empire!

Shen Lang rode the giant dragon, slowly flying to the Pyramid's summit to face the Gazing Sky Totem.

"Senior, would you like to come down and talk?" Shen Lang said. "In a sense, you are our ancestor and our totem. Perhaps you do not know that even in ancient times, there were many statues of you. Temples were even built specifically for you. For a long time, I had thought those statues were all your fossilized remains."

The Gazing Sky Totem said nothing. Back in the Ancient Empire, he had not been the only Savior. Many peerless powerhouses and sages had tried every conceivable method to save the world.

But virtually all of them had failed. Even their statues had mostly failed to survive intact to this day. Only his statue had been preserved whole, because he had followed the path of High-Level Dragon's Comprehension.

Yet those other ancient saviors had also been extraordinary, because during the first Great Nirvana, they had at least preserved the spark of civilization. That was why the Ancient Human Empire of the second era had come to exist.

But Gazing Sky had no desire to discuss any of this with Shen Lang. He indeed counted as an ancestor, and he truly was a totem. Yet he had failed to complete High-Level Dragon's Comprehension, while Jiang Li had succeeded, and Shen Lang had succeeded as well. This meant that the descendants had surpassed their ancestor.

The waves behind on the Yangtze River drove those ahead onward. In a way, that was a good thing, but it was also somewhat bitter. As an ancestor, though I am willing to help you, do I not have any pride? Let us meet less often from now on.

So the Empress Medusa had been right. As a totem, he