Infinite: Starting from Infiltrating Other Spaces

There's nothing we can do; the temple instructed us to do it this way.

Long Jijiang's body began to tremble uncontrollably again after the woman's upper body was pulled out.

Finally, as if it had lost all its strength, it collapsed heavily to its knees and crawled onto the ground.

The woman trembled twice, and slowly opened her eyes.

Those eyes, unique to the dragon race, were filled with utter bewilderment.

She looked at Li Xia, as if the memory of the battle was still lingering in her mind.

Instinctively, he crouched down, his left eye blinking rapidly, as if he were about to unleash a "Destruction Ray".

Li Xia raised his left hand without hesitation, unleashing the Great Memory Recovery Technique!

"Snapped!"

The crisp sound made the observer stare in disbelief at Tissna, whose face bore a red mark, and her eyes cleared considerably.

He opened his mouth and said with difficulty:

"Ah---uh----um----"

She seemed to have not spoken for over fifty years; she spoke in a strange, distorted tone that no one could understand.

As Li Xia raised his left hand again, Tissna's voice suddenly returned to normal.

Although it still had a strange accent and was unclear, even a bit stuttering, at least it was understandable.

"Hello...you all..."

"You! You're Tissna?!"

The observer, as if meeting an idol, suppressed his excitement and asked in a low voice.

The dragon woman was stunned for a moment, her eyes flashing with confusion and nostalgia. It seemed like she hadn't heard this name in a very long time, and she didn't react for a while.

After a long while, she finally nodded:

"I...I am Tissna, a hunter...Hunter Guild, New World...New World Survey Team...Special Advance Team."

The observer cheered and was about to ask something when he suddenly remembered that his partner might need more questions, so he quickly took a step back.

I couldn't wait to pull out my notebook, ready to record this conversation that would be 'historic'.

Li Xia remained silent for a moment, looking at the prompt given by the Hall of Light on the panel:

[Please claim the final reward: Dragon Strike General's Life Core]

He asked directly:

Where is the life core of the Dragon Strike General?

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1. Monthly pass 2. Recommendation vote

It's already the eleventh day of the lunar year, and life is gradually returning to normal. I'm starting to resume updates, and I'll make up for the chapter I owe first.

I did the math: the two updates from the helmsman, plus five updates from last month's monthly votes, make a total of seven updates short!

Chapter 101: Run!

The previously released hidden quest by the Temple of Light: [Unlocking the Ultimate Secret of This World]

Besides 3 Time-Space Coins and 5 Attribute Points, what other reward is there for the mission?

Now that Dragonstrike has lost power and is in a shutdown state.

The Hall of Light then indicated the mission objective: defeating the ultimate weapon of the ancient civilization, 'Dragon Strike General,' has been completed.

It has changed to [Obtain the final reward: Dragon Strike General's Life Core]

The core of life?

Tissna took a while to react, and seemed somewhat reluctant.

Even the eyes, unique to the dragon race, gradually turned a bright yellow, showing a tendency to transform into the pupils of the Dragon Strike General.

Li Xia raised his eyebrows and looked down at his left palm.

The fingers are long and slender, perhaps due to the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts, and even appear somewhat delicate and resilient.

Yet it also exudes a strange sense of power.

Hmm—in short, it's very suitable for palm techniques.

Stina's gaze involuntarily followed Li Xia's movements downwards.

I felt my face suddenly burning as if by reflex.

The slap seemed to carry a strange power, and my entire brain, including my eyes, became clear.

That's not entirely wrong; Li Xia did indeed possess the True Qi Fan...

"The core of life—"

Her eyes, now clear again, gazed at Long Jijiang's chest:

"Inside the bio-armor on my chest, there's...there's a box—"

Tissna said apologetically:

"I'm sorry, my fusion with Dragon Strike took too long... and I'll be affected by it."

Li Xia gave a signal with his eyes, and Heitan and Aowu immediately surrounded Dragon Strike General's back with the observers.

While pondering where to start, even Dettel came over, meowing and pointing to his back to offer his opinion.

But in reality, although the one person and the three animals were having a lively discussion, they were all secretly listening to the sounds from two meters away.

Because Li Xia and Tissna were discussing 'top secret information,' it would be firmly sealed off within the Hunter's Guild, and it would be impossible for even a single thing to be leaked.

"...I can't remember many things...I only remember that after seeing the mural, some things matched up with what was recorded in the guild..."

Tissna's white hair is extremely long, and it seems to have been growing slowly over the past fifty years.

At this moment, it was draped down, covering the upper body like a white robe.

"According to the guild's procedures, you should return immediately and report."

Li Xia placed his charred right hand in front of him and, just like last time, used a small knife to peel off the cooked flesh.

Every little bit helps; I've heard that the cost of limb restoration in the temple... isn't cheap!

Tissna's eyelids twitched as she watched. Even though the hunter had great patience, she had never seen such a scene before.

She looked away and sighed.

"How many people can resist the urge to keep such a secret?"

Hunter, you're the same... otherwise I would have encountered the Hunter's Guild's Night Survey Team.

Li Xia neither denied nor admitted it, but simply changed the subject:

"So this is the research base of the Ancient Shured Kingdom?"

"The Kingdom of Shured is not the ancient Kingdom of Shured..."

Tissna shook her head and said in an extremely ethereal voice:

"The Shured that was destroyed a thousand years ago was merely the embers of the once extremely powerful Shured dynasty when it was burned to ashes."

She smiled strangely and inexplicably, slightly raising her chin:

"And the Hunter's Guild and the current Kingdom of East and West Shore are merely sparks that drifted out when the embers were extinguished..."

In ancient times, the Shured created a brilliant civilization, so powerful that they could almost look down on all life on the planet.

Even the dragons, which are considered taboo, are merely troublesome monsters.

But like all life, once basic needs are met, they begin to yearn for a longer lifespan.

Naturally... they turned their attention to the long-lived... "Ancient Dragon".

Tissna's smile grew increasingly strange, but what she said became more and more horrifying:

"The Shured are trying to integrate the genes of ancient dragons into the human body. By the way... you don't know what genes are, do you?"

"I know, you can continue—"

She definitely didn't say the word "gene," but through subconscious mapping and translation, Li Xia heard the word "gene."

Tissna's smile froze for a moment, seemingly not expecting Li Xia's response. After a brief pause, she could only continue:

"They succeeded. The ancient dragon genes brought tyranny and arrogance, ultimately triggering an epic war between humans and dragons."

This battle shattered the earth and blotted out the sky, with the ancient Shured people's combat weapons, Dragon Strikers and Dragon Strikers, covering the heavens and the earth.

However, the Ancient Dragon faction also gave their all, and ultimately the Shured people, blinded by arrogance due to the integration of Ancient Dragon genes, were defeated.

The victorious Ancient Dragon suffered extremely heavy casualties; those beings who transcended the taboos were reduced to less than one in ten, and could only hastily fall into slumber.

The remaining ancient Xiureid people went into hiding, living in constant fear.

These ancient Sorority people were later called... Dragonmen!

The observer's body suddenly trembled. Dragonmen... Dragonmen actually came about like this?

In contrast, Aowu and Heitan were much better; at least half of their attention was focused on their work.

Li Xia found a bottle of 'gene transcription repair agent' and poured it into his hand. To Tissna's astonishment, the remaining flesh and blood seemed to come back to life.

"continue."

Tissna nodded and looked away:

"In the era of Ancient Xiu Red, only elites and upper-class nobles were qualified to receive the injection of ancient dragon genes. As a result, after the war, those native humans were like mushrooms in the forest after the rain."

Even though the dragons relentlessly hunted and eliminated them, these ordinary people were as resilient as ants on the ground, constantly reproducing and increasing in number.

Although the ancient dragons won the war, the heavy losses made them unwilling to fight a second time.

Seeing that they could not stop human development, the enlightened forbidden beings decided to cooperate with humans to avoid a second war between humans and dragons.

Therefore... the emblem of the Kingdom of Shured is a black dragon.

The observer's body was already trembling; she suspected that what she had heard was enough to get her locked up by the Hunter's Guild for a hundred years!

Is this level of secrecy... something a junior investigator like me should be able to hear?

Wait, Abbot suddenly realized that because of his partner, every time he leveled up his hunter rank, his own rank would also increase.

Now, she is a Special Investigator of the Hunter's Guild!

Second only to the legendary investigator!

Abbott suddenly perked up; she not only listened intently but also decided to take notes.

"The Black Dragon Emblem... So that's what it means?"

Li Xia nodded thoughtfully, but Tissna still didn't get to the point, which was what exactly had happened to her.

Why did it appear inside Dragon Strike General's body?

"That's right, the Black Dragon has formed an alliance with the Kingdom of Shured and become its guardian deity. However, the Kingdom of Shured is also prohibited from hunting dragons indiscriminately."

But the dragons found an opportunity; they possessed superior wisdom, although most of their technology had been lost.

However, there is still a significant place for this legacy in the oral traditions.

They secretly painted a beautiful picture for the high-ranking officials of the Kingdom of Shured, including the existence of Dragon Slayers and Dragon Slayer Generals.

The longer lifespan and the near-invincible biological weapons attracted the high command of the Kingdom of Shured.

Thus began a top-secret project to restore ancient technology........

Li Xia could roughly guess what would happen next without Tissna saying it.

The plan has definitely been exposed—

"In order to avoid taboos and to obtain more materials, the department that restores ancient weapons was set up in the Dragon's Rest Land."

This is also the burial ground where ancient dragons spontaneously come to when they are about to die. If done well, it is entirely possible to secretly obtain a large amount of ancient materials.

It was indeed a very meticulous plan.