A Diplomatic Envoy Delivered to the Door (Part 1)

[Author's Note: The premise that Dai Ruoheng kills spirit beasts to increase the age of his spirit spirits is based on the fact that in Douluo Dalu 3, spirit spirits can be man-made and evolved, and the method of evolution is no different from spirit beasts devouring each other in the wild. In the Spirit Ascension Platform, killing a spirit spirit can grant one-tenth of its age to an existing spirit spirit. I personally believe that before the Spirit Ascension Platform was created, humans should have had this concept, though not through killing spirit spirits, but rather through a more barbaric method of killing spirit beasts and absorbing the scattered energy before the spirit ring dissipated.]

After Di Tian spent over a decade struggling with his own indecision, Zi Ji finally couldn't watch it anymore and decided to go herself. After transforming, she specifically disguised herself, hiding the face and long black-purple hair known to members of the Spirit Pagoda, and replaced them with the blonde hair common among the Star Luo People.

Although Zi Ji still didn't understand how humans managed to fail to detect a hundred-thousand-year spirit beast that had transformed into human form and suppressed its own aura, even with Soul Guidance Devices capable of detecting spirit beast energy signatures.

However, this situation did not hinder her convenience in taking action; by controlling officials of the Star Luo Empire, she secured a set of procedures for traveling to the new continent and a large sum of funds.

Once the operation was completed and she confirmed there were no slip-ups, Zi Ji immediately headed to the port city where the ship for her ticket was docked, Donghai City, and checked into a luxury hotel there.

"These human things are truly convenient. It's a pity that if it weren't for the fact that humans everywhere take pride in becoming spirit masters, someone like me, a hundred-thousand-year spirit beast, would have wanted to live in a human city long ago."

Due to the fact that the ships traveling to the Star Luo Continent were not yet as dangerous or prone to attacks by sea spirit beasts as they would be in Legend of the Dragon King 3, the Star Luo civilians who dared to take their families to migrate to the Star Luo Continent were all encouraged by imperial policy.

As for someone like Zi Ji, she was purely disguised as a mining prospector heading to the frontier blocks of the Star Luo Continent, thereby taking the opportunity to try and make contact with the hundred-thousand-year spirit beasts of the other continent.

"Di Tian is really something. It's just a matter of meeting up; is it really worth worrying about this and that? We are all True Dragons; shouldn't we be helping each other more during difficult times?"

In any case, Zi Ji couldn't understand it.

Dragon Valley Forest

Taking advantage of hosting a birthday party for Yin Ji's offspring, Rus Wang transported a group of Spirit Douluo-level Elves, along with the Giant Mountain Golden Ape, back to the core area of the Dragon Valley Forest. He intended to let the Elves begin to gradually understand humans, so as to prepare early for the war between humans and Elves, and the war between humans and spirit beasts, that was destined to break out in the future.

The Elves sent by Rus Wang to the side of the Giant Mountain Golden Ape were all military personnel who had already learned the Star Luo language and understood the social conditions of the Star Luo Empire on paper. They would be stationed in the Dragon Valley Forest for three years to truly understand why Rus Wang said that humans were different from Elves and could never coexist with spirit beasts. And why, in the future, humans and Elves were destined to fight a protracted war lasting thousands or even tens of thousands of years over land.

Rus Wang's stone tablets clearly recorded a series of events from Dou 3; the Abyss invasion occurred 6,300 years before Legend of the Dragon King, but the level of destruction, aside from the very beginning, was quite limited. Even at the grand finale of the legend, the impact on the battlefield was limited to the Far North, specifically the high-altitude, frigid region of the Northern Endless Mountains where the Blood God Legion was stationed.

In other words, the Abyssal Plane invasion of the Douluo Continent occurred 3,700 years after Huo Yuhao ascended to godhood. But this time was still quite a long way from when the system's protection mechanism for the Zheer Continent would disappear. For at least 1,600 years, the human forces of the three continents could try with all their might to carve up the Zheer Continent. (Note: It is currently 350 years after Huo Yuhao's ascension, and Rus Wang has been here for 270 years; the system's protection for the Zheer Continent has 1,730 years remaining.)

Rus Wang needed to take the spirit beasts and Elves and find a way to survive this period; of course, this was only the best estimate. Because the Abyss invasion only happened on the Douluo Continent, only one of the Sun Moon Federation's six legions, the Blood God Legion, was pinned down by the threat of the Abyss invasion. The remaining five legions, as well as the Star Luo Empire and the Douling Empire on the two continents, had plenty of spare energy to continue harboring ulterior motives for the Zheer Continent.

Rus Wang did not consider seeking cooperation with the Demon Empress at this time. Although she was a level-100 True God without a god position, she was, after all, the leader of the Holy Spirit Cult. Furthermore, her husband was the million-year spirit beast Deep Sea Demon Whale King who was killed by Tang San twenty thousand years ago. If she accidentally hacked the Elves like humans, and Rus Wang didn't have the million-year strength to stop her, the progress of the plan to bond the spirit beast and Elf community would be reset to zero.

Therefore, before he reached the Lord of Blades form, Rus Wang had no intention of seeking cooperation with the Demon Empress.

"If I could, I would really like to go to the Star Dou Forest on the Douluo Continent and ask Di Tian what exactly he has been doing for these tens of thousands of years. Why not visit the great forests on other continents?"

It wasn't that Rus Wang hadn't thought about going to the Star Dou Forest. However, as the only True Dragon over five hundred thousand years old, he could not let go of or leave the spatial rifts connecting to the Dragon Valley world, whether on the Folded Ear Continent or the Dragon Valley Forest.

Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus—Riven returned with several Elves from the observation post at the Great River defense line, where the indigenous coalition forces were confronting the Star Luo Empire's army. After several months of lurking and observation, both the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus, who had transformed into the image of a middle-aged man, and those young Elves in their eighties were extremely exhausted. (Three years for an Elf counts as one year for a human.)

"The way these two human armies fight is truly... the more I watch, the more speechless I become."

The highest-ranking officer among the Elves, General Elion, threw some dried fruit wrapped in oil paper from a self-heating ration can to his comrade, Major Marius, and Marius handed it to the Lightning Tyrannosaurus.

"General Riven, eat something good. We've only been gnawing on compressed biscuits and jerky these past few days."

"Mm."

Riven took the dried fruit from Marius, picked a few pieces to put in his mouth, then handed it to his adjutant. After chewing a few times, he asked, "After these months of observation, tell me what you feel after watching the human armies."

"Excluding other more dire situations, it's hard to describe. Humans killing each other for undeveloped land is already incomprehensible enough. The fighting is entirely based on 'might makes right'; it doesn't look like a proper army at all. It's as if we've returned to the fighting style of our tribal era over three hundred years ago." (The Elves were unified by Rus Wang from the roots; they only have internal conflicts, not racial conflicts.)

In the past, before the Elves were led by Rus Wang to the Levant region, they had no clear concept of cultivation levels or spirit power, only thinking that they were stronger than other Elves. Thus, those strong Elves became tribal leaders, and when tribal conflicts occurred, the strong Elves would lead the others in a chaotic charge.

And once the strong Elves were killed in battle, the other Elves would instantly collapse. Humans hold Soul Guidance Devices, yet they still fight like the Elves did in the tribal era; it's hard to understand what is going on with this group of humans who have been around for tens of thousands of years longer than us.

"Don't worry, this is just the beginning. You all rest well this month. When the time comes, I will take you to live in the port city on the Star Luo side and open your eyes."

Riven then sneered.

"Let you truly witness what the spirit master society is like, where a human's class status is destined at the age of six through their martial soul awakening."