Old days in the box

Chapter 541: The End of the Jade Realm, the Beginning of the War of Gods

"General of the courtyard, I have finally waited for the official meeting with you." The dragon shadow transformed into a young king and saluted Yuan Wuyou.

He looked very strange, not like Bai Yu Long Nu, nor like anyone in her memory.

"Are you the Emperor?" Yuan Wuyou asked.

"That's right. My name is Chen Wu, and I am the third-generation emperor of this place in the Earth Realm. After my clan drifted here, we rebuilt our homeland under the leadership of Lady Dragon Girl, and have been waiting for the arrival of reinforcements from the Central Courtyard. I have served as the emperor for two generations, Lady Dragon Girl and Chu Shun. Now this important task has fallen on my generation, and I have no choice but to do it."

Hearing the familiar name that she had not heard for a long time, Yuan Wuyou's mood became heavier. Ever since she knew that the time expansion here had lasted for hundreds of years, she had already made plans for the worst. But now that she heard it with her own ears, she still felt unbearable.

"Lady Dragon Girl and Chu Shun...are they gone now?"

"There have been countless invasions from outer space over the past few hundred years. We have joined forces with the local dwarves to fight off the enemy, and we have barely managed to find a glimmer of hope in these hundreds of years. Lady Longnu and Lord Chu Shun also died on the front line one after another. It has been about 100 to 60 years since then."

Since the army from the atrium arrived in Svartalfheim, Yuan Wuyou led the army to fight everywhere to quell the cold wave. During this period, she encountered the local Jade Realm army, but the war was urgent and changing rapidly at that time, so she did not have the extra time to pay attention to the situation of the local Jade Realm survivors.

At that time, she thought that since she had found the place where they left, it was only a matter of time before they met again, and there was no need to rush. However, she never expected that this reunion would actually be a separation.

Yuan Wuyou stopped asking questions.

The army of Midgard officially welcomed back the remnants of the Jade Realm, took over the local Jade Realm regime including the dwarves, and promised to give them all permanent protection.

Emperor Chen Wu was a gentle king. He had no attachment to the power in his hands. After the army of Zhongting arrived, he had been preparing to return to Zhongting, even though he had never seen that so-called "hometown".

Under his hospitality, Yuan Wuyou learned how they fell into this starless land, how they encountered the local dwarves, how their people were robbed of their lives by the invasion of a cold wave, and how they fought the enemies of the divine realm to the end.

Since the death of Sun Hao, the God of Keys, the White Jade Dragon Girl seemed to have turned back into the furious and impulsive Dragon Saint, pouring out her rage endlessly on this land that belonged to her. Chu Shun, who succeeded her, also died in battle on the front line.

"This is something that Lord Chu Shun asked me to leave behind. He knew that one day Zhongting would find this place and lead us back home. He was afraid that he would not be able to wait for that day, so he gave it to me for safekeeping long after I became a candidate for the Emperor."

Emperor Chen Wu took Yuan Wuyou deep into the bedrooms of emperors of all dynasties. In this simple living room, there was only the box in front of them, inlaid with gold and jade, and sealed by complicated alchemical technology.

He turned the power of "steel" in his hand, and used the supreme forging power to unlock the numerous blockades, allowing the emerald jade lock to spread out like flowing water and open the gilded box door.

The heavy door was opened, and the huge space inside was empty except for a person-high embroidered picture. In the picture, a light-hearted girl was drawing her sword, dipping it in the light to paint, and slashing at the four ovens in the four corners.

That was the first time that eight-year-old Yuan Wuyou drew his sword against aristocratic children in the Bailong Mountain Martial Arts School. Not only Li Xianning was present at the time, but also Chu Shun, who was the same age.

"Lord Chu Shun never married in his life. He always said that one day he would return to the courtyard and meet you again." Emperor Chen Wu turned around and spoke to her word by word.

Yuan Wuyou gently stroked the embroidery in front of her, silent.

After years of fighting and killing countless enemies, she is no longer the innocent swordsman princess who can face sacrifice and death calmly, and even feel numb to it. But she didn't expect that in another place beyond tens of thousands of stars, there are still people who still remember her eight-year-old appearance and youthful lightness. Chu Shun, Li Xianning, Yuan Zhenyao, and Li Yuanchu, the three royal bloodlines, have all been buried in the dust of history, and the end has come.

"God's chosen champion." A heavy voice came from behind her.

Yuan Wuyou turned around and saw Jörmungandr suddenly coming to the door of the bedroom. It seemed that there was something important going on. For the first time, her eyes revealed so much sadness that Jörmungandr was surprised for a moment.

He hesitated for half a second, but continued, "The magic network has sent important information, I think you need to take a look."

Yuan Wuyou raised her head slightly, and the connection of the magic network instantly entered her mind, and a large amount of information was displayed in front of her along the channel of magic.

A greater crisis has emerged in the outer world. The embryo of the star god named "MOSSS" is related to the life-and-death battle of the entire magic network.

She is the chosen one of the Old Gods. In this universal war of gods, she will never have a moment of rest, let alone time to mourn.

"Gather all fusion warriors, we will set off for Vanaheim immediately." She retracted her gaze and put on that steely and cold exterior again.

"Then how do we arrange the people here?"

"Send them back to the courtyard. It's time to go home."

A powerful elite force began to return to Midgard from Svartalfheim, and was summoned to a larger battlefield to participate in the newly-outburst war between gods and the Protoss Alliance.

At the same time, in the forest palace of Alfheim, the kingdom of elves.

A huge scarlet eye hangs high above the Forest Palace. Ever since the Gods' Computer was activated, this place is no longer the feasting place it once was.

A quantum sphere shaped like a machine head is nourished by the gods and floats in the core of the forest palace like the source of all things. It is constantly fluctuating with information noise and data turbulence, like an embryo or a time bomb.

Beside this computer of the gods, only Victoria, the goddess of fertility, and Frey, the god of abundance, are watching over it day and night.

"Victoria, do we really need to go this far to win?" The God of Fertility looked at the unstable object in front of him and doubts arose in his heart.

At this moment when the Second Universal War of Gods has broken out, they should have joined forces with Midrium to fight against the divine realm, but now they, the gods, have taken the lead in betraying their oath and secretly planning to deal with Midrium, which makes him, as the incarnation of sunlight, feel somewhat ashamed.

"They are all disasters to this universe, brother." But Victoria just shook her head, and the voices of thousands of people resonated out from her body.

"After traveling through the realms for many years, I have learned a truth: Anyone who wants to control power beyond himself will eventually be retaliated. The Divine Realm and Midgard, Odin and the Old Ones, are just two sides of the same coin. There is no essential difference between them. They all want to control the faith of the masses with the little power in their hands, which will eventually lead to greater disasters. Genetic Ascension and Mechanical Ascension are both seeds of disaster."

(End of this chapter)