As a veteran harvester, Meng Chao knew that the wisdom tree was not lying. The Tiger Jumping Fish did indeed have the habit of swimming upstream to lay eggs during the breeding season.
Since swimming upstream required a lot of stamina, the Tiger Jumping Fish would become really fierce at the start of the breeding season. They would even attack aquatic monsters that were larger than them so that they could store enough food for their subsequent journey.
If Jin Qianxi was really heavily injured and fell into the Red Dragon River, her blood and spirit energy might attract the Tiger Jumping Fish, and it would devour her in one gulp before bringing her back upstream.
But no matter what, Jin Qianxi was one of the best fighters in Dragon City during that era.
Based on what Battle God Lei Zongchao and Underground Emperor Jin Wanhao said, Jin Qianxi was the most talented and the strongest among the trio who explored the ancient ruins in the past.
If that were not the case, she would not have died in the Red Dragon River because of the crazed attacks from the leaders of Blood Alliance during the battle to overthrow them.
Lei Zongchao and Jin Wanhao had personally told Meng Chao about Jin Qianxi.
One of them was publicly acknowledged as a martial arts legend in Dragon City and the pioneer of the spirit energy cultivation system. The other was the master of the lair and the ultimate tyrant who had dominated the gray areas in Dragon City for decades.
Their comments should be pretty trustworthy.
She was a heroine, but when she fell into the Red Dragon River, she had fainted temporarily due to her heavy injuries and the stimulation from the river water. She was then devoured by the Tiger Jumping Fish.
But would she really … die just like that?
Just as he expected, the situation changed in the semi-transparent light.
The wisdom tree, which was like an amalgamation of thousands of jellyfish, had clearly swung its hundreds of tentacles to wrap around the girl's broken body, which only had her chest and head left.
But as its nerve cords pierced into the girl's brain through her nose, ears, eyes, and temples, the girl, who was sleeping quietly, suddenly opened her eyes. Dazzling golden light shone from the depths of her eyes.
In an instant, balls of golden light and nerve cords surged madly into the wisdom tree's body.
In the beginning, the wisdom tree took the initiative to explore and absorb the information.
But soon, the memories, emotions, and great willpower in the girl's brain turned into a tidal wave of information that surged into the wisdom tree's body. It brought about an unbelievable effect on the wisdom tree, and it gradually changed its color!
"She's still alive!"
The Wisdom Tree said in great surprise, "I have never felt such strong emotions, such strong willpower, such powerful strength, and such surging spiritual energy in the brain of any human being. This ordinary-looking and incomplete girl is actually stronger than the leader of the Peach Blossom Town, the guy who swallowed a lot of resources to train by hook or by crook!"
Of course.
'If the wisdom tree isn't lying, this is something that happened ten years after Dragon City transmigrated.'
Dragon City's industries, research system, and emergency war preparations had always been much better than Peach Blossom Town's.
In the early days of his transmigration, he discovered and gained initial control over the Primordial Ruins.
At that time, Blood Alliance ruled over Dragon City. It was an evil organization that treated human lives as dirt and often forced innocent people to enter the ancient ruins as experimental subjects. They triggered all sorts of traps, spores, germs, and mysterious powers in the ancient ruins.
However, their insanity had indeed led them to a brand-new path of spiritual energy training.
And Jin Qianxi was the luckiest one among the thousands of experimental subjects that were sacrificed. In that uncivilized era where humans did not have much concept of the division of spiritual energy realms, her strength was already above that of Deity Realm.
If the wisdom tree used the strength of the leader of the Peach Blossom Town to measure the limits of humans, it would have suffered a great loss in Jin Qianxi's hands.
As expected, as more golden light was transmitted from the girl's broken body to the wisdom tree, the wisdom tree's thousands of tentacles seemed to be under Jin Qianxi's control.
It was as if the neural networks of two carbon-based intelligent life forms were gradually fused together, and they exchanged a lot of information. But in the end, Jin Qianxi's soul occupied the nest and became the core of the neural network that did not distinguish between you and me!
"I realized that I had encountered a completely different kind of human from the people of Peach Blossom Town, and it was a powerful human. The result of this fusion might be far beyond my expectations," the wisdom tree said.
"I've been fighting with this human named Jin Qianxi for three days and three nights, and neither of us can do anything to the other. So, I decided to call it quits and examine our relationship in a calmer and friendlier way.
"Jin Qianxi's body was about to die.
"I heard that she was a peerless existence in Dragon City in the past, but she was heavily injured in a fierce battle. After she fell into the Red Dragon River, she was bitten by the Tiger Jumping Fish madly. She was even soaked in the corrosive digestive fluid in the Tiger Jumping Fish's stomach for a few days. Even with the protection of spirit energy, her incomplete and battered body had already surpassed her limits for her to last this long.
"My appearance just happened to be the straw that saved her life.
"As I opened my neural network and tried to share my memories, senses, and thoughts with her, her soul and will surged into my body like a fierce beast, and we fused deeply together.
"No matter how angry and disgusted I was, it was impossible for me to separate our souls. Or rather, I would have to pay a devastating price to do so, and it might even lead to the complete destruction of the soul and civilization that I had gathered together after a lot of effort. I didn't dare to take such a risk.
"Besides, I didn't really reject Jin Qianxi's existence.
"Because my soul has always been formed by the senses, memories, and thoughts of thousands of plants, monsters, and humans. I'm currently in a state of confusion, so I do need a new and powerful human soul to point out my confusion.
"We both came to a realization that regardless of whether we were willing or not, we could only form a brand new life form to continue our wonderful journey in life.
"Once we figured this out, our hostility towards each other turned into intense curiosity.
"Of course, since our souls had already fused deeply together, we could use an even more advanced method to exchange information.
"As the electrical currents in our nerves surged and released brilliant sparks, we practically instantly understood each other's living environment, way of thinking, and the problems we faced.
"It was only then that I realized that Peach Blossom Town wasn't the only Earth town that transmigrated to the Other World. Not far away from this forest was a Dragon City that was dozens of times larger than Peach Blossom Town.
"Unfortunately, even though it was much larger than Peach Blossom Town and its research toward spirit energy and the ancient ruins was much deeper, Dragon City and Peach Blossom Town didn't seem to be fundamentally different.
"One of them was the Army Ants, which were ruled by the Rampaging Rats. The other was an environment where resources were scarce. Humans competed viciously against each other and even killed each other. Some people turned into zombies, and some people turned into things that were even more evil and ugly than zombies. Some people howled in the cold night because they were hungry, and their howls attracted zombies and humans who were even more terrifying than zombies. There were also people who gathered resources that they could never use in their entire lives and sat there laughing with a clear conscience.
"Honestly, I'm a little disappointed in this Dragon City. If Dragon City was just a large Peach Blossom Town, what new things could I learn from Dragon City's civilization?"
Meng Chao had nothing to say to that.
During the early days of the transmigration, heroes died, and order collapsed. It was a dark history that Dragon City's historians could not wipe away no matter how much they tried to cover it up.
"And under Blood Alliance's cruel rule, the explorers who were thrown into the ancient ruins to die lived lives that were one hundred times darker and bloodier than the people of Peach Blossom Town!"
The wisdom tree continued, "I've read countless extremely cruel scenes from Jin Qianxi's memory. Her past is definitely not something that can be described as' living is worse than death '. It's simply a frozen hell. Every second of suffering makes one want to give up all their emotions and minds.
"Even if I learned from the powerful fighters in Peach Blossom Town how to gain pleasure from the pain of the weak and even turned torture into an art, I still couldn't bear it.
"What those people from Blood Alliance did to Jin Qianxi, Jin Wanhao, Lei Zongchao, and the other explorers and test subjects still surpassed the limits of what I could bear. For the first time ever, those bloody scenes caused my young heart to feel incredibly uncomfortable.
"However, what puzzled me was that Jin Qianxi herself did not have too many psychological scars even though she was subjected to such brutal torture. She did not seem to have any anger, hate, jealousy, or fear in her shining soul. They were all negative emotions I often sensed in other humans.
"Even when she faced the Blood Alliance researchers who nearly cut her into pieces for research purposes and the leader of Blood Alliance who personally threw her into Red Dragon River, she did not feel much anger or hate.
"Yes, she did want to destroy them, but it was only to stop them from continuing with their evil deeds so that she could save more people.
"I also noticed that after I transmigrated, practically all the heroes in Dragon City died. Instead, zombies and wolves ruled the streets, and people who were even more terrifying than zombies and wolves ruled the city. Occasionally, someone overthrew the evil rule of the rampaging rats, but usually, they would transform into new rampaging rats that were even more brutal and cunning than the rampaging rats in a short period of time.
"Even so, Jin Qianxi was still confident in Dragon City's future.
"She believed that humans would definitely be able to survive in the new world that was shrouded in fog and full of danger. She believed that the faint flames burning in the depths of everyone's hearts would become brighter and stronger. In the end, people would unite together and rebuild order bit by bit. They would rebuild a bright, just, equal, and beautiful civilization.
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