Fang Zheng had no way to use magic in this world, but he was a Time Dragon after all. Setting aside everything else about his soul's reincarnation, the power of a dragon was surely preserved. Thus, during this time, Fang Zheng traveled far and wide. Besides gathering refugees, he also searched for interesting animals and tamed them.
Most animals in this world were not too different from those in the modern era, but perhaps because this was a Wuxia World, quite a few unique species appeared as well. For example, Wuxia novels often described things like the Thousand-Year Ice Toad, which could make one immune to all poisons and grant a hundred years of Cultivation Power after being eaten. Such creatures definitely did not exist in Fang Zheng's world, yet this world actually had similar species.
Not only that, Fang Zheng had even found species described in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. The most famous of them were naturally the Four Sacred Beasts: the Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, White Tiger, and Black Tortoise. Of course, these Four Sacred Beasts were not nearly as mystical as described in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. After communicating with them, Fang Zheng discovered that these strange beasts merely lived longer, were smarter, and looked stranger.
However, Fang Zheng discovered a problem among them: most of the creatures described in the Classic of Mountains and Seas were actually relics of prehistoric times!
Take the most famous Four Sacred Beasts. The White Tiger was the renowned Saber-toothed Tiger. When Fang Zheng first saw it, he had been so excited that he wanted to take out a camera and photograph it on the spot...
The other three Sacred Beasts were the same. The Azure Dragon was a genetically mutated python, most likely descended from a