In the Magma World, there was silence, broken only by the occasional sound of bursting bubbles.

After a long while, the Divine Dragon slowly drew a deep breath, resolve gleaming in its eyes. With a sudden, piercing roar, it swept its claw, tearing open a scale on its chest. The sharp talons ripped through flesh, gouging out a bloody chasm.

Ye Chen was startled by the sudden action and couldn't help but exclaim, "What are you doing?"

The Divine Dragon's teeth trembled slightly, pain flickering in its gaze. It spoke in a shaky voice, "This is where my entire vital essence resides. Quickly, enter! I will use my true dragon blood essence to temper your body!"

Ye Chen shuddered. Looking at the Divine Dragon willing to mutilate itself, he hadn't expected it to resort to such an extreme method. He murmured, "Doing this will severely deplete your vitality. Instead of this, why don't you go out and fight yourself? With your strength, you could surely defeat that person!"

The Divine Dragon panted slightly. "Get in first, and I will explain slowly. Don't waste time!"

A look of unspeakable emotion flashed across Ye Chen's eyes. He gritted his teeth slightly, then raised a hand, drawing in his breath, and stripped off his armor, standing stark naked before plunging into the bloody cavity in the Divine Dragon's chest. Instantly, the flesh around the wound began to heal, enveloping Ye Chen entirely.

Ye Chen felt the surrounding light dim, finding himself immersed in a searing, bloody warmth. Fortunately, given his constitution, he could hold his breath temporarily, or he would have suffocated quickly.

In this scorching, bloody liquid, Ye Chen's skin felt a slight burning pain, as if being roasted by fire. He bore this minor discomfort without changing his expression, carefully sensing his body. He discovered that this sanguine heat carried rich energy, meticulously refining every hair, tendon, bone, and piece of flesh, making his skeletal structure and skin even tougher, imbued with a faint trace of Dragon Qi!

At that moment, a mental wave flowed into Ye Chen's mind: "Guard your spirit and absorb with all your might!"

Ye Chen quickly settled into a cross-legged meditation. Waves of scorching gas poured into his body, striking his bones like countless exquisite small hammers forging a perfect weapon!

Having reached the level of the Wise, he could now communicate telepathically. Ye Chen transmitted his thoughts, asking, "Why would you rather pay such a price than personally go and slay that individual?"

The Divine Dragon’s voice held a touch of bitterness. "It is not that I won't go, but that I cannot leave this place! There are many things you do not know, things that date back to the previous civilization!"

Ye Chen frowned slightly but did not interrupt, listening in silence.

The Divine Dragon's voice was tinged with reminiscence and the weight of ages. "In the previous era, the Dinosaur Civilization period, the movement of the Earth's tectonic plates caused catastrophic events like landslides, tsunamis, volcanoes, and sandstorms. These harsh conditions hurled debris into the sky, forming a dust cloud that blotted out the heavens, halting plant photosynthesis and causing the extinction of most life forms, including the flora!"

"The Dinosaur Civilization was exceptionally long-lived, reigning supreme on Earth for one hundred million years! That civilization did not master electronic technology; thus, later archaeologists cannot locate the precise instruments sealed beneath the earth, leading them to believe that the dinosaurs of that era were merely unintelligent animals. In reality, their intelligence was exceedingly high. The very fact that this civilization could persist for a hundred million years demonstrates how advanced it truly was!"

"The Dinosaur Civilization specialized in biotechnology, encompassing propagation, cell division, and gene strengthening techniques. Every dinosaur could refine its physique through cosmic rays, temperature, and atmospheric gases, causing its body to constantly transform and reach the apex of power. It was a world ruled solely by strength—the survival of the fittest!"

Ye Chen listened, his mind opened, and he believed the Dragon’s words to some extent. He had, after all, seen ruins of a Dinosaur Civilization that contained secret techniques specifically for physical cultivation, which allowed continuous cellular and genetic strengthening and evolution without needing to consume Basal-Chemical Meat or Dark Creature Crystal Cores!

The Divine Dragon continued slowly, "Sixty-five million years after the Dinosaur Civilization perished, the dust obscuring the atmosphere finally settled. Plants and flesh-and-blood life gradually arose on Earth. The birth of the first flesh-and-blood life signified the beginning of a new epoch after a long age!"

"The first flesh-and-blood life was named Pangu. He was naturally wise, born from the Earth, immensely strong and towering a thousand zhang high, like an ancient giant! He discovered that the Earth at that time was still surrounded by thick, toxic gases, obscuring the sun, moon, and stars, preventing photosynthesis and thus the generation of biological life. He pondered day and night and finally invented equipment to purify the gases, clearing the harmful atmosphere and allowing the Earth to see daylight again, enabling the propagation of life."

"Later generations could not comprehend this technology, so they simply assumed that Pangu split the heavens and created the sun and moon! While purifying the harmful gases, Great God Pangu was himself deeply infected and eventually died from the poisoning! Because his life gene level was so high, the vital energy within him was immense. Even long after his death, his body had not decomposed; instead, his vital essence, through photosynthesis, gave birth to the second human, Nuwa!"

"Nuwa painstakingly researched cell division and gene extension techniques, creating a vast number of humans, initially creating the first male and female, named Adam and Eve! Later, celestial fire meteors and endless meteorites rained down upon the Earth, causing natural and man-made disasters. This was because Pangu, in cleaning the harmful gases, had created numerous ozone holes in the atmosphere, leading to the legend of Nuwa mending the sky!"

"In reality, to clean these ozone holes, one only needed to incinerate solid matter to replenish the gases. Thus, Nuwa burned countless minerals to mend the atmosphere."

"Later on!"

"A genius emerged among the Human Race named Qinling Heavenly Emperor. His talent was dazzling, a favored son of heaven. He mastered the secret method of physical tempering from the prehistoric Dinosaur Civilization, once drawing his sword to sever great rivers, causing waterfalls to flow backward, partitioning the world into the Nine Provinces! He eventually broke through the void and entered the Ancient World!"

"And Adam and Eve, receiving orders from Great Goddess Nuwa, were tasked with governing the Western World!"

"The rest of the humans created by Nuwa were distributed across the Nine Provinces, developing independently. After a long period, the Nine Provinces each possessed their own civilizations, such as the Papal civilization of the Western World, the Atlantean civilization of the Atlantic, and the ancient Egyptian and Babylonian civilizations of other regions, and so on."

Ye Chen listened intently. He hadn't realized the origin of the Human Race unfolded this way; after the extinction of the dinosaurs came the Fifth Sun Era predicted by the Mayans.

In the Fifth Sun Era, numerous global civilizations held their own distinct faiths.

The Divine Dragon reminisced, "In that period, among the many global civilizations, the Eastern Civilization was the most supreme. Within the Eastern Civilization, there were mainly three major technologies: the Eight Trigrams computational deduction technology created by Fuxi, the medicinal herb technology of Shennongshi capable of curing all diseases, and the gene splicing technology of the progenitor, the Yellow Emperor!"

"When civilization reached its zenith, the Yellow Emperor, Shennongshi, Fuxi, and others established the 'Celestial Court'! This Celestial Court was like a mechanical city, similar to the Atlantean civilization in the Atlantic, constructed entirely of metallic instruments, exceedingly luxurious. Only those with exceptionally high status, reaching the Demigod Realm, were permitted to reside within the 'Celestial Court'!"

Ye Chen was stunned. He never imagined the mythical Celestial Court was actually a city!

"Later, dark creatures from another plane invaded, releasing viruses and plagues that poisoned a vast number of humans, followed by an assault by their armies. Ultimately, the progenitor Yellow Emperor and the others were overwhelmed. They could only pilot the 'Celestial Court,' break through the void, and flee into the Ancient World for refuge!"

"The Celestial Court, being entirely metallic machinery, could transform and assemble into an aircraft carrier, soaring through the cosmos!"

"After breaking through the void, Great God Yellow Emperor did not immediately enter the Ancient World. Instead, he alone piloted the Yellow Dragon spacecraft back to Earth, intending to bring our Xuanyuan Clan members with him because the 'Celestial Court' mothership could not carry so many people, and their departure had been extremely hurried."

"When he returned, he was discovered by a General of the Dark Creatures, leading to a great battle that ended in a stalemate. The Yellow Emperor knew time was of the essence; he tore open an alternate dimensional space and severed one of his own hands, sealing the Dark General within his palm! However, by then, the other Dark Creatures had arrived. The progenitor Yellow Emperor fought bloodily and finally sent all of us into the Yellow Dragon spacecraft, but he had no time to slowly open the gate to the Ancient World. He could only tear open a random planar void and send us through, concealing the spatial coordinates so that others could not find us."

Hearing this, Ye Chen gasped, "That spatial plane is this place?"

The Divine Dragon nodded. "Precisely! Deepest within this land is the sealed hand of the progenitor Yellow Emperor. The Divine Power Fountains of the 72 Islands are actually the divine power flowing out from the palm of Great God Yellow Emperor's hand! He thought through every possibility and deliberately severed his hand: first, to seal that dark demon, and second, to provide a future for his clan members!"

"It is not just the Divine Power Fountains; divine power also permeates the air, although it is thinner. As long as one cultivates diligently, the cells will automatically accelerate the absorption of divine power from the air. The more one trains, the faster the divine power is absorbed!"

"For this very reason, our clan members can rely on their own efforts—even without the biological technology of the prehistoric Dinosaur Civilization to cultivate their genes—to absorb divine power and strengthen themselves!"

"To completely suppress that dark demon, the progenitor Yellow Emperor left his own weapon behind to maintain the seal for eternity. Recently, however, this seal has been gradually loosening. I fear it won't be long before that dark demon breaks free!"

The Divine Dragon’s voice held a trace of bitterness. "I sensed the anomaly and came to investigate, finding a breach in the seal of the Divine Sword. Out of necessity, I had to use my own body to fill that gap! Over this long period, the gap has widened. Once I leave, the entire seal could collapse. If that dark demon breaks out, not only will the Xuanyuan Clan be destroyed, but the descendants of the later ages beyond the borders will also perish!"

Ye Chen was overwhelmed, words failing him.

Great God Pangu, in order to birth life globally, risked danger to clear the toxic gases, only to be infected and die from the poison!

The ancestor, the Yellow Emperor, for the continuation of the entire race and the revival of civilization, did not hesitate to sacrifice a limb, using his own body part as sustenance for his future descendants to absorb...

The Divine Dragon before him, for the sake of the clan, willingly used its body to patch the breach, suffering endless torment day and night. And to ensure Ye Chen gained the Divine Sword, it even offered its own body for his tempering!

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: Commitment delivered, fourth update complete! Today is December 1st, a new month, a powerful month. Requesting basic support! Lao Gu desires a furious burst of content this month. Brothers, can you provide the motivation and the power for this? Tomorrow, the explosive output continues! RO