Early morning.
The dawn light shone upon the ancient city walls.
Jiang Ning's figure was stretched long and narrow at the City Gate.
"I'm finally back!" Seeing the three large characters "Dongling City" carved above the main gate in seal script, Jiang Ning sighed.
On the way back, he had followed the same road he had taken when he left. Though he knew it well enough to drive a light carriage down a familiar road, he was pressed for time, and it had still exhausted him badly.
Especially the consecutive water escapes, draining him again and again, made him feel as if he was about to grow weak.
However, returning smoothly without delaying those important matters made him feel that his effort had been worth it.
Moreover, though this trip had not brought him the gains he had imagined, it could still be counted as a harvest.
More importantly, it had brought him into contact with some of the secrets of the Ancient Era.
The records of the Ancient Times were not fictional existences, but ancient history that had truly existed.
The True Dragon Hall, the Dragon Transformation Pool.
And the Alternate Dimension where the True Dragon Hall was located.
There was also the spatial shift when he came out of the True Dragon Hall, which had caused him not to appear in the pool, but in an unnamed mountain valley basin.
The marvel of those methods was like glimpsing a leopard through a tube—one spot revealed the whole.
It had allowed him to see the extraordinary nature of that era.
This was also enough to prove that in that era, things might have been even more splendid than in this one.
All kinds of thoughts flashed through Jiang Ning's mind as he lifted his foot and walked toward the