The Ancient Dragon Emperor was clearly an absolute devotee of secrecy. His sole principle toward humanity had been "free development"—never exerting any influence over the development of humanity in any form or to any degree.
This could be seen from human history. In order to mislead humanity, the dragon race had even played the role of "a branch of the Demon Race," rather than transforming into indescribable shadows to peer into human history—doing so actually caused less interference in humanity's history.
If the dragon race had truly displayed its countless inconceivable wonders before a still-benighted human civilization, then the theme of human civilization's development would likely have been forced to choose between "resisting the evil dragon race" and "worshipping the lofty dragon race."
But now, in the understanding of ordinary humans, the dragon race was merely an "alien race" slightly stronger than ordinary demons.
It could truly be called painstaking effort.
Tianze Shenjun was somewhat dissatisfied with the Dragon Emperor's answer. "Senior, in our race's view, experience is extremely important. Even mistaken experience serves to 'rule out a forked path.' If our race were also to unwittingly step onto a road your predecessors had already traveled, would that not waste the waiting your predecessors endured through this cycle?"
Repeated research was inherently a tremendous waste of resources—especially repeatedly conducting erroneous research.
Moreover, the Dragon Emperor's "research" was even more so. He used planets as cultivation dishes, employing eternal lives to conduct experiments on the scale of races and civilizations. Every cycle consumed an immensely long span of time measured in millions, even tens of millions, of years.
To immortals, time was indeed the cheapest thing of all. But an immortal's patience could not possibly be infinite.
"No, not at all." The Ancient Dragon Emperor looked at the two Free and