"The first dean is dead?"
Qian Er asked, puzzled, as he genuinely didn't know this.
"Didn't you read the school history? Unlike old fellows like me who underwent the Beast Fusion Surgery, he took all his beasts, except for Senior Xiaoyue, deep into the heart of an alliance called the Earth Dragon Alliance when his lifespan was nearing its end. The Earth Dragon Alliance was an alliance of all ground and dragon-type alien races, whose prominence was second only to the Twelve Victorious Races, and there was even talk of them being the thirteenth race."
"Because the first dean was nearing the end of his life, he had no scruples and used all sorts of insidious methods. In one battle, he pierced through the Earth Dragon Alliance, destroying two of its five races. The royal bloodlines of two of the remaining three races were completely wiped out. From then on, the once-prosperous Earth Dragon Alliance was completely shattered, and the first dean also died in that war."
Professor Huo, as expected of an old man who came from that era, led Qian Er into the principal's office while introducing the glorious deeds of the first dean.
"After the Earth Dragon Alliance was destroyed, the remaining main Earth Dragon lineage, fearing being devoured by the myriad races, gathered other remnants and fled far away. Where exactly they went is unknown, and that territory was eventually taken over by humans."
"The first dean's secret realm has become one of the highest foundations of our Yan Country. Usually, Senior Xiaoyue will go to the secret realm to remember old friends, and this secret realm, as Senior Xiaoyue's beast space, naturally has a passage to Senior Xiaoyue."
As he spoke, Professor Huo pressed a button under the table.
Instantly, dense, ethereal sounds rang out, and all sorts of complicated and intricate formations and defenses, detection formulas, technology, talents, and beast abilities were used.
After a long check, it finally subsided. The ceiling opened, and a platform slowly descended.
Professor Huo unhurriedly walked onto the platform and beckoned to Qian Er.
"Come up."
Only after both of them stepped onto the platform did it begin to move.
The platform continued downwards, all the way to the basement.
The moment the platform descended here, the surrounding patterns lit up instantly. This platform seemed to have a charging effect as well.
"You should go the rest of the way yourself. If there's no one watching here, there might be big trouble."
Pointing to a teleportation array at the end of the path ahead, Professor Huo said softly.
"Okay, Professor Huo, take this with you."
Without any hesitation, Qian Er walked into the teleportation array. Instantly, the teleportation array shone brightly. At this moment, Qian Er suddenly thought of something and threw a spatial backpack to Professor Huo, which contained one of his flesh and blood clones.
The moment he threw out the spatial backpack, Qian Er only felt a great light in front of him. When he opened his eyes again, the world in front of him had become a bizarre and unrestrained scene.
The sky was a distorted and chaotic color, and looking at it deeply gave one the illusion of wanting to sink into it.
Looking down, the mountains and rocks here presented a strange pink color. The surroundings were deathly silent, but filled with a kind of intoxicating psychic energy.
The first dean was a psychic-type beastmaster.
"Fly east."
Immediately releasing the Frost Lord, Qian Er jumped onto its back and commanded.
The passage to Senior Xiaoyue's location was in the east. Professor Huo had told him all of this before coming in.
"Roar!!"
The Frost Lord let out a low roar, spread its bone wings and flew into the air. In the sky, Qian Er could finally see the full picture of this secret realm.
This was a basin, a heptagonal basin, with each corner corresponding to a door. However, six of them were already decayed and broken, with no more light. Only the one in the due east was like new, flashing with silver-white divine light, filled with vitality.
Just one glance was enough to know which one was Senior Xiaoyue's door.
The Frost Lord naturally discovered this as well, and flew towards the direction of that door.
With the Frost Lord's current speed, this distance was quickly crossed, and it crashed headfirst into the light door.
Qian Er only felt a flash of light in front of him, and then he kept hearing the sound of gears turning in his ears.
Opening his eyes, in front of him was a mechanical world.
Gears intertwined, and large and small gears and machinery constituted the world's foundation, cold and sacred, like the unchanging truth of the world.
In the center of the world, a towering metal tree stood there, one of the foundations of humanity, the quasi-divine Infinite Light Tree at the peak of True King.
However, Senior Xiaoyue's condition didn't seem to be very good at this time. Countless shackles were densely wrapped around its body. Because the color and steel shackles were both compatible with this place, Qian Er didn't notice anything unusual at first glance.
The dense gears were spinning rapidly, and Qian Er could feel that these gears were operating at overload, but they weren't getting the desired effect.
It was like being sick.
"Senior Xiaoyue, how are you?"
Urging the Frost Lord to fly closer, Qian Er shouted loudly.
Hearing the familiar call, a sleeping consciousness awakened.
The world Qian Er saw didn't change, but he could clearly feel that the world in front of him had "awakened" in just an instant.
He understood in his heart that Senior Xiaoyue was the "world", the cornerstone of this world.
This was also a world unique to Senior Xiaoyue.
The moment it opened its eyes, everything that happened outside was presented before Senior Xiaoyue's eyes.
"Sigh..."
A sigh filled with mature charm rang in Qian Er's ears.
"This is the legacy of the old days. I didn't expect them to be hiding under my nose and causing such a big commotion. This is my dereliction of duty."
Senior Xiaoyue's voice was the same as the AI Xiaoyue's voice outside, but it had more humanity.
"What you are facing is a former foundation of humanity. It was bewitched by the previous aristocratic families and opposed humanity, claiming to create a new humanity. At that time, we all attacked it, and I even cut off half of its body. But I didn't expect it to shrink its body, hide its aura, and hide in the cracks of my bark, thus escaping the encirclement. Afterwards, it joined forces with those remnants and secretly accumulated power, until you broke through before, which is why it launched its rebellion ahead of schedule."
Senior Xiaoyue's vision could see through the world, so it naturally knew Qian Er's intention. It didn't speak in riddles and directly told the story.
"Remnants of aristocratic families? The aristocratic families before the Rebellion of the Eight Kings?"
Qian Er immediately thought of this, because he had heard before that those aristocratic families were even so bold as to bewitch a foundation of humanity, which was much more excessive than the current eight families.
It was because of this that it aroused the official's dissatisfaction and orchestrated the Rebellion of the Eight Kings.
"That's right, that's the matter. That human foundation is an insect. It bit me before it left, poisoning me, and wrapped me with insect silk."
As it spoke, Senior Xiaoyue shook its body, showing Qian Er the shackles on its body.
Only then did Qian Er see clearly that those shackles were actually silver-white spider silk.
